Palin bashes Obama, defends TEA Party and doesn’t answer the question

    At her big speech in Iowa today Sarah Palin took it to President Obama again and again, defended the TEA Party, spoke about her “bonafide pro-working man plan,” and no, she did not answer that bothersome question — will Palin run? On President Obama: Palin reminded us that she warned in her vice-presidential acceptance speech that candidate Obama’s plan, after turning back the waters and | Read More »

    Obama’s audacious taxpayer-funded reelection campaign bus tour

    Obama thinks we should pay for this reelection campaign bus tour because, in the now infamous words of Press Secretary Carney: He’s the President of the United States. You can see the “context” of Carney’s comment here. The political nature of Obama’s trip so blatant that the biased media wing of the Democrats’ party is not even trying to hide it: The Voice of America | Read More »

    Palin is not going to run

    “It’s fair to them to give them an answer here, in short order, so that they can jump on  board with someone else.” – Sarah Palin August 13, 2011 With those words, former Gov. Sarah Palin made it clear to me that she will not run for president in 2012. You don’t tell your supporters “they can jump on board with someone else” if you are | Read More »

    Romney and Bachmann lead in Iowa

    Bachmann and Romney lead in the first Des Moines Register Iowa Poll on the Republican 2012 presidential field: Romney 23% Bachmann 22% Cain 10% Gingrich 7% Paul 7% Pawlenty 6% Huntsman 2% Bachmann and Romney gained momentum from their strong performances during the June 13, Republican Presidential Debate in New Hampshire. There are still six months before the February 6, 2012 Iowa Caucuses, but two | Read More »

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie still refuses to run for president

    Last night, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie rejected the entreaties of a group of Iowans that he enter the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. The Iowans, energy company executive Bruce Rastetter and a half-dozen other prominent Iowa Republican donors, met with Christie over dinner at the governor’s mansion in Princeton. According to the Associated Press, Christie told Iowans that “a run for the | Read More »

    Obama’s military gap

    Gallup reports that veterans and active military are less likely to approve of President Obama’s job performance. Gallup found that 37% all active-duty military personnel and veterans approve of Obama’s job performance compared with 48% of nonveterans. This is fitting rebuttal to TIME’s Joe Klein, who recently asserted on “The Chris Matthews Show” that Obama’s relationship with the military is better than was President Bush’s. | Read More »

    The 2012 campaign has begun

    Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor the Washington Post calls “the Republican’s version of Obama,” visited Iowa last weekend. Jindal’s Iowa trip ignited talk that the campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential  has begun: Already, a fierce fight is looming between him and other Republicans – former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who arrived in Iowa a couple of days before him, and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, | Read More »