Mitt Romney

BurgerFi Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Celebrates Birthday With Two Dollar Burgers

BurgerFi's first restaurant, located in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, turns two today with a celebration that's a great deal for hungry people in the neighborhood.Hop over to the restaurant, which features all-natural, antibiotic and hormone-free beef, and get a single burger or cheeseburger for only $2. R ... More >>

Top Turkeys of 2012: The South Florida Personalities We Love to Hate

Mother Jones' David Corn: The 47-Percent Video Stole Romney's Most Valuable Commodity. Time.

There was a moment -- maybe it's difficult to remember now -- but there was a moment back in early September when Barack Obama ran advertisement after advertisement suggesting Mitt Romney was a rapacious and perhaps soulless businessman. But the question was: Would the barrage work? Would the messag ... More >>

Republicans Already Using Hurricane Sandy as an Excuse in Case Romney Loses

Looks like the GOPers are all ready to go with their postelection TALKING POINT in case their robot Mitt Romney should lose the election. Because the Benghazi SuperSecret Governmental Conspiracy Coverup of the 22nd Century thing hasn't worked and because Romney's supposed momentum has slowed some ... More >>

Election Day Fun: Obama, Romney Top Ten Food Art (Pictures)

First off, here's a non-paid and non-partisan political announcement from Clean Plate Charlie -- get out and vote. This election is extremely close and every vote counts. No matter who you want to see in the White House for the next four years, it's your civic duty to vote.  Besides, you totall ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Says Romney Will Win by Landslide, Cites His Own Common Sense

Radio blowfish blowhard Rush Limbaugh opened his face hole again and said that it's pretty friggin obvious that Mitt Romney is going to win the election tonight. And not just win it, but win it by a landslide! Despite every single poll showing a tight race, Romney's actually going to win this thing ... More >>

Hey, Mitt! Alcohol-Free Whiskey Coming to a Store Near You

If Mitt Romney wins the election tomorrow, he'll have something to celebrate with. Alcohol-free whiskey. Now, whiskey is not a wimpy drink - quite the contrary. This particular form of spirit is typically equated with cowboys, grizzled old men and drinkers who know what they're doing. It takes bal ... More >>

Obama and Romney All Over The Polls In Florida

As we gear up for another colossal clusterfuck big election day here in Florida, the polls, all eyes will be on how badly we fuck up this election things turn out in our key swing state on Tuesday. A few months ago, Florida polls gave Obama a modest lead, and then things switched to a solid Romney ... More >>

Obama Wins; Local Power Brokers Back to Business as Usual

It's over -- the election, that is -- and we're already back to business as usual in Palm Beach County: favorable official treatment of questionable businesses, hypocritical maneuvering by powerful lawyers, and rampant dissembling by deep-pocketed merchants of crap.What's that you say? Election Day ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Tie To Iran Contra Scandal

By Penn BullockWas Bain Capital, the company that presidential candidate Mitt Romney started, built with pivotal help from covert Iran-contra operatives? New information uncovered by Miami New Times raises the possibility. The story starts in 1984, when Romney solicited startup money for Bain at a ... More >>

Buying the Vote: Don't Fool Yourself: South Florida's Richest Are Calling the Shots in This Election

Obama and Romney Hitting Up Florida For The Home Stretch

Polls are tight in Florida as the presidential election mercifully grinds down to its final days, and anything can and will happen in the Sunshine State, because that's just how we roll. A Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News Poll have Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in a virtual tie in Flori ... More >>

Obama Rang Your Doorbell Last Night? Halloween Masks Predict President

Now that all the candy's been handed out and the toilet paper cleaned off the trees and the egg yolk scrubbed off of front doors, it's time to see who our next president is going to be. While presidential Halloween masks are probably the most unoriginal, uncreative, and lamest of all costumes, thos ... More >>

Palm Beach Voting: Strong Black Turn-Out, Screwed-Up Ballots Scrutinized

Tropical Storm Sandy had passed and left a clear, crisp morning as early voting started Saturday in Palm Beach County. An estimated 12,250 votes were cast countywide over the weekend, and if the 7 A.M. crowd at the Supervisor of Elections office on Military Trail was any indication, voters were pati ... More >>

