Inside sources say U.S. President Barack Obama‘s 2012 re-election team is already gearing up and will be managed by a deputy chief of staff out of Chicago.
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he hasn’t made up his mind who he will support in the 2012 presidential election. When asked if he thought Sarah Palin was qualified, he punted.
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With the Presidential election still two years away, Republicans are starting to lineup to take on the Democratic incumbent who is considered extremely vulnerable by forces on both sides of the aisle. Even with President Barack Obama not sporting high numbers as far as popularity and job approval, the Republicans still see problems ahead in defeating him.
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If you’re a political junkie craving the start of the 2012 presidential race, your time has come! A series of developments over the past week signaled the kickoff of the long road to the nomination, with a number of Republican aspirants taking their ambitions (semi-) public.
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The conservatives who flocked to CPAC last weekend might not have seen eye to eye on everything, but one thing they did seem to agree on was that the conference’s famous “straw poll” didn’t really mean all that much─especially after organizers revealed that the winner, with 31 percent of the vote, was none other than 2008 presidential candidate and long time libertarian congressman Ron Paul of Texas.
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From NYT: Not all affairs produce corruption, but the media should be willing to go digging for those private acts that should be publicly disqualifying.
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Reuters: Former Vice President Dick Cheney rallied fellow Republican conservatives on Thursday, predicting gains in November congressional elections and declaring that Barack Obama will be a “one-term president.”
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“Well, I continue to be amused here, ladies and gentlemen, watching the left freak out over the resignation of Evan Bayh of Indiana from the Senate.”
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The Daily Beast:
‘When the John Birch Society announced that it would be co-sponsoring CPAC, its press release declared that “true conservative leaders are hard to find these days, especially in a movement dominated by neoconservatives and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only).” ‘
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A memoir by an aide who assisted in the rise of John Edwards — and played a key role in the scandal that brought him down.
NYT book review: http://nyti.ms/bmZkjc
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