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Santorum: My home-schooled kids ‘will out-reason Bill Maher’
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that even his home-schooled 12-year-old could “out-reason” HBO comedian Bill Maher. During his Friday “New Rules” segment, Maher had called out Santorum’s stance against public education. “The Taliban may want to live in the eighth century but the Christian right wants to go back…
Santorum co-chair: Romney should ‘renounce his racist Mormon religion’
An African-American pastor affiliated with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is demanding that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney “renounce his racist Mormon religion.” At a press conference on Monday, Rev. O’Neal Dozier, who is an honorary chairman of Santorum’s Florida campaign, said that he was speaking out to “foster and…
Republican race moves to the conservative heartland
The battle for the Republican Party crown moves into new territory Saturday, with the “reddest of the red” states, conservative heartland Kansas, heading for the polls amid attempts by Rick Santorum to hobble Mitt Romney’s slow march forward. In normal times, Saturday’s caucuses in Midwestern Kansas would merit only a…
Santorum campaign caught sending spam emails
The presidential campaign of former Sen. Rick Santorum is allegedly sending out unsolicited emails based on contact lists that it has obtained, a practice commonly known as spamming. The Next Web first reported that the Santorum campaign was sending unsolicited emails. Emails and a screenshot (see below) obtained by Raw…
Michael Moore: GOP race could ‘go from dog-on-car to man-on-dog’
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is warning Democrats not to get too “giddy” over the possibility that Rick Santorum could be the Republican presidential nominee. During the Super Tuesday primaries, GOP hopeful Mitt Romney failed to deliver a knockout punch to Santorum, who won Oklahoma, North Dakota and Tennessee. Moore told…
SUPER TUESDAY
I feel it needed an all-caps title, because it’s SUPER, you know? As usual, you can find real-time feedback from myself and Jesse on Twitter. I take cracking smart ass jokes about Republicans on a contested primary night very seriously, y’all. It’s cutting into my pre-SXSW preparation time, after all.…
Romney aims to seal the deal on Super Tuesday
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney sought to harness growing momentum on the eve of Super Tuesday and deal a hammer blow to rival Rick Santorum in the 10-state voting marathon, with all eyes on Ohio. Voters in 10 states across America will have their say on Tuesday in what promises to be a pivotal…
‘Occupy’ protesters call Santorum ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ at Oklahoma speech
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum received some inhospitable greetings from ‘Occupy’ protesters at a speech in Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, yelling “racist” and “fascist” towards the former Pennsylvania senator. About 20 protesters gathered at the state capitol building and repeatedly chanted “Get your hate out of our state” and “Women’s…
It’s The Race That Never Ends
Through the sheer, persistent incompetence of every Republican campaign, the GOP primary will never, ever end. Rick Santorum was already known as starting from a deficit, delegate-wise, in Ohio. He failed to qualify for any district delegates in three Ohio congressional districts because he didn’t turn in delegate names there.…
Santorum accuses Romney of rigging Michigan primary
By Grace Wyler The Michigan Republican Party awarded Mitt Romney an official delegate victory today, granting him 16 of the state’s 30 delegates just one day after the tally showed Romney and Rick Santorum tied with 15 delegates each. The Santorum campaign is now accusing Romney’s team of using “political thuggery”…
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