Yup, the Sun-Sentinel Endorsed Mitt Romney

The Sun-Sentinel has come out and decided to endorse the candidate who thinks Syria is Iran's route to the sea. That's right. The paper that is owned by JP Morgan Chase and some hedge funds, thinks that child molesters are a riot and are run by a dude who declared bankruptcy has officially endorsed ... More >>

Herald: Obama, Sentinel: Romney, New Times: Romney Lies

Now it's our turn. The Sun-Sentinel this morning endorsed Mitt Romney. Then the Miami Herald threw its support to Barack Obama.We don't endorse candidates. We are just a motley crew of renegades who likes to throw darts at pictures of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Britney Spears. But we believe ... More >>

John McCain Campaigns for Romney in State That Didn't Vote for Him

With the election a mere days away, Willard Mittington knows that winning Florida is going to be crucial, especially with the numbers settling down across the country and Ohio maybe possibly being a must-win state for the Mittbot, where he is down by as much as five in some polls.So Romney is pullin ... More >>

Politics Meet Food Trucks at Lynn University Debate (Photos)

Thousands of students, political wonks, local campaign volunteers, faculty, and corporate bigwigs got together least evening to watch the third and final Presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton. Read Also:- Media People, Get a Free Beer at BurgerFi in Delray- Mitt Romney Eats Healthy ... More >>

Obama Wins Third and Final Debate With Horses and Bayonets

Round three of the presidential debates was last night. And people who went in expecting to have their asses blown off with the two candidates going at each other for a final climactic showdown were mildly disappointed. No asses were blown off here, unfortunately. The main take-aways from the deba ... More >>

Barack Obama Hits Up Delray Beach for Post Debate Rally

A day after taking a horse to Mitt Romney (or was it a bayonet?) in the third and final presidential debate, President Obama hit up Delray Beach for a Romnesia party. Barry Barack held his rally at the Delray Beach Tennis Center where he harped on Romney's forgetfulness and flip-floppery in front o ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Blimp Forced To Make Emergency Landing in Davie

On Friday morning, WPLG Channel 10 News ran a story of a blimp with the words "America Needs Romney" emblazoned next to a giant drawing of Mitt Romney's face on the side of the airship. "Flying high in the polls," the lede in the story began, "Mitt Romney was also flying high over the streets of So ... More >>

Romney Visits Wilbur L. Ross Jr., Who Grew Rich While Miners Died

If Bain Capital and its kind are giant vampire squids wrapped around the face of humanity, Palm Beach is where they shit. The wealth they extract sits frozen along the waterfront here as miles of palatial estates, massive excrements of money. There's a reason it's called filthy lucre. Mitt ... More >>

LIVE BLOG: Rumble in Boca 2012, Obama and Romney Presidential Debate!

We're live-blogging tonight's debate right here, on this page. Bookmark the link and follow our updates after the jump. 

Mitt Romney Eats Healthy at BurgerFi In Delray Beach (Photos)

With the last presidential debate being held tonight at Lynn University in Boca Raton, most of south Florida is on politico alert. That means that while the candidates have to eat somewhere...most restaurants are scoped out by the secret service in advance then given only a few minutes official noti ... More >>

Rick Scott Makes the Media Rounds at Lynn University Debate

Mitt Romney is keeping his distance from Rick Scott, but Rick Scott isn't keeping his distance from Mitt Romney today, making the rounds outside the debate hall and stumping for Romney and the Republican ticket.Here's a shot we got earlier, on the road leading to the hall:Then, suddenly, Rick's uber ... More >>

Media People, Get a Free Beer at BurgerFi Delray Beach

Life in the trenches of the media is far from glamorous. The hours are literally endless, the pay is lousy, and we are constantly blamed by the general public and both ends of the political spectrum of spinning things one way or another.If you are a poor schlub working in the "lamestream" media you ... More >>

Marc Leder, Romney's "47 Percent" Fundraiser Host, To Throw Another Get-Together for Mitt

