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Subscribe to RSSA Bloomberg poll finds Rick Perry leading Mitt Romney 26%-22%, with no other candidates in double digits.
In Virginia, Perry leads Romney 25%-19% with no one else cracking double digits, according to a Quinnipiac poll.
BACHMANN: “If you're running for president, how do you convince supporters you are tough enough on immigration? Get the endorsement of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America whose uncompromising stand on illegal immigration is a point of pride,” the AP writes. “On Wednesday Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann was the latest Republican presidential candidate hoping for Arpaio's backing… Arpaio said he hasn't yet decided which candidate he will back in the GOP primary race.”
PALIN: She makes the cover of the New York Daily News for a racy detail leaked from a forthcoming anti-Palin book.
PERRY: “Perry became a millionaire through a practice common to many other politicians over the years: taking part in profitable deals involving political friends and their businesses. He made more than $800,000 in 2007 reselling a resort development plot he had gotten from a Republican friend in the Legislature, and he cleared a quick $38,000 in 1995 by flipping stock in a company owned by one of his top campaign donors,” AP writes. “Private deals involving campaign supporters are widely criticized by government reformers as a potential form of backdoor donations or influence-buying. But they are often legal; in Perry's case, the Securities and Exchange Commission did not act on a complaint about his stock windfall.”
More: “However, even if perfectly legal, the transactions still raise questions about Perry's ethics, said Craig McDonald, the director of Texans for Public Justice, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign money and lobbying activities in Texas. ‘It clearly looks like he got some special favors,’ MacDonald said. ‘Perry has a lifestyle that is probably beyond even his own million-dollar finances because people want to get close for many reasons to the governor of the state of Texas.’”
“Rick Perry criticized Michele Bachmann Wednesday for relaying the story of a woman who claimed her daughter became mentally retarded after being vaccinated against HPV,” Politico writes. “ ‘I think that was a statement that had no truth in it, no basis in fact,’ Perry said of the comments Bachmann made in a TV interview following the CNN/Tea Party Express debate.”
Texas is up to 235 executions, by the way. One has already been executed this week. Three more are scheduled for execution this week.
ROMNEY: NBC’s Garrett Haake reports Romney wants a VP like Dick Cheney.
“The former Massachusetts governor has an eight-point lead over Texas Gov. Rick Perry among Republican voters in California, according to a new Field Poll, and will be scouring California on a fundraising drive Friday,” the San Francisco Chronicle writes. “But while he'll visit San Diego, Atherton and Pebble Beach, Romney doesn't plan to greet hundreds of activists who make up the nation's largest Republican organization as they kick off a three-day state convention this weekend in Los Angeles.”
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M. Bachmann wants Arpaio type, to arrest any one who does not look like a WASP.
Perry is an unethical as politicians come.
Romney wants a VP like Dick C. watch we will be at war in the first year.
Romney just lost Independents with his Cheney admiration. Perry needs to be investigated and maybe go to jail just like Martha Stewart did years ago. No exception exists because you are a white male last I checked the law. Or maybe it does? Does anyone know? Oh pleeeze Arizona pick Arpaio to run for anything in your state. Oh pleeeze pleeeze pleeeze! Obama 2012.
With regard to Vice President Cheney -- wisdom and judgment don't sound like him at all -- is this what Gov. Romney really thinks or is he just playing to an audience? Because if he really thinks that Vice President Cheney's spin on his biography shows "wisdom and judgment," Gov. Romney is showing that he himself lacks those qualities.
Heads will be exploding all over America over Romney saying Cheney embodied "wisdom and judgment."
BLOOD ON ARPAIO'S HANDS
Imagine you are the mother of a mentally handicapped thirty-three-year-old-man. Your son functions on the level of a twelve-year-old boy. His disability often causes him to act erratically, but you still hope that one day, he can lead a normal life. One night in August, 2001, he is arrested on a misdemeanor loitering charge when he begins acting strangely in a convenience store. When officers arrive to arrest him, he is clinging to the store's coffee machine and won't let go. Four officers forcibly remove him from the store, handcuff him, and throw him to the ground to be hogtied. The force seems excessive, since your son is disabled and only weighs about a hundred and thirty pounds. A few minutes later, his limbs bound behind his tiny frame, officers load him into the squad car to take him away. Before they pull away, your son asks you, like a little kid:
"Mom, will you ride in the car with me?"
"I can't," you tell him, "the police won't let me."
You figure that the police will probably hold your son overnight, and you head home to get some rest.
Two hours later, your son is dead.
When Charles Agster arrives at Madison Street Jail, he is confused, as is typical of his condition. He tries to wriggle underneath a bench, and although he is still hogtied, three or more officers and a sheriff's deputy jump on him, punch him, and knee him in the side. One officer grips his face, pressing upward toward his chin. Although he is now unresponsive, the officers drag him, face down, into the Intake area and strap him into a restraint chair. They place a spit-hood over his head, encasing him in darkness. Minutes later, he stops breathing. The original autopsy lists "positional asphyxia due to restraint" as his cause of death.
Videotape of the incident shows guards trying to resuscitate Agster, but he's already brain dead. A 2002 Amnesty International report expresses concern "that the degree of force used against Agster was grossly disproportionate to any threat posed by him."
http://www.arpaio.com/blood-on-hands/index.php
Bachmann wants this guy's endorsement?
So many people think Arpaio is the bee's knees but I am eagerly awaiting the day he goes to jail himself. One of these days, his officers or perhaps Joe himself, will shoot and kill a suspected illegal alien because he/she was armed. The deceased of course, will turn out to be a US born Hispanic citizen that was carrying a gun because he/she is a law enforcement officer. Probable cause for the shooting? "Well, she was carrying a gun and speaking Spanish."
And for the uninformed, Joe doesn't target just Hispanics. If you speak out against him, he will trump up charges against you. Several high profile public officials in AZ have been charged with various crimes because they spoke out against Arpaio.
As my Arizonan born, Hispanic hubby says of Arpaio -- pinche cabron.
Death Richard death, that's what the tea people GOP republicans are all about. Did you hear the cheers when Perry bragged about 200 executions. And the cheers to let the guy in a coma die because he didn't have health insurance.
Even the NY Times laughed at the pathetic stalker moonbat Joe McGuiness' book of slander and fiction about Sarah Palin.
Cue the Palin haters.
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(Glen Rice sure could score)