The Romney camp has decided to turn the ‘woman binder’ remark into a cudgel against President Obama. No, it didn’t go well.
I understand the challenges women face and want to make it easier for them in the workplace. mi.tt/Ra6QOe
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 17, 2012
Summary reads: “Women who worked with Mitt Romney were struck by his humanity and his sensitivity.”
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) says a PAC mailer claiming he’s endorsed GOP nominee Richard Mourdock as his successor is “misleading.”
Group that put together the “woman binder” doesn’t remember it the way Mitt does.
Top Romney adviser Ed Gillespie now tells us he was wrong last night when he said Mitt Romney used to oppose the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: “He never weighed in on it. As President, he would not seek to repeal it.”
Didn’t oppose it then; doesn’t support it now; but would leave it alone.
Leadership.
Mitt’s son Tagg says he wanted to take a swing at the President when Obama called his dad a liar. Read More
The 1980s me is blown away that Newsweek is ceasing printing.
I’m not sure why we didn’t think of this sooner, but I don’t think we’re the only ones to be slow on the uptake here. When you look at Mitt Romney’s health care reform proposal for the country as a whole, it actually spells disaster for Romneycare in Massachusetts, in not one but two different ways. Brian Beutler talks to some of the folks there at the creation of Romneycare about how Romney’s latest proposals would change the underlying economics for Romneycare in disastrous ways.
A new poll out this morning puts Elizabeth Warren up by 9 points over Scott Brown in Massachusetts. That’s ahead of other recent polls but not dramatically. The trend in Massachusetts seems all in her favor.