2012

ABOARD MITT ROMNEY'S CAMPAIGN PLANE — Despite facing the speech of her life within hours, White House hopeful Mitt Romney's wife Ann had her warmth and charm on display Tuesday as she wooed reporters aboard his jet.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday proposed putting "bags of money" around the levees in New Orleans so that "Republicans can get rid of even more Democrats" when poor people drowned because they tried to make off with the cash.

TAMPA, Florida — Mitt Romney will tout a "more positive vision for America" on Thursday when he accepts the Republican Party's White House nomination, a senior aide said.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) might not have the role he initially wanted at the Republican National Convention -- that of nominee -- but he's nonetheless using his time wisely. With the help of the RNC, he's launching Newt U, an apparently ongoing effort in partnership with the Washington Post Company's for-profit education arm, Kaplan. At the end of the second session of Newt U on August 28, 2012, he explained more about the thinking behind the his and Kaplan's efforts.

Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) said Tuesday that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), whose comments about "legitimate rape" stirred up a rhetorical firestorm, is a "good man" who just made "a ridiculous statement."

Defending a woefully misleading ad about President Barack Obama's welfare policies, a pollster for the Romney campaign said Monday that the former Massachusetts governor's messaging strategies are not "dictated by fact checkers."

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is advising his party not to "cater" to women with a different message than men because it would be "condescending."

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Monday insisted that wording in a bill that he co-sponsored with Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), which Democrats say would have redefined rape as "forcible rape," was just "stock language."

Mitt Romney will get a carefully scripted convention makeover as the Republican White House hopeful aims to close the yawning likability gap between himself and President Barack Obama.

Republican strategist Karl Rove says that part of Mitt Romney's plan to win the White House has to include getting "white Democrats" not to vote for President Barack Obama.

More than 100 college professors across the nation signed an open letter on Tuesday endorsing a Colorado ballot measure that would legalize marijuana and regulate it like alcohol, in a move timed to coincide with President Barack Obama's campaign stop at Colorado State University.

A group of coal miners in Ohio feel they would have been fired if they did not attend an Aug. 14 event with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and contribute to his campaign -- and to make matters worse, they lost of day of pay for their trouble.

A Romney campaign spokesperson said Monday that voters shouldn't believe the former Massachusetts governor's statement that he supports allowing women to obtain an abortion if their health is at risk.