"I will tell you that in Win, Place and Show, everybody knows, Romney, Santorum, and Ron Paul. And I'm not sure it'll matter either way. Because Santorum has a 1 in 50 chance of winning the nomination. Paul has zero chance," Charles Krauthammer said on FOX News' "O'Reilly Factor" when asked for his prediction. "It would mean that Santorum would

Complaining that he has "post-partisan depression," Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) says the Tea Party is to blame for the continuing bad economy.

Mark Levin, who was on vacation, came back with a fierce threat today. Levin promises he will do "everything in his power" to defeat Sen. Rand Paul if his father, Ron Paul, runs as a third-party candidate. "If Ron Paul decides that he is going to go third-party, which is detrimental to this nation, and pulls a million votes, which is relatively

In what seems to becoming a trend, MSNBC's partisan hosts are going on the trail in Iowa not to observe the Republican presidential candidates, but to question them as if they were a campaign embed or a reporter without bias. A week after MSNBC's Ed Schultz followed rising candidate Rick

"As for Michelle Bachmann. She has a lot to offer, also, but I don't think it is her time this go around. And I believe that unless she, too, wants to spend her own money or borrowing money and perhaps go into debt. Which heaven forbid, you do that to your family? Perhaps she is one, too, who would start saying 'supporters of mine, why don't we coa

"Once they get a hold of the crazy things he's said and done like taking his two-hour old baby who died right after childbirth home and played with it for a couple of hours so his other children would know that the child was real," Democratic commentator Alan Colmes said on FOX News today. "That's a cheap shot, Alan. To say it's crazy, something

Mitt Romney gets heckled by "Occupy" protesters at a late night campaign event in Clive, Iowa. After one "Occupy" demonstrator attempted to call attention to other protesters in the room through a "mic check," the room exploded in to chants of "Mitt! Mitt! Mitt!." "Hey, guys, isn't it great to live in a country where people can express their vie

Dick Harpootlian: "We're looking forward to blood on the ground here in the next three weeks and I think you're going to see Mitt Romney not able to take the punch, which I am hoping he is the nominee because I know watching him in '08 that he can't take a punch. The guy does not have the ability to deliver. He's pro-abortion and anti-abortion; he'

Newt Gingrich: "I'm not going to engage in that kind of petty negativity. I think it demeans politics, it demeans the country, and it's exactly what we don't need in Washington. There's enough hostility and negativity already. "All I'll say is that I'll be prepared Wednesday morning in New Hampshire to draw a clear contrast between conservatism

"Listen, we are in it to win it. That's like asking the Dallas Cowboys if they want to win the next football game? Absolutely. Anybody in this wants to win first place. I don't think anybody is running for second place. That's not the reason I got in it," GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told FOX News tonight. The Dallas Cowboys were elimi

Cindy Sheehan at "Occupy Rose Bowl."

Rick Perry responds to Politico running a story that quotes an anonymous senior adviser to the the presidential candidate calling his campaign a "just unbelievably subpar." "When an organization that's supposedly legitimate will not name names, that tells me that they’re listening to rumor and innuendo," Perry said about the vaguely sourced re

"We're going to win this thing with all of our passion and strength and do everything we can to get this campaign on the right track to go across the nation and to pick up other states and to get the ballots I need, the votes I need, to become our nominee," Mitt Romney said in Iowa this evening.

Rick Perry confronts Politico's Mike Allen in person over the publication's report that unnamed members of his senior staff are blaming the way the campaign was handled for what has resulted thus far. Transcript of the exchange below: Mike Allen, Politico: "Governor, some of your staffers have told us that you ran this as a gubernatorial campaig

Andrea Mitchell on Rick Santorum, GOP race: "He really learned this, and the fact is that it's this 'hey, look me over' aspect of Iowa. People really wanted to be seen. It's kind of a schizophrenic quality, bipolar about this caucus because you have millions of dollars being spent on advertising and the negative ads to the extent that we have not s

Ron Paul tells CNN that he's "never spoken in absolutes" when asked if he had ruled out running a third-party candidacy. DANA BASH, CNN: If you do not succeed in this Republican contest, will you continue to be a Republican? RON PAUL: I have no plans of doing that [running for a third party]. Tomorrow's a big day. We're going to see w

Ron Paul says Rick Santorum wouldn't be a good Republican nominee "because he's very liberal." "Have you looked at his record? Go look at his record. He spends too much money." "He voted to double the size of the Department of Education, he voted to expand Medicare and add free drugs for senior citizens, and he's voted for foreign aid," added

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa): We have not lead in a clear way. American people don’t know what House Republicans believe in and they surely don’t know what we’re willing to fight for and I am as disappointed as the public is. I have been trying to generate a fight in this Congress all year, I wanted to draw that line and shut off all funding to O

NBC's Andrea Mitchell gives her take on the state of Iowa while covering the upcoming caucus. Mitchell makes her feelings about the Midwestern state to the viewers, opining that "the rap" on Iowa is that it is too white. "The rap on Iowa: It doesn't represent the rest of the country, too white, too evangelical, too rural. Still here, politics ar

A unique YouTube presentation titled "Fake Mitt Romney Endorses Ron Paul" has a spokesman named "Fake Mitt Romney". The presentation was produced by Endorse Liberty, a "Super PAC" supporting Ron Paul.

"I think he's going to come back," MSNBC's Chris Matthews said of Newt Gingrich on "Morning Joe" today. "He will use any weapon at hand. He basically showed his weaponry yesterday. He's going to go after Mitt Romney on abortion. He's going to nail him as a pro-abortion candidate, he's going after some appointment he made to a board up in Massachuse

(CBS News) Lesley Stahl profiles House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. In this wide-ranging interview, Cantor describes his childhood in Virginia, his identity as a Jewish Republican, and his current reputation as a legislative "Dr. No." Despite mounting public frustration with partisan bickering in Congress, Cantor says he is willing to "cooperate" w

Romney tells a crowd in Le Mars, Iowa that he would veto the DREAM act if he came to his desk as president. "I am delighted with the idea that people who come to this country and wish to serve in the military can be given a path to become permanent residents in this country. Those who serve in our military and fulfill those requirements, I respe

Jon Huntsman hits Ron Paul in his latest web ad with a Twilight Zone theme.

"I made the political judgment, right or wrong," the former Pennsylvania senator said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I did not think [McCain] was the right person, based on my experience and deep knowledge of his record, that he was the right person to be the nominee."

When asked if he feels "swift boated," a reference to the negative ads that partially derailed John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004, Gingrich responded, "No, I feel 'Romney-boated.'" "No, I feel 'Romney-boated,'" Newt Gingrich said if he felt "swift-boated by the barrage of negative campaign ads against him.

Congressman Paul, thank you so much for joining us this morning. A new "Des Moines Register" poll is out. It shows you in second place, very close to Mitt Romney at this point. Another figure that caught our eye goes back to what so many of your colleagues on the campaign trail have been saying about you this weekend, that is that you are unelec

"Speaker Gingrich, do you think that Mitt Romney is buying the election?" a reporter asked the candidate after he accused Romney of attempting to buy votes earlier in the day. "No, I didn't say he was. I said he would if he could," Gingrich told the reporter as he was leaving a campaign event. "He would buy an election if he could. "Well, I d

"I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama, then-candidate Obama, going through Iowa, making promises," Romney said in Council Bluffs, Iowa. "I think the gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of until death do we part."