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Newt Gingrich
"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid ...
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"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every ...
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Chain e-mail
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner ...
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Newt Gingrich
Students today "take more years to get through" college.
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Rick Santorum "In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking ...
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Mitt Romney
"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
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Rick Santorum "Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system."
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Newt Gingrich
"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four ...
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Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
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Mitch Daniels
Says Steve Jobs was responsible for creating more jobs than the stimulus bill.
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Mitch Daniels
"Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today."
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Mitt Romney
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he ...
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Barack Obama
"In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last ...
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Barack Obama
"(After the auto bailout) General Motors is back on top as the world’s No. ...
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Barack Obama
"Right now, American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years."
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Says Mitt Romney’s campaign "has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run."
Promise: No layoffs for police; no closed fire stations
Update: To avoid police lay-offs, commission strikes budget deal
In 1992, Mitt Romney "gave money to Democrats for Congress."
"This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip."
"Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control" in Massachusetts, "hiking premiums, squeezing household budgets."
Nevada is No. 1 in unemployment, violent crime, car theft, divorce, robberies and foreclosures.
Says Mitt Romney "was one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse" Marco Rubio.
Says Newt Gingrich said "Spanish is the language of the ghetto."
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."
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"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."
— Newt Gingrich
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."
— Newt Gingrich
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.
— Chain e-mail
Students today "take more years to get through" college.
— Newt Gingrich
"In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking for major reform of Freddie and Fannie, warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market."
— Rick Santorum









