On Fox News Sunday today, Rick Santorum continued to draw a strong conservative contrast between himself and Newt Gingrich. Chris Wallace played a clip of an ad Santorum released recently, claiming that he not only “talks a good conservative game, he lives one.” The line is accompanied by a picture of Santorum surrounded by his immediate family. Wallace asked Santorum if that was a veiled attack on Gingrich’s troubled family history.

The issue of abortion has found its way back into mainstream political conversation, thanks to last week’s controversy involving the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation attempting to stop funding Planned Parenthood because abortion is one of many medical services they provide, only to go back on that when people started getting in uproar over it. The panel on Fox News Sunday today discussed the controversy, with host Chris Wallace asking how much their actions were politically calculated.

Newt Gingrich has gotten his fair share of criticism for comments he made in 2008 seemingly referring to Spanish as a “ghetto language.” Mitt Romney released an attack ad highlighting the comment, which he was forced to defend during Thursday’s CNN debate. Chris Wallace confronted Gingrich about the comment on Fox News Sunday today and tried to get Gingrich to clarify what he meant.

Those of us who don’t like it when waitresses come over to us in restaurants to sing “Happy Birthday” should be able to sympathize. Congressman Paul Ryan‘s birthday is today, and yet he took time out of whatever decadent Bacchanalia he clearly had planned to stop by Fox News Sunday to talk politics and the economy with Chris Wallace. At the end of the interview, Wallace noted it was Ryan’s 42nd birthday, and then, inexplicably, one of Wallace’s crewpeople appeared on camera presenting Ryan with a birthday cake.

It turns out that moderating several Republican debates does not actually make one immune to thinking that there may be too many of them this time around. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace visited radio host Mike Gallagher to talk about Thursday’s debate, and ended up instead talking about debates generally, and how “ridiculous” the fact that there have been nineteen of them is.

One of the key strategies President Obama is utilizing in his reelection bid this year is to run against the “do-nothing Congress,” and on Fox News Sunday today, Chris Wallace asked House Speaker John Boehner to respond to that line of attack and the notion that Congress has been increasingly ineffective. Boehner argued that the focus of House Republicans over the past few months has been on job creation, and pointed to recent successes on the payroll tax cut and unemployment as evidence that Congress has been able to work with the president.

After being dogged by rival candidates and the media to release his tax returns, Mitt Romney finally relented today and told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday he would release his 2010 tax returns, alongside an estimate of his 2011 tax returns, on Tuesday. Both Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich called on Romney to release his tax records last week, and Romney’s initially said he would do so in April. But after all the intense media coverage, Romney decided to just get it out of the way this week.

Studio B guest host Trace Gallagher talked with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace and ask him about CNN’s John King‘s controversial opening debate question on Newt Gingrich‘s “open marriage” scandal. “Yeah, I would have!” Wallace exclaimed.

The Winning Our Future Super PAC is responsible for the new 28-minute infomercial/attack ad focused on Mitt Romney‘s career at the private equity firm Bain Capital, and this particular PAC just happens to be a pro-Newt Gingrich organization. Gingrich has been on the offensive against Romney, targeting his “vulture capitalism,” as Rick Perry phrased it. On Fox News Sunday today, a spokesman for Winning Out Future was questioned by Chris Wallace about Gingrich’s past ties to that very same industry.

The Newt Gingrich campaign released an attack ad featuring a kitchen sink’s worth of clunky Mitt Romney moments, but the undisputed star of the clip is Seamus, the Romney’s Irish setter, who was famously strapped to the roof of the Romney family station wagon for a long road trip. Don’t worry, though. The ad shows Romney explaining, to Fox News’ Chris Wallace, that Seamus was safely inside an “airtight kennel.”

If you have a talking point handy to wave around every time you duke it out with your opponents, you better be prepared in case they try to use the same point on you. But apparently that didn’t happen on Fox News Sunday today when Chris Wallace kept pressing Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to be consistent in her charge that Mitt Romney was directly responsible for laying people off at companies owned by Bain Capital. If that was the case, Wallace asked, why isn’t President Obama responsible for the job losses at Solyndra?

One of the biggest questions Ron Paul is facing from the media is his controversial remarks on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Namely, that he isn’t a big fan of it. Paul has been dogged by the media with this question for weeks now, and today it was Chris Wallace‘s turn to give Paul a chance to clarify or expand upon his past thoughts on the matter. The congressman, who defended himself against charges of racism at last night’s debate, continued to defend his position by insisting he was promoting liberty first.

