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Latest 2012 Presidential Polls (29 Jul 11 edition)

29 Jul

Hot out of the polling oven it’s the most current 2012 presidential election pastries.

Out first – from Gallup polling conducted from 20 – 24 July 2011 – let’s look at who would be the Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) nominee if it all ended today:

Romney 17, Perry 15, Palin 12, Bachmann and Giuliani 11, Paul 8, Cain and Gingrich 3, Santorum and Pawlenty 2, and Huntsman’s no longer being mentioned in national polls…

So, Romney (aka Flopsy Mopsy) is very narrowly holding on to his lead, with Perry (Pres of the 2nd Republic of Texas) making a very serious challenge (even though he hasn’t announced he’s running) as Palin (aka the Ice Queen – who also hasn’t announced she’s running) moves up while Bachmann (aka Krazy) is beginning to slip behind running neck-and-neck with Giuliani (of all people), followed by Paul, as Cain (aka the Pizza Man, who has never met a Muslim he hasn’t disliked) tied with Newter Gingrich follow, as Pawlenty and Santorum are still running a very distant last place while Jon Huntsman has effectively dropped off the national political radar screen (was he ever on the radar screen?).

But what about the Iowa Caucus? Well, if it was held today (according to Magellan Strategies polling: Krazy 29; Flopsy 16; and the rest of the pack are still running so far back they are inconsequential…

How about New Hampshire? According to PPP (D): Flopsy 25, Bachmann 18, Palin 11, Paul 9, Perry and Cain 7, Pawlenty and Huntsman 6 and Gingrich 4…

So, how does the GOTP pack stack up against President Obama?

If the election was held today, according to NBC/WSJ (which only asked about Bachmann and Romney) and previous polls for the others:

President Obama 48/Romney 41

President Obama 49/Bachmann 38

President Obama 47/Perry 37

President Obama 47/Pawlenty 37

President Obama 52/Gingrich 39

President Obama 53/Palin 37

President Obama 48/Cain 35

President Obama 52/Paul 42

President Obama 52/Huntsman 34

If the GOTP nomination circus – and the general election – had both ended this week Flopsy would be the GOTP candidate, and he would still have lost to the President.

 
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Posted by on July 29, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Bachmann says her family is off limits?

28 Jul

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential aspirant Michele Bachmann (aka Krazy) steadfastly refuses to answer questions about her family’s business and finances, saying that she – not her husband – was the one seeking the White House.

Oh snap! Isn’t that kind of like it was Senator Obama running for office and not his minister? She’s been married to Marcus more than twenty years, is she going to tell us none of his bizarre ideas on homosexuality have run off on her? Same logic used against the President during his campaign in 2008. It was the far-right talking heads who let that Genie out of the bottle and now it’s come home to roost. How marvelous. Isn’t karma grand?

Krazy (Bachmann) faced questions about her husband Marcus Bachmann’s Christian counseling clinic that attempts to convert gay patients as well as her own beliefs on sexuality during a luncheon at the National Press Club. With her husband sitting nearby, Bachmann (Krazy) said she expected scrutiny as a candidate but questions about her family were off-limits.

“I’m running for the presidency of the United States. My husband is not running for the presidency. Neither are my children. Neither is our business,” she said.

“I am more than happy to stand for questions on running for the presidency of the United States,” she continued. “I have no doubt that every jot and tittle of my life will be fully looked at and inspected prior to November of 2012.”

Well “every jot and tittle” includes her family, her beliefs and her business dealings. How else are we supposed to know if she’s really the evangelical lunatic she’s always claimed to be?

Krazy (Bachmann), who’s campaigning hard ahead of next month’s debate and straw poll in Iowa, steadfastly refuses to discuss the family’s business that has faced criticism from gay rights groups. When asked to describe her beliefs on gay therapy, she said she loved her husband of 32 years and then said her husband was not a campaign issue.

