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Gingrich to Romney: ‘Drop the pious baloney’
During a GOP debate on Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Mitt Romney to “drop the pious baloney” after the former Massachusetts governor asserted that for him, “politics is not a career.” “I think it’s understandable and perhaps unusual that people who spend their life in politics imagine that…
DNC chair calls Romney a ‘job cremator’
Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke to reporters tonight in New Hampshre in advance of this weekend’s Republican primary debate. According to Benjy Sarlin at Talking Points Memo, the Florida Congresswoman took sharp aim at presumed front-runner Mitt Romney, questioning not only his record but his putative position…
Republicans sharpen knives for dual debates
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) – The knives will come out at back-to-back debates this weekend as Republican presidential hopefuls frantically jockey for position days before New Hampshire’s key primary. Debates are once again the main show in the 2012 race after candidates spent two weeks on the road campaigning in coffee…
Romney says rivals will close ranks to fight Obama
Mitt Romney predicted Friday that he and his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination will ultimately close ranks to ensure that Barack Obama is turned out of the White House. “We’ll put our egos and bruised feelings aside and then come back and do what’s the right thing for our…
McCain: Romney won’t ‘lead from behind like Ronald Reagan’
Oops, he did it again. For the second time in as many days, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has confused President Barack Obama with another person during a campaign event for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. On Thursday, the Arizona senator had declared that “President Obama will turn this country around,”…
McCain goofs at Romney event: ‘Obama will turn this country around’
Failed Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s endorsement of current candidate Mitt Romney may being doing more harm than good. At an event in South Carolina Thursday, the Arizona senator managed to confuse the candidate he was supporting with Democratic President Barack Obama. “I am confident with the leadership and backing…
Romney rivals seek boost from New Hampshire debates
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — A pair of weekend debates could be the last chance for conservative Republican presidential hopefuls to prove who is the best alternative to frontrunner Mitt Romney ahead of next week’s New Hampshire primary. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, fresh off his nail-biter loss to Romney in…
Gingrich blasts Romney in New Hampshire
LACONIA, New Hampshire — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich hammered Mitt Romney Wednesday, saying only a “Reagan conservative” like himself can unite Republicans to beat President Barack Obama in November. One day after a lackluster performance in the Iowa caucuses, won narrowly by Romney, Gingrich placed a full-page ad in…
Obama team: Romney is ’25 percent man’
WASHINGTON — The Obama reelection machine mocked Mitt Romney as “the 25 percent man” Wednesday, seizing on the Republican favorite’s inconclusive win in the Iowa caucuses to relish a prolonged nominating race. President Barack Obama’s Chicago-based campaign team seemed delighted that Romney failed to pull off the kind of big…
McCain backs Romney to take on Obama
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Republican Senator John McCain, who lost the White House race to President Barack Obama in 2008, endorsed Mitt Romney on Wednesday to take on the embattled incumbent in November. “I’m really here for one reason and one reason only, and that is to make sure that…
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