First Thoughts: Where's the buzz?

Where's the buzz surrounding the possible 2012 Republicans?... Politico says Hillaryland has its eyes on 2016, not 2012… Obama speaks at rally for O'Malley at 3:15 pm ET… While we all focus on the DE and AK Senate races, don't forget about CO, IL, PA, WV, and WI… GOP outside money groups have an 8-to-1 spending advantage… "Hicky, blue-collar look"?... About last night's Crist-Meek-Rubio debate… Profiling VA-2… And Blumenthal and McMahon square off in another debate.

From NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg
*** Where's the buzz? President Obama today hits another rally (for Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley), after recently drawing 26,000 in Wisconsin. But looking ahead to 2012, we've heard some Republicans ask: If the GOP's '12 nominee was out there, wouldn't that person already have a considerable following? After all, conservatives and Republicans right now are displaying unprecedented enthusiasm, energy, and engagement about the coming midterm elections. That's largely why Republicans are poised to make big gains next month. But given this GOP excitement, it's striking that -- outside of Sarah Palin (and she could be more exciting to the media than to the base) -- none of it has rubbed off the potential '12 Republicans.

*** Comparing '06 with now: In 2006, due to his rock-star status campaigning for other Democrats, political observers could already sense that Obama would be a BIG deal if he ran for president. Ditto Hillary Clinton, whose march to Senate re-election was attracting plenty of buzz. Right now, the only Republican outside of Palin who's even approaching the same buzz that Obama and Clinton received in '06 is someone who has said he won't run: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. There are A LOT of 2012 GOPers traveling the country (Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee, Santorum, etc), and none is even close to getting real buzz in the base of the party right now.

*** Speaking of buzz about 2012 (and also 2016): Thanks to Drudge and cable TV's need to feed the beast, we're not sure the Hillary-Biden "Trading Places" story is really going to go away, despite strong denials by the White House and Clinton. Indeed, Politico yesterday noted that Hillaryland's true target isn't VP in 2012 but rather president in 2016. "Not happening," one of her 2008 campaign's topmost figures said about Clinton becoming VP in '12. "Stay tuned for 2016." More: "Many in Clinton's broader circle assume that she is positioning herself with an eye toward that 2016 bid – not that they claim to have first-hand knowledge of it. 'Once you run for president you always want to be president," James Carville … told POLITICO when he was asked about Hillary Clinton's prospects. "My assumption is that once you've run you're going to run again." Of course, the whole story was written on the premise of making an assumption about her ambition. Those closest to Hillary acknowledge folks AROUND Clinton are more interested in seeing her run again than the prospective candidate herself. In fact, she's actually starting to get into a groove in her current job and starting to enjoy more this year than she did last year.

*** How quickly we forget 1994: The Politico article also made this point: "The renewed buzz around Clinton's prospects, though, has been driven by the political weaknesses of Obama and Biden. Fanned by a media eager for conflict and fascinated by all things Clinton, the spark for the notion of Clinton's return to politics comes from her original argument against Obama. Clinton made the case in the Democratic primaries that Obama would be unable to win among working-class white Democratic voters. The Democrats head into the midterms profoundly weak among some of those same white voters - though Obama's biggest problem remains with Republicans, and pollsters argue that their real problem is a lackluster Democratic base." Yet here's our question: If Bill Clinton couldn't avoid what happened in '94, then do we think Hillary as president would be any stronger than Obama is right now, especially with unemployment at 10%? Classic grass-is-always-greener-on-the-other-side analysis.

*** Obama's day: As mentioned above, President Obama delivers remarks at 3:15 pm ET at a rally for Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley at Bowie State University, a historically black college. Then, in the early evening, he flies to Chicago to speak at a fundraiser for Alexi Giannoulias at 7:00 pm ET.

