Mitt Romney? He couldn’t make the voters like him last time … Sarah Palin? She’d lose 47 states … Mike Huckabee? Better as a talk-show host … Tim Pawlenty, Jim DeMint, Bobby Jindal, David Petraeus? Too blah, too extreme, too green, and stop dreaming …
This list represents a snapshot of a moment in time, with fluid odds and a constantly changing field. Keep in mind that if this list were compiled a year ago, Mark Sanford’s name would have been included – and possibly John Ensign as well. But that’s horseracing. Just ask the owners of Eskendereya, the consensus favorite to win the Kentucky Derby, who was pulled out of the race.
The race for the Republican presidential nomination is a ways off, but that isn’t stopping California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from predicting who will carry the party’s banner in November 2012.
30 years after his first landslide win, President Ronald Reagan remains an electrifying source of inspiration for many leading Republicans. Governor Mitt Romney often cited Reagan as a political hero, and a politician with the right idea.
In a statement to POLITICO, the likely 2012 Republican presidential candidate said he understands the situation along the U.S. border with Mexico that prompted the law and hopes it encourages the federal government to act.
The Southern Leadership Conference held a straw poll. Straw polls are a favorite activity at high profile gatherings of party activists, but hold relatively little meaning in the scheme of things. For instance, Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll, yet Ron Paul obviously isn’t going to be the Republican nominee.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads his Republican rivals for the party’s 2012 presidential nomination, according a survey by Public Policy Polling.
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Romney, a 2008 presidential candidate who is widely expected to again seek the Republican nomination in 2012, said that President Barack Obama would call in favors and cut deals with fellow Democrats to squeak the controversial proposal through on a partisan House vote. Democrats control both houses in Congress. “They will use all that power and all that energy to bypass the will of the people,” Romney said, adding that Obama would make Democrats in swing districts “walk the plank.”
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Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) – Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, was one of Mitt Romney’s top backers during the 2008 presidential campaign – a key endorsement that helped the former Massachusetts governor boost his profile among conservatives.
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“Whoever becomes the nominee of our party needs to be, as Ronald Reagan was, a big-top Republican welcoming conservatives of all types in our party,” Mitt Romney said during an interview with The Washington Times’ “America’s Morning News” radio show.
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