The Friday Presidential ‘BushWhack’ing

TGIF… only a few weeks until the first primary of the season and the candidates are getting, shall we say, edgy...

• The candidates for both parties may want to listen closely to the results of a non-partisan Pew Hispanic Center survey that found 57% of registered Hispanic voters favor Democrats, while 23% said they favored republicans…


• Clinton is clinging to a narrow lead in New Hampshire (and Iowa)…and the numbers are getting closer with Clinton as 35%, Obama at 29%, Edwards at 17%, Richardson at 10% and the rest getting 3% or lower. ( I expect the numbers to swing more in one way or the other after the Iowa caucus on January 3rd…)


• Romney has a sizable lead in New Hampshire with 37%, McCain – who picked up a major endorsement in the state this week – is at 20%, Giuliani has 16%, Huckabee has a paltry 9% - sharp contrast from his numbers in Iowa – Paul has 8% and the so-called second-coming of Ronald Reagan, Thompson, has 4%....


• Romney gave his much-anticipated speech about his religion this week and said about Mormonism… absolutely nothing. The speech was being billed as a primer for the voters about his religion, but instead focused on the role religion should play in the presidency. (It was an absolutely brilliant display of playing the media and the voters with political hype; but will it come back to bite him in the ass? I think yes…)


• Edwards came out and said that the recently released NIE justifies his opposition to “President” Bush on Iran… personally I’m just happy a candidate knows about the NIE – hear that Huckabee???


• Not a good week for Huckabee. First his role in getting a rapist released early from prison that almost immediately raped and killed again is pushing him down. Second, his incredibly moronic lack of knowledge about the NIE is showing a LOT of people that he is NOT ready for the national stage…


• The incredibly inane and mis-calculated rumors about Obama’s ties to the Muslim world are still being talked about… why I have no idea…


• Romney fired his landscaping company this week because it hires illegal immigrants…


• Giuliani was abnormally quiet this week, seemingly because he’s letting the furor over the city paying for his affairs die down


• And have we mentioned? That the second-coming of Ronald Reagan went tin-foil hat on us earlier this week? It's true, Thompson said that Iran may have deliberately “leaked” the information on their lack of nuclear program to distract the U.S. so they could work without problems… (Um, okay?? See, he is like Reagan; he’s senile…)