By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jokes and kidding only go so far with the Secret Service. The Monroe News-Star reports that the Secret Service is investigating an anti-President Obama remark made at a Rick Santorum appearance in Louisiana Friday morning. The paper reported that while Santorum was at the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office Rifle Range shooting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Presidential GOP hopeful Ron Paul is the only candidate left who doesn’t have Secret Service protection, and he has something to say about that. He thinks it amounts to a “form of welfare,” according to CNN. “You’re having the taxpayers pay to take care of somebody,” Paul told talk show host…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now comes the lighter side of the bumpy Republican presidential campaign. The New York Daily News reports that GQ magazine has revealed the Secret Service code names for candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. The paper reported that Romney chose the name “Javelin”. The paper reported that some speculated the name…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rick Santorum, who has marketed himself as the conservative Republican candidate who can defeat the liberal Barack Obama, is complaining the Obama Justice Department isn’t doing enough to crackdown on pornography. The Christian Post reports that Santorum had said on his campaign website that President Obama favored pornographers over children. On…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It took a while. CBS News reports that presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich will be getting Secret Service protection just like Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. The network pointed out that Ron Paul is now the only candidate left who doesn’t have the Secret Service protection. Gingrich, who has been fading in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Could it be that presidential hopeful Rick Santorum wants what Mitt Romney already has? Apparently, so. ABC and Fox news report that Santorum has sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking for Secret Service Protection, USA Today reports. Romney is currently the only GOP candidate who has the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachman told a group of Republican faithfuls on Oct. 28 that “Obama is allowing terror suspect groups to write the FBI’s terror training manual,” a wildly false statement, according to the Associated Press. But that didn’t stop other Republican hopefuls from repeating the claims, reports the Associated…