*** Don't you … forget about me: While the political and news world fixates on the Senate contests in Delaware (because of Christine O'Donnell) and Alaska (because of Todd Palin's nasty-gram email to Joe Miller), we want to remind folks that there are MUCH more competitive and consequential Senate races out there. Some examples: Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. In fact, these are, perhaps, the five CLOSEST Senate races in the country, and they rank near the bottom in coverage. Hmmm

*** GOP outside group's 8-to-1 spending advantage: On Tuesday, we wrote about how GOP-leaning outside groups were blowing away Dem outside groups in TV ad spending. Here are some fresh numbers a source sent us: From August until now, GOP groups have spent nearly $41 million in key Senate seats, including $8.8 million by American Crossroads and $14 million by Crossroads GPS. By comparison, Dem groups have spent just $5.5 million in these states. That's an 8-to-1 advantage for the GOP. Wow…

*** The 'hicky' blue-collar look? Remember that recent tough TV ad the National Republican Senatorial Committee is running against Joe Manchin in West Virginia? The ad features three men -- wearing flannel and baseball caps -- having a conversation about how "Obama's messin' things up" and how Manchin "does whatever Obama wants." Well, it turns out those weren't West Virginians. Rather, they were actors shooting the ad from Philadelphia, and they weren't just actors, Politico reports. "'We are going for a "Hicky" Blue Collar look,' read the casting call for the ad, being aired by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. 'These characters are from West Virginia so think coal miner/trucker looks.'" All of a sudden, Manchin now has three things to hit GOP opponent John Raese with: 1) that Raese's wife is a resident of another state; 2) Raese's position on the minimum wage; and 3) this casting call that doesn't necessarily portray West Virginia in a positive light.

*** About last night: Here's the Miami Herald's take on last night's Crist-Meek-Rubio debate in Florida: "Marco Rubio got the front-runner treatment in a combative U.S. Senate debate Wednesday night, with both his rivals attacking him as a right-wing extremist out of step with Florida voters." Here's the St. Pete Times: "The surprise of the night was Meek, the Democrat trailing in the polls, money and enthusiasm. Meek was strong throughout the hour, landing some of the best lines." Here's ABC: "[I]n the end, neither Gov. Charlie Crist (I) nor Rep. Kendrick Meek (D) was able to knock frontrunner Marco Rubio (R) off his game." And here is the take from NBC's Adam Verdugo, who was there: It was clear that both Crist and Meek had Rubio in their sights. Rubio is the clear frontrunner in the polls and just before the debate, Rubio's campaign announced a record haul of $5 million in the last quarter, the largest from a Senate candidate this quarter.

*** 75 House races to watch: VA-2: The Democratic nominee is first-term incumbent Glenn Nye, and his GOP opponent is businessman Scott Rigell. In 2008, Obama won 51% in this district -- representing Virginia Beach -- while Bush won 58% in '04. As of June 30, Nye had nearly $1.3 million in the bank, versus Rigell's $227,000. Nye voted against the stimulus, cap-and-trade, and health care. Cook rates the contest as Toss Up, while Rothenberg has it Lean Republican.

*** More midterm news: In Colorado, Campaign Money Watch, a nonpartisan campaign finance reform watchdog group, is up with a big ad buy against Ken Buck… In Connecticut, Dick Blumenthal and Linda McMahon square off in another debate today.

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vpdoesmatter

Really? I for one don't want a candidate with "buzz". Look at the crap we have with the current "buzz maker". I don't care if the GOP candidate can't button his shirt or slobbers on himself. I don’t care! If he has conservative policies I want him!!!

1 vote

#76 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:24 AM EDT

bilge12

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Matt(Boston)

Ummm, Romney, Palin, Trump, Huckabee...that's off the top of my head.

#78 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:26 AM EDT

Jorge-2191028

Who heard of Barack Obama this far away from 2008 election?

Liberals and their mouth piece, MSNBC, are desperate to talk about anything but these mid terms.

WHat a useless article

1 vote

#79 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:26 AM EDT

stupid war on drugs

If Palin runs, I will swim to Russia from my house!

3 votes

#80 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:28 AM EDT

Captain Hook-1072691

Need any floaties?

