Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney tweeted, “Stallone is right. US does apologize too much.”  Romney was referring to Sylvester Stallone’s comment to Fox News’s Bill O’Reily that he believes America apologizes too much. Read more from Elise Viebeck at The Hill

Twitter stats for the early frontrunners for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination: Newt Gingrich: 1,308,757 followers, 1,925 tweets Sarah Palin: 191,164 followers, 347 tweets Mike Huckabee: 83,297 followers, 1,188 tweets Tim Pawlenty: 16,464 followers, 235 tweets Mitt Romney: 14,347 followers, 241 tweets Haley Barbour: 6,357 followers, 264 tweets Mitch Daniels: 3,451 followers, 457 tweets Read more from John Dickerson at Slate

Following President Barack Obama‘s lead in 2008, prospective 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls are investing heavily in their online presence.  Through the first three months of 2010, political groups started by Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee have spent nearly $600,000 on their collective web operations.  According to David All, founder of TechRepublican.com,  Read more »

Re-posted from CQ Politics Today’s news from former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney isn’t the $2,500 check his PAC is sending to fellow Republican Charles Djou. It’s that Romney (like Tim Pawlenty before him) has noticed the opportunity posed by next month’s unusual special election in Hawaii — and is drawing attention to it with his  Read more »

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) praised the Tea Party movement and then asked them not to run as third party candidates in the general elections.  Romney explained, “if a conservative tea party candidate runs in a general election, that would siphon votes away from a Republican candidate, and ‘divide and fail is the result.’”  Read more »

Online strategist Patrick Ruffini has an interesting take on Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) straw poll victory at CPAC.  Nearly everyone expected Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to win but Paul pulled off the suprise victory.   Ruffini argues that Paul’s victory is a sign that grassroots campaigning is a major part of the current conservative movement and  Read more »