Emerging Field of GOP Presidential Candidates
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-08-15/emerging-field-gop-presidential-candidates
This weekend saw major changes in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. While votes were being cast in Iowa’s straw poll, 1200 miles away, Rick Perry shook things up. He officially entered the race from South Carolina. Back in Iowa, Michele Bachmann was the big winner. She won the Straw Poll with 29% of the vote. Fellow Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty finished a distant third, and then finished his run for the nomination. This Monday morning, there are new frontrunners and a new intensity to the campaigns … a look at major changes in the field of Republican presidential candidates.
Guests
David Keene
former chairman of the American Conservative Union and a columnist for The Washington Times
Amy Walter
political director, ABC News.
David Winston
republican strategist and president of the Winston Group, and CBS News consultant. Served as a strategic adviser to House and Senate Republican Leadership for the past 12 years.
Richard Dunham
Washington Bureau Chief for the Houston Chronicle.
Program Highlights
- Amy Walter: [During the Iowa Straw Poll,] Michele Bachman "had a great 12 hours. But she found very quickly that this is going to be a tough fight for Iowa with Rick Perry in this race."
- Diane read an email from a listener named Jeffrey about Sarah Palin, which said, "Sarah Palin showing up in Iowa when she's not a candidate confirms she's gotten a taste of the spotlight and now won't let go. She's like the kid who says, 'no, I don't want to help with your lemonade stand,' but then goes around telling everyone how she made it a success."
- "I think what Sarah Palin is beginning to discover is the train is sort of leaving the station here...and that this campaign is starting to fire up...and, somehow, what she's got to figure out, if she's not a candidate, how does she sort of sustain her level of awareness in terms of the American people?" said republican strategist and Wisnton Group president David Winston.
- "Just because you win the Iowa straw poll doesn't mean you're going to win the Iowa caucuses. And, Lord knows, just because you win the Iowa caucuses doesn't mean you're going to be nominated," said David Keene, former chairman of the American Conservative Union and Washington Times columnist.
- "The economy has become as theological an issue as abortion," Richard Dunham, Washington Bureau Chief for the Houston Chronicle, said.
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What difference does it make who the Republican candidate is if we have lost control of our vote. By the time we get to have our say, the Oligarchs (through the corporate media), will have decided which candidates are relevant and which are not. The U.S. Supreme Court has locked in the the Oligarchs control with its ruling on Citizens United. When the election in 2012 happens we will still be dependent on the security of the electronic voting machines and there still is no way to insure that they cannot be hacked
Our Country's most important document begins with the words "WE THE PEOPLE" not "WE THE CORPORATIONS" in spite of what Mr. Romney thinks.
Whether we are conservative, moderate or liberal we need to work together to make sure that all of our votes count and that we are the ones who will decide who our leaders are.
It's time to really take our country back by demanding an electoral process that cannot be bought by outside forces.
Remember my fellow peons
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE
The uselesseater had convinced US- and our brothers anonymous. We are voting for Soylent Green.
At least that is a program addressing the needs of the many- to benefit the ONEs.
Electronic voting CAN be hacked. That is why IT is so important NOT to have any paper trail(no hanging 'chad' BUT cannot guarantee NO hanging of judge/lawyer).
Nice to see successful 'businessman' leading pack. If born into millionaire family and sent to the best schools and education and election(maybe NOT) that money BUYS so that WE can be 'successful selfmade' millionaire by purchasing companies AND selling off assets and emptying employee retirement accounts and benefits by terminating companies operations. VERY profitable- for the ONEs raping and pillaging.
As exRepublican he is leading pack for our vote AS the others hope to sped US to armegeddon. Attractive and logical that may be... kill them all and let God sort'em out...
and would certainly address ALL of problems...
And as no sitting President will be elected in poor economy(REAL reason any REAL stimulus blocked)
look forward to our media educated masses electing
the leader of a new America(the one where placement of hand upon Bible mandatory before pledge of obediance to
our Christian demigoddess).
Or as our current and ex-military neighbors ARE saying
we are Christian Capitalist Republicans and we WANT government OUT.
Which we find MORE disturbing than the anarchists organizing. Who will tell the religious extremists the founding fathers were mostly 'friends'?
