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CNN is the latest national poll to show Rick Perry in the lead. He’s at 32% -- followed by Romney at 18%, Bachmann at 12%, Gingrich at 7%, and Paul at 6%.
BACHMANN: “As most Republican candidates barnstorm the Granite State seeking votes in the first-in-the-nation primary, Bachmann has been campaigning in Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida,” the Boston Globe writes. “On Memorial Day, Bachmann told reporters in New Hampshire that she considered the state very important. But her last visit was June 28, the day after she formally announced her candidacy. She canceled a visit in August. While her campaign insists Bachmann will visit next month, her early absence could cost her votes.”
Bachmann has a memoir coming out in November.
HUNTSMAN: “Huntsman's ad man, Fred Davis, has joined a new Super PAC backing Huntsman,” GOP 12 writes via RealClearPolitics.
PALIN: NBC’s Alex Moe confirmed that Christine O'Donnell will speak at the Tea Party of America’s “Restoring America” event this Saturday before Palin does, according to organizer Charlie Gruschow. O'Donnell is currently on a book signing tour. Gruschow said that O'Donnell's addition "fell out of the sky" when another Tea Party group contacted them about adding her as a speaker. He said Palin's people were contacted before the addition was finalized, and they had the room in the lineup. Palin did endorse O'Donnell in her unsuccessful 2010 Senate run.
Palin, Moe adds, will speak roughly around 2:30pm ET on Saturday for about 30 minutes. Gruschow said they are hoping for large crowds, but he doesn’t have an exact estimate and doesn’t know what Palin's message will be.
PERRY: The Houston Chronicle looks into allegations of inappropriate donations to Perry during his 2006 re-election campaign.
“Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that if elected he would not rely on new stimulus programs to boost the economy reports the Associated Press,” The Hill writes. "You won't have stimulus programs under a Perry presidency. You won't spend all the money," said Perry Monday at the Tulsa Press Club.
Kinky Friedman on why he’s supporting Perry over Obama, per GOP 12: "It comes down to this: do you prefer a president who doesn't believe in evolution, or do you prefer a president that doesn't believe in Israel? That counts for something." (A reality check: Obama has affirmed the United States’ commitment to Israel.)
ROMNEY: The Boston Globe notes how Romney has tweaked his language on global warming since Perry has gotten in the race.
Mitt Romney says he’s not quadrupling the size of his beach house, he’s only doubling it. Well, he’s doubling the “living space.” The square footage is almost quadruple if you only include the new garage and basement. “It's not accurate, Romney said, simply,” per the conservative publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader Joe McQuaid. “The application he made, two years ago, was to double the living space by turning one story into two. The “quadrupling'' was a measurement of added nonliving space, including a basement and garage.”
How ‘bout this headline from the New York Post: “'Jewish' Bachmann is costing Romney.” “Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing a new challenge: He's having trouble raising money from some Jewish donors who mistakenly believe one of his opponents, Michele Bachmann, is Jewish. Some Jewish donors are telling fund-raisers for Romney, a Mormon, that while they like him, they'd rather open their wallets for the ‘Jewish candidate,’ who they don't realize is actually a Lutheran, The Post has learned. ‘It's a real problem,’ one Romney fund-raiser said. ‘We're working very hard in the Jewish community because of Obama's Israel problem. This was surprising.’” She didn’t even know how to pronounce “chutzpah!”
Headlining a long list of state leaders at the Orangeburg, South Carolina GOP picnic, Sen. Jim DeMint said 2012 might be Republicans’ “last chance” to fill Congress and the White House with conservatives that meet DeMint’s standards, NBC’s Ali Weinberg reports. “I think 2012 could be our last chance to turn this thing around and SC is going to play a pivotal role, not just our local and state offices but sending back our Congressional delegation and also being a major player in selecting the president of the United States,” DeMint said, speaking to a crowd of about 100 people at Cox Farms, owned by the family behind the major wood producer Cox Industries.
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OK, this sounds logical :
Romney said then that Boy Scouts couldn’t volunteer because most weren’t 18 years old, the mandatory minimum age the Olympics set for volunteers.
What does it say about today's Republican Party that the demagogue, Rick Perry, is polling ahead of the sensible one?
The Far Left moonbat Boston Globe has spilled much ink over many years dissing Mitt Romney. Calling this a "bitter personal feud" with Perry is the usual Globe hyperbole and exaggeration.
Expect more of this, from the leftwing media. Dont believe any of it.
Any different in essence than how the wingnut posters on here address the President of the United States Bob? Is this still MORE Republican double standard?
If you feel it is wrong for the Globe, then you must believe what you do on here is wrong too, or are you a hypocrit?
Ole boobie just doesn't get it.
El Globo finally printed the story about Uncle Omar yesterday. A week after the crime. They probably felt obligated after another illegal drunk driver ran over a 23 yr college grad and then back up over him while he was screaming for his life and then took off. The kid was DOA.
But hey there's no illegal immigrant problem.
I say we paint 'em ALL (illegals) with the exact same brush, Rob. That's fair, no?
Nah, let's not be haters - let's give them driver's licenses and in state tuition. That should encourage them to gain rightful citizenship.
Wow, and I thought this thread was about Romney and Perry...
Does anybody know what rank old Ricky achieved in the boy scouts? Must of been pretty low or he'd be bragging about it. Seems that's all he know's is how to brag on himself. I learned a long time ago, people like Ricky who brag on themselves like he does, have a low self esteem and self worth problem.
And as the tea people GOP would say, where is his lapel flag pin? He must be unamerican not wearing a flag pin.
Of course that does NOT mean he made Eagle definitively... however, I would believe he did if he wears the insignia.
An eagle scout is the highest "rank" a boy scout can achieve (whether he actually achieved it or not is another question).
The more interesting story here is how much the Mormon church is involved in the Boy Scouts (or all the scandal with the Olympics in Utah). But what could we expect from the free press watch dogs that won't hunt no more?
Like recent comments from Perry and Romney about more tax breaks for "job creators" and Bachmann who will not be outdone:
Or Bachmann's $2 a gallon gas claim -- Where are the investigative reporters and the financial gurus? They need to debunk this crap immediately!
"Does anybody know what rank old Ricky achieved in the boy scouts? Must of been pretty low"
Moonbat Mo could clearly be outwitted by a Cub Scout. .....Mo really looks stupid, bringing up Rick Perry's Eagle Scout honor.
Republicans have proven they would not know honor if it were staring them straight in the face. What they have brought to this country of late (10.5 yrs.) is obvious. You have to ask yourself, what is their end game?. If it were the american dream for middle class americans, why are they so unhonorable in going about it? Thats because it is not about average americans, to them it is all about greed for the already wealthy, nothing more, nothing less. It is so obvious to so many of us that I can not understand how some people are so blind and polarized. Weird.
Obama was the first President to turn down an invitation to speak from the Boy Scouts.......add him the POS list also
Why i wonder?