1 vote

#80.1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:36 AM EDT

Ricky-2299143

The U.S. has slowly gone rotten from top to bottom over past decades. The lie which is the american dream has been exposed. It only ever existed for the top 2/3% who are both Rep & Dem. Government if fundementally corrupt. The corridors of power, limited to a chosen few and unaffected by your vote, has lied to the masses for years. The slow erosion of moral standards, an explosion of personal greed and the ongoing pursuit of world domination has blighted this country and will ultimately condemn it to third world status. The greenback is as good as dead, the economy shot through and the long shadow of Islam deepens over the nation. A new dawn is coming in which the USA will be strictly lower league.

1 vote

#81 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:29 AM EDT

Beverly in Chicago

Ricky-2299143

The greenback is as good as dead, the economy shot through and the long shadow of Islam deepens over the nation. A new dawn is coming in which the USA will be strictly lower league

Don't give up hope we can turn it around if we vote, the foreign and domestic money influences around.

#81.1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 1:52 PM EDT

Ricky-2299143

Hope has nothing to do with it. This is the future reality.

#81.2 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 3:51 PM EDT

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

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REPOST from Beverly earlier... thanks to the school yard bullies who collapsed it:

Myth Busters
Again I’ll say, the GOP/TP has no sense of history.
The GOP/TP still hasn’t figured stuff like what’s going on; namely when it comes to their economic hit men, billionaire Koch Brothers, mining owner Dan Blankenship (should be tried for the murder of 11 coal miners), Karl Rove’s billionaire friends, and unknown foreign entities.
Anytime people amass billions of dollars that has caused others to lose their jobs, stopped small businesses, and devastated the environment, particularly the southern quadrant of the United States of America in the Gulf oil spill; then all of their actions is reticent or lost in transformation.
This is what real Americans have a grip on; especially, now that real Americans are getting to the root of the problem and the people who caused/ are causing the problem. Ironically, these green meanie, cunning, tricksters still have yet to provide a solution to change this era of destruction. Only, this time, fortunately, the fool will survive just as the joker replaces the lost cards in a deck of modern playing cards.
Yesterday’s discussion on Cristine O’Donnell proves the uneducated, low information voter is beginning to recognize people like her (corporate shills) represent those in the billionaire club and foreign entities that were unbeknownst to the public until now. These neo robber barons with their brain washing hyper techniques of the Constitutionality want to take the TBs back to the merchant class pre-modern societies.
U.S. companies are buying back their own stock in droves. What's more, it’s $273 billion of their own shares, more than five times as much compared with this time last year, ) which they had set on for months.
Rather than willing repatriate the money, because it would get hit with a huge corporate tax bill they'd prefer to hoard.
Americans should loath this type of greed who talk with their mouths full; rather the President Obama in an age of nearly a Great Depression. . indisposed

The crappy reason they give is that these US companies are nervous. They don't want to invest in developing new products or services while consumer demand remains weak, analysts said. they're starting to deploy some of that money - not to hire workers or build factories, but to prop up their share prices.
No
Imagine short-term political gains are more important than the long-term needs of his constituent No Social Security, no Medicare, no FAA, no OSHA
Americans don’t need ridiculous signs to speak out. Not voting for the corporate shrills in the GOP/TP will resonate the so-called liberal silence; and the continued progression of US in November. Then an only then will the narrow arc of billionaire friends advocating the “same ole thing” be disorganized.

Anchors at the Fox News national morning news show "Fox and Friends" reported Tuesday that the city of Los Angeles had ordered 10,000 jetpacks for its police and fire departments. The price tag: a whopping $100,000 per unit. As Gawker.com was the first to note, the "Fox and Friends" report appeared to contain material taken right out of a story from the Weekly World News tabloid, which bills itself as "The World's Only Reliable New Source. Apparently taking that slogan -- and ruse -- to heart, "Fox and Friends" reported that the jetpacks can reach speeds of 63 miles an hour and reach an altitude of 8,000 feet. And then came the questions.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/10/fox-and-friends-falls-for-ruse-alleging-purchase-of-billion-dollars-of-jetpacks-for-lapd-la-fire.html

