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Politico reported on this anti-Gingrich email sent to conservatives with the warning:
At the end of Romney’s term as governor of Massachusetts, Romney’s people deleted their emails from servers and sold or wiped the government hard drives. Romney admitted he did it for political reasons to prevent an “opposition research team” from finding dirt.
Fact check: Romney’s real economic record in Massachusetts.
Great article by Salon:
How Bain leveraged government assistance to boost profits
publicintelligence.net has downloadable copies of the Romney’s 2010 and 2011 tax returns.
Rom-neocon: Romney’s foreign policy advisors are the same, disgraced neocons that got us into the illegal war in Iraq. No wonder he’s constantly trashing the president’s foreign policy.
See ThinkProgess Security
Baloney, inequality, and Mitt’s family fortune (2008). Mitt Romney’s family history offers insights into America’s recent past. But don’t hold your breath waiting for Mitt to share it.
Romney links:
Romney Campaign
Restore Our Future (Pro-Romney superPAC)
Why Romney (Pro-Romney site)
Gingrich links:
Gingrich Campaign
Winning Our Future (Pro-Gingrich superPAC)
Newt Gingrich 360 (Pro-Gingrich site)
2008 McCain Opposition Research on Mitt Romney (all docs, plus pdf download)
2008 New York Times OpEd by Romney, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt“.
Mittbucks.com lets you enter your paycheck and calculate what Mitt Romney would have to pay for for him to have an understanding of your day-to-day expenses.
Based on my pay, Romney would have to pay $6,532.73 for a gallon of gas and $3646.63 for a dozen eggs.
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