It’s time for round four of our 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Straw Poll. For this round are (in no particular order): Herman Cain, John Bolton, Thaddeus McCotter, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and John Huntsman Changes from round three: I’ve removed anyone who isn’t [...]
Rep. Michele Bachmann Wins Iowa Straw Poll
August 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) won the 2011 Iowa straw poll with 28.55 percent of the vote, Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) finished second with 27.65 percent and former Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty finished a distant third 13.57 percent. From the Wall Street Journal: None of the 16,892 votes filed at Iowa State University in Ames will [...]
Video: Newt Gingrich BLASTS Chris Wallace for his “Gotcha” Questions at Iowa Debate
August 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This is just pure golden goodness: Ouch, I love it! It’s about time Republican candidates started calling the sound bite media on the carpet for wasting everyone’s with time trivial, tabloid gotcha questions instead of asking substantial policy questions. Newt was absolutely right to go after Chris Wallace the way he did tonight… and judging by [...]
Newt Gingrich: ‘Patriotism’ Led to Personal Indiscretions
March 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When this story broke yesterday I rolled my eyes and laughed like pretty much everyone else in the country. It was one of those moments… I like Newt, he’s a fascinating, and occasionally brilliant, political thinker, but for whatever reason he just doesn’t seem to know when to shut-up: There’s no question at times of [...]
Weekend Briefing – Saturday, March 5, 2011
March 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I’m feeling a bit under the weather today and don’t feel much like writing, but here’s few must read articles from my stack of stuff: Greenspan Says Government ‘Activism’ Hampering U.S. Recovery – Bloomberg News Connecticut bill seeks to unconstitutionally restrict political and religious speech by employers – Washington Examiner ATF Let Hundreds of U.S. [...]
Poll Question: If the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary were being held today who would you vote for?
August 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
LAT: Reagan Wouldn’t Recognize This GOP
January 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Former congressman Mickey Edwards wrote provocative Op Ed titled “Reagan wouldn’t recognize this GOP” in the Los Angeles Times a couple of days… It’s worth reading. I agree with Edwards’ central point which point which is that the contemporary Republican party has lost its way. Where Edwards loses me is here: The Republican Party that [...]
Fred Thompson Drops RNC Bid for Return to Acting
November 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Continuing with my catching up on things theme here… It looks like the race for RNC Chair has tightened a little more. I mentioned a few days ago that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s bid for appeared to be losing steam and now comes word that Fred Thompson is dropping out of the race in [...]
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