Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, being touted by some as a presidential prospect, says he’s not ready to start thinking about the 2012 race.
The Republican governor has had a higher national profile recently, not just because of the BP oil spill looming off Mississippi’s coast but also because of his fundraising for other Republican candidates across the country.
Newly published election spending figures show Sarah Palin ended the last quarter with a war chest of more than $1m, suggesting gathering momentum for a run at the White House in 2012.
Her political action committee, a body for raising and distributing election cash, raised $866,000 in the three months from April 1, the most since it was formed in January 2009. She spent about $742,000 over the quarter, most of it on building up her political profile and base support.
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.
NEW ORLEANS — Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin captivated a crowd of more than 3,000 Republican Party activists here Friday with a speech featuring the same blend of folksiness and anti-Obama fire that has made her an icon within the grass-roots “tea party” movement.
Gingrich: “My prediction is you’re going to get a Republican Congress in 2010 in the election. They’re going to come in and they’re going to refuse to fund any of these new offices. And they’re just kind — they won’t pass the appropriations.
Then in 2012, you get a new president. And I think probably in February of 2013, they repeal the entire bill.”
I’ve argued before that I don’t think Sarah Palin really wants to be president, regardless of the desires of her most ardent supporters. She doesn’t appear to enjoy the actual process of governing.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads his Republican rivals for the party’s 2012 presidential nomination, according a survey by Public Policy Polling.
Sarah Palin arguably sunk whatever slim chance McCain had of winning the 2008 U.S. election. She introduced herself to America with a humdinger of a speech, but her comments and gaffes during the campaign that followed have become almost folkloric.
Former George W. Bush political adviser Karl Rove said that the political winds will change quite a bit, but that 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, should get ready now, if she is planning for president to run in 2012.
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