Sarah Palin on Justice With Judge Jeanine 1/28/2012 "Vote Newt"

Sarah Palin: "Rage Against The Machine, Vote For Newt" 

Sarah Palin: "Vote for Newt. Annoy a liberal. Vote Newt. Keep this process going." http://barracudabrigade.blogspot.com/2012/01/sarah-palin-vote-for-newt-annoy-liberal.html

Gingrich On South Carolina: 'I'm Probably Going To Win'

SCHIEFFER: So what you're saying is that he would be the weakest candidate?

GINGRICH: Well, I think it's very hard for him. I don't want to pick weakest or strongest. I think it's very hard for him to differentiate "Romney-care" from "Obama-care." It's very hard for him to differentiate appointing liberal judges, which he did when he was the governor of Massachusetts.READ MORE AT REALCLEARPOLITICS.COM

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Sarah Palin: Todd Palin 'Went Rogue' With Newt Gingrich Endorsement

"First dude went rogue," Palin said when asked if she had been consulted prior to the endorsement. "And I respect him for doing that. Todd is all about hard hats and steel-toed boots and getting people to work."

Palin continued, "Todd obviously believes Newt Gingrich represents more of that connectivity to the working class."

Todd Palin announced on Monday that he was supporting Gingrich. The former House Speaker later tweeted that he was "honored" to receive the endorsement.

Sarah Palin gets it right on Romney !!!

Human Events

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said the mainstream media and President Barack Obama “want to face Mitt Romney in the general election.” She made those comments on “Justice With Judge Jeanine” on FOX News on Saturday during the same time the Republican presidential candidates were debating in New Hampshire on ABC.

Palin said the mainstream media would take a hands-off approach to Romney “in order to bolster Romney’s chances” to “finally face Obama.”

According to Palin, the mainstream media and Obama would then portray Romney as someone who is out of touch with regular Americans in the general election.

“They are already gearing up to portray him, accurately or inaccurately … as being out of touch with the working class,” Palin said, noting that Romney’s wealth and perfect family may make it easy to paint him as someone “being a bit out of touch from working and middle class Americans and from the challenges we all face.”

Palin continued: “My opinion is that I can see what’s coming ... the media will try to bolster Romney so they can tear him down, and that is quite unfortunate.”

Palin then conceded that any of the candidates, though, would be better than Obama.

Sarah Palin reacts to Santorum's surge, Bachmann's exit and Perry's push forward

Iowa Caucuses Shake Up GOP Field.

Results for Iowa Republican Caucus (U.S. Presidential Primary)

Jan 03, 2012 (100% of precincts reporting)

Mitt Romney	30,015	24.6%
Rick Santorum	30,007	24.5%
Ron Paul	26,219	21.4%
Newt Gingrich	16,251	13.3%
Rick Perry	12,604	10.3%
Michele Bachmann	6,073	5%
Jon Huntsman	745	0.6%
Herman Cain	58	0%
Buddy Roemer	31	0%
No Preference	135	0.1%
Other	117	0.1%

How's that Earthquake work'n 4 y'all ??? If 10 of the 50+ people or so who voted "Rogue" Voted 4 Rick Santorum......Mittens would have come in 2nd !!! Just say'n !!! Mitt says THANKS !!! 

An eye on re-election, Obama to seek ways to press ahead in 2012 without Congress.

HONOLULU (AP) -- Leaving behind a year of bruising legislative battles, President Barack Obama enters his fourth year in office having calculated that he no longer needs Congress to promote his agenda and may even benefit in his re-election campaign if lawmakers accomplish little in 2012.

Absent any major policy pushes, much of the year will focus on winning a second term. The president will keep up a robust domestic travel schedule and aggressive campaign fundraising and use executive action to try to boost the economy.

Partisan, down-to-the-wire fights over allowing the nation to take on more debt and sharply reducing government spending defined 2011. In the new year, there are almost no must-do pieces of legislation facing the president and Congress.

The one exception is the looming debate on a full-year extension of a cut in the Social Security payroll tax rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. Democrats and Republicans are divided over how to put in place that extension.

The White House believes GOP lawmakers boxed themselves in during the pre-Christmas debate on the tax break and will be hard-pressed to back off their own assertions that it should continue through the end of 2012.

Once that debate is over, the White House says, Obama's political fate will no longer be tied to Washington.

"Now that he's sort of free from having to put out these fires, the president will have a larger playing field. If that includes Congress, all the better," said Josh Earnest, White House deputy press secretary. But, he added, "that's no longer a requirement."

Aides say the president will not turn his back on Congress completely in the new year. He is expected to once again push lawmakers to pass elements of his jobs bill that were blocked by Republicans last fall.

If those efforts fail, the White House says, Obama's re-election year will focus almost exclusively on executive action.

