Mitt Romney has reportedly chosen a running mate, and he could introduce his vice presidential nominee as soon as this week.

[credit provider=”flickr: JC Edward” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenedwards/1176593250/”] “Is there a V.I.P. entrance? We are V.I.P.” That remark, by a donor waiting to get in to one of Mitt Romney’s recent fund-raisers in the Hamptons, pretty much sums up the attitude of America’s wealthy elite. Mr. Romney’s base — never mind the top 1 […]

When I recently posted an analytical news story, “The Claim that Barack Obama Is a Big Spender Is a Big Lie,” numerous conservatives countered by citing commentaries from conservative News sources, such as Eric Bolling of Fox News, and an editorial in Investor’s Business Daily.

[credit provider=”AP”] Having declared himself out of the running for Mitt Romney’s vice presidential nod, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has stepped comfortably into the role of party elder, and appears to be relishing the opportunity to critique the Republican Party’s direction and message. In a recent op-ed for the National […]

[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons” url=”http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Razor_Wire_Bunch.JPG”] Recently I publicly debated a regressive Republican who said Arizona and every other state should use whatever means necessary to keep out illegal immigrants. He also wants English to be spoken in every classroom in the nation, and the pledge of allegiance recited every morning. “We […]

[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons”] At age 41, Marco Rubio is already one of the most-watched Hispanic leaders in American politics. But the Florida Senator is still relatively unknown to most voters outside his home state, and his meteoric rise has puzzled many Beltway insiders, as they scramble to decide whether Rubio […]

[credit provider=”Greg Skidmore, en.wikipedia.org” url=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rand_Paul_in_Louisville_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg”] Ron Paul World remains deeply divided over Sen. Rand Paul’s recent endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.A quick glance around the online universe of the Ron Paul Revolution reveals that many of the most ardent Paul supporters are still shocked and saddened by the […]

Democrats frequently ask me why the Republicans have become so extreme. As they describe the situation, they usually fall back on some sort of illness metaphor. Republicans have a mania. President Obama has said that Republicans have a “fever” that he hopes will break if he is re-elected.

[credit provider=”AP”] The Republican National Committee finally gave in to Ron Paul‘s fanatical supporters this week, signing off on a three-day festival that will fête the septuagenarian congressman in the days leading up to the party’s national convention in Tampa this August.Paul Festival organiser Bryan Siemon told Business Insider that […]

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough gave an impassioned defence of Jeb Bush on Morning Joe today, praising the Florida Governor for his recent comments criticising the Republican Party’s hard tack to the right. 

[credit provider=”YouTube”] WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are calling it “Taxmageddon,” the big tax increase awaiting nearly every American family at the end of the year, when a long list of tax cuts are scheduled to expire unless Congress acts.It would be, GOP leaders in Congress say again and again, “the […]

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul broke ranks with his father’s political army this week and endorsed Mitt Romney as the Republican Party presidential nominee, setting off a firestorm of outrage in the Ron Paul Universe. 

Mitt Romney is not very popular with his oceanside neighbours, according to a story in today’s New York Times investigating how the Republican presidential hopeful fits in with his fellow La Jolla residents.

Anyone who reads this site regularly knows that it is no shill for Obama or the Democrats. It is rigorously non-partisan, and regularly runs articles that must infuriate the White House. But nonpartisan is one thing. Naive is another.

[credit provider=”Campaign for Liberty”] Ron Paul fans will close out the Texas Congressman’s third and final White House bid with a three-day festival/rally, scheduled to take place in Tampa immediately before the Republican National Convention. organisers are putting final touches on an agreement to host the event at the Florida State Fairgrounds, […]

[credit provider=”Preston Bates”] With Ron Paul effectively out of the presidential race — and nearing the end of his career in politics — his army of young acolytes are taking on the mantle of the Revolution, turning their attention to down-ballot races in a quiet quest to take over the […]

[credit provider=”sodahead.com”] Alec Baldwin has never hid his liberal politics and he isn’t starting now. Yesterday, while visiting the Cannes Film Festival, the “30 Rock” star went on a full Twitter rampage against Republicans and Anti-Obama voicers. 

