Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Romney

  • He says Romney needed new strategy, but he blew chances to go after front-runner Newt Gingrich. CNN Top Stories
  • Romney 's offer to bet Perry $ 10,000 seen as a misstep in current economic climate CNN Politics
  • Romney made the wager on Saturday night at a Republican presidential primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa. Fox News Politics
  • Romney was entranced by the sleek, supercharged vehicle: at the end of a spin around downtown Boston, he turned to the employee, Marc Wolpow, and marveled, “Boy, I really wish I could have one of these things.” NYTimes Front Page
  • Romney as uncomfortable attack dog: In every debate in which he has participated, the former Massachusetts governor has been the class of the GOP field: quick on his feet, measured and presidential. Washington Post Politics
  • Gingrich, Romney and four other White House contenders will make their case to voters in a race that polls show is still up for grabs less than a month before Iowa kicks off the state-by-state Republican nominating contest. Reuters Most Read
  • Romney, the earlier leader in national polls, has responded with an aggressive attack on the former House speaker, trying to raise questions about Gingrich 's leadership, judgment and party loyalty. AP Top Headlines
  • Which has seen new ads from the official Romney campaign and its no limits " super-PAC " sibling run by his 2008 campaign aides, the unleashing of official campaign surrogate attack dogs led by former Bush I White House chief of staff and New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, Sr., and all too predictable statements from Romney himself that he has nothing to do with any attacks on the latest usurper of his long-standing supposed frontrunner status. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • It also promises a political drama as Gingrich and Romney meet amid a sharp back-and-forth waged by their campaigns. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • A spokesman for Romney, who is Gingrich 's closest competitor, questioned the former House speaker 's approach. CNN Top Stories
  • Romney was panned for his performance last week in an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier. AP Politics
  • Or, now that other conservative contenders have flamed out, are voters just desperate for a candidate who 's not named Romney ? AP Politics
  • Gingrich, Romney and four other White House contenders will make their case to voters in a race polls show is still up for grabs less than a month before Iowa kicks off the state-by-state Republican nominating contest. Reuters Politics
  • It also promises a political drama as Gingrich and Romney meet amid a sharp back-and-forth waged by their campaigns. Seattle Times full feed
  • Or, now that other conservative contenders have flamed out, are voters just desperate for a candidate who 's not named Romney ? AP World
  • " People are looking for someone good on the issues who can go against Obama, but also go against Romney, " he said. Reuters Politics
  • As poll after poll in recent days has shown that Gingrich has replaced Romney as undisputed frontrunner for the Republican nomination, Romney 's campaign has been forced onto the offensive â ? ? Guardian World
  • FL-2012 Primary: 44 % Gingrich, 29 % Romney, 8 % Paul ( NBC/Marist 12/4-7 ) Huffington Post Full Feed
  • SC-2012 Primary: 42 % Gingrich, 23 % Romney, 9 % Paul ( NBC/Marist 12/4-6 ) Huffington Post Full Feed
  • " In many ways, the gap between he and Romney is closing in [ New ] Hampshire, " Tyler says. NPR News Headlines
  • Romney did not mention what was widely viewed as a damaging gaffe during a town-hall-style meeting with New Hampshire voters Sunday. LA Times Politics
  • Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said Gingrich and Romney "come from the same mold." AP Top Headlines
  • Perry slams Romney 's 10k ' pocket change, ' hones pitch to MSNBC U.S.
  • Another undecided local Republican Doug Krasne, who supported Romney four years ago, and who puts the national debt and federal deficits as his highest priority, said after the Saturday night debate, â ? MSNBC Politics
  • The GOP presidential hopeful told Fox News Sunday that Romney â ? Daily Beast Blogs and Stories
  • The slip, at the time of high unemployment and a growing poverty divide, could damage Romney three weeks before the first of the Republican contests in Iowa. Guardian World
  • The best charge against Gingrich is that he’ s a flip-flopper, but Romney obviously can’ t go there. Daily Beast Blogs and Stories
  • HOLLIS, New Hampshire ( Reuters ) - The tense campaign between Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney heated up further on Monday in New Hampshire, where Romney 's lead in opinion polls has shrunk in recent weeks. Reuters Politics
  • Mocking Bachmann, belittling Romney—Gingrich reveals his ruthless brilliance. Slate
  • Mitt Romney greets Vietnam veteran Bob Garon during a campaign stop at the Chez Vachon Restaurant on Monday in Manchester, N.H., where Garon questioned Romney about his position on gay marriage. NPR News Headlines
  • In other words Gingrich gets to play Bachmann to Romney's Tim Pawlenty. . . . Washington Post Opinions
  • Romney picked up from where the debate left off. Washington Post Opinions
  • Rick Perry ( L ) is wrong about what Romney had written about a national healthcare mandate during the ABC News GOP Presidential debate on the campus of Drake University on December 10, 2011 in Des Moines, Iowa. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • One of the biggest pieces of news out of Saturday’s debate is that Romney offered to bet Rick Perry $10,000 over the latter’s claim that Romney wrote in his book that he viewed the individual mandate as a “model” for the country. Washington Post Opinions
  • Concluding his first major attack on Romney during the debate, Newt Gingrich blasted Romney for refusing to eliminate the capital gains tax entirely, instead limiting it to those with less than $ 200,000 in taxable income. Washington Post Economy
  • Mitt Romney on Monday dismissed his offer to make a $ 10,000 bet with Rick Perry as merely " an outrageous number to answer an outrageous charge " - namely, Perry 's claim that Romney made changes to parts of his book. Seattle Times full feed
  • He says Gingrich has been around " a long time " and Romney has " lot of practice " in politics CNN Politics
  • Parallels between Romney’s campaign right now and Hillary Clinton’s in Dec. 2007… MSNBC Top Headlines