Earnest said Obama will come out with at least two or three directives per week, continuing the "We Can't Wait" campaign the administration began this fall, and try to define Republicans in Congress as gridlocked and dysfunctional.

Obama's election year retreat from legislative fights means this term will end without significant progress on two of his 2008 campaign promises, an immigration overhaul and closing the military prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Presidential directives probably won't make a big dent in the nation's 8.6 percent unemployment rate or lead to significant improvements in the economy. That's the chief concern for many voters and the issue on which Republican candidates are most likely to criticize Obama.

In focusing on executive actions rather than ambitious legislation, the president risks appearing to be putting election-year strategy ahead of economic action at a time when millions of Americans are still out of work.

"Americans expect their elected leaders to work together to boost job creation, even in an election year," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Still, Obama and his advisers are beginning 2012 with a renewed sense of confidence, buoyed by a series of polls that show the president's approval rating climbing as Congress becomes increasingly unpopular.

They believe his victory over Republicans in the payroll tax debate has boosted his credentials as a fighter for the middle class, a theme he will look to seize on in his Jan. 24 State of the Union address.

Obama's campaign-driven, domestic-travel schedule starts in Cleveland on Wednesday, the day after GOP presidential hopefuls square off in the Iowa caucuses. He will also keep up an aggressive re-election fundraising schedule, with events already lined up in Chicago on Jan. 11.

Campaign officials say Obama will fully engage in the re-election campaign once the Republicans pick their nominee. He will focus almost exclusively on campaigning after the late summer Democratic National Convention, barring unexpected developments at home or abroad.

Among the issues that could disrupt Obama's re-election plans: further economic turmoil in Europe, instability in North Korea following its leadership transition and threats from Iran.

The president's signature legislative accomplishment will also come under greater scrutiny in the new year, when a critical part of his health care overhaul is debated before the Supreme Court.

Obama's foreign travel next year will be limited mainly to the summits and international gatherings every U.S. president traditionally attends. He's expected to travel to South Korea in March for a nuclear security summit and to Colombia in April for the Summit of the Americas. He's also likely to visit Mexico in June for the G-20 economic summit.

Two other major international gatherings - the NATO summit and the G-8 economic meeting - will be held in Chicago, on home turf.

Is President Obama Dividing the Country ???

Charles Krauthammer weighs in.

Did Bob Beckel Bet Eric Bolling $10,000 That Obama Could Beat Either Romney Or Gingrich ???

Did we hear that correctly ? Did Bob Beckel just bet Eric Bolling $10,000 that President Obama could beat either Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich in 2012 ? And did Bolling accept ???

HILLARY CLINTON TO CHALLENGE BARACK OBAMA IN 2012 ???

WWN



WASHINGTON, DC - Sources close to Hillary Clinton say she will announce her run for President in 2012.

Hillary Clinton came to WWN Headquarters and told editors that she is livid about the downgrade of the U.S. Credit Rating. “I’ve stood silent long enough. I don’t think Obama is a leader and I know… I know I can do a much better job. I am a true leader and… I am going to challenge Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for the President of the United States.”

The White House was quick to deny the news, saying that as far as they knew Hillary Clinton is happy as Secretary of State and remains loyal to Barack Obama.

But, WWN has learned that in recent weeks, Bill Clinton, has been meeting with democratic operatives in Washington and grass roots leaders early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Bill thinks this time around, Hillary can easily wrestle the nomination from a weakened Barack Obama.



“It’s her time. The nation desperately needs Hillary. The world desperately needs Hillary,” Bill Clinton told WWN’s Frank Lake in phone interview last night.



Some cynical Republican consultants feel that this was the plan all along. “They made a pact back in 2008. Barack would serve one term and get Obamacare passed, then Hillary would serve two terms and pass the other elements of their progressive agenda. The plan is working perfectly.”

Sources close to Hillary said, however, that Hillary has not spoken to Barack Obama personally in over three weeks. “Hillary feels that President Obama has moved dramatically to the center and abandoned the core progressive principles they both old dear.”

A quick Rasmussen poll of Democratic primary voters puts the race at 52% for Hillary and 45% for Obama with 3% undecided.

James Carville, Paul Begala and, surprisingly, Dick Morris, have all signed up to join the Hillary for President team. 2012 is going to be a wild year.

Bill Clinton likes Hillary’s chances. “Hillary is going to crush Obama. And the country is going to get two for one. We are back, baby. We’re back!!”

Republicans and Tea Party Patriots are… very worried. VERY worried.

