Nina Turner, the former Ohio State Senator and head of the SuperPAC Our Revolution, has managed to offend almost every reasonable center-left Democrat in the last two years. One of the only prominent African-American women to endorse Bernie Sanders in the primary, she refused to ...read more
CNN commentator and failed presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R) just uttered perhaps the most ill conceived words ever in the wake of a mass school shooting. Speaking about the mass protests that took place around the country, Santorum suggested that rather than students ...read more
Welcome to our coverage of the third Republican Presidential Debate on CNBC, moderated by Carl Quintanilla of Squawk on the Street, Becky Quick from Squawk Box, and chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood. As before, we will have debate clips in near-real time, posted in ...read more
It must be a truly awful time for white evangelical conservatives. Once an ascendant and seemingly unstoppable political force that helped sweep Ronald Reagan and the Bushes into the White House, the Bible-thumpers are finding themselves culturally isolated from an ...read more
Our Thursday show! Circular Reasoning: InfoWars Sidekick Dan Bidondi Rants About Seat Belts While Driving Recklessly; Carly Fiorina and Rick Santorum Beclown the Clown Car; Trump's Big Announcement; Duggar Update; The Duggars Are a Cult; TLC Developing Duggar Spin-Off; The ...read more
If you were a probable presidential candidate and you were attending a town hall meeting and suddenly a woman got on the mic and started literally screaming at you, it might generate some public sympathy. When you're just standing there completely dumbfounded, maybe realizing ...read more
There were a couple of news stories this weekend that really fleshed out the contours of the culture war on abortion rights in completely different, yet related, ways. First, there was West Virginia State Delegate Brian Kurcaba, who became nationally famous for saying that ...read more
One of the favorite hobbies of members of the Religious Right is to wax ruefully about their tragic status as a persecuted minority. The country has moved to the left on several important social issues, and this has been reflected in various pieces of legislation and court ...read more
Addendum added below In case you haven’t heard, Christian conservatives pose a greater threat to the United States than Islamic radicals such as members of the Islamic State. That’s the conclusion of C.J. Werleman, who previously argued that ISIS isn't motivated by Islam -- at ...read more
Sen. Rand Paul has a white supremacy problem, and it isn't MSNBC's (completely true) "lousy lies" about the Civil Rights Act, or his defense of the Southern Avenger, or his dad's racist newsletters. Instead, it's with his devotion to protecting the white supremacist status quo, ...read more
Few things have been quite so insulting to our national intelligence lately than Texas Gov. Rick Perry's "comeback tour." In case you missed it, Perry has been doing the rounds on the media circuit now that there's an immigration crisis on the border with Mexico. It's a thinly ...read more
Bibles? Firearms? Blah people? Nope, nope and nope. Better. Speaking at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, the former U.S. senator and presidential frontrunner Rick Santorum was asked about his views on Catholicism and contraceptives. Of course, Santorum is no ...read more
Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine has been making a spectacle of himself lately, most recently tying himself in knots trying to explain away his essay on race in the Obama Era. On Thursday night's All In with Chris Hayes, his point seems to have evolved into a plea for ...read more
Here's Rick Santorum earlier today: “If we have a system where the government is going to be the principal provider of health care for the country, we’re done. Because then, you are dependent on the government for your life and your health…When Thatcher ran for prime minister ...read more
"Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed... I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting ...read more
By Yasha Levine: In the vast ecosystem of corporate shills, which one is the most effective? Propaganda works best when it is not perceived as propaganda: nuance, obfuscation, distraction, suggestion, the subtle introduction of doubt—these are more effective in the long run ...read more
Mitt Romney will win all five Republican presidential primaries Tuesday night, completing a sweep of contests in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Delaware, CBS News projects. Romney boasted more than 50 percent of the vote in all five states, according to ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Now we know for certain that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee for President this year, we can expect a brand new media circus over who he will pick for his running mate. We'll get fancy graphics, charts, polls, and hours of analysis from the pundits - ...read more
In this week's mailbag we discuss whether the media should apologize for subjecting us to a 24/7 GOP primary circus, Jon Stewart's continued assertion that there is equivalency between Democrats and Republicans, and whether we miss Rick Santorum or not! The questions: Would you ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Finally, former Senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum has called it a day and suspended his Presidential campaign. This comes as no surprise as a win against Mitt Romney has been unthinkable for several weeks now given the discrepancy in funding and support from ...read more
Rick Santorum suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, bowing to the inevitability of Mitt Romney’s nomination and ending his improbable, come-from-behind quest to become the party’s conservative standard-bearer in the fall. “We made a ...read more
By Bob Cesca: Everyone thinks most politicians are absolutely full of shit. Too many Americans shrug off the political process under the assumption that politicians are liars and scam artists with little regard for their personal struggles and pet issues. So that's what voters ...read more
