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The Last True Conservative
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has voted to repeal Obamacare, more officially known as the Affordable Care Act or by the acronym “ACA,” over 50 times since its passage. Two separate Republican presidential nominees – Mitt Romney and Donald Trump – and countless potential Representatives and Senators campaigned, and in many cases won, on promises…
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Game Theoretic Understanding of Presidential Elections in the United States
BY STEVE KIM When Mitt Romney failed to make Barack Obama a one-term president, conservative leaders blasted him for not having been conservative enough. During his campaign, Romney made deliberate efforts to move left. Did Romney fail because he was too liberal for a Republican candidate, or did Romney fail despite his attempt to appear…
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Contrived Metaphor of the Week: Baby Elephant Mitt
BY RAJA KRISHNA If there’s one thing I love, it’s a great metaphor. And boy did the admakers over at Orang Tua Group, the firm KayaKing Peanuts hired to make ad you see below, deliver. As far as print ads go, it’s pretty famous. It depicts one elephant performing the Heimlich Maneuver on a baby…
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Romney’s Emergency Room Flip
Last night on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley asked Mitt Romney whether the federal government has a responsibility to cover the uninsured: Pelley: Does the government have a responsibility to provide health care to the 50 million Americans who don’t have it today? Romney: Well, we do provide care for people who don’t have insurance, people–…
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47 Percent and Out of Touch Politicians: A Conservative Perspective
Mitt Romney’s recent “47 percent” comment has dominated the newsreel since Mother Jones published it September 17. The video, the release of which was facilitated by the grandson of former president of Jimmy Carter, depicts Romney speaking to a room of millionaire donors. The mainstream media and Obama campaign alike have criticized Romney’s statements as…
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Mitt On Moochers
Mother Jones’ David Corn has published a video of Mitt Romney making pretty disdainful remarks about the perceived Obama electorate at a private Boca Raton fund-raiser from earlier this year: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with…
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Obamacare: Victory or Disaster?
We live in arguably one of the most rigid and ridiculous eras of political discourse to occur in the last century. And that’s just what this issue has become: in an all-or-nothing political election year, this debate has turned completely and utterly political. Divided into nine titles, the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (ACA)…
