Tuesday night's early "undercard" Republican...

Standing in front of the White House press...

CNN's so-called "undercard" debate opened up...

The second round of Republican presidential...

After years of ducking presidential-campaign...

A top political analyst thinks the pope could...

The majority of Republicans in the 2016 race...

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania), a...

Rick Santorum loves being the underdog. Two...

Former Republican presidential candidate Rick...

The key problem: Bad candidates.

Hoping Dallas becomes "the Hollywood of the faith-and-family movie market."

Defending "the soul of the Republican party."

"The Republican party’s not going to change on this issue."

Our high school senior photos are embarrassing.

Adding a tax reform message may bolster his chances.

Former Republican presidential candidate and Senator Rick Santorum came out in strong opposition of Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of defence, suggesting that Iran could acquire a nuclear bomb if he holds the position. 

The 2012 election cycle had a number of powerful personalities compete for the limelight.

De-funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has long been a cause célèbre for many Republicans, so GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney probably felt safe using it as his sole specific example of what he’d do to solve America’s fiscal problems.

[credit provider=”CNN”] Appearing on “Piers Morgan Tonight” on Thursday, former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum offered a perplexing quote about the kerfuffle surrounding Mitt Romney’s “Big Bird” comment in the presidential debate Wednesday. Morgan asked if Santorum would “kill Big Bird,” a reference to Romney’s assertion Wednesday that he would defund the […]

[credit provider=”amerciaiswithmitt.tumblr.com” url=”http://amerciaiswithmitt.tumblr.com/”] President Obama hasn’t always had the most cordial relationship with Congress, especially the Republican-led House.So maybe there was some subliminal animus in his re-election campaign’s misspelling of the legislature’s budget scorekeeper in a new video. Of course, Obama isn’t the first politician, or even the first one […]

[credit provider=”RNC”] Former Republican rival Rick Santorum served as Mitt Romney’s attack dog on welfare and social issues tonight, breaking the theme of the “you didn’t build that” attacks at the Republican National Convention. In a speech that was hyped by the Romney campaign on a conference call yesterday and that got multiple standing […]

[credit provider=”lindsay_russo” url=”http://statigr.am/viewer.php#/detail/248538064583579191_1797740″] By all early accounts, Gov. Mike Huckabee’s “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” seems like a wild success. Conservatives lined up in droves. Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum offered his support and urging supporters to visit a restaurant. One Wendy’s franchise owner expressed his support for Chick-fil-A at a North Carolina Wendy’s.  

[credit provider=”Facebook/Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day”] Rick Santorum sent an email to supporters today urging them to support “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” and hitting liberals on an array of topics, including the Affordable Care Act contraception mandate that kicks in today. Santorum advocated supporting Gov. Mike Huckabee’s “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” which started in response to some […]

[credit provider=”Screengrab from CNBC”] Former presidential hopeful Rick Santorum went on CNBC’s Kudlow Report to talk about Chick-fil-A and the mayors who have spoken out against the chicken chain.The mayors of three big cities — Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia — have all made statements slamming Chick-fil-A for the controversial anti-gay […]

News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch just took to Twitter to take a couple of shots at Mitt Romney:

[credit provider=”AP”] Rick Santorum dropped his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, but he still remains a source of political inspiration — even for his opponents. That’s the case for “True Blood” creator Alan Ball, who revealed that the former Pennsylvania senator was the model for a deranged politician on […]

The Democratic National Committee have gleefully added Mitt Romney’s love affair with birther Donald Trump to the list of the Republican candidate’s most embarrassing moments.

What’s notable about ex-Republican candidate Rick Santorum’s response to Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage today is that it’s a different stance than most other Republicans. 

[credit provider=”Courtesy of CNN”] About a month after he suspended his campaign, Rick Santorum finally endorsed Mitt Romney late tonight. He emailed out a letter to supporters around 11 p.m. ET tonight. Here are the key points:

[credit provider=”YouTube/Screenshot”] Etch-a-Sketching isn’t exclusive to just Mitt Romney today. Restore Our Future, the Super PAC supporting Romney in his bid for the presidency is also wiping its slate clean.In this case, Restore Our Future is getting rid of all the nasty, mean things it said about other Republicans during […]

[credit provider=”AP”] Mitt Romney may have all but locked up the Republican nomination with his victories in the East Coast primaries this week, but Ron Paul and his army of acolytes aren’t ready to give up the fight just yet. As the rest of the political world’s attention shifts to the […]

The Republican presidential nomination was all but wrapped up before this week’s primary elections, but after Mitt Romney swept all five states holding votes on Tuesday, even last-rival-standing Newt Gingrich (sorry, Ron Paul fans) threw in the towel.

