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Subscribe to RSSA new Pew poll finds a religious divide among Republican primary voters, with church-goers and evangelicals going 30% for Mike Huckabee, and 24% of GOP voters who are not regular church-goers picking Mitt Romney. More from Pew: “Within the GOP, one-third of those who are not religious or belong to a smaller faith group want Romney as the Republican nominee. Only 7 percent said they preferred Huckabee.”
BACHMANN: PolitiFact grades Rep. Michele Bachmann’s claim that “secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the Obamacare legislation" as Barely True, writing that “[s]he’s right that there’s about $105 billion of already approved spending in the health care bill that may be difficult to rescind. But that does not mean that the process was secret. While the pre-approved spending provisions didn’t attract media attention, they were in the plain language of the bill and did not vary dramatically from past congressional practice.” http://is.gd/Itw4Tn
Bachmann will be in South Carolina on April 15 to attend a reception at a private home, as well as “a number of events in the following days,” the State Column reports.
Bachmann will also attend the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in June, Politico reports.
BARBOUR: Politico points out that Haley Barbour’s declaration that “slavery was the primary, central, cause of secession” might be old news for most Americans, but less so for a Republican governor of Mississippi. It also demonstrates the degree to which Mississippi has changed – no longer the staging ground for Democratic defection to the GOP due to Southerners’ objections to advancements in civil rights.
The Nashua Telegraph reminds us that Barbour was supposed to be in New Hampshire today and yesterday – his first since naming his top New Hampshire operative – but he canceled the trip because of a budget crisis in Mississippi.
CAIN: The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim advocacy group, assailed Hermain Cain for saying at the Conservative Principles Conference that he would not appoint a Muslim to his cabinet or as a federal judge, CNN reports.
DANIELS: Indiana’s state Treasurer says that while he never expected Gov. Mitch Daniels to endorse him for Senate, Daniels did encourage him to mount a challenge to Sen. Richard Lugar, even as Daniels said he planned to vote for Lugar on Meet the Press earlier this month, National Journal writes.
HUCKABEE: Mike Huckabee insisted over the weekend that he is in fact still considering running for president, telling a talk radio host that he “most certainly” has not made a decision not to run, The Hill writes.
HUNTSMAN: The New Hampshire Union Leader reports that Huntsman’s PAC has hired “two prominent” GOP strategists: “Paul Collins, a nearly 30-year political campaign organizer and former congressional and U.S. Senate chief of staff, and Brad Blais, a key player in U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass' 2010 campaign, are joining the Horizon PAC as consultants to organize its political operations in the first-in-the-nation primary state.”
JOHNSON: Fox News reported on Friday that Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, says he will bypass the exploratory stage and announce his candidacy for president sometime in April after tax day.
PAWLENTY: Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said that President Obama had been “belated and timid” in ordering air strikes to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Libya. He also said that if he were president, he “wouldn’t recognize and legitimize Syria,” calling the country’s president Bashar al Assad a terrorist and a killer, and saying he would recall the ambassador and denounce Assad publicly.
ROMNEY: Mitt Romney gave $25,000 to the New Jersey Republican party yesterday, according to a release from his political action committee, Free and Strong America PAC. Romney today announced that he would be re-hiring the chief domestic policy adviser for his 2008 campaign, Lanhee Chen, to serve as the policy director of Free and Strong America PAC, the Boston Globe reports. Chen also served in the Bush administration and was the deputy campaign manager for Steve Poizner’s failed GOP California gubernatorial bid.
SANTORUM: CNN reports that Rick Santorum did not attend the Conservative Principles Conference on Saturday because his daughter, Isabella Maria, became very ill (her condition has since improved).
*** UPDATE *** This story was first reported by CBN’s David Brody.
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Huckabee won't stand a chance once the MSM pours on the criticism because of his record.
Woke up this morning and the front page of our local paper has a photo of the bare walls of the lobby of our state Labor Dept, where a beautiful mural depicting the history of labor in Maine had been summarily removed on orders from our Tea Party governor on the grounds it was offensive to the business community because some of the images referenced organized labor.
Folks, if you want to see the values of the far right in action, just look towards Maine. Our governor doesn't care who he upsets: unions, artists, teachers, the NAACP, Democrats, moderate Repbulicans, women, as long as the big bidness world is happy.
Now, I'm not saying removing the mural will cause the crops to shrivel up and die, and children to go hungry, but it is a bizarre strategy, to create a controversy, where there was none, when you need all the people of Maine to come together and solve our problems. But that seems to be the Republican way, these days, doesn't it, with their roster of belligerent and divisive candidates? Even "the good" Rev Huckabee painting President Obama as un-American and "other" because he spent time in Indonesia as a child. What a sad strategy they are taking.
http://www.sunjournal.com/state/story/1006469
"Our governor doesn't care who he upsets: unions, artists, teachers, the NAACP, Democrats"
Amy, those groups you name are perpetually "upset". They are grievance-mongers. As are you.
There is a lot of posting here to the effect "Republicans will disagree with everything Obama does, no matter what"
Well, you are on the case of the new Republican Governor of Maine, because he isn't a moonbat. Any action he takes, you wont like.
You are right Bob. He is not a moonbat, but instead he is a crazy tea bagger moonbat.
This guy is unfit to be president ..he is a religious cult leader . ..you cant believe or trust a word his says ! There is no place for this religious foolishness in "OUR " government !
Ignore Iowa - the Republican party has been hijacked by the far, religious right. Most conservative, but thinking Iowans left the Republican party years ago. We are now Independents or Democrats. The Republican party in Iowa could easily match the Islamic religious governments in other countries. They have a view that the Bible and conservative Christianity is the only way to govern. Our founding Fathers would be appalled at the approach to governing that matches what they were trying to prevent - a religious state.
there promises and goals for the future are nothing but lies. they are the puppets of the ultra rich and their corporations, constantly repeating their mantras of lies, knowing if they say them enough they will be believed. they don't care about you the citizens, how you have to live, if your children cannot attend school, if you fall ill? they only care about their bottom line and how they can controll the majority of people to claim their prize.
wake up. turn off fox news. do your reserch. vote them all out of office.
The funding was in the "plain language of the bill"? The 2,000 page bill that Pelosi said Congress should pass so they could "learn what was in it"? It was valid for Bachmann to point this funding out, at a time when Congress needs to cut a LOT more from this bloated budget to get us solvent again.