Hold the phone. She was asked what her beliefs on gay therapy were, and that’s a legit question, she can’t side step it by claiming her husband isn’t running. Conservatives jumped all over Micelle Obama and things she had written in college, and now the tables are turned, and wasn’t it Bachmann who took on the First Lady over her views on breast feeding? Well, yes it was. If it’s good for the goose, it’s certainly good for the gander.

Interestingly enough Krazy (Bachmann) has also been facing questions about her opposition to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Washington Post reported this week that it has copies of loan documents suggesting her family used those federally subsidized programs in 2008.

“Unlike all of you, who I’m sure paid cash for your homes, there are people out there like myself who actually have to go to a bank to get a mortgage. This is a problem: it’s almost impossible to buy a home in this country today without the federal government being involved,” she said.

“We need to get the federal government out of these programs.”

Bachmann (Krazy) discussed Congress’ ongoing effort to increase the nation’s debt limit; and she characteristically downplayed the catastrophic consequences predicted if lawmakers allow the United States to default on its debts.

Krazy (Bachmann), a darling of the Tea Party, has vowed to vote against any increase in the debt ceiling and called the deal being negotiated on Capitol Hill as one based on “illusory” and “counterfeit” savings. She said President Barack Obama has misled the American people on when the government would run out of borrowing authority and has employed “scare tactics” that have needlessly spooked Wall Street.

“The current negotiations over the debt ceiling illustrate exactly what is wrong with Washington, D.C., today,” said during her speech. “The lack of a clear plan from our president to substantially reduce our debt is what’s scaring the markets. … The markets know when politicians are serious about spending cuts and the markets know when politicians are not.”

Like when GOTP members of Congress ran away from a plan proposed by President Obama to reduce the spending by more than $4 billion dollars? Is that the kind not being serious about spending cuts she was referring to?

Krazy (Bachmann) is a hypocrite and a traitor; she claims her family is off limits when for three years she’s repeatedly gone after Michelle Obama; she claims to love the Constitution and our troops but is playing games with the country’s economic stability in time of war.

 
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Posted by on July 28, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Huntsman’s lagging because of dog days?

27 Jul

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is blaming his slow start on “the dog days of summer,” claiming he’ll do better when the election season hits high gear.

Except for the fact he’s dead last in almost every poll, finishing several points behind a former pizza company executive, everything’s fine. You can almost hear the GOTP hopeful saying, “We’ve got them right where we want them.”

When asked about his dismal polling numbers, Huntsman replied, “If the election were next month, I guess that would be a cause for concern.”

Someone on his campaign needs to step up and say, “No governor, its cause for concern right now.” Huntsman isn’t just last he’s dead last in every poll garnering around 2% of those asked if they’d vote for him.

Huntsman reportedly told CBS’s “The Early Show” that “it’s going to take a little while” to hone his message of “moving this country to a position of competitiveness and job creation.” He said “we’ve got a terrific presence in the early states” and said that he expects an even stronger organization on the ground by this fall.

By early states he’s referring to Iowa, or maybe New Hampshire? I’m sorry to burst his bubble but in New Hampshire polling only Newt is doing worse than Huntsman is; and in Iowa he’s not even registering, as in he has a 0%; so much for “early states”.

Point is the governor stinks. No one is going to vote for him. Partly because he’s a Mormon, and the right-wing uber-conservative Christian nut jobs in the Tea Party aren’t going to nominate a Mormon; and partly because paint drying is more enthusiastic than John Huntsman. Road kill has more people looking at than John Huntsman. More people watch reruns of Hee Haw than attend Huntsman events. Maybe his angle is to garner enough followers to place him in the running for the VP nod? It could happen; maybe whoever wins the nomination will need a boring VP choice? Maybe Romney will chose him as his junior companion (VP) and they can run with the motto they’re “On a ‘Mission’ to take back America”?

 
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Posted by on July 27, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Latest 2012 Presidential Polls (21 Jul 11 edition)

21 Jul

Here’s the latest information on this week’s polling on the 2012 Presidential election.