Quakers not just for breakfast anymore. Believe we agree founding fathers would be greatly disappointed their fears came true.
So far as we can tell- this applies to BOTH parties and most of nonvoters(silent majority?). Move over fathers- we need a place to REST.
Roger that "useless." Our media is controlled, therefore we are controlled. Now cell phone service is threatened. Ultimately, we the people will control. Protecting wealth and power will be overcome.
'Now' cell phone threatened. LOL.
Yes occassionally rich 'overcome'. Hear? Come the soldiers of God. Are they weilding curved blades OR straight? American guns or the ungodly communist ones?
Still unsure for which God they fight?
US too.
We are excited. The more desperate go first. We await OUR turn, soon, our pretties. Must be good employment relocation program as no neighbors who have gone returned. AND relieving local stress which allowed for additional SPSGMRE's. We can go back to a meal a day now!
Still afraid of 'doubledip' recession.
Could that effect the DEPRESSION that the sobbing minority already has...
Too true. Plus, it won't change fast enough to alter the next 3-8 years (shot in dark period). I hope I am way long on my guess but I believe we are in an accelerating slide down into the end of our nation as we knew it-still having little voting power but at least we felt like we had some, just a little.
Currently, I feel that the 'C-people' (Corporations, super rich, others in real power positions-those who own most of the US-are coming out of the closet and taking their self-desired places as the Nobility (long lost but never forgotten).
So, what might be our solution options:
1. Continue as we are going and become a 'lost' great nation-divided we shall fall and divided we are.
2. Rally behind a truly selfless political party or leader-if that will show itself-not likely in my lifetime, IMHO.
3. Wake up the majority (silent, confused, overloaded with info, etc.) and take our government back to a By and For the people (majority thereof).
4. Most likely it will be a combination of 1-3 which will take more of #1 till it leads to a good part of #3 happening before we get the binding force that #2 can give a place to bloom. And it has to be a fast bloom as anything less allows the Nobility to use their resources to kill or alter the needed reform-‘weeds’ to the Nobility.
I guess I should rethink my political ‘garden’ care - and tend those plants I thought were weeds since the present crop went sour and are no longer viable products - bad genes or the like, I guess.
I wish the people of the great USA great health, wisdom, better hearing/thinking/seeing AND the ability to-
PLAY FAIR!
No Bullying allowed!
We have not lost control of the government! What we lack is a coherent message from the voters. Keep it simple stupid, follow the original meaning and intent of the Constitution. The voters are to blame for the incompetent criminals we elect.
I read the Michelle Bachman article in the New Yorker, on the recommendation of your Friday panel.
Tea Party.
Now Rick Perry.
And good ol' Sarah Palin, always somewhere nearby.
I'm looking at real estate in Costa Rica, just in case a Republican if their ilk beats Obama.
Does your panel think that's far enough away?
the fear is that bachman who is everones darling (and mine too lol.) will win on the feel good vote and get the republican nomination but will not be able to hang with obama during the general election.
BBarlow690 - Go ahead and head that way now. The country would be better without you.
Please address the issue of religion in the Republican presidential race.
Has the Republican party resolved to let radical fundamentalist Christians (and those who pretend to be) take over their party? (If so, bye-bye Mitt!) Why doesn't the libertarian wing of the tea-party republicans (Ron Paul) speak out against this?
So far – we can choose not to listen to their message of intolerance, and our Constitutional right to practice or not practice any religion remains intact. But, these religious extremists (and religious pretenders) have infested our government to such a degree that I’m beginning to fear for our Democracy.
The two Republican front-runners are once again using religion as a tool to divide our nation even further. Google and listen for yourself to Governor Perry’s “Christians-only” rally! And Rep. Bachmann’s views on “bringing more sheep [Jews] into the fold...for the end times are upon us.” Yikes!
hey there's some black dude in this pic. lol. now as my high school english teacher used to say, "if you were wise", lol, if they were wise they would simply nominate him and run him against obama during the general election and that way you take the race card right out of the issue. seriously. thats probably what i would do. at this point registered hispanic and black voters even though the economy is in the toilet would still vote for obama anyway just because they think a white candidate is just that. a white candidate. i'm telling you i would be pushing that brother from another mother. the one thing about all these candidates is that they are all obama obsessed. they need to be jobs obsessed. i'm telling u obama will beat them on just the fact that they are obsessed with him so much. gosh all of them were like obama obama obama. his name got mentioned alot. they need to be saying jobs jobs jobs. the republican obsession with obama i think will be their undoing. make it about jobs not about him. and i have never understood y iowa is so important.
