If for nothing else, you have to give the 2008 and 2012 GOP tickets for getting their lines straight. On Thursday, John McCain rejoined Mitt Romney in support of embattled Indiana Republican Senate hopeful Richard Mourdock. That McCain would come around after accepting Mourdock's "apology" for proclaiming rape-induced pregnancies gifts from God should come as […]

In the next several days, The Economist newsmagazine will make its 2012 presidential endorsement. Despite its mantra on free trade and free markets, in the past that icon of international business and politics has endorsed both Democrats (Bill Clinton in 1992, John Kerry in 2004) and Republicans (Ronald Reagan in 1980, Bob Dole in 1996 […]

Among the more puzzling moments of Monday's final presidential debate was Mitt Romney's call for the prosecution of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on war crimes charges. As it turns out, Romney has been urging the United Nations to indict Ahmadinejad ever since his "close friend" and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first proposed it over […]

Among the six topics CBS' Bob Schieffer has announced he plans to cover during Monday's night's third and final presidential debate is "Red Lines - Israel and Iran." With Election Day just 15 days away, that discussion cannot come soon enough for American voters. After all, while the Obama administration has consistently declared it will […]

As the presidential candidates prepare for their third and final debate on Monday, recent polling suggests Mitt Romney has cut into Barack Obama's sizable lead on foreign policy issues. But if his demagoguery on China (where he apparently still profits from his portfolio of Bain investments) and Libya (where he accused the President of "empathizing" […]

Ann Romney raised some eyebrows this week when she used an appearance on the The View to equate her sons' missions for their church with military service to the nation. But while many Americans were doubtless disgusted with her analogy, few should have been surprised. After all, Mitt Romney hasn't merely stated that his five […]

Tagg Romney never fought for his nation, but for his thin-skinned dad he would take a swing at the President of the United States. But if he seems like the embodiment of Romney family values--unshakable belief in their own entitlement and destiny, unacknowledged privilege, generosity and charity which ends abruptly with their own family, friends, […]

One week after Mitt Romney comically claimed "There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda," the Romney campaign began airing a new ad whitewashing his past positions and his party's extremist present on the issue. After all, Romney's latest cynical play for women voters doesn't […]

As voters prepare to go to the polls in tightly contested manufacturing states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, a new study is stark reminder about which party built and is committed to sustaining America's industrial heartland. The new analysis shows Democratic presidents far outperform their Republican counterparts in producing manufacturing jobs. Of course, that […]

During the 2010 campaign, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell falsely charged that with the Affordable Care Act President Obama was "sticking it to seniors." McConnell's GOP was rewarded for that fiction, as a 21 point margin among voters 65 and older propelled the Republicans to an overwhelmingly victory in the midterms. Now just two years […]