According to the Intrade markets these are the top contenders for the 2012 Republican nomination to take on President Obama: #1 Mitt Romney #2 Sarah Palin #3 John Thune #4 Tim Pawlenty #5 Mike Huckabee #6 Newt Gingrich #7 Mitch Daniels #8 Jeb Bush #9 Paul Ryan

The media seems far more focused on Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney seems to be seen as “next in line” for the Republican nomination but the latest Gallup polling shows Mike Huckabee may actually be the 2012 front runner at this point (a full 3 years from the 2012 general election!) According to this poll [...]

According to this new Gallup poll the front runners for 2012 for the Republican Presidential nomination are Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, & Mike Huckabee. All three of these people played a big part in the 2008 contests so these results are no big surprise that they’re in front in such a poll but it also [...]

GOP chairman Michael Steele did the unthinkable (for a Republican) in his GQ interview: He stepped into the 21st century on the issue of abortion. He said that abortion is a choice that a woman must make for herself. Of course this comment has brought out the Republican loonies in force. Ken Blackwell (who sought [...]

In another indication that the GOP is not entirely unified behind presumptive nominee John McCain, Ron Paul got 24% of the vote in yesterday’s Republican primary in Idaho despite McCain becoming the presumptive nominee months ago. Click here to see the 2008 Republican Idaho primary results on CNN’s website.

Fox News talking about the possibility of a Ron Paul revolt at the Republican convention this year.

Ron Paul on CNN this morning talking about a variety of issues:

With all of the focus on the supposed split in the Democratic party between Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama supporters (as I’ve mentioned earlier, I think this split is mostly superficial as their policies do not differ that much) there hasn’t been much attention on the GOP split as of late. As I’ve mentioned earlier, [...]

Very little attention has been paid to the GOP results since John McCain was crowned the presumptive nominee pf his party but there were some pretty interesting results in the Republican primary in Pennsylvania yesterday (yes the Republicans held a vote yesterday as well.) Despite McCain being the presumptive nominee, 27% of the Republicans who [...]

This video intersperses clips of George W. Bush (and Dick Cheney) with clips of John McCain to make it clear that a vote for John McCain is a vote for a continuation of Bush’s failed foreign policy.