I am skipping the program today. My psyche will simply not bear listening to the Republican circus in action. Best thing is to go into hiding for 10 months. The Republicans will come up with a candidate who may or may not be insane, but who will certainly be harmful for the country. Then we have to cross our fingers that the Demcorats, despite their own near fatal weaknesses, win. Any other strategy would be harmful to your mental health.
Only better option would be to convince Obama to make a victory speech, saying he has accomplished his program and , as he stated at the beginning of his term, he will be a one term President. Then find someone like Jim Webb or Mario Cuomo the run in his place. Despite being a sentimetal favorite, there are a number of reasons why Hillary would not fit.
Do not under estimate Ron Paul. I know he is widely viewed as a fringe candidate however, many people like myself who are not members of any party but typically voted Republican are now so disenfranchised with the "traditional" candidates like Romney, Santorum, Pawlenty and we see Bachmann as the wacky candidate now which is where people used to see Paul. He's approachable, intelligent and he was right all along about the economy.
I can give you a list of people that I know who never even considered him before but now cannot stand the other candidates or the politics/politicians as usual.
I believe it was Sinclair Lewis who said that when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. I believe he foresaw either Michele Bachmann or Rick Perry.
During the Bush presidencies, no state benefited as much as Texas. Gov. Perry may want to take the credit, and I'm sure he didn't turn down the help, but I think it is time for other states, besides Texas, to get presidential benefits.
Iraq war promoters Douglas Feith and Bill Luti are now heading Rick Perry's foreign policy team. Now I know many American citizens etc have short memories but let's try to remember that these two created and dessminated false WMD intelligence within the Bush administrations Office of Special Plans... These two individuals are war criminals in my book. What should we be thinking about Rick Perry's foreign policy goals with two people like this leading the way... Should we assume NEXT STOP IRAN..if Rick Perry were to win.
Over at former Bush administration official and former CIA middle east analyst Flynt Leveretts website "The Race for Iran" he reports that war promoters Douglas Feith and Bill Luti are Rick Perry's head foreign policy advisers.
link to raceforiran.com
“ForeignPolicy.com reports, see here, say that Perry’s foreign policy and national security briefings are being organized by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and feature such Iraq war masterminds as Doug Feith and Bill Luti. Dr. Paul has his work cut out for him.”
Retired Lt Colonel Karen Kwiatowski has a few things to say about Feith and Luti her “The New Pentagon Papers”
link to dir.salon.com
“To begin with, I was introduced to Bill Luti, assistant secretary of defense for NESA. A tall, thin, nervously intelligent man, he welcomed me into the fold. I knew little about him. Because he was a recently retired naval captain and now high-level Bush appointee, the common assumption was that he had connections, if not capability. I would later find out that when Dick Cheney was secretary of defense over a decade earlier, Luti was his aide. He had also been a military aide to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich during the Clinton years and had completed his Ph.D. at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. While his Navy career had not granted him flag rank, he had it now and was not shy about comparing his place in the pecking order with various three- and four-star generals and admirals in and out of the Pentagon. Name dropping included references to getting this or that document over to Scooter, or responding to one of Scooter’s requests right away. Scooter, I would find out later, was I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff.’
Go Michelle go! If Bachman wins the Republican nomination. Game over. Obama wins. Although wait a minute the American public did elect Bush in 2004. So I guess Bachman does stand a chance. Frightening
Romney laid off more people than he hired. Bachman created jobs mostly with government money.
my thing is this. what if bachman wins the whole thing. ur not just president of the u.s. its not just about jobs anymore. u have an entire planet u have to run. its a different ballgame. these 3rd world countries are hard enough to control and they do not respect women. she's going to have to battle that all the time. none of these 3rd world dictators would take her seriously. she would have to scramble f_22 raptors all the time just to let people know she's not playing around which would be highly inefficient.
The question is which mentalist is being funded? This is the problem with fundamentalist anything, they rarely know what mentalist is actually being funded.
