Egypt Crisis Flopping About; Let The 2012 Election Be A Question Of Leadership-Obama's Carter Style or Palin's Reaganism

By the standards it set for itself-unemployment not rising above 8% the Obama administration is a proven failure. On dividing the country on the Obamacare health bill it has been soundly rejected in the 2010 House elections where it suffered a massive defeat.

On foreign policy it has failed to stop Iran from proceeding with its nuclear program and North Korea remains belligerent. It will leave the Iraqi and Afghani people at the mercy of a vengeful radical Islamic movement when it pulls the last troops-the remaining barrier to the suppression of women and a breeding ground for radicalism.

And now the seeds that sowed in President Obama's Cairo speech where he reached out to Islamic regimes,where a policy of neglect and wishy washy sanctions has let Iran proceed unhindered in its nuclear ambitions,where Israel is being surrounded by its enemies and where the adminstration was caught totally flat footed by the revolutions underway-especially in Egypt.

It is in Egypt that the very worst of this adminsitration is being shown. After being totally caught off guard it is changing its postions "every 12 hours" without a clear firm leadership role and is losing any friends it had on both sides of the conflict.This is pure Jimmy Carter style "leadership" and bodes ill. It is impossible to imagine a President Palin acting with such unresolve.

All these issues are vital to be aired at the 2012 presidential election but there are two which need to assume equal importance. One is a renewal of the moral fabric of America and the other is leadership.

Leadership of the type that Ronald Reagan epitomized. Where America was proud of its exceptionalism where America was loved by its friends and feared by its enemies. Reagan did not get everything right all the time but he walked constantly in the direction of the right with American values of truth, honor, democracy and always looking to God's guidance to keep on the correct path.

This sort of leadership is rare but it is absolutely clear that the exact values that describe Reagan describe, in every detail Sarah Palin. What the 2012 election will show is a repeat of the historical situation where a weak president-Carter-embroiled in a disastrous Eastern policy-was replaced by a leader of firm strong values. It is strongly to be wished that by 2012 the situation is not irredeemable but even if it is only a strong leader like Palin can draw a line in the sand and stop the rot.

Republicans Poll Confirms Recent Trends;Palin 1st Place &15% Ahead Of Romney With Combined Palin/Huck Support

Politicon Polling polled 573 likely Republican voters as to their preferences for Republican candidate for president 2012.

Palin and Romney were in joint first place at 18% each but the significant factor-as it has been in each of recent polls is that the combined Palin/Huckabee at 35% vote is 15% ahead of Romney. Clearly if Huckabee does not run it must be assumed that the majority of his support would go to Palinshould she run.This would give her an overwhelming victory.

The facts of the matter are that the Palin/Huckabee support is almost equal to the total support of all 9 other candidates bar Romney combined !

Recent polls of GOP suppporters showed a preference in the 36%-40% for the combined Palin/Huckabee vote so this latest is another which again,confirms the trend. The 13% lead the President Obama has over Palin in this poll amongst all voters is meaningless as all that matters initially is winning the GOP nomination. At one point Ronald reagan was 25% behind President Carter so the Obama/Palin matchup should be disregarded.

Here is the poll result

Of the following Republican
Presidential Candidates, who are
you going to vote for in the
Republican Presidential Primaries,
if they run?

Sarah Palin ! ! ! 18%
Mitt Romney ! ! 18
Chris Christie ! ! ! 16%
Mike Huckabee ! ! ! 15%
Newt Gingrich ! ! ! 10%
Unsure ! ! ! ! 9%
Michele Bachmann ! ! 3%
Someone New ! ! 2%
Donald Trump ! ! ! 2%
Tim Pawlenty ! ! ! 2%
Jim DeMint ! ! ! 2%
Mitch Daniels ! ! ! 2%
Herman Cain ! ! ! 1%

"A Poem For Palin Contest Update#2:Haiku Submitted By Famous Blogger "Smitty" Of "The Other McCain" Fame

Continuing on in the fashion of the excellent submissions to the "A Poem For Sarah Palin" Annnual contest the famous "Smitty" (Mr. Chris Smith) Of "The Other McCain Blog fame rose to the challenge of the charge to be creative and presented the following Haiku to Palin.
Again, the fact that it is presented here in no way indicates it,or any other poem so presented, is the winner,rather it is being shown as an example of the outstanding creativity that Sarah Palin inspires.
Everyone is welcome to make a submission in the "Comments" section at the bottom of this posting.

