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Subscribe to RSSThe Hill previews the Faith and Freedom Conference in DC: "A cadre of GOP presidential contenders will be in Washington on Friday and Saturday to attend one of the campaign’s first major cattle calls since the field has taken shape. The Faith and Freedom Conference, a conservative gathering hosted by Christian activist Ralph Reed, will host several of the candidates hoping to capture the GOP nomination."
BACHMANN: "Potential GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann took a jab at Tim Pawlenty Thursday for expressing openness to an individual health insurance mandate as Minnesota's governor," The Hill writes. "I think it will concern the voters," she told conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham.
GIULIANI: "Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said yesterday that he is pondering whether to run again for the presidency and will decide by the end of the summer. If he does run, he said, he would 'do it the right way’ this time and spend more time on person-to-person campaigning in New Hampshire," the Boston Globe says.
PALIN: Josh Green said this about Palin earlier this week: "[I]f Palin wants to win, there's a strong case to be made that she's going about it all wrong -- that she would be better off running a more traditional campaign."
"Trailed by a horde of media, an impersonator, and autograph seekers, Sarah Palin blitzed through Boston yesterday, touring several historic sites and cheerfully skewering Mitt Romney on his home turf on the day of his 2012 presidential campaign launch," the Boston Globe writes. "Then she drove to New Hampshire to court voters just miles from the farm in Stratham where Romney had made his big announcement hours earlier. All the while, the former Alaska governor turned reality television star insisted she was not running for president, at least not yet, and wished Romney well."
PAUL: Rep. Ron Paul took advantage of Mitt Romney’s announcement to release a fundraising solicitation to supporters, Politico’s Ben Smith reports. The email reads, in part, “I don't need 10 million dollars to match Mitt Romney. After all, I don't have to defend a liberal record as governor of Massachusetts. I don't have to defend passing a bill just as bad as ObamaCare or justify conflicting position statements. Mitt Romney does. So it's ok if he has a bit more money than we do. He's going to need it!”
ROMNEY: "Republican Mitt Romney launched his second bid for the presidency yesterday by focusing almost entirely on jobs and the deficit, saying the country needs someone with a business background to fix the ailing economy overseen by President Obama," the Boston Globe reports, adding, "But illustrating the hurdles for Romney — a presumptive but shaky front-runner in an unsettled GOP field — other potential candidates snatched much of the spotlight on a day that was supposed to be Romney’s alone."
“In his remarks to a crowd gathered at a chili cookout in Stratham, New Hampshire, Romney attacked Obama for failing to create jobs, a lagging housing market, and high federal spending,” Bloomberg writes. “‘Barack Obama has failed America,’ said Romney. ‘When he took office, the economy was in recession and he made it worse and he made it last longer.’”
The New York Times: “With 17 months to go, Mr. Romney has emerged as the front-runner for the nomination after reassembling a powerful fund-raising apparatus and an extensive campaign operation. But Mr. Romney’s potential Republican challengers have no intention of letting him anoint himself the party’s nominee. That fact that was made starkly clear on Thursday by sharp-edged comments from Sarah Palin and Rudolph W. Giuliani — both of whom are still mulling presidential runs — even as Mr. Romney was making his candidacy official.”
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Gee, who to vote for? The encumbant President, who has worked his butt off for the American people these last two years, repairing international relations, saving the American automobile industry, extending heathcare to more Americans than ever before, confronting a housing crisis, environmental crisises, and dealing graciously with a carnival barking opposition, or....
one of these losers, who among them, have done absolutely nothing to help solve the problems facing the American people.
hmmmmm?
Faith & Freedom Conference------
Translation: Bible in one hand, Gun in the other hand!
...Neither hand connecting with the brain to solve problems!
This was a trick question. The answer is, the one to vote for is the incumbent President, because the right-wing candidates are all encumbered with baggage.
(sorry, John A, and proof readers everywhere!)
BWAHAHA repairing foreign relations.......LMAO! 1.5 TRILLION in aid to foreign countries, much going to help prop up dictators like Mubarak, look at what a good investment that 70 BILLION was. A new war in Libya we can't afford. Looks like more of the status quo and a continuation of Bush policies, no change here.
True "freedom" is escaping the one-dimensional, orthodox, unthinking sicophantry of Organized Religion.
These people do not represent the Founding Fathers, nor do they represent me.
