Mitt Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Party Committee Straw Poll with 35%

The race is on for 2012 …

As reported at ABC News, Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor,  wins the New Hampshire Republican Party Committee Straw Poll with 35% of the vote. US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was a distant second with 11% while former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin finished fourth with 7%. Palin’s place is rather understandable seeing that she has yet to visit the Granite state.

In the first ever “straw poll” of New Hampshire Republican party committee members sponsored by ABC News and WMUR and sanctioned by the state Republican party, ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took 35 percent of the 276 valid ballots cast. This is just 3 percent more than Romney took in the 2008 GOP primary, when he finished in second place behind Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

The “straw poll” was open only to the 426 registered members of the Republican committee, and 65 percent of those committee members participated.

 Full  WMUR, ABC News, NH GOP 2012 Straw Poll Results can be seen HERE.

The names on the straw poll ballot were as follows:

They are: Michele Bachmann, Haley Barbour, Chris Christie, Herman Cain, Mitch Daniels, Jim DeMint, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Judd Gregg, Mike Huckabee, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, John Thune and Donald Trump.

Honestly, not only do straw polls mean little, it is far too early to gain anything from this. Obviously Romney is going to do well, he was a governor in a bordering New England state. He has name recognition due to proximity. Most of the GOP candidates have no even begun to make their push and nor should they. I am political as the next person, but its far too soon to dwell on the 2012 Presidental race.

Markham Elementary School Teacher Suspended after 2nd Graders Reportedly Engage In Sex Acts in Oakland, CA

Oakland, CA schools: Reading, Writing and Sex Acts …

An unnamed teacher at the Markham Elementary School in Oakland, CA has been suspended with pay indefinitely after school officials said a pair of second graders performed sex acts on each other in class, with a teacher present. WHAT!!!  Yes, you heard that correct, not just one incident, but two. How does something like this happen when a teacher was present? Can one only imagine what else is allowed to go on in this classroom!  Unreal, this was second grade. We are talking 7 and 8 year olds. This was not one incident, but two.  In one of the incidents that occurred, a boy and girl reportedly engaged in oral sex in front of their classmates.

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“I think everyone is taken aback over this shocking incident,” Troy Flint, the spokesman for the Oakland Unified School District, told CBS 5. “Of course, it is hard to understand how that could have occurred.”

Flint said the sex acts incident was one of two separate cases under investigation involving the teacher; both incidents occurred last week in the same classroom but he said they didn’t come to the attention of school officials until Wednesday.

In one case, several students apparently took off their clothes and were naked in the classroom. In the second incident, a boy and girl reportedly engaged in oral sex in front of their classmates.

One has to wonder how the teachers name was not released. I can understand the minors, but why isn’t the teacher’s name that was present named? Sorry, but this is the cockroach principle. School officials claims that nothing like this is in the unnamed teachers past. Oh, how do you know? Most likely it was just never reported.

Moonbat Keith Olbermann & Countdown Is Out at MSNBC – Na, Na, Na, Na, Hey, Hey, Goodbye

DING, DONG OLBERMANN AND COUNTDOWN IS GONE … GOOD RIDDANCE!!!

Effective immediately, Keith Olbermann is out at MSNBC. It just goes to show you, ratings or no ratings, if new management thinks you are a liability, you are out. Keith Olbermann, the far left moonbat and MSNBC’s highest rated host is out, effectively immediately.

Na, Na, Na, Na, Hey, Hey, Hey … Goodbye

The host, who has had a stormy relationship with the management of the network for some time, especially since he was suspended for two days last November, came to an agreement with NBC’s corporate management late this week to settle his contract and step down.

In a closing statement on his show, Mr. Olbermann said simply that it would be the last edition of the program. He offered no explanation other than on occasion “all that surrounded the show – but never the show itself – was just too much for me.”

 Olbermann’s swan song speech hardly sounds like his rantings of the worst person in the world

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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Hypocrisy, Whines of Lack Of Civility While Acting Uncivil … Says Bachmann ‘Close to a Nutcase’

Hypoc”CHRISY” …

File this one under more moonbat hypocrisy for the liberal main stream media. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews just cant help himself as he puts the “cris” is hypocrisy. As reported at Fox Nation, ever since the Tucson, AZ shooting, Matthews has been portraying Conservatives as creating a climate of hate, being mean spirited and

Define hypocrisy?

• insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
• the act of persistently pretending to hold beliefs, opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that one does not actually hold.

Chris Matthews talks about civility, yet he calls people nutcases. He whines about the political tone; however, does the same thing in his segment. What a joke.  Matthews says, “I don’t know hoe she is allowed to be an extremist, … and close to a nut case.” Matthews also went on top say, “I thought there was some deference about these things”. This coming from MSNBC.  

RINO Senator Lisa Murkowski Sides with Democrats, GOP Attempt at Repealing Obamacare a Waste of Time

Once  RINO, always a RINO …

What a shock RINO Alaskan US Senator echos the Democrat party that the Senate does not have the votes to repeal Obamacare. As reported in The Hill,  Murkowski ”mimicked a Democratic argument against GOP repeal efforts”; Democrats say that Republicans have gone back on their calls to focus on jobs by holding a health care vote as their first major action of the 112th Congress.

Murkowski claims she would vote for the repeal of Obamacare, yet she calls it a waste of time? A note to Senator Murkowski, unlike your election in the 49th state, the rest of America elected Republicans who promised to do the will of the people and dismantle Obamacare.

