Ron Paul Defends Romney, Lashes Out at His Critics. Jan 10, 2012 3:18pm In an exclusive interview outside a Manchester polling place, Ron Paul lashed out at fellow Republicans for making unfair and ignorant attacks on Mitt Romney’s business record.
Jamie Dupree Washington Insider. Nancy Pelosi: GOP knows Mitt Romney can’t win - Seung Min Kim. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday launched political grenades at Mitt Romney, arguing that Republicans haven’t coalesced behind the GOP frontrunner because they don’t believe he can beat President Barack Obama in November.
Focusing on Romney, Obama campaign plans Bain attack. Opposition Research. If you think you’ve already heard everything there is to know about Mitt Romney, think again.
A 200-page document that appears to be Sen. John McCain’s entire 2008 election-year opposition research file on the former Massachusetts governor hit the Internet with a vengeance Tuesday evening. The Mitt Romney Myth, He's not electable, Ron Paul is. ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012Jan 17, 2012 - 02:38 AM GMT By: LewRockwell Mark R.
Crovelli writes: Republicans sure have short memories. Thompson: Mitt campaign has 'Drudge in their back pocket' Former Sen.
Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) on Sunday attacked Mitt Romney for "unseemliness and overkill" in his aggressive campaign against Newt Gingrich, the candidate Thompson has endorsed. Romney's "modus operandi, basically, is to play Mr. Mitt Romney in striking distance of Iowa win - Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns. Don’t look now, but Mitt Romney suddenly seems like the Iowa front-runner.
The former Massachusetts governor has carefully tempered expectations in Iowa all year, visiting only a handful of times and saving the bulk of his television spending for the final weeks of the race. But as a crowd of conservative opponents keep the anti-Romney vote divided, his odds of a victory in the state that humbled him four years ago have never been better. Continue Reading Romney’s final push before Iowa Even as he tried to keep talk about his prospects in check Tuesday, a slew of public and private polling and anecdotal evidence on the ground suggests that Romney is within striking distance of a first-place finish in Iowa — especially as Ron Paul’s momentum spurt appears to have run into the reality of front-runners’ scrutiny.
George H.W. Bush: 'Romney Is the Best Choice' - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics. The former president expressed his support for the Massachusetts governor but claimed, strangely, that it wasn't 'an endorsement.' In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, former president George H.W.
Bush threw his support behind Mitt Romney in the GOP primaries. "I think Romney is the best choice for us," he said. "I like Perry, but he doesn't seem to be going anywhere; he's not surging forward... stability, experience, principles. » Meet the White Obama Alex Jones. Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 11, 2012 Mitt Romney, the establishment declared GOP front-runner, is the white Obama.
He earns this title because on crucial issues he mirrors Barack Obama. Consider: Climate agenda and carbon taxes: He has stated that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is real. In short, Romney did what Obama’s EPA wants to do now. In his book, No Apology, Romney advocates carbon taxes through a “tax-swap plan” and declares that resultant “higher energy prices would encourage energy efficiency.” Obama also wants to push a carbon tax on the American people and declared his intention to do so before he took office. Obama’s agenda to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent fits right into the globalist plan to attain the ultimate civilization-killing goal of zero carbon emissions, as espoused by the Carnegie Institute.
Romneycare: In December, Romney told Fox News that he stands by the health care at gunpoint plan implemented while he was governor of Massachusetts. Is Obama Trying to Out-Romney Romney. Whatever the real reason for the timing, it's interesting that President Obama decided that this week was the moment--when consensus is gelling that Mitt Romney is the all-but-inevitable GOP nominee--to announce a very Romney-esque cost-cutting plan.
At a White House event complete with business CEOs as props and a slide presentation (the kind Bain Capital once perfected), the president urged Congress to give him the power to merge a plethora of trade and commerce functions that are now dispersed among the Commerce Department, the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Export-Import Bank; the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Trade and Development Agency. The consolidation would save some $3 billion and 1,000 to 2,000 jobs over ten years, the White House said. 4Rzxs.jpg (JPEG Image, 1443 × 2100 pixels) Obama or More of the Same. Mitt Romney Wins in NH By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Mitt Romney, who finished first in New Hampshire last night, got a raw deal from the mainstream media (MSM) and his Republican opponents about a comment that was totally taken out of context.
It was reported that Mitt Romney said, “I like to fire people.” At a Romney Event Yesterday, I Was Removed and Arrested. I Still Don't Know Why. I’d been in New Hampshire for the past several days to follow the campaign and see some of the candidates in-person. Yesterday morning, I was chatting up a Romney campaign staffer before an event at the Gilchrist Manufacturing Company in Hudson, NH, when a police officer approached. Sir, we have to ask you to leave the premises. “Sir, is this about my backpack? Romney looks past Iowa to Obama. Saying President Obama is risking “the soul of America,” Mitt Romney kicked off his stretch run to Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses with his eyes squarely on the general election, even as the rest of the Republican presidential field took aim at one another.
Newt Gingrich, who said he couldn’t vote for fellow candidate Rep. Ron Paul for president, challenged Mr. Romney to a one-on-one debate and said the former Massachusetts governor doesn’t have the conservative credentials necessary to lead the party. Meanwhile, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said only that he has established a conservative campaign record while running statewide in a blue state. Less than a week before the contest, the field is as unsettled as any in recent memory, with Mr. Gallup: Mitt Romney has widest lead to date in GOP race. By Michael A. Memoli January 12, 2012, 11:47 a.m. If history is any guide, Mitt Romney is a sure thing to win his party's nomination for president. Jon Huntsman drops out, endorses Mitt Romney - Juana Summers. MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Jon Huntsman ended his presidential campaign Monday and immediately endorsed Mitt Romney.
“I believe it is now time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat Barack Obama. Despite our differences and the space between us on some issues, I believe that candidate is Gov. Mitt Romney,” Huntsman told supporters at the convention center here Monday. Continue Reading Huntsman drops out of race Huntsman also called on the other candidates to end negative campaigning ahead of Saturday’s primary. “This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative attacks not worthy of the American people and not worthy of this critical time,” Huntsman said. Romney unscathed from debate attacks. Romney: Gingrich Like 'Lucille Ball at Chocolate Factory' - Sarah B. Boxer. PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- As he sought to consolidate his strong support in New Hampshire before heading to Iowa, Mitt Romney opted on Tuesday for mockery over menace in criticizing Newt Gingrich, even as his GOP presidential rival denounced Romney's attack ads and record as Massachusetts' governor.
From National Journal: Most Inspiring Stories of 2011 Top Political Quotes of 2011 Best Fake Campaign Ads. How the GOP would expand the deficit. AT A TIME of record debts and deficits, the two leading Republican presidential candidates are proposing a path on taxes and spending likely to add trillions more. That’s the sobering conclusion of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), whose board includes six Republican former lawmakers with expertise in budget issues, three Republican former heads of the Congressional Budget Office, and two former Office of Management and Budget directors under Republican presidents. Last month, we examined former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s reckless tax plan, which, according to calculations by the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, would drain another $180 billion from the treasury in 2015 alone.
Gingrich: 'So-Called Conservatives' Are Attacking Me Because I Want an Accounting of Wall Street Bailouts. Columbia, S.C.Over the past few days, Newt Gingrich and his super PAC have been attacking Mitt Romney as a "corporate raider" for his work at Bain Capital, and Gingrich has faced considerable pushback from many on the right. While campaigning at the Palmetto Senior Show on the Columbia fairgrounds today, Gingrich pivoted from the Bain attacks and said the reason some "so-called conservatives" are going after him is because he wants to know how the Wall Street bailout money was spent.