"For a Massachusetts moderate to put out an ad questioning my credentials as a conservative is the kind of chutzpah that you really don't expect to find in someone like Romney," Newt Gingrich said about Mitt Romney in an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews. "He's not going to be the nominee," Gingrich said. "They would never cheer him," Gin

"Whether or not it becomes a big political issue, it is a big issue. If the President wants to breach the Constitution to achieve something important, let's say he needs a Secretary of Defense and he can't have it and he says 'Okay, I'll decide, the Senate is in recess and Ii'll do it.' That is one thing. But as what was reported in the Times

Nancy Pelosi: "I simply will not have us engage in a this that last August, ten years ago. This is about the here and now and the highly unusual circumstances that we are in because of the of the Republican failed economic policies of President George Bush took us to a financial meltdown, took us into near depression, took us into deep deficits tha

GWEN IFILL (PBS): We talk about electability, but I don't think we often define what that means. Does electability mean me, you are electable if you're me, or are there a set of qualities that people should be looking for? Is it just -- or is just, I see -- on a good day, I might be able to beat Barack Obama? What does it mean? JON HUNTSMAN:

MARTIN BASHIR: It's time now to clear the air. And I wonder if you'll indulge me just for a moment, because I want to focus our attention on the issue of race as it effects the 2012 campaign by starting overseas. In London's central criminal court, two men were found guilty on Tuesday for the notorious killing of a black teenager called Stephen Law

In a sort of power lunch for the not-so-powerful, President Barack Obama broke bread Friday with four winners of a contest for people who give to his campaign in small amounts.

Ron Paul ad: "One serial hypocrite exposed. Now another has emerged: Rick Santorum, a corporate lobbyist and Washington politician. A record of betrayal."

President Obama showed up at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau HQ today and joked he is there to help Richard Cordray move in.

Rick Santorum says no to an alliance of sorts with fellow presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, however he did praise the former Speaker. Santorum said he would not be here today without Gingrich's help. "Campaigns aren't about alliances, campaigns are about ideas, they're about candidates and their backgrounds....Newt's a friend and he's someon

Ed Rollins did not hold back in expressing his disappointment and frustration with the 2012 GOP presidential field. Rollins also had some harsh words for President Obama. Rollins says the only thing historic about Obama is that he was the first black president and that is it. Rollins says Obama appears to be "burned out" from stress and not h

In his tough 2006 race to retain his Senate seat, which he lost by double digits, Rick Santorum attempted to appeal to moderates and liberals in an advertisement touting his work with Sens. Joe Lieberman, Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton. (h/t Andrew Kaczynski)

"Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint have joined with me time after time to go to the floor to fight against the earmark pork barrel corruption that goes on in Washington DC. Earmarks are a gateway to corruption. And I can tell you that neither Mitt Romney nor Rick Santorum share that view," John McCain said at a campaign event for Mitt Romney this morni

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson acknowledged his characterization of the way Rick Santorum handled the loss of his son that died two hours after birth as "very weird" was "not the right way to say" what he

"He's got to get a majority somewhere," Newt Gingrich said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America." "I don't think against the three of us he's going to get a majority. We'll gradually coalesce. One of us will emerge as the conservative alternative. That conservative alternative will beat Romney, and I think as people look at his record, and they

"Quite frankly, the collection of Republicans that are running for president really are pretty unremarkable. They all embrace extremism and embrace the Tea Party. They are in a circular firing squad. It doesn't matter which one ultimately is the nominee. At the end of the day, it's a dramatic difference in the two directions that the country will c

Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich spoke about President Obama's recess appointments in an interview when he slammed Mitt Romney as a "Massachusetts Moderate" who was questionable policy positions. Gingrich says it is a "fact" that the Republican Party will not nominate a Governor from Massachusetts, the state of Michael Dukakis "Let's be ang

"I mean, his numbers (Obama's) are going up as the Republican party's numbers come down. And I think it's due to the fact that the president has more aggressively and more definitively, I would hope, positioned himself as with the people, as with the 99%, or the 99.99% in this case. It's a smart political move on the president's part and I think a

"This really is the kind of dog-whistle politics that the Republican party has used to lure our people, the white working class, over to their party, to tell them over and over that money's being -- their money's being given to black people when in fact, as we all know, it's been given to rich people," Joan Walsh said.

Sean Hannity and Karl Rove discuss the upcoming New Hampshire primary. Rove's predicted order of finish is Romney first, Paul second, Santorum third and Gingrich fourth.

Lawrence O'Donnell and Frank Rich discuss the lack of enthusiasm for Mitt Romney.

Bill O'Reilly explains to viewers how his show will cover the 2012 election. He credits President Obama with doing "what he thinks is right" but criticizes him for the size of the national debt.

Rachel Maddow discusses President Obama's plan for slowing the growth in national security spending. She believes that his plan ends misguided policies on counter-insurgency and nation-building.