Occupy Wall Street protesters turn on Obama as he schmoozes corporate donors

'No I can't': Obama admits 'change may not be as possible as we thought' as he asks donors for more time

• Occupy Wall Street protestors turn on the President as he schmoozes corporate donors in the Big Apple
• Whirlwind trip saw Obama attend three fundraisers
• Protesters marched to midtown hotel, where supporters had each paid $1,000 to hear Obama speak
• Fundraiser at the Greenwich Village restaurant cost donors $35,800 each
• Reports President raised $2.4million on Wednesday

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Beleaguered Barack Obama asked voters last night to keep believing in the 'hope and change' he promised in 2008, saying he needed more time to turn America around.

But in an admission that will alarm those who helped him sweep to power three years ago, the President admitted it was 'tempting to believe that change may not be as possible as we thought.'

His plea came as Occupy Wall Street protesters began to turn on him, with dozens of demonstrators calling for a stop to re-election politics and economic inequality.

At a series of fundraisers in New York, where he raised a reported $2.4million for his campaign and those of other Democrats, Mr Obama acknowledged frustration over the stalemate in Washington which has soured views of his leadership.

'It has been three wrenching years for this country,' said Mr Obama, who said he needed another term to fully address the economy, the environment and other issues.

'Every single thing that we care about is at stake in this next election,' the President said. 'It’s going to take more than a few years to meet the challenges that have been decades in the making.'

While protests against him raged, Mr Obama sat inside the Sheraton hotel, hosting one of several fundraising dinners that ranged from $1,000 to nearly $36,000-a-plate.

The demonstrators, who were evicted from their Lower Manhattan encampment at Zuccotti Park on November 15, were surrounded by police trying to keep them off the road as they played drums and held up signs near the building on Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street. 

The President landed in New York at 5.14 yesterday afternoon, snarling traffic around Manhattan for a three-stop fundraising effort that aggravated commuters.

 

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Mr Obama attended three fundraisers in the city: one at the home of businessman Jack Rosen, chairman of the American Jewish Congress, where tickets went for at least $10,000; one at the Greenwich Village restaurant Gotham Bar and Grill at $35,800 per ticket; and a reception at the Sheraton Hotel, where tickets began at $1,000.

Fundraising tour: Mr Obama speaks during a campaign event at the Sheraton, where tickets cost $1,000

Something to smile about? Mr Obama greets and is photographed with members of the audience after speaking at the Sheraton

New York One reports the President raised $2.4million on Wednesday night. 

The money will be split between the Democratic National Committee and the Obama re-election campaign.

Mr Obama, escorted by a motorcade of police vehicles, was expected to appear at the Sheraton hotel at 9pm.

And while streets were gridlocked through Manhattan for the President's visit, the 45-minute march from Bryant Park added to the chaos near Rockefeller Plaza as tens of thousands of pedestrians flocked to the midtown area to watch the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

Shortly before Mr Obama's arrival, protesters were penned in an enclosure of barricades, informed that the area had been designated a 'frozen zone' until the President’s departure.

Mr Obama took to the road with a dual pitch for money, campaigning for more cash in the pockets of U.S. workers - and for his campaign treasury as well.

Opposition: Occupy protesters have turned their ire from bankers to President Obama

He had earlier pressed his case at a campaign-style rally in working-class Scranton, Pennsylvania where he said Republicans had to choose between lower taxes for the wealthy, or a payroll tax cut that would help working Americans. Republicans say they would support extending the payroll tax cut, but reject new taxes to offset the costs.

Later, in donor-rich New York City where he was raising money for his already flush re-election bid, he took a more conciliatory tone, acknowledging that Republicans such as House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky were also willing to extend the payroll tax, though not with a tax increase on millionaires.

'For the last couple of days Mr Boehner and Mr McConnell have both indicated that it probably does make sense not to have taxes go up for middle class families, particularly since they've all taken an oath not to raise taxes,' Mr Obama told about 50 donors at Gotham Bar and Grill in Greenwich Village. 'And so it's possible we'll see some additional progress in the next couple of weeks that can continue to help strengthen the economy.'

Campaign: The President told supporters at Scranton High School in Pennsylvania that a payroll tax cut would provide relief for workers

Return: Mr Obama, pictured arriving back at the White House, has been criticised by Occupy protesters for his non-stop electioneering

At Mr Rosen's Upper East Side residence, Mr Obama expressed support for Israel, after his host noted 'concern' about U.S.-Israeli relations among some Jewish voters, and he spoke of progress that has been made on restoring the economy.

'Bottom line is this: Over the past three years we've made progress. People aren't feeling all that progress so far because we had fallen so far. But the trajectory of the country at this point is sound,' Mr Obama said.

The President had private time and posed for pictures with groups of Latino supporters and gay and lesbian backers before he addressed the Sheraton fundraiser, the last of the night.

'Every single thing that we care about is at stake in the next election,' he told that crowd. 'The very core of what this country stands for is on the line.'

