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After laying low during Palinpalooza, the former governor is back atop the GOP pack for 2012. Mark McKinnon's year-end rundown of who's hot (Rick Perry) and who's not (Mike Huckabee).
The way things are going, maybe we should go ahead and hold the 2012 elections after all—instead of just reappointing Obama president by acclamation.
As we head into 2010, it seems increasingly likely that the 2012 presidential contest will at least be competitive. President Obama’s favorable ratings are now consistently below 50 percent; no candidate has been elected president with a favorable of 47 percent or lower and the Rasmussen Poll this week has him at 44. He has yet to pass any signature legislation on the big issues on which he campaigned, and he now has Afghanistan strapped to his back like a political refrigerator.
• More from McKinnon on the 2012 race Correspondingly, we’re seeing a lot of activity among prospective GOP players. By this time next year, the field will be largely set. What is most interesting, comparing the list today with the one a year ago, is who has fallen off it or otherwise lost altitude. Mark Sanford and John Ensign, once bright lights, have been doomed by the ancient curse of infidelity. Jon Huntsman got detailed to China. Bobby Jindal gave a painful speech which reminded voters of Kenneth from 30 Rock. And Mike Huckabee’s chances took a serious blow when a prisoner he freed as Arkansas governor allegedly shot and killed four policemen before being gunned down himself.
So where does that leave the field today heading into next year? Who’s up and who’s down? Four candidates who started the year on the list are off (Sanford, Ensign, Jindal and Huntsman), replaced by newcomers: Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels, Joe Scarborough, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry.
1. Mitt Romney
Republicans historically like an orderly process—handing the baton to the candidate who has patiently waited his or her turn in line. That guy, this time around, is Romney. He has been plodding and dutiful. He is tanned. He’s rested. He’s rich. And he appears ready for another round. There’s a great deal to be said for having been through the gauntlet before. He now has the experience and knowledge to navigate the treacherous and tricky waters of a Republican primary contest. He knows economics, has built businesses and created jobs both in the private and public sector, and he established health care reform in Massachusetts. And if he runs his race like he did the last month of the last campaign, true to who he really is, he should be the nominee.
2. Sarah Palin
Palin cruises around like she has a political jet pack on: powerful, fascinating, and crazily erratic, and you don’t know if she’s going to fly up into the stratosphere or hit a building. But, she is a force to be reckoned with. She says she looks for “open doors” to plot her political path. Well, alleged cop-killer Maurice Clemmons, granted clemency in 2000 by Mike Huckabee, might have just given her one to walk through for 2012—because Huckabee and Palin would clearly be fighting for many of the same voters, and the Clemmons incident could drive Huckabee from the race. Just a couple of weeks ago, Huckabee was leading the prospective field and polling within four points of Obama. Republicans primary voters are notoriously law- and order-obsessed, so Palin has virtually an open field in Iowa, South Carolina, and other primary states dominated by Christian conservatives.
Hot off her book tour, and the darling of the tea party crowd, Hurricane Sarah is blowing toward the 2012 shore.
3. Tim Pawlenty
Of all the prospective candidates, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been the most forward-leaning and aggressive. At times, he seems to have gone too far—clumsily kissing the right’s rings, just as Romney did four years ago (Pawlenty jumped out early supporting Joe Wilson after he called Obama a “liar”). But he’s raised his profile and is now viewed as one of the most likely presidential aspirants, which was hardly the case last January. As far as boosting his name ID is concerned, he’s doing everything right.
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Marionetta
This isn't the first time Mark has been pushing Romney. Are you working for him Mark? Wow, what a bunch of bottom scrapers you've got lined up there.
oliverckerr
We have a leadership vacuum in our country, the legacy of a failed two party system and an FCC that insured the unconstitutional shut out of any and all independent people who ever made an attempt to even run for political public office.
A simple $3 check off on our income tax, creating a First Amendment Speech Fund, guaranteeing airtime for live individual speech with the stations and networks getting reimbursed foer the money they gave up, from the speech fund would enable anyone who believed they had the right stuff to stand for public office.
