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SWAC Girl (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Uh-oh. Looks like Washington, DC, is going to be inundated with more than a million conservatives once again on August 28, 2010, because when Glenn Beck invites folks to join him, they come out big-time. Over the weekend 35,000 turned out to hear The Plan at The Villages in Florida ... and in April thousands throughout the country met for We Surround Them parties hosted by Glenn Beck through his Fox...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
The NYT is running an article that speaks as if the GOP has a future in this country: The trick [of regaining power], some Republicans said, is to guide populists’ energies toward an optimistic agenda built on those themes. “If we don’t take this anger and frustration, as legitimate as I believe it is, and channel it into a good, a positive, then we won’t be successful,”...
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Advance Indiana (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
During the recent "Mayor's Night Out for Indy Youth, a young man, Kellin Thomas, asked Mayor Greg Ballard, "When and why did you decide to become the mayor?" Ballard's rambling response to this simple question reminded me of that moment during the 1992 vice presidential debate when Ross Perot's running mate, Admiral James Stockdale , rambled on about "Who am I and why am I hear?"...
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The Steady Drip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Survey finds only 43 percent would re-elect Obama now By: Mark Tapscott Editorial Page Editor 11/17/09 5:03 PM EST Only 43 percent of voters surveyed by the Zogby/O'Leary Poll would vote for President Obama less than a year after he was elected, or about the same level of support President Clinton won in 1992 in a three-way race with the first President Bush and former EDS executive and national political...
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The Whig (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Roll Call: Economy Is Weak, Voters Are Angry -- Time for Third Party? Some excerpts: ‘The mood of America is glum. Two-thirds of the public is dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country" and voters' anti-incumbent mood is approaching 1994 and 2006 levels, when control of Congress changed hands. So reported the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press on Nov. 11,...
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FrontBurner (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Speaking here yesterday, FOX political analyst Brit Hume credited Dallas’ Ross Perot Sr.–he called him the “little guy” with the charts–for first focusing public attention on federal budget deficits during Perot’s run for the presidency in 1992. Back then the annual deficit was around $250 billion; today’s it’s upwards of $1.6 trillion. So, when [...]...
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FrontBurner (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Does Ross Perot Jr. know something we don’t? Speaking at today’s groundbreaking for the new Museum of Nature & Science at Dallas’ struggling Victory Park, which he helped develop, Perot said, “Mr. Mayor! Where is the mayor?!” before pointing to City Councilmember Dwaine Caraway, sitting in the audience down front. Mayor Pro Tem Caraway (pictured [...]
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Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Doug at Balloon Juice has a point: I can't think of a reason why Sarah Palin is good for conservatism either . But the notion that the GOP will lose membership to a Ross Perot/Jesse Ventura style third party is also wrong. The Teabaggers don't want a third party. They want to take over the Republican Party and kick out everyone who is not a Teabagger . They figure once that happens, moderates will...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
In the 1980's, billionaire conservative gadfly Ross Perot received the prestigious Winston Churchill Award at a lavish Dallas dinner. Prince Charles himself came across the...
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A Plain Blog About Politics (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Justin Miller has a great take this morning on Lou Dobbs as the anti-Palin . Excellent call. They both traffic in resentment, but Palin's is all personalized, while Dobbs has no interest, apparently, in that side of things. There's a lot of talk now about Dobbs as a potential candidate for something, but whether he eventually runs or not, it's apt to be lots of bark and very little bite. He missed...
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Jumping in Pools (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
"No. It's Iowa" - Kevin Costner from the hit baseball movie, The Field of dreams. With the 2012 Presidential election coming faster and harder then most expected it would, numerous potential Republican hopefuls are swarming to the state of Iowa, in hopes of serenading a state which means absolutely nothing, and it would be wasteful to spend political resources on a state which has been in...
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California Greening (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
In a previous post , I laid down some criteria that I thought Greens should be using to choose a candidate for POTUS in 2012. I got some good feedback on that. Today, I belatedly tackle the same problem for a Green candidate for Governor of California in 2010. Click Read more! for my rant and recommendation. I think that we have to put forward a candidate who is clearly adept at talking on financial...
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Say Anything (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Think the tea party movement hasn’t made a difference? What do you think is forcing Obama to suddenly making spending cuts and deficit reduction his number one priority (at least according to his words, which we all know usually have little to do with the truth)? WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, mindful of public anxiety over the government’s mushrooming debt, is shifting emphasis...
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Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Sister Sarah's new book has become the battle standard for both sides in the GOP civil war that continues to rage on. Palin's supporters say the book reveals how uncommitted and ideologically weak the McCain campaign was when they wouldn't do what was necessary to win, and the McCain camp says the book is full of vicious lies that only ended up splitting the ticket down the home stretch . The battle...
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