February 8, 2012

2012 Presidential Straw Poll — Round 3

It’s time for round three of our 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Straw Poll. The candidates in this round are (in no particular order): Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Mitch Daniels, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, John Kasich, John Huntsman, John Bolton, Jeb Bush, Liz Cheney, Chris Christie, Rick Santorum, [...]

2012 Republican Presidential Primary Straw Poll

It’s time for round two of our 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Straw Poll. The candidates are (in not particular order): Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, John Thune, Mitch Daniels, Bobby Jindal, Mike Pence, Rick Perry, John Kasich, John Huntsman and John Bolton.

Poll Question: If the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary were being held today who would you vote for?

I’m not crazy about Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee so they’re not even on my short list. I love Sarah Palin but I think she’s been to damaged by partisan attacks to be viable candidate… Ditto for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, he’s to much of a lighting rod. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Louisiana [...]

5 Myths About the 2008 Elections

Washington Post writer Chris Cillizza examines and attempts to debunk 5 myths about the 2008 elections… The entire article is worth reading but the two points that stand out in my opinion are these: 4. A Republican candidate could have won the presidency this year. I doubt it. In the hastily penned postmortems of campaign [...]

The Morning After…

I’m pressed for time this morning so I’ll keep this short… If you’re like me you watched Sarah Palin’s speech last night with a critical eye. Personally, I thought she knocked it out of the park. She showed why grassroots conservatives love her and why smart liberals are worried or even scared… The dumb ones [...]