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Latest 2012 Presidential Polls – 17 Dec 11 Edition

A new Gallup Tracking poll of registered voters conducted from 10 – 14 Dec 11 has been released concerning the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) nominating circus; the current poll results are:

Newton Leroy Gingrich 29; Mittens Romney 24; Ronny Paul 10; Michele “Krazy” Bachmann 7; Reverend Rick Perry 5; Ricky “The Ric” Santorum 4 and Jon “I can’t believe it’s not butter” Huntsman 2

The GOTP clown car continues to spin wildly down the campaign trail with Newton holding on to what appears to be an ever shrinking lead over Bridesmaid Mittens; Paul’s gaining in third while Krazy moves back into a distant fourth and Reverend Perry hopefully is beginning his final plunge; Huntsman falls back to bottom-dwelling mud sucker status while Santorum begins to once again float to the top of this political cesspool.

In Iowa, a new Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters conducted 12 Dec 11: Romney 23; Gingrich 20; Paul 18; Perry 10; Bachmann 9; Santorum 6 and Huntsman 5

Now we know which candidate the old guard of the GOP wants, because whomever Rasmussen puts on top is whom those in “power” want.

In New Hampshire, the Insider Advantage poll of likely voters conducted 12 Dec 11: Mittens 29; Gingrich 24; Paul 21; Huntsman 11; Bachmann 4; Santorum 2 and Perry 1

In South Carolina, the NBC News/Marist poll of likely voters conducted 4 – 6 Dec 11: Gingrich 42; Romney 23; Paul 9; Perry and Bachmann 7; Huntsman 3 and Santorum 4

In Florida, the new NBC News/Marist poll of likely voters conducted on 04 – 07 Dec 11: Gingrich 44; Romney 29; Paul 8; Perry 4; Bachmann and Huntsman 3; Santorum 2

In the four states with the lead off primaries – or caucuses – Gingrich and Mittens are now tied (if you believe Rasmussen in Iowa) with two a piece …

Concerning how the GOTP “candidates stack up against the President; according to a Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters conducted 14 – 15 Dec 11, if the general election were held today:

President Obama 42/Romney 43

A Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters conducted 12 – 13 Dec 11, if the general election were held today:

President Obama 49/Gingrich 39

So, if the GOTP clown car had finally stopped spinning, and the general election was held today, Newton Leroy Gingrich would be the GOTP nominee, but he would’ve lost huge to President Obama.

 
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Posted by on December 17, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Mitt’s Brain Captain: “Oh joy, Christine O’Donnell endorsed us?”

Former Republican Tea Party (GOTO) Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell went on CNN to explain her recent decision to endorse Mitt Romney. The funny bit, as though there are never funny bits when she speaks, came when she gave Mittens a backhanded compliment shining a very bright light on one of the biggest issues conservatives have Mittens – he’s a flip-flopper.

“That’s one of the things that I like about him — because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind,” O’Donnell said in response to a question about continued criticism of Romney’s supposed flip-flopping. “I think that he’s humble enough to say ‘I don’t always have the right answers.’ And he’s open to other viewpoints and if it doesn’t betray his core convictions he’ll make the necessary changes.”

The former teen-aged witch attempted to make clear that her endorsement was personal and not on behalf of the Tea Party or any other political group, but said that she hoped her support for Romney might encourage Tea Party activists to give him a “second look.”

Wow, how can you top an endorsement like this one? An endorsement from a certified crazy woman who recently suffered (2010) one of the worse defeats in a United States senatorial race in our country’s history; only way to seemingly top this would be to garner Sarah Palin’s blessing as well, and eventually Michele Bachmann’s. Yep, Mittens is living in tall political cotton now.

 
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Posted by on December 14, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Latest 2012 Presidential Polls – 14 Dec 11 Edition

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll of registered voters conducted from 8 – 12 Dec 11 has been released concerning the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) nominating circus; the current poll results are:

Newton Leroy Gingrich 28; Mittens Romney 18; Ronny Paul 12; Reverend Rick Perry 12; Michele “Krazy” Bachmann 10; Jon “I can’t believe it’s not butter” Huntsman 5 and Ricky “The Ric” Santorum 4

So, the GOTP version of the Island of Misfit Candidates labors on with Newton holding on to what appears to be shrinking lead over Bridesmaid Mittens; but that news isn’t good for Mittens as the other GOTP candidates all climbed a little higher this week; Paul is gaining in third tied now with Reverend Perry while Krazy’s prediction may be coming true with at least some of Herman Cain’s former followers “going home to her”; Huntsman has his biggest leap thus far in the polls moving up to 5% while Santorum continues at the bottom.

