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Top Ten Mitt-isms!

by Josh Marshall
01.10.12 | 10:58 am

It’s the only new literary genre of the 2012 campaign: the Mitt-ism! “Corporations are people, my friend!” “I like being able to fire people.” “I’m also unemployed!” Which is your favorite. We rate them all ten of them on a five star system: the Top Ten Mitt-isms … So Far.

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