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When It Comes to Music, Republican Candidates Can’t Get Enough ‘Cease-and-Desist’

Tom Petty isn’t much of a Republican fan. During the 2000 Presidential campaign, Petty’s ‘Won’t Back Down’ was briefly used by George W. Bush.   It’s use by Bush occurred at public appearances, and normally would be allowed under performing rights organization (PRO) licence.   This also happens to be the same licence used for [...]

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No Laughing Matter Over Bachmann

To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller: First they came for Hillary, and I didn’t speak out because I didn’t support Hillary.  Then they came for Palin, and I didn’t speak out because I thought Palin was nuts.  Then they came for the Bachmann, and I didn’t speak out because, I was so used to open misogyny. With the absence of [...]

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Romney ahead in Michigan poll

‘Undecided’ a close 2nd for GOP primary; Dems lead slightly in state House races Paul Egan/ Detroit News Lansing Bureau Lansing — Support in Michigan for native son Mitt Romney is far ahead of the backing for any other GOP presidential hopefuls, according to a new statewide poll. The poll was taken after Romney’s June [...]

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Palin Bus Tour Takes Extended Pit Stop

Less than a month after she appeared poised to shake up the Republican presidential campaign, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has once again receded from the 2012 limelight. When Palin launched her “One Nation” bus tour on Memorial Day amid a swirl of media attention and excitement from her fervent fan base, many political observers [...]

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A Conservative Woman’s Problem with Palin

  By: Lisa Fritsch Sarah Palin, the woman who put enough sizzle in McCain’s 2008 presidential bid to make Republicans think they were finally cooking, now finds herself a few matches short of stoking her own political fire. Palin has managed to maintain the conservative and national spotlight for three years since that failed White [...]

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NBC/WSJ: Mitt Romney widens his lead

Mitt Romney has put some distance between himself and the rest of the GOP field, claiming nearly a third of the primary vote in the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. By ALEXANDER BURNS When tested against a group of nine other candidates, Romney takes 30 percent of registered GOP primary voters. His closest competitor is [...]

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The First Real GOP 2012 Primary Debate

By Kathryn Jean Lopez Mitt Romney came across like a frontrunner, taking the debate directly to the president — serious, steady, generous, and respectful of the rest of the Republican field. For the most part, it was an overwhelmingly serious and sober debate. (Save for a few moments — and the Palin or Biden question?!?) [...]

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Iron Lady Snubs Pretend Presidential Candidate

The “Iron Lady” is drawing a curtain between herself and Sarah Palin. Margaret Thatcher, the former U.K. Prime Minister – and heroine of the former Alaska governor – has no interest in meeting the “nuts” potential presidential candidate, Thatcher aides tell British media. Palin recently revealed that she’ll make a stop in London en route [...]

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Experts Back Sarah Palin’s Version on Paul Revere?

In fact, Revere’s own account of the ride in a 1798 letter seems to back up Palin’s claim. Revere describes how after his capture by British officers, he warned them “there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up.” Boston University history professor [...]

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49% See Romney As Qualified to Be President, Less Confident of Other GOP Candidates

Mitt Romney is the only Republican 2012 hopeful that a sizable number of voters considers qualified to be president. Sarah Palin is the one they view as least qualified, but, at this early stage, many voters are still in the dark about all the possible candidates. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that [...]

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