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With these feelings, though, comes a nagging fear that their beliefs ... certificates or that Mitt’s great-great-grandfather had five wives.’’ They get frustrated by the focus on polygamy, a practice the faith’s leadership banned ...  

The Associated PressRomney Finesses Republican Differences With Hill ConsultationBusinessWeekBy Julie Hirschfeld Davis on May 29, 2012 When Mitt Romney announced last month that he agreed with President Barack Obama's effort to keep federal student loan interest rates from doubling this summer, he broke with many congressional Republicans who ...Trump Fundraiser Tonight Carries Political Risk for Mitt RomneyBloombergObama, Romney mark...  

Ann Romney took up dressage at age 50 as a therapy for multiple sclerosis, but it soon became her passion. Riding, she has said, "sings to my soul." Mitt Romney was also drawn in. He chose the music that Jan Ebeling has ridden to in competitions ...  

Case in point this past week’s purported Los Angeles Times “expose” on the fact that Ann Romney loves horses. The article itself is so agenda-driven as to make a mockery of legitimate political reporting. Part of it was taken from a deposition in a ...  

A taskmaster, Ebeling pushed Romney to excel in high-level amateur shows. He escorted her on horse-buying expeditions to Europe. She shares ownership of the Oldenburg mare he dreams of riding in the Olympic Games this summer. Ann Romney and her ...  

From presidential contenders to school board hopefuls, political candidates are experimenting with a wide variety of social platforms to get their message heard. Some are turning to Pinterest, the explosively popular image-based pinboard site -- even President Obama and Ann Romney, wife of Mitt Romney, have accounts on the image-based social network.  

Romney is caught in the middle of a Senate primary in Arizona that pits a friend against a family member. The frontrunner in the Republican ... from Romney’s political action committee, Free and Strong America. Both Cardon and Flake have ...  

New York, May 12 (ANI): Ann Romney, the wife of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, praised Michelle Obama and called her "lovely," on Friday. She insisted that the First Lady does a good job handling the intense pressure that ...  

Mitt Romney's family roots run deep in California. Most neighbors seem unworried about living next to a possible president, though some fret about beach access. LA JOLLA — David and Cristina Sear were walking their Doberman pinschers in this seaside neighborhood when a big U-Haul truck pulled up around the corner from the $12-million beachfront home Mitt and Ann Romney had just bought.  

Who knew? First it was the LA Times and now we have the NY Times portraying Ann Romney as a wealthy elitist who likes to ride horses. They can't seem to make the whole GOP "war on women" thing stick so they are going back to the class warfare card. Perhaps Mrs. Romney once had a black stable hand whom then media can use to inject the race card. It seems an odd tack to take considering Michelle  

WASHINGTON - The Romney campaign added two noteworthy names to the donor rolls this week: Ann and Mitt Romney. The couple donated a combined $150,000 this week to the Romney Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee established last month that ...  

Strangely, although U.S. President Barack Obama has produced his original birth certificate, and the state of Hawaii has certified it, birthers continue to make news, and Bill Maher took on that revived subject on Friday night's "Real Time," with his own ...  

U.S. News & World ReportWould Mitt Romney really cut spending on 'Day One'?Boston HeraldBy Mitchell Landsberg / The Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - Mitt Romney has a new ad out, touting what he'll do on his first day as president. "Day One," the narrator intones, "President Romney announces deficit reductions, ending the Obama era of big ...FACT CHECK: Obama off on thrifty spending claimBusinessWeekMitt Romney, KeynesianWashington Post (blog...  

Bill Maher continued to take aim at GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon background on this week's episode of "Real Time," going so far as to create a fake polygamy controversy called "Wiferism" to combat "Birthers." Although the ...  

It operates 850 radio stations and reaches 110 million Americans. Clear Channel syndicates most conservative talk radio shows including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage. And what about all that "free" advertising that ...  

But for Ann Romney, wife of presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, it's been a life-line. Ann rode horses when she was younger, but started again when she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis as a 50-year-old, and credits dressage for ...  

