Is Sarah Palin "Slumping"?

According to The Washington Post, she is. Its latest poll shows that the GOP’s once presumed 2012 leading contender is losing her runaway standing among Republicans and independents. I’m actually not all that convinced by the numbers, from a poll conducted between March 10 and 13.

From the article:
“In one sense, the poll still finds Palin near the top of a list of eight potential contenders for the GOP nomination. The former vice presidential candidate scores a 58 percent favorable rating, close to the 61 percent for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and 60 percent for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, and better than the 55 percent that onetime House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) received.
“But Palin’s unfavorable numbers are significantly higher than they are for any of these possible competitors. Fully 37 percent of all Republicans and GOP-leaning independents now hold a negative view of her, a new high.
“In another first, fewer than 50 percent of Republican-leaning independents — 47 percent — hold favorable views of Palin.”

If the poll is correct, her standing restores my faith in the ultimate ability of Americans to come to their senses even after periods of illogical exuberance.

Just say "NO"?

The GOP is returning to power in the U.S. House of Representatives and rather than talking about reaching out to Democrats, they are continuing – and even upping – their campaign to effectively end Barack Obama’s once-promising presidency.

Check out this article:

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/4492-republicans-aim-info-war-at-obama

Since 2008, the GOP has pursued a just-say-no campaign to Obama. Now that they are in leadership in the House, they still haven’t given us anything to say “yes” to when it comes to fixing all that’s broke in our economy, health system, criminal justice system, public school system and on and on. And there is all this kinda sorta racism among the vocal GOPers and the Tea Party folk that the President and the Democratic Party have not shown the courage to address.

Now is the time to reach out to your senators and representatives. Tell them what’s on your mind. And in addition to regular e-mail, make use of Facebook and Twitter and talk radio and any other medium to which you have access. http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

The Scott Sisters As Political Fanfare

Please read my piece on The Root (www.theroot.com) at: http://www.theroot.com/views/scott-sisters-freed

Treat Elena Kagan Like You Would a White Man

She has impeccable collegiate credentials. She clerked for a U. S. Supreme Court justice -- Thurgood Marshall. She is the current Solicitor General, the top lawyer representing the government's side before the U. S. Supreme Court. But the Republicans in the Senate have suddenly discovered that she is a woman and that she clerked for Justice Marshall and she was dean at Harvard and she has been nominated by President Obama. And so they don't think she is qualified. She is no left wing nut. No uber feminist. She is exactly what some of these senators wish they were. But, in their eyes, all she has accomplished is a baaaad thing for the future of the universe.