Romney: “I like being able to fire people.”

Drones go mainstream at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Newt dinged Mitt in Sunday’s debate for repeatedly claiming that he had never envisioned, sought or pursued a career in politics. Newt has a point on this one. As Benjy Sarlin and Evan McMorris-Santoro reports, Mitt’s #humblebrag on this score is a key part of his new and improved bio for the 2012 race.

A growing body of evidence gives a not altogether unreasonable basis for thinking the economy may grow both faster and sooner than expected. It’s not the consensus view of economists, but it’s not tinfoil hat territory either. Brian Beutler explains.

Top brass at the Consumer Electronics Association say Apple won’t be missed at this year’s big CES trade show.

Has the man once known for repeated public comments about the grossness of gay sex gone soft on gays?

In the preceding post I referenced this swift-boat-style ‘documentary’ on Mitt Romney and Bain Capital which the Gingrich-backing SuperPAC (Winning Our Future) has bought and will use as the battering ram against Romney in South Carolina. They’ve put up a trailer for it now which you can see after the jump. It really is right out of the Swift Boat witch’s brew, the camp lighting, rumbling black clouds, the cinematography of 30 second hit ads expanded out longform.

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Last night I saw a link on Twitter to the news that Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul had given $5 million to a Gingrich-backing SuperPAC to run a brutal series of ads against Mitt Romney in South Carolina. (The ad campaign will be based on snippets from a half-hour swift-boat style ‘documentary’ about Mitt’s time at Bain Capital.) I knew this was big if for no other reason than the fact that $5 million thrown at a relatively small state like South Carolina over little more than a week is enough to totally change the calculus of a race. After all, the whole story of Iowa is that Romney’s backers had enough money to crush Gingrich with a massive bombardment of negative ads. Gingrich simply had no money to respond.

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Relive the highlights of Sunday’s debate, all in only 100 seconds. Warning: contains “pious baloney” and beanbags.

Romney: Don’t run for office unless you’re independently wealthy and don’t need a salary.