**updated** This morning on CNN’s “Early Start,” Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin zeroed in on Rick Santorum’s latest English first gaffe in Puerto Rico, in conjunction with possible statehood. Using clips of Santorum talking on the subject, it was a damning segment, compliments of the candidate himself. It’s yet another example of the Republican Party’s [...]
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Rick Santorum Shuts Out Mitt Romney
Rick Santorum had a huge night on Tuesday winning Alabama and Mississippi. The problem is that the amount of delegates Santorum nets doesn’t do anything to help him close on Mitt Romney. But how did Mitt Romney get Mississippi so wrong, aides saying he would win the state? Romney bragging “we’re go to win tomorrow” [...]
The South Votes, and Obama Polling Shows Absolute Chaos
From a new New York Times/CBS poll: At a time of rising gas prices, heightened talk of war with Iran and setbacks in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama’s approval rating dropped substantially in recent weeks, the poll found, with 41 percent of respondents expressing approval of the job he is doing and 47 percent saying they disapprove [...]
Rush Limbaugh Hit by Capitalism Through Premiere Barter Ad Suspension
Rush Limbaugh fled the air on Monday, which I tweeted at the noon hour, because he needed to go to church. By “church” I mean the golf course. Rush Limbaugh has been officially occupied. Things have gotten red hot for the radio hit man, with Premiere Networks hearing from enough big corporations that they lowered [...]
Assuming Romney is the Nominee…
WICHITA, Kan. — Demonstrating again his strength among conservative voters in the heartland, Rick Santorum decisively won the Kansas caucuses on Saturday. Mr. Santorum captured 51 percent of the vote, easily eclipsing his rivals Mitt Romney, who had 21 percent; Newt Gingrich with 14 percent; and Ron Paul with 13 percent. – Santorum Wins in [...]
Mitt Romney Minute: Serve Him Some of Those Grits Ya’ll
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Mitt is channeling his inner Paula Deen in the South. “Morning, ya’ll,” Romney told a campaign rally on Friday in Jackson, Mississippi. “I got started this morning right with a biscuit and some cheesy grits.” Too bad Santorum can’t find his populist groove against Mittens. Mitt [...]
Romney Squeezes Out a Win in Ohio
“To be perfectly honest with you, and candid, not being political, I will answer your question, I will let you know I voted for the cheerful one, Newt Gingrich,” Palin told Fox News early Wednesday morning, although she insisted that was not a formal endorsement. – The Hill It wasn’t pretty. Mitt Romney barely beat [...]
Super Tuesday Gets Ugly
**updated** Why is this guy smiling? It’s not because it’s been a good night for Mitt Romney. But a few minutes ago, CNN reported Mitt Romney just pulled ahead of the guy who didn’t even file the right papers to compete in Ohio. Impressive. Romney Loses Georgia, the only state Gingrich won, and wins Massachusetts, [...]
Newt’s Latest Big Idea
Newt Gingrich is delusional. Hey, but it’s no crime, as long as he’s kept away from anything powerful in the U.S. government, which Rick Santorum can’t do, because he’s having trouble managing all the states. So, with today Super Tuesday and with 437 delegates at stake, according to Politico, though the Washington Post says it’s [...]
Republicans on GOP Primary Battle, One Word Answers Begin with “Corrosive”
A new NBC/WSJ poll has all bad news for Republicans. They earned it. Among the choices 70% of Republicans used to describe the presidential primary fight were: “unenthusiastic,” “discouraged,” “lesser of two evils,” “painful,” “disappointed,” “poor choices,” “concerned,” “underwhelmed,” “uninspiring” and “depressed.” Four in 10 of all adults say the GOP nominating process has given [...]
Just Call Him Barack Obama, The Israeli Hawk
“It felt like pandering.” – Steve Clemons Clemons is talking about the interview Pres. Obama gave to his colleague Jeffrey Goldberg. Coming just before the annual AIPAC meeting, how could it not be presidential pandering? For me, it just seemed like the same old political game from a man who knows better, but who is [...]
Obama Playing Defense Over Gas Prices & GOP Attacks
How did it come to this? How badly has the Obama administration handled promoting what’s actually been happening on energy production on their watch? It couldn’t have been worse. The graph here is from the Wall Street Journal, from back in August 2011. Here’s an excerpt from the report: 1,069: The number of rigs drilling [...]
Olympia Snowe Retirement Starts Rumor Mill Rolling
“Mitt Romney winning closely in his home state is like Charlie Sheen barely winning a primary in a Hooters.” – Paul Begala (via CBS “Morning Show”) The day of Mitt Romney’s Michigan squeaker, Olympia Snowe gives Republicans another huge headache. Here’s part of her statement that set off Jonathan Chait to wondering whether Ms. Snowe [...]
Rick Santorum Regrets
“I wish I had that particular line back,” Santorum said Tuesday on Laura Ingraham’s radio show. – The Hill People who are ready and equipped for the national spotlight, but also understand America, not just their besotted base, know intuitively what things crossing their mind should not be uttered. Rick Santorum saying reading John F. [...]
Mitt Romney ‘Not willing to light my hair on fire’ for Support
Worst of all, there is no clear end in sight for what has become, in the eyes of many Republicans, a joyless and prolonged nomination fight. Even Romney victories in Michigan and Arizona, the two states voting Tuesday, have little chance of forcing his aggrieved opponents out of the race. With a vast personal fortune [...]
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