Mitt Romney has announced that he will not be canceling his hot Las Vegas dinner date fundraiser with washed-up nut sack Donald Trump just because Donald Trump has been having birther “episodes” in the press — this time that he “knows” Barack Obama was born in Kenya — again. What is Romney supposed to do, [...]  

Please, Gov. Romney, please pick Chris Christie as your running mate. Sure, there are those who say he's a nasty, unqualified bully who can't keep his mouth shut, but they're saying that because they're just jealous. (Look how much Cory Booker likes him!) I know how impressed voters of the Northeast corridor will be when you announce his name, so please give this your serious consideration. Every Democrat will thank you: As New Jersey’s...  

(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) As part of his big education week, Mitt Romney has announced his education advisory group, and hoo, boy. Are you ready to go back to the Bush years? Romney's special advisor on education is Rod Paige, Secretary of Education under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. One of his two K-12 education co-chairs, both of his higher education co-chairs, and both of his workforce training co-chairs were lower-level Bush...  

You may recall that, a few months ago, reports surfaced that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney planned to install a car elevator in his La Jolla beach home, as part of a multi-million dollar renovation. Now, San Diego’s 10 News has ...  

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Mitt and Ann Romney have given a combined $150,000 from their personal fortune to aide the candidate’s bid for the White House. This is the first time the candidate or his wife has contributed monetarily to their 2012 campaign. “If Mitt Romney’s...  

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2012 — Just how low will GOP nominee Mitt Romney go to get more big bucks? The question was just answered today as the Romney’s campaign announced that reality TV host Donald Trump will host a mega-fundraiser for him at ...  

Ann Romney is headlining a Colorado fundraiser for her husband, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.  

#politics Over his first month as the presumptive GOP nominee for President, Mitt Romney has tried his darndest to reach out to groups that don't like him much. Yesterday, he went to Philadelphia to pretend he has black friends (although hopefully this time, he refrained from saying "Who let the dogs out?!" during photo ops). His wife Ann has vouched for him as well, tousling his hair on the...  

As part of his big education week, Mitt Romney has announced his education advisory group, and hoo, boy. Are you ready to go back to the Bush years? Romney's special advisor on education is Rod Paige, Secretary of Education under George W.  

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Mitt Romney yesterday on his website and his YouTube channel (he has a YouTube channel) released a new ad entitled, "Day One, Part 2." Romney's staying on message. There's one thing... I probably, in the near future, need to spend a little bit more time in this. But you know, everybody's talking about Obama and his daily events and so forth. But Romney is kicking butt out there, and Romney is staying on message, and...  

Two weeks after she backed out of a television appearance, Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen returned to the air Sunday to address her assertion that Ann Romney is unqualified to speak for women’s economic concerns. Rosen ducked “Meet the Press” host David Gregory’s question about whether Ann Romney can talk knowledgeably about the economic issues facing American women. “I’ll leave that to Mitt ...  

After adopting the resolution over the weekend, Board Chair Roslyn M. Brock, President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, and board member Donald L. Cash held a press conference Monday in Baltimore to announce what they had already announced. Even some ...  

Sir, you honor me with your new name and I cannot tell you how delighted I am with the reference to me. I have times where I am humbled and I go to my kitchen and I pour a cup of bread flour to bake a loaf for my many outside bird friends and I think of our Lord, the savior and I reflect upon my many blessings in life. Then I catch a glimpse of myself in the kitchen window and I imagine myself in a Whitesnake video, auburn hair flowing...  

Cutting the federal deficit and standing up to China on trade are two of the "day one" promises offered by likely GOP nominee Mitt Romney in a new television ad his campaign announced Thursday. YouTube Video:  No YouTube read more  

The Mitt Romney you see is the one you'd get. by Richard Cohen For all of Mitt Romney's talk of what he would do on Day One in the White House — Bomb Iran? Or was it Planned Parenthood?… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

Chris reviews Mitt Romney's speech on education at a Charter School in West Philly. He talks to Steve Cordasco on Finance Friday about the lawsuit filed by Facebook investors and the President's attacks on Mitt Romney. He also talks to Jonah Goldberg, author of the Tyranny of Cliches and the next guest of The Red Meat Tour.  