How’s that for springing forth actual news? In reality it’s brain food for FOX NOOSE viewers and even more comedy and entertainment for seekers of factual news; with yet no fact checking.
Haaaaa Haaaa not only did "Fox and Friends get taste of their own spin; they also got punked.
Also, I though it hilarious the folk over @ FOXPAC saw signs in President Obama seal falling. They "must be sweating bullets” because our great President and orator was able to talk and joke about it with completely rational sentences, wasn’t thwarted, and didn’t duk for the door. Ya’ll remember when President Bush made that foolishness statement about his no exist strategy at a 2005 press conference in Beijing after answering just six questions from a group of US reporters? President Bush tugged at both handles on the double doors in which President Bush admittedly said "I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work."

4 votes

#82 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:30 AM EDT

annirich

I find it interesting that you bring up the Koch Brothers in leiu of the fact that Odummo's buddie George Soros and his "billionnaire" club got him elected.

2 votes

#82.1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:39 AM EDT

newdayDAWNING10

annirich: Please provide a citation for what you claim.

1 vote

#82.2 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 12:04 PM EDT

Carl D.-580212

shouldn't you include the president and his lying about the Gulf Oil Spill (refusing foreign help) that cost tens of thousands of jobs (and still hasent lifted the ban) or do you have selective memory and I also noticed you are not programmed to receive.

I guess being a pimp for moveondotorg and George Soros is rewarding for you..

yes we are sweating bullets over the fallen presidential seal, I so upset I'm cant go to work. Im signing up for food stamps and welfare today so I can be just like you

A loser

and yes I remember GB and the door handels, do you remember Clinton and the Cigar ?? or the Dress ??

1 vote

#82.3 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 12:08 PM EDT

annirich

Newday: I'll go find it bud; it's there. The people that own Progressive Insurance is also part of that crowd. Soros tried unsuccessfully to get Kerry in there and when that didn't happen he waited for Obama. Remember Obama gave the 2004 Key Note Address @ the Dem convention. That's when I first started researching him. One of the first websites I found was the American Democrat Socialistic Party "newest member" Barrack Hussein Obama. Naturally when I went back to it to print the photo (Obama accepting his membership card) it had been scrubbed. Right then though, I knew we were in for trouble. He's a very articulate guy and I knew people would 'buy' his snake oil and they did.

2 votes

#82.4 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 12:12 PM EDT

annirich

In January 2004, George Soros proclaimed to the world, "I have made rejection of the Bush doctrine the central project of my life." To which he added, "America, under Bush, is a danger to the world. And I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is." Soros then waged a nearly one-wallet war against Bush, put more than $25 million of his own cash into Kerry's election bid and came out of the whole gambit with a tattered I-Voted-for-the-other-guy t-shirt. In 2006, Soros declared in a depressive-mood pity party at the Council on Foreign Relations: "In the future, I'd very much like to get disengaged from politics. I'm interested in policy and not in politics." If only he had stayed depressed and kept to his better intention. But no such luck would come America's way. Soros supported Barack Obama's candidacy, telling Judy Woodruff in May 2008, "...Obama has the charisma and the vision to radically reorient America in the world." When Woodruff queried Soros on whether it might be a concern that Obama lacked experience to lead in this dangerous time we live in, Soros responded, "...this emphasis on experience is way overdone........
On "reorienting America in the world," President Obama started doing that before he even won election with his people-of-the-world speech in Berlin:

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.

2 votes

#82.5 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 12:25 PM EDT

wlee-950886

Sorry but your rant about Fox news and the Obama incident isn't quite accurate Bill O'Reilly actually praised him for his quick recovery but as usual you people are quick to malign without verifying. By the way Goldman Saks is owned by a liberal as are many other large corporations. Not all rich people are Repubs. Soros Gates Clinton Obama the head of GE

2 votes

#82.6 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 12:30 PM EDT

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

I've been meaning to ask you Annie... what's up with the new moniker?

Did you get banned with the old one? lmao...

