Even Republican vice presidential contender Paul Ryan is surprised that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney is doing so well against President Barack Obama. During an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, co-host Gretchen Carlson asked Ryan why the Republican message wasn’t “convincing half of the American public” who support Obama. “It’s…
WASHINGTON — Rival campaigns for the White House used tit-for-tat web videos Monday to spar over the economy, with Mitt Romney’s team saying President Barack Obama’s “doing fine” remark shows he’s out of touch with middle-class voters. In the latest example of campaigns using the candidates’ own words against them,…
The chairman of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s national steering committee on Monday defended the candidate’s “wisdom” that state and local government needed to “cut back” on teachers, firefighters and police. “Let me respond as a taxpayer, not as a representative of the Romney campaign,” former New Hampshire Gov.…
Current TV correspondent David Shuster on Sunday schooled a conservative Washington Post blogger for suggesting that President Barack Obama’s use of marijuana as a kid should be covered by the media like presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s alleged bullying of a gay student in 1965. During an appearance on…
Polarizing conservative figure Ann Coulter argued Sunday morning that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney had a terrific record in all of his jobs, including being governor of Massachusetts. Upset over the Democrats continuing to attack Romney over Bain Capital, Coutler launched her latest full defense of the GOP top…
Mitt Romney is a liar. Lately, I’m finding it physically painful to listen to this man speak, or to read his remarks because he is shameless, unethical, and a bald-faced liar. It is unclear who Romney thinks he’s running against, but it is clear that he is not running against…
Update: Obama campaign goes after Romney for remarks. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Friday said that President Barack Obama’s call to hire more police, firefighters and teachers proved that he didn’t “get the message” from Republican wins in the recent Wisconsin recall elections. During a press conference earlier…
A snippet from my article posted at The Grio on Monday about the meme that will not die: ******* Was there ever a time that Republicans did not complain about the liberal media? If there is. I cannot think of it. And even though each Pew Research Center study for…
On Wednesday, at a campaign appearance in San Antonio, Texas, Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) asserted that President Barack Obama deliberately allowed the economic recovery to falter, according to Talking Points Memo‘s Live Wire blog. The Republican nominee claimed that the president knew that passing his signature piece of domestic legislation,…
Another conference over. Charlie Skelton talks to some of the 800 activists outside the gates to find out what they learned What a Bilderberg it’s been. Big names, big money, big decisions, big crowds. Somewhere around 800 activists outside the gates (up from about a dozen in 2009), and inside?…