First – from a Public Policy Polling poll conducted from 14 – 17 July 2011 – let’s look at who would be the Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) nominee if it all ended today:

Romney 20; Bachmann 16; Palin 12; Perry 11; Cain 10; Paul 9; Gingrich 6; Santorum 3 and Pawlenty and Huntsman both bringing up the rear of the pack with a whopping 2%

Romney (aka Flopsy Mopsy) is narrowly holding on to his lead, while Bachmann (aka Krazy) is steadily moving up still followed by the two candidates who haven’t announced they’re running, Palin (aka the Ice Queen), and Perry (Pres of the 2nd Republic of Texas). Bringing up the rear are Herman Cain (aka the Pizza Man, who has never met a Muslim he hasn’t disliked) followed by Paul, Gingrich, Pawlenty, Huntsman and Santorum.

Still wondering how long the guys in the back are going continue deluding themselves that they’re viable candidates? One would think you’d actually do some polling before you jumped into the ring, but I guess not.

With the first major GOTP contest being the Iowa Caucus; if it was held today (according to Mason-Dixon polling: Krazy 32; Flopsy 29; and the rest of pack are still running only in single digits so far back it doesn’t really matter.

So, how does the GOTP pack stack up against President Obama?

If the election was held today, according to NBC/WSJ (which only asked about Bachmann and Romney) and previous polls for the others:

President Obama 48/Romney 41

President Obama 50/Bachmann 35

President Obama 48/Pawlenty 39

President Obama 52/Gingrich 39

President Obama 53/Palin 37

President Obama 48/Cain 36

President Obama 54/Paul 36

President Obama 52/Huntsman 34

If the GOTP nomination circus – and the general election – had both ended this week Flopsy would be the GOTP candidate, and he would still have lost to the President.

 
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Posted by on July 21, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Bachmann suffers from high heel migraines?

19 Jul

Reportedly Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential hopeful, Michele (Krazy) Bachmann suffers from migraine headaches so intense she at times has sought emergency medical treatment? But of course she denies that the blinding headaches, which have sent her to the hospital emergency room, would not prevent her from serving as president if elected, because “like” they’ve never stopped her from achieving anything else in her life.

“Let me be abundantly clear — my ability to function effectively has never been impeded by migraines and will not affect my ability to serve as commander in chief,” Bachmann (Krazy) said in a statement. She described the headaches as “easily controlled with medication.”

Wait a minute, you’ve been forced to go to the emergency room because the migraines were so intense, but they don’t impede your judgment because of the meds?

Apparently some of her staffers disagree with the Congresswoman’s opinion, including one who said Krazy (Bachmann) “carries and takes all sorts of pills” for the headaches, and that the condition at times rendered her “incapacitated”.

Another staffer said, “When she gets them, frankly, she can’t function at all. It’s not like a little thing with a couple Advils. It’s bad.”

Of course, Bachmann’s (Krazy’s) campaign and family members have strongly disputed everything.

“She would not in any respect meet the definition for not having capacity in one of these episodes,” Krazy’s (Bachmann’s) son, Dr. Lucas Bachmann, a medical resident at the University of Connecticut who is pursuing a specialty in psychiatry, said in a telephone interview. “She is probably not going to run a mile, but in terms of being able to engage, she can comprehend and assess information — without a doubt.”

OK, wait a minute; let me clean up the soda I just sprayed all over my key board when I read Krazy’s son is studying psychiatry … there that’s better. But, wait another minute; her son – the med student – says she’s OK, so, that clearly means there’s no problem?

Dr. Bachmann, who reportedly does not treat his mother, said she had suffered from migraines — a chronic disorder characterized by moderate to severe headaches and often nausea — for about 15 years. She takes “standard migraine treatment medications,” he said.

The reported drugs included one intended to reduce pressure inside the cranium, and an anti-nausea drug to reduce vomiting that is sometimes a side effect of migraine headaches. Krazy has also been prescribed prophylactic medication to prevent the episodes; on occasion, when they are particularly severe, she has sought emergency medical treatment in urgent care centers, where her son said she had received non-narcotic injections and been monitored by doctors. Of course if she can’t find any of these meds she can always ask Rush to help her out.

