“At the same time, from the very beginning in 1994, I said to the gay community: I do not favor same-sex marriage. I oppose same-sex marriage, and that has been my – my view. But – but if people are looking for someone who – who will discriminate against gays or will in any way try and suggest that people – that have different sexual orientation don’t have full rights in this country, they won’t find that in me.” -Mitt Romney at the Meet the Press / Facebook Debate in New Hampshire, January 2012.
“What I can promise you is this — when you get out of college, if I’m president you’ll have a job. If President Obama is reelected, you will not be able to get a job.” -Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, December 2011.
“I believe in analysis of new sources of energy. I believe in laboratories, looking at ways to conduct electricity with — with cold fusion, if we can come up with it. It was the University of Utah that solved that.” -From an interview of Mitt Romney by the Washington Examiner, December 2011.
“Medicaid. You wonder what Medicaid is; those who aren’t into all this government stuff. You know, I have to admit, I didn’t know the differences between all these things until I got into government.” -Mitt Romney, Sioux City, Iowa, December 2011
While working at Bain, Romney led a $311 million buyout of American Healthcare Management, which gets about half of its income from Medicare and Medicaid (citation).
“He [Romney’s Mississippian bodyguard Garrett Jackson] is now turning me into an, I don’t know, unofficial Southerner. And I’m learning to say ‘y'all,’ and I like grits. Strange things are happening to me.” -Mitt Romney campaigning in Mississippi, March 8, 2012.
“It’s unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon…. Syria is their key ally. It’s their only ally in the Arab world. It is also their route to the sea.” -Mitt Romney at the Arizona Republican debate, February 2012.
“I was born and raised here. I love the state. It seems right here. Trees are the right height. I like – I like seeing the lakes. I love the lakes. Something very special here. The Great Lakes but also all the little inland lakes that dot the parts of Michigan. I love cars. I don’t know – I mean, I grew up totally in love with cars…. I love cars. I love American cars.” -Mitt Romney in Michigan, February 2012.
But watch the video. The transcript doesn’t do it justice.
“A number of the apartments I lived in when I lived [in France] didn’t have toilets. We had instead the little pads on the ground, OK? You know how that works, all right. There was a chain behind you with a bucket — it was a bucket affair. I had not experienced one of those in the United States.” -Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, December 2011.
Information about Romney’s mansion in Paris can be found here.
“The tax payers shouldn’t have to have money taken out of their pay checks to pay people in government who are our servants who are making a lot more money than we are.” -Mitt Romney, November 2011. (Video.)
Mean annual earnings of full-time federal, state, and local government employees in 2010.
“Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney earned $21.6 million in 2010 and paid 13.9 percent of that amount in income taxes.”-Bloomberg Businessweek, Jan. 24, 2012.
“Lemme tell ya something. America is a great nation, because we’re a united nation and those who are trying to divide the nation as you’re trying to do here and as the president is doing are hurting this country, seriously. The right course for America is not to divide America, and try and divide us between one and another, it’s for us to come together as a nation. And if you’ve got a better model, if you think China is better, or Russia is better, or Cuba’s better, or North Korea’s better, I’m glad to hear all about it. But you know what? America’s right, and you’re wrong!” -Mitt Romney in Charleston, South Carolina on January 19, 2012 after being asked “What would you do to support the 99 percent, seeing as you are part of the 1 percent?” (Video at the bottom of this page.)
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The only situation where I would want to be stuck in a bunker with Romney and Cruz is where I can see the little Mormon Francophile scream at the zodiac killer
Allow me to introduce you to a Mr. Mitt Romney. A haphazard skew of a man, whose political career, much like his wit, is an act of uncomfortable brevity. To his immediate right is a door-to-door salesman, of sorts, whose peddled wares are more than just stowed encyclopedias or finely crafted Tupperware. Mr. Romney is about to learn that legacies aren’t built with the brick and mortar of intentions, but of deeds. Dip your quill and get ready to sign. Your dotted line: The Twilight Zone.
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