Not by any stretch of the imagination can this independent candidate for president accept the idea that, with 300 million people in this country, we have the best and the brightest serving us. We certainly don't.
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Bulldoglover100
Obama sold us out on health care and I will be unable to vote for him in 2012 BUT if this idiot who wrote this article thinks for one minute that ANYONE with a brain would vote for Sarah Palin? then his parents HAD to have been breeding for stupid when they birthed him.
ThinkAgain
bulldoglover100 - Your parents shouldn't have bred at all. The world would have been better off if they'd settled for a pet rock.
GinaRN
Ahem!
Mi! mi! mi!
Sarah Palin is Scum,
Lying, ignorant, idiotic, jaw-droppingly stupid scum.
Yay!
The first of 200 posts...
reardongalt
Not "mi mi mi" but My My My, how sad it must be to be you.
I'm guessing fat and ugly, but I suppose you could just be an old hag, who missed her chance in life. You have nothing of your own to fall back on, so when you see a beautiful, successful, well liked woman, who happens to be a Conservative, you cringe at the indignity of it all. You're probably an ardent admirer of Maureen Dowd, who spends alot of free time correcting other people's grammar, trying to convince yourself that you really are superior.
God that's so sad. I almost feel sorry for you.
Meanwhile the beauteous Sarah just sold 3 million hard copies of her book, and is laughing it up with the late night crowd. Wow!
GinaRN
Typical rethuglican argument. I am either,"fat and ugly", or, an"old hag who missed her chance in life". No better argument than sexism, right?
You're wrong about both, but, Hey, it's hard to write intelligently when all you know is Faux "news".
Palin:
Beautiful? Regular features, but when she opens her mouth, ugly words come out.
Successful? A quitter who sold a lot of books ghost-written for her. Whatever!
Well-liked? Only by people with sub 100 IQ's, birthers, deathers, teabaggers and racists.
And I'm not a fan of Dowds. You're 100% wrong, as usual.
reardongalt
"Sarah Palin is Scum,
Lying, ignorant, idiotic, jaw-droppingly stupid scum"
Now THERE'S intellect for you. In reality you have no better argument than the good old ad-hominem attack. All the rest is smoke and mirrors. If you think you're fooling anyone you're stupider than even I think. Oh wait, you ARE probably fooling Democrats.
I rest my case.
reardongalt
"Faux" news?
"Rethuglican"?
Damn, get some new material. Quit hanging with 16 year old bloggers.
But I notice you're yet another Lib who is quite familiar with the term "teabagger".
Somehow, I knew you would. I could tell by the "pout".
GinaRN
Mr. ad hominum attacks, calling the kettle black.
I can always tell a Foxnoise watcher, by their use of the soubriquet, "Lib".
They seem to think it's: witty, an excellent "put-down", and that it's a cogent argument, indicating weakness that can be safely scoffed at.
It's a way for uneducated people to dismiss and devalue educated people.
The GOP in it's evil brilliance, has taught the poor and stupid (Palin) to hate the people who want to help them, Liberals, and love the people who want to keep them poor, stupid, uneducated and without healthcare, Republicans.
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shaygirl
GinaRN,
sounds more like a Rosie O, devotee!
GinaRN
Shaygirl,
Please explain what you mean by a "Rosie O devotee".
Thanks!
GinaRN
Shaygirl,
Never mind. I have just read your other posts.
Your post was a nasty insinuation that I must be a Lesbian.
How nice. Thanks for sharing who you really are!
reardongalt
"hate the people who want to help them, Liberals, and love the people who want to keep them poor, stupid, uneducated and without healthcare"
Oh I get it! I should have known. You're just another run of the mill Moocher:
"Waaaaahhhhh, I want my free healthcare, waaaahhhhh!"
You make me sick. Go buy your own healthcare you mooching wench. And tell your Lib friends we don't want their freakin' help. We know how much it's gonna cost us. You Rosey lover you!! ROTFLMAO!!!
