Among the many highlights of Mick Jagger’s recent performance on Saturday Night Live was this song, “Tea Party,” written by Jagger and accompanied by Jeff Beck. Our favorite part: “You know Mr. Romney, he’s a mensch,* he plays it straight and fair. Yeah, Mr. Romney, he’s a hard-working man…But don’t ever let him cut your [...]

The Republican Party’s Romneybot 2000 campaign android crashed its semantic processors again — in humans, this is known as a “gaffe” — when it tried to speak without the aid of teleprompters yesterday:

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Proportion of political ads produced in 2012 that have been negative, according to a study by Wesleyan University cited by the Los Angeles Times. At this point in 2008, 9% of ads were classified as negative. Most of the increase is attributed to super PACs and the Supreme Court’s decision to allow anonymous corporate money in races in the Citizens United ruling.

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Andrew Brietbart may be dead but his practice of creating fake political scandals lives on at Fox News. The latest case involves Frank Vandersloot, the Romney campaign’s co-chair, who is apparently no relation to Joran Van Der Sloot, the accused murderer in the Natalie [...]

Republicans have reacted to the Washington Post’s story last week that revealed that when Mitt Romney was a senior in prep school he bullied boys he perceived to be gay by claiming that the incident was just a youthful indiscretion and, besides, stories of physical abuse by boys do not always predict the character of [...]

ast Saturday, Mitt Romney wooed evangelical Christians at Liberty University, founded by the late evangelical leader, Jerry Falwell. Romney was invited to deliver the commencement address at the Christian university—where it is routinely taught that Mormonism is a cult — by Jerry Falwell, Jr., chancellor of Liberty, and the son of its late founder. During [...]

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Watching Mitt Romney giggle as he “apologized” on Fox News for an episode in prep school in which he and a gang of boys chased down a kid who had bleached his hair and cut off his bangs, Rachel Maddow noticed that Romney has [...]

“Everything changes,” Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom famously said on CNN in March. “It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.”
Fehrnstrom’s gaffe resonated because it fed into the public’s perception that Mitt Romney is a flip-flopper who changes his views to match those of whatever [...]

Email is insufficient for some things — like breaking up a romance, quitting a job and this:
Rick Santroum sent an email to his supporters on Monday night announcing that he would back Mitt Romeny for the presidency and that everyone needs to support “our nominee” to defeat Barack Obama. In a long explanation, which [...]

(Willard) Mitt Romney—2012 Republican presidential candidate, a lifelong Mormon who boasts of having one wife, defines marriage as between “one man and one woman.”
Miles Romney, a great-great-grandfather of Mitt Romney, is in the process of being “sealed” to a 14th spouse.
Mitt Romney has publicly stated he follows the faith of his fathers—but he distances himself [...]