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Mitt to Mac: I'm on Your Side in Arizona Re-Election Campaign
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe rapprochement continues. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who sparred with Sen. John McCain in the hard-fought 2008 Republican presidential campaign, said Tuesday he is endorsing McCain's bid for re-election in Arizona, where he faces a conservative challenger. "For years, I've been an admirer of John McCain. Then, we became competitors. Today, I'm proud to call him my friend," Romney said in a statement reported by Politico. ". . . I believe that it is his core value of courage, faith and honor -- forged in battle and confirmed by a lifetime of service to America -- that make ...
Mitt Romney Unhurt After Being Assaulted on Flight from Vancouver
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyFormer presidential candidate Mitt Romney was assaulted Monday by a passenger on a flight from Vancouver to Los Angeles. Romney, 62, was on an Air Canada flight with his wife, Ann, when a male passenger took a swing at him, the The Boston Globe reported. The former Massachusetts governor had reportedly asked the man, who was sitting in front of Ann Romney, to put his seat up during takeoff. "Gov. Romney did not retaliate, but instead allowed the airline crew to respond to the incident," Romney's spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, told the Globe. The plane taxied back to the gate where the unruly ...
Republican Cash Flow Provides Clues for 2012 Presidential Field
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination began quietly last year, Politico reports, with political committees for most of the presumed hopefuls spending thousands of dollars on policy advice and strategy planning. Sarah Palin's committee spent nearly $50,000 in the second half of 2009; Mike Huckabee and Tim Pawlenty spent a combined $97,000 on fundraising lists, and Newt Gingrich spent nearly $600,000 flying around the country. The stated purpose of the candidates' expenses is to rebuild their party and advance conservative principles. But the specific uses of committee money ...
Winners and Losers in Mass. Senate Election
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Jan. 20) -- At first glance, it's quite clear who's the biggest winner in Tuesday's Massachusetts election. State Sen. Scott Brown has become the GOP's latest hero by capturing the U.S. Senate seat Democrats held for decades. And not just any Democrats -- the Kennedys. Brown's victory over state Attorney General Martha Coakley -- Tuesday's biggest loser -- in the battle to succeed Ted Kennedy might spell defeat for health care reform, which the late senator called the cause of his life. A closer look at what online commentators are saying about the election that ended the Democrats' 60-vote ...
Mitt Romney's Enemies, Gearing Up for 2012 Fight
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWhen former Governor Mitt Romney spoke at the Family Research Council's "Values Voters Summit" in Washington about 10 days ago, he came in a distant second place in a straw poll behind his archenemy, Mike Huckabee. And he only narrowly beat out former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty in an event that signaled the unofficial start of Romney's 2012 GOP primary campaign. In fact, he never seemed to stop running. The night before speaking, he hosted an event called Sundaes with Mitt. But the summit poll showed the steep hill Romney has to climb over the next three years and was, no doubt, a coup for ...
In Obama-GOP Match-Ups for 2012, Huckabee Is Top Contender
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySo which Republican would do the best against President Obama if the 2012 election were held today? The answer, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Sept. 18-21, is former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who would get 41 percent to Obama's 48 percent with 11 percent undecided. Huckabee has been the strongest candidate against Obama all six times PPP has posed the question. ...
Ted Kennedy Seeks Law to Speed Up Seating His Replacement
By David Knowles - Politics DailySen. Ted Kennedy has sent a letter to Massachusetts Gov. Duval Patrick as well as the leaders of the state's House and Senate requesting that it amend the law on filling vacancies in the U.S. Congress. Ailing from cancer, Kennedy knows that President Obama's health care reform could hinge on as little as a single vote in the Senate, and if his own health were to prevent him from participating in the final legislative roll call, he wants a reform advocate already in place. ...
Mitt Romney's Voodoo Dolls
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyDefeated at nearly every level in the 2008 elections, Republicans were supposed to be using the current four-year stretch in purgatory to rethink the issues, redefine themselves as a party, and (most of all) select a charismatic leader to get them back in the game. Turns out, it's not taking too long to winnow the field. As the dust cleared in 2009, there was no shortage of prospective saviors. Would it be Sarah Palin, the gorgeous and polarizing lightning rod from Alaska, who overshadowed running mate John McCain in the general election? What about Mike Huckabee, the glib, guitar-playing ...
Mitt Romney Writing Political Book: Launch of Presidential Bid?
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyRepublican Mitt Romney signed a deal to write a book entitled "No Apology: The Case for American Greatness." The book is scheduled to be published by St. Martin's Press in March 2010, which is primary season for the midterm elections. ...
Republicans, Fiscal Responsibility, and $23.7 Trillion
By Michael Roberts - Politics DailyNeil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), made headlines when he estimated that the Obama administration may have committed as much as $23.7 trillion to patch up the U.S. economy. This figure, and fiscal responsibility in general, should be a galvanizing force for the Republican Party in upcoming political battles.Twenty-three-point-seven-trillion-dollars is a hard number to get your head around. For the sake of simplicity, we'll round up to $24 trillion from here on. After all, if we learned anything from the Obama administration these past six ...
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