In this piece in Rolling Stone, about Rush Limbaugh, and Republican "morning after" analysis (har har) ,Matt Taibbi dials back the venom and really tries to "help". But the reason Romney lost is exactly that Obama and the Democrats quite successfully portrayed him as anti-woman, anti-working person, anti-poor, anti-hispanic, pro-(HORRORS) business, pro rich people, etc. Romney, for his part, never gave anyone anything resembling a concrete reason to vote FOR him. OH, and special mention to the Republican Party for flushing millions of votes by marginalizing Ron Paul and his supporters at the convention, stealing his delegates, and refusing to accord him the respect he deserved. Have fun talking to yourself, Rush.
Bailouts, Revisited
Salon, Meet Economic Ignorance
In this rather partisan and somewhat confused article, Andrew Leonard doesn't let reality get in the way of his Obama-burnishing. In trying to indict Romney on one of the very few decent positions he has (e.g., against the auto bailouts), he takes Romney to task for claiming that the bailed-out Chrysler Corp has shipped Jeep production to China,
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