Category Archives: Caucuses & Primaries

“A Battle the President Can’t Win “

Writing in this weekend’s Wall Street journal, former Reagan speech writer and current opinion columnist , Peggy Noonan, drops a rhetorical bombshell when she says that the Dept. of Health and Human Service’s Sec’y Kathleen Sibilius’ administrative ruling that Catholic Hospitals and other institutions must offer health care plans that offer abortion and contraceptive products [...]

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Mitt’s Attack on Crony Capitalism

Tough stuff. The right stuff. By Larry Kudlow Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail started making the case that Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital was involved in nothing [...]

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Newt Gingrich is angry

By ROGER SIMON ORANGEBURG, S.C. – – Newt Gingrich trundles into the meeting hall – – a former X-rated movie theater – – to rapturous applause. He is not the best-looking guy in Republican race or the best-funded or the most ideologically pure. But he has found his shtick, and he is shticking to it. [...]

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South Carolina primary: Scramble ahead of Saturday vote

By BILL NICHOLS COLUMBIA, S.C. The four surviving combatants in the 2012 Republican presidential field were crisscrossing South Carolina on Friday in the final hours before a critical primary that could either end the race or raise dramatic new questions about Mitt Romney’s hold on the nomination. After a tumultuous Thursday that saw Rick Perry [...]

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Mitt Romney doesn’t really have a Republican problem

Posted by Chris Cillizza Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination even as he continues to endure whispers that he is simply too moderate to win over a majority of the GOP. Exit polling from Romney’s 16-point victory in New Hampshire tells a very different story, however. Among [...]

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GOP divided over potential impact of Bain attacks

      By Amy Gardner and Peter Wallsten, Published: January 12 GREER, S.C. — Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney appeared Thursday to have successfully blunted attacks on his work at Bain Capital, with still more conservatives coming to his defense, his rivals backing down and voters at campaign stops in South Carolina saying they [...]

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Jon Huntsman smacks Mitt Romney for South Carolina trip

By JAMES HOHMANN NEWPORT, N.H. — Jon Huntsman finished a day of reaping the benefits of his non-stop presence in the first-primary state by whacking Mitt Romney for the day he spent away in South Carolina. “If you’re in South Carolina with days to go before the New Hampshire primary, that pretty much suggests you [...]

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Iowa Caucus: Iowa GOP: Perry 29%, Bachmann 18%, Romney 17%, Paul 14%

Confirming a surge seen in polling across the nation, Texas Governor Rick Perry has moved into first place among Republican voters in Iowa, host state to the first-in-the-nation caucus early next year. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of those likely to participate in the Iowa GOP Caucus shows that Perry is the first choice for [...]

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Five Reasons Ryan Bowed Out

Ryan will not seek the presidency, but he will shape the debate. Sources close to Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin tell National Review Online that the Budget Committee chairman considered a variety of factors this summer as he mulled a late-entry presidential campaign. This afternoon, he closed the door on a 2012 bid, choosing to [...]

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solidprinciples.com Iowa Caucus Debate Coverage #Iowadebate #gopdebate

Good Evening, and Welcome to solidprinciples.com’s Live Twittering of the Iowa Debate. Throughout the debate, we will be posting updates via our Twitter account, which are embedded to this post via the widget above. You can either re-fresh the page for updates, or try opening our Profile directly on Twitter. We will also be posting [...]

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