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CHRISTIE: Christie’s approval is now just 44%-47% in the latest Quinnipiac poll, his lowest job approval yet. The reason: his approval among women is just 36%-54%.
GINGRICH: The campaign released excerpts of Gingrich’s Wednesday speech on the economy and the Federal Reserve. On Obama and the economy: “The jobs crisis is an historic national crisis and the Obama Administration has only made it worse by pursuing job-killing policy after job killing policy…We need to replace the ‘food stamp President’ with a ‘paycheck President.’”
On the Fed: "The Fed currently has a dual mandate: dollar stability and full employment. They are incompatible. As part of a thorough reappraisal of the role of the Federal Reserve System, Congress should immediately return the Fed to its original sole focus on dollar stability by repealing Humphrey-Hawkins."
Gingrich told Hugh Hewitt: "I must say that my book, 'A Nation Like No Other,' becomes dramatically more relevant after NBC’s decision that they will edit out 'Under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance.”
HUNTSMAN: “The former Utah governor and overseas ambassador for two presidents will launch his bid in New Jersey near the Statue of Liberty and then fly up to New Hampshire to do it again in the nation's first primary state,” the LA Times writes. “Wednesday Huntsman will do it a third time in South Carolina, apparently leaving Iowa to the homegrown Michele Bachmann and next-door neighbor Tim Pawlenty. It will be interesting to see how Huntsman, the only major GOP candidate with any real foreign policy experience, tries to differentiate himself from the possible candidates like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the existing field, including fellow former governor and Mormon Mitt Romney.”
Mark McKinnon describes Huntsman as the “un-cola” GOP candidate.
Politico: “When Jon Huntsman announces his candidacy for president Tuesday at Liberty State Park in New Jersey, he’ll join a long list of politicians who have found the spot to be an exquisite backdrop for big campaign events. The park, located in Jersey City, offers a camera shot with dramatic views of the Manhattan skyline and, more important, a photo op with the iconic Statue of Liberty (located in nearby New York Harbor) in the background.”
The Democrats are trying to hit Huntsman for his shifting positions, and have created mock bumper stickers like this one: “Jon Huntsman: When one direction for America just isn’t enough.”
Anyone wanting to find out more about the Huntsman family fortune, their companies and their ties to China, should read these pieces from Bloomberg and Business Week.
Forbes in 2010 rated Huntsman’s father, who made a fortune for helping to create polystyrene egg cartons and the Styrofoam Big Mac container, the 937th richest billionaire in the world.
A decade ago, he was the 47th richest man in the world with a net worth of $6.6 billion, according to the Deseret News. And “in 2007, Huntsman gave $750 million in contributions and donations, placing him second on The Chronicle of Philanthropy's list of the nation's top 50 givers.”
By the way, today is Jon Huntsman Sr’s birthday.
PAWLENTY: Tim Pawlenty’s wife Mary was campaigning for her husband in New Hampshire yesterday. Did you know she’s a former district court judge from Minnesota (1994 to 2007). “She has since worked mediating civil disputes and helping Children’s HeartLink, a non-profit that works to prevent heart disease among children in developing countries,” the Boston Globe notes.
PERRY: Rich Lowry: “If Rick Perry thinks the 10th Amendment is going to have cachet with voters worried about their jobs, their wages, and the value of their homes, he’s been spending too much time at Federalist Society seminars.”
The Texas governor says you should follow him on “Tweeter.” Here’s the video.
ROMNEY: “Mitt Romney has long battled the perception that he has waffled on social policy issues crucial to Republican voters, such as abortion and gay rights,” the Boston Globe writes. “Now the former Massachusetts governor’s refusal to sign an antiabortion pledge that five other GOP contenders support has put him on the defensive again.” More: “Romney’s decision spurred a rebuke from the organization and quickly roiled the presidential waters. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said she was disappointed in Romney, whom she considered an ally in the antiabortion movement. ‘I think there’s only one way of looking at it, and that is not signing it revealed a weakness in conviction,’ she said. ‘I don’t think there’s any other way of looking at it.’”
SANTORUM: Rick Santorum’s campaign is out with a video mocking Huntsman’s moto-cross videos, hitting Huntsman for not signing the Susan B. Anthony List pledge “just like Mitt Romney.” The rider in Santorum’s video wipes out after taking a leap.
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The problem with Huntsman's motorcross video (at least the one I saw) is the rider is traveling towards the left of the screen, pictorally, the direction that represents inwardness, introversion, or the past. Not a very strong image for someone mounting a Presidential campaign.
