There has always been something about Republicans and their circling the wagons around the younger George Bush.But you would think that even the “fiscally conservative” members of America’s right would cut their loses when it comes to Bush’s economic performance. Instead they have constantly defended him and even attempted to rewrite history making the current […]
News is just now breaking that Rick Santorum will be dropping out of the race. This basically makes Mitt Romney the nominee and the general can get under way.
While speaking to a rally at Janesville, Wisconsin yesterday, Rick Santorum almost made a slip that sounds like it maybe the worst of racial slurs: Transcript: “We know, we know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like. The anti-war government nig- uh, the uh America was a source for division around the world.” So […]
Rick Santorum had a very, very, very bad day: In directing what appeared to be a new level of vitriol toward Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum on Sunday described his rival as “the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.” Santorum later, however, bristled at the notion that he was referring to […]
PORN! Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that “America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography” because the Obama administration favors “pornographers over children.” In an undated statement on his official website, the former Pennsylvania senator promises that he will “vigorously” fight to make sure porn isn’t easily available in the U.S. “Pornography is […]
We now have a new reason why the economy collapsed in 2008: —Rick Santorum sharpened his attack on President Barack Obama over rising gas prices, saying high energy prices caused the 2008 recession. “We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices,” Santorum told a packed hotel ballroom of supporters. “The bubble burst […]
The Republicans just love government telling people what they can and can’t do: Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich have all told the group Morality in Media that they would enforce federal obscenity laws that prohibit the distribution of pornography. Those laws, the anti-pornography group said, are being ignored by the […]
“The Fix” in today’s Washington Post offers up this headline: Obama: The most polarizing president. Ever. When you look at how divided this country is that could be easy to conclude, but is it President Obama’s fault? First let’s take a look at how they come to this conclusion: For 2011, Obama’s third year in […]
Iowa is now the Florida of primaries: In a stunning turn of events, Rick Santorum now appears to have won the Iowa caucuses, though the state’s Republican Party says there are too many holes in the results for them to ever be able to say for certain. The party, which runs the caucuses, has done […]
Blogging over at the Plumline, Jonathan Bernstein brings up a very interesting question: As Pema Levy reports in a nice item, the message among neutral Republicans over the weekend was simple: It’s time to shut down GOP WH 2012 before somebody gets hurt – in particular, the “somebody” being the very likely but ever-vulnerable Republican […]