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GOP 12’s Christian Heinze, writing in The Hill, looks at the double-edged sword of attempts at humor by candidates.
BACHMANN: Michele Bachmann will visit New Hampshire on April 18, the New Hampshire Union-Leader’s DiStaso reports. She’ll meet with about two dozen to 30 state Tea Party leaders.
BARBOUR: Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour begins his two-day visit to New Hampshire today, which includes a reception at a private residence in the town of Bow; a breakfast at a French restaurant in Manchester, a meet-and-greet at Riley’s Gun Shop in Hooksett; and a reception with the Greater Manchester Federation of Republican Women, the Memphis Commercial Appeal writes.
Barbour deflected several questions about Mitt Romney’s health care plan when he visited the Congressional Health Care Caucus yesterday, saying only that “the similarities are obvious,” the New York Times writes, adding that Barbour said he’ll be “in or out” for the presidency by the end of April.
DANIELS: In an editorial board with the Indianapolis Star, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels was asked to respond to Time columnist Joel Klein plea for Daniels to enter the race and his characterization of the rest of the GOP field as a “freak show.” “‘It's always good to be held to a low standard,’ [Daniels] said and envisioned his campaign being praised with the words: ‘At least he's not a freak.’” On whether Daniels accepts that President Obama was born in Hawaii, he said: “I guess I do, but I don't care… I don't think it's material. I accept that he was."
GINGRICH: Newt Gingrich is “highly unlikely” to meet the criteria for the Fox News Channel/South Carolina GOP’s May 5 debate, The Hill reports, as participants must register a presidential exploratory committee or have announced a formal campaign for president by April 29. “Specifically, the April 29 requirement does not fit within our time line,” Gingrich’s spokesman explained.
Gingrich showed his documentary at Texas A&M University yesterday, student newspaper The Battalion writes.
HUCKABEE: Mike Huckabee tweeted a birthday greeting yesterday to Iowa conservative Bob Vander Plaats, who turns 48 today, the Des Moines Register writes. Vander Plaats invited Huckabee to speak in his group The Family Leader’s presidential lecture series but Huckabee hasn’t accepted so far.
“Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump had a one-on-one meeting last week, a sit-down that left the former Arkansas governor with the impression that the developer is indeed going to run for president,” Politico reports. “The get-together came as Huckabee, multiple sources said, has been quietly meeting with donors in New York for the past month as he himself weighs a run.”
PAWLENTY: Pawlenty said on CNN yesterday that he is “running for president,” a statement his campaign quickly sought to downplay, as Pawlenty has not officially announced a bid, AFP notes.
Pawlenty’s exploratory committee announced its political director of its exploratory committee, Jon Seaton, who ran the Iowa caucus operation for John McCain’s 2008 bid and was the regional campaign manager for Ohio and Pennsylvania during the general election.
The New Hampshire Union-Leader’s DiStaso reports that Tim Pawlenty will participate in the first New Hampshire Republican presidential debate on June 7.
ROMNEY: Questioning a candidate’s citizenship is familiar territory for the Romney family, as lawyers for Mitt Romney’s father, then-Michigan Gov. George Romney, investigated the question in the 1960s when the elder Romney was running for president, Forbes writes. George Romney was born in a Mormon colony in Chihuahua, Mexico.
SANTORUM: Rick Santorum will discuss the next step he will be taking regarding a potential presidential bid tonight on Fox News, New Hampshire Union-Leader’s DiStaso writes. “It's anticipated that Santorum, who announced on Monday that he will participate in a presidential debate in New Hampshire on June 7, will move closer to a candidacy, perhaps with the formation of an exploratory committee.”
TRUMP: “Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) suggested that Trump, the real estate mogul and reality TV star, should be fired for running for president and the comments he's made while readying a possible campaign,” The Hill reports. Weiner tweeted: “There is no law against stupid, but when is Comcast/NBC/Kabletown gonna fire Trump? #MaybeWeDoNeedSuchALaw.”
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A vote for micky bachmann or the trump guy is a novelty vote ...like voting for Tinker Bell Hilton for president..
Both have lied and both have got caught lying.... esp the trump guy by Katie Coric..... she nailed him on evey lie it was wonderful !
Gingrich had an affair while his wife was dying of cancer and actually presented her divorce papers while she was dying in the hospital. He married his mistress whom he then cheated on with the person who is now his third wife. This guy makes John Edwards look like an angel. He's is a representative of the moral majority. He's going to have a say on the Defense of Marriage Act. What a joke.
