Tonight’s GOP presidential debate is the most imortant two hours of the year in US politics. Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and the other Republican rivals gather in Sioux City, Iowa, like the survivors of a first world war battle huddling in a trench. One by one, the Republican candidates have gone over the top. Some [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 13, 2011
Mitt Romney challenges Rick Perry to $10,000 bet in GOP debate
December 13, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Mitt Romney challenges Rick Perry to $10,000 bet in GOP debate 11 Dec 2011 In a moment during Saturday’s GOP debate in Iowa that The Fix’s Chris Cillizza called a “rare but likely costly unforced error,” former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney challenged Texas Gov. Rick Perry to a $10,000 [...]
December 10, 2011
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich set for showdown in crucial GOP debate
After seeing his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination self-destruct one by one, tonight’s debate in Iowa offers Mitt Romney his best opportunity to arrest Newt Gingrich‘s sudden surge in popularity. 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 [...]
December 10, 2011
In other news: cheesecake, please! | Ana Marie Cox
• There are many reasons Newt would be a terrible president. None of them is new, most of them are the same reasons he’s a terrible candidate. Re-read some of the best-written arguments now, before you read them again later: he wants to FUNDAMENTALLY REFORM EVERYTHING. He lacks discipline. His metaphors suck. He is, however, [...]
November 15, 2011
GOP Debate: Herman Cain, Sen. Michelle Bachmann would reinstate waterboarding
November 15, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis GOP Debate: Herman Cain, Sen. Michelle Bachmann would reinstate waterboarding –Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman criticizes practice, Sen. Ron Paul calls it illegal [And Bank of America's Mitt Romney got a *pass* on the question by CBSlime as they didn't bother to ask. --LRP] 13 Nov 2011 Herman Cain [...]
November 10, 2011
November 10, 2011
GOP debate in Michigan – as it happened
11.18pm ET: In summary: this was a cosmically awful debate. To talk about winners and losers here makes no sense. Like the Battle of the Somme, any gains were measured in inches. Except that there was a clear loser: Rick Perry, who botched an answer so badly, when he failed to remember a list of [...]
October 27, 2011
Why Occupy Wall Street is not just a leftwing Tea Party | Ana Marie Cox
Why hasn’t the Occupy Wall Street movement generated its own Joe the Plumber or Herman Cain? There are progressive millionaires available to run! What’s more, OWS – or at least, the issues that propel it – are vastly more popular than the Tea Party that gestated Cain and gave Joe his soapbox. A New York [...]
October 20, 2011
GOP debate becomes Wild West bar fight in Vegas
October 19, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis GOP debate becomes Wild West bar fight in Vegas 19 Oct 2011 In order to give the CNN Western Republican Presidential Debate a regional flair, the network created a horseshoe logo. The candidates went one better. They turned the debate in to a Wild West bar fight. It started [...]
October 20, 2011
The GOP debate – finally
Republican presidential candidates sing the National Anthem prior to the CNN-Western Republican Leadership Conference debate in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photograph: Michael Nelson/EPA So I was going to try to feel guilty about not posting about the debate until now, but looking at how coverage has unfolded, I wonder if there’s any reason to comment at [...]
October 19, 2011
October 19, 2011
GOP debate: Perry and Romney clash over illegal immigration
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain comes under sharp attack from his rivals during a televised debate as he struggled to explain his tax reform plan. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney clashed over illegal immigration, with tensions between the pair dominating the two-hour presidential debate in Las Vegas as they battle for the party nomination
October 18, 2011
GOP debate: Romney and Perry round on Cain ahead of Las Vegas showdown
Two of the leading Republican candidates for the White House, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, have criticised the latest star of the party right, Herman Cain, hours before the presidential debate in Las Vegas. Both candidates expressed scepticism about the viability of Cain’s 9-9-9 tax formula, and hope to land more punches on the former [...]