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Cain gets stumped badly by question at Cain-Gingrich debate
During the Herman Cain-Newt Gingrich debate Saturday evening, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza had another not-so-presidential moment in a rocky week for him. When asked by Americans for Prosperity Texas chairman Ben Streusand on whether he would favor either a “defined benefit plan” or “premium support” for Medicare, Cain’s…
Poll shows peril for GOP candidates blasting Iraq withdrawal
Almost immediately after President Obama announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year, his reelection rivals ripped into him for that decision. However, a Gallup poll released this week shows the danger of attacking the Iraq drawdown, as it found that fully three-fourths of…
WATCH LIVE: GOP candidates speak at education forum
Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich were scheduled to speak at an education forum in New York Thursday. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast Oct. 27, 2011.…
GOP candidates make reducing power of federal courts a campaign issue
Even though the U.S. federal court are hardly hotbeds of liberal sentiment by most standards, their willingness to uphold freedom of speech, the separation of church and state, and equal protection for gay and lesbian citizens has frequently irked conservatives. Now a majority of would-be Republican presidential candidates appear to…
Romney to Gingrich: The individual mandate was your idea
Republican presidential candidates clearly came to Tuesday’s debate with the intentions of taking on former Gov. Mitt Romney. After accusing Romney of backtracking on his suggestion that the Massachusetts health care law should be available to the entire nation, former Sen. Rick Santorum did his best not to allow him…
Gingrich: Cain has ‘good chance’ to win GOP nomination
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he was “delighted” that fellow candidate Herman Cain was surging in the polls, but hoped his popularity would be short lived. “Herman Cain is a terrific person,” Gingrich told CNN’s Candy Crowley. “I think there’s a certain attractiveness to Herman that a…
Gingrich says Chris Dodd and Barney Frank should be jailed
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) should be in jail instead of the bankers responsible for the financial meltdown. “I think the people who are protesting on Wall Street break into two groups,” Gingrich told an audience at…
Gingrich: Congress has the power to call federal judges to account
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich believes that Congress has the power to call federal judges to account and that the Constitutional separation of powers does not guarantee judicial independence. During an appearance Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, Gingrich was asked by host Bob Schieffer about his recent…
Cain calls Occupy Wall Street protesters ‘anti-American’
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain claimed Sunday that the Occupy Wall Street protests going on in New York City and across the country were a conspiracy designed to help President Barack Obama. “The proof is quite simply the bankers and the people on Wall Street didn’t write these failed policies…
Karl Rove and Rep. Erik Paulsen ‘glitter bombed’ at Minnesota conference
Republican strategist Karl Rove and Minnesota Rep. Erik Paulsen (R) were both separately showered with glitter Friday at the Minnesota Faith and Freedom Coalition strategy session. The group supports an upcoming ballot measure to define marriage as solely between one man and one woman in the state’s constitution. The conference…
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