It’s never too early to concoct a “Cattle Call” ranking for the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls.<\/p>\n
Well, actually, yes.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes it is.\u00c2\u00a0 Absurdly early.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only that, but even in the “thick” of\u00c2\u00a0early 2012 it would be a little silly.\u00c2\u00a0 But, I do absurd!\u00c2\u00a0 Who’s up, who’s down, who’s what…<\/p>\n
#1:\u00c2\u00a0 Mitt Romney.\u00c2\u00a0 By default.
\n#2:\u00c2\u00a0 Newt Gingrich.\u00c2\u00a0 No,haschance.\u00c2\u00a0 But, as “Idea Man” for the Republicans has maintained his role.\u00c2\u00a0 Supplies the Republican party with plenty of ideas.\u00c2\u00a0 Just none of them are any good.
\n#3:\u00c2\u00a0 Bobby Jindal.\u00c2\u00a0 I think his volcano monoitoring statement will haunt him in the general election.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know how his past Exorcism will work in today’s Republican Party.\u00c2\u00a0 Would it expose some anti-Catholic feeling from the fundamentalist tongue-speakers?
\n#4:\u00c2\u00a0 Mark Sanford.\u00c2\u00a0 A new line is out there:\u00c2\u00a0 “Dated Paul, Married Sanford.”\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, he’s pulled in some of Paul’s more establishment backing, and has excited a part of the Tea-party contingent, and is favorably viewed\u00c2\u00a0by today’s John Birch Society,\u00c2\u00a0but I don’t think he’ll ever get Paul’s 9\/11 Truth contingent.
\n#5:\u00c2\u00a0 Mike Huckabee.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s risen in this thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Two things:\u00c2\u00a0 The Iowa ruling on same sex marriage has opened the door for him, but more importantly is the continued demise of
\n#6:\u00c2\u00a0 Sarah Palin. Cut loose her national advisors, and is currently working on alienating everyone in Alaska.\u00c2\u00a0 Also John McCain forgot her name.
\n#7:\u00c2\u00a0 TimPawlenty.\u00c2\u00a0 If he had no national ambitions, he would probably ratify Al Franken’s Senate seat by now.
\n#8:\u00c2\u00a0 Rudy Giuliani.\u00c2\u00a0 No, probably in his head knows he has no path to the White House.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s impossible to view his new stance on same sex marriage as a matter of conviction, and it’s hard to see why it would be necessary for the New York Governor’s mansion.
\n#9:\u00c2\u00a0 Michael Steele.\u00c2\u00a0 When asked, said the matter was in God’s Hands.<\/p>\n
All right.\u00c2\u00a0 How about the Democrats?<\/p>\n
#1:\u00c2\u00a0 Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 No comment.
\n#2:\u00c2\u00a0 Um… Hillary Clinton.\u00c2\u00a0 If you search hard enough, you will find remnants of ye olde “PUMA Movement” online still keeping the faith.
\n#3:\u00c2\u00a0 You think Dennis Kucinich might try for anotehr ever more quixotic campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s never too early to concoct a “Cattle Call” ranking for the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls. Well, actually, yes.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes it is.\u00c2\u00a0 Absurdly early.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only that, but even in the “thick” of\u00c2\u00a0early 2012 it would be a little silly.\u00c2\u00a0 But, I do absurd!\u00c2\u00a0 Who’s up, who’s down, who’s what… #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Mitt Romney.\u00c2\u00a0 By default. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}