Michele Bachmann Dropping Out?

Michele Bachmann cancels South Carolina trip. In addition, Texas Governor Rick Perry is also cancelling his South Carolina and returning to Texas to reassess his future.

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1. ( http://www2.counton2.com/news/2012/jan/04/michell-bachmann-cancels-south-carolina-trip-ar-2980345/ ).

2. ( http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57351778-503544/rick-perry-reassessing-campaign/?tag=breakingnews ).

Reaganite Republican: I Hereby Endorse Newt Gingrich for President of th...

Reaganite Republican: I Hereby Endorse Newt Gingrich for President of th...

Being a follower of the Reaganite Republican blog, I found this article most interesting. Like the RR blog, I was hoping that Michele Bachmann would have done better than she has. Problems with her campaign staff maybe not supporting her enough, providing some new ideas for her to present to the American public, is the root problem with her. My state's governor Rick Perry shot himself too many times in the foot. Like Sarah Palin, he will have to step out of the political limelight for a election cycle to rebuild his image. Ron Paul has good ideas for the homeland, but his foreign policy ideas - I just cannot support.

As of this date, it looks to me that Newt Gingrich will be the GOP nominee for 2012. Newt has said that he wants former UN ambassador John Bolton to be his Secretary of State (that's good!). Now we just need to see who will become the second banana (i.e. the Vice President nominee). For that slot, I still have high hopes for either Michele Bachmann or Pick Perry.

Right-wing bloggers handicap the 2012 GOP Presidential Field.

I came across this little article and thought that I would share it here.

Disclaimer: I love Sarah Palin - but she is TOO damaged for a run at the White House in 2012 in my personal oponion. Of the dark horse candidates in the below poll, I really like Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain.

Here is the poll results.

Right Wing News polled more than 250 right-of-center bloggers on which candidate they'd support if the 2012 Republican primaries were today. The following 63 bloggers responded:

101 Dead Armadillos, Alexa Shrugged, All American Blogger, All That Is Necessary, Argghhhh!, Bad Example, Betsy's Page, Blackfive, Bookworm Room, Cara Ellison, Cassy Fiano, Conservative Compendium, Considerettes, Danny Carlton, Dispatches From Blogblivion, Ed Driscoll, Fingers Malloy, Flopping Aces, Freeman Hunt, GOPUSA Northeast, GayPatriot, Gina Cobb, Guardian Watchblog, Hoosier Access, House of Eratosthenes, IMAO, Infidels Are Cool, Jenn Q. Public, John Hawkins, Little Miss Attila, Mean Ol Meany, Midnight Blue, Moonbattery, Mount Virtus, Musing Minds, Newsreal, Nice Deb, No Oil For Pacifists, No Runny Eggs, Patriot Room, Patterico's Pontifications, Pirates Man Your Women!, Pundit Boy, Pursuing Holiness, Rachel Lucas, Right View from the Left Coast, Rightosphere, Russ. Just Russ, Snark and Boobs, Solomonia, SondraK, The Anchoress, The Campaign Spot, The New Ledger, The Other McCain, The TrogloPundit, The Underground Conservative, The Virtuous Republic, This Ain't Hell, Weapons of Mass Discussion, Wintery knight, Wyblog, YidwithLid

Here are the results.

Which of the following candidates would you like to see as the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2012?

13) Donald Trump: 0% (0 votes)

13) Rick Santorum: 0% (0 votes)

13) Rick Perry: 0% (0 votes)

13) Ron Paul: 0% (0 votes)

13) Gary Johnson: 0% (0 votes)

13) Jon Huntsman: 0% (0 votes)

13) Rudy Giuliani: 0% (0 votes)

13) Newt Gingrich: 0% (0 votes)

9) John Thune: 1.6% (1 vote)

9) Mitt Romney: 1.6% (1 vote)

9) Mike Huckabee: 1.6% (1 vote)

9) Haley Barbour: 1.6% (1 vote)

7) Jeb Bush: 3.2% (2 votes)

7) Michele Bachmann: 3.2% (2 votes)

5) John Bolton: 6.3% (4 votes)

5) Tim Pawlenty: 6.3% (4 votes)

3) Herman Cain: 11.1% (7 votes)

3) Mitch Daniels: 11.1% (7 votes)

2) Sarah Palin: 15.9% (10 votes)

1) Chris Christie: 36.5% (23 votes)

Which of the following candidates is your SECOND CHOICE for the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2012?

