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  May 30, 2012, 12:32 pm

Rep. West: ‘Let’s talk about the president doing blow and smoking dope’

By Justin Sink

Rep. Allen West said Tuesday that if questions about his military service were fair game, so too should be those about President Obama's drug use in high school and college.

West was asked during a constituent town hall in Boca Raton, Fla., to release an Army report detailing his treatment of an Iraqi police officer detained while he was serving in Iraq, according to a report from the liberal blog ThinkProgress.

West initially defended his actions in responding to the question.

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  April 25, 2012, 1:28 pm

RNC ad hits Obama over Jimmy Fallon appearance

By Jonathan Easley

The Republican National Committee looked to draw a contrast between Mitt Romney’s victory speech on Tuesday night, and President Obama’s appearance on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”

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  April 6, 2012, 12:41 pm

West: I'd be VP 'if it was the right fit'

By Justin Sink

Rep. Allen West said his focus is on being "a good congressional representative" but he would consider VP spot

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  April 6, 2012, 12:14 pm

Romney campaign video: Mitt 'as mischievous and naughty' as his sons

By Cameron Joseph

Mitt Romney's campaign is out with a new Web video featuring his wife, Ann, discussing their family, and joking that Mitt was as "mischievous and naughty" as his prankster sons.

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  April 2, 2012, 9:57 am

Santorum guarantees victory in Pennsylvania

By Jonathan Easley

Rick Santorum said he will "absolutely" win his home state, raising the stakes ahead of the April 24 contest.

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  March 21, 2012, 9:09 am

Gingrich: Santorum loss in Illinois should make conservatives rethink him

By Alicia M. Cohn

Newt Gingrich said Mitt Romney's win in Illinois should make conservatives rethink whether Rick Santorum can beat him to become the GOP presidential nominee.

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  March 21, 2012, 7:37 am

Ron Paul calls Secret Service protection a 'form of welfare'

By Daniel Strauss

Ron Paul called Secret Service protection a type of "welfare."

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  March 16, 2012, 10:43 am

CBS secretly films GOP fundraiser

By Adele Hampton

The high-price fundraiser benefited a dozen GOP freshman and took place at an expensive Florida resort.

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  March 15, 2012, 1:58 pm

Kermit the Frog speculates about a brokered GOP convention

By Alicia M. Cohn

Kermit the Frog hopped aboard rampant speculation about the possibility of a brokered GOP convention on Wednesday night, weighing in on the long GOP presidential primary with some political predictions on “The Colbert Report.”

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  March 15, 2012, 10:04 am

Puerto Rico legislator calls Santorum comments 'narrow'

By Daniel Strauss

A Puerto Rico legislator called Rick Santorum's suggestion that the territory adopt English as its official language a "narrow and limiting view of what America is about."

The response, by Del. Pedro Pierluisi (D-Puerto Rico) comes a day after Santorum, during a visit to the territory, told a local newspaper that Puerto Rico had to adopt English as its official language if it wanted statehood.

"Well, first, it's incorrect to say that there's a federal law imposing English as the only official language in our states. The Constitution doesn't provide anything along those lines either," Pierluisi said Thursday on CNN. 

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