"I was a Romney delegate and I guess I bought into the conventional wisdom and felt it back in October when I endorsed Romney and actually became a Romney delegate," former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) told MSNBC on Monday night. "That he was the best candidate to beat Barack Obama, to beat the president." "We run campaigns for a reason. And

"I don't think that's the case," Michael Moore said about Michigan being Romney territory. "And I don't think it's just because of his auto bailout thing because the polls have shown that Republicans, in Michigan, are opposed to the bailout to a fairly large extent. Because again, they hate anything that has to do with unions, auto workers, African

FOX News political analyst Brit Hume says Rick Santorum would be a "risky nominee" and social issues like the contraception flap "would be general election poison." Hume also says that there is "no evidence" that the mainstream media is trying to help Mitt Romney become the Republican nominee for president. "If you look at the coverage we hav

Ari Fleischer tells CNN he believes Rick Santorum could beat Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination. "If you look deeper at this, I think for the first time today in this race, that Rick Santorum has a very decent chance of beating Mitt Romney for the nomination," former President George W. Bush's press secretary told CNN. "Rick Santorum has ener

"Rick Santorum, like millions of other Americans, has been emersed in hate-radio and FOX News for years, for decades and now this is the result of it. He's the Tea Party candidate. He's the one that they really want and this is what you see. But there is a gaping chasm between the Tea Party and the rest of America. And they are going to generate th

Rick Santorum attributes his rise in national polls due to the "national media trying to destroy conservatives." "I'm not going to question what the president believes in, but I am going to question what he's doing in this country to drive up the cost of energy, destroy this economy, and do so at the behest of a bunch of radical environmentalist

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin on gas prices and Michelle Obama going on another vacation. Levin: This is what I don't get. I mean, I get it but this is -- we're a great nation, we are a logical people, for the most part, except for the drones but I'm not counting them. If the price of fuel goes down, Obama gets credit.

Romney Senior Adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown" that none of the states where Mitt Romney has "connections" (Massachusetts, Michigan and Utah) are must-wins. "Is any one of them a must-win for Mitt Romney? No," he said. "I think the must-do for any candidate running for president is achieving 1,145 delegates. That's wha

NBC News reports on "controversial comments" made by Rick Santorum on prenatal care and President Obama.

KURTZ: But, Jennifer Rubin, and you've been very supportive of Mitt Romney in your columns, is it fair game for the press when a candidate, for whatever personal reason, doesn't want to talk that much about his religion? JENNIFER RUBIN, WASHINGTON POST: It's perfectly acceptable. We don't grill Newt Gingrich on whether he believes on a virgin bi

In an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Rick Santorum's press secretary, Alice Stewart, said that Santorum was commenting on the president's energy and environmental policies when he said the president was motivated by a "phony theology." However, in her opening answer, she mentioned the "radical Islamic policies the president has." "Certa

"We're not supposed to nationalize these problems. The founders were very clear that problems like this, if there needs to be legislation of sorts, the state has the right to write the legislation that they so choose. And that solves a lot of our problems," Paul told CNN. (via

Frank Bruni, Jennifer Rubin, Scott Conroy and Howard Kurtz discuss the media's coverage of Mitt Romney's Mormonism.

(H/T Media Research Center) MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry: "When I first heard the discourse of the Tea Party, as much as I wasn't in agreement with it, I kind of like populist movements that are asking for jobs and worrying about the effects of big government. But the shift now has moved towards this so-called m

In an in-depth, exclusive interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu denies allegations of threatening a former boyfriend.

FOX News' Chris Wallace asks Newt Gingrich what would happen if Mitt Romney lost his home state of Michigan next Tuesday. "I'd be very curious what their rationale's going to be," Gingrich said. "Here's a guy who's been running for six years, put in $40 million of his own money last time, has outspent all the rest of us I think by three or four

"It's been more than 1,000 days, and we wonder what kind of financial mess we're in," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said Monday on FOX News. "When Harry Reid and the senators there in the United States Senate won't even pass a budget, won't even discuss, debate, vote on a budget, vote on the president's budget, you can see why we're in such a mess,

"Our friends have convenient amnesia," Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) said on "Morning Joe" on Monday. "It's good talking points, but the fact is we have a budget in place for this year and next. We have 10 years of spending caps, and a special committee was given the opportunity to deal with entitlements and revenue without th