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Subscribe to RSSBACHMANN: Politico first reported yesterday that campaign manager Ed Rollins will step back his day-to-day responsibilities and assume a "senior advisor" role. In an interview with Politico, Rollins cited age and his health. Politico followed with a second item reporting that deputy campaign manager David Polyansky is leaving the campaign due to strategic disagreements. Rollins and Polyansky are veterans of Mike Huckabee's 2008 campaign for president.
Robert Costa at NRO, writes, (via GOP 12): “In coming weeks, Bachmann’s campaign, sources say, will be focused on debates. But don’t expect Bachmann to go after Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, her tea-party competitor, at least initially. Bachmann, another adviser explains, is aiming to use the debate at the Reagan library this week to reassert her credentials and message, ‘in the style of her New Hampshire debate, not the Iowa debate, where she fought with [Tim] Pawlenty.’”
CBS reports Bachmann had dinner with Gov. Nikki Haley and spent Sunday night at the governor’s mansion.
The New York Times: “The change in roles for Mr. Rollins came on a day he was quoted in The Washington Post as expressing pessimism about Mrs. Bachmann’s campaign. ‘The Perry-Romney race is now the story, with us the third candidate,’ Mr. Rollins said. The moves raise questions about the future of Mrs. Bachmann’s campaign. After winning the straw poll in August, Mrs. Bachmann, of Minnesota, has struggled to maintain momentum, especially after Gov. Rick Perry of Texas entered the Republican contest.”
HUNTSMAN: The Huntsman campaign posted a new video on jobs entitled "#1 vs #47" comparing Huntsman to Romney, who unveils his jobs plan today in Nevada, NBC’s Jo Ling Kent reports. This comparison, which this time is an image of a beat up baseball mitt and images of Huntsman as governor, has been a common theme in Huntsman's campaign in New Hampshire.
PAUL: He’s gone up with a six-figure ad buy against Perry using Al Gore.
PERRY: “The new super PAC backing Rick Perry has drawn up plans to spend $55 million as part of an ambitious campaign strategy aimed at blowing away the Texas governor's rivals in early primary states and securing him the Republican nomination by next spring, according to internal committee documents obtained by NBC News,” NBC’s Michael Isikoff reports, adding, “If it realizes its goals, the super PAC — which calls itself ‘Make Us Great Again’ — will likely eclipse the financial operations of Perry's official presidential campaign committee, according to some Republican consultants.”
“Rick Perry missed his first opportunity to appear on a national stage with his Republican rivals, but the absence of the presidential front-runner did not keep him out of the conversation,” the Texas Tribune writes. “‘Certainly we missed him,’ said South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, the main organizer of the event and a leading voice of the Tea Party movement. ‘But I think, again, the candidates that we had here, all of them ... would do a better job than Barack Obama.’”
ROMNEY: “Mitt Romney traveled to this conservative state yesterday and stepped up his courtship of Tea Party supporters, as the intensifying GOP presidential campaign entered the fall political season,” the Boston Globe reports.
“U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican who represents one of the most sought-after endorsements in this Republican presidential primary season, urged his supporters Monday to withhold their support from candidates and ‘continue to listen,’” McClatchy writes.
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The liberals are frustrated. Very frustrated.
Labor Day 2011 Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said he wants to “Take me out”. Why does Jimmy Hoffa want to “Take me out”? I’m an American. Does Jimmy Hoffa Jr. want to “take out” a few terrorists? Or does Jimmy Hoffa not believe in the word terrorist?
Is it because I align more with the Tea Party than I do with the Democrat Party?
Am I not allowed to have a different political belief than Jimmy Hoffa?
Do I need Jimmy Hoffa’s permission to believe in something different than him?
Do I have the freedom of speech but not the freedom of political opinion?
Is it because I disagree with President Obama, therefore liberals label me a racist?
Jimmy Hoffa Jr. what exactly do you mean when you say “Let’s take them out” because you’re talking about me.
Unless of course Jimmy Hoffa was just espousing some sort of political rhetoric. But I thought after Gabrielle Giffords was shot by a lunatic, we all lectured each other NOT to use that type of language. Was the lecture just for the Tea Party?
You don’t have to answer, I already know.
The liberals are extremely frustrated and very scared of 2012 and their future. Jimmy Hoffa was just trying to fire up Barack Obama’s base. Obama has reached his all-time approval ratings low this weekend. He’s scared too.
I guess if you're running for president with a record of nothing but complete and total failure like Obama's trying to do, violent rhetoric, name calling, personal attacks, and lies is about all you have left.
Lean Forward Baby!
Really Grover? He had the House and the Senate for two years. Didn't he get enough done to satisfy you.
The country is in the tank. I think he ought to slow down.
While conservatives obsess with their usual petty nonsense, like Hoffa is what, like he's a government-elected official talking smack, like his smack is more offensive than Teabaggers talking trash, like who cares?
And what some right-wingers think are clever lines to be repeated incessantly (lean forward is certainly better than bend over, or bend over backwards the way the president and Dems have in offering olive branches and concessions to the GOP/TP -- mmnord -- come up with something new already)...
The truly important topic of whether money can buy votes is ignored!
Perry is going all out to vanquish his seven dwarf contenders early while he spews lies and falsehoods about his credentials! Perry has espoused his religious beliefs lately but conservative compassion never worked in the past and doesn't work today. Perry wanted Texas girls to get the HPV injections to benefit his donors and close friends and was rebuked on the "Trans-Texas Corridor". He's secretive and has tried to hide his movements so that Texas tax payers get the bill for his presidency run. Perry is no Bush and when compared to President Obama, there is stark comparisons. President Obama had a GPA of not less than 3.3 where Perry had a 2.22. Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude in the top 10% of his class. Perry's degree was in Animal sciences. Obama was an editor of Harvard Law Review and was elected president of the Law Review, while Perry was a cheer leader. Obama's degree was in political science specializing in International Relations. Perry makes pronouncements on Global warming and economics without any degree or first hand knowledge.
