A new book out about Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics (Lyons 2011), makes a startling revelation: in the 1990s, candidate Mitt Romney relied upon polling by the late Richard Wirthlin, a Mormon
A lot of attention has been drawn to the official White memo authored by economist Larry Summers that shows the Obama administration purposely hid costs of Obama’s healthcare legislation and his overall agenda. Ryan Lizza at The New Yorker released
George Soros’ disciple Ken Vogel wrote a front-page Politico piece laying out the left-wing site’s narrative-attack regarding Governor Mitt Romney’s tax returns. To say the Vogel article is contextually challenged would be quite the understatement, and charitable. Ebenezer Obama What
After looking over GOP speeches from this primary cycle, especially those wherein Mitt Romney stated (and restated) his belief in man-made global warming, it occurred to me that many of his positions sound eerily familiar, if not strikingly similar, to
Newt Gingrich seems to be making good use of a McCain oppo research file on Romney that hit the web last week. This from page 82: People chuckled when presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon raised in Michigan and elected
Campaigning in Florida this week, Newt Gingrich has vowed that if he is elected to the presidency, he will seek peaceful regime change in Havana. Tonight both he and Mitt Romney reiterated his call for working to overthrow of the
Chris Matthews asked his experts if there is anything in Mitt Romney’s past that would keep him from being “anti-establishment.” Matthews and his guests expressed surprise at the fact that Romney once protested protesters at his university and seems to
On January 21, Mitt Romney went from being the presumptive GOP presidential candidate to being the guy who’s now spending dollars at a 20-to-1 ratio in Florida in an attempt to stop his meteoric plunge into the political abyss. Truth
From BuzzFeed: Mitt Romney’s campaign released it’s first negative ad of the cycle, which will begin airing in Florida this week, slamming Newt Gingrich on his ties to Freddie Mac. Titled “Florida Families,” the ad asserts that Gingrich “cashed in”
Rick Tyler, the head of Newt Gingrich’s Super Pac, was on Steve Bannon’s KABC Victory Sessions this evening and revealed the next phase of their attack on Mitt Romney: tying Mitt Romney to Damon Corp, perpetrator of one of the
Less than a week after ABC released (and Drudge essentially spoiled) the story that we were told could “end [Newt Gingrich’s] career,” the former Speaker came from behind to win the South Carolina primary by a startling 13%. Not only
Responding to Mitt Romney’s claim that he has never run a business, Newt Gingrich pointed out that he has run four small businesses in his time away from Congress, which he asserted meant “I do know what [small business owners]
Here are some of the things to learn from South Carolina. Evangelicals went overwhelmingly for a twice divorced Catholic in the same percentage that they voted for a Baptist ordained minister in 2008. They haven’t warmed to Mitt Romney and
Appearing on “Meet the Press,” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reaffirmed his support for Mitt Romney’s candidacy and went on the attack against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Christie emphasized Gingrich’s lack of executive experience and his former “embarrassment” of
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Sunday that he will release his 2010 tax returns and 2011 estimates on Tuesday, acknowledging it was a mistake for his campaign not to have done so earlier. Stung by a
Republican voters don’t just want a nominee who can fight Barack Obama. They also want a fight, period. That’s the lesson of Newt Gingrich’s stunning victory in South Carolina, which seemed improbable just a few days ago. The Gingrich campaign
On the eve of the South Carolina GOP Primary, ABC News televised an interview with Newt Gingrich’s second wife, Marianne, where she claims the presidential contender asked her for an “open marriage” so that he could see the woman that
Campaigning in Michigan, Gov. Mitt Romney claimed that Sen. Rick Santorum has not been “as carefully viewed by the public as have the others.” “His background and mine are very different,” pointing out Santorum’s votes to raise the debt ceiling
Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail started making the case that Mitt
After John McCain’s opposition file on Mitt Romney from 2008 was leaked, there was this curious line: “”Romney voted for Paul Tsongas in the 1992 Democratic presidential primary.” Newt Gingrich has also attacked Romney for his support of Paul Tsongas,
The single most recurring campaign slogan that Mitt Romney has reiterated to atomism is that he is the most electable and can beat President Obama. The mainstream right-wing pundits have concurred. Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, and Meghan McCain along with
Charles C. Johnson recently discussed the facts behind the union boss who led to workers at the Ampad plant in Marion, Indiana losing their jobs. He blamed Randy Johnson, the DNC/MSNBC poster boy, for the layoffs, not Bain Capital and
Only the mainstream media could make Newt Gingrich sympathetic on a personal level. All you need to know about the CNN South Carolina debate happened in the first three minutes, when moderator John King began the night by questioning Newt
The understandable rush to whip together an anti-Romney coalition in the GOP heated up with Rick Perry’s announcement that he’s leaving the race and endorsing Newt Gingrich. While an imperfect alliance, it is at least a bit more genuine than
Remember when Herman Cain was doing what no one thought he could do? He was beating Mitt Romney nationally, telling us that “9-9-9 means jobs, jobs, jobs,” promising to gut the EPA and repeal Obamacare, all with a southerner’s grin
