As Mitt Romney inched closer to the Republican nomination, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich considered fusing their campaigns, according to new revelations from a Santorum advisor. The plan never came to be — but it doesn't matter. It wouldn't have worked.
During the 2012 Republican primary, several candidates were criticized as unserious hustlers who cared less about America's problems than getting more famous into order to sell books — or get a Fox News contract like the one Herman Cain landed on Friday. Well, it's a year later. How did everyone do?
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss is not running for reelection in 2014, which opens the door for a comeback of perhaps the funnest candidate of all time. Maybe.
When Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign ended, she faced a decision: pay former aides the money they were owed, or make them sign a nondisclosure agreement first? She chose poorly.
In a bucking of primary-season tradition that might just fend off the Michele Bachmann of 2016, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is now floating the idea of killing the Ames Straw Poll.
Author Judith Freeman wants $25,000 from Mitt Romney since, as she wrote in The Los Angeles Review of Books,in the 1880s her great grandfather, William Flake paid for Miles Romney's bail when they were both locked up for polygamy.
Jeb Bush has always been supportive of Mitt Romney, but comments Bush made in a CBS This Morning interview leave us wondering how he really feels about Mitt Romney.
Herman Cain really endorsed Mitt Romney Tuesday, though not without saying a number of embarrassing things, like "What Governor Romney did in Massachusetts, I does not care." It made us kinda miss the guy.
On his last day as a presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich is clutching his torn Achilles and grumbling that you people were such jerks about space.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on Mitt Romney's campaign.
John Boehner says Mitt Romney is "a very likeable person," and says Americans "don't want to vote for a loser;" top campaign advisors on both sides spar over Osama bin Laden's death.
You'd think bankruptcy, getting cut off from his billionaire backer, bouncing a $500 check, and getting beat by Rick Santorum might have brought down the Newt Gingrich campaign by now. But no, what dictates whether or not Gingrich will quit, the former Speaker of the House says, is how much the tiny state of Delaware loves him.
If Mitt Romney really wanted his "dog-on-the-roof" controversy to die, he should probably try and get Ann on board.
Newt Gingrich has lost the support of most humans -- conservatives, southerners, reporters -- and now he's lost his base: exotic animals.
Marco, Chris, Bob, and Allen ... meet Beth Myers. She'll be vetting you.
President Obama's Federal income tax rate is 20.5 percent, which is actually higher than Mitt Romney's 15.4 percent despite making around $20 million less than the Republican frontrunner.
During his concession suspension speech on Monday, Rick Santorum said he "was winning in a different way," which was right in Jon Stewart's wheelhouse.
Rick Santorum's daughter Bella was released from the hospital Monday night, triggering Santorum's return to the campaign trail in Pennsyvania today. That also may mean that Mitt Romney will finally get to use that attack ad he's been holding.
Rick Santorum made an unusual move on Sunday when he released his full schedule of events for the upcoming week, fighting to remind everyone that he's still in the race for the Republican nomination.
Newt Gingrich talks about his campaign and supporting the eventual Republican nominee on Fox News Sunday; Debbie Wasserman Schultz accuses Mitt Romney and the Republicans of rooting for the economy to fail.
For those who thought that Newt Gingrich was running to make money for his empire, that apparently didn't work as his think tank, The Center for Health Transformation, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the flailing Gingrich campaign.
The Obama administration, along with Mitt Romney's Republican opponents have really tried to hammer home the idea that he's an out of touch elitist, and according to David Axelrod today, this means insinuating Romney totally lives in a Mad Men world.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on Republican reservations.
As Wisconsin's Tuesday contest approaches, Newt Gingrich concedes on Milwaukee radio that Romney is "clearly the front-runner."
Mitt Romney's appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno was sinking quickly into dullsville, before Leno quickly (and thankfully) turned the subject to Rick Santorum.
Newt Gingrich's flailing campaign announced that it will lay off one-third of its staff, cut back the travel schedule and fire its manager, essentially putting the entire operation in shutdown mode until the Republican convention.
Mitt Romney's new basement is going to be bigger than most houses and have its own lobbyist, his cars will have their own elevators, and his expansion plans for his La Jolla home are now the latest obstacle in Romney's attempt to relate to the common man.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the Republican frontrunners.
The candidate scores another victory among evangelical voters.
Rick Santorum's slick new attack ad makes a second Obama term seem like the coolest thing ever. We break down its inspirations.
Jeb Bush wasn't finished with his endorsement of Mitt Romney on Wednesday, telling a reporter that if it were up to him, Senator Marco Rubio would be Romney's ideal running mate.
There has got to be a more complementary Romney analogy than the Etch-a-Sketch, a toy that allows the user to erase any mistakes and start again with a blank slate and never lock in any one pattern. But Romney's communications director Eric Fehrnstrom didn't think of one this morning.
If you ask Ron Paul, the reason he rejected Secret Service protection has nothing to do with his safety or waning popularity: He says it's just like being on welfare and doesn't want any of it.
Robert De Niro's joke about caucasian first ladies isn't even racist, but we have a feeling his comments from an Obama fundraiser are going to fuel some Republican rage today.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on the GOP Primary race.
Mitt Romney pulled off a clean sweep of Puerto Rico's Republican delegates on Sunday, and at least one poll shows him with a commanding lead in Tuesday's Illinois primary.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the GOP and contraception.
Big defeats in Alabama and Mississippi look bad for Mitt Romney, but when it comes to the all-important delegate count, he will likely still win Tuesday's primary night.
Though the bulk of Sheldon Adelson's news appearances of late have involved his giving ridiculous amounts of money to Newt Gingrich's flailing campaign, the multibillionaire is making news today for a $375 million lawsuit involving his casino company.
Mitt Romney turned 65 today and proving that politics isn't all that matters right now (or does it?), Rick Santorum wants you to know that he's apparently wished him a happy birthday.
Rick Santorum wins Kansas, which is probably a relief to Rick Santorum, seeing as he was the only candidate to campaign there.
After oddly describing the South, the home of the Republican base, as his "away game," it appears Mitt Romney's strategy to capture the Southern vote is to bombard Southerners with his newfound love for grits and clunkily giving them his best "y'all."
Cartoonist Tom Toles on the GOP's messy primary race.
It kind of makes sense to let his super PAC do all the dirty work if the best insult the determined-to-be-likable Mitt Romney can come up with is, "He's a nice guy, but ..."
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