Remember Marc Leder? The Boca resident, private equity executive, and Patrick Bateman-look-a-like who loves throwing sex parties and hosted the fundraiser for rich people where Mitt Romney famously took a piss on 47 percent of Americans? Well, he's totally going to host another event for the Mittbo ... More >>

Obama Takes Second Debate While Romney Collects His Binders

A few weeks ago, the first presidential debate took place, in which Barack Obama was replaced by a sock puppet and Mitt Romney was declared President for Life. The Mittbot was spirited and on the offense, while pointing his finger and blaming the president for all the ills of society while Obummer j ... More >>

Political Pumpkins for a Scary Presidential Campaign (Photos)

Now we know why the presidential elections fall around Halloween -- they can get scary. Look, it doesn't matter which candidate you're planning to vote for (or if you're still undecided) -- we think some of these political ads and last night's debate are...well...just a teeny bit frightening. W ... More >>

Mitt Romney Hits Up Florida, Gets Face Wiped by Some Creepy Guy

Fresh off a debate victory that ended the race and buried Obama forever, Mittington RoboRomney hit up Florida for a three-city gloat-a-thon in which he gave a couple of stump speeches, shared some stories, took some photos, and uncomfortably got his face wiped over and over again by some random dude ... More >>

Obama to Romney: "If you want to be president, you owe the American people the truth."

OH HAI FIESTY VELVET THUNDER OBAMA GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.A day after the debate in which the President of the United States of America was replaced by a sock puppet that was buried under a massive avalanche of horse feces at a Presidential debate, the REAL Barry Oblastyoface was back in ac ... More >>

Mitt Romney "Victory": Palm Beach GOP Not So Fired Up

Watching The Debate in a room full of GOPers with 60 or so televisions tuned to Fox News doesn't foster the idea that anyone other than Mittens won the evening. That opinion is to be expected. (And appears to be the consensus.) But neither does it instill the idea that the Romster decisively flipped ... More >>

Jim Lehrer's Moderating Style Was Basically Free-Form Jazz (With Memes!)

Whether you think Obama was replaced by a sock puppet or Mitt was a mound of horse poo or have declared the election a landslide for Romney based on one debate, one thing we can all agree on from last night: Jim Lehrer sucked. Between getting bullied by Mitt and letting Obama ramble and mumbling hi ... More >>

Paul Ryan's Mom Is Now the Florida Seniors for Romney Chairwoman

Things are not going so hot for one Mittington Willard Mitt Romnom Dog Torturer Mittbot RoboRomney Romney down here in Florida. He's trailing in polls, and old people hate his running mate. Ah! But guess who's back-back, back again? That's right. Betty Douglas -- Paul Ryan's Enthusiastically Wavin ... More >>

Arctic Ice, Snow Melts At Alarming Rate; Romney Thinks Environment Is For Nerds

Toward the end of Mitt Romney's speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa last month, the newly crowned candidate displayed in a single sentence his talent for sarcasm. "President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet," he said, then followed wi ... More >>

7-Eleven's Presidential 7-Election Returns; Free Coffee on Friday, September 28

7-Eleven is no stranger to clever marketing schemes, but their 7-Election campaign -- which kicked off earlier this month -- is, like, genius level selling. Now through Election Day (Tuesday, November 6) cast your vote by spending money while a subsidiary tallies the election; just like in real life ... More >>

Did Mitt Romney Go Brownface on Univision?

During his face-melting "47 percent" comments, Mittington Romnom RoboRomney Mittbot Doghater Romney also said that if he were Latino, he would so win the presidency. Perhaps he wasn't kidding. Romney appeared on Univision on Wednesday night to try to sway the Latino vote his way (which, according ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Campaign Is One Giant Epic Fail, and It Started In Florida

Congratulations, Florida. You probably maybe almost for sure destroyed Mitt Romney's hopes and dreams to become president of Don'tTreadOnMeLand. As we pointed about yesterday, RoboRomney set his pants on fire with his "47 percent" comments at a fundraiser right here in Boca. And since then, things ... More >>

