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President 2012: Enter Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee and Michelle Bachman into the Race
According to Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard.
Mitch Daniels is likely, I’m told, to announce his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination in the next couple of weeks. Michelle Bachman will, I think, enter the race in June. And it now looks as if Mike Huckabee is also going to run.
Saturday evening, while tout Washington was “enjoying” the White House Correspondents Dinner—and while some of us, I might add, were truly enjoying the lovely wedding of Mary Katharine Ham and Jake Brewer—Mike Huckabee was speaking to the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association in Pittsburgh. It was the right place to be if you’re interested in the GOP presidential nomination. And by all accounts Huckabee gave a very effective speech, striking a populist tone while vigorously taking on Obama’s agenda across the board, linking social and economic issues, and asserting “I want you to know that I stand here tonight as a gun-clinger and as a God-clinger unapologetically.”
Mike Huckabee will enter as the front runner, especially in Iowa. Will Mitch Daniels compete there since Michelle Bachmann is a native Iowan or gear up for New Hampshire, where he will go up against Mitt Romney?
The next few weeks should get very interesting.
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Why the GOP Should Take the Lead Against the AIG Bonus Babies
Can capitalism survive the behavior of some capitalists? It’s always been an open question. But if capitalism is to survive, shouldn’t the Republican party, the party that defends democratic capitalism, be particularly vehement in denouncing its excesses? Isn’t this a pretty spectacular one? And isn’t this a moment for the GOP to separate itself from the Bush administration as well as the Obama administration, who together have been responsible for an incompetent and improvident bailout? Figuring out the right policy going forward with respect to toxic assets and the rest is, of course, a major intellectual task. But being on the side of a healthy populist reaction to the AIG situation is at least a good political start.
And, note: President Obama just denounced AIG in a morning event.
And, from the GOP – CRICKETS.
Technorati Tags: AIG, William Kristol, Barack Obama
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Put A Fork in William Kristol – He’s DONE
Conservative columnist and Founder/Editor of The Weekly Standard William Kristol is DONE at the New York Times – that is.But, reportedly, he is heading over to the Washington Post for a once a month column.
The New York Times lost a good writer but they are good at that. Look at their balance sheet.
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