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Might as well continue the trash talk on The Overnight Open Thread.
Posts Tagged ‘2012 GOP Nomination’
Post Debate OOT
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 218 Comments › )Filed under Art, OOT, Open thread, Politics at September 7th, 2011 - 11:00 pm
The hostility between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney
by Phantom Ace ( 9 Comments › )Filed under Elections 2012, Headlines, Mitt Romney, Republican Party at August 29th, 2011 - 10:56 am
Add Mitt Romney to the list of Republicans, Rick Perry is political opponents with. The beef stems from Mitt Romney having an adviser who also was advsing an oppoent of Perry in 2006. In 2007, whne Perry endorsed Rudy Giuliani, he took swipes at Mitt Romney. He also believes that Mitt Romneys satands for nothing.
It’s the worst-kept secret of the GOP presidential primary: Mitt Romney and Rick Perry have never liked each other very much.
And the past animosity could play out on the national scene in the coming weeks when Romney, the precarious front-runner, and Perry, who is rising in the polls, take the stage together for a series of fall debates.
The tension between the two goes back at least five years, tracing back to a 2006 blow-up when the two Republicans served together as governors. At the time, Romney, then the Republican Governors Association chairman, hired veteran media strategist Alex Castellanos to do work for the national group — a direct affront to Perry, since Castellanos was working for Carole Keeton Strayhorn, who was running as an independent against the Texas governor.
“There was a big blowup” between Romney and Perry over it, said one Republican familiar with the situation.
[….]Perry thinks “Romney stands for nothing,” said a Perry confidante. “He’s got no spine, no backbone.”
Rick Perry clearly doesn’t like the Rockefeller Wing of the GOP.
George Pataki really considering a 2012 run
by Phantom Ace ( 3 Comments › )Filed under Elections 2012, Headlines, Republican Party at August 21st, 2011 - 3:20 pm
Move over Mitt Romney and John Huntsman, another Rockefeller Republican is set to join the race. Former failed Governor of NY, George Pataki is considering a Presidential Run. Rumors have been circulating throughout the year and it appears they were accurate.
A spokesman has confirmed that former Governor George Pataki is strongly considering entering the crowded race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Sources say Pataki, who left office in 2007, could make an announcement as early as next week.
If he were to run, Pataki would face several major obstacles including launching an operation with little campaign cash and facing several opponents who have been meeting voters in Iowa and New Hampshire for months.
This candidacy is a bigger joke than Huntsman’s. What the point of Pataki running? What does he bring to the table? This guy is a loser and will go nowhere.
Tim Pawlenty: Wilsonian Republican
by Phantom Ace ( 3 Comments › )Filed under Elections 2012, Headlines, Progressives, Republican Party, Tranzis at June 28th, 2011 - 9:41 am
Polls show the majority of Republicans are sick of Wilsonian style nation building. Our country is in an economic morass. Wages are stagnating and our debt is out of control. Clearly we need a cautious foreign policy and if we fight, it needs to be quick and decisive. Tim Pawlenty doesn’t get it. He is advocating More nation building and useless interventionism.
GOP presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty will deliver a major address on foreign policy on Tuesday in what his top aides are billing as a rebuttal to what they see as President Barack Obama’s flawed May 19 speech on the Middle East.
All the Republican presidential candidates are being forced to sharpen their foreign policy chops as the primary race heats up, but Pawlenty has been vocal on several key foreign policy issues for some time. His campaign may for now be light on foreign policy infrastructure, but it’s heavy on policy positions and ideas, several of which he plans to lay out tomorrow morning when he addresses the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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On specific issues such as the president’s approach to Israel, U.S. policy toward Iran, or U.S.-Russia relations, Pawlenty often shares the views of leading GOP hawks in the Senate such as Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT). But Pawlenty doesn’t want to be identified as a neoconservative, and doesn’t want his views to be tied to those senators in particular.
“I wish you could think of another way to describe this wing of the party, other than McCain and Lindsey Graham. I love John, but that’s like saying we’re embracing Nelson Rockefeller on economics,” Pawlenty joked during his interview with Bloomberg News.
Pawlenty is embracing the Rockefeller/Interventionist wing on foreign policy. Bush’s freedom agenda was a failure and cost this nation resources and treasure. It’s time to end Wilsonianism which is a Progressive concept, not a Conservative one. Tim Pawlenty is not a Conservative and will get more Americans killed in useless nation building projects. We must defeat him in the GOP primaries.
