Republicans

Turning Up The Heat

AP | Ron Fournier | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iowa Caucus, Iowa, 2008 Elections, Gop, Huckabee McCain, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Iowa Caucuses, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Republican Party, 2008 Election, McCain Romney, Huckabee Romney, Politics News

Mike Huckabee says John McCain is a hero. McCain says Huckabee is a good man. And they both seem to agree on this: Mitt Romney is neither. The Republ...

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Huckabee Slams Romney As "Dishonest" And Refuses To Say He Would Support Him As Nominee

Boston Globe | Susan Milligan | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, 2008 Elections, Republicans, 2008 Election, Republican Party, Romney Huckabee, Politics News

Mike Huckabee called chief rival Mitt Romney "dishonest'' today for what Huckabee said were gross distortions of his record, and said voters should qu...

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Max Follmer

Romney Gets Second Scathing "Anti-Endorsement"

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney Union Leader, Gop, Mitt Romney Phony, Mitt Romney, Romney, Mitt Romney New Hampshire, Republican Primary, Republican Presidential Candidate, 2008 Elections, Mitt Romney Monitor, Mitt Romney New Hampshire Primary, Mitt Romney Concord Monitor, 2008 Election, New Hampshire Primary, Romney New Hampshire, Republicans, Republican Party, Politics News

Less than two weeks before the possibly make-or-break New Hampshire primary, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney woke up Wednesday to find another ...

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"There Is No Party Here Anymore. It's Just A Shell"

Washington Post | Michael D. Shear and David Broder | Posted 12.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: Gop, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, 2008 Elections, Republicans, Republicans 2008, 2008 Election, Republican Party, GOP 2008, Politics News

For three decades, the Republican presidential nominating contest has served to unify the national party's coalition of social, economic and foreign p...

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Huckabee Asks For Rush Limbaugh's Phone Number: "I'd Love To Talk To Him"

Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 12.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Mike Huckabee, Republicans, Politics News

The best-talking Republican politician in America has a message for the best-talking conservative voice in the country: Let's talk to one another. Mi...

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NH Newspaper: Romney "Must Be Stopped"

Washington Post | Alec MacGillis | Posted 12.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Concord Monitor Mitt Romney, Gop, Mitt Romney Must Be Stopped, Mitt Romney, Republican Presidential Candidate, Republicans, 2008 Election, Republican Party, Politics News

Delivering the journalistic equivalent of a giant lump of coal three days before Christmas, the Concord Monitor editorial board has leveled an extraor...

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American Conservative Mag Depicts Rudy In Fascist Garb

American Conservative | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Giuliani Facist, Rudy Giuliani 9/11, Republican Primary, Rudy Giuliani, 2008 Election, Republicans, Giuliani 9/11, Rudy Giuliani 2008, Politics News

The latest issue of American Conservative issue features a cover story titled "Declaring Forever War: Giuliani has surrounded himself with advisors wh...

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My "McLaughlin Awards" For 2007 [Part 1]

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

For those of you who have been reading this column long enough, you may remember a fun set of columns (Part 1 and Part 2) I wrote last year, giving my...

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Congressional Dems Have Five Times The Cash of GOP

Politico | Josh Kraushaar | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Low GOP Fundraising, Congressional Democrats, Congress, Democratic Congress, Dems GOP Fundraising, Fundraising, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

The Democratic Congressional campaign committees ended November with nearly five times as much cash-on-hand as their Republican counterparts. This mea...

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Obama's 'Present' Vote Ignored Dangers of Sex Shops Near Schools

Taylor Marsh | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Pornography, Edwards, Zoning, 2008, Clinton, Right-Wing, Obama, Iran, Democrats, Iraq, Legislative Record, Republicans, Culture, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

For some reason, people seem to think that Mr. Obama's legislative career doesn't matter; that he deserves a pass on it. Do you think Republicans will give him a pass?

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The Republican 2008 Plan Is Revealed

Dave Johnson | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Hans Von Spakovsky, FEC Reports, Republican Party, 2008 Election, Republicans, Politics News
Dave Johnson

They don't want the government functioning, and if they must have it they want it doing their bidding -- funneling cash to their cronies and protecting the corporations from the citizenry.

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Economic Blues: Bush Without a Clue and Democrats Out of Tune

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.18.2007 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Republicans, Investment, Tax, Democrats, Economy, George W. Bush, Balanced Budget, Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan, Housing Slump, Business News
Robert L. Borosage

If we are to avoid a deep recession, it's time for government to step up. So choose your poison: Tax cuts or government investment. The Republicans have no doubt.

