“One of Governor Romney's aides today on television said that Governor Romney, after he wins the primaries, will be like an [Etch A Sketch] - you take whatever he said and you can shake it up and it will be gone, and he's going to draw a whole new picture for the general election.” SaidWholeTodayWinningGoneTelevisionRepublicanDrawsElectionPrimariesShakesGovernorsRomneyGeneral ElectionsGovernor RomneyShake It UpEtch A Sketch Author:Rick Santorum
“I am glad to welcome my friend Rand Paul into the 2016 GOP primary. Rand is a good friend, and we have worked side by side on many issues. I respect his talent, his passion, and the work he has done for Kentuckians and Americans in the U.S. Senate. His entry into the race will no doubt raise the bar of competition, help make us all stronger, and ultimately ensure that the GOP nominee is equipped to beat Hillary Clinton and to take back the White House for Republicans in 2016.” DoneHelpingPassionHouseSidesWhiteRaceIssuesDoubtTalentRepublicanBeatsMy FriendsStrongerRaisesCompetitionClintonGladBarsWelcomePrimariesNo DoubtWhite HouseSenateGood FriendEntryGopRaising The BarKentuckians Author:Ted Cruz
“Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted -- while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers.” PeopleIfsThinkingAmericaPoliticianRepublicanHappeningsOrdinaryDemocratActivePrimariesFasterBehaveMinoritiesRealisingLockedGlobesErosionAmerican PowerStagsAntlers Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican - and Democratic - Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election.” MayViewsPartyRepublicanMembersConcernedVoteElectionDemocraticPrimariesVotersDemocratic PartyNovemberZealousGeneral Elections Author:Thomas Sowell
“In a Republican primary every candidate is going to come in front of you and say I'm the most conservative guy that ever lived. Goshdarnit, whodidily, I'm conservative. You know what, talk is cheap. The word tells us you shall know them by their fruits ... Look every candidate in the eye and say 'Don't talk, show me.'” KnowsLooksShowsEyeGuyFrontsRepublicanFruitConservativePrimariesCandidatesShow MeTalk ShowsTalk Is Cheap Author:Ted Cruz
“In my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary.” PeopleViewsOughtRepublicanVoteDebatePrimaries Author:Ted Cruz
“Last night was Super Tuesday - a 10-state GOP Primary orgy. A big, sweaty pile of lever-yankin Republican voters. And like most orgies, it involves a bunch of middle aged guys who are not appealing to women.” StatesBigsLastsNightGuyMiddleRepublicanBunchPrimariesVotersLast NightMiddle AgesTuesdayMiddle AgedGopLevers Author:Stephen Colbert
“The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.” RepublicanPrimariesMichiganNelsonHeadbands Author:Dan Rather
“Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that the establishment, moderate wing of the party has sidelined itself. They're not coalescing around one candidate as they have in the past.” PastPartyRepublicanWingsExtraordinarySupposed To BePrimariesCandidatesEstablishmentModeratesExtraordinary Things Author:Mara Liasson
“It's secret that evangelical Christians are critical players in Republican primaries.” ChristianSecretPlayerRepublicanCriticalPrimariesEvangelical Author:Michel Martin
“A Republican primary race that has for months alternated between spectacle and abomination has over the past 20th hours ignited into a raging, full-blown dumpster fire. One stoke by a group of men who hope to become the most powerful person in the world.” MenWorldPersonsPastHoursPowerfulRaceFireGroupsMonthsRepublicanRagePrimariesMost PowerfulOver The PastAbominationStokeDumpstersPowerful Person Author:Chris Hayes
“We got the clearest picture of Donald Trump`s weaknesses and liabilities in a general election. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz finally gave up on trying to convince Republican primary voters that Trump is not a real conservative, attacks that have failed to resonate.” TryingRealTrumpRepublicanWeaknessElectionConservativePrimariesConvinceVotersGave UpLiabilityCruzMarcosGeneral Elections Author:Chris Hayes
“I had crazy experience when I was talking to voters at the Nevada caucus the other night in Vegas. Voter after voter after voter, these are Republican primary voters, caucus goers, saying I don`t listen to Fox anymore. I can`t trust Fox anymore. I`m over them. And these were all [Donald] Trump supporters who he had successfully sort of pried their trust away from the thing they have been trusting for years.” YearsHas BeensI CanNightTalkingCrazyTrumpRepublicanPrimariesVotersFoxesSupporterVegasNevadaCaucus Author:Donald Trump
“Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.” RepublicanPrimariesCandidatesVotingVotersEstablishment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio's work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters.” LongSaidPathPeriodsRepublicanBillsImmigrationPrimariesVulnerabilityImmigrantsVotersOfferingCitizenshipComprehensiveLong Periods Of TimeMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“Part of the reason [Donald Trump] destroyed his Republican challengers is because they agree with him on issues. And he apparently struck a vein of entertainment among the Republican primary voters, so all they had left was kind of whining and insulting back and forth, as opposed to taking him on where I think a presidential election should.” ThinkingShouldKindReasonLeftIssuesTrumpRepublicanElectionAgreeEntertainmentDestroyedPrimariesPresidentialVotersVeinsBack And ForthInsultingWhiningPresidential Election Author:Hillary Clinton
“[Donald Trump] put this issue at the center of this presidential campaign in the Republican primaries. And his position and his principles have been absolutely consistent. We're going to secure the border. We're going to build a wall, have a physical barrier. We're going to enforce the laws of this country, end sanctuary cities, implement E-Verify.” Has BeensEndsCountryLawCitiesPrinciplesIssuesPositionWallTrumpRepublicanCampaignsSecurePrimariesPresidentialBordersConsistentBarriersSanctuaryVerifyPresidential Campaign Author:Mike Pence
“In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.” MayLongSaidIssuesMediaRepublicanLong TimeHappeningsElectionClimateClimate ChangeDebateRationalPrimariesCandidatesExceptionModeratesClimate Change Deniers Author:Noam Chomsky
“Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both of believers and of the rest of us. Look at the role of religion in Republican presidential primaries if you need any confirmation of this last statement.” IfsNeedsLooksHas BeensLastsHumanityRolesGoneRepublicanBelieverStatementsPrimariesPresidentialConfirmation Author:Allen W. Wood
“It`s been a long and tumultuous relationship between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that started off more or less as allies during the Republican primary. As Trump took the early lead in polls, Cruz stuck with the strategy of drafting off of the front-runner waiting for the moment to make his move.” LongMomentsMovingWaitingFrontsTrumpRepublicanStrategyStuckPrimariesAlliesRunnersPollsCruzLead InDrafting Author:Chris Hayes
“It`s basically a united [Republican ] party behind [Donald Trump] and Cruz`s numbers in Texas were plummeting and he was facing a possible primary challenge and this cements that this is the party of Trump.” ChallengesUnitedPartyNumbersBehindsTrumpRepublicanPrimariesTexasRepublican PartyCementCruz Author:Chris Hayes
“Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political system has evolved into a giant bureaucracy, the primary purpose of which is self-preservation, not fixing anything.” SelfCountryFactsPoliticalPurposeRepublicanDespitePrimariesGiantsPreservationBureaucracyFixingPolitical SystemsSelf Preservation Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for [Carly] Fiorina who he basically said who would vote for you? Look at her face. She evidently wants to be a Republican leadership, a part of the Republican Party so bad that she would allow them and him to get away with that.” WantWellsLooksSaidFacesSidesPartyTrumpRepublicanVoteElectionDefinedPrimariesGet AwayColleaguesRepublican PartyAisleDisrespectful Author:Maxine Waters
“The Donald Trump I knew as a young reporter in New York was nothing if not media friendly. And for most of the past Republican primary, he was the most accessible major candidate. No one else was close.” IfsPastYoungMediaNew YorkTrumpRepublicanMajorsPrimariesCandidatesFriendlyReporters Author:Jonathan Karl
“In fact, in the early days of the Republican primary, I was pointing to Governor [Scott ] Walker as the one guy who was demonstrating he knew how to fight back against the radical left and win! And he's tough, and he didn't shrink from it.” FactsGuyFightingWinningLeftRepublicanToughRadicalPrimariesGovernorsPointingShrinksWalkersDemonstrating Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Herein, folks, lies the answer of [Donald] Trump's success. In other words, the media covers things as stories that you would read about in a book or watch in a movie or a television show - and in this case, in the Republican primary, Trump was not the villain.” BookStoriesShowsLyingAnswersWatchesCasesMediaTelevisionTrumpRepublicanFolksPrimariesVillainTelevision Shows Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him.” WantKindWantedInterestingStreetsWallRepublicanLawyerPrimariesCandidatesInvestorsEstablishmentRomneyWant Him Author:Noam Chomsky