These Folks Are Thinking About 2012, Not 2010

While most of us have focused our attention on this year’s House and Senate races in the hopes of turning control of Congress over to conservatives, some are looking further ahead to the 2012 Presidential elections.
And the list of potential Republican challengers to Obama keeps growing.

The 2012 presidential election is years away, but there is already a growing crop of Republicans who are toying with the idea of seeking the GOP’s presidential nomination.

The first test will come April 8-11 when the Southern Republican Leadership Conference will hold a widely attended cattle call in New Orleans, which several potential GOP presidential candidates are expected to attend.

ABC News spoke with strategists, Republican Party officials and conservative leaders to narrow down the list of GOP candidates who seem the most committed to taking back the White House.

Here’s a look at a dozen Republicans whose names have emerged as possible contenders to take on President Obama in 2012. In the end, not all of these Republicans will run. But as of today, they seem like the 12 best bets to get into the race.

One Republican not on the list? Scott Brown. The newly elected senator from Massachusetts is the conservative darling at the moment. Insiders say, however, that his support for abortion rights and the overlap between his political team and that of Mitt Romney will keep him out of the 2012 race.

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Even More Bad News For The Republican Party.

Earlier today we took Newt Gingrich (and the GOP) to task for their support of RINO Dede Scozzafava, a leftist who cost an honest-to-God conservative a Congresional race in upstate New York.

Folks like Newt Gingrich and Michael Steele better start paying attention, you best start nominating some true consevatives, not just someone who calls themselves a Republican.

In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.

Conservatives and tea party activists had already set their sights on some of the GOP’s top Senate recruits — a list that includes Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida, former Rep. Rob Simmons in Connecticut and Rep. Mark Kirk in Illinois, among others.

But their success in Tuesday’s upstate New York special election, where grass-roots efforts pushed GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava to drop out of the race and helped Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman surge into the lead on the eve of Election Day, has generated more money and enthusiasm than organizers ever imagined.

Activists predict a wave that could roll from California to Kentucky to New Hampshire and that could leave even some GOP incumbents — Utah Sen. Bob Bennett is one — facing unexpectedly fierce challenges from their right flank.

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Newt Gingrich Illustrates What Is Wrong With The GOP

Yestrday’s races for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia are being hailed by many conservatives as foretelling what the Democrats will be facing in the 2010 Congressional elections.

And to an extent, that’s a safe assumption.

Republican Chris Christie defeated incumbent Governor Jon Corzine in heavily Democratic New Jersey in spite of, or perhaps due to, five campaign appearances by President Obama.
This is the first time in 12 years that a Republican has won a statewide race in New Jersey.

In Virginia, the victory of Bob McDonnell is being hailed as a repudiation of President Obama, who last year become the first Democrat in 44 years to carry Virginia in a Presidential race.

However, before the Republican party powers-that-be dislocate a shoulder by patting themselves on the back, they have a major issue to deal with, as is illustrated in this video:

At one time, I had a great deal of respect for Newt Gingrich.

That is no longer the case.

Gingrich exemplfies exactly what is wrong with the GOP.

Take note that in the video, his smug dismissal of the views of true conservatives such as Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty, and his support for Dede Scozzafava.

Scozzafava’s strongest challenger, before she dropped out out the race and threw her support to Bill Owens, cost the people of New York’s 23rd Congressional District the opportunity to be represented by a man who actually holds conservative values, Doug Hoffman.

Gingrich’s support for Scozzafava just proves that the Republican Party spent nearly a million dollars to support the campaign of a candidate who could be a poster child for the term RINO.

You would think that a light bulb would have gone off over someone’s head at the RNC when Scozzafava received endorsements, either directly or behind the scenes, from Planned Parenthood, left-wing bloggers, the Working Families Party and ACORN, just to name a few.

Yet the GOP and one of their biggest stars, Gingrich, threw their unquestioning support behind this woman simply because she has an “R” after her name.

Despite Newt’s babbling in the video, the GOP supported a candidate that holds far-left socialist views as extreme as any Democrat you would care to name.
Simply because she was registered as a Republican.

Therein lies the lesson that the Republican Party needs to learn right now.

If they fail to do so, not only will the 2010 elections prove to be a bloodbath for conservaties, it will just strengthen Obama’s chances for 2012.

An ACORN-Friendly, Big Labor-Backing, Tax-and-Spend Radical in GOP Clothing

You gotta’ love moderate Republicans.
I say you have to because I can’t stand them!
It seems that their main principal is that they have no principles.

Here’s the dirty little secret about political candidates and officeholders labeled by the mainstream media as “moderate Republicans”: There’s usually nothing moderate about them. Consider the case of “moderate Republican” Dede Scozzafava, the GOP nominee in the New York 23rd congressional district’s special election.

Handpicked by local party pooh-bahs and supported by Beltway GOP leaders, Scozzafava is vying to replace former GOP Rep. John McHugh, who abandoned his seat to accept President Obama’s nomination as Army Secretary. There’s certainly no urgency to tack left. The upstate New York district is as safe a Republican district as they come. The GOP has triumphed in every election there since 1871. Obama eked out a victory in the district last fall, but the Democrats have no real traction on the ground.

And the mood of the electorate near and far is far from electric blue. It’s not just Tea Party activists and health care town hall protesters displaying discontent with Big Government in Washington. A recent Gallup Poll reported that self-identified conservatives now outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states — and that more Americans nationwide now say they are conservative than have made that claim in any of the last four years.

Scozzafava is an abortion rights advocate who favors gay marriage. It would be one thing if Scozzafava balanced that social liberalism with fiscal conservatism. But as a state assemblywoman, she voted for massive tax increases, Democratic budgets and a $180 million state bank bailout. She also supported the trillion-dollar federal stimulus package — which every House Republican voted against.

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The Huffington Post Can’t Handle The Truth

I don’t usually read the Huffington Post, as I have little tolerance for anyone who allows their ideology to disconnect their thought processes.

However, one of our subscribers recently sent me a link to a Huffington Post story in which the writer tries to make the case that the GOP’s position on the closing of Guantanamo Bay is an insult to hard-working Americans.

In a patent disconnect from reality, the writer, Adam Blickstein, attempts to make the case that the GOP’s opposition to transferring prisoners now being held at Gitmo to facilities on U.S. soil is an insult to the individuals who work at American military prisons, where some terrorists have been held for years.

In mentioning nine terrorists who are currently being held in military prisons, the writer seems unable to grasp the fact that there is quite a bit of difference between nine prisoners and the roughly 250 terrorists that are currently housed at Guantanamo Bay.

He also shows a blatant disconnect from reality when he fails to mention that the majority of American citizens are opposed to these individuals being brought to the U.S.

Still, in perhaps the most telling example of allowing your ideology overrule your common sense, he makes the following statement:

“After failing for 8 years to actually keep the world safe from terrorism, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and especially Dick Cheney, are embarking on a renewed push to rehabilitate their failed reputations and political prospects. ”

HELLO!

“After failing for 8 years to actually keep the world safe from terrorism….”

Mr Blickstein, it was not the job of the individuals you mention, nor that of George Bush, to keep the rest of the world safe from terrorism.

It was their job to keep America safe from terrorism!

Sir, how many acts of terrorism took place in America after 9-11?

These people, and many others, did the job they needed to do, which was to keep our country safe.

Of course, it would go against all that you hold dear to let the truth override your opinions.