RevPettibone
To Ms. GinaRN...
It's about time an educated person like yourself has redirected this debate towards the plight of the millions of downtrodden proletarian struggling for social justice in the USA. As a nurse, no one is more aware than you, how the majority of impoverished, misinformed, uneducated and disadvantaged individuals in this country live in our major cities. However, did you also know the multi-decade governance of these very megalopolitan enclaves has been at the hands of the same Democratic conscripts you are so quick to praise for their respect, enlightenment and concern of the masses??? See how by using your own malevolent brilliance as an example to present the facts, the GOP has been correct in pointing out to the "poor and stupid"(your words, not mine) how justified they are in hating Democrats for "helping" them prolong their misery.....
GinaRN
No-one, and I mean no-one uses the word proletariat, "comrade", get current. Implying I must be a communist is so 1950s, don't you think?
Blaming all inner-city problems on Democrats is simplistic and wrong.
It sounds like idiocy spewed by rush, beck or one of those charlatans.
There are, and were many republican mayors and governors in this country. Ronald Reagan decided California could, "save money" by closing the state mental hospitals and dumping the mentally ill out onto the streets. that was a huge quality-of-life downgrade for all cities in our state. He proposed it, and democrats voted for it, also.
I'm not letting the Democrats off the hook. Especially over healthcare reform, their conduct has been abysmal. Corrupt, untruthful and cowardly.
They don't live up to democratic ideals. They talk a good game, take money from the drug companies, and then cower before the GOP.
The GOP, however, is toxic and deadly to middle-class and lower-class people. It is deadly to the mpoverished, misinformed, uneducated and disadvantaged. It is the party of the rich, the racist, the ignorant and the stupid. They would gut every social program in this country to "save money". Everything for War and nothing for healthcare.
They harbor the haters, the homophobes, religious bigots, the anti-choice, the gun-nuts, the conservative extremists, the racists and the huge corporations that actually control the country.
"Malevolent brilliance" ?? Know what "ad hominum" means ?...
RevPettibone
To Ms GinaRN....
You're reason enough to believe everything old is new again .....so when a word like proliteriat fits, then by all means leave it alone. Unlike what you've been saying, it's frequency of use won't diminish it's meaning or lessen it's impact.
And yes my dear...I do indeed know what "ad hominem" means.... and unlike yourself, I know how to spell it and above all I do know when to use it.
However, what I don't understand is your reasoning for making mention of the term to begin with. It's clear by your continued belittling of persons you disagree with you are more familar with, "ad hominem abusive", as it always involves insulting one's opponent by making irrelevant points in a fallacious attempt to support a weak rebuttal....
shaygirl
you got your own brand of nasty, just like Rosie O! I know nothing of your sexuality and would prefer not too!
reardongalt
Lesbo Gina starts a post with Sarah Palin is Scum, and then has the audacity to talk about the ad-hominems of others.
It takes a Lib. ROTFLMAO!!!
Now we know why she hates Sarah, though. Sarah is all woman......HA!
GinaRN
Lesbo, huh? Great argument! Open bigotry? What a "guy"!
Just another stupid rightwing thug. Lose an argument, call that person "Gay". What are you, 14 ?
Let's see there's also the nasty shaygirl (insinuating I'm gay, then denying it), the pompous, arrogant pretentious "reverend", don't ever call me "my dear", it's condescending and belittling, and that's how you meant it.
Your flowery, BS doesn't even sound smart, you can't spell proletariat, and calling me a communist is weak, really. Hanging with homophobes and not objecting to gay-baiting makes you a religious hypocrite, no surprise.