The Daily Caller reported Krazy has blamed the headaches on uncomfortable high-heeled shoes, which the newspaper said was an implausible explanation. But Dr. Bachmann said that his mother had, in fact, noticed “a correlation” between the headaches and days when she wears heels.

“The truth is she wears high heels all the time and she doesn’t get migraines,” he said. “But she has found a correlation, though a correlation does not necessarily equal causation. It’s an unknown cause.”

So, Krazy suffers from very debilitating migraine headaches she claims are caused by wearing high heel shoes which she continues to wear any way while taking medication and none of this should – in any way – affect her ability to be president? I’m not sure which is more troubling; that she suffers from debilitating migraines and says they won’t affect her ability to make decisions of life and death, peace and war, or that she believes wearing high heels causes them and then continues to wear high heels?

 
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Posted by on July 19, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Those who believe Mormons aren’t Christian have never read the Book of Mormon

19 Jul

from Third Nephi in the Book of Mormon:

“And it came to pass that while they were thus conversing one with another, they heard a voice as if it came out of heaven; and they cast their eyes round about, for they understood not the voice which they heard; and it was not a harsh voice, neither was it a loud voice; nevertheless, and notwithstanding it being a small voice it did pierce them that did hear to the center, insomuch that there was no part of their frame that it did not cause to quake; yea, it did pierce them to the very soul, and did cause their hearts to burn.

“And it came to pass that again they heard the voice, and they understood it not.

“And again the third time they did hear the voice, and did open their ears to hear it; and their eyes were towards the sound thereof; and they did look steadfastly towards heaven, from whence the sound came.

“And behold, the third time they did understand the voice which they heard; and it said unto them

“Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my name—hear ye him.

“And it came to pass, as they understood they cast their eyes up again towards heaven; and behold, they saw a Man descending out of heaven; and he was clothed in a white robe; and he came down and stood in the midst of them; and the eyes of the whole multitude were turned upon him, and they durst not open their mouths, even one to another, and wist not what it meant, for they thought it was an angel that had appeared unto them.

“And it came to pass that he stretched forth his hand and spake unto the people, saying:

“Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets testified shall come into the world.

“And behold, I am the light and the life of the world; and I have drunk out of that bitter cup which the Father hath given me, and have glorified the Father in taking upon me the sins of the world, in the which I have suffered the will of the Father in all things from the beginning.

“And it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken these words the whole multitude fell to the earth; for they remembered that it had been prophesied among them that Christ should show himself unto them after his ascension into heaven.

“And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto them saying:

“Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.

“And it came to pass that the multitude went forth, and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet; and this they did do, going forth one by one until they had all gone forth, and did see with their eyes and did feel with their hands, and did know of a surety and did bear record, that it was he, of whom it was written by the prophets, that should come.

“And when they had all gone forth and had witnessed for themselves, they did cry out with one accord, saying:

“Hosanna! Blessed be the name of the Most High God! And they did fall down at the feet of Jesus, and did worship him.”

To not like Mitt Romney because of his politics, or his continuously unending flip-flopping is one thing; but to dislike him because of his religion displays both an exceedingly high level of bigotry and ignorance, which sounds more and more like those who inhabit the far-right uber-conservative “Christian” corner of the today’s Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) …

 
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Posted by on July 19, 2011 in 2012 Election, Religion

 

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Evangelicals rejecting Romney nomination?

18 Jul

During a discussion on Rick (President of the 2nd Republic of Texas) Perry’s possible run for the White House on FOX and Friends this past Sunday morning, Ainsley Earhardt turned the discussion to a pronouncement of what many evangelicals and mainstream Christians believe: Mitt (Flopsy Mopsy) Romney, a Mormon, is “obviously not a Christian.”

Earhardt said that since Romney is “not a Christian” he may not have a good chance of raising big money among Christians if Rick Perry runs for president.

And so it begins; FOX PAC has fired its first salvo at Flopsy hoping to keep him from winning the Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) nomination because he’s a Mormon.

