Day: January 23, 2011

GOP Continues to Spotlight White Males

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Sen. Marco Rubio

Jeb Bush’s recent plea for his party to pay more attention to its Latino members seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Their selection of a white guy Midwesterner to perform the Republican rebuttal to the State of the Union address ignored rising star sunbelt Latinos, including New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will give the speech, which according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, will deal with economics.

“Paul Ryan has spent the better part of the last two years explaining exactly why the Democrat agenda has been so bad for jobs and the economy, and why we need to ditch the government-driven approach in favor of creative, common-sense solutions that put the American people back in charge.

Maybe Gov. Bobby Jindal’s poor showing reinforced the natural Republican inclination to stick with white guys

Republicans apparently noticed the economic crisis after the inauguration of Pres. Obama. It slipped past them when they were voting to allow Pres. George W. Bush to run up the deficit to unprecedented levels in order to wage war on a country that had not directly threatened us. They also must have been confused when they voted for Bush’s plan to spend $700 billion to bail out banks and other large corporations that had invested in mortgage-backed securities. Bush signed that Republican-approved law on Oct. 3, 2008.

Rubio, like Rep. Michele Bachmann (GOP/TEA-Minn.), plans his own State of the Union rebuttal for the benefit of his followers.

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Hey, Sarah, How’s That Dopey-Ragey Thing Workin’ out for Ya?

Jon Ponder

art-palin-dopeSo far, 2011 — all 23 days of it — has been a bad year for Sarah Palin’s presidential campaign.

First, her response to the mass murder attack on Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Jan.8 gave voters invaluable insight into how, as president, she would perform under pressure. Pres. Palin, they learned, would make the crisis — say an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel — about herself and then give a speech from the Oval Office in which she used her limited oratorical skills to dress down her critics.

Last week, two polls found that Palin’s approval rating had dropped to 38 percent. Her disapproval rating in the Gallup poll was 53 percent and 56 percent in the CNN survey. In Sarah Palin’s own Alaska, her approval is 33 percent.

Now Palin has come in fourth in a presidential straw poll of Republican activists in New Hampshire — behind vice presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty and just a notch above her even crazier doppelganger, Rep. Michele Bachmann.

Palin received just 7 percent of the vote — which is eerily the same as the 7 percent she received last February in the straw poll at CPAC, the wingnut confab sponsored by the hate group, American Family Association.

Until recently, pundits were blue-skying the 2012 Republican primaries as playing out like this. Palin wins the Iowa caucuses, comes in second in New Hampshire after Mitt Romney, the former governor of next-door Massachusetts, and then rolls into the South Carolina, a hotbed of rage-addicted tea baggers — in other words, her base — and where Mormons like Romney are considered satanic cultists. By taking two of the first three, she becomes an unstoppable force and sews up the nomination.

That scenario, which took a beating after Tucson, came apart yesterday in New Hampshire. Here’s how Fox News reported it online:

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