By GottaLaff
So much for campaign buttons with the words, Pink Leather Shorts 2012:
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) said he would not run for president in 2012 and that he backs Mitt Romney (R) for the Republican presidential nomination, the Boston Globe reports.
Said Brown: "Yes, absolutely, 2012, I'm ruling it out."
When asked if he would run for president at a later date, he said, "I'm not even going to jump at that. Nice try."
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By GottaLaff
There has been all kinds of speculation about how the Dems will lose the House in November, and how Democratic House and Senate seats will drop like bad Palin lines, and how the GOP is struttin' their stuff, and blahblahblah.
Oh, and "blahblahblah" was a direct quote. Far be it from me to take credit for brilliance like that.
But what about 2012?
Well now, that's an elephant of a different color. Or is that "different smell"?
Bits and pieces from an article you should read in full by Ed Kilgore over at Salon:
But its demographic noose is less evident than an even bigger GOP problem for 2012: the party's likely presidential field. This is not something Republicans much like to talk about.
And history suggests that it's already too late for someone new to emerge....
Republicans, like or not, are probably stuck with the presidential field they now have. And it’s not a pretty sight.
As for Palin — well, as Brooks says, she’s a circus. [...] But she almost certainly can’t win a general election in any political environment. That, not fear, is why Democrats love to talk about her, all but openly egging her on to run. ...
And then there's Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour — just in case Republicans want to nominate a former big-time professional lobbyist who also sounds like Foghorn Leghorn.
There may not even be a Bob Dole or a John McCain in this mix — the kind of candidate who can reassert adult control and at least lose gracefully in the general election.So let Republicans enjoy their 2010 comeback. It was all but foreordained by the last two cycles, and by the very demographics that threaten the GOP in the long run. Allow them to celebrate their “fresh faces” [...] But their 2012 prospects will go straight downhill starting on Nov. 3, 2010. That's when Republicans will have to start to deal with the consequences of their recent bout of self-indulgent destructiveness, when they'll begin choosing someone to take on Barack Obama not in press conferences or talking points or Tea Party protests, but in a presidential election.
By GottaLaff
Rick Perry swearstogod he's not running in 2012, but I smell a loophole. Tell me if, in the following, you see any mention of his hair not running:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) tells Newsweek there's no chance he'll run for President in 2012.
Newsweek: Everybody wants to know about your plans for 2012. Are you considering running and would you consider it?
Perry: No and no.
Newsweek: You are not considering running for president. You will not run for president.
Perry: That's correct.
Newsweek: Under any circumstances?
Perry: That's correct.
Newsweek: Vice president? Would you be willing to consider that?
Perry: No. I don't care about going to Washington, D.C.
By GottaLaff
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told a hometown crowd Friday that he will not make a bid for the White House."I am not running for president of the United States,"Jindal said at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. "I've got the job I want."
By GottaLaff
Think of the snarkabilities!
The live audience from the Minnesota Republican Party rally that day roared in applause and cheering at [ the idea of a Palin/Bachmann ticket]. "Well that sounds kind of cool," said Palin.
The Loon RangersBy GottaLaff
They haven't chosen that Very Special Place yet, but the Democratic convention will be held during the week of September 3, 2012, per the DNC.
Democrats “will re-nominate President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, and re-affirm our party’s values of equality, inclusion, diversity, and respect.”
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, that's what Prez O means to me. Everyone...!
The Republican National Convention will be held the week of August 27.
By GottaLaff
Bill Kristol's track record is so fantastically fantastic, we should all be hanging onto every single word he utters.
Why, here are some now!
Luckily, key parts of Obamacare — especially the subsidies — don’t go into effect until 2014. So what Republicans have to do is to make the 2010 and the 2012 elections referenda on Obamacare, win those elections, and then repeal Obamacare.Yes, thanks to Greg Sargent, we see that...
... he’s urging Republicans to hurry up and repeal it before Americans decide they like the fact that government’s defending their interests.
By GottaLaff
[T]he Dittman Research Group's Alaska Poll found. Of the 53% who think Palin has a political future, 17% said they want her to run for president. Another 36% said she should not run for president, but help other candidates. [...]That's 83% who don't want her to run. 83%.
43% of Alaskans responding to the poll said they think Palin should "stay out of politics."
By GottaLaff
Jeb Bush could easily have been talking about his own brother, but he wasn't. Nope, he was discussing Fluffy McSimpleton's lack of qualifications for a presidential run.
The fun starts at approximately 18:38 and goes for about a minute:
As if we thought they weren't? Via Taegan-
President Obama's top advisers are "quietly laying the groundwork for the 2012 reelection campaign," Politico reports, "which is likely to be run out of Chicago and managed by White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina."
"The planning for now consists entirely of private conversations, with Obama aides at all levels indulging occasionally in closed-door 2012 discussions while focusing ferociously on the midterm elections and health-care reform... But the sources said Obama has given every sign of planning to run again, and wants the next campaign to resemble the highly successful 2008 effort."
By GottaLaff
Late last year, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) said explicitly he was not interested in running for president in 2012 and dismissed any speculation that he might be a candidate.It's always good to start right out with a flip flop. Mitch Daniels (R-Hyp. O. Crite):
"That has now changed, according to the Washington Post.
"During an interview at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association here over the weekend, Daniels said he has now been persuaded to keep open the door to a possible candidacy."
He then left Hudson in 1990 for the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company. From 1993 until 1997, Daniels was President of North American operations, and promoted to Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Policy at Eli Lilly in 1997 where he served until leaving the company in 2001.[7][6]In January 2001, upon his appointment as Director of federal Office of Management and Budget (see below), Daniels resigned as a member of the board of Indianapolis Power & Light Co. and sold the $1.45 million he held in company stock, donating the proceeds to charity. Later that year, Indianapolis Power & Light Co. was bought by Virginia-based AES Corp.[6] After the stocks dropped, the Indiana Securities Division investigated the sale and found no wrongdoing. A state investigation also found no wrongdoing. [...]
