–Newt Gingrich in a radio interview in South Carolina.
New Hampshire’s largest paper, the Union Leader (not to be confused with “union leaders”), endorses Newt Gingrich with an implicit case against Mitt Romney: “We would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear.” The nod has historically helped candidates outperform expectations. [...]
If you’ve grown numb to the gaudy, glittering spectacles that are this year’s televised presidential debates, there’s a reason. Last Tuesday’s Republican forum on CNN was the 11th of 2011, or the 12th if you count a South Carolina gathering last spring that drew just five participants. At this point four years ago, both the [...]
Let’s face it, Americans are angry. Whether they’re from the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, or even the silent majority, polls show they’re mad as hell with the political status quo. The problem is, if Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee – as it’s looking increasingly likely he will be – the 2012 election will [...]
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Callista Gingrich is probably the most recognizable spouse in the 2012 Republican presidential field. It’s not just her trademark look: the pastel suit; the perfect blonde coif; the frozen smile. It is that she is always there. In a campaign where some candidates’ partners are almost invisible–many political junkies probably couldn’t pick Herman Cain’s wife, [...]
A Swampland tradition as American as drumsticks and stuffing: U.S. Presidents and the fowl they’ve pardoned (or prepared.)
Mitt Romney, Eliza Dushku and Mormon gerrymandering. Pew finds his faith to be a primary factor, but not a general election one. Gingrich may force Romney to the right on immigration, a gift to Obama.
They call it a campaign, but it’s really a reality TV show. Each week or so, the contestants get on a stage, and are prodded to attack each other, equivocate and regurgitate sound bites. Dreadful stuff. At the end, viewers vote for one winner, who gets to be the Republican nominee for President of the United States. Welcome to Episode 11. American democracy as cheesy prime time programming. CNN’s Foreign Policy Debate in Washington, D.C.
At times, Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate on nation security gave the unmistakable sensation of deja vu. The audience was culled from major conservative think tanks in Washington and familiar faces from the George W. Bush era such as former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, ex-speechwriter Marc Thiessen and erstwhile Cheney counsel David Addington kept [...]
