The Daily Flipper: CPAC Edition
Read what the Republicans wish you wouldn’t...…
"Last evening, I referred to American casualties in Iraq as wasted. I should have used the word 'sacrificed,' as I have in the past," said Mr. McCain, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and a key ally of President Bush on Iraq policy. "No one appreciates and honors more than I do the selfless patriotism of American servicemen and women in the Iraq War," he said in the statement, which did not use the word "apology."
Santorum: "McCain is the only candidate I would not vote for."
The only one I wouldn’t support is McCain,” Santorum said during an interview in his office at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, where he is a senior fellow.“I don’t agree with him on hardly any issues,’’ Santorum said. “I don’t think he has the temperament and leadership ability to move the country in the right direction.”
Riles Up Regent University Students
Selecting presidential candidate Mitt Romney as its May commencement speaker has riled some of Regent University's students and alumni who say his Mormon faith clashes with the school's bedrock evangelical Christianity."What we're against is the fact that Mormonism is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum from Christian values and what we believe," said Doug Dowdey, a Virginia Beach pastor who said he graduated from Regent's divinity school last year.
Forced To Fire Two Advisors After Racist Comments
Republican presidential candidate and California congressman Duncan Hunter has dropped two top South Carolina advisers a week after they were appointed because of their inflammatory statements about immigrants and religious minorities.Hunter spokesman Roy Tyler confirmed Thursday that former GOP lieutenant governor candidate Henry Jordan and Horry County Auditor Lois Eargle would no longer serve as campaign co-chairs.
Jordan, who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1996 and last year, said he thinks Hunter did the right thing. Jordan said he didn’t want his comment disparaging Muslims and Buddhists, made while he was a state school board member in 1997, to hamper Hunter’s campaign.
GOP presidential hopefuls Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney clashed for the first time yesterday after Romney charged that the former New York mayor is "pro-gay marriage.""He is pro-choice, he is pro-gay marriage and anti-gun," Romney said in an interview to air Tuesday on the Christian Broadcasting Network, home to televangelist Pat Robertson. "That's a tough combination in a Republican primary."
But Giuliani - while in favor of civil union laws granting gay couples legal protections - has always said that he thought marriage should be "between a man and a woman."
Romney Fouls Up Campaign Stop State Name.
In Hollis, a small town west of Nashua, Romney got off to a rocky start by mistakenly calling it Hollis, Massachusetts, but he recovered quickly.
"It's going to be like watching bad re-runs of Survivor," said Newt Gingrich, stopping by bloggers' row. Americans are going to say, "Would you guys go and take a vacation!"
The opening day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference brought together some sharp critics of the early Republican presidential favorites, who have sparked doubts about the depth of their conservative principles.``There is some disillusionment, some demoralization and a hope that other conservatives jump in the ring. I don't find a sense of excitement about the candidates at all,'' said Steve Baldwin, head of the Council for National Policy, a networking group for conservative activists.
Baldwin made his feelings clear about the top three Republican contenders -- former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney -- by wearing a black badge reading ''RudyMcRomney'' with a giant red slash through it.
``There is an enormous amount of skepticism about the declared candidates. I've never seen anything like it,'' said Mark Corallo, a Republican communications consultant and a former Capitol Hill and Justice Department spokesman.
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