When the discussion began tumbling down that particular rabbit hole and host Dave Briggs said he wasn’t sure if Perry could “get in and raise money with Mitt Romney.” Earhardt disagreed. “Well the Christian coalition … I think [Rick Perry] can get a lot of money from that base because [of] Romney obviously not being a Christian … Rick Perry, he’s always on talk shows, on Christian talk shows, he has days of prayer in Texas,” she said.

Many evangelicals “Christians” claim the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is non-Christian, and although a recent Pew poll showed that 58 percent of white evangelicals didn’t see a problem in supporting a Mormon candidate, evangelicals are warning the voters to be careful.

“Let’s face it; Romney simply doesn’t have a consistent worldview and much of what he does believe is contrary to the conservative and Christian worldview,” states an open letter being circulated 14 Jul 11, according to Michigan Messenger. Some far-right uber-conservative religious, including Gary Glenn of the American Family Association’s Michigan chapter, have signed the letter. Yes, this is the same group sponsoring Rick Perry’s Texas Style Day of Prayer in August.

“That (Romney’s faith) might be fine for someone running for city council, but he’s running for the presidency of the most powerful nation in the world. To accept his multiple conversions as authentic and then give him the keys to the White House would be foolish. At this critical time in American history, we need a leader more than ever who has spent a lifetime defending and promoting conservative principles. The last thing we need is someone whose ideology abruptly shifted only after he and his consultants decided to prepare him for his first Presidential campaign,” it adds.

“There is one fundamental question about which I often am asked. What do I believe about Jesus Christ?” Romney said in a speech on December 6, 2007.

“My church’s beliefs about Christ may not all be the same as those of other faiths,” he said, adding, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind.” Each religion, he said, has its own unique doctrines and history. “These are not bases for criticism but rather a test of our tolerance. Religious tolerance would be a shallow principle indeed if it were reserved only for faiths with which we agree.”

Romney has argued (correctly) that requiring a presidential candidate to describe and explain his church’s distinctive doctrines “would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution.”

During Romney’s failed 2008 run for the GOTP nomination, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said, “Here is the bottom line. As an Evangelical Christian – a Christian who holds to the ‘traditional Christian orthodoxy’ of the Church – I do not believe that Mormonism leads to salvation.”

Evangelical journalist Warren Cole Smith has said he could not vote for a Mormon because they hold to false teachings. Placing a Mormon in the White House “would serve to normalize the false teachings of Mormonism the world over,” he said in a post on Patheos.com last month.

“As an evangelical Christian who believes that Mormonism is a false religion, I think it only makes sense that I would not want to be a part of any effort – either intentional or not – that would spread a false religion,” Smith said.

So this is what I’ve been saying all along; the far right uber-conservative so-called Christians of the GOTP are not going to vote for a Mormon. If – and it’s a big if – Romney can win the GOTP nomination, will the evangelical voters support him? Probably not because they’re not going to risk their “salvation” by voting for a “non-believer”, and conservatives need to understand this, they are not going to support his nomination, or his election; they’d rather see that “socialist Muslim” in the White House than a Mormon.

 

 
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Posted by on July 18, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Is Perry really electable? Hardly …

17 Jul

So, the political pundits and talking heads – particularly on the conservative side – all think Rick Perry (President of the 2nd Republic of Texas) should – or will – jump into the race for the Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) nomination. On what grounds do they – or Perry – think he’s electable? Do they think he’s electable because he’s uber-right conservative Christian; because he’s been governor of Texas; because he’s folksy, and has a cowboy’s swagger?

Now where have we seen those credentials before? Oh yeah, George W. Bush – quite probably one of the worst presidents in our nation’s history (which is saying something considering some of the past presidents); the man singly responsible for allowing terrorists to kill more than 3,000 Americans on U.S. soil; for taking our country into two wars, not paying for either, and lying to get us into one; for not only ending but dismantling one of the country’s longest running peace time economic expansions , spending away a budget surplus, expanding the debt, deficit and size of the federal government to new and exasperating levels. Yeah, let’s elect another uber-conservative Christian, former governor of Texas full of folksy cowboy humor and swagger …

“Texans, God love them, have that bigger-than-life persona about politics and that doesn’t necessarily play everywhere,” said (to the AP) Christopher Nicholas, a Republican political consultant who has worked extensively in the Northeast and Midwest. “I haven’t heard a lot of Republicans call Social Security a disease.”