Same as poly-tics - never know where the funds are really coming from or going to.
Re-Pub-Lickin's are in the same boat as De-Mock-Rats, corporate money goes to all.
Really We-The-People can vote for one or the other but the ones who make the decisions are the lobbyists - those who stick money in the back pocket of the elected ones so their interests are turned into law.
How about we grow up, there is no need to show you are a Bush hater. There is NO need to quantify anyone as related to the military as having "actual" served "Unlike George W. Bush. That is not a "necessary" comparison, and ONLY brands you as a Bush hater. Get with TODAY's issue and do valid comparisons for the candidates!
Diane,
You are correct in saying that the press has a responsibility to press for the truth. It also has a responsibility to stay as unbiased as possible. In that light, could you please take the initiative to stop your panelists from calling the healthcare bill Obama-care?The Massachusetts initiative is also not called Romney-care. Please leave the name calling to pundits, candidates, and partisans. The press should not be in the business of adopting the vernacular of the candidates. They should be setting the story straight.
"Loic wrote:
I believe it was Sinclair Lewis who said that when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. I believe he foresaw either Michele Bachmann or Rick Perry."
Look out! Here comes the wall - end of freedom and justice for all. Freedom and justice for those who follow the "right" god, live the "right" way, sleep with the "right" people. These people who have decided they have the right to define normal - along with psychiatrists and such cocaine addicts as Freud.
So if we are Americans but are also gay or muslim we will have to leave our country or face horrid discrimination mayhaps even incarceration or chemical restraints to force us to conform.
Will it be OK to be a Jew under Pres. Bachman?
I'm English, so I may have missed something constitutionally, but I've been living here in the US for more than 10 years. My question is in 2 parts but nevertheless fairly simple:
Who elected the Tea Party and why do the media pay them so much attention?
They seem to me to be the self-appointed representatives of a particular body of opinion that has never had to stand before the electorate.
Yes, Rick Perry and the Republican-controlled legislature did not raise taxes directly. They did, however, raise taxes indirectly by doing such things as lowering the state's contribution to TRS (Teacher Retirement System), from 6.4% to 6%, while still having all TRS employees contribute 6.4%.
They also are now taking a larger percentage of tax revenues from the sale of liquor, which means that cities like Dallas/Ft. Worth will lose a great deal of money.
By raising taxes indirectly, Mr. Perry can continue to say he didn't, and the media, unless it does some serious research, will be unaware of his false claims.
Rose in Garland
Great show!
WOWWWW. bachmans husband runs a clinic that tries to cure gays? WOWWWW. no way she wins. lol. i like just found this out. some of this stuff looks and sounds so stupid its almost a set up for another obama term. i mean it all almost looks unreal. no way she wins. gay rights people will be on her front lawn. sirens will be everywhere. she cant run with that going on. WOWWW. the caller mentioned it and i just looked it up. WOWWWW. no way on gods green earth does she even get close. rick perry here we come. another longhorn president trying to get in the white house. there is no chance in heck bachman even gets close because the closer she gets the more gay rights people that will be following her around trying to get her to "PULL OVA, PULL OVA", lol.
One of the guests spoke of Apple and how the US needs the manufacturing jobs to grow. This is a misunderstanding of economic theory. Apple adds value to the US economy through intellectual property and high technology. For a $100 product, only $5 value is added through actual assembly. There is a reason China is moving from a manufacturing economy to a high tech economy. Americans need to understand the global economy has created a fundamental shift, and our competitive edge is intellectual property, higher education, and the service industry. Economic theory states that the winners of a high tech society must compensate the losers (low income plant workers).
I find it ironic that, today, you call for the media to dig in and give us 'the facts about the candidates, not just what they tell us' for the upcoming presidential race. I don't recall this challenge ever being issued on your program for any Democrats. The press gave a pass to candidate Obama in the 2008 election and all we knew about him is 'what he told us' in his books and interviews. His entire life has been sealed and locked behind an iron curtain of secrecy (e.g., his educational records, his thesis at Harvard, etc.), yet neither you nor anyone in the mainstream media ever questioned this. But now, you call for the media to expose every vestige of these Republican candidates' lives so that the electorate can 'be informed.' Why the hypocrisy?