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Lieberman To Endorse McCain

Politico.com | Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin | Posted 12.16.2007 | Politics

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Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), who was on the national Democratic ticket in 2000, will cross the aisle to endorse Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) tomorrow,...

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Ron Paul On Pace To Shatter One-Day GOP Fundraising Record...Again

The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 12.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: Money Bomb, Ron Paul, Gop, 4th Quarter Fundraising, Money Train, Tea Party, Republicans, Fourth Quarter Fundraising, Politics News

Insurgent White House hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is on pace to shatter his own one-day GOP online fundraising record, taking in an eye-popping $3...

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Huckabee's Gov Mansion Gift List Under Scrutiny

The Guardian (U.K.) | Daniel Nasaw | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Gop, Huckabee's Gifts, Huckabee Gift, Mike Huckabee, Huckabee Gifts, Huckabee, Republicans, Huckabee and Gifts, Republican Party, 2008 Election, Politics News

A $1,000 pair of cufflinks from a supporter, tens of thousands of dollars of clothing from a wealthy Little Rock businessman and thousands in gift cer...

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Why We Wish The Clintons Would Just Go Away

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Because they have spun us into complete exhaustion. Because she's a feminist until it is her own husband who abuses his power. Because we don't have to settle for them.

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The Edwards Mystery

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Edwards has been inconsistent, both in his positions and in his behavior. How many "mistakes," as he has openly called a number of his previous decisions, can he expect us to move beyond?

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Pelosi Slams Republicans: "They Like This War. They Want This War To Continue"

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Warwire, Nancy Pelosi, Iraq War, Speaker Pelosi, War in Iraq, Gop, Republicans, Politics News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Republicans on Thursday, saying they want the Iraq war to drag on and are ignoring the public's priorities. ...

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9 Dems Say No To Christmas Resolution In Congress

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Christmas Is Important Resolution, Democrats, Christmas Resolution in Congress, War on Christmas, Republicans, Politics News

Rep. Jim McDermott says he is no Grinch, even though he voted against Christmas. The Democrat from Washington state says he was protesting an expecte...

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Romney's (Almost) Dean Scream Speech

MSNBC | Erin McPike | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Dean Primary Scream, Howard Dean, 2008 Race for the White House, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Mitt Romney, 2008 Presidential Race, Republicans, Politics News

If anything is certain about the GOP presidential primary, it's that Romney really, really wants to win Iowa. Desperately. After hitting a post-deba...

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Huckabee's Boom May Be About Ready to Bust

Margaret Carlson | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Republicans, Mike Huckabee, 2008 Election, Republicans, Iowa Caucuses, Huckabee Religion, Huckabee Scandal, Huckabee Dumond Files, Politics News
Margaret Carlson

Huckabee really is a compassionate conservative, the kind who drives the low-tax, small-government wing of his party insane.

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GOP Leader Boehner Admits Republican Fundraising "Sucks"

Politico | Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Republicans Have No Money, Rep. John Boehner, Campaign Finance, The Money Primary, Gop Fundraising, Republicans, Fundraising, Politics News

One of the best things that can be said of Rep. John A. Boehner's leadership is that the head of House Republicans is no Newt Gingrich, no Tom DeLay. ...

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Hillary Holds 30-Point Lead In National Poll

ABC News | GARY LANGER | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: National Poll, Presidential Campaign 2008, Barack Obama, Clinton Leads by 30 Points, 2008 Presidential Race, John Edwards, Democrats, 30 Point Lead, Hillary Leads by 30 Points, Hillary Clinton, Race for the White House 2008, Republicans, Politics News

The interaction of religion and politics is helping to roil the Republican presidential race, with Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney gaining ground, while...

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Fred Thompson Gives Up In New Hampshire

CNN | Rebecca Sinderbrand | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fred Thompson, Gop, New Hampshire, 2008 Race for the White House, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Fred Thompson in New Hampshire, Campaign 2008, Republicans, Politics News

Fred Thompson has decided to abandon the Granite State, and will campaign in Iowa full-time until the January 3 caucuses. The former Tennessee senat...

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GOP Rep Introduces Resolution In Congress To Confirm The "Importance Of Christmas"

Politico | John Bresnahan | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Congressional Resolution on Christmas, War on Christmas, Christmas, Representative Steve King, Republican Steve King, Republicans, Rep Steve King, Politics News

This is one straight from the headlines of the Onion. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has introduced a resolution (H.Res. 847) saying, and I am not making th...

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