Americans seem to want them but can the Republicans deliver? (2012 GOP nomination)

The race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination has started, though the election itself is 32 months away. Even in a place so brash and up-front as the United States there is some subtlety, at least at this stage, about the process. Sarah Palin, beloved of much of middle America despite her limitations, is doing the equivalent of turning up at weddings and bar mitzvahs and, as we say in Britain, putting herself about. However Mitt Romney, the man deemed by America's media to be the front runner, is (as his greater experience would seem to dictate) more sophisticated in...

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CAPITAL CULTURE: Palin candidate, pundit, celeb?

For more than a year, Sarah Palin has been one of the most famous political and cultural figures in the country. Even by that standard, though, last week was an extraordinary one. On Thursday came word that the former Alaska governor was working on a TV series about her home state, currently being pitched by one of television's top producers. A day before that, her publishers announced she was embarking on a second book, a follow-up to her blockbuster "Going Rogue." And a day before THAT, she was the prize guest on Jay Leno's second day back as host of...

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Congressman Paul Ryan for President

He is the real deal unlike to the pretender that’s in office today. He knows his stuff and he is not an affirmative action teleprompter baby like the president. He is everything that Barry Hussein Soetoro is pretending to be. In this interview with Chris Matthews, on Hardball, Chris stopped just short of getting a tingle up his leg. (see 8:10min video) Congressman Ryan has said that he will not run for President in 2012. Republicans should quit the “I’m next” tradition that allowed Senator John McCain to become the failed Republican nominee in 2008. One would have thought Republicans...

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Questions for Candidate Palin and Sister Sarah (Mega Hurl Alert!)

The New Apostolic Reformation/ NAR is a religious movement of elites and regular people guided by an entire genre of books, texts, videos and other media. Among NAR adherents, is Sarah Palin and the NAR just may be the largest religious movement you've never heard of. Jesus called politicians foxes and in a country where Sarah Palin is being touted as presidential material, the issue of faith in politics has never been more deadly. Researcher Rachel Tabachnick, reported regarding NAR videos that they “demonstrate the taking control of communities and nations through large networks of 'prayer warriors' whose spiritual warfare...

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Mitt Romney Interviewed by Chris Wallace (A disaster?)

I watched the Mitt Romney interview on Fox News Watch with Chris Wallace this morning. I actually watched twice, I was stunned. What a debacle! Apparently, this was his opening gambit in his 2012 Presidential campaign, since he has written a book. Wallace, by far the most skilled of the talking head interviewers, pressed Romney on his two primary claims: that Obama has spent his first year apologizing for being an American, and that his health care plan is awful. Romney was unable to delineate any major differences between the plan he developed in Massachusetts and Obama’s, except that the...

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