In Iowa, a new Insider Advantage poll of likely voters conducted 12 Dec 11: Gingrich 27; Paul 17; Perry 13; Romney 12; Bachmann 10; Santorum 7 and Huntsman 4

In New Hampshire, the Insider Advantage poll of likely voters conducted 12 Dec 11: Mittens 29; Gingrich 24; Paul 21; Huntsman 11; Bachmann 4; Santorum 2 and Perry 1

In South Carolina, the NBC News/Marist poll of likely voters conducted 4 – 6 Dec 11: Gingrich 42; Romney 23; Paul 9; Perry and Bachmann 7; Huntsman 3 and Santorum 4

In Florida, the new NBC News/Marist poll of likely voters conducted on 04 – 07 Dec 11: Gingrich 44; Romney 29; Paul 8; Perry 4; Bachmann and Huntsman 3; Santorum 2

In the four states with the lead off primaries – or caucuses – Gingrich leads big with 3 states and over Romney’s 1 …

Concerning how the GOTP “candidates stack up against the President; according to a NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl poll of likely voters conducted 07 – 11 Dec 11, if the general election were held today:

President Obama 47/Romney 45

President Obama 51/Gingrich 40

So, if the GOTP clown car had finally stopped spinning, and the general election was held today, Newton Leroy Gingrich would be the GOTP nominee, but he would’ve lost huge to President Obama.

 
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Posted by on December 14, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Mittens dismisses $10K debate bet, criticizes President

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential bridesmaid Mittens Romney is attempting to dismiss his offer during the latest debate installment to make a $10,000 bet with the Reverend Ricky Perry as merely “an outrageous number to answer an outrageous charge” – namely, Perry’s claim Romney made changes to parts of his book.

Mittens mewed he made the offer because Reverend Perry erroneously claimed he deleted parts of his book, “No Apology” referring to Romney’s support for a health care mandate.

Mittens told FOX PAC his bet offer was meaningless hyperbole, akin to saying “I’ll bet you a million bucks.”

The bet’s sparked charges Mittens, who’s a millionaire, is out of step with economic challenges facing ordinary Americans.

Mittens quickly tried to deflect such charges by claiming what the American people are tired of is President Barack Obama deflecting blame for his failed economic policies.

So, Mittens tries to deflect attention away from his own obtuse comments by claiming the President’s trying to deflect?

Mittens’ biggest problem is he is out of touch with the 99% of us who aren’t millionaires; he’s got no glue what it’s like to struggle economically. or to lay awake at night trying to figure out how you’ll make this month’s mortgage payment, or how you’ll feed your kids or keep the heat and lights on. He’s a rich kid, and his “bet” was the typical rich kid reaction. Claiming it was “an outrageous number to answer an outrageous charge” is an outrageous statement. To me, an outrageous bet is $10,000, to the rest of the 99% it’s an outrageous bet, to Mittens it’s change found under his sofa cushions.

 
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Posted by on December 13, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Newt Gingrich Supporters Who Oppose Obama Are Racist?

The verdict’s in, the Tea Party’s racist; and guess who the judge is? Glenn Beck; yes that’s right, Glenn Beck. Professor Beck said on Friday that Newt Gingrich’s such a “progressive” that any supporters of his who oppose President Obama are doing so because of Obama’s race.

Beck’s reportedly been very vocal about his dislike for Newton, and he hosted the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential frontrunner recently for a notably tough interview. Last week, the Beckster appeared on the Fox Business show “Freedom Watch” and hammered Gingrich even more.

Calling him “the only candidate I cannot vote for,” Beck said Newton’s so-called support for Theodore Roosevelt “ridiculous,” and said he’d issued a “challenge” to any Tea Party supporters of the former House Speaker.