In January 2001, Daniels accepted President George W. Bush's invitation to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). [...]
Daniels came under fire for overseeing a $236 billion annual surplus turn into a $400 billion deficit during his 29-month tenure. Supporters argued that Daniels was one of the few in the administration working toward restraint, and that ultimately he had to take marching orders from the administration.[7]
In 2002, Daniels helped discredit a report by Assistant to the President on Economic Policy Lawrence B. Lindsey estimating the cost of the Iraq War at between $100–$200 billion. Daniels called this estimate "very, very high" and stated that the costs would be between $50–$60 billion.[10] In March, as Congress considered H.R. 1559, “Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003,” OMB was ordered to prepare an estimate for the defeat of the Iraqi Army and a six-month aftermath ending with the 2003 fiscal year on September 30.[11] Daniels’ estimate referred only to this period,[12].
Much more here.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, in the GOP's weekly radio and Internet address, said the House's climate bill was "a classic example of unwise government." The address culminated a week of coordinated Republican attacks on the Democratic proposal, which would require the first nationwide reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.By all means, Mitch, run.
By GottaLaff
A description of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's (R) forthcoming book, On Solid Ground: Returning to America's Core Values, makes it sound like he's seriously considering a presidential bid.If all his speeches are like this one, he'll be out before you can say "book tour".
The AP notes the book "will be more than just an autobiography of the Louisiana governor" and will include "a political treatise on his vision for the Republican Party."
The book is due out in July.
The economy really has no where to go but up, so I'm sure these numbers will improve.
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds President Obama leading all of his potential 2012 Republican challengers.
He leads Mitt Romney, 45% to 43%, tops Mike Huckabee, 46% to 43%, beats Sarah Palin, 50% to 43% and crushes John Thune, 46% to 28%.
Obama's approval rating is now 48%, compared with 47% who disapprove.
By GottaLaff
Once again TwitWit McFacebook shares her flare for hypocrisy and all around moronitude. First, after speaking at the Tea Tantrum Convention, she comes out against a formal third Party-O'-Tea. Then she mocks Twitter, something she has used to impart her pearls of wisdom regularly:
When she was asked what she believed was the number one threat to America today, several audience members shouted, "Obama!"
Arkansas Republican Party Chairman Doyle Webb, who moderated the Q&A session, responded by adding, "Besides Obama."
Palin then chimed in as many in the crowd laughed.
"See, they said that, I didn’t," she said. "Just you watch now, too, because somebody will be here with their little Twittering thing, and it’s going to be on the Internet any minute now."
[F]ewer than half the seats “in the lower bowl were occupied, and the entire upper level was shrouded by black drapes.” In the hours before the Palin event, “the Arkansas GOP was advertising on its web site a heavily discounted ‘$20 ticket special.’”
"Now the smart thing will be for independents who are such a part of this Tea Party movement to, I guess, kind of start picking a party," Palin said. "Which party reflects how that smaller, smarter government steps to be taken? Which party will best fit you? And then because the Tea Party movement is not a party, and we have a two-party system, they’re going to have to pick a party and run one or the other: ‘R’ or ‘D’."I betcha the Tea Tantrumers who believed in her at the Big Convention didn't like that little nugget.
Palin used her 45-minute speech and the Q&A session that featured pre-selected questions from the crowd to sound off on everything from what she called the "snake-oil science" of global warming to politicians who are "addicted to ‘O-P-M’-other people's money."
By GottaLaff
Well then, it's a done deal.Appearing on Imus in the Morning, [Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) ] rejected a comparison between Obama and Jimmy Carter and said Obama will be more political successful.
"No, no, no. You're wrong on that," Dodd told Imus of the Carter comparison. "That's a mark we'll put it down. This man will be reelected and reelected overwhelmingly."
By GottaLaff
Everything has turned into a reality show. This time the ultimate prize is becoming the leader of the free world:
The New York Times looks at the television of punditry of Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin and notes it could be a list of 2012 presidential contenders.Punditiots gone wild.
"Television and politics have always been intertwined, but never to this degree, TV executives and journalism professionals say. It would seem that the so-called revolving door for political operatives has been extended to the politicians themselves, at a time when cable news is more politically charged than ever."
"To viewers, it seems to be an endless televised political campaign, with former, and possibly future, politicians biding their time giving sound-bite versions of stump speeches."
By GottaLaff
Yes, but can he partake in a Q and A without crib notes scrawled on his hand? That's the real test.He's only been a senator for a week but the drumbeat already has begun for Scott Brown to run for president in 2012.
[...] Brown's supporters have launched a Facebook page devoted to discussing a potential presidential bid.
They've also scooped up several "Scott Brown for President" domain names, including scottbrown2012.com, scottbrown2016.com and scottbrownforpresident.com -- a site that offers "Scott Brown for President" bumper stickers.
And a new Gallup poll ranks Brown fourth among 11 potential GOP presidential contenders who voters would like to see as the nominee.
"He is the fresh face, and he's new," Republican strategist and pollster Kellyanne Conway told Fox News. "The whole idea that you don't have enough experience, I think that went out the window with the age of the Obama presidency."
By GottaLaff
I took this screen grab when I voted several minutes ago:
Here's where you go. You know what to do.
H/t: Basadd
By GottaLaff
Marist found that Obama would win such a match-up by 15 points, garnering 44 percent of the vote to Palin's 29. Bloomberg was behind with 15 percent.
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