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Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger slams Florida GOP chairman
Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger compared the GOP Party Chairman of Florida to the Ayatollah of Iran for personally handpicking the 9 candidates to be on the state’s Republican primary ballot. Karger was the first official entrant in the GOP 2012 race, as well as the first openly gay…
Republican presidential candidates storm Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican candidates are taking Iowa by storm as the clock ticks down toward the first US presidential vote, hoping to propel their campaigns with support from the small state’s Christian conservatives. Candidates have increased campaign appearances in the all-important state whose caucuses will officially launch the…
Cain would ‘overturn the Supreme Court if they overturned DOMA’
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain declared Saturday that he would “overturn” the Supreme Court if they legalized same sex marriage. During a debate at the First Federated Church in Des Moines, Iowa, National Organization for Marriage (NOM) president Brian Brown asked the Republican candidates what they would do if the…
Gingrich: ‘Go get a job right after you take a bath’
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has some advice for members of the Occupy Wall Street movement: take a bath and get a job. “Jefferson said that people that want to be both free and ignorant are asking for something that has never been and will never be,” the former House…
Democrats call Romney aides’ deletion of emails ‘unconscionable’
During an appearance in Manchester, New Hampshire on Friday, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney appeared reluctant to explain why his former aides had destroyed emails from his term as Massachusetts governor just before he left office in January 2007. Massachusetts state officials report that as Romney’s term was ending, all…
‘I haven’t had a gaffe,’ Bachmann insists
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann says she would be the best person to face President Barack Obama in the general election because she hasn’t had a single gaffe. “[A]s people are looking at the candidate that is the most conservative and the most consistent candidate, I’ve been that candidate,” the…
‘Super PAC man’ gobbles up regulators’ time, patience
by Kim Barker In the peculiar post-Citizens United world of political money, Josue Larose has assumed a new alter-ego: Super PAC man. Since the Supreme Court ruling paved the way for groups to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on behalf of candidates, 240 so-called Super PACs have registeredwith the Federal Election Commission.…
Bachmann: ‘Absurd’ to waterboard me to prove it’s not torture
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is pretty sure waterboarding isn’t torture — but she says it would be “absurd” to find out for herself. During a recent CBS/National Journal debate, the candidate enthusiastically said she supported the interrogation technique. “It was very effective,” she claimed. “It gained information for our…
Gingrich on the defensive over work for Freddie Mac
WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich, the latest Republican to enjoy a turn atop US presidential polls, earned a reported $1.6 million as a consultant to Freddie Mac, the government-owned lender and despised target of conservative critics. Gingrich, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, has downplayed his ties to Freddie,…
Gingrich: ‘No such thing as 99%’
Newly minted frontrunner New Gingrich became the latest Republican to get “mic checked” by the Occupy movement at a campaign event in Jacksonville, Florida Thursday. One tea party supporter agreed with Gingrich that the current 99 Percent protests were “destructive” to America. “Do you have a directive — do you…
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