Kicking off a last-ditch effort to keep his presidential bid alive, Rick Santorum returned to his roots Wednesday, saying he shared the values of southwestern Pennsylvania, where his grandfather worked in a coal mine and he shot his first deer three decades ago. "I'm very, ...read more
Mitt Romney has taken a stride closer to the Republican presidential nomination by winning primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington DC. He routed his main rival Rick Santorum in Maryland, although his projected margin of victory looked leaner in Wisconsin. Mr Santorum, ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Mitt Romney continues to rack up endorsements in the never ending Republican primary, getting recent boosts from party stalwarts like George H Bush, Paul Ryan, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Romney will most likely take Wisconsin today, adding to his already ...read more
President Barack Obama's administration launched a multipronged assault on Mitt Romney's values and foreign policy credentials Sunday, while a fresh set of prominent Republicans rallied behind the GOP front-runner as the odds-on nominee, further signs the general election is ...read more
Nobody knows what really happened during the tragic shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida last month. As the facts stand, it doesn't look too good for the shooter, George Zimmerman. Martin was unarmed and was on the phone to his girlfriend at the time of the ...read more
Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney tightened his hold on the party nomination Wednesday when he secured one of the most sought-after endorsements, former Florida governor Jeb Bush. It comes on top of a commanding victory over Rick Santorum in the Illinois primary ...read more
Illinois Republicans delivered a decisive victory to Mitt Romney in the state's presidential primary Tuesday, crushing Rick Santorum in what amounted to the first big-state head-to-head contest among the front-runners for the GOP nomination. With 98 percent of the state's ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Poor Mitt Romney. The soon to be elected Republican Presidential candidate is outspending his closest rival Rick Santorum by incredible sums (in the Chicago media market, an astonishing ratio of 20:1), yet his victory margins are dismal in comparison. No matter ...read more
By Bob Cesca: Mitt Romney has recently added a new digital audio file to his positronic neural net: President Obama is an "economic lightweight." Naturally, it comes from the same genius who thought the "Is corn an amber wave of grain?" joke made some kind of sense and was ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Watching Mitt Romney attempt to 'connect' with voters is akin to watching your Grandfather parallel parking. No matter how hard they try, it never quite works and everyone is left feeling a little embarrassed at the end of it. 'Never mind Grandpa' I used to say as ...read more
Rick Santorum won Tuesday's Alabama and Mississippi GOP presidential primaries, with Southern conservatives again rejecting Mitt Romney, who earlier in the day said Santorum's campaign was reaching a "desperate end." Newt Gingrich, who had staked his campaign on a Southern ...read more
Mitt Romney just cannot close the deal on the Republican Presidential nomination. Despite having outspent his closest rival Rick Santorum by an amazing ratio of 4:1 in Super Tuesday States, Romney barely won the most important delegate rich Ohio (by a margin of 1%), and did not ...read more
Mitt Romney has morphed from the inevitable candidate into a Sisyphean character. The former Massachusetts governor, with the looks, pedigree and resume tailor-made for a White House run, was forced to push the rock once again up the proverbial hill on Super Tuesday, falling ...read more
Here's a quick guide to what's at stake next Tuesday in the GOP primary: • Alaska—26 delegates, caucus • Georgia—76 delegates, primary • Idaho—32 delegates, caucus • Massachusetts—41 delegates, primary • North Dakota—28 delegates, caucus • Ohio—66 delegates, primary • ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Here's Tom Brokaw gushing about Rick Santorum's 'tenacity' in the Presidential campaign: He's like a character in a Bruce Willis movie. He just knows how to stay alive. He's running through the jungle, fighting back, shooting from the hip, takes a lot of hits, ...read more
Disaster narrowly averted in his native state of Michigan, Mitt Romney was last night preparing to take a reinvigorated fight for the Republican presidential nomination to 10 states voting on ‘Super Tuesday’ next week. Delirious supporters for Mr Romney gathered in a ballroom ...read more
By Ben Cohen: The Republican party is in serious trouble. You only have to watch one of the debates to understand how completely disconnected the Presidential candidates are from reality. This disconnect works well with the base (the crazier the better) but spells suicide for a ...read more
I sat down to watch the GOP debate in Florida last night, the first time I've done it with the intention of seeing the whole thing through (otherwise, I have just skipped through youtube clips for the best highlights). After about 30 minutes, I couldn't take any more. ...read more
It was only a matter of time before the political and economic reality set in for team Rick Perry. Their candidate, a religious nut and corporate hack was only going to appeal to the base of the party - not the crucial middle needed to win a general election. Perry's ...read more
The major problem with mainstream political commentary in America is that it is basically completely meaningless. There is an entire industry built around the horse race - tracking who is up and who is down, which candidate sounds the most presidential and who has the best ...read more
Every time I put aside an evening to watch the GOP debates, I find myself unable to muster the strength to sit through 90 minutes of one of the most embarassing spectacles in US political history. I must confess that I have only seen segments of some of the debates - all of ...read more
It's amazing that a moron like Rick Santorum is still around to spew this kind of crap. In this instance, Santorum says that it's horrible that Obama - because of his pro-choice position - is a black man deciding who is a human being and who isn't. A dog is going to lick itself, ...read more
