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Chris Christie, Haley Barbour, Jon Huntsman, Mitch Daniels, Mitt Romney, President 2012, Tim Pawlenty
President 2012: Republicans Looking for the Anti-Romney Presidential Candidate?
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the Values Voter Summit on Sept. 17, 2010, in Washington
Such astute punditry from the Los Angeles Times this morning – NOT.Isn’t it obvious?
- Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels
- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour
- Former Utah Gov. and departing ambassador to China Jon Huntsman
- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
- Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
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Flap’s Links and Comments for March 7th from 02:15 to 09:11
These are my links for March 7th from 02:15 to 09:11:
- President 2012: Game ON for Jon Hunstman? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Game ON for Jon Hunstman? #tcot #catcot
- Palin’s parents fear death threats – Andy Barr – POLITICO.com – Sarah Palin "Faces Saving" begins for a non-2012 Presidential race: Palin's parents fearful over death threats
- President 2012 Poll Watch: Who’s HOT and Who is NOT – The National Thermometer | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 Poll Watch: Who’s HOT and Who is NOT – The National Thermometer #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Revisiting Bisphosphonates and Femur Fractures – Revisiting Bisphosphonates and Femur Fractures
- President 2012: The GOP Weirdness Factor – OUT Goes Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: The GOP Weirdness Factor – OUT Goes Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich #tcot #catcot
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-03-07 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-03-07 #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for March 6th from 19:04 to 19:38 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for March 6th from 19:04 to 19:38 #tcot #catcot
- Update: Wisconsin Democrat Fleebaggers to End Union Standoff and Will Return to Vote – Not Until Collective Bargaining is Off the Table | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Update: Wisconsin Democrat Fleebaggers to End Union Standoff and Will Return to Vote – Not Until C… #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for March 6th from 16:00 to 18:56 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for March 6th from 16:00 to 18:56 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Gregory Flap Cole: "Update: Wisconsin Democrat Fleebaggers …" « Deck.ly – Gregory Flap Cole: "Update: Wisconsin Democrat Fleebaggers …" « Deck.ly
- Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000 – The Hill’s Healthwatch – Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000 – The Hill's Healthwatch
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President 2012: Game ON for Jon Hunstman?
U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman speaks to journalists in front of the Beijing High People’s Court after an appeal of Xue Feng in Beijing, February 18, 2011
Apparently, Huntsman is going to run.Members of the presidential campaign-in-waiting for U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman are set to meet on March 18th in New Orleans for a strategy session.
Huntsman plans to leave his Beijing posting on April 30th to prepare for a likely White House bid in the 2012 election, but he will not be part of the New Orleans gathering and is not privy to it. Some who will attend include veteran Republican strategist John Weaver, GOP ad maker Fred Davis and New Hampshire Republican activist Peter Spaulding. Three staffers for Horizon PAC, the organization for Huntsman’s campaign-in-waiting, will also attend, including executive director Susie Wiles, spokesman Tim Miller and Jake Suski.
Huntsman will certainly have the personal money to fund a primary campaign and I understand he has already put a dent into Mitt Romney’s donors (you know LDS and all). So, money will NOT be a problem.
Name ID will probably be purchased rather quickly and a fresh face is certainly better than the old guard who at this point are continuing to stick around.
Stay tuned as more candidates start to gear up – next up will be Mitch Daniels and Haley Barbour.
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President 2012 Poll Watch: Who’s HOT and Who is NOT – The National Thermometer
Quinnipiac University National Thermometer poll is out.
The Quinnipiac University poll asked voters to rate leaders from 0 to 100 degrees on a “feeling thermometer,” with the highest numbers reflecting the warmest feelings. The mean scores and the percent who said they did not know enough about the people to rate them are:
The most interesting HOTS to me are Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie. The other potential GOP Presidential candidates are NOT so hot.
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Barack Obama, Chris Christie, Haley Barbour, Jon Huntsman, Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels, Mitt Romney, President 2012, Tim Pawlenty
President 2012: The GOP Weirdness Factor – OUT Goes Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
Goerge Will DISSES both Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich this morning.If pessimism isn’t creeping into Republicans’ thinking about their 2012 presi dential prospects, that is another rea son for pessimism. This is because it indicates they do not understand that sensible Americans, who pay scant attention to presidential politics at this point in the electoral cycle, must nevertheless be detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the party.
The most recent vibrator is Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, who won the 2008 GOP Iowa caucuses and reached that year’s national convention with more delegates than Mitt Romney and might run again. Huckabee was asked by Steve Malzberg, a talk-radio host, this:
“Don’t you think it’s fair also to ask [Barack Obama] . . . how come we don’t have a health record, we don’t have a college record, we don’t have a birth cer — why, Mr. Obama, did you spend millions of dollars in courts all over this country to defend against having to present a birth certificate. It’s one thing to say, ‘I’ve — you’ve seen it. Goodbye.’ But why go to court and send lawyers to defend against having to show it? Don’t you think we deserve to know more about this man?”