Huntsman will be a strong contender amongst all the fine American born Republican candidates.
I hope he comes out at or near the top of the contenders. Leadership ability, humanity, foreign policy experience, morality.
Everything Obama never was and never will be.
Obama "never was' about humanity? Morality?" Splain, please....
What Edward said shows that he doesn't have brains God gave a peanut butter sandwich.
As to Christie's low approval ratings among women, the folks pushing to get him into the Presidential race ought to look long and hard at that. If women don't like a candidate, he's not going to win.
On the topic of governor's approval ratings, I just read an interesting article comparing three polls on LePage, Maine's Teapublican governor.
http://www.downeast.com/the-tipping-point/2011/may/interpreting-approval
just like in new new jersey, evidently across republican governed state, we're seeing what republican white house would be like. they strip and rip the middle class that have seen their income stagnated for decades while appeasing the rich and imposing their social believes upon all. they are the purist party. every sane mind know that republican party has no agenda for the middle class.
it's all about this upper class for them. they come up with the worst economic model, tax cut, and make you believe it pays for itself which is a bogus lie that has been refuted by some of their own economist even Allen Greenspan. this is the treacherous path that this sheepish in nature party wants to keep leading the nation. a one economic solution, tax cut for the affluent, to all kind of economic impasse. trickle down economy.
"....job-killing policy after job killing policy..."
Hey, Noot- name one, will ya, ya big freakazoid pig.
I am so glad to see a moderate republican candidate! Finally, I won't have to move to Canada if the GOP win! We all obviously need to learn more about Huntsman, but if he is a straight and narrow as he seems, then I can accept that. Also, I appreciate his endorsing civil unions, even if he is not in support of gay marriage. We have to reach some middle ground here people or we will cause another blood bath of a civil war. I have been hoping for a fiscally conservative, socially liberal candidate. Perhaps he is the closest thing we will find.
If you like Huntsman, you'd love Barack Obama. And, he's already President!
It want take Huntsman long to join the far right crazies.
just a little curious - Better not give up on your move to Canada because Huntsman hasn't got a shot in H*LL of getting the Repubs nomination. He sounds rational and too moderate for the right-wing nuts to swallow. But I really have to laugh whenever someone on the right says their moving to Canada. Duh! Don't they have government health-care and pay higher taxes? The lack of common sense is beyond bewildering!
Just a little curious - Canada will not take you if you are over fifty - not have a cache of dollars - under fifty not have a guaranteed job - my husband and I tried it after Bush was elected twice and got denied, actually found a great house in Victoria Island - sorry the borders are closed - maybe Panama - Mexico - Costa Rica - all require that you be financial able - so quit the crap - you're not going anywhere
michigan is no different. repub snyder giving big bus 187 billion while slashing schools, taxing seniors, and removing local officers from duty and re placing them with an all power EFM, who has the power to privitize everything, sell off any assets at any price, and cancel all union contracts.
this my friends is what a repub white house will be!
Looks like the GOP has finally found their silver spoon candidate. That's the kind of candidate they all like, the ones that made it the old fashion way, they inherited it.
The new Supremes decision about class-action lawsuits does not pass the smell test. Apparently you can't sue a company for discrimination unless they print in their company book the instructions about how and whom to discriminate against. WTF! It used to be that the actual facts were the governing factor. 70% of Wal-mart employees are female but only 33% of management is. Or, 30 % of the work force is male and 66% of management is male. Res ipsa loquitur.
Chris Christie is winning against crooked Democrat public employee unions!
MSNBC may gloat over temporary poll numbers for Chris Christie, but while Christie may lose that temporary battle, he is winning the war against the crooked public employee unions !
What you wont read about on First Read:
National Review:
Governor Christie has done it again. The Democratic leaders of the New Jersey legislature just agreed to bring benefits for government employees closer to private-sector levels.
Under the plan:
● State and local employees will have to contribute more for their health benefits, up to 35 percent of premiums for the highest-paid workers;
● The retirement age for government employees will rise to 65;
● State and local workers will have to contribute 1.5 percent more of their salary toward their pension; and
● Cost-of-living increases for the state pension plan will be frozen until it is actuarially sound.
This agreement will save New Jersey taxpayers billions of dollars in the coming decades. It is excellent policy. Why should private-sector workers have to pay more in taxes so government workers can retire at 60?