Sarah Palin’s Maneuver?

January 30, 2012

Along with her endorsement of Newt Gingrich for the Republican nomination for president, and her running mate Sen. John McCain’s strong endorsement of Mitt Romney, do you suppose Palin wants the nomination process to go on forever so the Republican National Convention will deadlock? Gosh, might she hope that the convention has to turn to [...]

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Gov. Jan Brewer’s finger

January 27, 2012

Would Arizona governor Jan Brewer have shaken her finger at President Obama, or any president, if he were White? We doubt it. And if she would, she proved she has no manners or respect for the presidency.

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Romney’s selective memory

January 18, 2012

As Republican Mitt Romney campaigns in South Carolina for Saturday’s primary, shouting that President Obama hasn’t done anything to create jobs, his and his party’s selective memory omits that it has been the Republicans in Congress who have voted down all of Obama’s proposals. Republicans’ sole, and stated, goal has been to make Obama fail [...]

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Conservatives more conservative? Bringing jobs home is patriotic

January 16, 2012

In South Carolina, we follow the candidates trying to out-conservative and out-”capitalist” each other ad nauseum. Without acknowledging that George W. Bush’s policies of cutting taxes for the wealthy and starting two “shock and awe” 10-year wars without funding are what got the country into this economic mess, the Republican candidates seem to vie for [...]

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Romney’s “Politics of Envy;” Perry’s “Vulture Capitalists”

January 12, 2012

Does Republican presidential primary candidate Mitt Romney believe that most Americans envy his position, especially President Barack Obama? His rehearsed comment insulted most Americans. Sure, many of us would love to have several multi-million dollar homes, but many of us would also just like to have one home and a job. Very few of us [...]

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Gingrich in it to ruin, not to win; Romney’s “Oops” moment

January 9, 2012

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich seems determined to ruin Mitt Romney’s chances to win the Republican nomination in a nasty manner that signals Gingrich has given up trying to win the nomination himself. Gingrich, who complained of Romney’s super PAC’s negative commercials against him in Iowa, has his own super PAC ripping into Romney in [...]

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Sarah Palin Curiously Coily Quiet; Unemployment Rate Drops

January 6, 2012

Sarah Palin, the vice presidential sweetheart of the 2008 Republican presidential campaign, has not posted anything on her website since her Christmas and Chanukah greetings. Having failed to sell her husband Todd’s snowmobile reality show, Palin again takes the role of breadwinner, headquartered in Alaska and Arizona, the latter the home state of her presidential [...]

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Iowa to New Hampshire, 2012

January 5, 2012

Today’s Main Points: • Mitt Romney’s SuperPAC spent $49 per vote and he got 6 fewer Iowa caucus votes than the last time he ran, “winning” by a landslide 8 votes over Rick Santorum. • Santorum claims to have more than 400 New Hampshire legislators in his pocket, who may or may not turn out [...]

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Iowa: The Morning After

January 4, 2012

Remember that Iowa caucus goers are a small percentage of Iowa voters and hardly ever choose the next president. But they do weed out some candidates, such as Michelle Bachmann and possibly Rick Perry, who both might do better to go home and tend to their district and state. We did learn that 75 percent [...]

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Iowa, Iowa, Iowa

January 3, 2012

Let’s get real. Is the over-hyped attention on Iowa’s Republican caucuses misplaced in this 2012 presidential election year? Today Iowa Republicans maneuver and vote in complicated caucuses, with many voters undecided going into the caucus vote. Some Iowa Republicans complain that they haven’t personally been wooed by every candidate and won’t vote for the ones [...]

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