President ’12

Liveblogging Tonight’s Republican Presidential Debate

By Carroll Andrew Morse | December 10, 2011 |

PROEM: I appear to have been, as they say in the software industry, hardware-bound in my attempt to liveblog tonight’s Republican debate via Twitter, i.e. for some reason my Twitter input box would hang up, while my hard drive was spinning furiously, and I fell too far behind to be able to catch up in…

Newt Gingrich: Socialist???

By Carroll Andrew Morse | December 9, 2011 |

In the last week or so, several high profile conservatives have called Republican Presidential non-Mitt Romney co-frontrunner-of-the-month Newt Gingrich a “socialist” or worse: Michelle Bachmann, in response to a question from Glenn Beck, “Did you just say that Newt Gingrich is a socialist?”: MB: “I’m saying a frugal socialist, yes. Because you’re looking at proposals…

Herman Cain Withdraws From GOP Race

By Patrick Laverty | December 3, 2011 |

Herman Cain made his announcement today that he is stepping away from his race for the Republican nomination to be the US President. First, we have no way of knowing for sure if the many allegations against him were true. Nothing was ever proven definitively, but of course where there’s smoke, there’s often fire. How…

Time for Jon Huntsman to Go Away

By Carroll Andrew Morse | November 14, 2011 |

If anyone in the Republican Party cared about Jon Huntsman’s candidacy, his would have been the biggest gaffe of the CBS/National Journal Saturday night “Commander-in-Chief” Presidential debate. Following an answer from Mitt Romney on possible World Trade Organization action against China, Huntsman said…First of all, I don’t think you can take China to the W.T.O.…

In the President’s Own Words

By Patrick Laverty | October 18, 2011 |

Anyone think the economy is turned around? If not, even Obama thinks he should be a one-term president. In this one, it seems he left out another, more obvious option:

The Dreamy One Chris Christie Will Endorse Mitt Romney

By Monique Chartier | October 11, 2011 |

FOX broke this a few minutes ago; h/t Fox News Radio’s John Gibson. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for president in the 2012 race, plans to endorse Mitt Romney for the job Tuesday afternoon, Fox News has learned. The event is set to take place…

Chris Christie: Will He or Won’t He?

By Patrick Laverty | September 29, 2011 |

Ahh, the neverending presidential race. Here we are, a mere 14 months from election day and we’re being told that it’s too late for certain candidates to get in the race. Some have already come and gone. One elephant in the room (no pun intended) is Sarah Palin. Will she or won’t she get in…

The First Post of an Inevitable Series

By Carroll Andrew Morse | May 21, 2011 |

Newt Gingrich announced his candidacy for the 2012 Republican nomination for President about two weeks ago and then proceeded to alienate the entire party at record speed, even by his standards. Tim Pawlenty will formally announce his candidacy on Monday. Mitch Daniels, whose stature is at least equivalent to that of Pawlenty (read that any…