The Tennessee Center for Policy Research has a very interesting report about our friend algore:
“Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).”
Another case of Do As I Say, Not As I Do? I don’t think he’s using that mansion to advance Social Justice.
Republican Mitt Romney, flush with cash from early fundraising, this week will air his first presidential campaign ad to introduce himself to voters in several early-voting states.
The 60-second spot describes the former Massachusetts governor as a ”business legend” who ”rescued the Olympics” and “turned around a Democratic state.”
Romney adds: “This is not a time for more talk and dithering in Washington. It’s a time for action.”
The ad is set to air starting today and will be shown in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Michigan and Florida.
It is the first ad by a top-tier contender in a campaign experts believe will cost more than $1 billion by the time it ends in November 2008.
While Romney has not had any problem raising cash, I think his political history is what is causing him to falter in the polls. Romney has done a complete 180 on many social issues, in what many feel is an attempt to appeal to the conservative base of the Republican party. The result is a lack of trust among Republican voters as it is hard to know for sure where he truly stands on the issues. It will be interesting to see what effect, if any, these ads will have. I predict that if his number haven’t improved toward the end of the year he’ll withdraw from the race before the primaries start.
SPARTANBURG - U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback said Monday he is calling every Republican he can in this S.C. county before a presidential straw poll to be held later in the week.
It’s that kind of personal attention the senator from Kansas hopes can take him from obscurity to the front of a crowded field for the GOP’s 2008 presidential nomination.
The straw poll in Spartanburg County will be one of the candidates’ first tests in South Carolina, which will hold one of the earliest presidential primaries in 2008.
It’s definitely possible that Brownback could emerge as a darkhorse candidate, but I honestly don’t believe he could win the general election. Nothing about the man excites me. I think he is a boring candidate with little enthusiasm and charisma and his support of amnesty for illegal aliens kills any hope of ever getting me as a supporter. I think the best thing he could do would be to step aside and let a more viable conservative move in. I’m still keeping my fingers crossed for Newt.
The city council of Baltimore has voted 9-2 to ban smoking in public places including bars, restaurants, and taxicabs.
What is it about private property rights these people don’t understand?