Today’s big campaign news is the endorsement of Mitt Romney by George H.W. Bush. This comes just days after Jeb Bush came out for Romney, and a few weeks after Barbara Bush recorded robocalls on his behalf. We’ve heard barely a peep, however, from the Bush who recently finished two terms as President. And it’s now three weeks past the …
2012 Election
Bobby Rush Wears A Hoodie on the House Floor
Who knew it is against U.S. House rules to wear a hood? Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois seemed to know what he was doing this morning when he donned one in an act of solidarity with killed Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
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Mitt Romney Can Be Funny, It Is Claimed
One of the first things people who know Mitt Romney tell reporters is how delightfully personable and funny he is. This is spin, of course, but it also appears to be an actual surprising secret his intimates want out. Romney is one of those guys who generally has a tough time being personable with strangers, and on the campaign he has …
The Romney Foreign Policy Pivot Is Now in Effect
As Crowley points out, Mitt Romney was pretty well-poised to seize on Obama’s open mic moment, in which he told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he’d have “more flexibility” on missile defense after his re-election. Romney dug in on the issue Monday, hammering the White House on the stump and calling Russia “without question our …
Romney’s Well-Rehearsed Case Against Obama and the Russians
For months now, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has overwhelmingly focused on the economy. But as he geared up his candidacy a couple of years ago, Romney opened with an argument heavy on foreign policy. In March 2010, for …
Newt: You Don’t Have to Be ‘Stupid’ to Think Obama’s Muslim, Just Uninformed
Newt Gingrich isn’t accusing Barack Obama of being a Muslim, mind you. He’s only saying that Obama acts like a Muslim. Big difference.
“It should bother the President. Why does the President behave the way that people would think that [he is a Muslim]?” Gingrich said. ”You have to ask why would they believe that? It’s not because
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When Obama Regulates, Companies Retaliate with Donations to Romney Super PAC
The most recent filing by Restore Our Future, the technically independent group supporting the candidacy of Mitt Romney, revealed a number of firms—a for-profit school, several payday lenders, and a chemical company–whose …
Illinois Primary Reveals a Weakened Tea Party
Mitt Romney vs. Rick Santorum was the heavyweight bout in Illinois on Tuesday night, but one of the undercards was much more interesting. Democratic redistricting forced Republicans into their first intra-party primary skirmish of 2012, a bout that laid bare divisions between the GOP’s past and future.
Mitt Romney’s Etch A Sketch Disaster
I’ve been thinking about this all night: Eric Fehrnstrom’s Etch A Sketch gaffe yesterday may go well beyond a momentary embarrassment and become a campaign-defining disaster, much as John Kerry’s “I voted for it before I voted against it” gaffe — which came at almost exactly the same point in that campaign, as Kerry locked down the …
Did I Just Say That Out Loud? Romney Adviser’s Unerasable Etch-a-Sketch Comment
The Mitt Romney presidential campaign has been unusually full of sitcom analogies this election season. Earlier, Romney compared opponent Newt Gingrich to Lucy in the candy factory from I Love Lucy, and characterized Gingrich as “zany,” a la a sitcom neighbor. In a recent debate, Romney alluded to the wisdom of Seinfeld’s George …
Santorum’s Campaign of Faith in Louisiana
Metairie, Louisiana
On Sunday evening, around the time Mitt Romney was celebrating his landslide victory in Puerto Rico’s primary, Rick Santorum was in a Baptist church on the outskirts of Baton Rouge, testifying about the …
Victorious in Illinois, Mitt Romney Runs Up His Margins
It’s almost over. That was the message from Illinois on Tuesday night, where Mitt Romney scored another commanding primary victory, outpacing his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination again and padding a delegate lead …
Romney’s Illinois Victory May Signal an End to the GOP Primary
Mitt Romney’s Illinois win could be the beginning of the end of the Republican nomination fight. In order to get there, he faces two challenges: He’ll have to convince on-the-sidelines Republicans to endorse his candidacy, …