Lessons Gingrich Learned from Bachmann, Perry, and Cain
We don't have to imagine what it'd be like for Newt Gingrich to be the on the Republican presidential ticket -- he already was once, if unofficially and against his will.
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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?
We don't have to imagine what it'd be like for Newt Gingrich to be the on the Republican presidential ticket -- he already was once, if unofficially and against his will.
After a long day staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Atlanta businesswoman Ginger White told Fox 5 Atlanta her 13-year affair with Herman Cain began when he invited her up to his hotel room after a National Restaurant Association event, describing an episode that sounds a bit like what some of the women who accused Cain of sexual harassment have alleged.
This time, Herman Cain isn't waiting on an accuser's press conference to make news of the latest accusation made against him, going to CNN on Monday afternoon to announce: "This individual is going to accuse me of an affair for an extended period of time."
Herman Cain, the once-surging but now-sagging GOP presidential candidate, is trying to get back on message with a new animated video explaining his proposed tax policy.
Conservatives aren't quite sure how to respond to sexism, even when it's really obvious, and even when it's against a woman on their side.
The draw of all these Republican debates is the chance to see how the candidates act unscripted, and Tuesday night we learned that under pressure, some forget their name while others spill state secrets.
The Republican presidential primary debates have shaped the race a lot this year, but mostly in one way: making candidates not named Mitt Romney look bad. Tonight they take on foreign policy.
Cain's former receptionist at Godfather's Pizza says he was a "perfect gentleman" to women in the office, though she admits he liked to "tease" people.
Herman Cain has taken to telling Christian audiences an anecdote in which he feared being seen by a doctor with the last name Abdallah during his cancer treatments until he learned the doctor was Christian.
Herman Cain, who's security team manhandled multiple reporters recently, became the first GOP candidate to receive Secret Service protection in this election cycle--and his request was reportedly made in response to the large amount of journalists at his events.
Herman Cain's request for Secret Service protection was approved on Thursday afternoon, making the former Godfather Pizza CEO the first Republican candidate to be granted the privilege and prompting Slate's Dave Weigel to wonder, "Is this the first time a Secret Service detail has been assigned to a book tour?"
Ron Paul hasn't gotten much attention at recent GOP debates and, as Politico's Dylan Byers reports, that streak may well continue at CNN's next square-off, where he'll be situated on the far right side of your TV screen in Santorum nowhereland.
Three members of Herman Cain’s campaign team apologized on Wednesday after a local police officer who said he was there to protect the Republican presidential candidate manhandled a reporter.
Just days after Cain stumbled enunciating a position on Libya, the presidential candidate has been caught referring to the language Cubans speak as 'Cuban.'
Journalists, consider yourselves warned. "A bodyguard for presidential candidate Herman Cain got a little physical with a Postreporter at an event in Iowa on Tuesday," The Washington Post's Aaron Blake wrote Tuesday night.
After conservatives criticized Herman Cain for his stumbling response to an answer about unions' collective bargaining power, his campaign sent out a press release that's a shorter version of the entire Cain campaign -- not-quite-factual statements, a refusal to offer details, and the hope that everyone will be distracted if he shouts "Ronald Reagan!" loud enough.
Herman Cain has already thought about just whom he would select to serve in his presidential administration, and Henry Kissinger and other famous names have made the list.
As Mitt Romney plays down expectations, Newt Gingrich revels in his national momentum and Herman Cain finds his support slipping, the bellwether of all bellwether states, Iowa, is now looking at a four-way race: with Ron Paul gaining ground.
After a CBS editor accidentally let it slip that GOP candidates doing better in the race would, naturally, be given more of a chance to speak during televised debates, we've charted candidate speaking time against their airtime in Saturday's CBS/National Journal debate.
The most important part of the latest baffling Herman Cain interview might not be his confused answer on Libya, but what he said to excuse it: "Some people want to say, 'Well as president you have to know everything' -- no, you don't!"
Herman Cain's 2012 run could be over before we get to the bottom of the sexual harassment charges.
The Republican presidential field briefly flirted with attacking Obama for waging too much war before deciding he's not waging quite enough.
The more meat you order on your pizza, the more manly you are, Herman Cain says.
