Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts
Friday, July 15, 2016
Pence, Excited, Humbled, Grateful to Join the GOP Ticket
Tuesday, September 01, 2015
Why Has Dr. Ben Carson Shot to Top of GOP Primary Polls?
Saturday, November 22, 2014
GOP Rebukes County Chairman's 'Outrageous' Comments on Muslims
A Minnesota Republican Party official issued a “call to arms” against Muslims on Thursday, calling them “terrorists” and “parasites” and suggesting that someone should “frag ‘em.”
Jack Whitley, chairman of the Big Stone County Republican Party, had no apology for the series of inflammatory posts on his personal Facebook page — remarks the state party leadership condemned as “outrageous.”
“Muslims are terrorists. They don’t belong in this country,” Whitley said in an interview. “Their attitude and their agenda don’t belong in this country. They cause terror and discontent, total chaos everywhere they are.”
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Whitley wrote that he opposes waterboarding as “a waste of resources. They are muslims [sic], they are terrorist, we know where they are from, we know where their buddies are, we know where thier [sic] mosque’s [sic] are, we know millions of these parasites travel to Mecca every year and when … FRAG ‘EM!” » | Jennifer Brooks, Star Tribune | Friday, November 21, 2014
Sunday, November 16, 2014
GOP Warns Obama: Executive Action on Immigration Breaks Law
Friday, October 11, 2013
Boehner Says GOP Will Agree to Debt Ceiling Extension
In announcing his plan, Boehner said Republicans no longer would insist on any policy changes in return for allowing the government to continue borrowing. But he did not agree to reopen government programs that shut down last week. » | Lisa Mascaro and Michael A. Memoli | Thursday, October 10, 2013
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Trailing badly in the polls and facing the prospect of a humiliating defeat in his home state of Pennsylvania, Mr Santorum used Gettysburg, the site of the bloodiest battle of the American civil war, to announce his withdrawal.
"We made the decision to get into this race at our kitchen table against all the odds and we made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race is over for me - and we will suspend our campaign effective today - we're not done fighting," he said.
While he used his brief appearance to attack President Barack Obama, the one-time candidate did not offer any endorsement of Mr Romney, who faces an open road to the Republican nomination.
The former Pennsylvania senator said he had "tried to be a witness" to the struggles of America's middle class and a voice for social conservatives.
"Even when they said we couldn't win, we were winning because we were touching hearts and raising issues that frankly a lot of people didn't want raised," he said. Read on and comment » | Raf Sanchez | Washington | Tuesday, April 10, 2012
My comment:
Rick Santorum is a handsome man who speaks eloquently. Pity is that he is too conservative, too religious, and too frozen in time. Were he to loosen up a little, and leave some of his ante-diluvian ideas behind him, he'd be a very serious contender for the White House. One can only wish him well even if one is relieved that he is out of the race. – © Mark
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TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Le républicain Rick Santorum jette l'éponge : Le candidat ultraconservateur suspend sa campagne pour l'investiture républicaine, laissant la voie libre au favori Mitt Romney pour devenir le candidat qui affrontera Barack Obama en novembre. » | AP/Newsnet | mardi 10 avril 2012
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Santorum macht Weg für Romney frei: Das Rennen der Republikaner um den Herausforderer des amtierenden US-Präsidenten ist so gut wie entschieden. Rick Santorum verkündete am Dienstag seinen Rückzug. Jetzt wird Multimillionär Mitt Romney gegen Barack Obama antreten. » | aar/fab/Reuters/dpa/AP/AFP | Dienstag, 04. April 2012
Thursday, April 05, 2012
The survey released today by Public Policy Polling shows Romney has a 42% to 37% lead among likely GOP primary voters -- a 17-point jump for the former Massachusetts governor in the last month. The Pennsylvania primary is April 24.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania congressman and senator, has dropped six points over the same period. The Pennsylvania poll shows Romney has made gains among evangelical voters, Tea Party supporters and voters who say they are "very conservative" -- three groups that have consistently supported Santorum. » | Catalina Camia | USA TODAY | Thursday, April 05, 2012
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Mitt Romney won resoundingly in the Wisconsin primary and two other contests tonight, all but stamping out the embers of the Republican primary even as he lit the flames of his general election campaign.
The former Massachusetts governor completely ignored his Republican rivals as he claimed victory, elevating himself above his party's nominating process to focus instead on President Barack Obama, whom he accused of engineering a "Government-Centred Society" at the expense of American individualism.
Casting himself as the champion of "free people and free enterprise", Mr Romney sought to marshal both businesses and families against the President's model of interventionist government.
"In Barack Obama’s Government-Centred Society, the government must do more because the economy is doomed to do less," he told a cheering crowd in Milwaukee. "When you attack business and vilify success, you will have less business and less success."
