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?
Former presidential candidate and former Senator Rick Santorum is launching an all-out drive to deny his former colleague Chuck Hagel a new job as Secretary of Defense, despite not having any actual power to do so.
The most noxious, wrongheaded, misleading, silly, and downright awful pieces of punditry to somehow end up in print or online this year.
He got what he wanted: the Senate did not ratify a United Nations treaty to protect disabled people worldwide from discrimination Tuesday.
With his presidential aspirations dashed, Rick Santorum has started writing for the birther friendly site World Net Daily. One commenter wonders if Fox News thought Santorum was too fringe friendly for their famously fair and balanced approach.
Rick Santorum is reportedly telling friends he'll make a third run for president in 2016, but in the meantime, he's going to keep his name in the news by writing for the top birther website on the Internet.
The race to become the presumed frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination feels awfully hot given that the 2012 election is all of three weeks old. But still, here are the guys ready to make a few tweaks and usher in a new Republican era, like, right now.
Joe Nocera on Obama's new cabinet, Jonah Goldberg on Mohamed Morsi, Dana Milbank on Rick Santorum, Peter Hakim on Mexico, and Sarah Ditum on gender-neutral toys.
Until the absolute last deadline passed for Todd Akin to drop out of the Senate race in Missouri, his opponent, Sen. Claire McCaskill, had to pretend she wasn't all that interested in campaigning against him, and Republicans had to pretend they had zero interest in winning control of the Senate by any means possible.
Rick Santorum said Saturday the media and, "elite, smart people," never side with the Republican party, during the same speech that he said President Obama shares part of the blame for the international riots over an anti-Islam film.
Obama's deputy campaign manager Stephanie cutter defended the interviews he's done with Entertainment Tonight and People; Rick Santorum doesn't like the tone of the campaign; and Bill Kristol channels his inner Johnny Carson.
Have you heard? Today is Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, a stunt invented by Sen. Rick Santorum and Gov. Mike Huckabee, in which Americans eat delicious chicken sandwiches to protest gay marriage or defend free speech (depending on who you ask).
Those declaring the Tea Party "dead" may want to look at what just happened in Texas last night: A Tea Party candidate who was at 2 percent in the polls at the outset of his campaign, easily won the state's Republican Senate nomination.
Despite Chick-fil-A's attempts to walk themselves out of the culture war surrounding their president's comments on gay marriage, Rich Santorum, one of 2012's most prominent culture warriors, is boldly entering the fray, stomach first.
Rick Santorum managed to jab at both Mitt Romney and President Obama and their respective health care bills during his appearance on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight Thursday evening.
Mitt Romney talks immigration, bailing out Europe, health care and tax reform in huge interview with Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation; McCain says he's worried about campaign finance scandals; Santorum talks immigration and his role in a potential Romney administration.
Rick Santroum sent an email to his supporters on Monday night announcing that he would back Mitt Romeny for the presidency and that everyone needs to support "our nominee" to defeat Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney's meeting with Michael Bloomberg yesterday at the East 78th Street offices of the Bloomberg Foundation was, presumably, a courtship.
As expected, Mitt Romney swept five Republican primary elections Tuesday night, but even if the winner is no surprise, his vote totals can still tell us something.
Mitt Romney's campaign sent out an all-caps press release announcing the candidate had won "SUPPORT OF WYOMING GOVERNOR MATT MEAD" Tuesday, six weeks after the Wyoming caucus.
Let's imagine that Mitt Romney does win the presidency and that he selects Rick Santorum for some position of authority within it: We're guessing the U.S. Post Office is doomed.
The NBA in Sacramento looks unlikely, Rick Santorum talks up his fantasy baseball team, and Londoners worry long airport lines will ruin the Olympics.
Recently former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum confessed his reasons for dropping out of the GOP primary race on the radio Thursday afternoon, and boy was he candid.
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.
Remember those crazy days when Mitt Romney was struggling to defend himself as conservative enough against Rick Santorum in the Republican presidential primary? When was that? Oh yes, yesterday.
