Horserace for June 23, 2011
This week we find Jon Huntsman in the race officially. Rick Perry continues to look at getting in the race. And there’s a battle shaping up in Iowa. I’ll get into it all and how the candidates are stacked up.
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Jon Huntsman Calls Obama ‘Remarkable’ Before Plotting His Treachery
As Jon Huntsman headed out the door to China in August of 2009, he sent Barack Obama a handwritten note. Included is the statement “You are a remarkable leader — and it has been a great honor getting to know you.” The rest of the story is that Huntsman went to China to serve as Barack Obama’s Ambassador to the Chicoms and, concurrent to that, | Read More »
Silence of the Lambs
Yesterday, I called on conservatives and conservative organizations to actually dare to retaliate against Republican members of Congress who refuse to cut, cap, and balance before raising the debt ceiling. If any Republican dares to raise the debt ceiling without first ensuring (1) cuts in the budget; (2) caps in spending; and (3) the Lee-Cornyn-Hatch Balanced Budget Amendment makes it out to the states, conservatives | Read More »
McCain and Graham Claim to Speak for Conservatives on Libya
Whenever we attempt to evince bold distinctions between ourselves and the Democrats, Lindsey Graham and John McCain can always be counted upon to muddle those distinctions. Foreign policy, in particular, is a subject in which voters struggle to perceive clear differences between the parties. Consequently, we must repel the rapturous support for the so-called Arab Spring emanating from Obama’s tag team of favorite Republicans. Back | Read More »
On Jon Huntsman: See, I Told You So
My objection to Jon Huntsman remains simple: while serving at the pleasure of the President of the United States, he began plotting against the President of the United States. It matters not who the President is. It matters that the man was disloyal to his President while serving as his mouth piece to our biggest strategic adversary in the world. Many people responded to my | Read More »
The Horserace for June 17, 2011
I’m late this week to the horserace for a reason. I wanted to get a sense of the buzz in New Orleans at the Republican Leadership Conference before delving in. The event is still going on, though I am headed up to Minneapolis, MN now for Right Online where more Presidential candidates will be. This week’s big winners are obvious: Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney. | Read More »
Has Brad Carson fallen behind in Oklahoma?
By request, we look at a 2012 House race today. PPP polled Oklahoma’s second district for the Friends of Brad Carson. Carson, a Democrat, of course won this seat previously in 2000 and 2002, giving it up in 2004 in a failed Senate run. Dan Boren, also a Democrat, won the seat in 2004 and has held it ever since. Boren is retiring, so Carson | Read More »
Tags: 2012, Brad Carson, dan boren, George Faught, House, Ken Corn, OK-02, Oklahoma, public policy polling, Requests
New Romney Ad: “Bump in the road.”
[UPDATE]: Nice take on this by one of our diarists. It’s strong; I thought that it might have been a bit long before watching, but there’s nothing in there that doesn’t need to be. Mitt Romney‘s campaign came up with a good one, here. One with a theme that should be repeated by the eventual candidate, at every opportunity. Via Jim Geraghty. Transcript (via email; | Read More »
Get Ready for the Debate
Just a reminder that we’ll be covering the debate live here at RedState tonight. We’ll have up an interactive chat box to do debate play by play. Beginning at 6p.m., you can click here to listen to my radio pre-debate show. At 7pm, the feed will switch over to CNN’s live debate coverage. At 10p.m., with the same link, you’ll be able to get my | Read More »
An Important Week for the 2012 GOP Field Begins Tonight at 7pm on CNN
The GOP’s New Hampshire Primary debate begins tonight at 8 p.m. ET. CNN is hosting the debate and you can watch it live there. Beginning at 6pm, I’ll be doing a special debate preview on WSB Radio. At 7 p.m. tonight, I’ll be on CNN participating with CNN’s preview of the debate. WSB Radio will run with the CNN audio at that time. At 8 | Read More »
On John Ziegler: How Easy We Trash Our Friends
By the title, you might think I’m focusing on John Ziegler trashing Sarah Palin. I am not. And I don’t read this as trashing Sarah Palin. Sometimes people write things they actually mean that you and I disagree with. I’m instead titling this post over the angst of those coming in via twitter and email about John Ziegler’s work. For the past several years, John | Read More »
Jim Pethokoukis on China’s Economy and Pawlenty’s Plan
Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca and Jim Pethokoukis to discuss his recent trip to see China’s booming economy up close and Tim Pawlenty’s plan to get our economy back on track. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d | Read More »
Newt Gingrich’s Campaign Withers. Is Its Death and Perry 2012 Imminent?
If you read my horserace post, you know I’ve been hearing about Newt Gingrich’s campaign disintegrating. I was asked to hold back, but word is now pouring out like water from a crack. Steve Deace is reporting Gingrich’s Iowa team is closing up shop. The Daily Caller is now reporting that Gingrich’s team is leaving en masse. This tracks with what I’ve been hearing. Now | Read More »
The Horserace for Thursday, June 9, 2011
With this weekend’s Horserace, I’m adding in Giuliani, who Bill Kristol says is days or a couple of weeks from getting into the race. I’m not putting in Rick Perry or Sarah Palin this week, though the implications of them possibly getting in are mentioned. As always, I put the candidates in alphabetical order. This is, again, my objective take on the candidates based on | Read More »
Sarah Palin’s Magical Mystery Tour
Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Scott Conroy, from Real Clear Politics is here to discuss the Sarah Palin world tour, her upcoming movie and whether or not she will officially join the race for President. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. | Read More »
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