Mitt Romney
Summary
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman, Republican Party politician, and was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. He is the son of the businessman and politician George W. Romney, and Lenore Romney.Romney was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and served as a Mormon missionary in France. He attended Stanford University and Brigham Young University as an undergraduate, then earned a joint Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. He entered the management consulting business and became CEO of Bain & Company and co-founder of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm.
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Romney’s air kiss to Bill Clinton
There was Romney, campaigning Tuesday in Iowa, praising the nation’s previous Democratic president and casting him as far superior to the current incumbent.
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Lampooning video of New Jersey's Christie, Booker goes viral
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A video made by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to spoof himself and Newark Mayor Cory Booker - in which Booker repeatedly bests Christie with effortless acts of heroism - went viral on Wednesday.
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Karl Rove's evil genius breaks 'Obama's Promise' | Paul Harris
The new ad that attacks Obama from Rove-founded Super Pac Crossroads GPS is unfair, of course, but fiendishly effective.
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Mitt Romney: What's He Really Worth?
Forbes reveals the most definitive valuation of the man who would be the richest President ever.
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Scared of Facebook shares? Wager on Friday's close
(Reuters) - Worried that if you buy Facebook when it starts trading Friday you'll get trampled by big banks and hedge funds? Betting on where the stock closes that day may be a safer wager.
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For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers
When Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign last month, the former Pennsylvania senator all but sealed Mitt Romney’s easy victory in the state’s April 24 primary. Santorum also dashed the expectations of his home state’s broadcasters, who were counting on the candidate to keep the race competitive and their ad inventory—much of which had already been reserved.
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Romney at Liberty: The case for conservatism
Mitt Romney did not rise on the power of his rhetoric. At the Detroit Economic Club in February, his speech was swallowed by its stadium venue, overshadowed by a gaffe (his wife’s “couple of Cadillacs”) and weighed down by leaden language. Early in the primaries, Romney’s attempts to wax poetic on the virtues of America — often by quoting patriotic hymns — were waxen.
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Week in Review: Hip, Hip — if Not Hooray — for a Standstill Nation
Mad at Beltway gridlock and can’t take it anymore? Why? Paralysis (alas) is one way things are supposed to work.
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A gay marriage proclamation? Bullying? Much ado about the wrong things.
Two, Mitt Romney is a gay-bashing bully mired in the previous century who also supports a war on women and, oh yeah, hates dogs.
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Washington Post: Change to Romney story wasn’t a correction
DC Porcupine | Big Journalism The Washington Post didn’t need to address a change it made to its story about Mitt Romney’s high school days because the change wasn’t a correction, Post spokesperson Kris Coratti tells Washington media… Read more.
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