2012

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) says he gave Mitt Romney's campaign a "bunch" of tax returns during the vice presidential vetting process, but claimed he didn't remember exactly how many years were covered by the disclosure.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday said that presumptive GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's plan would "preserve Medicare," and insisted that President Barack Obama was the one with "blood on his hands" for stealing money from the program.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday compared GOP hopeful Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for vice president to his 2008 pick of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R).

STERLING, Virginia — He looked like your average American in jeans and sunglasses, a baseball cap pulled low over his brow. But Paul Ryan was on a mission to ensure almost nobody but him and Mitt Romney knew about his date with destiny.

Early voting is being stabbed to death in Ohio, and Republicans are holding the knives.

Shortly after the former Massachusetts governor's announcement that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) would be his running mate, the Romney campaign released a document that aggregates all the bad things they think President Barack Obama might say about Ryan, in order to offer a series of talking points in response.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate on Saturday energized the Republican base, but it also elicited an unusual amount of glee from prominent Democrats, many of whom believe he's the ideal candidate for President Barack Obama to run against.

WASHINGTON — A top aide to Mitt Romney on Friday accused President Barack Obama of going lower than a "world champion limbo dancer" with negative attack ads he said have demeaned the office of the US presidency.

Following information that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) would announce his choice for Vice President outside the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virgina, sources have confirmed that the nominee will be Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).

Conservative radio talker and occasional Fox News guest host Laura Ingraham has a dour message for her fellow Republicans: "Romney is losing," she said on her show Friday.

Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) on Friday accused the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of favoring his Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren, because they complied with a 1993 bipartisan federal law that requires states to provide voter registrations to people seeking public assistance like welfare.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Friday refused to explain why presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would not release his tax returns, calling the request a "distraction" that was bad as so-called "birthers" who believe that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen.

A city councilman in Sterling Heights, Michigan says he was questioned by the U.S. Secret Service after video emerged of him at a tea party rally holding signs that depicted violence against President Barack Obama, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D).