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Subscribe to RSSThe Hill: “A resurgence in President Obama’s popularity could force Republican presidential hopefuls to move up their 2012 announcement dates. Already, most of the GOP contenders are lagging behind the 2008 cycle, for which all of the candidates had announced their intention to run by the end of January 2007. Now the question is: How long is too long to wait, particularly as Obama’s approval ratings have risen in recent polls?”
DANIELS: Former Vice President Dick Cheney praised Mitch Daniels as a potential 2012 candidate during an interview with NBC’s Jamie Gangel: “I’m intrigued for example by, oh, someone like Mitch Daniels. I like Mitch because he's got a breadth of experience, as OMB Director for example, because he's run a major of a big corporation, he's run a think tank -- Hudson Institute -- he's now been governor of Indiana, and he's done in Indiana what I think we need to do at the national level.”
HUCKABEE: “Mike Huckabee and his top advisers insist that he's thinking seriously about running for president, but he's doing little to put together the sort of organization needed to mount a campaign,” Politico writes. The latest evidence: Chip Saltsman, his campaign manager in 2008 and one of his closest confidantes, has accepted a job as Chief of Staff for freshman Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.)… [But] Saltsman said his taking the job should not be read as an indication about Huckabee's intentions.”
PALIN: Per Real Clear Politics, “Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has tasked her aides with quietly gauging her level of support for a potential presidential campaign by making inquiries to a select pool of likely allies and grassroots activists in Iowa.”
Republicans want Palin to be more presidential if she runs for president.
PAWLENTY: “Republican Tim Pawlenty dished out $34,000 to state-level candidates and conservative groups in Iowa during the final 2010 push,” the AP reports. “His late-election contributions to candidates and groups were double the amount made by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney during the same period.”
PENCE: “Some South Carolina lawmakers are looking forward to the 2012's presidential election -- so much so they've asked U.S. Representative Mike Pence to seek the Republican nomination for president,” WLTX writes. Seven state representatives and four state senators have started a Facebook page and a Twitter account “for what they call a grassroots campaign.”
ROMNEY: Time magazine profiles Romney and his emerging 2012 bid.
Although Romney criticized his opponents in 2008 for not spending more time in Iowa, “as he appears to be preparing to launch a second presidential bid, Romney has largely avoided the state,” Real Clear Politics writes. “After a debilitating second-place finish in the 2008 caucuses, Romney has visited Iowa only twice since President Obama was elected, and he does not have any additional trips to the state currently scheduled.”
SANTORUM: In an interview with the Christian News Service -- and it’s on camera -- Santorum was asked about President Obama’s views on abortion and said he found it “almost remarkable for a black man to say, 'we're going to decide who are people and who are not people.'" (Here’s the video.)
The Manchester Union-Leader reported that Rick Santorum has chosen veteran Republican activist Clara Monier as the chair of his New Hampshire political action committee.
“It's Santorum's second New Hampshire hire this month,” The Hill points out. Santorum earlier announced Mike Biundo as the PAC’s director.
NEW HAMPSHIRE: “On Saturday, January 22, ABC News and WMUR-TV are teaming up for a first ever ‘straw poll’ sanctioned by the New Hampshire Republican State Committee to see just what kind of buzz these 2012 candidates have among the party faithful,” WMUR reports.
TEXAS: Ron Paul’s thinking about a 2012 Senate run.
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This guy is as clueless as the rest of the potential Republican candidates when it comes to issues of racial matters in America. The party of the white, not right.
Sounds like someone missed th results of the last election. Are the MAJORITY of Americans racist?? They must be to elect all those repubs, right Jack?? Or are you just another one of those mindless LIBS who despite the lack of evidence, such as when u tried to blame the right for the Az matter, you just don't let the facts get in the way of a 'darn good slogan'.
Yeah, the mindless left wing, just a group of intellectual midgets intimidated by those who actually put some thought into what they say
Isnt deciding who is and who isnt a person the exact thing the right to control your lifers do? They want to insist that a microscopic embryo is a person. Isnt that what Santorum accused the president of doing? The abortion debate will never be solved as long as people on the far left and right of this issue flatly refuse to make concessions.
But the same folks, who oppose any abortion, at any time, generally are also opposed to pragmatic sex education, including birth control education and use. How can you ever hope to solve a legitimate issue with such strident thinking?