After racking up $4.3 million in debt, Newt Gingrich will finally bowed out of the Republican presidential race today.

By now, it’s pretty clear that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election. The only question now is: Who will run alongside Romney as his Vice Presidential nominee?

Rick Santorum’s decision to suspend his campaign yesterday has all but ended the Republican race, and both parties are now kicking into high-gear for the general election. 

The long and fractious Republican presidential primary is reaching its predictable conclusion, with Mitt Romney finally strengthening his hold on the party’s nomination. 

[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons”] For the past few weeks, reports have been circulating about a “secret alliance” between Ron Paul and Mitt Romney, fueling speculation that, if the price was right, the iconoclastic Congressman might be ready to cut a deal and throw his support behind the eventual nominee. Paul said Monday […]

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[credit provider=”AP” url=”http://www.apimages.com/secured_user/Download.aspx?st=dl&id=f8cd0d41c0e64b7382b96fe2cced027d&isgb=false”] Surprise! Sometimes both parties can get together and pass something without the normal melodrama that has been a regular feature for the past year. The U.S. Senate passed the JOBs Act, a collection of measures that ease regulation on businesses. It was a lopsided 73-26 vote. 

[credit provider=”Wikipedia” url=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neanderthaler_Fund.png”] In announcing the Republicans’ new budget and tax plan Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said “We are sharpening the contrast between the path that we’re proposing and the path of debt and decline the president has placed us upon.”Ryan is right about sharpening the contrast. […]

[credit provider=”BloombergTV”] U.S. Rep. Ron Paul signaled Tuesday that he will not be voting for the latest Republican budget plan, surprising exactly no one with a scathing critique of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s new proposal to cut the deficit and shrink federal spending. In a campaign statement Tuesday afternoon, Paul attacked […]

[credit provider=”AP”] While Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum duke it out for delegates in high-profile primaries like Illinois and Pennsylvania, Ron Paul’s quiet pursuit of delegates appears to be paying off.Early results from Missouri’s caucuses this weekend show that the long-shot presidential candidate is significantly outperforming his rivals in the […]

[credit provider=”AP”] The Vermont state legislature is about to vote on a law that would allow people to kill themselves.The law is supported by Democratic governor Peter Shumlin.

Romney’s eating grits like a real southerner. Tomorrow he’s gonna get some spurs, put on his loafers and challenge Gingrich to a draw. 

For quite a while I’ve been explaining the rabid, frantic vehemence of tea partiers and Republicans in general with a single visualisation:

In an article on the debate over offshore drilling, the NYT told readers:

[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons”] Jason Clayworth and Jason Noble report for the Des Moines Register that Democratic legislators have fled–literally run away– from today’s legislative session to an undisclosed location.Iowa Democrats were surprised that Republican pulled out a gun-rights bill for consideration, and left the state capitol rather than debate it […]

[credit provider=”Daniel Goodman / Business Insider”] My father was a Republican for the first 78 years of his life. For the last 20, he’s been a Democrat (he just celebrated his 98th.) What happened? “They lost me,” he says.They’re losing even more Americans now, as the four remaining GOP candidates […]

[credit provider=”AP”] Well, he finally said it.GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum announced that he rejects the idea that church and state should be separated.

[credit provider=”New York Social Diary”] Have you heard of William Dore, Foster Friess, Sheldon Adelson, Harold Simmons, Peter Thiel, or Bruce Kovner? If not, let me introduce them to you. They’re running for the Republican nomination for president.I know, I know. You think Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and […]

One contention of the Republican party is that Democrats don’t understand business and are bad for business.

By now, it is clear that the Maine caucuses were a complete mess. 

[credit provider=”Republican National Committee” url=”http://www.gopvalentine.com/”] In honour of Valentine’s Day, the Republican National Committee is out with a new set of cards mocking President Obama and “his liberal friends.””This Valentine’s Day, love is definitely in the air at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” RNC Chair Reince Priebus said in a statement announcing […]

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State of the State addresses tend to be pretty staid affairs, interesting only to those who are actually writing or delivering the speech.