On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace grilled Republican hopeful Ron Paul over passages in his 1987 book Freedom Under Siege, in which he had wrote “The individual suffering from AIDS certainly is a victim – frequently a victim of his own lifestyle – but this same individual victimizes innocent citizens by forcing them to pay for his care,”, Wallace asked if Paul still felt that way.

Former Iowa Caucuses-winner Mike Huckabee apparently wants to spend his post-Christmas days deleting hate mail from his inbox. In an interview with Fox News Sunday‘s Chris Wallace, Huckabee delivered a fairly blistering assessment of Iowa frontrunner Rep. Ron Paul and his “fanatical believers.”

One of the biggest problems Mitt Romney has as a candidate is that to many voters he comes across as a calculating businessman who can’t empathize with the working classes. For the first time since March 2010, Romney appeared on a Sunday talk show, Fox News Sunday to disabuse the notion that he is that kind of person; as Chris Wallace phrased it, a “Gordon Gekko” stereotype the Obama campaign would want to paint him as.

On Sunday morning’s Fox News Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney put on a veritable clinic on the dual pillars of his campaign: taking all sides of an issue, and taking no side of an issue. When host Chris Wallace asked him whether he would have invaded Iraq, given what we know now, Romney breakdanced around the question. He did reveal that it’s “fortunate” the troops are out of Iraq, but that President Obama was wrong to take the troops out of Iraq, but that, as president, Romney wouldn’t put troops back in Iraq.

We all know that the current issue of Playboy features pictures of naked Lindsay Lohan. But, lets be honest, you already looked at them. So, is there anything else worthwhile in the issue? Well, in addition to what I can only assume is another incredibly helpful edition of “The Playboy Advisor” (how will I find the perfect bottle of full-bodied cabernet to persuade my wife to have a threeway?) there’s also a pretty great interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace. In it, he discusses the state of the Obama presidency, his high-profile scuffles with Jon Stewart, and growing up as immersed in television journalism as anyone could possibly be.

In preparation for the Fox News Republican Debate tonight, Megyn Kelly sat down with Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, and Neil Cavuto to preview what viewers should expect (Kelly, Cavuto, and Wallace are moderating, with Wallace hosting). Noting the seating arrangement — with Kelly on one side facing the three men — the four decided to play off a Dating Game theme, throwing in jokes alongside the serious analysis.

In an interview with Fox News host Jon Scott, Chris Wallace walked back his earlier remarks to Neil Cavuto that if Ron Paul wins the Iowa caucuses, it will discredit the contest. “Now, Ron Paul’s fans are legion and they are very vocal. I’m sure your e-mail box has been overflowing with reaction to that comment!” Scott exclaimed.

With the Iowa caucuses right around the corner, some people are saying that the victor may actually end up being Ron Paul. Yeah, you know, the guy who’s had steady numbers in the polls this whole time despite some people seeming to want to ignore that fact. So, what does that mean if he wins? Well, according to Fox News’ Chris Wallace, it will “discredit the Iowa caucuses.”

Cable News personalities are known for, at times, revealing an inflated sense of self-worth and influence on the field of public opinion. While it is hard to quantify who actually holds more sway than the next opiniotainer, the clashing of egos is always more entertaining than the egos themselves. Take for example the recent back and forth between MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Fox News Chris Wallace, who find themselves in a bit of a fairly public and still blossoming feud.

President Obama has been arguing recently that not only is the economy going to take more time to come away from the crevasse, but that it would take more than one term and even more than one president to deal with the problem. Chris Wallace reminded viewers that Obama said himself he would be a one-term president if the economy didn’t turn around, and discussed Obama’s handling of the crisis with the panel.

In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, struggling Republican candidate Rick Perry defended his series of many gaffes on the campaign trail, and acknowledged he was still rusty on his civics. “I don’t have memorized all of the Supreme Court judges,” Perry admitted.

Rick Perry spoke of his fun moment with fellow candidate Mitt Romney last night when Romney joked to Perry that they should hold a ten thousand dollar bet to settle once and for all whether Romney is a flip-flopper on the health care individual mandate or not. Perry said he thought it was “out-of touch” for joking about betting with that much money, considering that his wealth has been a sticking point with voters all throughout the campaign.

On Thursday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough warned Mitt Romney that he was heading into the lion’s den when he sits down for an interview with Fox News host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday December 18. “Chris Wallace has never made a secret of the fact that he loathes Mitt Romney — has never liked him,” Scarborough revealed. “Anybody that knows Chris Wallace at Fox has said the same thing. Chris Wallace, of course, will deny it, and then throw an insult around because that’s what he’s done in the past.”