Here is what I personally believe to me true. An embryo, a fetus, at least through the first trimester, is not life, is not a person. It merely represents the potential to become a person. Potential, nothing more. And even though, I would have a hard time accepting an abortion, I can not interfere in another persons life. How arrogant to forcefully impose your beliefs on a stranger. Thats a private decision that should be made by responsible adults and the people directly involved.
here's the question you abortionists: When does life begin? Is it OK to tear an unborn child apart in the womb while masking it as a 'woman's choice'?
How about the Dr that was killing babies here in Philly, is that ok too?
Where in the US Constitution does it say a Woman or anyone, can decide when a choice ends and life begins?
You on the left who confer 'rights' on animals, can't seem to decide when an unborn child BECOMES a child, you dehumanize the baby by calling it a 'FETUS'. By the way, the word FETUS MEANS 'Little One' in LATIN, it doesn't mean a lifeless bunble of cells.
It's Obama's race to lose. He just might do that. Independents are not very happy with his Bush imitation.
You got that right.
But they might be even less happy about the prospects of a Bush-redux in the form of a Romney, etc.
So what makes you two think you know what Independents are thinking? What makes you think you know what anyone except yourself and maybe a few personal acquaintances are thinking?
This is one piece of rhetoric that always really baffles me and it is very prevalent on the right (the left, too, but not nearly as much). The claim that these posters know what everyone else is or is not against or for. Give it a rest and speak for yourselves. I am an Independent (who, admittedly, leans Democratic) who is quite happy with President Obama. Kinda shoots down your theory that Independents are not happy with him, now doesn't it?
We don't know anything, but we like to prognosticate like experts anyway.
Very unhappy, Mark. Very, very unhappy.
I was trying to be funny, though not sucessfully I gather.
Timing is everything. My post was aimed at Uncle Krunk and JobSeeker.
Santorum only strengthened his support with his fellow conservatives. They love this sort of thing...especially if it's a poke at Obama.
Get ready for 2012 and more photoshops of watermelon fields in front of the whitehouse from conservatives. You think it was bad last election? Wait till 2012.
Rick Santorum... What a surprise.
Santorum as president? OMG
Everyone posting here knows Santorum was alluding to the fact that U.S. law once defined a negro as 3/5 of a person. The feigned outrage makes a wonderful show.
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Given Santorum's views about the personhood of the fetus, why does he think gays are subhuman and unworthy of equal treatment under the law?
IF they put up Mitt Romney for the nomination, I think Obama would be in trouble.
As for Rick Santorum, Im a non-believer (As well as millions of other Americans) in his version of religion. Why do I have to abide by the same rules as believers do? That would make America more like a theocracy than a democratic-republic.
Rick Santorum evidently feels with Sara Palin's recent problems there is room to fill the void with the Right Wong Nut Cases. He is obviously making a Grand Stand Play for the "Tea Party" vote. I found the comment on Obama's Race to be in incredibly poor taste.
Stop and think about the real reason behind the abortion fight and who is really being discriminated against. Ancient beliefs continue into today that women are property belonging to the males of the family, subject to the decisions and desires of any male. What better way to control a woman than to control her life 9 months of the year? First Rev. Jerry Falwell decides to make repealing Roe v: Wade the central issue of his ministry, then the vast Christian right jump on the bandwagon. Long after white men stopped counting Africian Americans in 5ths, the woman is still controlled. Not counted as even a fifth of a human, only a walking womb. If you think Santorum is crazy you ought to talk to some of the really far out nut-jobs about abortion. Like the kook who castrated himself in prison one night, with a knife he made, to prove to Jesus he would never sin again! True as the story is the action highlights how unstable these people are. Committed to stopping women from truly controlling their own lives and reproduction abilities. OMG! I just saw boneher on TV talking about abortion in the health care reform law!!!!!!! May women across America wake up in time to stop the lunacy before they sell their own bodies and those of sisters, daughters and females across the country into slavery to men. Let's start asking Where are the jobs, Mr. Speaker?
here's the question you abortionists: When does life begin? Is it OK to tear an unborn child apart in the womb while masking it as a 'woman's choice'?
How about the Dr that was killing babies here in Philly, is that ok too?
Where in the US Constitution does it say a Woman or anyone, can decide when a choice ends and life begins?
You on the left who confer 'rights' on animals, can't seem to decide when an unborn child BECOMES a child, you dehumanize the baby by calling it a 'FETUS'. By the way, the word FETUS MEANS 'Little One' in LATIN, it doesn't mean a lifeless bunble of cells.