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[credit provider=”AP”] It’s no longer a race between Mitt Romney and Not Romney. Newt Gingrich’s resurgence is rooted in the candidate he is, rather than the candidate he is not.Gingrich has proven able to win with a broader coalition than Romney. That coalition eviscerated Romney’s double-digit lead in national polls. […]

Mitt Romney’s great-grandfather fled to Mexico from the U.S. to avoid arrest for polygamy in the late 1800s.

Just when he was starting to look like a legitimate candidate for President, Newt Gingrich’s new ideas for lunar colonization have reminded us all that a lot of his “solutions” for America are completely nuts.

[credit provider=”AP”] Let’s not even go over how nasty Republicans and Democrats have been to one another over the last year. The re-hash isn’t worth the headache.That aside, if you were listening closely enough last night, there was a glimmer of common ground in President Obama’s and in Mitch Daniels’ […]

Yesterday, Mother Jones highlighted something that has technically been in the public domain for some time: that Mitt and Ann Romney have between $17.7 million and $50.5 million of their assets invested at Goldman Sachs.

Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign.

Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate —the last one before the January 3 Iowa caucus — offered the candidates one final forum to make their case on national television before voters hit the polls.

[credit provider=”AP”] Newt Gingrich lives in McLean, VA, in a house that can only be described as modest, considering real estate values in the Washington DC Beltway suburb. But it’s pretty clear that the former House Speaker wants to trade up.Big time.

[credit provider=”mittromney via YouTube” url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFBPW6-AKR0&feature=player_embedded”] CNN’s moderator John King began tonight’s debate by asking Newt Gingrich about accusations by his ex-wife that Gingrich asked her for an open marriage.And Gingrich just unloaded every bit of anti-media bile he could on him. 

The five remaining Republican presidential candidates took the debate stage in South Carolina for yet another wild round in the GOP’s Survivor 2012 race.

 It’s not likely to jeopardize his nomination, but Mitt Romney had a bad time in the Republican debate last night.

[credit provider=”Michael Brendan Dougherty for Business Insider”] Jon M. Huntsman Jr. told campaign advisors today that he intends to drop out of the 2012 GOP race, one week ahead of the South Carolina primaries. He will endorse Romney, according to The New York Times. That should end all speculation that […]

[credit provider=”Courtesy of ABC News”] Herman Cain, the GOP-candidate that wasn’t, has been all over the airwaves this week, teasing his upcoming Republican presidential endorsement. In a series of cable news interviews, Cain has said that he plans on making an “unconventional endorsement” when he delivers a speech at the Southern […]

[credit provider=”Courtesy of CNN”] Think Ron Paul is just a fringe wacko supported by online chat-board trolls in tin-foil hats?Nope.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett said Wednesday he’s willing to match any contributions that Republican members of Congress make to help reduce the national debt.

[credit provider=”AP”] After Ron Paul’s impressive performance in New Hampshire last night, his campaign believes that they have finally solidified the 2012 Republican presidential race into a contest between the Texas Congressman and Mitt Romney, the presumptive nominee.”We have consolidated this into a two-man race now,” Paul’s campaign chairman, Jesse […]

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman may have finished among the top of the pack in the New Hampshire GOP presidential primary, but it likely will not translate into much momentum in South Carolina, according to experts.Huntsman eschewed campaigning in Iowa to instead appeal to the moderate Republicans in the Granite State, an […]

[credit provider=”AP”] Ron Paul’s performance in the New Hampshire primary was impressive.He got 23% of the votes, up from 8% the last time around.

[credit provider=”Business Insider”] The New Hampshire primary election is nearly over, and with Mitt Romney almost guaranteed to win, it has been a pretty low-key affair.Still, Granite Staters take their vote pretty seriously though, so the election hasn’t been without some colourful pageantry. Activists from all walks of life have […]

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[credit provider=”AP”] MANCHESTER — New Hampshire’s voting booths have only been open for a few hours, but with Ron Paul poised to come in second, or at least a close third, the campaign team is already feeling pretty good about tonight.It’s a far cry from 2008, when Paul finished fifth […]

[credit provider=”AP”] Yesterday, I explained the truth about the “Ron Paul Media Blackout” — the conspiracy theory repeated endlessly by Ron Paul fans annoyed that their candidate isn’t given more coverage in the mainstream media.I explained that, as far as I am concerned (as the editor of a major publication), […]

