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Opinion: Romney Tries To Reboot Losing Campaign With Ryan Pick

After months of failing to find a way to gain ground in the presidential campaign, W. Mitt Romney has hit the reset button. At the end of last week Romney threw in the towel, literally, on the...

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Opinion: Ryan VP Pick Changes Electoral Math

W. Mitt Romney’s vice presidential selection, Paul Ryan, has changed the Electoral College math. Prior to the selection of Ryan, it was an open question if Romney could help himself with certain...

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Opinion: Paul Ryan And The War on Women

If you like the GOP war on women, you are going to love Paul Ryan. After all, Ryan’s record on women’s health could easily be mistaken for one of W. Mitt Romney’s primary opponents, Rick Santorum....

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Opinion: ‘2016: Obama’s America’ Movie Is Disturbingly Necessary

This past week, “2016: The Movie” about President Barack Obama opened in the Chicago area, and I chose to get more of an education about Obama by seeing the movie. After the inundation of canned hype...

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Opinion: Obama’s Campaign Speech ‘Press Conference’ In The White House

It took weeks of highly-publicized media criticism of President Barack Obama to finally get him to agree to do a second White House Press Corps press conference question-and-answer session in 2012....

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Opinion: Ron Paul’s Legacy Deserves Better Than ‘2012 Spoiler’

United States Representative Ron Paul of Texas, known best for his libertarian views, showed his superstar status on Sunday at a Paul Rally in Tampa, Florida near the Republican National Convention...

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Opinion: As Hurricane Isaac Threatens The GOP Continues To Party

Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina destroyed a large part of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The death toll from a weather event – that we knew was coming – was shocking. This was not a sudden...

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Opinion: AZ Republican: We Don’t Want Middle Easterners Here

“If you know Middle Easterners, a lot of them, they look Mexican or they look, you know, like a lot of people in South America: dark skin, dark hair, brown eyes. And they mix. They mix in. And those...

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Opinion: Paul Ryan And His Little White Lies

Last night, Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan addressed the Republican National Convention. After a shaky start, Ryan became comfortable with the TelePrompter and delivered a talking...

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Opinion: Clint Eastwood Made My Day

Last night, Clint Eastwood produced the most bizarre and uncomfortable moments in modern convention history. W. Mitt Romney had one hour of primetime television to accept the nomination of the GOP and...

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Opinion: Republicans Stoke Racial Resentment And Divide The Country

W. Mitt Romney seems to be drinking the same Kool-Aid as some of his nuttiest supporters. A couple of weeks ago he made a joke about President Obama’s birth certificate that was criticized for what it...

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Opinion: Republicans Are Abandoning Romney’s Sinking Ship

In a bit of political satire in Politico, Paul Ryan is now calling Mitt Romney “The Stench”, as in stench of defeat, and Team Romney refers to Paul Ryan as “Gilligan”.  While it may be just humor, it...

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Opinion: Republicans Endorse Todd Akin As Senate Chances Slip Away

The Republican Party has flip-flopped of Congressman Todd Akin of Missouri. In August they were demanding that he leave the Senate race. Today, the same people are embracing the national embarrassment...

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Opinion: Billions Are Being Spent On This Election, But Will It Change Anything?

As the polls stand today the biggest question of the 2012 election is: (a) what happens in the House of Representatives? And (b) is it possible, after billions of dollars in ads and two years of...

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Opinion: Does Mitt Romney Have An October Surprise For The Debate?

Governor Romney has spent a lot of time in debate prep lately. The campaign, short on specifics to date, is also starting to roll out a few hints about policies that Romney has been silent on. The...

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Opinion: Romney’s Move To The Middle Is Nothing More Than Baseless Rhetoric

The Romney endorsement tour of Barack Obama’s policies continued Monday. The Romney lines of harsh criticism over the president’s handling of the war in Afghanistan, which have persisted throughout...

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Opinion: Mitt Romney Lie-O-Rama Tour Continues

Yesterday, Mitt Romney walked away from his right wing campaign record and claimed that he would not act to restrict a woman’s right to choose. Specifically, Mitt told the Des Moines Register that...

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Opinion: Rivard Yet Another Republican To Devalue Women

Update:Today Sean Duffy condemned Roger Rivard’s remarks and gave Rivard’s campaign donations to charity.  Paul Ryan also rescinded his endorsement of Rivard and condemned Rivard’s comments.  It’s a...

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CBS Local Presidential Forum: Obama/Romney: Duke It Out Over Energy And...

By Carol Cain CBS 62 Detroit With the roller coaster ride of gas prices across the nation and volatile nature of relations in the Middle East, America’s energy policy is being debated by Gov. Mitt...

