Rick Santorum

David Ragan's win at Talladega is a feather in cap of Front Row Motorsports

2013-05-07 00:00:00

Had the rain lingered a bit longer in central Alabama, Bob Jenkins and his Front Row Motorsports team might still be looking for their first win in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series. Instead, they're now the little NASCAR team that could. Front Row's David...

Democrats, not Republicans, should be worrying about their future

2013-04-24 05:00:00

Since Mitt Romney lost to President Obama on Nov. 6, the conventional wisdom has been that the Republican Party is in trouble. The less conventional truth is that it is the Democrats whose chances many be more bleak. Yes, Republicans are currently...

Republicans turn back effort to change party rules

2013-04-10 20:31:00

As members of the Republican National Committee met in Hollywood to debate how to reverse their party's recent losses in presidential campaigns, they narrowly defeated an effort by a Virginia committeeman to undo all the changes to party rules made during...

Republicans aim to implement new approach at party meeting

2013-04-09 20:51:00

After the crushing presidential loss in November, national Republican leaders offered a blunt message in a postelection report: Unless the party appealed to women, minorities and voters with divergent views, there was little hope of reversing their...

Right-wing religious nuts limit Republican Party's future

2013-04-09 05:00:00

Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, says his party needs to be retooled. Republicans, he says, need to reach out to minorities, show a willingness to work with those who do not agree with them 100% and find a way to convince...

McManus: Let's talk GOP and fantasy politics

2013-04-07 00:00:00

Almost four years ago, long before the 2012 presidential campaign heated up, CNN took a poll to learn who Republicans might choose as their party's next nominee. There were two clear front-runners: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov....

Letters: Examining the GOP's policies

2013-03-21 00:00:00

Re "Time for an overhaul, GOP says," March 19 The late Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater said in 1994, "If they [the religious right] succeed in establishing religion as a basic Republican Party tenet, they could do us in." Aside from the GOP's...

Between RNC and CPAC, there is a war for the Republican soul

2013-03-19 05:00:00

A new report commissioned by the Republican National Committee reads like an anti-GOP critique from the “lame stream media.” It describes the party as too rigidly ideological, too in thrall to greedy corporations, too disconnected from...

Marco Rubio, Rand Paul go head-to-head at CPAC conference

2013-03-14 12:50:00

FORT WASHINGTON, MD -- High-profile speeches by a pair of Republican presidential possibilities suggested that noneconomic issues are likely to emerge as 2014 and 2016 campaign themes as the economy continues to recover. Beyond pocketbook concerns,...

Mitt Romney had 3 of top 2012 search memes, and not in a good way

2012-12-03 12:01:00

Online news giant Yahoo! announced its top search terms of 2012 Monday and, no surprise, the 2012 election topped all other topics, including the iPhone 5, which registered the second-most searches; Kim Kardashian, who attracted the third most and...

Abortion protest marks 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade

2013-01-25 11:24:00

Opponents of abortion demonstrated in Washington on Friday, marking the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade that decriminalized abortion. The demonstration began in the cold at about noon, with perhaps hundreds of people...

Band of brothers and sisters

2013-01-24 16:39:00

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta's decision to rescind restrictions on women in combat is being compared to President Harry Truman's order to end racial segregation in the armed services (which took years to implement) and Congress' vote in 2010 to...

"President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" - Rick Santorum, during a stump speech. The line actually garnered applause.

2012-12-18 13:15:00

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum from Pennsylvania, center, who also ran for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks with Dr. Bradley R. Hock, left, and Pa. State Sen Richard Alloway II, R-Franklin/Adams/York, Tuesday night at Green Grove Gardens in Greencastle, Pa.

2012-12-11 00:00:00

In 2008 the Santorum's eighth child, Isabella, was born and diagnosed with Edwards syndrome (Trisomy 18), a serious genetic disorder, with only a 10% chance of survival past one year old.

2012-11-26 00:00:00