RevPettibone
to MsGinaRN....
you are indeed correct, I did in error misspell proletariat, my bad. However, my dear, I can assure you I have not in any way suggested you are a communist or any other persuasion.... it seems any assignment of stigma is an assumption of yours and yours alone..... but now that you have repeatedly mentioned it, if the shoe fits,,, etc. etc. etc..... I would also suggest you refrain from insinuating I'm in cahoots with anyone on TDB. Deciding what side of the street to walk on has never been a problem of mine. I know this may be hard for you to accept, but given the conduct you've displayed, it's safe to assume the inadequacies you do feel are not due to the shortcomings of an ordainer... rather their causation may be a result of your own mendacity and self-castigation.... are you surprised? I'm not.
GinaRN
Hey "rev",
Keep making unfounded attacks on me. you refused to explain your "malevolent brilliance", comment, now you accuse me of being a communist, and of "mendacity and self-castigation" with no examples.
You are no different than the trolls you hang out with, and I find you angry,
disingenuous and coy. You attack by insinuation and innuendo, like that doesn't show your mean nature.
Keep pretending you're not hostile with your mealy-mouthed attacks. It's what jesus (santa claus for adults) would do.
Calling me "my dear" is hostile. You are not less angry than I am, just less honest about it
RevPettibone
to Ms. GinaRN......
My dear woman, it is truly unfortunate the disparaging opinion you have of yourself has you believing it's necessary to lash out against even the Savior of man. One day, God willing and through much diligence and quiet introspection of your own, I'm sure you will grow to understand how extremely valuable a faith in something other than yourself can be.
Now the only thing left is to address the repeated insistence you have that I'm concerned with any or all of the proclivities unique unto you. I can assure you there is no need to worry..... any concern you have is misguided and without merit. It makes no difference to me if you are a daughter of Sappho or a carrier of H1N1. Come what may, I will lose no sleep knowing your politics are and always will be a perennial benchmark of hypocrisy.
GinaRN
So in 3 posts you have: Implied that I'm Lesbian, insinuated that I am communist, accused me of: malevolent brilliance, mendacity, and being "the perennial benchmark of hypocrisy", without any proof, citation or examples. Judgements you just pull out of thin air.
You do all this with the sickly air of false piety, like you can slime others, but you still imagine you're a "nice person".
The "savior of mankind" is a fantasy for children and stupid adults.
Threaten me with hell, and I'll laugh in your face.
Faith is a whip to rule the stupid, used by the evil who wish to control them.
I've read the bible. Have you read "the God Delusion" by Dawkins?
Probably not, but every minute you spend reading is a moment of peace and safety for those poor sheep you are leading astray.
RevPettibone
to Ms. GinaRN......
Given your propensity to run a muck, pity the folk who would depend upon you for a life saving service or for that fact, even a bed pan change. It's my hope your screen name is merely a tag you've donned in an effort to conceal your true identity from those searching you out.
I do not begrudge you a moment and far be it for me to cast aspersions upon an individual for eating at a different restaurant than I do. Any betrayal of who you are or what you are has been by your lips, not mine. I do however now believe, you read in to my words what conveniently fuels the tirade you are obviously hell bent on pursuing. Clearly your ability to comprehend must be brought in to question. Your continued referencing of things not present proves a deficiency in weighing the meaning of what another says.
As thrilling the discovery of Dawkins was for you. I have yet to read his book, and given your glowing endorsement, I'm sure I never will. It's my hope however, you will continue your perusal of the his work and by your example here, will read in to it more than is said and eventually suspend your disbelief no longer.... It's almost year's end, so in keeping with the spirit of congeniality you've so warmly conveyed, I recommend you read the poem, "Footsteps in the Sand", by Anonymous.
GinaRN
"Footprints in the Sand" is a parable for small children, and idiots.
You've mistaken me for the dull-normal IQs that undoubtedly make up your tiny dwindling congregation, if you have one at all.
Here is my favorite quote:
"Nothing fails reliably as prayer" Mark Twain
If "god" can heal anyone, why doesn't heal amputees?
Google: whydoesgodhate amputees
I'm weary of your condescending drivel. You have the major failing of religious people, in that you deny the unconscious. You think that you will be judged by the flowery BS words you spew, rather than the feelings you have and the deeds that you actually do.
