The Associated Press reports today that the Log Cabin Republicans and the Republican Majority for Choice group have both started airing ads in New Hampshire.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians: 6). The consequences of Romney’s decision to campaign as a religious extremist, as close to the religious right as he can get, are coming home. It will be interesting to see how his gambit plays in increasingly blue New Hampshire.
A Republican gay rights advocacy group accuses Mitt Romney of “Mitt-flops” in a new radio ad that criticizes the former Massachusetts governor on his tax record.
The ad by the Log Cabin Republicans notes that Romney signed legislation in 2003 that increased taxes on New Hampshire residents who worked in Massachusetts. It also says Romney raised taxes on businesses, a point Romney disputes by saying he was merely closing tax loopholes.
“Mitt Flops – sounds like something you’d wear to the beach, but they could cost you,” the ad states. “Let’s see. Running for governor, Mitt Romney said he’d balance the budget without raising taxes. So what’d he really do? He raised taxes on some New Hampshire residents who worked in Massachusetts, taxing their income and their pensions.”
The ad represents yet another anti-Romney campaign by an independent political group that is hitting the airwaves with six weeks before the New Hampshire primary. This weekend, the Republican Majority for Choice, a group that advocates abortion rights, is running television and newspaper ads in New Hampshire and Iowa accusing Romney of flip-flopping on abortion.
Separately, the MassDems have updated and improved RomneyFacts.com. Among other things, they have an extensive review of his multiple arrests. Frankly, however, his 1965 arrest for using blocks of ice as sleds makes me like the religious extremist better.
I didn’t realize he was actually arrested for the road rage incident with the traffic jam during the Olympics.
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p>Right after the Olympics, I bought a commemorative enamel Olympic pin showing Romney as an enraged, profanity-spewing caricature, based on an editorial cartoon that appeared (in color) in the Salt Lake City newspaper at the time.
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p>In the cartoon (and pin) he was depicted as using a word that wholesome local folks in the Salt Lake area apparently substitute when they feel moved to use the F word. The word they substitute is FLIP.
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p>How appropriate!
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p>Someday, I will auction off the pin to the highest bidder in an auction of political ephemera. Proceeds to go to MassDems, of course.
Mitt Romney has been arrested exactly two more times than I have, which is to say he’s been arrested twice. A cursory glance indicates that he was not arrested in Utah, but he has been arrested in Michigan and Massachusetts:
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p>What part of illegal doesn’t Mitt understand, lol?
Not a pretty image.
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p>How the heck do you transport huge blocks of ice to the top of a golf course hill? Wouldn’t they be too heavt for use as sleds? That sounds like it could be fun.
…it makes Mitt more human. And the bathing suit image…remember how short those things were back in the 80s. I’m thinking back to Larry Bird and the Celtics short. Yikes. But it was an ’81 Romney, so it may have been a prettier picture.
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p>I wish I had the Mitt mug shot so I could make “Free Romney” t-shirts.
…In decades past, I sailed on Lake Cochituate in a 13 foot yacht and had no problems with the authorities.
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p>I wonder how much Mitty would harrumph if he was arrested for failing to register his motor-car.