In Defense of the Etch A Sketch (and Mitt Romney Too)
In Fehrnstrom’s defense, he was right. This is what candidates in both parties do—whether it’s softening a position on an issue or professing sudden love for someone you slammed as a primary foe, but who now is offering you his or her endorsement. It’s not that Fehrnstrom was wrong. He just shouldn’t have said it out loud. All candidates shake the proverbial Etch A Sketch, but Romney has a particular problem explaining why he has changed his views on such fundamental issues as abortion and gay rights.
Rush Limbaugh Leads Republicans Right Into Social Issues Trap
They can’t stop talking about social issues, even as contraception is a fact of life for 99 percent of American women and a majority of Americans support gay rights, including a plurality in the NBC News poll who back gay marriage. The Republicans are too driven by the talk radio universe of Rush Limbaugh and a primary in which only the base of the base is turning out because their candidates aren’t generating any excitement.
Improving Economy Driving Independents Back to Obama
A recent poll released by the Pew Research Center, shows Obama improving his standing with independent voters in a head-to-head match-up against top GOP contender Mitt Romney. Just a month ago, only 40 percent of registered independent voters nationwide preferred Obama to the former Massachusetts governor, but now that number sits at 51 percent.
The ad features a young Asian woman on a bike, peddling past rice paddies toward the camera as stereotypical Chinese music plays in the background. In broken English, the woman thanks “Debbie SpendItNow” for spending so much American money and “borrowing more and more…from us. Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs,” she continues with a smirk.
Does the Rick Perry ‘War on Religion’ Ad Go Too Far?
Gay rights activists, and even some religious leaders, are denouncing the spot. Even Perry campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio, who has previously worked with Log Cabin Republicans to promote gay rights among the GOP, called the ad “nuts” in an E-mail to its creator Nelson Warfield.
After his monologue, Block takes a drag of his cigarette. The ad closes with a tight shot of Cain turning and smiling to the camera as a techno-pop song sings “I am America.” The video caught the attention of the media, including a spot on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. But many watchers are asking, “Is this for real?”
10 GOP Frontrunners for 2012
1800-sports.com, a Web site that calculates the betting odds of sporting outcomes and other events, has determined the odds of who will be the GOP’s 2012 presidential pick.
The Obama Family Campaign Photo and the 2012 Election: It’s cute, it’s colorful and suggestive of things to come. Because if everything stays on track, the postcard sent this week to millions of Democratic supporters showing a happy Obama family posing in the Green Room will be the best indicator that the president’s 2012 campaign is on.