[credit provider=”AP”] The media circus covering the 2012 Republican race finally spun out of control today, when a mob of reporters literally chased Ron Paul and his wife out of a New Hampshire diner where Paul was making his first campaign stop.Unfortunately, we weren’t there to witness the incident, but […]

[credit provider=”AP”] Ron Paul supporters appear to think that there’s a conspiracy among media folks to boycott him.The media can’t handle the truth, this story-line goes. The media hates the fact that Ron Paul is right about America. The media wants to do everything it can to stifle Ron Paul’s […]

[credit provider=”AP”] (This post originally ran in May 2010. We’ve updated it to include the net worth of the leading Republican presidential candidates).24/7 Wall St. has examined the finances of all 40-three presidents. This article provides net worth figures for each in 2010 dollars.  Because a number of presidents, particularly […]

[credit provider=”Michael Brendan Dougherty for Business Insider”] The Town-Hall style meeting is a long New England political tradition. And it received lots of attention four years ago as John McCain saved his candidacy by doing one town hall meeting after another after another. Barack Obama even did them in his long […]

Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, who has been accused of pillaging companies during his days as a private equity exec at Bain Capital, gave remarks this morning at the Nashua Chamber of Commerce Breakfast. [via ABC News]

[credit provider=”Michael Brendan Dougherty for Business Insider”] NASHUA N.H.–  I have never liked Mitt Romney. I thought he was creepy.One day he is more pro-choice than Ted Kennedy. Now he is more pro-life than the Pope. He’s for an individual health-care mandate in his state, now against the Obamacare it […]

It would appear that one issue is off-limits at the Republican presidential debates — during last night’s ABC News debate, no questions addressed this major topic, and none of the prior televised GOP debates have delved into it, either.

[credit provider=”Courtesy of ABC News”] With just two days to go before the New Hampshire primaries, the six remaining Republican presidential candidates met again for another  marathon round of debates this weekend, going head-to-head twice over the span of just 12 hours.There were high hopes for Saturday night’s ABC News/Yahoo […]

[credit provider=”Business Insider”] Since his disappointing finish in Iowa last week, Newt Gingrich has been on a kamikaze mission to destroy Mitt Romney, and most political watchers are pretty confident that he is going to destroy himself in the process.What most people don’t know (or at least fail to mention) […]

The Ron Paul campaign is opening fire on Rick Santorum in South Carolina with a scathing new attack ad that accuses the former Pennsylvania Senator of playing fast and loose with federal cash.

This looks like it could be the new Republican argument against Cordray. Because the CFPB comes from Dodd-Frank, and Dodd-Frank says the CFPC can’t commence operations until after its head is confirmed by the Senate, Cordray is CFPB head in name only until Senate confirmation.

President Obama’s signal accomplishments could easily have been signed into law by a moderate Republican.

[credit provider=”AP Photo/Keith Srakocic”] The AP is reporting that President Obama plans to appoint Richard Cordray as the head of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau despite Republican opposition to the nominee.The President will use a recess appointment to make the move, which allows Cordray to take charge of […]

DES MOINES — Ron Paul may have officially come in third tonight, but if the campaign’s caucus strategy went off as planned, then Paul may actually be the real winner of the first Republican voting contest.

And it’s all over. With all precincts reporting, Mitt Romney took Iowa by the slimmest margin in a caucus ever, a mere eight votes.

[credit provider=”AP”] The one thing people never really tell you about presidential campaign trail is that the whole thing is basically a travelling circus.Hundreds, if not thousands, of campaign aides, consultants, reporters and pundits descended on Des Moines this week, as the seven Republican candidates and the media rolled out […]

[credit provider=”AP”] Yes, that’s right. The Herman Cain, the one-time Republican frontrunner you totally forgot about, is ready for a comeback and apparently he hasn’t lost the quixotic touch that made his short-lived, absurdist presidential campaign so fun to watch.Sources familiar with Cain and his staff tell Business Insider that […]

Since my New Year’s prediction that Obama would select Hillary Clinton for his running mate in 2012 (and Joe Biden would become Secretary of State), I’ve been swamped by requests for my GOP prediction. Here goes.