[credit provider=”AP”] The recent GOP primary was (or should have been) a nail-biter for the vast majority of Americans.Lousy economies often create the conditions necessary for extremists to be elected–folks like Hitler, who appeal to the electorate’s misery and desire for change, and then go on to be far more […]

Rick Santorum formally suspended his presidential bid today, ending a 10-month run filled with tons of ups and downs and eyebrow-raising sound bites.

Although the former Pennsylvania senator is leaving the nomination battle, he’ll continue to haunt Romney for months to come.

Rick Santorum is out of the Republican presidential race, but he still won’t endorse Mitt Romney as the party’s nominee — at least for the moment. Santorum’s bow-out speech was notable because he failed to even mention Romney, much less endorse him and begin the party’s rally around him into the general election. 

This is running at the top of Drudge Report right now: 

Rick Santorum is about to speak in Gettysburg, Penn., amid reports from multiple news outlets that the former Pennsylvania Senator is suspending his presidential campaign. 

[preserve] [/preserve] Rick Santorum will drop out of the GOP race today at Gettysburg.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s campaign is on its last legs — and the adult film industry wants it to stay that way. 

[credit provider=”YouTube/Screenshot”] Rick Santorum’s daughter Bella will be released from the hospital on Monday, a campaign spokesperson told CNN. “We appreciate the outpouring of support and prayers,” spokesperson Hogan Gidley told CNN. “The prayers worked, she’s doing much better, so we’re thankful for that. It puts things in perspective.”

[credit provider=”YouTube/Screenshot”] Rick Santorum will remain with his daughter Bella in the hospital on Monday and not hold any public campaign events, the campaign announced Saturday. Previously, Santorum had said he would return to the trail on Monday after an Easter weekend break. That was before Bella, age 3, was hospitalized on […]

[credit provider=”DonkeyHotey | Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/6846587165/”] An effort to shake up the GOP primary race is underway in the Longhorn State. The outcome could set the course for a brokered convention by keeping front-runner Mitt Romney from securing enough delegates to win the presidential nomination outright.David Bellow, a member of the State Republican […]

[credit provider=”YouTube/Screenshot”] Rick Santorum’s daughter Bella was taken to a hospital on Friday, the campaign said in a statement. “Rick and his wife Karen have taken their daughter Bella to the hospital,” the campaign said in a statement. “The family requests prayers and privacy as Bella works her way to recovery.”

[credit provider=”Gage Skidmore | Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/6183911107/”] Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has repeatedly said that he’s not planing to drop out of the race any time soon, even as new polls show him trailing frontrunner Mitt Romney in his home state of Pennsylvania.But all that might just be tough talk. Longtime Santorum […]

Rick Santorum apparently doesn’t look at the Drudge report because he thinks it’s too pro-Mitt.

[credit provider=”davelawrence8 | Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/davelawrence8/6791949310/”] Mitt Romney has pulled ahead of native son Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, a new Public Policy Polling (D) survey shows.Romney attracts 42 per cent of the support from likely GOP primary voters, while the former Keystone State senator garners 37 per cent. Texas Rep. Ron Paul receives […]

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=”AP”] Mitt Romney is finally convincing the Republican base that he should be the party’s nominee against Barack Obama this fall.There are a few key stats that emerged from the Wisconsin exit polls that shows this race is coming to an end. 

After getting drubbed last night in all 3 states, Matt Drudge takes it to Santorum, whose continued presence in the race is looking stranger and stranger.

