Thursday Open Thread
A new Quinnipiac poll in Florida shows Rick Perry leading Mitt Romney 31% to 22%. Meanwhile, a new Suffolk University/7NEWS poll in New Hampshire shows Mitt Romney leading with 41%, followed by Ron Paul at 14%, Jon Huntsman at 10% and Rick Perry at 8%.
So Perry or Bachmann or Palin will win Iowa. Romney will win New Hampshire. Huntsman will drop out, as will Gingrich, Santorum, Cain, Johnson, and McCotter. The big 5 will continue to South Carolina, where either Perry or Palin will win. Romney will win Nevada. And then it comes down to Florida.
Eric Kleefeld reminds us what the Republican Party used to stand for, in 1860 and 1864:
[These] platforms inherited the Whig tradition of what were known at the time as “internal improvements” — government investment in infrastructure. For example, the platforms called for government to aid in the large project of constructing a transcontinental railroad, to improve rivers and harbors, and to have “a vigorous and just system of taxation” in order to ensure the payment of the national debt. The 1864 platform also declared: “Resolved, That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.”
Did you see this headline on Yahoo?:
“Poll: Romney leads New Hampshire, Huntsman in third, Perry in fourth”
Notice how they skipped the second place (Paul) altogether.
The media bias against Paul is amazing and I have no idea their motivation to block him out. I mean, yeah he is crazy and his ideas insane, but so are the rest of the “mainstream” GOP candidates. So why him? I would love to see Paul win New Hampshire just to see the media go insane.
“I would love to see Paul win New Hampshire just to see the media go insane.”
If anyone other than Romney wins, the race could end right there. It’s going to be hard for Romney anyway. If Perry can top Bachmann in Iowa — and don’t bet against it in the caucus system — and anyone upsets Romney in NH, his electibility argument will be seriously hurt.
DD, I think that Paul is crazy, but he is a real threat to the corporatists. All the others repubs can be bought; but I don’t think Paul can. He is a true believer, and will actually try to implement his libertarian craziness. So the corporate media is doing their best to ignore him.
If Romney loses NH, he is done.
“Notice how they skipped the second place (Paul) altogether.”
The Dem base it the only thing in politics more shat upon that Ron Paul supporters.
“So the corporate media is doing their best to ignore [Ron Paul].” I don’t think that is it. I think it is generally recognized that everyone who is going to vote for Ron Paul has already decided that they will do so and the undecideds are not potential Paul voters. True believers line up behind true believer leaders immediately.
I thought that the Repuks once again showed their UN American side when they Booed an active service man. None of the Cowards on the stage had the guts to rebuke the audience just like when the teabaggers yelled LET HIM DIE silence from those that wish to be Commander in Chief a failure on their part to support our troops.
They are all scum bags. they have supported a secessionist execution happy christian fundamentalist, cheered letting poor people die, and now have booed a person who would give his life for their freedom simply because of who he loves.
I wonder what the conservatives who comment on this blog think of all that.