16) Ron Paul: 0% (0 votes)

16) Gary Johnson: 0% (0 votes)

16) Jon Huntsman: 0% (0 votes)

16) Mike Huckabee: 0% (0 votes)

16) Rudy Giuliani: 0% (0 votes)

14) Donald Trump: 1.6% (1 vote)

14) Rick Santorum: 1.6% (1 vote)

11) John Thune: 3.2% (2 votes)

11) Newt Gingrich: 3.2% (2 votes)

11) Mitt Romney: 3.2% (2 votes)

8) John Bolton: 4.8% (3 votes)

8) Jeb Bush: 4.8% (3 votes)

8) Michele Bachmann: 4.8% (3 votes)

7) Haley Barbour: 7.9% (5 votes)

5) Rick Perry: 9.5% (6 votes)

5) Herman Cain: 9.5% (6 votes)

2) Tim Pawlenty: 11.1% (7 votes)

2) Mitch Daniels: 11.1% (7 votes)

2) Chris Christie: 11.1% (7 votes)

1) Sarah Palin: 12.7% (8 votes)

Here are the numbers for each candidate if you add up how many first AND second choice votes they received.

17) Ron Paul: (0 votes)

17) Gary Johnson: (0 votes)

17) Jon Huntsman: (0 votes)

17) Rudy Giuliani: (0 votes)

14) Donald Trump: (1 vote)

14) Rick Santorum: (1 vote)

14) Mike Huckabee: (1 vote)

13) Newt Gingrich: (2 votes)

11) John Thune (3 votes)

11) Mitt Romney: (3 votes)

10) Jeb Bush (5 votes)

9) Michele Bachmann: (5 votes)

7) Rick Perry: (6 votes)

7) Haley Barbour: (6 votes)

6) John Bolton: (7 votes)

5) Tim Pawlenty: (11 votes)

4) Herman Cain: (13 votes)

3) Mitch Daniels: (14 votes)

2) Sarah Palin: (18 votes)

1) Chris Christie: (30 votes)

Which of the following candidates would you like to see as the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2012? (No Palin, No Christie)

16) Gary Johnson: (0 votes)

16) Jon Huntsman: (0 votes)

16) Rudy Giuliani: (0 votes)

11) Newt Gingrich: 1.6% (1 vote)

11) Mike Huckabee: 1.6% (1 vote)

11) Donald Trump: 1.6% (1 vote)

11) Ron Paul: 1.6% (1 votes)

11) Rick Santorum: 1.6% (1 votes)

10) John Thune: 3.2% (2 votes)

8) Jeb Bush: 4.8% (3 votes)

8) Haley Barbour: 4.8% (3 votes)

7) Mitt Romney: 6.5% (4 votes)

6) Tim Pawlenty: 8.1% (5 votes)

5) Rick Perry: 9.7% (6 votes)

3) John Bolton: 11.3% (7 votes)

3) Michele Bachmann: 11.3% (7 votes)

2) Herman Cain: 14.5% (9 votes)

1) Mitch Daniels: 17.7% (11 votes)

Which of the following dark horse candidates do you find the most appealing as a potential GOP POTUS Candidate?

