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Church sorry for ‘narrow-minded’ NC ban on marriage equality
A California church is planning of placing billboards in North Carolina to apologize for the Christians who voted to add discrimination against LGBT people to the state’s Constitution. Missiongathering Christian Church in San Diego told WSOC-TV that they working to put up the first billboard in Charlotte as a way…
Peggy Noonan: Romney needs to cut ties with Trump ‘freak show’
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan is calling on presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney to disassociate himself with Donald Trump’s “freak show.” CBS host Charlie Rose on Tuesday asked Noonan why Romney was attending a fundraiser later that day with Trump even after the billionaire continued to insist that President…
Romney: Trump is ‘good people’ despite birther views
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is refusing to repudiate Donald Trump even though the billionaire continues to believe that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen. Speaking to reporters aboard his campaign plane on Monday, Romney said he did not agree with Trump but stopped short of saying…
‘Jerk!’: McCain rips Memorial Day heckler
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) offered a little straight talk after a protester interrupted his speech honoring fallen veterans in San Diego on Monday. While appearing at a Memorial Day tribute with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, McCain was forced to halt his speech as a man wearing a prisoners…
Adviser brags Romney told joke about firing hotel maid
A senior adviser to presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said recently that an old joke about firing a hotel maid proved that the candidate wasn’t as stiff as he seems. At a Washington Post event, chief correspondent Dan Balz asked senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom what was the “most fun…
Gingrich: Romney will get more than 40 percent of Latino vote
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is predicting that at least 40 percent of Latino voters will cast their ballots for GOP hopeful Mitt Romney — even though he has only 27 percent of their support now. NBC’s David Gregory on Sunday asked Gingrich how big of a problem immigration…
Gillespie defends Romney only doing Fox News: He spoke ‘to schoolchildren last week’
Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on Sunday fended off accusations that his boss had only made Sunday morning appearances on Fox News. “Do you think we’re ever going to see him on one of these Sunday morning interview shows?” CBS host Bob Schieffer…
George Will: Romney campaigning with ‘bloviating ignoramus’ Donald Trump
Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday questioned the judgement of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who will be campaigning with Donald Trump even after the billionaire recently said that the “truth” is that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya. “I do not understand the cost-benefit here,” Will told…
Anti-contraception cardinal refuses to say Romney is a Christian
A Catholic cardinal who is supporting a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s mandate that all health insurance cover female contraceptives refused on Sunday to say whether presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was a Christian. During an interview on Fox News, host Chris Wallace asked Cardinal Donald Wuerl if Mormons…
McCain on Romney’s Bain record: ‘Free enterprise system can be cruel’
Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Sunday walked back on his 2008 attacks on current GOP hopeful Mitt Romney for his record of killing jobs as the head of Bain Capital. During a 2008 campaign stop in Florida, McCain had blasted Romney for taking over companies and laying off…
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