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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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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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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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ABC/WMUR Republican Presidential Debate Jan. 7, 9PM EST

I know there are many fun things to do on a Saturday night in January and that watching a group of Pubbies going after each other with wing guns blazing may not be on your short list….but, with the sudden rise of Rick Santorum in the polls, I think this debate may well be worth [...]

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Above the fray

Romney smartly keeps his distance from the GOP circus By: Joshua Green MITT ROMNEY sits at or near the top of almost every poll of likely Republican presidential candidates. He hasn’t worked hard for the distinction. While others swarm the early primary states, he has mostly stayed away. He’s the rare Republican hopeful not currently [...]

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First in nation, last with Sarah Palin

By: Alexander Burns If Sarah Palin decides to run for president, she could quickly find that it’s not Arizona, but New Hampshire that poses the bigger threat to her candidacy. That’s because in all of her travels since the 2008 election – during the midterm campaign and across two expansive book tours – the former [...]

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Courting begins in 2012 early states

By:  Jake Sherman and Manu Raju POLITICO The friendly phone calls are incoming, presidential wannabes are showering them with praise and their campaign accounts have been flooded with fat checks from people with names like Palin, Romney and Gingrich. Members of Congress from South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire are once again getting wooed by [...]

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Primaries a Win for Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney

If Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney decide to run for president in 2012, they’ll have some powerful friends in the early states that are key to winning the GOP nomination. Mike Huckabee? Not so much. All of it is part of the presidential election fallout from Tuesday’s primaries in Iowa and South Carolina, two states [...]

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Florida says several states to file healthcare lawsuit

MIAMI, March 22 (Reuters) – Florida’s attorney general will file a lawsuit with nine other state attorneys general opposing the healthcare legislation passed by Congress, a spokeswoman said on Monday. “The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state’s sovereignty,” [...]

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