Mitt Romney's "47 Percent" Fundraiser Host Lives in Boca, Loves Sex Parties

Remember those remarks that one Willard Mittington Romnom RoboRomney Romney made at a fundraiser that broke the internet yesterday? The one where he basically took a dump on the majority of Americans and called you a bunch of freeloadin' entitled pieces of worm-ridden filth? Well, turns out those r ... More >>

Mitt Romney Video Leaks, Basically Calls Obama Supporters Freeloaders

It seems like Mittington Romnom RoboRomney has officially set his pants on fire. In a video leaked to Mother Jones, Mitt Romney describes Obama's supporters as people "who believe that they are victims," are "dependent on the government," and "who pay no income tax." You think you deserve help? Y ... More >>

Obama Would Beat Up Romney in a Fistfight, According to Poll

With all the trash-talking and name-calling that goes on during presidential elections, it's high time we go back to the way these things were settled according to what we learned from watching Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York: with fisticuffs. That's exactly what Esquire magazine and Yahoo! New ... More >>

Mitt Romney Accuses Obama of "Apology" for America After Attack in Libya

See also: Allen West Blames Obama For Libya AttackDuring his RNC speech, Mitt Romney mentioned Afghanistan like none times. But today, following the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and at the embassy in Cairo, where U.S. diplomats were killed, Romney decided it was a good time to get all D ... More >>

Floridians Think Obama Is Better at Speeches Than Romney Is

According to a new poll conducted by Public Policy Polling (the PPP, y'all) after the RNC last week, 58 percent of 1,548 likely Florida voters polled said that Barack Obama gives better talk than Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who only got 32 percent favorability in the speeches department. The pr ... More >>

Dolphin's Owner Stephen Ross Donates $130K To Romney, RNC and Super Pacs

Go long, Mittens. Miami Dolphin's owner Stephen Ross has thrown down $133,000 in donations to support the Romney campaign. A $100,000 of that has gone to the Restore Our Future super pac, while the remainder was divvied up among Romney, the Republican National Committee, the Repu ... More >>

Republican Gay-Rights Group, GOProud, to Throw Party at RNC

The 2012 RNC is about to get faaaaabulous!The gay conservative group GOProud will hold its Homocon 2012 event following the Republican National Convention in Tampa."Homocon 2012 will be the must have ticket for the RNC," the executive director and cofounder of GOProud, Jimmy LaSalvia, says on t ... More >>

Paul Ryan Isn't Helping Mitt in Florida, Hasn't Actually Run the Numbers on Budget Plan

See also:Paul Ryan Stays Away as Mitt Romney Hits Florida This Week; Paul Ryan Will Talk About Medicare When He Does Eventually Come to Florida A Republican-Democratic run poll done in a dozen battleground states found that Paul Ryan gave Mitt Romney a slight bump everywhere but Florida. T ... More >>

Did Mitt Romney Kill Leola Anderson in 1968 Car Crash? We Examine the Conspiracy Theories (PHOTOS)

Did you hear about that fatal car crash Mitt Romney was in? The incident happened in France in June 1968, when Romney was serving as a Mormon missionary. It made the U.S. papers in 2007, but considering that the man is running for president, it's surprising that the story has been discussed so littl ... More >>

Marco Rubio Will Introduce Mitt Romney at RNC

He wasn't picked to be Mitt Romney's running mate, but that doesn't mean Marco Rubio can't do his part, damn it. Rubio will be introducing Romney on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa on August 30.Because Republicans and tea partiers love a good latherin' up via charismatic ... More >>

Supreme Court Shoots Down Large Parts of SB 1070, Arizona Immigration Law That Rubio Dislikes, Romney Might Dislike, Who Knows?

We had a four-story package a few weeks ago that looked at Arizona's SB 1070, the controversial law that would turn local law enforcement into immigration officials -- the controversial law that was just gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court.The court said this morning that Arizona was not allowed to mak ... More >>

Romney Campaign Does Impossible: Gets Obama to Brag About Rick Scott

Bloomberg had an interesting scoop yesterday: The Mitt Romney campaign asked Gov. Rick Scott to tone down his bragging about Florida's economy because it was interfering with Romney's message of economic apocalypse under Barack Obama. The report also said Scott "was asked to say that the state's job ... More >>