Huckabee should have replied, “I’ve seen paranoia. Goodbye.” Instead, he said:
“I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya . . .”
And, then Gingrich:
Republicans should understand that when self-described conservatives like Malzberg voice question-rants like the one above and Republicans don’t recoil from them, the conservative party is indirectly injured — as it is directly when Newt Gingrich, who seems to be theatrically tiptoeing toward a presidential candidacy, speculates about Obama’s having a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” mentality.
An article containing what Gingrich calls a “stunning insight” is “the most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama.” Gingrich begins with a faux question: “What if he is so outside our comprehension” that he can be understood “only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial, behavior?” Then Gingrich says this isn’t just a question; it’s “the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”
To the notion that Obama has a “Kenyan, anti-colonial,” worldview, the sensible response is: If only. Obama’s natural habitat is as American as the nearest faculty club; he is a distillation of America’s academic mentality; he is as American as the other professor-president, Woodrow Wilson. A question for former history professor Gingrich: Why implicate Kenya?
Granted the references to Kenya and Obama’s birth certificate are just weird bu these two fellows have other baggage problems and I have never considered them serious Presidential candidates.
So, who are Will’s favorites for 2012?
- Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels
- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour
- Former Utah Gov. and departing ambassador to China Jon Huntsman
- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
- Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
Agreed, except I would add New Jersey governor Chris Christie as a 6th.
Who do I think could beat President Obama?
At this point, I would say Mitch Daniels and Chris Christie. The others will be trounced but will do NO harm to protect GOP gains in the House and the 2012 take over of the Senate.
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Flap’s Links and Comments for March 6th from 19:04 to 19:38
These are my links for March 6th from 19:04 to 19:38:
- Gregory Flap Cole: "Update: Wisconsin Democrat Fleebaggers …" « Deck.ly – Update: Wisconsin Democrat Fleebaggers to End Union Standoff and Will Return to Vote – Not Until Collective Ba… (cont)
- Flap’s Links and Comments for March 6th from 16:00 to 18:56 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for March 6th from 16:00 to 18:56 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000 – The Hill’s Healthwatch – ObamaCare: Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000
- Union protests: Why conservatives are having mixed luck getting video of angry, violent liberals. – By David Weigel – Slate Magazine – Union protests: Why conservatives are having mixed luck getting video of angry, violent liberals. – By David W…
- Flap’s Links and Comments for March 6th from 16:00 to 18:56 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for March 6th from 16:00 to 18:56 #tcot #catcot
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@Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-03-07
- RT @jjmnolte: Translating @daveweigel's http://slate.me/fhMbhP: We journOlisters ignored union thug vids w… (cont) http://deck.ly/~Lgq1t #
- Video: Wisconsin Democrat Fleebaggers to End Union Standoff and Will Return to Vote http://bit.ly/gkBsCt #tcot #catcot #
- California Budget: Tax vote a worry for GOP http://bit.ly/hcIqPk #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for March 6th from 05:02 to 15:48 http://bit.ly/hIl17x #tcot #catcot #
- Wisconsin Poll Watch: A WINNABLE FIGHT http://bit.ly/gXur8F #
- The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute: HIGHLY POLARIZED WISCONSINITES SPLIT OVER WALKER PLAN http://bit.ly/gLn27G #
- President 2012: Can’t America Do Better Than the Obama Economy? http://bit.ly/g4nmfA #tcot #catcot #
- New Zealand's Dental Health Continues Among the Worst http://bit.ly/hLVWrp #
- Day By Day March 6, 2011 – CULTures http://bit.ly/hW2hXD #tcot #catcot #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for March 5th through March 6th | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/hVHbpi #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for March 5th through March 6th http://bit.ly/fWFQ8m #tcot #catcot #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-03-06 http://bit.ly/e8y85T #tcot #catcot #
- Giuliani Not Close to Decision http://bit.ly/exN3AV #
- Republicans in solid shape to take control of Senate next year – The Hill's Ballot Box http://bit.ly/eQzPf1 #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for March 5th from 19:09 to 19:15 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/ij0LEP #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for March 5th from 20:01 to 20:04 http://bit.ly/eUJ9t9 #tcot #catcot #
- Senate 2012: Republicans in solid shape to take control of Senate next year http://bit.ly/i0YiFI #
- President 2012: Rudy Giuliani Not Close to Decision http://bit.ly/htn8Zg #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for March 5th from 19:09 to 19:15 http://bit.ly/fy7dj4 #tcot #catcot #
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