#82.7 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 12:31 PM EDT

Patty-Virginia Beach

"Feisty redhead".......how childish you are!

ANNIE rocks!

2 votes

#82.8 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 1:02 PM EDT

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

The only thing 'rocks' Annie has are the one's ROLLING around in her head!

Thanks for playing Patty... we have some LOVELY parting gifts for you... ;0)

#82.9 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 1:05 PM EDT

newdayDAWNING10

Sorry annirich, no golden ticket, you are posting what Soros allegedly said, not what he did. Obama's funding for his Presidential campaign was public record.

#82.10 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 1:12 PM EDT

Beverly in Chicago

Feisty

Thanks for the repost.

I seems that collapse has a lot to do with not wanting to face the truth. So the hide the truth with collapses.

You really don't need to be a blind person to see that the billionaires represent a small minority who have also allowed the foreign entities to take over the elections and America. It should be obvious,by now, the money is what it is all about because America billionaires have nothing in common with the have nots.

Plus they don't care. If they did they wouldn't form alliances just for the profits with foreign companies.

What's more for those speaking Socialism/Communism, they really need to get a grip on it. The socialism is the sharing of the billionaires amongst themselves; otherwise they would create jobs if the care.

Communism is the lie and distortion the billionaires perpetuate sa means to attack the President because he does not want the floodgates of money to open and continue the status quo as well as usher in a whole new era of massive economic failure.

The President got it right in the State of the Union address. That's why the neo robber baron are unfriendly towards the President. The union and single payer contributions cannot in any fashion to unions, That's just commom sense.

Communist

There is NO linkage or association to the President being Communist.

Communist has been following groups around for over 100 years; particularly Black groups. After all, this is a free country. The TEA Party is supported and bankrolled by the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove's billionaire's club who support sociopaths like militia groups. Again, there is NO comparison for sociopathic like militia groups which advocates violence and anarchy to Communist. Therefore it's not a rational argument. If, you don’t believe me, just ask the nut bag Tea Party candidate what isSharon Angle speak for her 2nd amendment remedies?
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/09/30/jk.rise.of.militias.cnn

Dr Martin Luther King Jr was also accused of being Communist did you not know that?

J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to portray King as a Bolshevik the same as you righties portray the President as a Communist.The President is not a Communist. He is a Christian.

In Dr King's words... "Now, don't think that you have me in a "bind" today. I'm not talking about Communism.

http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/martin-luther-king-speeches/martin-luther-king-speech-where-do-we-go-from-here.htm

Communism will never survive in the Black Community. It is antithetical to the core beliefs of most Blacks. I bet you don't know way? Black Christians believe in God and have used that faith in God since slavery whether it was for rejoicing or to escape the drudges of slavery. That unshakable faith has endured to the present day. The Black Church is the most powerful institution in its community; I would argue. That's why all politicians will make their rounds to it during election.

Btw: Communism do not believe in God.

Communism is a joke. It failed. Likewise so does yours and other righties accusing our President as a Communist. I would be more worried about the militia groups in the Tea Party; if I were you.

Every one red cent gained by the working middle class and working poor has been exploited by Wall Street and corporatist like the billionaires you speak for.

It always pays to know what you are talking about before you speak. Your media literacy challenge of the Day is to dabble your brain and learn what Communism is; instead of being a major exponent of the "FREEDUMB" FOX NOOSE echo chamber.

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

Sinclair Lewis quote

How does the right feel now that we know undisclosed foreign entities are here now to influence the elections just to perpetrate their money.

Wake Up righties.

1 vote

#82.11 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 2:37 PM EDT

Your Uncle Sammy

Newt for President!

1 vote

#83 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:31 AM EDT

Richard-380478

agreed, and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann for Vice President in 2012.

1 vote

#83.1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:36 AM EDT

osamaobama

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Done.Again

The government run media MSNBC can spin it however they want!

All we need is OBUMA as a pathetic mistake for a president to motivate us to vote for someone else!.........

1 vote

#84 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:33 AM EDT

Captain Hook-1072691

The point is B.O. and his cronies have to go before America is belly up!

