And he appointed that turd Rod Paige to run the Department of Education. At least there seems to be a consensus from candidates from both parties that No Child Left Behind should be repealed.
Paul Ryan may be coming around: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ryan-president_590273.html -- Ryan for President? Paul Ryan is in the final stages of deciding on a presidential run. BY STEPHEN F. HAYES Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan is strongly considering a run for president. Ryan, who has been quietly meeting with political strategists to discuss a bid over the past three months, is on vacation in Colorado discussing a prospective run with his family. Ryan’s concerns about the effects of a presidential campaign – and perhaps a presidency – on his family have been his primary focus as he thinks through his political future. “He’s coming around,” says a Republican source close to Ryan, who has been urging the 41-year-old to run. “With Paul, it’s more about obligation than opportunity,” says another Wisconsin Republican. “He is determined to have the 2012 election be about the big things. If that means he has to run, he’s open to it.” Ryan hinted at his thinking during a candid interview Friday with Charlie Sykes, an influential talk radio host in Milwaukee, telling Sykes that he was unsatisfied with the current crop of Republican candidates. Sykes asked Ryan about state of the Republican presidential campaign. “Looking at the Republican field right now, are you confident that the candidates there are able to articulate the issues of the debt and the deficit and the need to reform entitlements in the way that you want to see done?” Ryan laughed. “Why did you ask me that?” “You know exactly why I asked you that question.” “I know. We’ll see. I didn’t see it last night. I haven’t seen it to date. We’ll see. People’s campaigns evolve – they get better. So we’ll see.”
Imagine that, political considerations in an election. When someone is already in office, I prefer they not make political decisions. When I am using my one vote, I would like it to count for something. Being in California, I probably won't give that consideration much weight in the general election (my vote will be like a fart in the wind anyway, offensive to those around me but with no lasting impact), but in a primary it is not a binary choice, and I sometimes will support someone I like less in order to defeat someone I dislike more. I don't want Romney to defeat Bachmann by one vote when I vote for Paul. I may end up casting my vote ideologically anyway and throwing it away. Hell, I might write in myself.
please run paul ryan. when the blue hairs remember you killing their medicare, you'll probably get 25% of the popular vote
Absolutely. And it's not just Medicare. As a Democrat, I'd rather face Ryan than just about anybody. And not just for the short term win it would guarantee, but for how his budget would finally make clear to the American people that Democrats are the party of the middle class, working poor and unemployed and Republicans are the party of the rich. Since Democrats have been so poor at successfully communicating that message, there is nothing I'd like better than Ryan in a general election: he would communicate the message for us.
WOW the Mittster just can't catch a break! Perry Zooms to Front of Pack for 2012 GOP Nomination Leads Romney by 29% to 17%
Good Romney despite the Romneycare hypocrisy is the only candidate IMO that may have a chance against Obama.
Rick Perry signs Susan B. Anthony List pledge By ALEXANDER BURNS | 8/24/11 10:16 AM EDT Updated: 8/24/11 2:53 PM EDT The Texas governor has added his name to the list of candidates signing the Susan B. Anthony List's strict anti-abortion pledge, checking a box with social conservatives that distinguishes him from top rival Mitt Romney. The SBA List pledge includes four points: a vow to only nominate strict constructionist judges, to "select only pro-life appointees for relevant Cabinet and Executive Branch positions," to push for defunding Planned Parenthood and other taxpayer-supported abortion providers and to sign a Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Continue Reading In a statement release by the SBA List, Perry said he not only pledges "to protect unborn life, but have a record of doing so. ... I have signed legislation requiring parental consent for a minor to obtain an abortion, and have long advocated adoption as an alternative to abortion in order to protect unborn children." All the major Republican presidential candidates oppose abortion, but Perry's willingness to sign the SBA List pledge distinguishes him from Romney (as well as Jon Huntsman) who has declined to do so. That could help Perry shore up support among social conservatives already wary of Romney. The flip side is that some provisions of the SBA List pledge — putting an abortion-related litmus test on Cabinet appointments, for example — may be less sympathetic to important general-election voters such as suburban women. UPDATE: It's worth adding here that Perry's pledge not to appoint abortion-rights supporters to the Cabinet seems more than a little bit in tension with his support for Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign. First off, it means that he couldn't appoint Giuliani to serve as attorney general, one of the Cabinet jobs specifically mentioned in the SBA List pledge. More generally, there's something odd about being more comfortable with a president who's liberal on abortion than a secretary of health and human services who is. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61982.html What a ****ing tool Perry is. He just signed something that is a disgrace to Susan B. Anthony and also just signed his name right out of this Presidential Election.
^ And that is why Obama will still get votes from the Libs, Progs, and Dems who are not exactly fired up right now. As much as the Left may be disenchanted with Obama, the reality of another run of Repub court appointments will likely be enough to get them to the booth.
it's really pissing me off. If the GOP puts Perry in front of Obama, I won't have no choice but to vote for Obama. GOP better be careful what they wish for because if they put Perry on his feet, they won't secure the white house. I really really REALLY don't want to vote for Obama, but the GOP are forcing democrats to go against them.
http://nation.foxnews.com/sites/nation.foxnews.com/files/styles/dv1/public/636_Perry_Obama_22.jpg ^ original url.
A version with their report cards would be welcome. This is my ultimate problem with Perry. I teach college classes, for a living. I know what is true of D students and has always been true of D students. They can be great people, even successful in their careers. But their set of abilities are not those I want running the country. It's my bias given what I do. If I was a military man, I would look through that lens. Etc.
A great deal of the usual fail in that editorial and a screwy paragraph devoted to Israel. Oddities abound.