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Haiku Sonnet For Sarah Palin

The Palin fascination
Infecting the news today
Really does boggle the mind.

Is she Nemesis, some way
Causing POTUS frustration
The very First Teeth to grind?

Yet when she enters the fray
Her words are pointed, but kind
Lacking recrimination.

And so should she courage find
Election devil to pay
To halt a sinking nation,

The class warfare wounds to bind
And racial fragmentation
Refocusing liberty,

American elation
At last will ‘hit the rewind’,
Ejecting ‘Chicago way’.

Hence all the trepidation,
The falsehood and the dismay:
Visionless know they are blind.

Obama Down To 47.5% Apro In Gallup/Ras Polling Even After Media Lickspittle SOTU/Giffords/Tax Cut Orgasm

Today's Gallup Poll has President Obama's approval rating at 48% and Rasmussen has it at 47%. Thus the tracking average of these two polls currently stands at 47.5% approval.



The Real Clear Politics tracking average of all the polling companies they follow has him below 50%, even with the silly television station polls like CNN's which has him at 55% and the even sillier polls from NBC (53%).


Once these have washed out of the tracking system, the RCP average will reflect the Gallup/Rass averages more closely.


Even with the liberal media returning to their fawning ways with their coverage of Obama's surrender to the GOP over extending the Bush tax cuts to all-which they spun as some sort of "Victory for the new age of amity" there has been no real positive movement for Obama.


Even following his "amongst the greatest speeches of healing of all time" over the Gifford’s tragedy and his SOTU speech "which received a 92% approval rating according to our poll" his approval rating never got over 50% in the Gallup/Rass tracking.


The very best he did, at the height of the Obama media frenzy, reminiscent of 2008, was Gallup 51% and Rasmussen 48.6 during the period of January 19-21 which averaged out at 49.8%.


Thus, as much as the media wanted the public to believe their "The Obama of old has his mojo back" it is all nonsense. Nothing has changed since November 2010-which will be further confirmed in November 2012

WashPost Adds Fred Karger ? [UPDATE#3]To GOP "Candidate" List Of [NOW 19].Don't Miss Your Chance for 15 Minutes Meaningless Speculation Fame

Eventualy this post will get so long I will need extra pages. Now The Washington Post has found a new candidate Fred Karger-a "Gay Republican" who is so obscure even his campaign posters state "Fred Who". As I keep suggesting they will resort to the telephone book in due course
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Previous Update

As I suggested the eventual step for the media will be to simply list the telephone directory-today Politico (which is turning into a junk blog for Jon Stewart viewers age/lib types) trotted out an article suggesting George Pataki from New York is "mulling a run". The media still has a huge list of Republican office holders to work their way through but you have a chance to get your 15 minutes still.
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Original Posting

Just these last two weeks the media has run articles on Daniels/Pence/Barbour/Bachman as 2012 likely Republican candidates for the presidential nomination with all ensuing breathless analysis. Then this week they had a field day with the news that Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman may be making his moves and produced screeds of analysis on how that may hurt Romney's chances.

During this period the running attacks on Palin's possible candidacy, Huckabee's sojourns to Israel and Alaska, Romney finally lifting his profile, Pence out of the running carried on relentlessly.

But why should these 19 have all the fun-since the media seem determined that anyone is a possible candidate,given some of these putative "candidates' are pretty far-fetched? Why shouldn't the man/woman in the street get their 15 minutes of media speculation? Go on,send an email to your local newspaper announcing you too are a candidate.

That would be taking things just as seriously as they are now.

Here's the latest list of the 19 people the media have designated as running
Fred Karger
George Pataki
Donald Trump
Herman Cain
Mike Huckabee
Sarah Palin
Mitt Romney
Newt Gingrich
Chris Christie
Rick Perry
Mitch Daniels
Tim Pawlenty
Mike Pence
Haley Barbour
Jim DeMint
Jon Huntsman
Rick Santorum
John Thune
Michele Bachman