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Ed Rollins: Unless she wins Iowa, Bachmann doesn’t have the ability or the...
“[I]f she somehow for some reason could win Iowa, then she could get another look.” Why is this perfectly accurate statement of political reality newsworthy? Is it because some outlets are getting the...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Caption contest! It’s almost too easy to do this job sometimes. Via Weasel Zippers: Be sure to read the actual caption at WZ, but why not supply one yourself in the comments section? Got an...
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Cain on China: “They’re trying to develop nuclear capability”; Update: Cain...
Hmmmm. Via Ace, skip ahead to 11:30 or so for the key bit. The quote: HERMAN CAIN: I do view China as a potential military threat to the United States. JUDY WOODRUFF: And what could you do as...
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Bachmann: Unlike the rest of the field, I haven’t made a major gaffe during...
Dude. Via Christian Heinze, I think she’s right. But then, I was long ago rendered mentally disabled by a Gardasil injection. Actually, if you read the full quote, she really is right. Emphases added:...
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Bank Of America Sends Internal Email Exposing Where The “Occupy” Movement Is Hurting It Most While the general media may be ignoring the latest peculiar twist on the “Occupy” theme, or in this case the...
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Romney and Obama agree: It’s going to take another President
Consensus! Mitt Romney has a new ad out today, apparently web-only, although its 60-second length would make it work well on TV. The campaign should put this on air, as it effectively uses a quote...
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And the MRC award for the Quote of the Year goes to …
This guy. The New York Times’ one-and-only Paul Krugman. The Media Research Center today released its official list of the “Notable Quotables” of 2011 — and Paul Krugman took the top spot. What...
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Business leader: Newt was pretty keen on private equity firms two years ago
Fulsome praise. However inconstant this quote makes Newt Gingrich appear in light of his recent criticisms of a private equity firm, it’s still refreshing somehow. He’s a capitalist at heart! Politico...
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Multimillionaire Elizabeth Warren: I’m not wealthy
The one percent. Actually, I don’t think that’s what she’s saying here but that headline is simply too sweet to resist. (That was HuffPo’s original headline too before they changed it.) The quote from...
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GOP candidates “commence the world” and head west
The Delegate Rush. Who knows who actually said, “Go west, young man”? The quote is sometimes attributed to Horace Greeley, who did write something similar in an 1838 edition of the newspaper New...
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Julianne Moore: As a longtime liberal, I found Sarah Palin “pretty terrifying”
Candor. Lovely. Just what you want to hear from the actress who plays Mrs. Palin in the soon-to-be-released HBO film, “Game Change.” Julianne Moore says she found her theatrical muse “terrifying.”...
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Palin on a brokered convention: “I would do whatever I could to help”
“All bets are off as to who it will be willing to offer themselves up in the name of service to their country.” Quote: “I cannot predict what will happen in the future, but I know that I have got the...
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Geithner: Yeah, we don’t have a solution to the debt problem
“We just don’t like yours.” Guy Benson calls this “the political quote of the year,” but it may be more like the defining moment of Obamanomics and Barack Obama’s fiscal policies. Paul Ryan destroyed...
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Market strategist: Policymakers are “one-dimensional, short-termist, bereft...
Gloom. Nomura market strategist Bob Janjuah has just released a market analysis so flush with memorable lines that it was difficult to choose which to highlight in the headline. The Blaze chose a...
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Outrageous outrage: “I don’t care what the unemployment rate is going to be,”...
“Doesn’t matter to me.” The clip comes from Team Mitt, which has taken enough cheap shots from the Democrats and media quoting Romney out of context (most infamously when he said he liked being able...
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RNC Chair stands up for Santorum on his comments about the unemployment rate
“This election is about big things. It was outrageous outrage indeed. By omitting the full context of the quote, Mitt Romney and his camp yesterday were able to make hay of Rick Santorum’s remark that...
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Are you ready for … Biden 2016?
God love ya, Joe. Yes, I know I’ve already done one palate-cleanser for today, but why not two lightweight posts? And hey, at least according to Politico, the idea of Joe Biden running for President...
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The poll to watch right now
Numbers. To quote CBS News political director John Dickerson, right now there are more polls than in a Warsaw bar. For political news junkies, Nate Silver offers helpful advice on poll-watching. I...
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New Obama campaign video asks: Would Mitt Romney have made the call to kill...
Bad call. They went there. Is anyone surprised by this? I’m not sure I expected this particular attack to be leveled so early in the campaign, but there was no doubt it was coming. And if you are...
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The list: Obama’s campaign attacking private citizens again; Update: Backfire?
Above the fray. Kimberley Strassel explains it all to you. Actual quote from The One’s attack website: “A closer look at Romney’s donors reveals a group of wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable...
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