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Romney gets confronted about his opposition to the Dream Act
GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney received a stern question from an unexpected source Tuesday evening. While coming out of an event in New York City, Romney encountered an immigrant named Lucy who asked him about his stance on the DREAM Act. “Are you going to support the DREAM Act?” she…
Romney hits back at Gingrich ahead of key vote
ROCK HILL, South Carolina — Republican White House hopefuls brawled Wednesday ahead of this state’s key nominating primary, with frontrunner Mitt Romney pounding his chief conservative threat, Newt Gingrich. At a campaign rally in Spartanburg, Romney mocked Gingrich’s claims to have helped create jobs during his time in Congress, saying…
White House ups tax pressure on Romney
WASHINGTON — The White House Tuesday cranked up pressure on Republican front runner Mitt Romney to release his income tax records, as Democrats built a pre-election case against the millionaire former businessman. Romney is facing fire from top rivals for the Republican presidential nomination over his failure to so far…
Santorum goes nuclear: Romney ‘deliberately lies’ to win
In the Republican political race, there’s only two top dogs: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and someone else. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum desperately wants to be that someone else, and he’s pulling out all the stops to transform into the Republicans’ anti-Romney candidate of choice. Appearing at a media…
Fresh questions raised about Romney’s reign at Bain
Recent claims that the anti-Romney campaign ad, “King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” is seriously flawed may lessen its impact on the Republican presidential primaries. A story at the Washington Post, however, adds fresh fuel to the fire by suggesting that Romney’s actions when he ran Bain…
Romney takes a hit from the Christian right
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney hit a roadblock Sunday in South Carolina as Christian conservative leaders coalesced behind Rick Santorum in the race for the presidential nomination. A group of 155 Christian evangelical leaders from around the country endorsed Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, Saturday after holding…
Colbert Super PAC attack ad: ‘Romney is a serial killer’
The Super PAC founded by Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert has launched its first ad in South Carolina attacking Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as “Mitt the Ripper” for his record of destroying businesses as the head of Bain Capital. Speaking at the Iowa State Fair last year, Romney asserted…
Obama team slams Romney’s corporate past
Barack Obama’s campaign has fired off a withering attack on Mitt Romney, branding the US president’s likely election foe as a corporate raider who made money “hand over fist” by destroying jobs. The Obama campaign’s intervention Friday whipped up a new storm around Romney, who has been battered by criticism…
Feisty Gingrich makes plea for evangelical vote
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) – These are desperate times for Newt Gingrich. But this is the audience he’s been waiting for: South Carolina’s evangelical Christians, who he hopes will rescue his flagging bid for the Republican presidential nomination. His message to them is direct and urgent: Christians are under attack,…
Democrats fan Romney ‘Bain’ storm
WASHINGTON — Gleeful Democrats fanned the flames Thursday after Republicans did President Barack Obama’s dirty work for him and savaged their likely 2012 nominee Mitt Romney as a “vulture capitalist.” An explosion of vitriol from rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry in recent days, thrust Romney’s past as a Wall…
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