The only one that wants REAL change is Ron Paul and I am sure you all think he is nuts with his talk of stopping all the wars and cutting aid to foreign countries. Just like you all thought he was nuts when he said we should not start these wars in the first place and you laughed when he said there would be a financial crash and a housing bubble....oh wait that really happened, but hey he is still totally nuts because now he is saying if we don't straighten things out there will be a dollar bubble and runaway inflation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6D3uPLlCu8
One more thing, Ron Paul talks about NOT raising military spending, take the 1.5 TRILLION we give to foreign countries EACH YEAR and the savings from stopping all the wars and applying that to our debt instead of more taxes and cutting programs in the USA and continually raising the debt ceiling. Are you kidding me, if we did that our debt would be paid off in about 5 years, if we actually lowered our military spending to say, the amount China AND Russia COMBINED spend on THEIR military we could have the deficit erased in 3 years or less, yes, the man is a complete lunatic!
Who to vote 4??? Obama stole a car company . Union made 3 billon+ on the deal!! i could go on & on.
Rommy's a sell out!!! SameOsameO
Ron Paul!!! 2012...Don't Fear Freedom!!!!
Please check this cat out!!!! Dr. Paul!!!
I Want my country back!!!!! Damm it!!!
Amy-
Why that would be Mitt Romney of course.
Afterall, it was he who suggested we let the auto industry go bankrupt because to try and save it would be catastrophic. Huh!
Does he think anyone in Michigan will vote for him?
Let the mud slinging, out-and-out lies, and fear spreading begin! It's so much easier for the GOP to stand up straight and continually say, "President Obama has failed" than to tell the voters what THEY can/will do for the economy. Do voters really think this problem is an easy fix? Do voters really think that the GOP are economic professionals? They were professionals at spending, granted, and they are professional mud slingers, but I really hope that the voters will look past all the BS and see truths and facts.
Well when they do stand up and say how they will fix the country's problems they are demonized. Not to mention how the facts about their ideas are distorted and down right lied about. So when the media (and some posters on this site) quits lieing about Ryan's budget maybe we can have some serious discussions. Paul Ryan was on morning Jo Tuesday I believe and he said that NO one currently over 55 will be impacted by his medicare reform, and that NO one under 55 now will have to work with vouchers and private insurance companies. I haven't read the bill in its entirity just as am sure no poster on this site has, so I have to take the man at his word. If the two parties would stop demonizing each other and stop lieing about each other's proposed policies, maybe a solution could be found.
janet only one problem with paul baby's plan and i look forward to someone saying what i'm about to say is wrong.....what health insurance company want to insurance me or anyone else when there're 60 something answer none,,,,they can't make money off old folks ,,,,and if they could it would be more than anyone like my middle class self can afford....the government filled the need of health insurance for seniors thank god.... ryan's voucher would cost 6400 dollars x a year for senior...who are on fixed income....sure people just have that laying around....plus insurance costs go up double digits each year and your voucher won't... it makes no sence because it assumes yes ASSUMES health insurance companys want my business and after getting quotes its' obvious they don't.....sorry private insurance is not the answer ....SO PAULS PLAN IS NOT FEASIBLE SO LETS MOVE ON FROM THIS SORRY ATTEMPT TO SHIFT ALL COST TO THE SENIORS...
What a bunch of liers. Everything the GOP is going after will affect ALL of middle class.
"Is something similar taking place this summer -- after high gas prices, the disaster in Japan, and more instability in Europe?"
Excuses, excuses...MSNBC as usual providing cover with a 'laundry list' of deflections from the unavoidable fact of the total failure of Obama's economic policies.
So after a whole 2 years and 4 months in office you expected everything to be rosy now. Notwithstanding that Obama was given a broken economy by his predecessor, thanks to: 2 wars that were "paid for" off the books; the emptying of the treasury by giving the upper 2% their long-sought and unneeded tax breaks; the give-away to the insurance and pharma industries by disallowing Medicare/Medicaid the power to negotiate costs, etc.? And oh yes, at every step the opposition party filibustering anything that looked like it might have done the country and economy any good, in an effort to limit Obama to a single term?
Of course keeping GM from folding, avoiding the Greater Depression, and preserving jobs that otherwise would have been lost count for nothing, in your book.
There is failure here, but it is not from Obama's policies; those policies have not been given a thorough opportunity to be tested, thanks to the oppositional/defiant GOP/TPers who have done nothing (I repeat, nothing) but stand in the way.
