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Bachmann Says It Would Take A "Miracle" To Win Iowa

Michele Bachmann tells CNN there is an "unbelievable momentum" for her at the moment. Bachmann also acknowledged that it would take a "miracle" for her to win Iowa. "Everyone said that I didn't have a chance to win the Iowa straw poll. I'm the only candidate in the presidential race that's won a statewide election. I won the Iowa straw poll. We're going to see a miracle happen on Tuesday, I have absolutely no doubt that the people here in Nevada, Iowa know that, too, and we're going to see that miracle next Tuesday, so we're excited," Bachmann told Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | The Situation Room - Thursday December 29th, 2011 | Send to a Friend

Romney On Gingrich: "I Don't Know Why He's So Angry"

"I don't know why he's so angry," Romney said on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." "Look, this is a campaign about things we believe in," Romney said. "I believe the country's being led in a very unfortunate and destructive way by a president that doesn't really understand our economy and understand America. I can get America working again, that's why I'm running." Send to a Friend | Permalink

Santorum: I'd Have To Take Antacid In Order To Vote For Ron Paul

"My concern is that Ron Paul would walk in there, day one, pull our troops back and leave an enormous void around the world. He can do that day one without congressional approval. He can, as commander in chief, move our troops anywhere in the world, disengage from every place from Europe to the Middle East, China, abandon the Strait of Hormuz, pull the 5th Fleet back. That's one of the reasons I think you see folks who are having second thoughts," a concerned Rick Santorum told CNN. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Gingrich: Paul's Views Outside "Mainstream Of Virtually Every Decent American"

Newt Gingrich slams Ron Paul in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer."As people get to know more about Ron Paul, who disowns 10 years of his own newsletter, says he didn't really realize what was in it, had no idea what he was making money on, had no idea that it was racist, anti-Semitic, called for the destruction of Israel, talked about a race war. All this is a sudden shock to Ron Paul? There will come a morning people won't take him as a serious person. This is a man who happened to have had a good cause -- auditing the Federal Reserve, cleaning up the Federal Reserve -- and I think as a protest, he's a very reasonable candidate. As a potential president? A person who thinks the United States was responsible for 9/11. A person who believes, who wrote in his newsletter that the World Trade Center bombing in '93 might have been a CIA plot. A person who believes it doesn't matter if the Iranians have a nuclear weapon. I'd rather just say, you look at Ron Paul's total record of systemic avoidance of reality, and you look at his newsletters and then you look at his ads. His ads are about as accurate as his newsletters."Gingrich goes on to say that Paul "won't" get the GOP nomination and that he couldn't vote for Paul in a general election.When asked who he would choose in an Obama-Paul race, Gingrich says "I don't know, but I think Barack Obama is very destructive to the future of the United States. I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American." Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | The Situation Room - Wednesday December 28th, 2011 | Send to a Friend

Ron Paul Walks Off From CNN Interview Over Controversial Newsletters

Presidential candidate Ron Paul was defensive Wednesday when pressed about controversial newsletters in the 1980s and 1990s that were in his name, CNN reports. When asked during an interview with CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger whether he looked at them when they were published and decided they did not represent him accurately, he said "not all the time." Pressed on whether he read them he said, "Not all the time. Well, on occasion, yes." Eventually Paul became irked enough to end the interview. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | The Situation Room - Wednesday December 21st, 2011 | Send to a Friend

Gingrich On Not Calling Romney: "Didn't Deserve Congratulations"

"They outspent me five to one to quote destroy Newt Gingrich?" Gingrich said in an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." "You know, I think that doesn't deserve congratulations. I think that's reprehensible, I think it's dishonest, and I think it's shameful." Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | The Situation Room - Friday February 3rd, 2012 | Send to a Friend

Romney-Backer McCain Worried Super PACs Will Lead To Scandals

"Now it's the system under which we operate, which leads to this kind of campaigning and will lead to corruption and scandals. I guarantee it." McCain said on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | The Situation Room - Monday January 9th, 2012 | Send to a Friend

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