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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…
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…
Romney ‘wanted to be president less than anyone,’ says son
No one wanted to be president less than Mitt Romney, his son said in an interview out Sunday that raises new questions about the candidacy of the losing Republican nominee. In an interview with the Boston Globe examining what went wrong with the Romney campaign, his eldest son Tagg explains…
Mitt Romney joins Marriott board
Mitt Romney stepped back into the top reaches of the US corporate world Monday, rejoining the board of hotelier Marriott International a month after losing the presidential race. Romney, a career investment company chief and former Republican Massachusetts governor before his challenge for the White House, has twice before served…
SNL’s Sudeikis: Don’t ask me about politics, ‘I’m an idiot’
“Saturday Night Live” actor Jason Sudeikis appeared on Conan O’Brien’s TBS show on Thursday and discussed the way he found to imitate the speaking voice of former presidential candidate, Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA). Sudeikis, who has played Romney as well as Vice President Joe Biden on the long-running sketch comedy…
Man arrested after approaching Romney at White House
WASHINGTON — US Secret Service officers arrested a man who became “combative” Thursday after approaching a motorcade carrying defeated Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney to the White House. The incident happened as Romney arrived at a security checkpoint before entering the White House complex for his first meeting with…
Romney face tattoo guy wants ‘R’ removed because Mitt has ‘no dignity’
Eric Hartsburg, the man who infamously got a Mitt Romney logo tattooed on the side of his head, says he now wants the ink removed because the former Republican candidate is “shameful” and has “no dignity.” In an interview published on Wednesday, Hartsburg told Politico that he was taking tattoo…
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