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Clean-livin' Mitt Attacks Clinton's Family Life
GOP presidential candidate and former Governor Mitt Romney once told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that "I'm not going to suggest that people's marital lives should be part of a campaign." But for at least the third time in the last...
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October 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (75)
On the road with Fred Thompson
HERE'S the free video of our Nightline spot on former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn. We got some good access and had an interesting interview. Hope you like it…. -- jt
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October 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (2)
Perfect me, Ann Coulter
"Perfect me, make me petty, I want to be hateful just like Ann Coulter," sings Leah Kauffman. Kauffman and her collaborators are probably best known for their "Obamagirl" video and song, but the latest offering takes on the controversial conservative...
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October 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (34)
Fred Thompson and executive power
In 1974, the Nashville Tennessean quoted a 31-year-old lawyer named Fred Thompson -- the chief GOP counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee -- saying that since the nation was "really angered" by the Nixon administration's abuses of national security classifications,...
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October 25, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (3)
Hillary and Mississippi, part deux
After Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, had some less-than-flattering things to say about the state of Mississippi earlier in the week, (READ MORE ABOUT THAT HERE), she called Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., to apologize. Lott was about to rip her for...
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October 25, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (27)
Banning Ron Paul
As an apparent response to Texas GOP Rep. Ron Paul's internet-savvy minions, the conservative website Red State is banning Paul-backing. "Effective immediately, new users may *not* shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion," the site says....
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October 24, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (67)
What is Hillary implying about Mississippi?
Check out this new column by David Yepsen in the Des Moines Register. In it, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, suggests that one of the reasons she's not doing as well in Iowa as she is nationally or in other states...
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October 23, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (114)
Picture Edwards, Obama and Clinton in your head - what do you see?
For weeks now, former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, has been claiming that he's the most "electable" of the top three presidential candidates in his party. That he can win in parts of the country that Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and...
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October 22, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (36)
I Haven't Got Time for the Pain
How ya like me now, Cleveland? I'm not a fan of the Boston Red Sox, but you've got to admire pitcher Josh Beckett. Last night in Cleveland, the Indians had Beckett's ex-girlfriend Country music artist Danielle Peck sing the national...
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October 19, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (4)
Valued Voters
Good morning! The GOP presidential candidates trek to the Washington Hilton today to speak to conservative Christian voters at the Family Research Council's "Values Voter Summit." Every one of the frontrunners -- Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain and...
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October 19, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (8)


