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Romney: Don’t cut Israel aid
SPARTANBURG, South Carolina — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants to boost military help to Israel, his campaign said Sunday, a day after he seemed to back starting the ally’s aid package at zero. “Mitt Romney firmly believes that the United States must continue supporting Israel and increase military aid…
Herman Cain: God told me to run, ‘I was like Moses’
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says that he was shocked when God told him to run for president. “Before President Obama took office, I never even conceived or thought of running for president,” Cain told a group of Young Republicans in South Carolina Saturday. “It was only after he took…
George Will on Herman Cain: ‘There are 4 women, there may be 24′
Conservative columnist George Will believes that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s sexual harassment scandal is a “test” for Republicans. “A rule is when there are four women, there may be 24,” Will told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour Sunday. “There’s a pattern here. He’s says there’s no pattern because all four are…
Bachmann campaign manager: CBS director is ‘a piece of s–t’
CBS political director John Dickerson won’t have to ever worry about how Michele Bachmman and her campaign really feel about him. The Bachmann campaign was incensed after an email chain circulated Saturday evening featuring Dickerson telling a CBS employee that Bachmann would get fewer questions in a post debate interview…
Bachmann: Be more like China, end ‘Great Society’ programs
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann says that the U.S. should be more like China and do away with Great Society programs like Medicare and Medicaid. At a debate with seven other Republican candidates in South Carolina Saturday night, National Journal‘s Major Garrett asked Bachmann what programs she would eliminate as…
Ron Paul calls for military cuts
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul told voters Friday in high-stakes New Hampshire that the US must transform its foreign policy to cut back on aid, military bases and combat missions. “I am sick and tired of foreign welfare,” said Paul, 76, a medical doctor who has delivered more than 4,000…
Romney has clear lead among Republicans: poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mitt Romney has a growing lead in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and almost half of the party’s voters expect him to be the nominee, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Twenty-eight percent of Republicans backed the former Massachusetts governor, giving him a lead of…
GOP debate audience cheers waterboarding
The audience at Saturday night’s Republican presidential debate erupted into applause at the mention of waterboarding, an interrogation technique that is often described as torture. The National Journal‘s Major Garrett asked Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain to respond to a Vietnam veteran who said he believed torture was wrong in…
Gaining Gingrich is Romney’s new challenge
GREENVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) – Republican front-runner Mitt Romney has a new challenge to contend with as presidential candidates brace for another debate on Saturday — the rise of Newt Gingrich. The former speaker of the House of Representatives is gaining in the polls and may represent conservatives’ last best…
On Veteran’s Day, Romney suggests ‘voucher’ system for vet benefits
At an Veteran’s Day campaign event in South Carolina Friday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hinted that he might introduce “private sector competition” for veterans’ health care and other benefits. Romney told a group of veterans at Mutt’s BBQ in Mauldin that it might be possible to create a “voucher”…
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