[credit provider=”AP”] Mitt Romney has taken complete command of the race to the Republican presidential nomination.As expected, Romney cruised to a three-pronged sweep of Wisconsin, Maryland and The District of Columbia. In doing so, he swelled his delegate lead and sapped almost any shred of main challenger Rick Santorum’s lingering […]

[credit provider=”Republican National Committee” url=”http://www.gop.com/index.php/briefing/comments/the_road_weve_traveled”] The gender gap widens. But not exactly for the expected reasons.The main point to pull out of the Gallup/USA Today poll released Monday that put President Barack Obama at a 4-percentage point advantage over likely Republican challenger Mitt Romney is his growing advantage among women.

[credit provider=”Gage Skidmore via Flikr”] Rick Santorum has just gotten sour lately. His poll numbers are collapsing. The media has moved on. And all the recent endorsements are going to Romney. 

Since the beginning of the Republican primary process, a loud minority of GOP voters have embraced one candidate after another in a desperate attempt to find an acceptable one who wasn’t named Mitt Romney.Why?

Can we get an instant replay on this one? 

[credit provider=”AP”] Suddenly, Rick Santorum’s one “gimme” state over the next month — his home state of Pennsylvania — is slipping away. In the latest sign of trouble for the former Pennsylvania Senator, a new poll conducted by Franklin & Marshall College has his lead slipping to just two points over […]

[credit provider=”newt.org”] You want a photo with Newt Gingrich, right? You, there, posing with the guy who’s going to build moon colonies before he builds the moon colonies. Oh, you don’t? Well. In case you change your mind, Gingrich’s campaign has begun asking supporters for donations for photos with the former […]

[credit provider=”Courtesy of CNN”] Remember that time – like, oh, 24 hours ago – when Rick Santorum said that Mitt Romney was the “worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama?”Well, in case that does happen, Santorum wouldn’t mind being the worst Republican’s running mate. 

[credit provider=”AP”] Mitt Romney is the 40 per cent. Finally.

[credit provider=”AP”] On Sunday,  Santorum lashed out at New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny for questioning him about his remark that Mitt Romney is the “worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.”

Is the wear and tear of the campaign, combined with increasing pressure to drop out getting to Rick Santorum?

[credit provider=”Rick Santorum” url=”http://www.ricksantorum.com/”] Former Senator Rick Santorum doesn’t have much of a chance of winning the Republican nomination.Perhaps that’s why he’s now pulling out all the stops.

[credit provider=”NewsHour | Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/newshour/6950884333/”] Prior to the GOP primaries, few imagined that pornography would emerge as a minor issue in the 2012 presidential campaign, but Rick Santorum, the socially conservative candidate and surprise runner-up, has helped make it so. The proximate cause of controversy is a statement on his campaign Web […]

Vote for Rick Santorum….or else!

Rick Santorum shocked Republicans yesterday when he told a crowd in San Antonio that he’d rather see President Obama remain in the White House for another four years than witness a Romney presidency.

Rick Santorum is an influential guy, but he probably wouldn’t want to brag about his sphere of influence determined by the social media site, Klout. 

For those wondering why Rick Santorum spent so much time campaigning (and offending) Puerto Rico last week, this photo of the presidential candidate sunbathing topless by his hotel pool might have the answer. 

[credit provider=”DonkeyHotey | Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/6681996931/in/set-72157625569240355″] March 21–REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON — Billionaire political patrons filled the coffers of the presidential “super PACs” last month, spotlighting once again the enormous influence a tiny cadre of wealthy donors is having on the 2012 race.The biggest donations came from casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and […]

[credit provider=”Business Insider/Grace Wyler”] After a hard-fought battle with Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney won the Illinois Republican primary tonight and appears poised to take the majority of the state’s 69 delegates. The victory goes a long way toward reestablishing Romney inevitability as the Republican nominee. The former Massachusetts Governor now has […]

[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 […]

Facing a likely loss in today’s Illinois Republican primary, Rick Santorum’s campaign is trying to shift the focus back to delegate maths, the favourite fallback for lagging 2012 campaigns. 

Yet another example of how the Wall Street bashing isn’t just coming from Democrats, it’s coming from Republicans too.

This post originally appeared at The Atlantic.

[credit provider=”Gage Skidmore | Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/6183911107/”] Another weekend, another anti-American rant by ex-Senator Rick Santorum.A few weeks ago, Santorum argued that we should combine church and state (with the unstated, but I imagine important, proviso that the particular “church” in question is a Christian one. I doubt Santorum would support […]

The debate over contraception is still raging, but presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has turned his attention to another social issue du jour: Pornography. 