Time for a "change"--again!

3 votes

#85 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:35 AM EDT

Bill T.

I love the way the dems are in such denial about all of this. They can try and sugar coat this all they want and it changes nothing. The fact is they are in for the biggest political slaughter in United States Political history. And the real hidden beauty is they did it all to themselves with all of their over the top, liberal, socialistic nonsense.

Hussein has become the biggest gift the dems ever gave to the Republican party. Not one single democrat is campaigning on his "accomplishments". Not one. He has become a political death sentence for anyone who gets near him. It's the very reason Rahm Emanuel has ditched him before the election. He wants to be nowhere around Washington and this loser when the bottom falls out on 11/2/10. Ya' gotta love it!

1 vote

#86 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:36 AM EDT

Richard-380478

Yes, Obama is the "Perfect Storm". Remember what the Dems said at the beginning of this administration, "Never let a good crisis go to waste." LOL

1 vote

#86.1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:38 AM EDT

pchacho

What a stupid article! There are no 2012 candidates yet because we are concentrating on kicking you marxists out THIS YEAR. Wait until you see what we do next year. I'm Tea Party. WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED. Stick with a failed obama. See what happens. Happily, you cannot get rid of him. Palin will not run. I will not support her but she will pick the next president. You progressives do not really understand what is going on. Be frightened. You aught to be. Paul. PS: MSNBC should worry if they will have a job next year with the ratings you get against FOX NEWS. HA HA HA!!!

2 votes

#87 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:36 AM EDT

James D.-558560

pchacho your tea party didn't do a very good job vetting thier canidates here in colorado, especially thier one for govenor, He has had so much garbage and lies come out of his closet that it looks like he will finish way behind the 3rd party canidate maybe even get less than 10% of the vote. if he does it will give the republican party a minority party status in colorado which means next election cycle they will only be eligible for a fraction of the money they get now. the ones for senate wants a 23% national sales tax on everything from grocieres to automobiles, wants to make abortions illegal even in cases of rape and incest.not to mention the fact they want to keep tax breaks in place for all these companies moving their jobs overseas. if the tea party don't start doing a better job of really checking out the canidates they endorse they will quickly become the party that never was.

1 vote

#87.1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:59 AM EDT

Wilfred of Ivanhoe

Thanks to the Citizens United decision, we'll soon have the best government that money can buy. Not good government by a longshot, but the the best that money can buy. Perhaps in the future, we could require political candidates to wear emblems that identify their "sponsors," much like NASCAR drivers do. It would be very helpful to the voters.

2 votes

#88 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:37 AM EDT

Pepper1939

A newt is an amphibian of the Salamandridae family

2 votes

#89 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:37 AM EDT

Richard-380478

Any facts to back up you comment, or do you subscribe to the name Democrat party's tactic of name calling when you have no substance to offer?

2 votes

#89.1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:40 AM EDT

Brutus CA

No seriously, a newt is part of the salamander family.....

#89.2 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 12:16 PM EDT

wlee-950886

And Brutus was the loser in Popeye cartoons ,so what's your point

#89.3 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 12:38 PM EDT

Brutus CA

He was the a famous Roman, well several famous Romans came from the Brutus gens, but my favorite, Lucius Junius Brutus, led a revolution to expel the Etruscan Kings and set up Rome as a republic in 510BC... But you wouldn't know anything about that, seeing as you can barely process cartoons....

#89.4 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 4:18 PM EDT

A voice for the Truth

Sadly, the Republicans not having a clear front runner is true. But, it's pretty blantant from the obvious glee and typical slant/bias, that MSNBC is definitely a pro-liberal organization hell bent on spreading the radical liberal agenda, vice doing any fair and balanced journalism of all American constituencies. E.g., where is any indepth analysis of possible GOP contenders, vice their just gleefully rubbing their hands together so loudly, you can hear it oozing out of their so called news articles. Liberal propaganda pieces might be a more accurate description.

2 votes

#90 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:39 AM EDT

Bill T.