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Fox News Poll: 56% of voters Want to Repeal Obacare, 39% Opposed

President Barack Obama’s approval ratings might be going up; however, an overwhelming number of American voters still want to repeal Obamacare. In a recent Fox News Opinion Dynamic Poll, 56% of voters want to repeal the government take over of health care, while only 39% want to keep it in place. 61% want to either repeal in fill or parts of the law, including 68% of Independents. 

Full polling data can be seen HERE.

As the battle over the Obama administration’s health care law is joined in Congress, most American voters are on the side of the measure’s opponents, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday.

When asked to imagine being a lawmaker in Washington and having to vote on whether to keep the new law or repeal it, 56 percent of voters say they would vote to repeal and 39 percent to keep the law in place. Representatives in the U.S. House took that vote Wednesday and voted 245-189 to repeal the law (or 56 percent to 44 percent).

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Cathy A. Cruz Marrero, the YouTube Mall Texter Who Fell into the Fountain has a Criminal Record

How much common sense does it take to not text and watch where you are going? Obviously for 49 year old Cathy A. Cruz Marrero such a task is too difficult.

Cathy A. Cruz Marrero, the now famous woman who fell into a Pennsylvania mall fountain while she was not paying attention and texting, might have wanted to stay anonymous. Instead, after  Marrero’s VIDEO became a YouTube sensation due to her absolute cluelessness took her lawyer in tow on to GMA and stated that she might sue. However, it turns out that Cathy A. Cruz Marrero, the woman who cannot chew gum  text and walk at the same time, has a criminal record.

The Reading woman who became an Internet sensation by falling into a fountain while sending a text on her cell phone was in Berks County Court on Thursday for a status hearing on theft and related charges.

Cathy A. Cruz Marrero, 49, was charged in October 2009 for using a co-worker’s credit cards to make more than $5,000 in purchases at two local stores.

But $1,055 of those purchases were dismissed from the case in previous hearings.

She also has several theft cases and a hit-and-run charge on her record.

Oh good grief, this woman put on the crocodile tears as to no one came to my aid, I could have been hurt. So if she was walking and wandered out into traffic, then what? Please. Her once claim that she planned on suing the mall seems to be a thing of the past. Now she just wants to fade away into obscurity, something she would have had if she did not come forward and try and get her 15 minutes of fame. As stated by Jammie Wearing Fool, this woman is going to regret ever coming forward and making an issue of this. Her personal life being outed and criminal record is far worse than mall workers doubled over laughing at the acts of an irresponsible woman.

Its that New Barack Obama Tone of Politics … Democrat Steve Cohen Says Republicans Are Like Goebbels & Nazis … Dems new Alan Grayson

US Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-D) fails to live up to 9 year old Tucson, AZ shooting victims  Christina Taylor Green’s expectations …

So this is the CIVILITY we can expect from Democrats after Barack Obama made a plea  … Democrats are back at the hate. The Democrats have their new Alan Grayson.

US Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) seems to have not received the memo from Barack Obama who asked for their to be a greater civility in the political discourse. Cohen wasted no time following Obama’s Tucson speech toevoke Nazi’s and Goebbles to make a comparison to Republicans and the so-called “big lie” of Obamacare.

File this one under, that didn’t take long and a leopard does not change its spots. Just nine months ago Steve Cohen (TN-D) compared the Tea Party to the KKK.

New Tone: Democrat Steve Cohen Says GOP Like Goebbels, Nazis in Health Care Debate

“They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels,” Cohen said. “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing. And Congressman Cohen didn’t stop there.
“The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it–believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover,” Cohen said.

What leadership, President Barack Obama cannot control his own party, why would any one think he could lead a country? It would appear that Obama’s Tucson speech has fallen on deaf ears.

I believe we can be better. Those who died here, those who saved lives here – they help me believe. We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

That’s what I believe, in part because that’s what a child like Christina Taylor Green believed. Imagine: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation’s future. She had been elected to her student council; she saw public service as something exciting, something hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted.

I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it. All of us – we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.

Miracle: 8 in 10 Americans Say Prayer Helped Save Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-D) … Gabby Leaves Hospital & Transferred to Rehab

According to a recent FOX poll, 8 in 10 Americans believe that prayer helped US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-D) survive following the Tucson shooting that left 6 dead and 13 injured. Not only was her survival a miracle, but Gabby Giffords left the Tucson area hospital yesterday and was transported to a rehab center in Houston, Texas. Who could have ever believed that following the initial reports of Giffords’ shot in the head at point blank range, in critical condition, that in such a short period of time she would have been responsive and out of the hospital?

Less than two weeks after being shot in the head, she is now out of the hospital and off to rehab, that is a miracle.Keep saying your prayers for Gabby … they do make a difference.

Nearly 8 in 10 American voters say they believe prayers helped Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords survive the Tucson shooting, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday.

The congresswoman and 18 others were shot on Jan. 8 at a town-hall meeting in Tucson. Her neurosurgeon has called her recovery “miraculous.” Giffords is expected to be transferred to a rehabilitation facility as early as Friday to continue recovering from brain injuries she suffered after being shot in the head.

Seventy-seven percent of voters believe prayers helped save Giffords, while 17 percent don’t believe that. The remaining 6 percent are unsure.

Those most likely to believe prayer saved Giffords include white Born-Again Christians (95 percent), those who regularly attend religious services (91 percent), blacks (91 percent), Republicans (84 percent), Southerners (83 percent) and women (81 percent).

Of course such stories of prayer must just drive certain folks over the edge. Gee, I wonder who those 17% consist of?  As Weasel Zippers states, file this one under stories that make the LEFT wince.

Daily Commentary – Friday, January 21st, 2011 – Gabrielle Giffords in Recovery

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