This post originally appeared at The Christian Science Monitor. 

From Louis Peitzman at Gawker, comes the story of two guys who apparently wanted to protest at a Rick Santorum rally. 

[credit provider=”AP”] It wasn’t even remotely close. Puerto Rico doesn’t vote in the general election, or its residents don’t pay taxes to Washington on income they earn on their home island. But the island does award 20 delegates to the Republican convention – just four fewer than Maine. 

[credit provider=”Flickr/scorche” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/scorche/4345866268/”] SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO– The Puerto Rico Republican caucus is this Sunday and with 20 delegates up for grabs, candidates have been playing hard to the island and its voters.But what does the average voter in Puerto Rico actually think about the race?

Rick Santorum traveled to Puerto Rico ahead of Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich vying for the territory’s 20 electoral votes. 

[credit provider=”patrickgensel via Flikr”] When Mitt Romney walked into the West Virginia Republican delegate convention on Feb. 5, 2008, he had every reason to believe that he was about to notch a key Super Tuesday victory that would help spark his candidacy.The Romney campaign had been laying the groundwork in […]

[credit provider=”Gage Skidmore via Flikr”] The Puerto Rico primary is on Sunday and Rick Santorum made a quick campaign stop to the island. While there, he told Puerto Ricans that if they want to pursue statehood, they should make English their primary language, Reuters reports.

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum may soon be campaigning together against Romney. That’s what one advisor thinks.

If you were running a race and at some point while you were leading by a long distance the second place runner got 1.35 per cent closer to you, absolutely no one would notice. 

After disappointing performances in Tuesday’s Deep South primaries, Mitt Romney managed to salvage the night with two much-needed consolation wins in Hawaii and American Samoa’s Republican caucuses.

Rick Santorum edged out his two main rivals Tuesday night, pulling out narrow wins over Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in the Alabama and Mississippi Republican primaries 

[credit provider=”newt.org”] Gingrich is battling for his political life tonight as results start to trickle in from the Republican primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. Although it is difficult to see a path forward if Gingrich does not pull out a strong performance tonight, the former House Speaker reiterated Tuesday that he […]

Rick Santorum’s campaign provided a little election day amusement this afternoon, sending reporters an email titled “MEDIA ADVISORY: SANTORUM’S PUBIC SCHEDULE.”

Whoa.

Rick Santorum has managed to win the heart of one Democrat — former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell.

[credit provider=”AP”] Whoa! Super-PACs are doing almost all the work of political advertising in this campaign season. 

There is another round of Republican contests today: primaries in Alabama, Mississippi, and caucuses in Hawaii and American Samoa.

“REMEMBER,” writes Timothy Noah, “in this primary race today’s high-concept gag is tomorrow’s headline!” Accordingly, he suggests Rick Santorum, hot off a handful of Super Tuesday victories, for Mitt Romney’s running-mate. Mr. Noah’s motives are, as he puts it, “impure”; if Mr. Santorum were on the Republican ticket, women and […]

[credit provider=”Gage Skidmore via Flikr”] For years now, Republicans have been joking about Obama’s frequent use of a Teleprompter at public appearances.But now Rick Santorum is suggesting they be banned. 

[credit provider=”AP”] Rick Santorum’s campaign has admitted–to itself at least– that it can’t win the Republican nomination outright. Zeke Miller of Buzzfeed has obtained an internal memo to be circulated around the Santorum campaign today with the following line: 

[credit provider=”AP”] If Mitt Romney has gotten a bad rap for making some questionable statements about his wealth, then Rick Santorum has to be knocked for some questionable statements about women.Throughout the course of the campaign, Santorum has been called into question for offering up some controversial opinions on women […]

[credit provider=”Gage Skidmore via Flikr”] Rick Santorum has no mathematical possibility of winning enough delegates to capture the Republican nomination.That fact just has to be made clear before you understand today’s news: Rick Santorum crushed Mitt Romney and the rest of his GOP rivals at the Kansas caucus. 

Here’s the Rick Santorum that can shake things up.