Do not worry about MSDNC or any of their 14 total viewers. They are as worthless and ineffective as Hussein.

2 votes

#90.1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:41 AM EDT

Shartorius

MSNBC:

Quick! Tell me how many people thought "Barack H. Obama" had "buzz", or had any real chance of becoming president on October 7, 2006--over two years before the 2008 elections, and four months before he announced his candidacy?

Hint: Not many.

If the current climate continues and the number of disillusioned Obama supporters continues to climb, I submit the Republicans won't need someone with "buzz".

Just as with George Bush, "Anyone But The Guy We Got" will be good enough.

3 votes

#91 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:41 AM EDT

melb33

Boss Matt

I admire the fact that you are one of the few posters that has given names of actual living human beings. The problem that you have is that none of these could beat the man that lost to our current President. Admit it, like 'em or not, Republicans are in a bit of a dilemma for 2012.

1 vote

#92 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:42 AM EDT

Bill T.

Not as big of one as the liberal dems will be in just 40 odd days!

1 vote

#92.1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:44 AM EDT

melb33

T-Bag

The hopes and dreams of a would be prophet. It's not enough to "vote the bums out" if you vote new bums in. I know that polls are at best a semi-educated guess, but they are showing that the dems aren't in as much trouble as you imply with your uneducated guess. I have nothing against Republicans, but the majority of the candidates I see them putting up are at best incompetent.

#92.2 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 12:04 PM EDT

annirich

I just know one thing, we MUST stop Obama and his Progressive ie Communists policies. Our country is being driven down the highway to oblivion! And if that means we vote ALL Reps...we'll do that. We're not about to let these Pelosies, Reids and the barage of communist/marxist Obama czars continue. As far a Presidency, we have another two years of this dangerous clown and someone within either the Rep or Conservative parties will surface. At this point I'm willing to vote for ANYONE else BUT a Dem or Obama. Our country has been shistered enough and we're fed up!!!

1 vote

#93 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:43 AM EDT

James D.-558560

I don't much care for our democrats here in colorado that are running for congress and senate. However, their republican counterparts all want a 23% national sales tax on everything you buy from groceries to cars, they want to privatize V.A. hospitals and social security and keeptax breaks in place for companies that move their jobs overseas. we even have one that wants to do away with birth control and make abortions illegal, even in cases of rape and incest. they are so out of touch it's a joke.

2 votes

#94 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:43 AM EDT

RCH-913656

I believe the original question is name a Republican that has any buzz. Can't really, all the buzz has already been used up. However, if you mean name anyone that could unseat the present idiot, try anything from Mickey Mouse to Pluto. Our present sitting president is incompetent, Period.

1 vote

#95 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:47 AM EDT

Spirited 1

The "One Nation" rally in DC has amplified one truth: The '12 election will be a referendum on whether Americanism win out over Socialism and the party of choice (Democrat) of such radical groups as Code Pink, La Raza, and the Communist Party USA. This election will be bigger than any specific candidate.

1 vote

#96 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:49 AM EDT

Patrick Salt Lake City

So the republicans think voters are hicks, whats new about that?

1 vote

#97 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:51 AM EDT

Spirited 1

@Patrick: It was not the Republican Party who spoke of middle Americans clinging to their Bibles and guns - it was the Dems!

3 votes

#97.1 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:58 AM EDT

Jim-792457

1st things 1st. Mid-terms. Then we can start to look for a viable candidate. It just shows MSNBC's trying to change the focus of what needs to happen now.

2 votes

#98 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:55 AM EDT

bronte34

Nice title. On the flip side, quick! Name a Democrat with 2012 buzz! I can't. Not even the incumbent is buzzing. And he has the bees on his side.

2 votes

#99 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:56 AM EDT

lancesackless11

Keep on spinning, MSNBC...Trying to change the subject won't change what's about to happen to the Democratic party. So amusing when after election day people were screaming that the GOP was done, finished, and buried...

26 days left...tick tock tick tock...

4 votes

#100 - Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:59 AM EDT

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