In her first interview since the sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain resurfaced, his wife Gloria told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, "I'm thinking he would have to have a split personality to do the things that she said."
Herman Cain got only one day off from scrutiny while everyone made fun Rick Perry's inability to name all three government agencies so oppressively regulatory they must be abolished.
Friday morning, after a week of Herman Cain pressers and Rick Perry flubs, how did the evolving top tier of GOP contenders shake-up? Well, lets see: CBS News polling finds it to be a three-way race with Cain still holding on to a slim lead, Mitt Romney trailing close behind and a somewhat real "surge" for Newt Gingrich.
Herman Cain seems to be making more quips that haven't gone over that well recently, including his latest stab at humor by joking about Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas' sexual harassment accuser Anita Hill endorsing him.
How do you reconcile the fact that a Republican candidate is performing poorly -- embarrassingly, objectively -- with prior beliefs -- passionate, vociferous -- that it's all the liberal media's fault?
Herman Cain's latest apparent outbreak of very poor wording occurred at a Michigan campaign stop where he remarked to a voter "How do you beat Obama?" and added the pun of "beat him with a Cain," according to multiple political reporters listening and tweeting at the same time.
Perry went on all three network morning shows Thursday, and forced a grin even as every anchor read the tweets of various Republican consultants that his campaign was dead.
Tonight's Republican primary debate in Detroit will be about the economy, which means it will give Herman Cain a chance to talk about something other than how tall various women are. Plus: our liveblog starts around 7 p.m.
To fight all the bad news out there, Herman Cain has launched an Internet offensive against all the possible voters that might learn bad things about him as they Google his sexual harassment scandal.
As the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal continues, Funny or Die has a parody of the candidate starring Mike Tyson.
Though the details still need hammering out, Karen Kraushaar and Sharon Bialek, two of the women accusing Herman Cain of sexual harassment, want to speak out at a joint news conference "so they can air their stories together," The Washington Post reports.
Herman Cain said he's not going to "point any fingers" at who might be conspiring to destroy his reputation with sexual harassment allegations, but the Internet is happy to fill that void.
The latest round of the Herman Cain saga turns its focus back on the accusers with a report that one of the women who settled a complaint with the National Restaurant Association, filed a different complaint against supervisors at her next job.
Herman Cain's assertion that he has no memory of Sharon Bialek's name or face or voice might be a problem for him, given that Bialek says she spoke to Cain at a Tea Party event this year and a witness says she saw the interaction.
Karen Kraushaar, whom some media outlets identified today as one of the two women who settled with the National Restaurant Association after having alleged that Herman Cain had sexually harassed them, has given an interview to The New York Times.
Herman Cain held a press conference at 5 p.m. EST, during which he addressed the recent allegations from a number of women -- including Monday's claim by Sharon Bialek -- that he sexually harassed them.
Herman Cain insisted on Tuesday that he didn't know Sharon Bialek, rejecting her claim that he groped her and made an unwanted advance after they had dinner in Washington, D.C., in 1997.
Herman Cain's official press-conference response to Sharon Bialek's allegation that he sexually harassed her isn't scheduled until 5 p.m., but his campaign has already taken new aim at his boldest accuser by detailing her history of lawsuits and bankruptcy in an email blast.
If Jon Huntsman's moment in the Republican primary limelight arrives, he will have 46 words and a media-trained woman accusing the nominal frontrunner of groping her to thank.
Sharon Bialek visited the morning shows to explain why she is publicly accusing Herman Cain of sexual harassment. While some interviewers were more sympathetic than others, Bialek stayed on message, with celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred by her side.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the Cain allegations and the candidate's dwindling memory of them.
Herman Cain managed to find a fews laughs in the latest sexual assault claims made against him when he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night.
Sharon Bialek's smirks aside, the accusations she made, many people have since noted since her press conference, sound not like sexual harassment, but sexual assault.
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Today politics exceeded its own parody: at least 50 reporters gathered at a comedy clubhouse -- while the rest of us watched on TMZ -- to hear the latest news about a leading a presidential candidate complete with warmup from a radio shockjock minion. What's left for Jon Stewart?
As the Cain campaign has been consumed by stories of sexual harassment, Newt Gingrich is beating Mitt Romney in Iowa, according to one new poll, and has surged into double digits nationally according to another.
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