According to the Associated Press (AP), Perry has. “He branded Social Security and other New Deal programs ‘the second big step in the march of socialism,’ according to a book published last year. The ‘first step” was a national income tax, which he has said stands alongside the direct election of U.S. senators as a major mistake among the amendments to the U.S. Constitution.'”

That’s right folks; Perry thinks a citizen having the ability to elect their senators was a major mistake; seems he’d prefer the good old days when state governments – or governors – chose who would represent each state in the senate.

Reportedly in the recent Texas legislative session, Perry’s “emergency items” included laws that require a photo ID in order to vote, a sonogram before a woman had an abortion and enforcement of federal immigration laws by local police.

While I don’t necessarily disagree with a photo ID for voting, requiring women to have sonograms and having the local police enforcing federal laws is the typical uber-conservative over-reach of late. Conservatives scream about government involvement until they want to become “involved” then it’s OK.

But will he run for president? While promoting his book last year, “Fed Up: Our Fight to Save America from Washington,” Perry said, “The best concrete evidence that I’m really not running for president is this book, because when you read this book, you’re going to see me talking about issues that for someone running for public office, it’s kind of been the third rail if you will.”

During the debate over health care Perry said outright that Texas should secede from the United States and pushed the idea of pulling Texas out of Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health care for low-income people.

It’s the state’s rights stance that has placed Perry so far to the right that he would – in all probability – find it difficult on the national political stage. His pro state’s rights agenda has led him into raucous fights with the Environmental Protection Agency.

Last month, Perry signed a symbolic bill – meaning it has no teeth – allowing Texas companies to continue producing incandescent light bulbs banned by the EPA, as long as they are sold within the state. Texas is the only state that has refused to put in place the EPA’s new rules regulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

While the Texas style bravado plays well in Austin it is doubtful it will play well outside if the Lone Star State. In recent national polls Perry places a distant third – just behind Michelle (Krazy) Bachmann with 12% of Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) voters polled, while Mitt (Flopsy Mopsy) Romney is at 25%. Perry hasn’t shown up on any polls for Iowa, and in New Hampshire polling he is coming in with a dismal 7% tied with Herman (Pizza Man) Cain, and trailing Ron Paul (9%), Sarah (Ice Queen) Palin (11%), Krazy (18%), and Flopsy Mopsy who leads with 25%. Generally when one enters a political contest you want to poll somewhere close to the front of the pack; so far Perry ranks a distant third in some and very distant 6th or 7th place in others. But who knows, maybe his Texas size ego won’t allow him to sit back and watch. Maybe he’ll jump in and prove how uninformed he truly is on national and international issues, although one would guess he’d probably hold his own against Katie Couric.

 
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Posted by on July 17, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Bachmann and Santorum caught in slavery controversy

16 Jul

Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) presidential candidates Michele Bachmann (aka Krazy) and Rick Santorum (Ricky) are rushing to find cover, as well as sanity, after the two reportedly supported a pledge containing a controversial racially charged preamble containing the statement, “Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”

Of course since the controversy began the excerpt has been removed from “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family,” a pledge issued by the uber-conservative Christian organization The Family Leader, an important social conservative group with power to influence uber-conservative right wing “Christian” caucus goers of Iowa.

A Ricky lackey told CNN that the Senator was “pleased” to sign the pledge, but agreed with the Leader’s decision to remove the language about slavery.

“Senator Santorum was pleased to sign the Iowa Family Leader’s pledge because he is committed to standing up for traditional marriage. The bigger question here is why aren’t more Republicans having the courage to stand up for the institution of marriage and signing this pledge,” Virginia Davis said in an email. “With that said, Senator Santorum believed it was the right thing for the Iowa Family Leader to remove the language from the preamble to the pledge about slavery.”

