Akin Has Nobody to Blame but Himself

There are only 76 days until Election Day. The Republican National Convention begins in just five days. This is supposed to be the time when Republicans get excited about the coming convention and general election. You know, excited like they were a week or so ago when Mitt Romney selected Congressman Paul Ryan to be [...]

Akin Has Nobody to Blame but Himself

There are only 76 days until Election Day. The Republican National Convention begins in just five days. This is supposed to be the time when Republicans get excited about the coming convention and general election. You know, excited like they were a week or so ago when Mitt Romney selected Congressman Paul Ryan to be [...]

Dump Akin, Not Innocent Life

By Craig Robinson If there were ever two words that don’t belong next to each other it would be the words “legitimate” and “rape.”  When Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin used the “legitimate rape” phrase in an interview on Sunday, his candidacy immediately became illegitimate. The U.S. Senate seat that is currently held by [...]

Palin’s Surprise Iowa Visit

By Craig Robinson Many words have been used to describe former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, but maybe the most appropriate is gracious.  Palin, along with husband Todd and daughters Willow and Piper, attend Bruce Rastetter’s annual summer party on Saturday night at his rural north-central Iowa home. Rastetter extended an invitation to the Palin’s months [...]

Tuesday Was More Than Just a Bad Night for Romney

Even before a vote was cast in Colorado, Minnesota, or Missouri on Tuesday, the Romney campaign was downplaying each contest. On Tuesday morning, the Romney campaign distributed a memo to the media and other interested parties reminding them that the contests in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri were meaningless since two of them were nonbinding preference [...]

Live Chat: Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri Presidential Results

For the first time in the 2012 GOP presidential primary season, more than one state heads to the polls on the same day. Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri Republicans cast their votes tonight. TheIowaRepublican.com will be following the results very closely and we invite you to join us tonight for a live, interactive chat. Voters in [...]