Mr Romney attacked the Democratic incumbent as an "out of touch liberal" and vowed that if elected he would help build "the greatest America we have ever known, where prosperity is grown and shared, not limited and divided." » | Raf Sanchez | Washington | Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
TELEGRAPH – BLOGS – TIM STANLEY: For his own good, Rick Santorum should be bound and gagged in public » | Tim Stanley | Tuesday, March 27, 2012
My comment:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Rick Santorum is a kook. The USA, the world cannot afford a president like him. He'll turn the clocks back at worst, and cause a major conflagration at worst. Keep him OUT of the White House! – © Mark
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Santorum told voters that Romney is "uniquely disqualified" to be theRepublican's presidential pick and urged his supporters to stand with him even as he faces an increasingly improbable pathway to the nomination, despite an easy victory in the Louisiana primary the night before.
With all Louisiana precincts reporting, Santorum captured 49 percent of the vote to 27 percent for Romney. Newt Gingrich, was far back at 16 percent, followed by Ron Paul with 6 percent.
Although the victory gives Santorum bragging rights and 10 more delegates, it does not change the overall dynamics of the race. The former Pennsylvania senator still dramatically lags behind Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, in the battle for delegates to the party's August nominating convention in Tampa, Florida. » | Monday, March 26, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
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Selon des projections diffusées par les chaînes de télévision américaines après la fermeture des bureaux de vote, l'ancien sénateur de Pennsyvlanie (est), grand défenseur des valeurs chrétiennes et familiales, a remporté 50% des suffrages, contre 26% au multimillionnaire Romney.
Il engrange ainsi un 11e État dans la course à l'investiture républicaine pour la Maison-Blanche, mais compte toujours à son actif deux fois moins de victoires que son rival modéré Mitt Romney.
Dans un courriel adressé à ses partisans dès l'annonce de sa victoire, M. Santorum a qualifié «d'historique» le scrutin de Louisiane.
«Romney a fait une campagne intensive ici en dépensant beaucoup d'argent, mais les Louisianais ne se sont pas laissés impressionner par les mensonges et la campagne négative: ils ont voté pour un authentique conservateur», a estimé M. Santorum, reprenant l'accusation de l'aile droite du parti républicain pour qui M. Romney est par trop modéré. » | Susan Finch | Agence France-Presse | La Nouvelle Orléans | samedi 24 mars 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
CBS NEWS: PORT FOURCHON, La. - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich suggested Friday that President Obama is to blame for perceptions among his detractors that he is Muslim.
"I have said publicly several times that I believe Obama is a Christian. He went to a Christian church for over 20 years. He was listening to the sermons. The fact is I take him at his word," Gingrich said told reporters in Louisiana the day before the GOP primary here.
"But I think it is very bizarre that he is desperately concerned to apologize to Muslim religious fanatics while they are killing young Americans, while at the same time going to war against the Catholic Church and against every right-to-life Protestant organization in the country. I just think it's a very strange value system," Gingrich added.
Then, asked whether it concerned him that many people continue to believe Obama is Muslim, Gingrich replied, "It should bother the president. Why does the president behave the way that people would think that? You have to ask, why would they believe that? It's not because they're stupid. It's because they watch the kind of things I just described to you. When you have every bishop in the Catholic Church say this administration's at war with their religion, you don't think that has an impact?" » | Sarah Huisenga | Friday, March 23, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The front-runner was given a further boost yesterday by the endorsement of Jeb Bush, the brother of former President George W Bush.
"Now is the time for Republicans to unite behind Governor Romney and take our message of fiscal conservatism and job creation to all voters this fall," said Mr Bush, a former Florida governor who has himself been touted as a possible future Republican presidential candidate.
His intervention, after months of declining to make an endorsement, was taken as a signal that it was now time to coalesce behind Mr Romney and put an end to a bitterly divisive primary campaign that poll ratings show has damaged both the Republican party and the candidates.
Mr Romney now has 563 delegates, a lead of 300 over Mr Santorum in the race to achieve the "magic number" of 1,144 needed to clinch the nomination outright and face President Barack Obama in November.
"At some point the reality is going to set in that Mitt is the all but certain nominee," Mr Romney's chief spin doctor Eric Fehrnstrom told CNN, adding that no "deus ex machina" was going to come down from heaven and change the outcome of the race. » | Peter Foster | Washington | Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
THE GUARDIAN: Rick Santorum, facing a blow to his momentum in Tuesday's primary, blasts Mitt Romney as a candidate 'without a core'
The fierce in-fighting among Republican presidential challengers intensified ahead of Tuesday's Illinois primary with Rick Santorumunleashing one of his most personal attacks yet on frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Santorum, scrambling for votes as the latest poll showed Romney with an overwhelming lead, claimed Romney had "no core", was being bankrolled by Wall Street and would be unelectable against Barack Obama.
Such outbursts play into the hands of the Democrats, providing material they can use during the White House race between Obama and the eventual Republican contender, almost certainly Romney. Polls also show that the in-fighting is turning off independent voters, the key to the general election. » | Ewen MacAskill in Chicago | Monday, March 19, 2012
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