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Rick Perry hints at dropping out

by Phantom Ace ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines at January 4th, 2012 - 12:37 am

After a 5th place finish, Rick Perry is planning on reconsidering his campaign. Perry states that he will go back to Texas and “reassess” whether to continue the race.

After a disappointing fifth-place finish in Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses, Texas Governor Rick Perry said he is going home to Texas to assess “whether there is a path forward for myself in this race.”

With the voters’ decision tonight in Iowa, I’ve decided to return to Texas, assess the results of tonight’s caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race,” Perry told supporters at the end of the night.

It’s a wrap.

 

Progressive Republicans in panic mode.

by Phantom Ace ( 17 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Progressives, Republican Party, Special Report at December 6th, 2011 - 12:24 pm

The GOP elites thought they had the nomination all sowed up for Mitt Romney. They help prevent Donald Trump and Sarah Palin from jumping in. They help destroy Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann and Herman Cain. Now they have Newt Gingrich targeted. Unlike the others, they genuinely fear Newt. He is smarter than Romney and has the backing of the base. He’s an Establishment figure gone Rogue. Now Romney backers want Gingrich to be attacked.

Newt Gingrich’s surge is prompting the first signs of nervousness among top Mitt Romney supporters, some of whom are urging their candidate to take a more aggressive approach to arrest the former House speaker’s sudden rise.

Romney’s backers aren’t panicking — yet. But to many, especially among the GOP donor elite, Gingrich looks like Romney’s most formidable opponent to date, and a rival who requires a much more serious response than the previous conservative alternative, Herman Cain.

With precious little time left before voting starts — and a big cache of votes now up for grabsthanks to Cain’s withdrawal — Romney supporters say the pressure is building on their candidate to step up and seize the Republican nomination that has drifted just out of his reach all year.

The Gingrich vs. Romney battle will be for the heart of the Republican Party. Will the GOP continue to be a Transnationalist Progressive Party or will it be a Nationalist Conservative Party. A Romney defeat means the end of the Globalist control over the GOP. A new defeat emans a 3rd Party will emerge.

The fact the GOP elites are nervous is a good sign!

Poll shows Obama losing to Romney, Perry and Cain

by Phantom Ace ( 3 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Headlines, Mitt Romney, Republican Party at October 12th, 2011 - 5:23 pm

A new poll out shows that Obama would lose to any of the 3 major Republicans.

When respondents are forced to make a choice between a “generic” Republican and Obama, Obama wins by 5 points – 41-36.

  • Despite several bad debate performances by Perry in September, when respondents watched a clip of Perry he actually gained more support than any of the other candidates and beat Obama by 6-points, 42-36.
  • Now Romney had a slightly higher margin – he beat Obama by 7-points 40-33, but he did it with less support. He got less support than Perry, but so did Obama, and there were more people who were uncertain about him, which doesn’t come as a surprise — there’s clearly been a lot of dissatisfaction with Romney as the establishment candidate.
  • Finally, the candidate we’re all most interested in — Herman Cain. The question is can he win the Republican primary? And can he win the general election?
  • Well, he can certainly win the Republican primary. Across all treatments, when asked to choose among the eight GOP candidates, Cain won handily with 28% of the vote, followed by Romney at 19% and Perry at 12%.
  • When it comes to a general election, Cain barely edged out Obama 35-34, but he moved from 5-points down in the control group with the generic Republican to 1-point up. And this jump came entirely out of Obama’s margin of the vote. It’s clear a lot of uncertainty remains in the general population about Cain – for starters he doesn’t “look like” the stereotypical GOP candidate. And he certainly doesn’t have the typical political background. But despite all that, people seem willing to give him a look – and when they get a look at him, he’s running even with Obama. What will be interesting to see is whether all those uncertain votes become more certain about Herman Cain when they get to see more of him.

This is why the GOP nomination battle is crucial. We need to replace Obama with a Conservative, not a Progressive. If we replace Obama with Romney, the Democrats will win back Congress in 2014 and the Presidency in 2016. The moment to reform America’s economic and fiscal policies will have passed. Romney must be defeated.

Sarah Palin will not run for President in 2012

by Phantom Ace ( 16 Comments › )
Filed under Conservatism, Elections 2012, Headlines, Republican Party at October 5th, 2011 - 7:07 pm

Sarah Plain has kept her word. She said that she would decide by October if she would run for President. She announced today, she will not seek the GOP nomination for 2012.

After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.

My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation’s governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the “fundamental transformation” of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.

From the bottom of my heart I thank those who have supported me and defended my record throughout the years, and encouraged me to run for President. Know that by working together we can bring this country back – and as I’ve always said, one doesn’t need a title to help do it.

Hopefully Palin continues to rally the base and hold the GOP establishment’s feet to the fire.