Tag: "2012 Election"
Get to Know Herman Now and Avoid the Rush
Apropos of the end of this Stacy McCain post, let me give you an extended introduction to Herman Cain. You may not have heard of him yet, but I am pretty confident that you’ll have seen and heard quite a bit from him at this time next year. Here’s a relatively short speech he gave [...]
Forgive Me If I Don’t Play the Handicapping Game
National Journal has published its first ranking of the potential Republican 2012 Presidential field. It looks like they’ll be updating this regularly, so, if you’re into that sort of thing, be sure to keep the link handy. I don’t see a lot of sense in ranking the contenders right now. The primaries are about a [...]
The Pledge to America: 21 Pages of Meh
The Congressional Republicans have released their gameplan for 2011 and beyond in a document called the “Pledge to America”. It’s 21 pages of solidly written and occasionally inspirational calls to remember the Constitution and the principles on which the nation was founded as well as a bushel basket full of promises they say they’ll keep [...]
Run ‘Stache Run: John Bolton for Veep?
I don’t know that he’d win, but if John Bolton made a serious run for the 2012 Republican nomination, it would make the race very interesting. Bolton, a sometimes controversial diplomat who served as ambassador to the U.N. from August 2005 through December 2006 for then-President George W. Bush, flirted with the idea of challenging [...]
Can We Just Send the Democratic Leadership Some Shipping Crates Now?
This is huge. Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP’s largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup’s history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress… This marks the fifth week in a row [...]
UK Telegraph: Rahm Gone by Year’s End; Me: 2012 Just Got A Lot More Interesting
Well, wouldn’t this make for an interesting 2011 (via allahpundit’s Twitter feed)? Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is expected to leave his job later this year after growing tired of the “idealism” of Barack Obama’s inner circle. Washington insiders say he will quit within six to eight months in frustration at their [...]
Our Man Mitch?
I realize that we’re at least a year away from seriously thinking about 2012 Presidential candidates, but that hasn’t stopped the hard-core politicos from conjecturing wildly. Most of the action is on the Republican side of the coming race (which I think is a huge mistake, by the way) and I can think of an [...]
Remember When We Liked Mitt Romney?
Oh, Mitt. You are so finished. Today, a blogger for the website Rightosphere, Kavon Nikrad, writes that he asked Romney at a recent book signing to clarify what was meant by the “worst aspects,” and Romney told him that he would oppose a repeal of the individual mandate. Winning an election isn’t exactly rocket science. [...]
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