Herman Cain is definitely forming 2012 exploratory committee (Daily Caller)

Herman Cain is 'definitely' forming 2012 exploratory committee
Alex Pappas is a political reporter at the Daily Caller. He is a graduate of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. Former Godfathers Pizza chief executive Herman Cain says he’s definitely forming an Exploratory Committee — likely within the next several weeks — to test the waters for a possible Republican presidential run in 2012. Cain, a radio Talk Show host and favorite of the Tea Party movement, confirmed the news in an interview with The Daily Caller. He suggested t...

Herman Cain: Im forming an exploratory committee for 2012
I know the basics of his bio — accomplished CEO, talk-radio host, Cancer survivor — but not much more beyond that. Even so, it got my attention a few days ago when he won Red State’s 2012 “tournament,” topping Mike Pence in the semifinal and Palin in the final. Is that because Cain’s a Red State favorite or is the Grassroots support for him out there broader than anyone realizes right now? Either way, the Daily Caller says to get ready. Former Godfathers Piz...

Herman Cain Set to Form Exploratory Committee Soon
Herman Cain, who I profiled earlier this week, has told the Daily Caller that the formation of an Exploratory Committee is likely to occur in the next several weeks. Here’s an excerpt from the article, including comments from Cain: “Bottom line is, all of the indicators and all of the benchmarks that I had laid out and we had laid out as a team are all moving in the direction of yes,” Cain said. “We haven’t gotten there yet, but we’re moving in that direction.” He

Dannie's Insider Tea Party Has Arrived
Rep. Drew Darby is Standing Up for Us in Austin Social Cons vs Fiscal Cons - False Choice? He was late to the party, originally calling Tea Parties short lived groups led by small minds who should be part of the Republican Party. Then a girl from Wharton came along and he was sad because she had the Grassroots following that he dreamed of. But then he remembered that he is the master at jumping in the front car of a moving train and that made him happy. Besides, he's an insider now, he's...

Fridays Line From The Fix
Those of you R4’08 Veterans out there will remember the debates sparked by Chris Cillizza’s Friday columns in the Washington Post entitled “The Line”. They became a weekly virtual water cooler moment as everyone argued why their Candidate of choice deserved a higher ranking, or why others were ranked too high on the list. Well, Cillizza is back in form for the 2012 Campaign, and even at this (very) early juncture in the campaign (before anyone has even announced!), he i...

Iowa Republicans launch effort to impeach state Supreme Court judges
Republican lawmakers in Iowa have launched an effort to impeach four state Supreme Court justices over their decision to strike down a ban on Gay Marriage in the state last year.  The new effort comes just as the 2012 GOP presidential primary heats up and the two are sure to intersect. Iowa Conservatives, led by former gubernatorial contender Bob Vander Plaats, will likely pressure GOP hopefuls to weigh in.  Just last month, Vander Plaats led a successful effort to oust three other justices ...

Is he going to run for President? (he is headed to Iowa tomorrow....)
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Potential Dark Horse: Herman Cain in 2012
RedState recently polled their readers to see who they would like to see as the GOP Presidential nominee. The winner was Herman Cain. Who is Herman Cain? Cain is a big Private Sector Candidate - he was a former Pillsbury executive and later ran Godfathers Pizza. He’s also a Talk Show host and PAC founder. He had previously ran for US Senate in Georgia in 2004 - he came in 2nd place, but did not garner enough support to force a runoff. He’s a great speaker who, apparentl...

Herman Cain: The Right Wing Sleeper Candidate in 2012?
Politico’s Ben Smith discussed today the unforeseen possibility that Right Wing Activist Herman Cain could be a surprise Republican Candidate for president, after he bested all other Republicans in an online Straw Poll conducted by the conservative blog RedState. Cain, an African American businessman and radio Talk Show host, even topped Sarah Palin, who came in second, to be the favorite of the Right Wing blogosphere. Erick Erickson of RedState writes, “I like Herman Cain and, thoug...

Herman Cain mania
There's a place in every primary for an ideological purist and debate champ — think Dennis Kucinich — and radio talker Herman Cain seems to be the early front-runner for that slot on the Republican side in 2012. Cain, an African-American conservative with a real Private Sector background — he was a Pillsbury executive and then took over and ran Godfathers Pizza — is a regular on the conservative event circuit and a compelling speaker, though he's little known outside co...

Alex Pappas Leaves Daily Caller for Examiner
Alex Pappas is the reporter on the Far Right. The Daily Caller newsroom is heavy hearted as news circulates about reporter Alex Pappas ‘ departure for the Washington Examiner where he’ll be covering local news. “We’ll miss him,” said Spokeswoman Becca Glover Watkins in a note. A colleague lamented, “We lost one of the greats.” Leaving The Daily Caller isn’t easy for Pappas. Find out why… After an exciting election year at The Daily Caller, I ...

Examiners Smith Welcomes Pappas to Merry Band
This just in from Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Stephen Smith . He said (we think in jest), “I had to wait for you folks to break the news to make it official.” Thank you, Stephen. We do appreciate that. I’m pleased to announce that Alex Pappas , who has been a writer at the Daily Caller for the last year, will be joining The Washington Examiner after Christmas to cover Prince George’s County. At the Caller, Alex covered the 2010 campaigns, the Tea Party movement an...

CNN and Tea Party Express to host first-of-its-kind Tea Party presidential primary debate
from CNN Washington (CNN) - CNN is teaming up with the Tea Party Express for a first-of-its-kind presidential primary debate, both organizations announced Friday. The Tea Party debate, featuring 2012 Republican Presidential Candidates, is scheduled for Labor Day week 2011. It will take place in Tampa, Florida - the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention. Since the spring of 2009, the Tea Party movement has been increasingly vocal in advocating for less Government Spending, lower t...