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Opinion: Binders Full Of Women Is Only Tip Of Romney Anti-Women Iceberg

The first problem with Romney talking about binders full of women is that it is an incredibly odd phrase. According to TiVo it was the most re-watched moment of the debate. The second problem with the...

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Opinion: Dumping Cold Water On Trump’s October Surprise

Just when things were beginning to go so well for GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney, look who is back to grab the headlines – Donald Trump. While “The Donald” – as he is often called by members...

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Opinion: Obama’s Talk Of A War on Women Contradicted By The Elevation Of...

Much of what was said during the third presidential debate by President Barack Obama on Monday night reminded viewers of his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Whether one agrees or disagrees with...

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Opinion: Why Don’t Republicans Understand Rape?

Once again, a Republican politician has said something extreme about rape. Extreme and extremely stupid. Last night it is was Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. He told an audience...

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Opinion: Another Hurricane Reminds Us Of The Need For An Effective...

The 2012 presidential campaign between President Obama and Mitt Romney will be book-ended by hurricanes. It opened with fears of a storm striking the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Remnant...

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Jobs Dwindle During Green Power Debate

DENVER (AP) – An eerie quiet has settled over the Walker Components plant, which assembles custom cables for a global wind turbine company. Orders are down from earlier in the year and one-third of its...

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Opinion: Elections Have Consequences

President Obama won an Electoral College landslide on Tuesday. He held on to every swing state that Romney needed to win. Obama defeated Romney in his home states of Massachusetts and Michigan and in...

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Opinion: ‘I’m Not A Scientist, Man’ And The GOP’s War On Reason

“I’m not a scientist, man.” That was Senator and 2016 GOP Presidential super-hopeful Marco Rubio in an interview with GQ as Rubio flies out of the gate to start campaigning for Republican hearts and...

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Opinion: Seceding From The Union Is Not A Good Idea

Even though the United States are still governmentally united, the States of America are not United. And though I find interest in the circus surrounding people in the fifty states of the Union...

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Opinion: Amazing ‘Stupid Things’

The former House Republican Leader Dick Armey, a longtime foot soldier in radical right wing politics, had some harsh criticism for Republicans in 2012. Armey served as the head of the Republican...

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IRS Scandal to be Boost for Tea Party

As the investigation continues surrounding how the Internal Revenue Service targeted Tea Party and other Patriot groups for greater scrutiny on non-profit applications, the news will get worse for the...

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Rep. Gardner Demands To Know Colorado Groups Targeted By The IRS

DENVER (CBS4) – Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner is demanded to know which Colorado political groups were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service hours after President Obama fired the acting chief of...

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Tea Party Activists Rally At Denver IRS Office

DENVER (AP) – Tea party activists rallied outside the Internal Revenue Service office in Denver on Tuesday to protest IRS scrutiny of conservative groups. About 50 people gathered, many holding signs...

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Buck’s Senate Run 2.0: Second Verse Same as the First?

When Ken Buck announced this week that he intends to run for the U.S. Senate, many couldn’t help to think back upon Buck’s failed run in 2010 against Michael Bennet. Buck had the political wind at his...

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Rep. Cory Gardner Was Confident, But House Bill Collapses Again

DENVER (CBS4) – There had been talk the U.S. House of Representatives could vote Tuesday night on a new bill that would reopen the government and keep the country from falling over the fiscal cliff,...

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Will Governor Races in NJ and VA Set Up a Fight for the Soul of the GOP?

The most outspoken influence in the Republican Party since 2010 has clearly been from Tea Party conservatives. Tea Party lawmakers have made news with vocal stances against Obamacare and with efforts...

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Tea Party Favorite In 2nd Bid For Senate In Colorado

WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (AP) – Ken Buck is watching what he says. The Republican prosecutor became a symbol for his party’s political overreach in 2010, when he beat the establishment pick in a U.S....

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Tea Party Group Endorses Owen Hill In GOP Primary To Challenge Udall

DENVER (AP) – A national tea party group endorsed state Sen. Owen Hill on Monday and began airing ads supporting the young lawmaker in the crowded Republican primary to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen....

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Beauprez Says Past Mistakes Give Him ‘Book Of Experience’ For Governor Run

DENVER (CBS4) – The recent entrance of Bob Beauprez makes for a total of seven Colorado Republicans now vying for the nomination for governor. “Out of that group no one has emerged as a clear...

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The Boehner Non-Rebellion A Non-Problem For GOP

John Boehner was re-elected as Speaker of the U.S. House on Tuesday and even though he was expected to be re-elected, the election included an historic amount of drama. A total of 25 conservative...

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Jeb Provides Denver A Preview Of 2016

Former Governor of Florida and future presidential candidate Jeb Bush barnstormed Colorado on Tuesday and provided Denver a good preview of 2016. Colorado’s status as a vital presidential swing state...

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