potent, zazzy public speaking who largely gets by on surface charms.
you were exposed, I'm afraid, at this week's debate when a gang of professional politicians ganged up on you and put you through the ringer
Take that mess you got into over abortion this week
, "Ultimately it gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president, not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family, and whatever they decide, they decide."
some solid conservative reasoning,
GOP base wants the government to intrude, massively, into people's lives when it comes to abortion.
people tend to remember the odd moments where flair and style surface,
he pulled out of the debate that was held Tuesday in Nevada, in protest of that state's decision to pick a primary date that wasn't sufficiently deferential to the needs of the people who plan the New Hampshire primary.
Romney established that the individual mandate was a conservative innovation supported by Newt Gingrich
diss a state you have no hope in winning (Nevada) in order to pander to the people of the state you desperately need to win (New Hampshire). Pretty brilliant, actually.
e people who offer to help them win and vice versa! This is just an idea we had. (Bachmann also lo
he wants to end aid to Israel, defund our global garrisons more broadly, and reduce defense spending by restoring the Pentagon to a "defense" stance, as opposed to a "militaristic" one.
at this "campaign" is for him -- a long and costly press junket for his movies. He also got mad at Anderson Cooper for staging a debate in which there was "bickering," as if it were Cooper's fault that Romney and Perry looked like they were about to pull switchblades on one another
he pulled out of the debate that was held Tuesday in Nevada, in protest of that state's decision to pick a primary date that wasn't sufficiently deferential to the needs of the people who plan the New Hampshire primary
personal beliefs are genuine and not at all subject to the whims of political opportunism.
"Mr. Cain has blamed the victims. There are a lot of people who are victims of this business cycle," Paul said, pointing a finger at the Federal Reserve, where Cain was a regional Fed president, for creating "financial bubbles.
Santorum declared that Cain was showing too much favor to members of the LGBT community by not despising them enough to seek a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage
, Jean-Ralphio says he's not going to dip into his bank account to finance his campaign any further, so I guess it's time to fall back on that groundswell of support that he's been able to generate.
Patrick Caldwell thinks that their animosity toward Cain's plan is based on the fact that it makes standard-issue GOP plans to saddle the middle and lower class with the majority of the tax burden while letting the wealthy off the hoop a little too obvious:
? The middle class got stuck," Paul said. "They lost their jobs and they lost their houses."
he took the unorthodox positions that have earned him a rump of support that the rest of the field won't even deign to consider: he wants to end aid to Israel, defund our global garrisons more broadly, and reduce defense spending by restoring the Pentagon to a "defense" stance, as opposed to a "militaristic" one. But if there was one big highlight, it was Paul standing up for the middle class
So we went to the company, and we said, 'Look, you can't have any illegals working on our property. I'm running for office, for Pete's sake! I can't have illegals!'"
The best would be to eliminate Dodd-Frank's backstop. Congress should explore reforms now being considered by the U.K. to make the unwinding of its biggest banks less risky for the broader economy. It could impose a fee on banks whose size exce
it is not 'whatever they decide, 'this is an innocent human life. It is unconscionable for Herman to run for the nomination of the Party that stands in defense of Life while showing disregard for the sanctity of Life.
Cain's 9-9-9 plan would result in a massive tax increase for the poor and middle class.
both personally against abortion while condoning it - you can't have it both ways.
of the 84 percent of people who would see an increase, the lowest 20 percent of the population would be hit by almost $1,700 in extra
There are a lot of people who are victims of this business cycle," Paul said, pointing a finger at the Federal Reserve, where Cain was a regional Fed president, for creating "financial bubbles."
saw promise in the protesters' dedication and criticized his fellow Republican candidates for not recognizing the movement's potential.
angry at single moms for not being in strong Republican marriages where they can shut up and produce babies and learn to love being brood-mares for the state.
made his biggest splash offstage, with his proposal to cut $1 trillion in federal spending, end the War in Afghanistan, and eliminate the Departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Interior and Education.
"Economists across the political spectrum say the impact of such drastic government spending cuts would be majorly disruptive and harmful to the economy in the short term":
lence of other [GOP candidates] because the students, the young people are so correct," he said.
What Huntsman wants to do, in essence, is repeal a made up provision of Dodd-Frank in order to replace it with what Dodd-Frank already does, add on something the administration already proposed adding on, and then do an unrelated tax reform
it's unlikely you could have an immediate reduction in government without hurtling the economy into recession,"
As for what to do for the housing industry specifically, and are there things that you can do to encourage housing? One is don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.
"tragically" inappropriate response to the financial crisis
Perry demonstrated that he could come to one of these debates and remain awake: he "reduced his brain freezes in both number and duration" and refrained from the "passivity" that marred his earlier performances.
We have a model program, and it's a program that requires mediation between the homeowners and the financial institution.
flat tax" plan -
days of the Civil Rights Movement and the protests against the war in Vietnam as examples of large, often fractured movements enacting significant change.
"Senator Heller does not agree with Mitt Romney...his plan could take up to six to eight years for recovery, and that is time that Nevada just does not have."
educing the deficit from more than $1 trillion to $300 billion in just a year, Paul's plan would upend the economy at a time when it's already fragile, says Gus Faucher
continue to use religion as a wedge to drive evangelical voters away from Romney.
"That much deficit reduction in one year is going to be a huge drag on the economy . . . the reduction in spending is much greater than cuts in taxes
who are already being told by Rush Limbaugh that Romney is "not a conservative."
may not resonate with the GOP base
"Corporate cronyism and corruption is the issue of our time...it is the corruption itself that is killing this country."
She's also mad at Obama, because he took her son's job away: "My son had to resign his job because of federal regulations that Washington has put on us.
"She is speaking of Griffin Perry. Griffin Perry, who worked at Deutsche Bank until recently, when he had to quit in order to work on his father's presidential campaign."
"an example of the old Keynesian thinking that got us into our current mess,
white whine," Anita.
means small increases in prices of goods, he believes that creating American jobs is the priority to improve the economy and establish American independence.