“You idiot! Get back in there at once and sell, sell!” As we set about the process of compiling and canonizing the 2012 election post-mortem, one thing we keep hearing over and over is how utterly stunned the Romney camp was at their loss. Republicans across the board apparently expected victory – the conservative punditry seemed […]
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Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
‘We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.” – Anais Nin If there’s one word that seemed to characterize Romney supporters’ immediate reaction to Obama’s victory, it’s “shock.” A conservative Facebook friend posted this status: “For the first time in my life I am at a loss for words…absolutely […]
"Binders full of women": Mitt finally lands a zinger for the ages
Remember back before the first debate when Mitt let us know he was working on his zingers? Yep. Clearly he wanted to land a punch that would push him over the top in the public consciousness, score the iconic rhetorical knockout blow that people would still be pointing to decades later. He wanted to be […]
Mitt Romney lies like a rug. So what?
I didn’t watch the debate, so all I have is a bunch of second-hand information. Watching it would have required staying up until 3:00 in the morning here in London, and while the Patriots in the Super Bowl will get me to do that, and the actual election night returns, this didn’t seem worth it. […]
Conservatives are a frustrated lot
We Democrats aren’t very good at this campaigning stuff. But we don’t need to be. Because we don’t have Fox on our side. The conservatives are a frustrated lot. They are frustrated that a Negro is president. They are frustrated that no matter what they write in their homeschool textbooks, it’s getting warmer and everybody […]
Take out the tax returns day
I, like a lot of other aspiring wonks, watched The West Wing when I was younger. I watched Leo talk about a big block of cheese, I watched CJ stand up for women in Saudi Arabia, and I watched President Bartlet raise my standards for elected officials far higher than could ever be met outside […]
The 7th Sign: David Brooks in the Times, telling the truth about Romney
This is just remarkable. And it may be the 7th Sign. I try not to read David Brooks any more than I have to because every time I do I wind up wanting to throw things. Through the years he has established himself as one of the most reliably disingenuous, dishonest propagandists on the GOP […]
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