DEMOCRATS COMPLAIN After Tea Party Group Honors Military in Holiday Parade
The Democrats were not pleased after a Texas Tea Party group sponsored a float to honor the Military in a Texas holiday parade. Local Democrats said politics should be kept out of community events. View more news videos at: https://www.nbcdfw.com/video. A local Tea Party group’s participation in Grapevine’s recent Parade of Lights has drawn complaints from people who say politics should be kept out of community events. About 20 people, some wearing Military uniforms, were in the Nort...

Justice Scalia Plans to Deliver Speech Before Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus
Justice Antonin Scalia will speak to U.S. lawmakers at a seminar sponsored by the Tea Party Caucus, a group whose organizer, Representative Michele Bachmann , has urged the courts to strike down the new health-care law....

IS IT ETHICAL ERROR FOR JUSTICE SCALIA TO MEET THE TEA PARTY CAUCUS?
I recently read that U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is coordinating a crash course on the Constitution for the new members that will be joining the House in January.  I was a little surprised that one of the guest speakers for that course will be Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  While it is not unusual for Supreme Court Justices to interact with members of Congress, it disturbs me that Justice Scalia will be meeting with the Tea Party Caucus behind closed doors.  These very...

CNN teams up with Tea Party in debate
Source: LA Times WASHINGTON--CNN plans to host a Republican presidential primary debate next year with Tea Party Express, a political action committee that featured Sarah Palin at its events and is now raising money for a new advertising campaign against President Obama. The Cable News network announced Friday that it has teamed up with the Sacramento-based organization to co-host a debate in Tampa, the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention, during the first week of September. The even...

CNN teams up with Tea Party in debate
WASHINGTON--CNN plans to host a Republican presidential primary debate next year with Tea Party Express, a political action committee that featured Sarah Palin at its events and is now raising money for a new advertising campaign against President Obama. The Cable News network announced Friday that it has teamed up with the Sacramento-based organization to co-host a debate in Tampa, the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention, during the first week of September. The event will focus on...

Rep. Lynn Woolsey, ex-Progressive Caucus chair, thinking of retiring
0 Rep. Lynn Woolsey, one of the most liberal members of Congress, is thinking -- thinking, mind you -- about calling it quits in 2012 after this term ends. "She hasn't made up her mind," Wools' spokesman Carl Rauscher told us Friday. "But she will make that call by June." Woolsey -- who led the House's Progressive Caucus for six years until recently -- said as recently as October that she was feeling good and had no plans to retire. But on Thursday, the 73-year-old told the Santa Rosa Press D...

Sam Graham-Felsen - Why is Obama leaving the grass roots on the sidelines?
In the wake of President Obama's deal to extend the Bush Tax Cuts to the wealthiest Americans, pundits have focused on how Obama has alienated the left. But the issue isn't the left - it's the list. Obama entered the White House with more than a landslide victory over Sen. John McCain. He brought with him a vast network of supporters, instantly reachable through an unprecedented e-mail list of 13 million people. These supporters were not just left-wing Activists but a broad coalition that inc...

Mass. Joins Investigation Of Marrow Donor Organization
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Another state is joining the investigation into a Bone Marrow registry accused of scamming people. The Caitlin Raymond International Registry has stopped operating in New Hampshire after people came forward to say they and their Insurance plans were overbilled. The Attorney General in Massachusetts is now investigating similar claims. The National Marrow Donor Program works with other registries such as Caitlin Raymond, but the national organization said it has no control ove...

Marrow Donor Campaign Relied on Flirtation, Officials Say
BOSTON — On its face, it seemed reasonable enough: a Bone Marrow registry sending recruiters to malls, ballparks and other busy sites to enlist potential Donors. But the recruiters were actually flirtatious models in heels, short skirts and lab coats, Law Enforcement officials say, asking passers-by for DNA swabs without mentioning the price of the seemingly simple procedure. And the registry, Caitlin Raymond International, was paying up to $60,000 a week for the models while billing insu...

Could This Woman Persuade You To Donate Bone Marrow?
What is this? Natasha Smahlei, a model, works at the Caitlin Raymond International Registry exhibit in October during the New England Business Expo at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass. Natasha Smahlei, a model, works at the Caitlin Raymond International Registry exhibit in October during the New England Business Expo at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass. The models who corralled would-be Donors of Bone Marrow for a registry at the UMass Memorial Health Care System reportedly wore short skirts, ...

Axdahl Endorses Cino
Evie Axdahl, the Republican national committeewoman from Minnesota, has endorsed Maria Cino for chair of the RNC. A founding member of the Republican National Conservative Caucus, Axdahl cites Cino’s Social Conservatism as a reason for her support. In a letter to the RNC, Axdahl writes: “Despite the very significant challenges the RNC faces at this time, we are fortunate as a party to have such a diverse range of Candidates to choose among to lead us through them and on to victory.&n...;

Tea Party and CNN to Host 2011 Republican Presidential Debate in Florida
CNN Political Director Sam Feist called the "Tea Party movement a fascinating, diverse, Grassroots force that already has drastically changed the country's political landscape." The movement's impact on the political balance is indisputable. Tea party-backed Candidates, assailing President Obama's policies and calling for smaller government and less spending, had considerable success in the Nov. 2 election. The tea party and allies like Sarah Palin can rightly claim credit for playing a signific...