Obama's degree was obviously not in economics. Despite his high IQ and academic background, he hasnt a clue about the real private sector economy. He is all about the Government, all about unions, all about special intererst and favors.
We need a successful business man like Mitt Romney, who knows how real jobs are created in the private sector.
Or Governor Rick Perry, whose jobs success in Texas is the envy of the nation.
Obama=failure.
These are the same two guys who know how to ship jobs to other countries.....REAL Business Men....for cheap labor at the cost of American lively-hood. hmmmmm
TeaParty = failure
Dems = failure
Reps = failure
Independent thinkers, true patriots and those willing to bring jobs back to the U.S, as well as, create new jobs = SUCCESS FOR AMERICA!!!
Drop the "parties"(pun intended)....lets get to work!
$55 million isn't much to counter obamas goal of spending close to a $ billion for re-election. With obama's ratings slumping maybe soras and buffet needs to create a superpak of their own to help obama out.
Slick Rick Perry is the most dangerous person in America.
Despite his uneasy personal relationship with the Bush gang, Perry is mostly a GWB retread and he is going to be seen that way by the general electorate, assuming Perry gets the nomination. At least Romney, Paul, and Huntsman could make arguments that they are not warmed over GWB.
Well, now Gov. Romney has released the names of his "economic team," and guess what -- it is warmed over GW Bush! Greg Mankiw and Glenn Hubbard both were on President Bush's board of economic advisers...the ones who oversaw the tax cuts and authorized borrowing money to pay for two wars. So we can vote for a Republican who looks and talks like George W. Bush (and worked with him) or someone who uses his economic team....nothing new here.
I watched a clip of Rick Perry the other night where he said "Gun control? I'm in favor of gun control - use both hands."
I wanted to throw up. Perry really is Bush II, arrogant, stupid, shallow and un-serious. Who in their right minds thinks this kind of comment is acceptable from a presidential candidate? Especially after the deaths of all those people in Tucson and the wounding of Rep. Giffords.
But you have no problem with Hoffa saying he wants to "take us out."
Why would I have a problem with a group using the power of the ballot box to remove the teapublicans from political power?
this is shaping up to be a tough election, who's going to screw us the most
Fact checks on Perry say..." he told the truth when asked his name " . The rest not so much !
Which makes him 100% more truthful that hussein obozo.
$55 million...not bad....not the Billion dollars O'bama will spend...but not bad....Go Perry!
"Gun control? I'm in favor of gun control - use both hands."
Perry used both hands when he shot and killed a coyote who was threatening him and his dog while jogging...
In this same situation, Obama, being the good progressive that he is, would have handed the coyote a summons to appear in court.
"U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican who represents one of the most sought-after endorsements"
- is this the DeMint who wants gay teachers and unwed mothers, who teach, to be unemployed? DeMint will force unemployment on one "sinner" at a time and replace them with the "sin free". Now there's a job plan for America's new persecuting theocracy.
And speaking of Perry, is this the guy who can only create jobs in a state with oil and three military bases that provide stability during good and bad times? Try creating that "genius" economic solution in every state.
You have to be completely naive and totally gullible, as is consistently proven by the results, to ever put any faith into what the politicians say - doesn’t matter which party. Bush and Cheney constantly said whatever they felt would rationalize and camouflage their actions as they stubbornly focused only on satisfying the few and arrogantly totally neglected the majority. Boehner and McConnell consistently fault and block everything Obama tries to do but belligerently refuse to be responsible and to cooperate to effect any real solutions. The worst are the likes of Palin, Bachmann and others who actually scream as they offer bazaar and emotional accusations and criticisms with nothing reasonable to consider. Romney stays out of the low class hassles but presents little in history or logic that offers anything to put confidence in. Ron Paul just goes on and on, rationalizing that doing nothing about everything is the answer. And now Perry tries his hand at duping the people, making completely ridiculous statements about nearly everything and then promising to be the “White Knight”, when really he is just another “puppet” seeking to serve those who “pull his strings” (literally just another GWBush seeking to take us back to “more of the same”). All while President Obama pleasantly talks nice, seeks to compromise and accomplishes absolutely nothing. The obvious problem is that they all put their political ambitions above all else and take the people for granted, insultingly assuming they can just con and manipulate public opinion - and the power of “big money” keeps feeding into that to insure their interests are being taken care of.
The only way there can ever be any hope is when the people, the voters, can objectively and rationally identify the liars and firmly reject them. The first thing that takes is putting biases, prejudices, fears, emotional attachments and loyalties aside so they can’t be used to dupe and manipulate. Then, if voters can concentrate on really being objective, to recognize those who really don’t have other than their political ambitions and the interests of their strong supporters in mind, then there is a chance to get it right. It is also necessary to recognize the substantial power and money being used by special interests groups, Norquist’s “anti-tax”, Cheney’s and Rove’s groups are prime examples, to support and to intimidate candidates to do their bidding. The impressive speeches and competitive debates really can’t be expected to present more than rhetoric that just can’t be trusted. The people need to think for themselves and be disciplined to be rational and objective knowing that the only way we will ever have honest and conscientious bipartisan representation, that being what our government was designed to be, is by completely rejecting those who aren’t willing to be that - regardless of which party. It is “the people’s call and the people’s conscience!”