Romney Goes Full Trump
Mitt Romney once treated Donald Trump like he was the girl he was too embarrassed to tell his friends he was hooking up with, but the candidate has finally upgraded their relationship status.
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In continuing to address "Hurricane Scandy," Stewart had to admit that Republicans has something with the IRS and Benghazi dust-ups. He even proposed teaming up with Fox News! But you know who still doesn't get to take a GOP victory lap? Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
Mitt Romney once treated Donald Trump like he was the girl he was too embarrassed to tell his friends he was hooking up with, but the candidate has finally upgraded their relationship status.
The Obama administration has a new corporate tax plan that is sensible, supported by both parties, and sure to fail.
Buddy Roemer still wants to be president, just not as a Republican, he said on Wednesday. He's planning to run as an independent.
If you have been reading the political web today, you've probably come across Bob Morris, an Indiana State Representative who has condemned the Girl Scouts as "sexualizing" young girls and molding them into "feminists, lesbians, or Communists." Let's get to know him better.
Rick Santorum was sitting at the center of the Drudge Report's homepage Tuesday afternoon looking like a religious nut.
It's not that Mitt Romney's money is no good in the Republican primary, it's just that his money buys a lot less than everyone else's.
Mitt Romney is polling just ahead of Rick Santorum in Arizona, with 36 percent to 33 percent, respectively, Public Policy Polling finds.
Rick Santorum got pretty feisty on the campaign trail this weekend, and now "our less-than erudite members of the national press corps," as he put it, keep asking him if he really meant what he said
The pro-Mitt Romney super PAC's ad war against his two main opponents cost it $14 million in January, The New York Times reports.
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are trying to prove their working-class roots as they campaign across the U.S., but the man who is truly one of us is Newt Gingrich, who, like so many Americans, is a crash dieter.
Rick Santorum "gets pegged as a one-trick pony, but he’s not," his national political director said last month. Maybe that's true, but how can you ignore how candidate lights up when talks about his conservative Christian credentials?
Mitt Romney says that he opposed the government bailout of Detroit because the private market would have provided loans so GM and Chrysler could go through managed bankruptcy, but it turns out the firm Romney once led, Bain Capital, turned down the chance to do so.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on the economy's not-so-fair weather fans.
No wonder Mitt Romney seemed like a data-driven robot when he praised Michigan for its trees Thursday -- "I love this state. It seems right here. Trees are the right height." He didn't always feel that way.
Rick Santorum got pretty mad Friday morning when CBS's Charlie Rose asked him about his No. 1 donor's comment about effective birth control being aspirin between the knees, but Santorum should get used to questions like it.
Everyone will get what he wants in New Jersey when it comes to gay marriage, except the gay people who want to get married.
Even though he dropped out of the presidential race to spend more time tweeting manly photos of himself and endorse Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry is making a bid for America's attention.
Mitt Romney is skipping the March 1 Republican primary debate in Georgia, which comes before Super Tuesday, due to "scheduling conflicts," National Journal reports.
Rick Santorum backer Foster Friess shocked MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell into silence when he told her, "Back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives -- the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly."
Many have predicted Rick Santorum would have to deal with reporters digging up all kinds of dirt from his past after he beat Mitt Romney in three states last week, but the main thing the press has been finding is how his campaign is less presidential than student council.
Mitt Romney slams China, Fareed Zakaria talks "zones of immunity," and The New York Times edit board gives a bipartisan round of applause.
Rick Santorum got a lot of applause railing against the Obama administration over whether religious institutions should have to offer health insurance that covers birth control. But applause aside, even Republicans are on the president's side. Here's our guide to today's polls and which ones matter.
They're not happy about it but Republicans are set to join Democrats in adding $100 billion to the deficit for a 10-month payroll tax holiday.
After lying dormant while the economy cratered, the elites are back, laughing at you. “Don’t you see how they see you?" Rick Santorum beseeched a crowd in Idaho Tuesday. "How they look down their nose at the average Americans. These elite snobs!”
Rick Santorum now has to fight two Goliaths -- the well-financed Mitt Romney and the inconceivably loaded Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire backing Newt Gingrich who has decided to take Santorum out.
House and Senate leaders could reach a deal tonight on extending the payroll tax cut, jobless benefits, and the Medicare reimbursement rate, The Hill's Bernie Becker reports.
