Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, eyed as a potential running mate for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, wrapped up a trip to Israel last week that featured talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. According to ABC News, Portman toured an Iron Dome advanced missile defense system in southern Israel and […]
WASHINGTON — Authorities are investigating into Mitt Romney’s private email account that was hacked this week. On Tuesday, the website Gawker reported that an anonymous hacker had signed into Romney’s personal Hotmail account. Gawker reported that the hacker guessed the answer to a security question about Romney’s favorite pet in order to gain access to […]
Republican de facto presidential candidate Mitt Romney is leading President Barack Obama in the polls by a new high of four percent as the president tries to win back sagging support from Jews. Romney has sewn up the nomination and is scheduled to be officially nominated at the GOP’s summer convention. The latest daily Presidential […]
GOP’s 2008 nominee was unwilling to confront Obama on character The political gurus who advised Mitt Romney to condemn a plan by a “super PAC” to use Barack Obama’s influential relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright against him in the 2012 campaign will lead the presumed Republican nominee to the same fate as John McCain […]
Politico ran a story essentially summing up what has been obvious for the past couple of weeks: Republicans now believe that their candidate Mitt Romney has a genuine shot at winning the presidency. It is worth recalling that Republicans had despaired of their chances back in March when the primaries were still in full swing; […]
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has announced he is cutting spending and preparing to wind down his campaign. The GOP candidate said in a statement Monday that he would continue his drive to gather delegates to take a “strong message” to the Republican national convention. However, “we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget proposal would double the interest rate on federally backed student loans from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent–eight months after the November presidential election. The White House fiscal year 2013 plan calls for maintaining the current 3.4 percent interest rate for federally guaranteed student loans, but only through July […]
I’m going to violate the first law of punditry by conceding that I don’t get it when addressing Russia’s moves on the eve of a crucial missile defense conference with NATO in Moscow. On the one hand, the Russians are attempting persuasion by presenting computer simulations designed to demonstrate the threat that the missile-defense system […]
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are set to have a private meeting on Friday in Pittsburgh, Pa. Romney will be looking to gain Santorum’s endorsement – and the delegates that are bound to him under GOP primary rules – prior to the Republican National Convention in August. Santorum is expected to demand assurances that conservatives […]
Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check. Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney donor, […]