You are just another conservative Troll online, looking for an argument.
Pity you engage in a battle of wits unarmed.
WWJD ? Call a nurse a Lesbian communist online ? Good work bible-boy !!
RevPettibone
to Ms GinaRN....
I can assure you I haven't mistaken you for a person of any kind, nor would I suggest you are familiar to any particular race, color or creed. I do however, find solace in knowing you were able to embrace "Footprints" at some point in your life. As a student of social anthropology, a believer of humankind and after witnessing more than one or two instances of epiphanic revaluation, it has always been my experience to try and readily understand how it is someone can become as spiritually bankrupt and morally impoverished as yourself. You raised the question, "Why doesn't God heal the amputee?" I suggest he's been attempting to for the last 3 days ...with you. Nothing in life happens by chance, Ms. GinaRN.
GinaRN
It's interesting how you can find me morally and spiritually bankrupt through your marvelous ESP. Not one of my head nurses, doctors or colleagues seemed to notice that over the last 32 years. Really!
I really doubt that you've seen as many people die, and comforted as many relatives as I have.
Also, I find it curious that I'm not afraid to read the bible, but you're afraid to read Dawkins. Surely if your faith is strong, one book couldn't threaten it?
I also note your flippant non-response to why god will allegedly cure everything and everyone through prayer, except the amputee.
Seriously ! Look up that website and tell me why god hates amputees.
I dare you!
I never embraced that spiritual knock-knock joke you call "Footprints".
I have no idea why you keep mentioning it. It's a fable. Not true.
What ever do you mean by, "nothing happens by chance"and
that "god" is trying to heal me ? I'm not an amputee! I have taken care of many amputees and tried to help them. I never told one of them to pray that god would restore their leg. That would be a very cruel Lie, wouldn't it ?
I'm done. You called me a communist lesbian, and I'm done.
I won't respond anymore. BTW it's spelled " run amuck".
Believe whatever delusion you prefer.
I'm done.
RevPettibone
to Ms. GinaRN....
My dear, a blind man would conclude you're a self loathing navel gazer stuck on asking the question "why" instead of moving on by accepting the answer, "why not?"
Your own naivete' and/or bigoted attitudes prevent you from opening your eyes and understanding how faith is not merely some figure of mystical significance. If you step out of the way long enough you will learn how faith is an expression of a belief that is initially spontaneous but unlike a response to a prior stimulus, it's consequences will always reinforce or inhibit the recurrence of a behavior.
realy1
You didn't mention Gary Johnson, who seems like the best candidate to take the torch from Ron Paul and lead the libertarians in their quest for the presidency. He already expressed interest in running in 2012, and he is doing everything that you would do to prepare for a run. He started his own PAC and is writing a book. Why didn't you mention this obvious candidate?
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Winski
Man am I glad you're a republican...If I had a list like that from which to pick, I'd look like the picture of your party's standard bearer - beck - on the front of Salon.Com tonight... Fake crying his eyes out and voted the craziest MF of the year...That's an understatement..But alas..he just a fake like you.
AND, your spew about the Tea Party being a viable, legitimate political entity on Maddow's show tonight was an insult to America.. You should be forced to retract such an insult.
AlanD2
Nice post, Winski.
DakLak
This guy is boring compared to the moose-faced Alaskan.
JayGetty
Dicklack are you saying you are not tirned on by Romney!
DakLak
I'm straight - only women turn me on (The Moose is an exception).
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Glenda1976
McKinnon must be on the Romney payroll. No way he is the Repub nominee.
fishnfool
Names lined up made for an interesting read. Not that I have any love for the Republican party. I don't have much for the "Dems" either. They all have the same agenda, get elected/reelected. ie sweetheart deals=money.
jus1drun
from where i sit romney looks good, someone who makes good things happen economically. i doubt the repubs will get their act together to nominate him though.