Krazy’s campaign has confirmed the congresswoman signed the pledge saying, “In no uncertain terms, Congresswoman Bachmann believes that slavery was horrible and economic enslavement is also horrible.”

The Family Leader has the purpose of the pledge “is to have on record the personal convictions of each presidential candidate as it relates to the issue of marriage. The signing of the pledge will be a requirement for future endorsement” by the Iowa-based group.

The pledge reportedly further requires signatories “to defend and to uphold” the institution of marriage as between one man and one woman, as well as each signing candidate being required to pledge personal fidelity to his or her spouse and to recognize that “robust childbearing and reproduction is beneficial to U.S. demographic, economic, strategic and actuarial health and security.”

Besides that last part being exceedingly 19th century like in tone, it’s clear – due to the fidelity pledge – that Newt Gingrich will probably not be signing any time soon; well besides the fact signatories actually have to be running for the presidency.

Other reported provisions include supporting the enactment of safeguards for married and unmarried military personnel from sexual harassment and the “rejection of Sharia Islam.”

After all, what’s a good old fashioned right-wing religious pledge without some line attacking Islam and wanting to protect all of us from Sharia law while forcing its own religious theocracy?

Point is we’ve either got two very stupid presidential candidates who don’t read what they’re signing, or we’ve got two presidential candidates who read the pledge and saw nothing wrong with it. Either way their signatures speak volumes about their willingness to sell themselves to the uber-right, and that’s a concern.

 
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Posted by on July 16, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Latest 2012 Presidential Polls (14 Jul 11 edition)

14 Jul

Here’s the latest information on this week’s polling on the 2012 Presidential election.

First – from a Quinnipiac poll conducted from 7 – 11 July 2011 – let’s look at who would be the Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) nominee if it all ended today:

Romney  25; Bachmann 14; Palin 12; Perry 10; Cain 6; Paul 5; Gingrich 5; Pawlenty 3; Huntsman 1 and Santorum 1

As the “race” moves into July, Romney (aka Flopsy Mopsy) still holds on to the lead, while Bachmann (aka Krazy) has moved into second, followed by two people who haven’t announced they’re running, Palin (aka the Ice Queen), and Perry (Pres of the 2nd Republic of Texas). Bringing up the rear are Herman Cain (aka the Pizza Man, who has never met a Muslim he hasn’t disliked) followed by Paul, Gingrich, Pawlenty, Huntsman and Santorum.

How long are the guys in the back of this pack going to delude themselves? If you’re lower in the polls than a guy who preaches hate against Muslims what’s that say about your chances? But what about people who say they’ll vote for candidates who aren’t even in the race? Makes you wonder.

The first major GOTP contest will be the Iowa Caucus; if it was held today (according to Magellan Strategies (R): Krazy 29; Flopsy 16; and the rest of pack is in single digits so far back it doesn’t really matter. Yes, at this point the GOTP nomination appears to be turning into a two horse race.

So, how does the GOTP pack stack up against President Obama?

If the election was held today, according to Quinnipiac (which only asked about Bachmann, Romney and Palin) and previous polls for the others:

President Obama 47/Romney 41

President Obama 50/Bachmann 38

President Obama 53/Palin 34

President Obama 47/Pawlenty 33

President Obama 48/Cain 38

President Obama 52/Gingrich 39

President Obama 54/Paul 36

President Obama 52/Huntsman 34

The gap between the President and Flopsy Mopsy has widened to six points. But, once again, the odds of the far-right uber-religious Tea Party ever supporting a “Mormon” for president are highly unlikely.

The GOTP continues to struggle with finding a definite leader, and it is very likely Bachmann will pick up a lot of steam in Iowa and the south, and Romney will then struggle to win a divisive nomination, if he can win it at all.

To recap, if the GOTP nomination circus – and the general election – had both ended this week Flopsy would be the GOTP candidate, and he would still have lost to the President.

 
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Posted by on July 14, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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