No matter what you think about Sarah Palin (or her chances in the 2012 Republican primary or the 2012 general election), her new web video is extremely well done. It is fascinating, to me, the level of polish and sophistication now regularly deployed for online video. And how quickly the prices associated with creating such [...]
VandeHei via Allen (bold mine): “Washington politicians should be scared as hell this morning because the message of the past year is clear: Cut the crap or lose your job. Specter was running as a self-admitted opportunist: I am a Democrat because that’s the only way I can win. Gone. McConnell and company made it [...]
Retiring Senator Evan Bayh on the U.S. Senate: “My bottom line is that there are a lot of really good people trapped in a dysfunctional system desperately in need of reform.” David Brooks on Washington in general: MR. GREGORY: Thirty, 30–David Brooks, 30 seconds, the outlook. MR. BROOKS: I’m actually beginning to think, for the [...]
The Gang of 500′s conventional wisdom on Palin ’12 is starting to come around to reflect the reality on the ground, not what Team Romney is spinning in DC steakhouses. Welcome to my nightmare, boys.
Chris Good at The Atlantic: Iowa will be a critical showdown state if both Romney and Palin run for president in 2012. Romney has an entrenched power base there after devoting significant resources in Iowa during his run in 2008, which yielded a second-place finish to Mike Huckabee. CW Keywords: “critical” & “significant resources”. I’m [...]
And so it begins.
First-In-The-Nation, baby! True grassroots, baby! 2012, baby! Believe it.
First, because New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner is The Man. Second, because there is no credible path to victory in the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary for a Tim Pawlenty/Mitt Romney/another anti-Palin candidate to be named later that doesn’t include a WIN! in NH’s First-In-The-Nation Primary. Roaring into South Carolina, there can probably only [...]
Path to victory in the 2012 Republican Primary: Organize/Buy/Win Iowa Caucus Skip New Hampshire Primary Buy/Organize/Win South Carolina Primary Accept the nomination. In the meantime: Keep penning utter nonsense such as this to insure a steady stream of articles like this.