Mitt Romney could have easily won the presidential election if he and his party had realized that they were turning people off, according to Matt Taibbi. “If they were self-aware at all, Mitt Romney would probably be president right now,” Taibbi wrote in a blog post for Rolling Stone late Thursday. He argued that Republicans’ […]
Sarah Palin offered GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney her endorsement on her Facebook page late Sunday night, just 24 hours before Election Day. The former Republican vice presidential nominee penned a lengthy statement about the bearing of this year’s election on the future of the country. She did not actually mention Romney until the 14th […]
WASHINGTON — After initially keeping Richard Mourdock at arm’s length for his assertion that pregnancies produced by rape are intended by God, prominent Republicans rallied around the embattled Indiana Senate candidate. Top among them was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose chances of taking over the Senate next year could be sunk by Mourdock’s […]
WASHINGTON — Indiana GOP U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock declared Tuesday night he opposes aborting pregnancies conceived in rape because “it is something that God intended to happen.” Debating Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) in their final Senate race showdown, a questioner asked them and Libertarian candidate Andrew Horning to explain their views on abortion. All […]
WESTLAKE, OH (WOIO) – Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan was in town on Tuesday. The U.S. Congressman spoke before a packed house at the Westlake Recreation Center on Hilliard Boulevard. Shortly after the event started, a heckler was escorted out. The crowd drowned him out by chanting USA. Some Romney-Ryan supporters are hoping rallies like […]
(CNN) — A defiant Republican Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri said Tuesday that he will stay in the Senate race to unseat Democrat Claire McCaskill despite mounting calls from across the political spectrum for him to withdraw over incendiary comments on rape and pregnancy. Akin cited what he called a grassroots conservative movement in the […]
(CNN) – It was the end of a long, hot day in Israel when it happened: Republican lawmakers, along with a smattering of aides and family members, dived into the Sea of Galilee, a holy site for Christians where the Bible says Jesus walked on water. Several GOP sources familiar with the events on August […]
Did Mitt Romney bring in supporters to cheer him on during his Wednesday speech to the NAACP? That’s the charge made by Hilary Shelton, who heads up the Washington, D.C., chapter of the NAACP. Shelton told Ed Schultz on MSNBC Wednesday night that Romney flew in supporters to Houston to applaud him at the civil […]
WZAK Stone Soul Picnic – Buy Your Tickets Mitt Romney was booed Wednesday at the NAACP conference for promising to repeal the president’s signature health care reform law, bringing him to an awkward halt in the middle of an otherwise civilly-received pitch for black voters. It was an awkward moment that forced him to go […]
Mitt Romney said it was “completely absurd” to accuse him of being opposed to hiring teachers, firemen and policemen, arguing that it was the purview of state and local governments to make those decisions, not the president. The former Massachusetts governor, appearing on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning, was asked to respond to charges made […]
LAS VEGAS — “He doesn’t want to talk about it.” Or so said Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s spokesman, on the question of where President Obama was born. Cohen, in a phone interview, called the renewed controversy over Trump’s questioning of whether Obama was born in the U.S. “a distraction,” and blamed it on “the liberal […]
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich officially ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday. In delivering a statement on his departure from the race, Gingrich characterized his time on the trail as “a truly wild ride.” He said that he and his wife Callista had “an amazing year.” Addressing the future of presumptive […]