The Tweet of the Moment

Election Day is less than four months away.

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Tat Probably Wasn't the Best Idea

I'd like to introduce this Trump supporter to this guy ...

Mitt It Out of the Park

This might have won my vote had he said it in 2012!

Mitt for Brains

Because nobody rallies the GOP like Mitt Romney ...

ICYMI: I love that the real reason the GOP establishment is frightened by Donald Trump is that they're afraid he won't be as extreme as he purports to be, which they really are but deny. (Might require multiple readings -- I don't know how to write it more clearly!)

Ann of Gilded Gables

Pretty spot-on! I see a comeback role for Goldie Hawn in the works.

Quote of the Day: Mitt Romney

Maybe Mitt Romney isn't all bad. First he told Politico what every sane person knows -- that Hillary Clinton should be judged on her merits, not Bill's. Then when asked about a potential 2016 candidacy for himself, Romney continued to say that it is not happening. When it was noted that Ronald Reagan ran for president three times, Romney had a retort: “I’m not Ronald Reagan. I think that’s been pointed out to me before.”

Watering Mole

  Fascinating interview with the man who secretly recorded Mitt Romney's infamous "47 percent" speech at a private fundraiser. Turns out he was a bartender working at the event -- a registered independent -- who was taken aback by Romney's comments about Bain Capital buying factories in China with inhumane work conditions. Afterward, he agonized about releasing it, then decided he had to because "you shouldhan't have to pay $50,000 to know what a candidate really thinks." (I think Obama would have won no matter what, but this was certainly a turning point in the campaign.) Watch below or read HERE.

The White Party

   President Obama had Mitt Romney over for lunch at the White House, a tradition that Jon Stewart thinks is kind of rubbing it in the loser's face. Of course, Romney undoubtedly pointed out that all but one of his 10 houses has more square footage that the president's digs. (Romney's ski chalet in Aspen only sleeps 10!)

Mitt for Brains

The folks over at Larry King's Internet talk show sent me this clip titled "Former Romney Spokesperson Richard Grenell on Why He Left the Romney Campaign." But isn't the real question Why Did You Ever Have Anything to Do With It in the First Place? Watch HERE.

Restricted Access

There's a reason Maureen Dowd's column "Romney Is President" was the New York Times' most e-mailed story yesterday:

Romney and Tea Party loonies dismissed half the country as chattel and moochers who did not belong in their “traditional” America. But the more they insulted the president with birther cracks, the more they tried to force chastity belts on women, and the more they made Hispanics, blacks and gays feel like the help, the more these groups burned to prove that, knitted together, they could give the dead-enders of white male domination the boot.

Read it all HERE.

If any Republican strategists are reading, they might want to check out this essay by Eric Garland, a straight white man who has a lot to say about where you went wrong and what you can do to clean up your act HERE.

Black and White

 Looks pretty united to me! Read HERE.

Let 'Em Eat Cake

 From the schadenfreude-friendly White People Mourning Romney Tumblr HERE.

My pal Jeremy Peters at The New York Times wrote a nice piece about Karl Rove, whose on-air challenging of his own network's election call raised new questions about his role as commentator and campaign Svengali. Unfortunately, Jeremy left out the best quote of the night, uttered by Megyn Kelly and captured above by The Daily Show!

Transition Fail

 Thank god no one will ever be using THIS.

Forward!

You did it!

New York City 'Pole'

Why One Gay Man Is Voting for Romney (or, How I Wound Up at the Soup Nazi)

For those who wonder why a gay person would ever vote Republican, this might interest you a bit. Normally I do not even allow myself to get into this situation, but I was at a friend's apartment getting ready for work today -- still no power at my place-- so I figured the least I could do was hear him out since he let me use his bathroom. (I might have been extra calm too, because I had just taken a hot bath. He's European so doesn't have a shower.) A little background: The guy is the boyfriend of Michael's best friend, is a recently naturalized American (Russian born) and is a surgeon. He said all of the negatives about Mitt Romney are things that are unlikely to actually happen -- the constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, the women stuff, etc. -- but that the negatives about Obama -- namely taking more of his money -- is definitely going to happen. "Why would I vote for someone who wants to take more of my money?" Blames the Affordable Care Act for chipping away at doctors' salaries, says Obamacare is a disaster -- didn't take into consideration the fact that many of those 44 million uninsured people "don't want" health insurance; made no provision for correcting malpractice issues; no provision for actually cutting the cost of healthcare; no provision for training more physicians to handle all of these "new" patients (and so on). As for women, he said he didn't exactly see that many of them outraged or protesting over this assault on Roe v. Wade, contraception, etc. -- Romney's popularity with women actually went up after the debates -- so why should he get worked up about it? I had all my Democratic talking points handy -- how 0% of those people in the 44 million who say they "don't want" health insurance say they would NOT WANT to be treated if they were hurt, so shouldn't they HAVE to pay into the system too?; talked about the huge protests of Governor Bob McDonnell in Virginia, how the appointment of SCOTUS justices will definitely affect abortion rights, etc. -- but he was completely unswayed. (I may not agree with voting entirely based on your wallet, but if you're going to do it, own it. And don't deny the other ramifications of your actions.) I had to leave for work at that point, so I exited and forgot to put on my coat. despite the fact it's 40-something degrees out  (I was plenty hot already.) En route to the office, I ended up stopping at the Soup Nazi, which suddenly seemed like a far less contentious environment for me to be in ...

The soup looked fantastic, but I couldn't resist a $10 lobster roll!!!!

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I'd forward him this moving video by actress Tracy Nelson about Obamacare only I don't think it would make any difference.

Quote of the Day

"The only question is whether he is a bullshitter or simply a liar. Probably, he is both." -- "On Bullshit" author Daniel Libit on Mitt Romney. (Via Romenesko)

Look Sharp

 Not to brag, but I own a microwave ... with its own carousel inside.

Photo of the Day: Mitt Romney's Grandson Meets President Obama

 Here's hoping it's the only time this cute little fella meets a president. (From HERE)

Young Mitt

Vanity Fair does a brilliant job sending up Mitt Romney's notoriously heartless ways in a cache of "newly discovered" photos HERE. (And yes, I was duped when I just saw this one ... the others are equally well-done parodies!)