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-- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg from his just released endorsement of President Obama
Showing posts with label presidential endorsement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presidential endorsement. Show all posts
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Worth Repeating
Nov 1st, 2012
"If the 1994 or 2003 version of Mitt Romney were running for president, I may well have voted for him..."
-- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg from his just released endorsement of President Obama
-- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg from his just released endorsement of President Obama
Friday, February 3, 2012
Quote Of The Day - Here and Now Edition
Feb 3rd, 2012
"I'm not going to comb over that question"
-- White House spokesperson Jay Carney blowing off the Trump endorsement of Mitt Romney.
-- White House spokesperson Jay Carney blowing off the Trump endorsement of Mitt Romney.
The Trump And Romney Show
Feb 3rd, 2012
While Fox News is hilariously championing their frequent guest's endorsement of Mitt Romney (Media Matters hammers them with examples HERE, HERE and HERE) just about everyone else with their finger on the pulse of American politics is shaking their head.
In recent PEW polling examining the potential impact of GOP endorsements from a number of the prominent players, Trump's negatives were the highest. 20% of registered Republican and Republican leaning voters said his endorsement would make them less likely to vote for that candidate.
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This poll is several weeks old.
The Romney camp had to have known that this information was out there.
That Mitt was willing to accept the endorsement at all, much less in person, speaks volumes about his fear of the Ailes media machine.
In recent PEW polling examining the potential impact of GOP endorsements from a number of the prominent players, Trump's negatives were the highest. 20% of registered Republican and Republican leaning voters said his endorsement would make them less likely to vote for that candidate.
Click image for better view
The Romney camp had to have known that this information was out there.
That Mitt was willing to accept the endorsement at all, much less in person, speaks volumes about his fear of the Ailes media machine.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Shark Jumping Over At RedState
Dec 19th, 2011
Ten popular RedState bloggers have not simply issued a joint endorsement of Rick Perry today, they have all but declared him zombie-Reagan. No, seriously. HERE it is.
I would very much like to know how founder Erick Erickson feels about the gush-fest. Earlier this month, he wrote a very sober piece on why he was not planning to make any sweeping endorsement:
"I would prefer instead to tell you exactly what I think about each of the candidates, good or bad, and let the chips fall where they may. There are few honest brokers in this. I get accused all the time of being for one candidate or another. While I have my biases, I use the Horserace post and my other writings to call the race as I see it. Not endorsing anyone helps."
Say what you will about Erickson's politics and, boy, I have said plenty, this post impressed me when he first released it. Here's the kicker:
"Lastly, and in all honesty, this field of candidates deeply depresses me. I have this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that we’re on the verge of having God hand us 1980 all over again and this time making John Anderson the Republican nominee.
I can see a day soon on the horizon where I just give up and focus on House and Senate races instead of the top race."
It is as honest a thing as I've read from one of the right's true hyper-partisans.
Now comes the gaggle of goofs who provide him a lot of content. They have signed to their names to document with all-American gems like this
"The one knock on Perry is that his poor debate performances and periodic campaign trail gaffes will open him to the same vulnerabilities in office as President Bush: an inability to respond to criticism or explain his own policies. That’s a fair concern, but it should not be overstated. First, Perry’s reputation in Texas is very different from Bush’s. Bush was all about bipartisan bonhomie; Perry has left the state littered with the political corpses of people who stood in his way."
Total partisanship and an arena "littered with the political corpses" of Americans with whom they disagree. What an ideal. A majority of the post is a series of assurances that Perry will crawl further up the American woman's uterus than any President has before and, wait for it, the Texas jobs lie.
Erickson should be proud of his piece from earlier in the month. As for as publishing this post? He should should be really embarrassed.
Ten popular RedState bloggers have not simply issued a joint endorsement of Rick Perry today, they have all but declared him zombie-Reagan. No, seriously. HERE it is.
I would very much like to know how founder Erick Erickson feels about the gush-fest. Earlier this month, he wrote a very sober piece on why he was not planning to make any sweeping endorsement:
"I would prefer instead to tell you exactly what I think about each of the candidates, good or bad, and let the chips fall where they may. There are few honest brokers in this. I get accused all the time of being for one candidate or another. While I have my biases, I use the Horserace post and my other writings to call the race as I see it. Not endorsing anyone helps."
Say what you will about Erickson's politics and, boy, I have said plenty, this post impressed me when he first released it. Here's the kicker:
"Lastly, and in all honesty, this field of candidates deeply depresses me. I have this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that we’re on the verge of having God hand us 1980 all over again and this time making John Anderson the Republican nominee.
I can see a day soon on the horizon where I just give up and focus on House and Senate races instead of the top race."
It is as honest a thing as I've read from one of the right's true hyper-partisans.
Now comes the gaggle of goofs who provide him a lot of content. They have signed to their names to document with all-American gems like this
"The one knock on Perry is that his poor debate performances and periodic campaign trail gaffes will open him to the same vulnerabilities in office as President Bush: an inability to respond to criticism or explain his own policies. That’s a fair concern, but it should not be overstated. First, Perry’s reputation in Texas is very different from Bush’s. Bush was all about bipartisan bonhomie; Perry has left the state littered with the political corpses of people who stood in his way."
Total partisanship and an arena "littered with the political corpses" of Americans with whom they disagree. What an ideal. A majority of the post is a series of assurances that Perry will crawl further up the American woman's uterus than any President has before and, wait for it, the Texas jobs lie.
Erickson should be proud of his piece from earlier in the month. As for as publishing this post? He should should be really embarrassed.
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