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Romney Paid 13.9 Percent Tax in 2010

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Rick Perry slams Mitt Romney's Bain experience: 'Getting rich off failure'

GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, in South Carolina, joins Newt Gingrich's attack on Mitt Romney's brand of locust capitalism:
Rick Perry ripped into Mitt Romney on Monday after the former Massachusetts governor told voters in New Hampshire that he knows what it's like to worry about getting a pink slip.
Perry, campaigning in South Carolina, cast Romney as an out-of-touch corporate raider with a long record of hurting workers.

Said Perry:

"I had to shake my head yesterday when one of the wealthiest men I suppose has ever run for the presidency of the United States, the son of a multimillionaire, Mitt Romney, he said 'I know what it's like to worry about whether you're going to get fired. There were a couple times when I worried about whether I was going to get a pink slip.' He actually said this," the Texas governor said at a campaign stop in Anderson.
"I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips, whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital with all the jobs that they killed, I'm sure he was worried that he'd run out of pink slips," he continued.

Perry's parting shot: Mitt Romney, he said, spent his career at Bain "getting rich off failure" by "looting" companies in South Carolina.

But as surprising as it might be to see a Republican finally attacking Mitt Romney, check out the Romney campaign's weak response:

The Romney campaign fired back, accusing Perry of sounding like a Democrat by "running against the private sector."
Maybe that will get Romney through the primary without losing support, but in the general election, that sort of response will never fly. And I wouldn't bet on it convincing Republicans, either. Imagine if President Obama had handled the Jeremiah Wright videos by simply accusing his opponents of race-baiting and leaving it at that. It would have eaten his campaign alive and wouldn't have resolved a single question about the controversy. The same thing is true for Romney—simply accusing his opponents of being socialists or communists because they dare criticize his record at Bain does nothing to address the key question about his tenure there: Did Mitt Romney ever make money by bankrupting a company? Maybe his problem is that the
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/09/1053037/-Rick-Perry-slams-Mitt-Romneys-Bain-experience:-Getting-rich-off-failure?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, in South Carolina, joins Newt Gingrich's... more

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Romney says he hasn't seen SuperPAC ads, then says he saw one

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Mitt Romney Takes Fire at Sunday’s New Hampshire GOP Debate

After coasting on Saturday, the frontrunner was the prime target at NBC’s New... more

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Romney: ‘I don’t discriminate… I oppose same sex marriage’

By David Edwards Sunday, January 8, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt... more

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Preppy protester: The moment a 19-year-old Mitt Romney demonstrated in favour of Vietnam War draft

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Mitt Romney has an Awful day in New Hampshire

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Mitt Romney Fights With Reporter After Being Exposed As A Liar

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Romney’s immigration stance will hurt him

Mitt Romney may well be on his way to the Republican nomination, but he’ll have a hard time getting further than that because of his position on immigration.

Romney’s hostile stance against even immigrant children who arrived here when they were very young does not sit well with Latinos, to say the least.

Like all voting groups, Latino registered voters represent a heterogeneous bunch of individuals with diverse political viewpoints and backgrounds, from liberal to moderate to conservative. This includes Chicanos from East Los Angeles, Puerto Ricans from the Bronx and Cubans from “Little Havana” in Miami.

However, as a voting bloc, Latino voters tend to support the rights of undocumented immigrants and vote Democrat at a higher rate compared to all registered voters. For instance, according to a recent poll from the Pew Hispanic Center, while 42 percent of all Latino registered voters favor a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country, only 24 percent of all registered voters support this position. Also, in a hypothetical matchup between President Obama and Romney for the 2012 election, an overwhelming 68 percent of all Latino voters favor Obama, while only 23 percent support Romney.

Obama gave Romney an opening with Latinos, as 59 percent of Latinos disapprove of Obama’s inhumane deportation policy of breaking up families. But Romney didn’t take it.

Instead, he has tacked to the right on the immigration issue. He has denounced Texas Gov. Rick Perry for approving in-state tuition for immigrant students, claiming this represents a magnet for illegal immigration. He recently vowed to veto the DREAM Act, which would enable children of undocumented immigrants to become citizens if they go to college or serve in the military. And he opposes any amnesty for undocumented immigrants, despite their daily contributions to this country.

All undocumented immigrants, Romney says, should return to their country of birth and then get in the back of the line if they want to re-enter the United States legally.

These views do not endear Romney to Latinos, who represent a growing — and perhaps pivotal — voter bloc.

Romney’s anti-immigrant stance may be helping him win the Republican nomination but is spoiling his chance to win the White House. He may have plenty of time on his hands, after November, to ponder that irony.

http://www.progressive.org/Romney_immigration_stance_will_hurt_him.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+progressivefeed+%28The+Progressive+Main+Feed%29Mitt Romney may well be on his way to the Republican nomination, but he’ll have... more

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The Latest GOP Debate Train Wreck in 60 Seconds (VIDEO)

What can we say about last night's moronic and embarrassing GOP presidential... more

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