“You read this guy’s record,” he said. “You read his words…see what he believes. This man is a progressive. He knows he’s a progressive. He doesn’t have a problem with being a progressive. So if you’ve got a big government progressive [in Gingrich] or a big government progressive in Obama, one in Newt Gingrich, one in Obama, ask yourself this Tea Party. Is it about Obama’s race? Because that’s what it appears to be to me. If you’re against him but you’re for this guy, it must be about race.”

“It must be about race,” the host, Andrew Napolitano, said. “I mean, what else is it about, Judge?” Beck said. “It’s the policies that matter.”

Wow, who ever thought Glenn Beck would be calling the Tea Party racists? It must be a cold day in …

 
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Posted by on December 12, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Mittens Grilled on Same-Sex Marriage Rights

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting a gay veteran lit into GOTP presidential candidate Mittens Romney at a campaign stop in New Hampshire, challenging the former Massachusetts governor on his views on same-sex marriage.

Mittens approached Bob Garon, a gay man seated with his husband at the Chez Vachon restaurant, taking note of the man’s Vietnam Veteran hat.

“Vietnam veteran!” Romney said, taking a seat at the couple’s booth, according to the Washington Post.

Mittens arrogantly assumed because Garon was wearing a Vietnam veterans hat he must’ve been a conservative like himself, and thought he’d get some quick press talking to a vet, what he got was something quite different; Garon, a self-avowed independent voter, reportedly quickly launched into a question about New Hampshire’s gay marriage law, asking Romney if he supported recent stirrings by GOP presidential candidates about repealing the legislation, which allows same-sex couples to get married.

“I support the repeal of the New Hampshire law,” Romney responded. “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. That’s my view.”

“It’s good to know how you feel, that you do not believe everyone is entitled to their constitutional rights,” Garon shot back.

“No, actually, I think at the time the Constitution was written it was pretty clear that marriage is between a man and a woman,” Romney replied. “And I don’t believe the Supreme Court has changed that.”

I’d love to know where in the Constitution – or the writings of the Founding Fathers – where marriage is discussed between a man and a woman and where it’s protected? Oh wait; it doesn’t.

Seeing the tight spot Mittens had placed himself into, an aide rushed in to extricate him from the situation, claiming the candidate had another interview with FOX PAC.

“Oh, I guess the question was too hot,” Garon said. Before getting up to leave the booth, Romney said he had given Garon a yes or no answer.

The exchange was enough to make up Garon’s mind on how he felt about Romney.

“I was undecided,” Garon said. But now “I’m totally convinced today that he’s not going to be my president — at least in my book. At least Obama will entertain the idea. This man is ‘no way, Jose.’ Well, take that ‘no way, Jose’ back to Massachusetts.”

“The guy ain’t going to make it,” he told reporters later. “You can’t trust him. I can see it in his eyes.”

Garon’s nailed it exactly, Mittens can’t be trusted, and YOU CAN see it in his eyes.

 
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Posted by on December 12, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Posted by on December 11, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Palestinians are an ‘invented’ people?

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential hopeful Newton Leroy Gingrich told a Jewish cable channel that Palestinians are an “invented” people and that they are really Arabs who chose not to live elsewhere.

The Jewish Channel released excerpts of an interview in which the former House speaker says there was no Palestine as a state and that the residents there were part of the Ottoman Empire before the creation of the state of Israel.

Not true Newton; the United Nations 1947 decision to partition Palestine, created two states; the first was Israel and the second? Anyone? Bueller? It was Palestine. The fact the Palestinian leaders at the time chose not to accept the mandate is why there’s been no Palestinian state.

Gingrich says Palestinians were historically part of the Arab community and that they had a chance to go many places.

Well, and the Jews who immigrated to the Holy Land were Europeans who were historically a part of Europe and they too had a chance to go many places.

Gingrich says the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians has been, quote, “delusional.” He says President Barack Obama’s effort to treat the Palestinians the same as the Israelis is actually, as he puts it, “favoring the terrorists.”

And Gingrich also admitted that his head comes to a point.

For Pete’s sake, how many times are we going to have to listen to the GOTP wannabes whine about how the President isn’t supporting Israel enough – even though he’s done more than any Republican ever has – and how the Palestinians aren’t “real people”?