OBAMAS ECON he's attempting to fix the bush economy before he can even start with his....so blaming the earthquake on obama may be a little out there....the bush enron loophole provides for 40% of your per gallon of gas cost by allowing massive speculations of the commodity market...which he wants to get rid of but imagine the repb wont let him....and europes soft econ is greatly due to the subprime which like baseball we american's invented or the ones on wall street...excuses are usually admissions of guilt and my excuses are for g w bush....
Rudy Giuliani is at the very top of a CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll of candidates the voters said they would vote for. Giuliani, who is said to be contemplating a presidential bid, edged out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who officially kicked off his campaign yesterday.
Early primary polls are not very good indicators when it comes to predicting presidential nominees so take these results with a graiof salt.
Here’s how Giuliani stacked up among the field of other candidates and potential candidates in the May 24-26 survey.
Rudy Giuliani 16%
Mitt Romney 15%
Sarah Palin 13%
Ron Paul 12%
Herman Cain 10%
Newt Gingrich 8%
Michele Bachmann 7%
Tim Pawlenty 5%
Rick Santorum 2%
Jon Huntsman 1%
Gary Johnson 1%
Someone else 3%
None/ No one 5%
No opinion 2%
What does this poll tell us? This one tells us that 84 percent of leaning Republicans do not favor Rudy Giuliani for the nomination but his name recognition still lingers. It also tells us that in this lackluster field of candidates, that none of the others listed has caught fire.
Giuliani’s no stranger to taking top honors in national polls. A Sept. 2007 ABC News-Washington Post poll, for example, put Giuliani in first place among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in front of former Sen. Fred Thompson and Sen. John McCain. We all know how that turned out.
Still, the fresh numbers for Giuliani this time around come at the end of a week when speculation has been increasing that the former mayor may be thinking more seriously about a run.
Giuliani headed back to New Hampshire yesterday and it is his second trip in less than a month. He headlined a New Hampshire Republican Party fundraiser. This on the exact same day that Romney officially announced his presidential run.
Today Giuliani plans to have a private dinner with Manchester-area business people. In the most recent CNN-WMUR poll of New Hampshire Republican voters, Giuliani was in the top five.
As I was reminded yesterday, in 2008, Rudy is the guy who spent $59 million on won one delegate vote.
Seems he stepped on Romney’s announcement on purpose and would not have done that unless he was serious about announcing for President.
First of all -- thanks to Firstread for the improvements. I for one appreciate the smoother scrolling. Didn't think about the placement of the comments on the main page but I like it. I do not like to hear leading Dems including the VP and POTUS hinting that there is some chance the Republicans will reap some benefit from their stone-walling on the debt ceiling. Can we for once get in front of their lie machine and tell the people the truth every day from the top? It does seem they believe the last thing they hear--don't let it be Eric Cantor. and puhleeze--not a presidential bone in any body so far running on the Teapub side.
Republicans wouldn't know the meaning of Faith & Freedom if it Bit them in the Back Side!
Ralph Reed ??? There's a guy who needs a good slap in the face !!! What ever happend to the "Moral Majority" ??? Too much "Wide Stance" and Congressional Pages Scandal for the Repukes ??? These phonies are only in it for the MONEY !!!
Repuke Primary Theme Song ??? "Send in the Clowns" !!!
I am 57 so the Ryan proposal if implemented doesn't effect me. However I do a flying leap about my hardworking children, and what impacts them. No on vouchers and that mess. Just no.
No need to demonize. Just plain, NO.
Actually, Darla, it will affect you because the insurance industry and the medical industry will change how they handle those still on Medicare and Medicaid, your services will cost more. It will also directly affect you because it brings back the prescription drug doughnut hole that was gotten rid of under the new law.
As a 53 year old person who has been paying into this system my whole life, I really get screwed, but only slightly less than the people who are 54.
my man 4 years 82d airborne 4 operations to walk again,,,22 years fire department broken back that i didn't know about...4 more knee ops in fire department....54 years old i'm screwed....too. like paul ryan said we're not screwing the seniors we're screwing their kids....
darla sorry boner spelled bohener i think is going to make you work till 70 before your able to get it so your screwed too.....this is truely one ship and we're all in it..
hope you like your older parents because they'll be living in your front room in a hospital bed ...nursing homes are done under this proposal....so it is a family values plan and i hope u value family because you'll have three four generations living together. once aagain guys i can't find anyone that will insurance me...old folks can't get private insurance because they don't want the cost . no one will insurance us at anycosts so i won't get rationcare i'll get no care....from a system i payed into my whole life....