Mitt Romney needed friends back in February, when it looked like Rick Santorum might actually beat him in the Republican presidential primary. Sadly, some friends rushed to his side only after Santorum said he was quitting the race.
For some people, it wasn't easy to say goodbye to Rick Santorum on Tuesday, when the Republican hopeful announced he'd be dropping out of the presidential race.
Rick Santorum's campaign for the presidency is over but instead of throwing in the towel with a decisive phrase like "I'm finished," he announced that "we'll suspend our campaign effective today."
It's been something of a rocky round between women and Rick Santorum in the past, as he seemed to have had a special way of offending some female or another at nearly every turn. And now that he's gracefully bowed out, we'd like to gracefully thank him.
Rick Santorum's "suspension" (read: termination) of his presidential campaign has caused an unintentional (we think) meme has sprung fully formed from Twitter's brain.
Unlike most of the Republican field, no one thought Rick Santorum was running to sell books or win a Fox News job. It's a good thing, too, because the most memorable moments of the Santorum campaign were accidents — most of them unhappy ones.
Speaking from Gettysburg, Tuesday, Rick Santorum announced he will suspend his campaign for president, adding "we are going to continue to fight."
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.
The GOP presidential front-runner’s two-week, multimillion-dollar TV ad buy in Pennsylvania -- the media equivalent of a nuclear bomb -- delivers a powerful message to Republican voters there: You might have supported Rick Santorum when he was your U.S. senator, but I want your vote now.
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.
In some of the big swing states that helped Mitt Romney beat his opponents -- Florida, Ohio -- he's going to have a harder time fighting President Obama, due in part to a better economy. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Rick Santorum's daughter Isabella is back in the hospital on Friday as her father takes time off from his campaign to observe Easter.
On Thursday, Santorum met with conservative leaders in northern Virginia to figure out a way to beat Mitt Romney, and the consensus was, "We need to make a midcourse correction," Richard Viguerie, a direct-mail expert, told The New York Times. It's an odd conclusion to draw, since the 'mid" of the race seems to have passed few weeks ago.
Rick Santorum has vowed he's staying in the Republican primary, but as we've noted, presidential primary history indicates the surest sign a candidate will quit the race is a bunch of headlines noting that he says he's in it to win it.
As newspapers and blogs declare the Republican presidential primary over, Rick Santorum now has two options: go out in a hail of bullets like Paul Newman at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, or like Newman in Hombre, helping the snobs he hates.
Mitt Romney has won the Wisconsin Republican primary, Fox News projects, meaning he swept all three contests Tuesday night and squashed what was declared to be Rick Santorum's last last chance to make a comeback.
Mitt Romney won the Maryland Republican primary Tuesday, CNN projects, a victory that bumps him over the halfway mark to getting the 1,144 delegates to win the nomination.
President Obama told reporters that Ronald Reagan "couldn't get through a Republican primary today" because the party has become so much more conservative.
Tomorrow looks like it's going to be a bad day for Rick Santorum, but Mitt Romney might have a tough couple months with America's ladies. Here's today's polls and why they matter.
Few people think Rick Santorum has a chance of winning the Wisconsin primary Tuesday, including Santorum, who will be in Pennsylvania election night.
Environmental issues have been framed mostly as economic issues during this election campaign: How can we bring down gas prices? Can we create jobs with a new oil pipeline? Does the Environmental Protection Agency cost jobs?
As Wisconsin's Tuesday contest approaches, Newt Gingrich concedes on Milwaukee radio that Romney is "clearly the front-runner."
Newt Gingrich, confirming he met with Mitt Romney last week in New Orleans, said on Friday that he and his rivals in the Republican presidential contest are talking about ways to make sure the eventual nominee can beat President Obama.
Rick Santorum hasn't won any big swing states -- and he's in danger in his home state Pennsylvania -- and doesn't have much of a shot at catching up with Mitt Romney, so the headlines declaring the end of the Republican primary are beginning to cascade.
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.
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