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Even Palin’s few remaining supporters didn’t want her in the race
Sarah Palin thinks her supporters are sad she decided not to run for President. She’s wrong. Sarah’s faithful didn’t want her to run anyway. Which begs the question: Why follow her in the first place? Appearing on Fox News Thursday, Palin — who announced a day eariier that she would not seek the GOP Presidential [...]
Cain: It’s all the fault of the poor and unemployed
GOP presidential wannabe Herman Cain says Wall Street isn’t to blamefor the millions of Americans out of work. It’s not the Republicans. Nah, the blame for unemployment lies with thoese who don’t have jobs. That’s right. If you’re out of work, look in the mirror. It’s all your fault. Want to reduce unemployment? Simple. Get [...]
Is a ‘Cain Mutiny’ underway in the GOP?
Herman Cain is the latest “big thing” for a frustrated Republican Party searching frantically for a contender — any contender — to unseat President Barack Obama. Meanwhile, former flavor of the month Rick Perry is plummeting in the polls. A new CBS poll puts former Godfathers Pizza CEO Cain tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt [...]
More questions over Rick Perry’s racism
Many Americans believe symbols of the Confederacy represent a shameful period in the nation’s history that are best left in the past. Texas Governor and GOP Presidential contender Rick Perry is not one of them. Perry, throughout his political life, has defended public displays of the Confederate flag and other such symbols in Texas, saying [...]
Chris Christie says ‘no,’ again, on run for president
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday said — once again — that “no” means “no.” Christie said he’s not running for the GOP nomination for President and won’t be talked into it. “It just doesn’t feel right,” Christie said. “What I always thought was the right decision remains the right decision,” Christie told reporters in [...]
Obama admits America is worse off under his presidency
President Barack Obama admitted Monday that the America he sought to lead four years ago is not better off now than it was then but — as is his style — stopped short of accepting the blame for the nation’s woes. Said Obama in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: They’re not better off then [...]
Rick Perry’s racist hunting camp name raises questions
GOP Presidential contender Rick Perry‘s family hunting camp was once called “Niggerhead.” Perry says his father changed the name of the camp in West Texas after he purchased it but legislators and other invited guests said the name still appeared on a large rock at the camp’s entrance when Perry hosted guests at the camp [...]
Is Chris Christie too fat to be President?
Chris Christie jokeS that his weight once hit 550 pounds. He won’t say how much he weighs right now but the rotund New Jersey Governor is the fattest Presidential contender in many years and is drawing comparisons to William Howard Taft, who tipped the scales at 340 pounds when he won the Presidency in 1908. [...]
GOP voters not happy with Romney but he’ll do in a pinch
Republican voters, showing little enthusiasm for the current crop of candidates for President, are slowly embracing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney not because they have any enthusiasm for him but because he seems — at the moment — to be the best chance the party has to beat Barack Obama in 2012 It’s the old [...]
Good news, bad news for both parties
Nine out of 10 Americans think the nation’s economy is in the crapper and most of them still blame former President George W. Bush and the Republican Party. That’s the finding of a CNN/ORC poll released Friday. It’s the second time since 1997 that so many Americans have felt so much doom and gloom about [...]