The populist pitch in Scranton and the fundraisers in New York served as political bookends for the President and illustrated the dual policy and political demands on him as the 2012 campaign season nears.

He first rallied the type of working-class crowd that would benefit from the tax cuts and then appealed for campaign contributions from donors, many of whom would be the ones to shoulder the tax increases Obama supports.

Obama told one group of donors that he still needs to make sure that key aspects of the health care law get implemented in 2014, that banking regulations are enacted and that energy policies are updated.

'I'm going to need another term to finish the job,' he said.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068453/Occupy-Wall-Street-protesters-turn-Obama-schmoozes-corporate-donors.html#ixzz1fPXeblvp

Gingrich Mentions Marco Rubio, Allen West as Potential Running Mates

In this, Newt knows how to greatly appeal to conservatives. According to The Shark Tank, he suggested two popular figures for a GOP VP selection: Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Allen West.

"Gingrich, like Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann before him, said that he would absolutely consider Rubio for the VP slot, adding that he (Rubio) was on everyone’s short list. Gingrich has also recently stated that he would consider Congressman Allen West for the job."

Both are fantastic, though I've had conversations with the Townhall staff about if these men would serve better in roles that wielded more actual power, like a cabinet position. Having Rubio actually VOTE in the Senate, instead of just there for a tiebreaker, is not something to be lightly discarded. Also, I'd hate for either of them have to defend the policies of a GOP administration that will probably go soft at some point, looking at the track record of the candidates running.

But still, having Rubio or West featured front and center this summer in the GOP would definitely ease the pain of the 2012 field. 

VIA: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/elisabethmeinecke/2011/11/28/gingrich_mentions_marco_rubio,_allen_west_as_potential_running_mates

Mitt's Iowa Schizophrenia

“David, how are you?” Mitt Romney says as he strides into a conference room at the local headquarters of Vermeer, a 63-year-old family-owned and -operated agricultural machinery company in Pella, Iowa, and starts reaching for hands to shake. In the time it takes a nonpolitician to blink, he glances at the next name tag—“Mike! Great to be here”—and then the next, and the next, all the way around the table. “Gary! Curtis! Dennis! Doug! Robert! Diane! Bob! Barb! Ted!” If he didn’t throw in a few “nice to meet you” lines, you’d think Romney was greeting a bunch of old friends.

And so it begins, with a tableful of besuited business leaders, signs for stump cutters, crush chippers, and trenchers on the wall, 43 journalists watching from the wings, and the friendliest tone and firmest handshake he can muster. This, finally, is Mitt’s Iowa campaign.

Or is it?

To say that Romney has mixed feelings about Iowa would be something of an understatement. Schizophrenic is more like it.

In 2008, during his first run for president, Romney invested more than $10 million in the Hawkeye State. His goal, of course, was to win the caucuses. For a while, it looked as if he might succeed: thanks to his big spending and incessant barnstorming, the former Massachusetts governor established a lead in the polls in May 2007, expanded his edge to more than 15 percent in August, and was still frontrunning at the start of December, one month before the big day. Then something named Mike Huckabee happened, and the rest is history.

This time around, Romney has been less, shall we say, enthusiastic. Before Wednesday, he visited Iowa exactly once this year, in late May. Unlike Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann, he has yet to air an advertisement on local television. His paid staff—three people—is much skimpier than it was in 2008, when dozens of Romneyites flooded the state. He’s made it clear that he’s not competing in Saturday’s Ames straw poll, the early turnout test that he won in 2007—even though his name will appear on the ballot. Read More

Michele Bachmann: American Jobs, Right Now

Michele Bachmann outlines her American Jobs, Right Now framework for economic recovery -- and appeals to President Obama to implement it immediately. 

Cain Camp Accuses Perry Campaign of Leaking Sexual Harassment Claims

Herman Cain’s top aide is accusing Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s camp of leaking stories to the media about sexual harassment allegations from the 1990s that have rocked the former pizza company executive’s presidential campaign.

Mark Block, the chief of staff to Cain’s presidential campaign, makes the claim in an exclusive interview with Fox News Special Report on Wednesday.

Cain has been grappling with the scandal since Politico first reported Sunday night that at least two women who worked for the National Restaurant Association when Cain was the head had received financial settlements after they complained about his behavior.

Earlier Wednesday, a third woman said she considered filing a workplace complaint against Cain over what she viewed as aggressive and unwanted behavior, including a private invitation to his corporate apartment.

And the attorney for one of two women who apparently received financial settlements said Wednesday that he will formally request his client be allowed to speak publicly about the case.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/02/cain-camp-accuses-perry-campaign-leaking-sexual-harassment-claims/#ixzz1caY1XsmB