A funny little nugget buried in Romney’s statement this morning on his tax returns. In passing, Romney said although most of his money came from investment income, a small amount came from speeches. “I get speakers fees from time to time but not very much.” Well, it turns out that amount is over $374,000 last year. Which is a fair amount of money, though to give some perspective, not a wild amount of money compared to what other retired politicians make giving speeches. Read More
The Turkish Ambassador to the United States, Namik Tan, has issued a statement in response to Rick Perry’s suggestion at last night’s debate that Turkey’s government is run by “Islamic terrorists”.
Full statement after the jump … Read More
Mitt Romney says he won’t raise anyone’s taxes no matter what. But I’m starting to get the sense he might be raising his own taxes pretty quickly. Everybody noted in last night’s debate that Romney seemed to cross the threshold on the tax return release question. He didn’t promise he would but he said he “probably” would in April. To me, the key tell there was that he still didn’t commit.
But on the campaign trail this morning, he gave us, I think, a bit more sense of what’s up.
Here’s what Romney said this morning … Read More
It’s common knowledge that Republicans aren’t excited about their presidential candidates. But there’s now some evidence that lack of excitement may be sapping enthusiasm for the general election too.
TPM’s Michael Lester truncated tonight’s (boisterous) GOP debate into 100 seconds for your viewing pleasure.
While you’re in video-watching mode, check out the crowd going absolutely wild as Newt laid into Juan Williams. Newt was throwing out red meat like Nero to the lions. It was quite something to behold.
I think Rick Perry just said that Turkey is now being run by “Islamic terrorists”.
Newt’s really on fire tonight. Really not sure that it’s going to matter much. But he’s back into that mode of serving up perfect red meat for the Republican primary electorate.