June 9, 2011 – 4:02 pm
Hey, I bet you forgot that Newt was still running for President. It was just a few short weeks ago that he announced, immediately made several missteps, and now Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign imploded Thursday afternoon with his entire senior staff resigning en masse, according to multiple sources familiar with the moves. […]
June 9, 2011 – 7:43 am
Mitt Romney is, in my estimation, a great candidate, and perhaps the best one to defeat Obama in the 2012 general election. While he certainly has several squishy Conservative positions, he also has excellent experience as both a business executive and as a political executive. He will appeal easily to the moderate and middle ground […]
June 8, 2011 – 6:54 pm
Well, when the economy took a nosedive once they took control of Congress, they spent enormous amounts of money that failed to help the economy at all, pushed threw the hated Obamacare, are doing nothing to help gas prices, failed to pass a budget, etc and so on, well, yeah, they have to deflect to […]
June 7, 2011 – 4:02 pm
Nate Silver has an interesting piece up at the NY Times entitled The 10-Word Question That Could Cost Obama the Election. Skipping past a recitation of just what Carter was facing, we get to Mr. Reagan would win overwhelmingly, however, claiming 44 states (even Massachusetts and New York) while limiting Mr. Carter to just 41 […]
June 5, 2011 – 8:32 am
Good news! He’ll do what he does best: lie and Blame Others After months of relatively robust job growth, President Barack Obama and his team must now reckon with the reality that the economy probably won’t be on firm ground during the 2012 campaign — and that he must temper some of the Morning-in-America optimism […]
June 4, 2011 – 9:00 am
News for liberals: he hasn’t been able to do anything in the long term, either. He’s had over two years. He had a compliant Congress for the first half of his term. What they’ve done hasn’t worked. But, of course, what the Liberals are worried about is not an actually better economy, but, an economy […]
June 2, 2011 – 8:46 am
So says the NY Times (linked through MSNBC, avoiding the silly paywall), telling us in detail what we already know No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent. (except Reagan, which is pointed out later in the article) Seventeen […]
May 29, 2011 – 8:49 am
Yes, that is the exact headline, and what follows is an interesting article Starting Sunday, Sarah Palin enters enemy territory. The bus tour that stands to return her to the 2012 spotlight is taking her to the part of the country that’s the least friendly to her — the northeastern U.S. The headline and the […]
May 28, 2011 – 9:00 am
Should we start or end with a face palm?From Real Clear Politics On his first trip back to the nation’s first voting state as a soon-to-be declared presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney reaffirmed his support for federal ethanol subsidies — an always important campaign issue in Iowa that figures to take on an […]
May 27, 2011 – 8:33 am
I had intended to take a shot at the lead story over at The Politico regarding “Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann Size Each Other Up,” but this wacky opinion piece by one of the GOP intelligentsia over at The Washington Post really takes the cake: Huntsman-Bachmann in 2012! Former governor and ambassador Jon Huntsman is an […]
