In comments, DivGuy argues that I'm being too hard on poor Willard. Responding to my point about how Clinton's foolish Iraq War vote probably cost her the nomination: However, if we’re accepting the Clinton comparison, I think that’s a good argument against saying Mitt’s “drawing...
2012 Republican Primary
All you need to know about Mittens '12: "If Romney does not apologize for Romneycare, he's dead. Of course if he does apologize, he is deader."
Silver's take is, as always, worth reading. To me, Palin still clearly has a serious chance of getting the 2012 nomination, and the key is point #3. The GOP establishment.
Is Haley Barbour really going to run for the GOP nomination in 2012? I hope so; the modern neo-Confederate+Corporate Lobbyist Republican Party might as well have a definitive standard-bearer: As Barbour recalls it in a new profile in The Weekly Standard, things weren't so bad...
Apparently some people somewhere are enthusiastic about Mitch Daniels: I spoke this morning to John McKay, a Chicago-area businessman who runs Switch2Mitch.org, which has launched a petition drive to get.
Heh. Perhaps Hu Jintao should consider forming an exploratory committee for the 2012 Republican primary...According to Gallup, Communist, melamine exporting, beating us in the Olympics China is now more popular.
Jon Huntsman certainly has an interesting strategy for making it through the 2012 GOP primary; it seems to be based on the assumption that the Palin-Huckabee-Jindal crazy wing of the party (which seems to represent ~70% of the party) will be divided enough to allow...
Please, please, please reject federal stimulus funding; we'll get to find out if someone who rejects federal money can get elected dogcatcher in Baton Rouge. Yours truly,RobJindal is far too.