9) Ron Paul: 1.6% (1 votes)

8) Gary Johnson: 1.6% (1 votes)

6) Rick Santorum: 3.2% (2 votes)

6) Donald Trump: 3.2% (2 votes)

5) Jon Huntsman 4.8% (3 votes)

4) Rudy Giuliani: 9.5% (6 votes)

3) Michele Bachmann: 15.9% (10 votes)

2) John Bolton: 19% (12 votes)

1) Herman Cain: 41.3% (26 votes)

Link below is from the actual website the poll was posted at.

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1. Right Wing News. "Polling Conservative Bloggers On The GOP’s 2012 Presidential Field" by John HawkinsFebruary 18, 2011.

Right-Wing 'Terrorists' Are At It Again (Supposely)

Check out the article by World Net Daily entitled "Cops, deputies warned again about right-wing 'terrorists'" by Bob Unruth. Seems there is a private (leftist) activist

organization trying to pick up the football where the Department of Homeland Security dropped theirs earlier this year.

The Southern Poverty Law Center issue their own 2009 "Intelligence Report" aimed for police offices, sheriffs, and other law enforcement personnel across the nation.

That intelligence report groups various organizations such as Oathkeepers (whose mainly miliatary and law enforcement members pledge to uphold their constitutional duties, including the suty to question and refuse what appear to be illegitimate orders) is lumped together with those individuals interested in joining a milita. Or becomin

g a white supremacists. Or a anti-semite. Or a Tax Protestor. Or any number of other things that are considered to be of a radical right political though process. Oh, yeah, and these 'terrorists' are supporters of such things as individual rights of gun ownership as contained in the Second Amendment.

Lets pretend we are Jeff Foxworthy and do the following...

You be be a right-wing anti-government terrorist if you oppose same-sex marriage.

You be be a right-wing anti-government terrorist if you oppose the policies of the Dear Leader (aka: President Obama) in reguards to immigration, citizenship, and the expansion of social programs, can & trade, healthcare and that list goes on and on.

You be be a right-wing anti-government terrorist if you don't trust foreign regimes and fear Communist regimes as well.

You be be a right-wing anti-government terrorist if you oppose a "one world" government.

You be be a right-wing anti-government terrorist if you speak about how far the US has decline in stature in the rest of the world.

You be be a right-wing anti-government terrorist if you love Chuck Norris.

You be be a right-wing anti-government terrorist if you suport what Glenn Beck says about anything. (NOTE: By the Way, have you seen his latest book? Arguing with Idiots - How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government. Love the cover.)

That last statement is a good segway into a quote that I'm pulling from that article...

Under the headline "Going Feral," the SPLC warning to police quotes personalities such as Fox News host Glenn Beck, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and actor Chuck Norris.

"It's like Thomas Jefferson said, a revolution every now and then is a good thing. We are at the point ... of revolution. And by that, what I mean [is] an orderly revolution, where the people of this country wake up and get up and make a decision that this is not going to happen on their watch," the warning quoted Bachmann, R-Minn.

Norris, in a WND column in March, wrote, "How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will history need to record a second American Revolution?"

Actor Chuck Norris also had something else to say about the 9/12 protests across the country recently...

"On Sept. 12, 2002, we sought to protect our nation against terrorists from without. Beginning on Sept. 12, 2009, we are seeking to protect our nation against enemies of our republic from within. Many of us are protesting the present political direction of Washington. Outrageous borrowing, excessive bailouts, massive spending, speedball stimulus plans … swings toward socialism are just a few of things that were protested that day. Of course, economics is far from America's only problem, as large as it appears to loom," Norris wrote.

"I want to emphasize: this revolutionary movement is not solely an independent, Republican or Democrat fight. It represents patriots fed up against modernists who seek to overturn almost every principle and tenet laid down by our country's founders at the inception of our republic. From the East Coast to the 'Left Coast,' America seems to be moving further and further from its founders' vision and government," he said. ....Chuck Norris.

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Ref. WND.com, Sept 25, 2009 "Cops, deputies warned again about right-wing 'terrorists' by Bob Unruth. (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111078)