The GOP candidate for 2012 will be the one that hates gays the most, hates the poor the most, loves the rich the most, hates freedom the most, and proclaims to be the most awesome Christian fundamentalist ever.
It's really that simple.
mr. man-on-dog is back? would never have thunk it. like the angry hillbilly woman from alaska, i enjoy watching them pander to their cowardly paranoid flock.
I can't think of anything better than a Palin - Santorum ticket in 2012! It might just make the entire Republican and Tea Party disappear. I plan to work for it. You should too.
Idiot status for Santorum would be an upgrade. The Court decided this issue about forty years ago.
Micheal said:
I cannot believe how obtuse the authors of these other posts are. This should be simple to understand. However, since the meaning of the comment eludes many of you, let me try to make it even simpler. Santorum believes that someone who is black should be more sensitive to a scenario in which one group of people get to define the value of another unempowered group of people's humanity. Remember the 3/5 rule when counting slaves into the population? He is just pointing out that a person who would have once been a victim of this type of practice is now perpetrating it upon others. Now, let the ridiculous, far-fetched word twisting begin...
I think you're grasping here, the premise of your argument makes little sense. The 3/5 rule was based on an idea of racial superiority and nothing more, and this attitude permeated the entire body politic and culture. Sorry, this is nothing more than an uninformed politician shooting off his mouth.
Hey rick...
There are three people I would never think to vote for as President...
1 Sarah Palin
2 Dick Cheney
3 Newt Gingrich....
and now
4 Dick Sanscrotum
I wonder what kind of positive spin Fox "News"will put on Santorum's recent comments. Will they go to bat for him, like they did for Palin with her recent "blood libel" comment?
The arrogance of the GOP is why the rest of the world hates the USA.
A quick google of Santorum will find a comment about sex with dogs. A quick google of the word santorum will be a bit disturbing. To even take him seriously is folly.
However poorly an incumbent president is viewed among voters, it is still difficult to unseat one. Yet those the GOP taunts as their champion to do it are people rejected by Republicans in the last primary season. With a couple of exceptions, they all come from the recycle bin and none of the exceptions have any political base outside their own state. It is difficult to envision any of the generally considered potential candidates as being electable. Moreover, the GOP has an internal problem. To get elected, their candidate will have to be to some extent a moderate which will upset the far right ~ and if a hardcore uber-conservative is selected, it will alienate many moderate mainstream Republicans and a large segment of independents. If the newly formed GOP majority in the House doesn't produce as expected ~ and the Senate is derailed by GOP obstructionisn ~ it will take a GOP superman to overcome the resentment. I've looked very closely. So far, there isn't one who rises to that level among the current "potentials."
Jim..Most of the likely candidates are contributors on FOXPAC news and promoted by other "talent" there. Why the FEC allows this is a enigma to me. Maybe it's because of five traitors on the SCOTUS.
This is the same guy who stood on the floor of congress and lied to the American people about going to war with Iraq. How about those innocent lives that was taken for a unjust war planned by this scumbag and his buddies. Go to C-Span and look up the speech he gave after the attack on this country without having an investigation into how 9/11 happen and why. So if Mr. Issa thinks this president so corrupt i beg the same for the last one named Bush/Cheney. I know we should move forward , but when some people keep stirring the pot of bitterness someone need to set things straight about the truth and false hood of serious accusation about the leader of this great nation.
Issa is the new Ken Starr blogger. In other words, he's the hitman for the republicans. The people that whine so much about the dems and Obama have a very selective memory with a teflon outer coat. At least there are places in America and other countries of the world that Shrub/Vader can be arrested for war crimes. A quick Google of Issa will also uncover Issa's criminal activities. It might be the 1990's all over again.
This is the same guy who stood on the floor of congress and lied to the American people about going to war with Iraq. How about those innocent lives that was taken for a unjust war planned by this scumbag and his buddies. Go to C-Span and look up the speech he gave after the attack on this country without having an investigation into how 9/11 happen and why. So if Mr. Issa thinks this president so corrupt i beg the same for the last one named Bush/Cheney. I know we should move forward , but when some people keep stirring the pot of bitterness someone need to set things straight about the truth and false hood of serious accusation about the leader of this great nation.
NewsBusters: Media Question Whether Santorum's Comments In CNSNews.com Interview Are Racist
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