Category Archives: Republican Presidential Race

Why Mitt Romney will be a good president

By KAREN HUGHES Ten years ago, I walked into the White House press room and shocked the reporters there by announcing that later that summer, I would be leaving my job as counselor to the president to return to Texas. The decision was agonizingly difficult and purely personal. I believed in President George W. Bush, [...]

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Obama……Honey, I ate the dog

Wowie Zowie!!! Not much needs to be said about this terrific graphic other than to say Obama and Co. have had a terrible week or so with the Ann Romney has “never worked a day in her life” remark and their attempt to ridicule Mitt Romney’s vacation with the family dog Seamus……Boy, when things go [...]

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Mitt Romney plays the victim card

By REID J. EPSTEIN Meet Mitt Romney the victim. And that may be a good thing for his campaign. Following the still-rippling kerfuffle over Hilary Rosen’s comments that Ann Romney “hasn’t worked a day in her life,” Romney is portraying himself as the victim of the liberal media and secular culture, and some social conservatives [...]

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Election 2012 Missouri: President…. Romney 48%, Obama 45%

Mitt Romney still leads President Obama in a head-to-head matchup in Missouri but by a much narrower margin. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds the prospective Republican nominee with just a three-point edge over the president – 48% to 45%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and [...]

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Missouri 2nd Congressional District Convention April 21, 2012

On a picture perfect Saturday morning in St. Louis County, Mo., 391 grassroots activists gathered in the Lindbergh High School Gym to take part in the delegate selection process that will send former Sen. Jim Talent, Alan Icecit and Phyliss Schafley (Eagle Forum) to the Republican National Convention this August in Tampa, Florida to select [...]

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NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE ENDORSES GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY

WASHINGTON – Determined to secure a pro-life victory in the November election, which will decide the fate of unborn children for decades to come, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, today endorsed Mitt Romney for President of the United States. “On [...]

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“War on Moms:” Maher Edition

POLITICO • Mitt Romney’s campaign aides go for Day Three on the flap over a Democratic operative’s comments on CNN about Ann Romney never working “a day in her life,” pushing out over Twitter a write-up of profane comments that liberal talk-show host and comedian Bill Maher made about the issue: “But what she meant [...]

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Romney says Obama will erode the rights of gun owners in speech to NRA

FOXNEWS.COM The presidential campaign briefly veered from the emotional Mommy Wars on Friday to the back-burner issue of gun rights, with Mitt Romney telling the National Rifle Association that President Barack Obama is not protecting gun owners — even though the topic has rarely arisen during his time in office. Without offering details, Romney said [...]

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Rick Santorum’s nice-guy persona is turning a bit testy lately

By Sandhya Somashekhar, Published: March 26 The Washington Post For a while, it had seemed that Rick Santorum’s crabby days were behind him. Gone were the sarcastic potshots at reporters and peevish outbursts aimed at his political opponents. He had transformed into the Mr. Rogers of the presidential race: good-natured, self-deprecating and downright likable. But that [...]

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Announcing the Solid Principles.com “2012 Benedict Arnold Award” Recipient….Rick Santorum!

It is being widely reported today that Rick Santorum is of the opinion that there is so little difference between President Obama and Mitt Romney that we might as well stick with the President we have rather than elect someone who is the “Etch-A-Sketch” candidate this election cycle……where to begin….. Mitt Romney, highly successful businessman, [...]

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