Isn't Rick Santorum the guy who said that abortion was responsible for the failure of Social Security system because it killed off future workers.
Bachmann is stupid beyond words. Her ignorance of the Constitution and american history is beyond comprehension. I truly hope someone told her that Lexington and Concord is in Massachusetts and our founding fathers didn"t abolish slavery. It took the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and 3 Amendmends to the Constitution.
I could go on forever. Great cropf candidates.
Ginrgrich has also given a public cold shoulder to his lesbian daughter for years. Guess he just doesn't commisserate with those abominable HO-MO-SEX-U-ALS! The real commisseration (if you catch my drift) begins with the decades long parade of arm candy and gold diggers with whom he prefers to keep company. Can you say hypocrite? Tooooo decrepite a model cannot be seen with the newt? Trade 'er in fer a newer model with a fancy paint job.
As for the rest of the gathering array of contenders (and i use the word very loosely) out in far right field, they are fantasizing about hitting a home run next time at bat but miss catching the ball being thrown their way by the voters just last Fall. Sun in their eyes and refusing to listen to WE THE PEOPLE.
WHERE ARE THE JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW Trump is just a media whore spoiler for the Far Right. He'll never run because the pay is waaay too low. He might be a good puppet (think Reagan & W) for the black heart ilk (think Cheney, Rummy, & Karl) to hide behind doing their dasterdly deeds. BUT if he runs as an Indy? That only helps OBAMA!
And the far righties who are so concerned about social values - Trump has been married at least three times, I believe, each time trading in an aging wife for a "newer model". And how many times has he filed for bankruptcy? Yeah, I want the country run by bounder continually looking for the loopholes through which he can push his businesses. Where is the moral outrage, Oh, Social Value Tea Party Far Righties????
Watch Newt Gingrich advocate for smaller government and "fundamental values" -
I posted these comments some days ago on cbsnews.com regarding Donald Trump, his 'candidacy,' and his appeal to the so-called 'birther' school of thought - but in light of recent developments, I again feel the need to disabuse some readers of certain notions regarding Trump and other prominent political figures in the Grand Old Party. A word of caution:
"Donald Trump is certainly 'a man possessed of some radical notions' [to quote a lyric from the soundtrack of the film 'Inception'] and certain readily identifiable attributes - many of which are, to put it mildly, rather distasteful - but don't think for one single moment that he is stupid. That would be a mistake. Trump is, as the old saying goes, as dumb as a fox. Focus instead on his underlying motivation for offering himself up as a 'serious' presidential candidate to a voracious media and a restless American electorate, and you will understand the ruse. He is acutely aware of the hopelessness of such a candidacy, but that's not even the point of the exercise. Donald Trump is, first and foremost, engaged in the business of making money, money, and more money. Like Madonna, he is extremely adept at reinventing his public image and has a kind of genius for keeping himself in the spotlight. And, like Madonna, he also knows that there are multitudes out there who are sufficiently stupid - people who are sufficiently gullible, and whose own lives are sufficiently devoid of meaning - that they will eagerly swallow the whole sordid dish."
Not 24 hours later, Donald Trump was picked up as a regular commentator on a Monday morning Fox News spot - and now Trump is neck-and-neck with Mike Huckabee among GOP contenders, according to some polls.
I see comments everywhere on the internet to the effect that Trump is 'an idiot' or 'lame' or 'I'd like to see the birth certificate for that road-kill he's wearing on his head' - but I really think that attention must be paid. An elderly woman I know once commented that when she was a young lass in the 1930s, she and her girlfriends used to go to the Saturday matinée and 'just laugh and laugh' at newsreels depicting the physical appearance and the histrionics of Adolf Hitler: "We just thought he was so funny. We didn't realize how dangerous he was."
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were elected and reelected here in the United States, and the damage that they inflicted on our national economy and our international prestige was incalculable - and, quite possibly, irreparable. Good ol' Dubyah, who was, in his own words 'misunderestimated.' Big joke.
Trump is playing the Tea Party like a badly tuned banjo...and yet, they can't see through him.
Somewhere I can just imagine P.T. Barnum is looking at Trump's pandering to the Tea Party and bemoaning the fact that the Tea Party wasn't around in his day...he could've really made a killing.
So many suckers...so little time...