Santorum Warns Of Doomsday [VIDEO]

Santorum’s campaign slogan very well could be one word: doomsday.

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To hear the Republican presidential candidate tell it, the United States will collapse under the weight of its health care system, and basic freedoms will be history. Iran will annihilate Israel and then South Carolina if Iran isn’t blocked from building a nuclear weapon. And divorce will yield higher taxes for everyone.

The former Pennsylvania senator doesn’t mince words in campaign speeches in which he describes how — in his view — the country is heading down the wrong path and the government is growing too big. Gloom and doom usually pepper his remarks.

And he often argues that America will falter if he fails to win the nomination and President Barack Obama wins another term.

Romney says he ‘misspoke’ when talking about poor

Mitt Romney says he misspoke when he said he was not very concerned about poor people.

In an interview Thursday with Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston, Romney said his comments were an accidental “misstatement” of a position that he’s repeated throughout his presidential campaign.

The front-runner in the GOP nomination race said Wednesday in a CNN interview that he was “not very concerned about the very poor” because they have an “ample safety net.”

Romney has repeatedly said he’s focused primarily on helping middle-class Americans hurt by the bad economy.

Romney now says that he gives “thousands of interviews” and that he simply got it wrong.

Paul: States should resolve land management issues

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is railing against the federal government’s influence in the West, saying that states are in the best position to resolve conflicts over the management of wild horses and roads on public lands.

About 300 people turned out Thursday to see Paul at an Elko rally ahead of Saturday’s presidential caucus. As many or more gathered to see him Thursday night at a rally in Reno.

The Texas congressman says that while he’s unsure of the solution to the wild horse problem in Nevada and other Western states, federal land managers should be the last resort to resolve the issue.

Paul says the U.S. Forest Service should not be imposing travel management plans on public land in Nevada and elsewhere across the West.

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