Newt Gingrich practically glimpsed his own future in 1991, when he got mad at voters in a town hall and taunted, "If you want to fire me, I don't care," saying he'd make more money as a political consultant.
The emerging consensus is that Rick Santorum is the biggest threat yet to Mitt Romney. They have similar strengths, but Romney has many of Santorum's weaknesses, only weaker.
Newt Gingrich, the most married candidate in the 2012 Republican primary, has the most explicit plans for Valentine's Day, but Ron Paul, the candidate with the most appeal to hormonal young people, is the candidate most happy to exploit the semi-fake holiday.
As evidence he is not a cartoonish rich man, Mitt Romney has invoked a political form of the discarded theory of Lamarckism while talking about how his father grew up poor and worked with his hands.
House Speaker John Beohner's plan to extend the payroll tax cut without paying for it has inflamed some rank-and-file Republicans, and Senate Democrats are adding fuel to the fire.
Mitt Romney's campaign tried to downplay the importance of the three state votes last week because no delegates were immediately awarded, but Republican voters don't appear to have bought the argument. Here's our guide to today's polls and which ones matter.
While both President Obama and Mitt Romney surround themselves with lobbyists, there's a difference between how the two campaigns respond to questions about their K Street ties: Obama actually does it.
Techno-futurist Newt Gingrich has adopted Facebook's new Timeline feature with a detailed accounting of his life story, there are some things from Gingrich's past that did not make the cut, among them his first two marriages.
The ladies who help Callista Gingrich spend thousands of dollars on her unfashionably conservative wardrobe are spilling on the 1-percenter shopping habits of the Gingriches.
Newt Gingrich basks in the sun as he stares longingly at the Statue of Liberty in a new ad asking for donations, only a week after taking shots at "elitists" who "ride the subway" like the filthy degenerates they are.
Everyone agrees that much of President Obama's 2013 budget is dead-on-arrival in Congress but some aspects of the White House fiscal plan actually stand a chance in the Republican-controlled House.
Rick Santorum says women shouldn't serve in combat, but he's happy to have his wife jump on a grenade for him.
In 2008, Mitt Romney campaigned with a health care plan that sounded an awful lot like it included the dreaded individual mandate, the thing conservatives hate most about his Massachusetts health care law, not to mention Obamacare.
Poor Callista Gingrich was forced to tell terrible jokes as she introduced her husband at CPAC Friday, and even her punchlines played to her husband's extremely high regard for his own intelligence.
Republicans have long denounced the liberal fixation with victimhood while embracing all its tropes, arguing, as Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have, that it's those in the Christian majority who are really being persecuted in America. Mitt Romney bested his opponents by going one step further, saying he would stand up for the fabulously wealthy.
To turn down an invite to meet the guy most still expect to the the Republican Party's presidential nominee is a pretty sick burn, but that's what many conservatives did to Romney at CPAC Thursday, The New York Times' Michael D. Shear and Erick Eckholm report.
The Republican Party is not known for promoting casual dating, so naturally the Conservative Political Action Conference's panel on conservative dating drew more reporters -- like NASCAR fans rooting for a crash -- than small-government singletons ISO same.
While the everlasting "Shit Somebody Says" meme has grown a bit tiring, we have to concede that latest installment featuring Mitt Romney is pretty funny, in part because it breaks the rules of the genre.
Rick Santorum has a solid chance to follow up his three victories this week by beating Mitt Romney in his own home state of Michigan, and the situation has conservatives worrying again that Romney might be a bit of a wimp.
It's no surprise that 35 Republican members of Congress are mad that an atheist group got the Air Force to take out the "God" part in an agency's motto. What's shocking is the implication that they think bragging about "other people's money" is perfectly fine.
There have been eight state votes in the Republican presidential primary, and Mitt Romney has won three of them. Rick Santorum has won four.
Newt Gingrich hasn't quit running for president even though he's been shut out of Republican fundraising circles and attacked as a socialist egomaniac by conservative pundits, so the Republican establishment is trying a new trick: flattery.
Rick Santorum is polling way ahead of Mitt Romney in Missouri, and even though no delegates will be awarded Tuesday, it will show what Santorum can do when Newt Gingrich isn't on the ballot.
If you live next to a member of Congress, you're in luck. A new Washington Post investigation shows the myriad ways lawmakers "spruce up" their neighborhoods by steering more than $300 million in earmarks to public projects that are "next to or near" their own properties.
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