Romney Horse Wins Spot on Olympic Dressage Team
GLADSTONE, N.J. — Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, who plan to attend the opening of the Olympic Games in London this summer, now have a personal rooting interest in the event. Jan Ebeling, Mrs....
View ArticleRomney’s Horse Rafalca Admitted to Harvard Business School
In a move that has sent shock waves across the world of academia, Harvard Business School today announced Rafalca had been admitted to its class of 2015. “For decades we have been slaves to...
View ArticleMitt's Dancing Horse makes DNC ad appearance UPDATED: New Second 'Dancing' Ad
The DNC have released an ad this morning that goes there: to the Dancing Horse. This will piss off Team Romney no end. The Romney's Olympic caliber Dressage Horse is a point of some pride for the...
View ArticleThe authentic Mrs. Romney
For months, fawning press accounts with titles like "Romney Using Wife's Story to Connect with Voters", "Ann Romney Adds Personal Touch to Mitt's Campaign", "The Ann Romney Advantage" and "Ann Romney...
View ArticleConversation Between Romney and Rafalca
Breaking news. The following is a transcript of a secretly recorded conversation at Heathrow Airport cargo bay. For the sake of brevity M: is for Mitt R: is for Rafalca.
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Don't talk about Ann Romney's fancy Olympic horse. Don't even THINK about it.
Mr. and Mrs. Terrible People. Another discussion for quiet rooms only: Reporters are not allowed to even see Ann Romney's fancy dancing horse Rafalca—much less whisper an interview to her—before she...
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The Innumerable Flaws Of Mitt, Part #17: Special Late-Breaking European...
This is no longer the "standard" for witless Americans abroad The British press is abuzz, trying to keep up with the gaffes that fall from...
View ArticleTalking about Rafalca's owners
Though as Kaili Joy Gray snarks in the title of her front-page diary, we should not even think about talking about this odd emblem of Mitt Romney's fantastic wealth. And single-minded stinginess when...
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Mitt snubs own horse. Not cool, Mitt.
When you read this: “It’s a big, exciting experience for my wife. I have to tell you, this is Ann’s sport,” Romney said. “I’m not even sure which day the sport goes on. She will get the chance to see...
View ArticleI will be rooting for Rafalca, Ann Romney's horse, to win gold in London.
Why, you ask? Simple. Rafalca, and his rider/ co-owner (with Ann Romney) will be representing the United States of America and I feel it's important to remember what patriotic duty means from time to...
View ArticleThe Innumerable Flaws of Mitt #18: Quick! Lock Down Our Borders Before Mitt...
Well, mirabile dictu! Mitt's creating jobs! Of course, they're all for British cartoonist, pundits, bloggers, talk show hosts, and comedians, but when the world's teetering on the edge of a financial...
View ArticleHobby Horse
Tomorrow's the day! Finally, after all these frou frou so-called "sports," we get a chance to see some real athletic prowess on display. Dressage, baby!
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Break A Leg Rafalca....
as used in theatrical parlance of course, lest some readers scurry off to alert the ASPCA, the IOC or the baseball players union let me state that I am a fan of all things equine, of four legged...
View ArticleRomney's horse loses, but manages to avoid putting hoof in mouth
Ya gotta love the British press sometimes. Ann Romney's horse failed to win today in the dressage competition at the Olympics, but it managed to avoid insulting its hosts, unlike the owner's husband....
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Grand Prix Dressage; Day 1
13 Y/O Grandioso For Spain, Martin Dockx up. It looked a little warmer today at the stadium in Greenwich judging by the garb of the audience in attendance for the first day of Dressage Grand Prix,...
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Grand Prix Dressage; Day 2, or the Day of the Neck Flop
Today's line up of 25 seemed slightly more interesting. Or maybe annoying because I don't know what the judges are smoking. If I were the judge, the young Brit, Charlotte Dujardin would still be on...
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A Simple Obama-Ryan Compromise: Guarenteed minimum retirement $$$ and...
To my shock, I learned recently that the Paul Ryan plan for Social Security includes scrapping the entire system (basically), BUT ALSO giving every retiree a monthly sum -- the same sum for everyone....
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Romney throws wife and father under the bus
By most accounts, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a devoted father, dedicated family man and committed church leader. But as his record sadly shows, Romney's family values often take a...
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Rafalca, The Tax Credit Horse, Fails
OK. I might not be the perfect person to write about Rafalca and dressage and Ann Rmoney. After all, I have piloted a horse exactly once as an adult. That particular horse was alleged to be the...
View ArticleRafalca Has A Bad Mare Day
Horsing Around With The Romneys Late Night Frolic with a Funtastic article in SF Chron from gifted sports writer Scott Ostler http://www.sfgate.com/...
View ArticleCan someone tell me what effective tax rates Mitt's father paid?
I'm willing to bet it's well above 13%! My, how times have changed. Also, I have to say that the $70,000 tax credit they got for Rafalca is more than the average American gets paid! Please tell me...
View ArticleYou Ask the God of a Planet to Be Named Later to Release His TAXES? FOOLISH...
Mitt Romney, God of a Planet to be Named Later, is not going to release his tax returns. He is not gonna do it. So stop with all the "Release your taxes, Mitt" nonsense on the Twitterolamatron,...
View ArticleMitt and Me 4: The Mittcom
From the Guardian, August 17th, under the headline "Mitt Romney's tax returns: the 'voter fraud' theory": "Sometime in or shortly before January 2010 – that is, not long after he filed his 2008 return...
View ArticleMore like that: DNC2012. Kicking Ass live on NetrootsRadio.com
NetrootsRadio.com proudly hosts the irreverent, "Kicking Ass" live. We'll wrap up DNC2012, what made it soar and what will connect door-to-door. There's still news this morning about jobs numbers, the...
View ArticleRepeal, Replace, RAFALCA.
There are three scripts currently in rehearsal over at Fox News, as they prepare to "report" the "news" for 2013. Actually there are probably more than three, if not in rehearsal then at least in...
View ArticleSad news from the equestrian world
At an unscheduled campaign stop this afternoon, Governor Mitt Romney spoke to the assembled group and press corps to share what he called “An important speech to take your mind off some of the really...
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Ann Romney says her horse is classier than you people
She's so much better than you. And so is her horse. Oh, Ann: My horse has more style and more class in its hoof than they do in their whole deal. "They," of course, would be those meanie Democrats who...
View ArticleRomney Says He's Not Qualified To Be President
There's an interesting diary that was just momentarily on the Rec list (maybe it'll be back) about how Romney didn't claim his losses on Rafalca the dancing horse on his taxes - evidently wasting...
View ArticleThe #1 Reason Not To Vote For Mitt Romney? He Put The Cart Before The Horse.
I’m not one to vote Democrat or Republican. But if I was – and I say this as an entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the dreaded private sector -- I could never vote for Mitt Romney. It’s not...
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Please proceed, Governor
With his gracious concession speech Tuesday, Mitt Romney ended his decades-long quest for the presidency. But that moment of dignity and decency can't obscure a campaign in which Romney showed utter...
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