Word: mitt
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...fact, one prominent potential 2012 presidential candidate, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, paid more homage to the Bush-Cheney legacy in his CPAC remarks than he typically did on the stump during his failed 2008 run for the White House. But the more important meme from Romney's speech - and the one that poses the most danger to the incumbent President and the Democratic Party - was the repeated claim that Obama already can be judged a "failure" in the job after just 13 months in office...
...having effectively managed the national-security challenges he inherited, the people who control the vast majority of the political discourse across all platforms are nearly uniform in their belief that the political health of Obama's presidency is at best grim and at worst - in the analysis of Mitt Romney, Dick Cheney and other notable critics - a doomed, unredeemable failure. (See how Barack Obama handled his first year, issue by issue...
Today that brand of moderate Republicanism remains a force in state and local politics. At the national level, however, it is nearly extinct. Northeastern or California Republicans who aspire to national office often feel compelled to reinvent themselves: see Romney, Mitt, career...
...people to buy insurance across state lines? Or Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan’s offer to tax employer-provided insurance and provide tax credits for individual coverage? Or Arizona Senator John McCain’s push for caps on exorbitant lawsuits against medical malpractice? Or former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s suggestion that states lift their mandates on insurers that force them to cover particular services—like in vitro fertilization...
...before his death in August as "the cause of my life." And it was all the more ironic considering that Massachusetts has come closer than any other state to assuring coverage to all of its citizens, thanks to a 2006 law that was championed by a Republican governor, Mitt Romney, who was celebrating onstage with Brown on election night...