Ron Paul is back in Iowa today, taking a victory lap around the state before voters head to the caucuses tomorrow night.

[credit provider=”Business Insider”] With just 48 hours to go until the Iowa caucuses, a startling number of the state’s Republican voters still haven’t decided who they are going to cast their ballot for on Tuesday night.But this collective indecision isn’t the result of apathy or a sudden distaste for politics. […]

[credit provider=”AP”] The Des Moines Register rang in 2012 tonight with a new poll that shows a tight race between Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum with just three days to go before the Iowa caucuses.The survey, which was conducted between Tuesday and Friday, gives Romney a slight lead […]

[credit provider=”www.ObamaResolutions.com” url=”http://www.obamaresolutions.com/”] The new election year is almost upon us, and the Republican National Committee has some pretty scathing resolution suggestions for President Barack Obama in 2012.The resolutions are featured on the committee’s latest microsite, www.ObamaResolutions.com, which allows visitors to send them as quippy e-cards.

With just one week left before the Iowa caucuses, Rick Perry wasted no time breaking the Christmas campaign freeze today, releasing a new commercial that blasts his Iowa rivals as creatures of Washington.

The House finally passed the lousy two-month extension of payroll tax breaks. The CBO scored the Bill that is now law. The costs for 59 days (and annualized if extended for all of 2012):

[credit provider=”Democratic National Committee”] Facing a wave of scrutiny over his lucrative career in private equity, Mitt Romney made it clear this week that he is not going to add fuel to the fire.In an interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd yesterday, Romney said he has no plans to release his […]

With the Iowa caucuses still very much up for grabs, Republican presidential hopefuls are loathe to miss out a campaign opportunity, even as conservatives cozy up for Christmas with their families and their faith.

[credit provider=”Gage Skidmore via Flikr”] Newt Gingrich, the self-described Republican “ideas man,” has turned his big ideas guns to the federal courts this week — and even conservatives think he is taking things way too far.As he tries to shore up his slipping support among Republican primary voters, Gingrich has […]

With just two weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, more than half of likely Republican voters say they are still totally undecided going into election day — an unprecedented level of uncertainty that leaves the first-in-nation state totally up for grabs.

One month after his surprising surge to the top of the Republican presidential field, Newt Gingrich is stumbling under a deluge of criticism and scrutiny, much of it surrounding how Gingrich has turned himself into a millionaire in the decade since he left public office.

[credit provider=”AshleyMadison.com”] Extra-marital dating website AshleyMadison.com has erected a billboard of serial adulterer and presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich in Bucks County, Pennsylvania that reads: “Faithful Republican, Unfaithful Husband. Welcome to the AshleyMadison.com Era.”Given that Gingrich’s edge in the polls has recently been dwindling, could the former Speaker’s clinching of the […]

Newt Gingrich’s unlikely surge to the top of the 2012 Republican field has sparked a wave of scrutiny into Newt, Inc., the shadowy network of consultancies, book deals, and influence peddling that has made the former House Speaker a rich man over the past decade.

Rick Perry is stepping up his attacks against Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich as inside creatures of Wall Street/Washington, but the Texas Governor may not be the fiscally conservative populist he claims to be.

[credit provider=”AP”] After months of languishing at the bottom of the GOP presidential pack, Rick Perry is ready to make a comeback, proclaiming last night that he hopes to be the “Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.”On its face, the remark looks like a ridiculously shameless pop culture plug. It […]

While most of the 2012 presidential candidates have focused their campaigns on worldly issues, like job creation and the Iranian nuclear threat, Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich has more apocalyptic concerns.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is there any downside to extending federal jobless benefits, as Congress is about to do? The benefits are a crucial lifeline to the longtime unemployed. But they also can be a disincentive to looking for work and prolong joblessness, economists say, as lawmakers weigh shortening them.

[credit provider=”Democratic National Committee”] Mitt Romney’s immense personal wealth has become a major issue on the campaign trail this week, in the wake of the unfortunate $10,000 bet he tried to make during the last Republican debate.The baffling moment reinforced the idea that Romney — who has a net worth […]