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Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to make the Kentucky governor’s race about President Barack Obama.
Continue Reading →COMMENTARY | “@barackobama hope and change has become a hope we don’t lose our house or have to change our address” tweets Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn., challenging the president. But Pawlenty isn’t the only GOP candidate using his Twitter account to take pot shots at the president. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., recently tweeted “Obama proves once gain he is the most effective food stamp president. Record …
Continue Reading →CHICAGO (Reuters) – Months of political rancor come to a head on Tuesday when Wisconsin holds recall votes seen as a referendum on the Republican governor’s fight against unions and a possible pointer for the 2012 presidential election.
Continue Reading →A former fellow top executive at Bain Capital is behind a shell corporation that donated $1 million to a group backing Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.Related: Pawlenty Pre-Announces 2012 Bid with Another Slick Video
Continue Reading →President Barack Obama said Saturday that the deaths of Americans in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan are a reminder of the “extraordinary” price the U.S. military is paying in the decade-long Afghan war.
Continue Reading →Jon Huntsman doesn’t just send letters of praise. He receives them, too — including from Minnesota Governor and presidential rival Tim Pawlenty.
Continue Reading →COMMENTARY | The Internal Revenue Service prohibits non-profit organizations from influencing political races. The ban also applies to employees and representatives employed by these same organizations. Enter Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and her list of more than 100 pastors and leaders who support her run for president.
Continue Reading →The Nation — Mitt Romney is the Republican front runner in national polls and he has raised the most money, but he is lagging in support with an important Republican constituency, especially in the key early states: Tea Party activists. Tea Party leaders say Romney is not the leading candidate among their constituents, even in New Hampshire, which is considered a must-win for the former …
Continue Reading →MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Spending on recall election campaigns for Wisconsin’s Senate, seen as a potential gauge of public sentiment, has reached about $30 million, largely by outside interest groups, a nonpartisan watchdog said on Thursday.
Continue Reading →TAMPA — Mitt Romney has dispatched three senior campaign officials to hold strategy briefings with Republican National Committee members at the RNC’s summer meeting here, as Romney tries to consolidate the party establishment around his 2012 candidacy.
Continue Reading →Sarah Palin’s hair could be the newest reality TV darling in September when TLC debuts a new program centering around the Tea Party figurehead’s hometown salon in Alaska.
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After more than 10 years of NATO “peacekeeping”, tensions remain high between the breakway Serb republic of Kosovo, now dominated by an Albanian ethnic minority, and Serbia after the Albanian-led government of Kosovo banned all imports from Serbia.
On July 30th, 2011, Kosovo police, acting without NATO’s knowledge, moved in to seize two border posts [...]
Continue Reading →ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) —
Continue Reading →The first media buy for Revolution PAC distinguishes Ron Paul from the rest.Northbrook, IL (PRWEB) August 03, 2011 Revolution PAC, the new Super PAC formed in support of Congressman Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential bid, has made its first media buy, it was announced today.The buy includes a full-page ad in the Ames Tribune, and billboards in strategic locations in Iowa.”The ads we’ve placed …
Continue Reading →WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty’s top policy adviser has left the campaign after less than two months, a Pawlenty spokesman said on Wednesday.
Continue Reading →An ex-aide to Pennsylvanian Rick Santorum wants to reclaim what his old boss lost in 2006: a seat in the United States Senate.
Continue Reading →Sarah Palin knocked presidential candidate Mitt Romney yesterday for waiting until the debt-ceiling compromise was a “done deal” before speaking out against it.
Continue Reading →COMMENTARY | Appearing on the “Sean Hannity Show” on Tuesday night, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for being tardy about announcing his opposition to the debt ceiling bill.
Continue Reading →Trying to make up lost time, President Barack Obama plunged back into the search for money for his re-election campaign Wednesday with a coast-to-coast series of parties marking his 50th birthday after he was forced to cancel fundraisers because of the debt-ceiling crisis.
Continue Reading →Trying to make up for lost time, President Barack Obama plunged back into his re-election campaign Wednesday, urging supporters not to be discouraged by the frustrating debt negotiations that consumed Washington and kept him from raising money for his 2012 bid.
Continue Reading →The Alaska hair salon made famous for Sarah Palin’s up-do is getting the reality show treatment in a two-part series to be aired in September on TLC.
Continue Reading →COMMENTARY | Former New Mexico governor and current GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson is known for breaking with his party and saying things that some would consider outlandish. But the typically popular Republican, among Democrats, may have overstepped his likability bounds regarding the U.S. debt ceiling.
Continue Reading →Yesterday we learned that former House Speaker and current presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is cheating. No, not with a woman; we already know all about how Gingrich’s love for America drove him to cheat on his first and second wives. Nope, yesterday Gawker broke the story that Gingrich is cheating in a much more heinous way: on Twitter. An ex-staffer claims that Gingrich’s campaign hired an …
Continue Reading →As Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst formally enters the race to replace the retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, former Solicitor General Ted Cruz, a tea party favorite, promises to make a race an old fashion establishment vs. conservative brawl.
Continue Reading →COMMENTARY | Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., seems to think the U.S. should default on its debt to rein in uncontrollable spending. She was hypercritical of President Barack Obama’s deal he insisted upon to raise the country’s debt ceiling by an Aug. 2 deadline.
Continue Reading →LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Rachel Maddow has extended her MSNBC contract and will stay with the network through the 2012 election and well beyond, TheWrap has confirmed.
Continue Reading →Environmental issues and politics are as closely linked as bee is to a flower. Caring for “Mother Earth” is not necessarily a partisan issue, but it is woven into candidate speeches each election cycle. Eventually the debt ceiling debate will be settled and the focus will return to the candidates vying to become the next Commander in Chief.
Continue Reading →ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – The Wasilla, Alaska, beauty salon credited with designing Sarah Palin’s trademark “up-do” hairstyle will be the subject of its own reality television show, “Big Hair Alaska”.
Continue Reading →COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin posted a letter to her Facebook page Thursday, a letter of congratulations to Tea Party members she supported in the 2010 midterm election. In her lengthy prose, Palin goes on for 14 paragraphs talking about being “deadly serious” about cutting the budget or averting a “fiscal disaster.”
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