BaileyReynolds1969
Romney looks great on paper. In reality, he puts the masses in a coma. Those not in a coma, distrust his Mormonism. He will only fare worse if he runs again.
tumbleweed
He will never make it past the religious right nuts that runs the party these days! He isn't Evangelical he is Mormon. Don't get your hopes up!
Granite
Romney is in political purgatory--too religious for the mainstream and not religious enough for for the ultra Christian conservatives.
Superfancy
GOP nominee number 11 is a wax statue of Ronald Reagan, draped in an American flag and holding a copy of The Fountainhead in one hand and The Constitution in the other.
Chuckv
One correction: It is the collected works of Milton Friedman, not the Constitution in Reagan's hand. Excepting the 2nd Amendment, when have conservatives cared about the constitution. Friedman, on the other hand, wanted to abolish the FAA. Market forces would drive out of business the airlines that crashed most often. Romney said he would take a weedwacker to regulations. The FAA would be a good start.
LutfiUSMC
I wouldn't count on the above list , I think the future republican candidate is a new born baby who is a college graduate, have business experience, have served his country , and can see Russia and China from his flat and wants to spreat democracy through the point of a gun or a missile and place a fore sale sign on the US for the highest bidder.
urbancowgirl
Rick Perry? No way. Texas is an economic miracle because of oil & gas - Rick Perry had nothing to do with that. Besides, you assume that he'll beat Kay Bailey in the primary (BIG assumption) and then beat immensely popular moderate Dem Bill White for his 3rd term - that's a lot of assuming. Especially for a guy who won his seat in 2006 with only 39% of the vote (damn plurality system...).
Plus I'm pretty sure no one's going to be taking a chance on another Texas governor in the white house for quite sometime...
crowoman
I'm with you urbancowgirl. I live near Austin and like everyone I know CANNOT WAIT for him to be replaced. I'm so glad we finally have a reasonable candidate to run against him (Bill White). When I heard he endorsed Sarah Palin all I could think was "that figures".
crowoman
I'm with you urban. I live just outside of Austin and like most people I know CANNOT WAIT for him to be replaced. Thank God we now have a viable, decent competitor (Bill White). When I heard Perry endorsed Palin, initially I was dumbfounded, then I remembered what Perry stands for, and thought "yep...it figures".
BaileyReynolds1969
Add to that, he's either a liar or unstable. That stamp of Teabagger approval ain't gonna get Perry anywhere nationally.
I'm hopeful that Kay Bailey Hutchison will knock him out in their primary.
CShine
"Republicans historically like an orderly process-handing the baton to the candidate who has patiently waited his or her turn in line. That guy, this time around, is Romney. He has been plodding and dutiful."
Gee, Mark. You make Mitt sound like Bob Dole. Get my drift?
Martyz42
Romney is without question the best of the worst as far as I am concerned... People like Romney used to be numerous in the Confederate Republican party but in recent years they have become scarce.
We need to remember Romney was Governor of a very Progressive State & he did sign a single payer health reform package & he did govern & get along with a majority Democratic party...
I would not support Romney over a decent Democrat but if he were to slip into office it would not be the worst thing in the world to happen as long as the Dem's kept control of the Congress.
Lets remember Obama is sending thousands more troops & tens of thousands of private troops to Afghanistan, he has screwed up the medical reform bill by "LACK OF ANY LEADERSHIP", he has not broken the banks up, he has done nothing to control Wall Street, he has done nothing to help working people, he has done nothing to change the trade policies that are stripping our nation of any manufacturing ability, he has done nothing for the people who are being kicked out of their homes by the banks he did in fact help, he has not appointed US Attorneys to replace the Bush ones.....
Obama has really been more of a right of center leader then Clinton & sadly has put Clinton people all around him... Obama who made speeches like Roosevelt is governing like a Clinton....
Want the support of real Progressives, then lets see you BREAK UP THE BANKS STATE BY STATE, GET US OUT OF THE STAN'S TWO WARS, CHANGE THE NATIONS TRADE POLICY, SUPPORT WORKERS RIGHTS & so on Mr. Obama.....
Thank you.
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