It was supposed to be his victory lap after a big win in Florida, but for Mitt Romney it turned into another public relations disaster. In an interview on CNN, Romney told Soledad O’Brien: “I’m not concerned about the very poor.” Quote, unquote. What a disaster. What was he thinking? Now, to be fair, in…
White House Report
The three big lies of Newton Leroy Gingrich
By Bill Press Tribune Media Services Political junkies like me have never seen anything like it: Running 20 points behind, just a week before the South Carolina primary, Newt Gingrich catapulted to the top of the pile and ended up defeating Mitt Romney by 12 points. It’s almost enough to make a believer out of…
If conservatives knew the truth about Newt, they wouldn’t support him.
Latest news out of Florida: Last week, Mitt Romney was 20 points ahead. Today, he’s tied with Newt Gingrich. And Newt’s sudden rise in the polls is all the more astounding because it’s based on three big lies. One, he’s an outsider. Talk about pious baloney. He came to Washington in 1979 as a newly-elected…
How not to run a Republican primary
By Bill Press Tribune Media Services CHARLESTON, South Carolina. —You have to see it on the ground to believe what a mess Republicans have made of this election. It’s the worst way to run a primary campaign — unless your goal was to lose the election, in the first place. The Republican Party started out…
A Win for Wisconsin Working Families
Years from now, Wisconsin school children will be singing a new version of Humpty-Dumpty: “Scott Walker sat on a wall. Scott Walker had a big fall. But not all of the Koch Brothers millions could not put Scott Walker back together again.” How sweet it is! For America’s working families, it’s two big wins in…
Republicans Reject Their Best Candidate: Jon Huntsman
It was no surprise to see Jon Huntsman drop out of the GOP primary yesterday. Despite a third-place showing in New Hampshire, his campaign never really got off the ground. In fact, he was the only one of nine candidates – unlike Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick…
PHOTOS: President Obama Proposes Government Restructuring
President Obama proposed a government restructuring plan at the White House on Friday, January 13, 2012. Bill took these photos at the press conference.
Mitt Romney bumper sticker: Greed is good!
By Bill Press Tribune Media Services He barely won the Iowa primary. He handily won New Hampshire. He’s going to win South Carolina next. So now we know the Republican nominee for president will be: Gordon Gekko. And we also know what he stands for. In the 1987 film “Wall Street,” corporate raider Gekko told…
Santorum gets his (brief) moment in the sun
By Bill Press Tribune Media Services Mitt “Landslide” Romney may have won the Iowa caucuses by a whopping eight votes, but everybody knows the real winner was former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. After wandering in the wilderness, neglected and forgotten, for the past year, Santorum surprisingly emerged as the only serious challenger to Romney. Whether…
Rick Santorum Has More Baggage Than The Rest Of Them
So now it’s Rick Santorum’s turn at the top of the pile, after being neglected and forgotten for the past 12 months. But, as Newt Gingrich or Herman Cain could tell him, Santorum may soon learn it’s better to be on the bottom and forgotten than on the top and under the microscope. Because, once…
