At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala, one of three nominees for the “Damn Those Conservatives to Hell Award.”
“He [Mitt Romney] is playing to – and has from the beginning of the campaign – played to the kind of nativist base of the Tea Party. And by nativist, I mean people who are, in essence, afraid of the world....The Republican Party is going to cripple itself beyond recognition if they don’t quit being xenophobes.”
– Ex-Newsweek chief political correspondent Howard Fineman, now a Huffington Post columnist, on MSNBC's Hardball, July 23, 2012.