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Bryan Fischer is the first social conservative to criticize Mitt Romney for hiring openly gay spokesman Richard Grenell. Bryan Fischer is the first social conservative to criticize Mitt Romney for hiring openly gay spokesman Richard Grenell. Grenell will serve as the Romney campaign's national security and foreign policy spokesman, the campaign announced on Wednesday. Grenell, who has been partnered to Matt Lashey for 10 years, served as the spokesman for the U.S. ambassador to the United States during the George W. Bush administration. Fischer, who regularly lashes out against gay rights on his American Family Association-hosted radio program, Focal Point, knocked the hire in a message to his 1,272 followers on Twitter. ?Romney picks out & loud gay as a spokesman,? he tweeted. ?If personnel is policy, his message to the pro-family community: drop dead.? Grenell is also facing criticism over a series of tweets mocking Newt Gingrich's two previous marriages, his weight and his current w

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign distanced itself Tuesday from a joke by Hollywood veteran Robert de Niro about the prospect of a white First Lady returning to the White House.

Following Mitt Romney on the campaign trail for a few days only confirms his reputation as slightly wooden -- so it's a good thing his wife Ann is there to humanize him, if only a little.

(Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich's tax return, dramatically released on Thursday during a candidates debate, shows that his wealth comes from a media and consulting empire he built after leaving government, but yields more questions than answers about how he earns his money.

Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich angrily denied he asked his ex-wife for an "open marriage" and slammed the US media for airing an interview with her.

Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich angrily denied he asked his ex-wife for an "open marriage" and slammed the US media for airing an interview with her.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - For Mitt Romney, a miserable week in South Carolina of dodging questions about his wealth and income taxes got worse on Thursday.

GILBERT, South Carolina (Reuters) - With the crucial Republican presidential primary in South Carolina just hours away, front-runner Mitt Romney on Friday lowered expectations for how well he will do and acknowledged he is in a neck-and-neck race with Newt Gingrich.

GILBERT, South Carolina (Reuters) - With the crucial Republican presidential primary in South Carolina just hours away, longtime front-runner Mitt Romney is acknowledging what some opinion polls are suggesting: He could lose Saturday.

GILBERT, South Carolina (Reuters) - With the crucial Republican presidential primary in South Carolina just hours away, longtime front-runner Mitt Romney is acknowledging what some opinion polls are suggesting: He could lose Saturday.

GILBERT, South Carolina (Reuters) - With the crucial Republican presidential primary in South Carolina just hours away, longtime front-runner Mitt Romney is acknowledging what some opinion polls are suggesting: He could lose Saturday.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich's second wife said in an interview the Republican presidential candidate asked her to have an "open marriage" during his affair with another woman in the 1990s, a statement that might damage his chances in South Carolina's primary vote.

The woman who was wed for 18 years to Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich said in an interview airing Thursday that her ex-husband asked for an "open marriage" after carrying on a six-year affair with an aide.

The woman who was wed for 18 years to Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich said in an interview airing Thursday that her ex-husband asked for an "open marriage" after carrying on a six-year affair with an aide.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - These are desperate times for Newt Gingrich.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - These are desperate times for Newt Gingrich.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (Reuters) - Ann Romney on Wednesday urged Iowans to vote for her husband Mitt to be the Republican U.S. presidential nominee, painting an emotional picture of her high school sweetheart who she says has strong values and can be counted on in a crisis.

DES MOINES (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich pledged on Monday to remain faithful to his third wife, fighting back against rivals who have raised his past infidelity as an issue.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suggested gay marriage is to blame for America's economic woes. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suggested gay marriage is to blame for America's economic woes. In a radio interview on Catholic Radio San Diego to pitch his book A Nation Like No Other, his short film Nine Days that Changed the World, and his wife Callista Gingrich's upcoming children's book Sweet Land of Liberty, host Charles Limandri asked Gingrich why he believed ?radical secularists? are attacking the family. ?The concept of family being between man and woman and the concept of all these core values that grow out of 3,000 years of Judeo-Christian tradition,? Gingrich answered. ?This is a direct threat to the entire secular world.? ?We're becoming increasingly secular, the family is under attack and economically we're experiencing woes like we've never known in our history it seems. So what is the connection here?? Limandri asked. ?You have to recognize that free enterprise

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich became the first major Republican candidate to formally throw his hat into the ring for the 2012 White House race, aiming to oust President Barack Obama.