Did Newton actually say, “Palestinians are an ‘invented’ people and that they are really Arabs who chose not to live elsewhere”? What does he think Americans are? There were no Americans before 1776. Someone might as easily say, “Americans are an ‘invented’ people and that they are really British citizens who chose not to live elsewhere”.

As a historian Newton sucks, as a presidential candidate he sucks more, and if by some curse upon our land he were elected then that would really suck.

 
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Posted by on December 9, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Reverend Perry’s Christmas video

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian,” Republican Tea Party (GOTP) aspirant Reverend Ricky Perry says in the opening of his latest attack ad; “But you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.

“As president, I’ll end Obama’s war on religion. And I’ll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage. Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again.”

Now, how exactly has the lifting of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell affected kids ability to “openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school”? It hasn’t, but Reverend Ricky figures he’ll kill as many angry birds as possible with this one stone.

Facts are kids can celebrate Christmas in school – we attended a band concert just this week at our daughter’s high school where they played numerous Christmas songs and even a Hanukah song; additionally kids can openly pray all they want too in school, they just can’t have teachers or coaches, as a state employee, initiate it. As a high school football coach our athletes opened and closed each game with prayer; the students led the prayers and frequently invited their opponents to join them.

Exactly when and how has the President initiated or conducted a war on religion? Oh wait, yeah, he hasn’t, we’re just making it up as we go along – like claiming the Obama White House called its Christmas trees holiday trees when it hadn’t, and that it was actually the Bush White House which had done that.

Perry is, as many uber-conservatives in America today are, ignorant of what is and what is not factual. He’s playing to the lowest common denominator in the Tea Party dominated GOTP and he’s still not going to get jacks worth of votes for his efforts. His campaign’s been over almost from the get go, and it’s not hard to see why; he’s just your typical ignorant, arrogant, homophobic, racist white bread Christian southern politician. Time to pack it in and go home citizens, there’s nothing to see here; nothing of substance will ever be offered.

 

 
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Posted by on December 9, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Ask Bin Laden

The Huffington Post’s reporting that President Barack Obama’s forcefully rejected Republican Tea Party (GOTP) accusations that his foreign policy is timid and amounts to a policy of “appeasement.”

“Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaida leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that,” the president said during a news conference.

He also reportedly defended his efforts to block Iran from building a nuclear weapon, saying Iran’s now isolated and facing tough international sanctions thanks to the work of his national security team.

His remarks came a day after Republican presidential candidates took turns criticizing Obama’s foreign policy as weak during speeches before Jewish activists and donors. They especially focused on the Obama administration’s Middle East policy.

GOTP presidential doormat Ricky “the Ric” Santorum said Obama’s policy toward radical Islamists “has been nothing but appeasement.”

The President appeared primed for the question about the critique, and his communication director, Dan Pfeiffer, promptly posted the president’s response on Twitter: “Ask Osama Bin Laden.”

Not to be out done by the likes of Santorum, Mittens Romney said the President “emboldened Palestinian hard-liners who now are poised to form a unity government with terrorist Hamas and feel they can bypass Israel at the bargaining table.” Mittens also mewed that the President was “timid and weak in the face of the existential threat of a nuclear Iran.”

The President responded to his critics, citing “some of the political noise out there,” saying his administration has “systematically imposed the toughest sanctions” on Iran.

“When we came into office, the world was divided; Iran was unified and moving aggressively on its own agenda,” he said. “Today Iran is isolated, and the world is unified and applying the toughest sanctions that Iran’s ever experienced, and it’s having an impact inside of Iran.”

Seriously, the GOTP hopefuls are going to try to run against the President on his record against terrorist and supporting Israel? While Bush/Cheney played games and missed the mark for eight years at the cost of trillions of dollars and thousands of American’s dead, President Obama got Bin Laden – enough said on terrorism.

While Bush/Cheney refused to give Israel Bunker Buster bombs President Obama has, as well as increased funding to Israel – any other inane comments about Israel from the Seven Dwarfs?

Problem is Mittens thinks that it’s 1980 and he’s Ronald Reagan running against Jimmy Carter; sorry to disappoint Mittens, but the President’s no Jimmy Carter, and I knew Ronald Reagan, and Romney’s not Ronald Reagan – he’s not even close.

 
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Posted by on December 8, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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