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Palin: Romney created ‘false narrative’ to win Florida
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won the Florida by paying for ads with a “false narrative.” “I think that with $17 million purchasing some ads and some false narrative it was very, very difficult for Newt Gingrich and the other candidates to counter…
Matthews: Romney is ‘one of the bad guys’
Mitt Romney may have won the Florida Republican presidential primary, but Chris Matthews is still not a fan. The MSNBC host argued on Tuesday that the candidate couldn’t connect with the American people because his wealth meant he did not have a “yearning to do better.” “There’s nothing in this…
Facebook’s Sandberg claims women have ‘ambition gap’
Facebook’s chief operating officer said last week that women around the world are plagued by an “ambition gap.” Speaking in Davos at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, Sheryl Sandberg explained that in the developing world, there was “an ambition gap at the societal level.” “We say we want to…
WATCH LIVE: GOP candidates speak after the Florida primary
Watch live as the Republican presidential contenders for 2012 speak after the results of the Florida GOP primary, courtesy of MSNBC: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Gingrich: Romney kept kosher food from Holocaust survivors
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has taken his campaign to a new low in his desperation to win the Florida primary. In an automated “robocall” to Florida voters, the Gingrich campaign claimed that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney prevented Jewish Holocaust survivors from eating kosher food. The call was first…
Michael Reagan: Think of liberals as ‘termites’
Former President Ronald Reagan’s oldest son on Monday compared liberals to termites who are “eating away at the foundations” of America. Appearing a campaign event for Newt Gingrich in Florida, Michael Reagan encouraged attendees not to “go home and forget about it.” “If you can think of the liberals, think…
Gingrich to Obama: ‘Respect our religion,’ not ‘every other religion’
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says he’s had it with President Barack Obama “respecting every other religion on the planet,” and thinks it’s time for him to “respect our religion” instead. At a campaign event in Florida on Monday, Gingrich seized on letters read at Catholic Churches across the U.S.…
Romney sings ‘America the Beautiful’
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is so excited about his probable win in the Florida primary that he broke out into song Monday. The candidate has been quoting Katharine Lee Bates’ “America the Beautiful” on the campaign trail for weeks, but at his final event before Florida voters go to…
Eliot Spitzer: Gingrich’s campaign ‘an act of self-indulgence’
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer blasted Newt Gingrich on Monday for boasting about his chances to win the Florida primary, despite being 14 points behind Mitt Romney. “This is becoming an act of self-indulgence, an act of complete self-centered maniacal behavior by Newt Gingrich,” he said on Current TV’s…
Ron Paul doubts tea party’s influence: They are ‘all over the place’
Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a Republican presidential candidate, told CNN’s Candy Crowley on Monday that the tea party movement would probably not be a decisive factor in the Republican presidential nomination process. “We were identified with the beginning of the tea party, and yet the tea party is not a…
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