ISSUE: Foreign Policy
- Audrey Kubetin
- Oct 24, 2012 at 11:27 am
Romney & the Red Menace
Why is Romney so obsessed with Russia?
- Sam Drzymala
- Oct 22, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Romney’s Debate Stumbles
We’ve got three videos — one for each of Romney’s major debate stumbles:
- Sam Drzymala
- Mar 15, 2012 at 9:13 am
Tim Johnson Calls Iraq And Afghanistan “Senseless, Silly Wars”
Johnson: War on Terror is “silly.”
- Derek Pearce
- Mar 7, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Mediaite: Iran, Iran So Far Away: Mitt Romney Talks Tough Now, Wanted To Check With Lawyers In 2007
On March 6, 2012, Mediaite reported:
On the heels of President Obama’s tough, well-received speech to AIPAC this past weekend, leading GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is out with a butch new op-ed that continues his self-reinvention as a foreign policy Chuck Norris. However, progressive SuperPAC American Bridge has released a web video to remind Americans that, just like his declaration that “any president” would have greenlit the Osama bin Laden raid, the Mitt Romney of 2007 clucked a different tune.
- Laurin Manning
- Mar 6, 2012 at 11:27 am
Video Flashback: 2007 Romney On Iran
Mitt Romney’s been talking tough on Iran lately, but check out this flashback to 2007 when he came under fire for saying the first thing he’d do is “sit down with [his] attorneys” when deciding on whether to order a military strike against Iran.
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MEMO: 12 Things We Could Learn From Previous Romney Tax Returns

ICYMI: With Mitt Romney still refusing to release his pre-2010 returns, we wanted to be sure that you saw our previous memo explaining why it is so important that Mitt Romney release them.
Click through for the 12 questions that Mitt Romney needs to answer by releasing his previous years’ tax returns.
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ICYMI: Romney Profited From Government Handouts
This morning, the Los Angeles Times reported on Mitt Romney’s reliance on tax breaks and government subsidies while working in private equity. The article focuses on Steel Dynamics, the same steel company featured in Romney’s positive ad released just this morning, and all of the government help they received. In fact, Dekalb County was forced to institute a new tax to pay for all of the handouts.
Despite his constant opposition to government interference in the free market, Mitt Romney has a long history of profiting from government handouts. Research after the jump.
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Scott Brown’s Website Steals Childhood Anecdote From… Elizabeth Dole

Sen. Scott Brown may have some explaining to do. It seems a passage from his website detailing the values instilled in him as a young child was stolen essentially word-for-word from former Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
Original research & screenshots after the jump.