WASHINGTON -- The presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced on May 17 that it had raised $40.1 million in April, when its fundraising is taken together with the funds raised by the Republican National Committee and a joint fundraising committee called Romney Victory. Only about half of that total was disclosed on Sunday when the Romney campaign and the RNC announced raising $11.7 million and $11.4 million...  

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) announced today that Governor Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will address the nation's Latino leadership at the organization's 29th...  

In his second general election ad, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney expands on his promises for his first day in office. On Day One, the narrator says, Romney would announce deficit reductions, “ending the Obama era of big government.” He will stand up to China on trade, demanding they “play by the rules.” And he will repeal “job-killing regulations.” Read full article >>  

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Speaking to the Latino Coalition's Annual Economic Summit Wednesday, Mitt Romney declared a crisis in American education, promised that, if elected, he would implement a wide array of reforms that have been proven not to work, and assailed President Barack Obama's supposed inability to stand up to teachers unions. According to Romney: More than 150 years ago, our nation pioneered public education.  We’ve now fallen...  

The Official Live Blog of Fox News Channel. The tax battle heats up! It's a D.C. standoff as party leaders lay out their plans, so which side has the right strategy for America? - Your World - Today, 4p ET · From Doc Holliday to ...  

For all of Mitt Romney’s talk of what he would do on Day One in the White House — bomb Iran or was it Planned Parenthood? — there’s just as good a chance he would be tacking up two pictures on the wall. One would be of George H.W. Bush and the other of Jimmy Carter. They both became one-term presidents after they were challenged in the primaries. This is a lesson for Romney.  

Mitt Romney quietly unveiled his plans to reform the U.S. public education system, announcing the major policy proposal to a small group of conservative Latino business owners in Washington. There were no TV crews present. Like most of Romney's policy ...  

Ann Romney will be at a fund raiser at the Cherry Creek Country Club.  

What interesting timing. I had recently planned a column on my observations about Mitt Romney at Cranbrook. Why? Not because of anything in the news related to Cranbrook—at least not yet—but because our careers there (mine and Mitt’s) overlapped. Then The Washington Post released its story about the young, alleged bully, Mitt Romney. Now my Romney article is twice as long as it would have been a week ago.  

Ann Romney tried Monday to defuse lingering criticism of her husband’s decision to put their dog in a car-top carrier for a 12-hour car drive to Canada, saying their Irish setter, Seamus, loved it and knew it meant he was going on vacation with the family. “It was, to me, a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for, in a kennel for two weeks,” Ann Romney told ABC News ...  

Oooh! Some pulpy friction! In an intriguing interview with Esquire, Bruce Willis vocalized his disdain for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney: “Yeah, Romney. He's just such a disappointment, an embarrassment.” Ouch! Certainly Bruce isn’t the only Hollywood celeb who won’t check Mitt's box this November, but this is noteworthy because the huge action star was until recently an avid [...]  

NEW YORK – Mitt Romney on Tuesday announced a team of education policy advisers that includes former education secretary Rod Paige and other top appointees from President George W. Bush’s administration. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee ...  

The policy group includes several top officials from the administration of President George W. Bush, including former education secretary Rod Paige. It also includes several who advised Romney while he was Massachusetts governor, including ...  

WASHINGTON -- The presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced on May 17 that it had raised $40.1 million in April, when its fundraising is taken together with the funds raised by the Republican National Committee and ...  

Ann Romney will be in Colorado on Friday morning for a fundraising brunch and reception at Cherry Hills Country Club.  

First lady Michelle Obama today expressed her support for mothers of all stripes, after a Democratic strategist rankled Republicans by suggesting Ann Romney “has actually never worked a day in her life” because the wife of presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney had been a stay-at-home mom. “Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected,” she said. The debate was part substantive ...