Olympia, Wash. (AP) — The fight to emerge as the Republican challenger to Barack Obama turns next to Washington state — a Democratic bastion known not just for majestic mountain ranges and good coffee, but also for independent-minded voters. This Pacific Northwest state has a non-conformist streak and a rule that any registered voter can participate in the Republican contest, giving libertarian-leaning Texas Rep. Ron Paul hope that he can   Read More ...

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, February 24, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The nation’s number one talk show host drew attention to Barack Obama’s history of supporting infanticide on Friday’s show. Discussing this week’s CNN debate in Mesa, Arizona, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners said the president’s vote against the Illinois version of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in 2001, 2002, and 2003 amounted to “the most shocking and underreported significant story I   Read More ...

The mass media have repeated the official results for the Maine GOP presidential caucuses that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney narrowly beat Texas Congressman Ron Paul by a 39 percent to 36 percent margin. But the official results are incomplete. And postponement of the results from one of Ron Paul’s strongest counties, Washington County, because of a forecasted snowstorm may alone have tipped the balance in Romney’s favor. Ron Paul’s   Read More ...

Despite barreling forward with two back-to-back persuasive victories, Mitt Romney could face a significant challenge in the races ahead, including in Minnesota, where Rick Santorum may have an advantage over the front-runner in a state where Republicans have turned decidedly conservative following a bitter government shutdown last year. In all 17 states will vote in the next 30 days. Three states go to the polls on Tuesday. Colorado and Minnesota   Read More ...

The most prominent candidate for the GOP nomination is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. He’s a prolific fundraiser and enjoys widespread name recognition, and he’s the darling of the GOP establishment. George Will lists him as one of the few serious presidential candidates. But should Romney be the GOP’s presidential nominee? The answer is “absolutely not.” Although there is no “perfect conservative,” and although conservatives have serious issues with every   Read More ...

Does the establishment of the Republican party have your best interest in mind or do they simply want to retain their power inside the beltway? Since the final days of the Reagan Administration the party establishment has sold the masses on the lie that a true conservative would not, in fact cannot, win another general election. With this in mind they have presented a plethora of candidates who were truly   Read More ...

Over the last week, several people that worked in the Reagan administration have come forward and countered former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s claim that he is a “Reagan Republican.” These people say Gingrich “wasn’t on board with a lot of what President Ronald Reagan tried to accomplish during his two terms.” And although that claim has been disputed by other Reagan administration officials, former Reagan communications director Pat Buchanan told   Read More ...

New York Times writer Sheryl Gay Stolberg in an article titled Gingrich Stuck to Caustic Path in Ethics Battles states rather emphatically that the current state of divisiveness and rancor in our national conversation is a result of his own doing. She writes, “Mr. Gingrich, Democrats and Republicans here agree, emerged as one of Washington’s most aggressive practitioners of slash-and-burn politics; many fault him for erasing whatever civility once existed   Read More ...

Republicans debated the housing bubble/bust in the January 23 NBC debate, with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney drawing political blood from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on his Freddie Mac consulting ties. Charging Gingrich with “influence peddling,” Romney sparked a spirited discussion with the following remark: We’ve just learned today that his contract with Freddie Mac was provided by the lobbyist at Freddie Mac. I don’t think we possibly retake   Read More ...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, run neck-and-neck with President Obama in a general-election matchup, according to a new CBS News poll released late on Monday that shows the two front-runners in Tuesday’s New Hampshire GOP primary running stronger against the president than their fellow Republicans. Romney posts a two-point lead over Obama, 47 percent to 45 percent, within the poll’s margin of error of plus   Read More ...