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Rick Santorum: I could run for president in 2016
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R) hasn’t ruled out running for President of the United States again. “I’m making no commitments at this point, but we’re not doing anything inconsistent with running in 2016,” he told Newsmax TV’s Steve Malzberg on Thursday. Following his failed bid for the White House…
Gingrich and Santorum nearly mounted 2012 ‘Unity Ticket’ coup against Romney
For a brief moment in the 2012 campaign, former Speaker of the House Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) contemplated forming a “Unity Ticket” in an eleventh hour bid to scuttle the candidacy of former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) and perhaps seize the presidency. According to…
Defeated Romney: I’m not pessimistic about America
In his first major speech since his US presidential defeat, Mitt Romney urged fellow Republicans Friday to buck up and set course for the White House, as he sought to uplift conservatives. Despite sharing a bill with a parade of charismatic potential 2016 Republican candidates, the man who lost last…
Mystery man behind ’47 percent’ video revealed
The curtain has been lifted. The man who secretly filmed then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney telling a private audience that “47 percent” of voters would vote for President Obama “no matter what,” outed himself Wednesday night during an hour-long segment on “The Ed Show.” Scott Prouty, a bartender who was working…
Ted Cruz asks Republicans to embrace the fictional ’47 percent dependent on government’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is calling on Republicans to court “the 47 percent who are dependant on government,” a false statistic that may have been one of the reasons former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election. Speaking to The Shark Tank’s Javier Manjarres at the Cuba-Democracy PAC…
Parody: Mitt Romney says he lost because minorities understood his message
Mitt Romney explained in his first post-election interview that he lost the 2012 election because minorities clearly understood his message, The Onion reported on Tuesday. “At the end of the day, we just articulated our intentions clearly and concisely to millions of African Americans and Latinos across the country,” the…
Big Bird launches nutrition and fitness campaign with Michelle Obama
Big Bird is back as a player in big time US politics. Mitt Romney wanted to get rid of him, but after a reprieve following the Republican’s election defeat, the towering Sesame Street puppet has signed up to endorse First Lady Michelle Obama’s nutrition and fitness campaign. The fluffy yellow…
Mitt Romney to address the Conservative Political Action Conference next month
He may have lost the 2012 US presidential election, but one-time Republican nominee Mitt Romney will take center stage next month at a key conservative policy conference, organizers said Wednesday. Romney’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which as the nation’s largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists attracts…
Gingrich warns GOP: Don’t appear to ‘ignore people’ in immigration debate
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) delivered a warning to his Republican party mates in a letter to his supporters, urging them to come around when it came to immigration reform as part of its rebuilding process. “A party that appears to ignore people won’t get the chance to make…
Bay Buchanan quits TV punditry, takes online real estate class after Romney’s ‘brutal’ loss
A former top aide to Mitt Romney says that she quit her career as a television pundit and began taking online real estate classes after the former Republican presidential nominee’s “brutal” loss to President Barack Obama. Bay Buchanan, the sister of former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, told the Washington…
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