When Herman Cain convincingly beat the field in the P5 Straw Poll here in Florida, the initial reaction by many was to discount any meaning behind the results and pass it off as a ‘protest vote’. After all, people couldn’t be serious… Herman Cain? Going into this event, Rick Perry was riding high. He had only been in the race a short time, had quickly | Read More »
The national media in this country has worked hard to make the GOP presidential primary a two man race. We saw this effort repeatedly in the series of debates held last month, even from Fox News. As far as the networks were concerned, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry might as well have been the only two on the stage. Of course, Herman Cain’s overwhelming victory | Read More »
There has been a lot of talk in the media that the anti-capitalists that currently ‘occupy‘ Wall St. are much like the tea party… a natural uprising of the people. One that’s quickly gaining the support of many politicians from the progressive left, which should be the first indication of just how different it is from the tea party movement. Even Obama acknowledges that they’re | Read More »
There can be little doubt that Herman Cain’s trouncing of the media driven “front runners” in the Florida Presidency 5 straw poll last week set the political class back on it’s ears. Some were quick to say it was a protest vote – it wasn’t, however, whether you see it that way or not, it was certainly a repudiation of Mitt Romney in the minds | Read More »
You have to admit that by posting hourly the lack of an announcement from Sarah Palin of her intention to run for president or not is a bit over the top. But more importantly, why is Erickson altering the entire alignment of his universe over Palin’s potential actions? If it were someone on the Left, we’d call it what it is – Palin Derangement Syndrome… just | Read More »
As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years; “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,” Perdue said. I occasionally hear | Read More »
Herman Cain pulled off a major upset by winning the Florida Presidency 5 Straw Poll, doing so in a very convincing manner. The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO captured 37 percent of the vote, while Perry took 15 percent and Romney took 14 percent. I can make the claim that I accurately predicted the top three finish well before the totals were announce, except for one | Read More »
Suddenly, we are seeing what appears to be a coordinated effort on the part of some on the right to go after Sarah Palin fans by attacking them for their ‘extremism’ or by comparing them to Ron Paul supporters, known for their fanaticism. Or suggest that Palin fans would actually consider tipping the election to Obama should she decide to run in the GOP primary | Read More »
Former CEO Craig Miller scored an important victory yesterday in coming out on top in a straw poll held at the ‘A Conservative Roar from the I-4 Corridor‘ rally in Sanford, FL. The event featured GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain and U.S. Senate candidates Craig Miller and Mike McCalister, in addition to a host of other state level candidates. Attended by hundreds of conservatives, including | Read More »
Did you wake up feeling like a lab rat this morning? Well, there’s good reason for it! The Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements at the University of California at Berkeley posted the following announcement on their web site; Tea Party Working Group Formed The Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements is pleased to announce the formation of a Tea Party | Read More »
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