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Herman Cain: ‘A manly man don’t want’ a veggie pizza
Republican presidential candidate says real men like an abundance of toppings on their pizzas — as long as they aren’t vegetables. The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO told GQ magazine that he likes “lots of meat” on his pies. “The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the…
Bachmann: Be more like China, end ‘Great Society’ programs
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann says that the U.S. should be more like China and do away with Great Society programs like Medicare and Medicaid. At a debate with seven other Republican candidates in South Carolina Saturday night, National Journal‘s Major Garrett asked Bachmann what programs she would eliminate as…
GOP debate audience cheers waterboarding
The audience at Saturday night’s Republican presidential debate erupted into applause at the mention of waterboarding, an interrogation technique that is often described as torture. The National Journal‘s Major Garrett asked Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain to respond to a Vietnam veteran who said he believed torture was wrong in…
Protesters ‘Occupy’ Bachmann campaign event
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann briefly paused a foreign policy speech in South Carolina Thursday as protesters from the Occupy movement interrupted. About 10 minutes into the speech aboard World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, about 30 protesters began chanting. “You capitalize on dividing Americans, claiming that people that…
Bachmann: Doctors need ‘liability shield so no one can sue them’
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann told an unemployed man who was paying $500 a month for insurance that her administration would help him by making sure doctors who offer free services can’t be sued. “That’s the failure of President Obama, that he didn’t address the cost issue,” the candidate said…
Bachmann accuses GOP candidates of being ‘frugal socialists’
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann asserted on Monday that many of her fellow Republican candidates were “frugal socialists,” possibly referring to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Speaking to the conservative Family Research Council, the Minnesota congresswoman explained that President Barack Obama was engaging in a “massive redistribution of wealth and…
Republican candidates court Iowa insiders
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – Five Republican presidential hopefuls auditioned for Iowa’s party insiders at a fund-raising dinner on Friday, sparing each other from criticism but dishing up plenty of red-meat attacks on Washington and President Barack Obama. Two months before Iowa kicks off the battle for the Republican presidential…
Poll shows peril for GOP candidates blasting Iraq withdrawal
Almost immediately after President Obama announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year, his reelection rivals ripped into him for that decision. However, a Gallup poll released this week shows the danger of attacking the Iraq drawdown, as it found that fully three-fourths of…
Bachmann: My ‘flat tax’ would have ‘not one but several rates’
Another day, another peculiar statement from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). When asked by ABC’s This Week host Christiane Amanpour about what her tax plan would be, the congresswoman said that she would implement a flat tax. But while discussing her plan, Bachmann seemed to not understand what exactly a “flat…
Bachmann: Solve teen bullying by ending Dept. of Education
At a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa Friday, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann used a question about teen bullying as an opportunity to call to abolish the Department of Education. “I think that is an issue that needs to be handled at the local level,” the Minnesota congresswoman explained. “I…
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