By Erick Erickson VIA Red State

Herman Cain has finally found that path to victory while Michele Bachmann appears to have stumbled right off it. This past week, the horserace really went through a shakeup. Even Jon Huntsman has a pulse, at least in one state.

Rick Perry fell over. Mitt Romney is holding steady, and the primary calendar is reshuffling throwing in some greater complications for candidates. And everyone and everything from this week is about to be overshadowed by one event happening Sunday.

Florida has decided to move up to January 31, 2012, which will force Iowa and New Hampshire to move up to the first of the month. This complicates things for most of the candidates because it will cut off one full month of campaign contributions before the elections start. Not only that, but it puts the heat of campaign giving season into the holiday season without a recovery month before elections. CONTINUE

By Fingers Malloy VIA The Snark Factor With Fingers Malloy

So this is delicious. In a complete kill the messenger moment, the Twitter has been blowing up over a Daily Caller piece regarding disgusting comments that Mike Tyson made about Sarah Palin. To read Tyson’s comments, check out Jeff Poor’s column here.

This got many Palinistas hysterical. But the target of their hysterical, liberal like over- reaction wasn’t the bat shit crazy Mike Tyson–no it was The Daily Caller. Why the Daily Caller? For printing his comments.

That’s right. New memo to everyone that writes stuff on the internets–you can not report anything that is said about Sarah Palin without a Palinista signing off on it…ever! If you do write about Palin without approval, it can only be a fluff column–you know, stories that her mere presence in a room can cure Scurvy and prevent the gum disease Gingivitis (you get the idea).

I could post links to several blog posts by several Palinistas who are outraged by The Daily Caller, but I am still trying to recover from my massive eye-roll (I will not even get into their tweets).

But of all the blog posts I have seen regarding TuckerGate, the worst offender was Greta Van Susteran. Her blog post was a peach. This is just the first paragraph:

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Andrew Lawton joins the TWSS dames to talk about the GOP field, Rick Perry’s priorities, Sarah Palin’s intentions, and the left’s ever-changing definition of civility. We also chat about nipples and highlight the plight of a male blogger who comes up extremely short in the manhood department.

Cross posted from Duke Over America

Oh how the world changes in an election cycle.

To be honest, I was never really a Christine O’Donnell fan. I met her at the Right Online conference in Las Vegas in 2010, and she was a very nice lady. In my 5 minutes with her however, she didn’t strike me as someone that might be a United States Senator one day. Possibly an unfair measurement, but it was my first impression, and at least in my experience, those observations are usually right. As a result, I never fully understood the frenzy of the supporters of her campaign to unseat Mike Castle in the GOP primary in 2010. Sure Mike Castle was a RINO in the mold of Sen. Snowe and Sen. Collins, but at least it would flip a seat from a Democrat in a blue state to a Republican. Who knows what crazy things Joe Biden might have said about his former seat being taken by an “R” and how it would affect his gaffe track record.

Christine, of course, went on to get trounced by Coons in 2010 by a country mile. Now to be fair, I have talked with many people who get paid big money in politics, that say Mike Castle would not have been a slam dunk, even in the Red Tide that occurred in the last election. Christine still had a future with the Tea Party peeps who would have whole heartedly supported her if she chose to run again–or maybe just do speaking events. That future looked bright… until last Wednesday.

The back and forth that went on in the press over whether Governor Palin had cancelled her speech, or just put it on hold, was fortunately overshadowed by President Obama and Speaker Boehner stealing the spotlight from the silliness happening outside of Washington with a squabble of their own. The truly confusing thing about this is that the main sticking point was that O’Donnell speaking was not a problem with the Palin camp, so they had no problem with it before they had a problem with it. Confused yet?

Why would there be a problem with a former candidate (who was endorsed by Sarah Palin, and a Tea Party favorite a lil over a year ago) speaking at a Tea Party event? Even if it is true that Christine’s people lied about her speaking with Palin via text, I think it might be a lil harsh to threaten to pull out of an event that possibly thousands of people are going to attend because you’re speaking. Just put O’Donnell at the beginning of the program, and usher her off stage before Palin speaks later. Problem solved.

Instead, we had all this calamity and confusion, and once again it looks like Governor Palin has rank amateurs surrounding her and handling her affairs. One of the results of this being a former candidate for office that was beloved by the same people who adore Palin, now is in a very public way thrown under a bus and used as a speed bump on the road to…?

Christine O’Donnell deserved better.

We deserve better.

By T. LaDuke

I happened to come across a interesting article by Andrew Malcom from the L.A. Times about the declared GOP Presidential hopefuls. What I found most interesting is that Sarah Palin is included in this poll but has not declared she is a candidate. Now I know that there is a healthy faction of conservatives who are anxiously awaiting Governor Palin’s inevitable announcement in their opinion but in all fairness to her she should be allowed to declare or not in her own good time. Putting her in a poll as if she has declared is rather disingenuous and misleading.

If Governor Palin does decide to declare at some point and end the non stop speculation among her supporters and non supporters alike  her numbers would no doubt improve in a poll among the declared candidates.  She would be a top 3 contender immediately   crippling  any chance that the Bachman campaign has and putting a merciful end to the circus acts that candidacies of Ron Paul , Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman have become.

As for now she is not a candidate and with each passing day it becomes  less of a issue if whether or not she ever declares her intentions. Let’s deal with the reality of how things are not how we wish they would be.

Cross Posted at Duke Over America

Today in theaters across the country ” The Undefeated” the brand new movie by Steve Bannon about Governor Sarah Palin opens nationwide. To help celebrate we are replaying some of the interviews that FTR Radio hosts have had with Steve Bannon over the past month talking about this movie and other projects he has done. Make sure to catch these interviews below and go see “The Undefeated” at a theater near you soon!!!

Noon… Teri Christoph of Smart Girl Politcs interviews Steve Bannon
1 PM …Matt Lewis of The Daily Caller interviews Steve Bannon
4 PM….Ben Howe of Red State interviews Steve Bannon
5 PM …Teri Christoph interviews Steve Bannon
6 PM …Matt Lewis interviews Steve Bannon
7 PM …Ben Howe interviews Steve Bannon
8 PM….Teri Christoph interviews Steve Bannon
9 PM….Ben Howe interviews Steve Bannon

Matt Lewis who is a senior contributor at the The Daily Caller also has a podcast that is aired on FTR Radio. Today to we air some of the favorite interviews Matt has done over the past year and a half to help celebrate the release of his new book “The Quotable Rogue” which is about former Alaska Gov Sarah Palin. So kick back and relax and listen to the best of ” Matt Lewis and the News” on FTR Radio and don’t forget to order The Quotable Rogue Right Here

12 pm… Smart Girl Nation with Teri Christoph. Teri interviews Matt Lewis on his brand new book “The Quotable Rogue”

1 pm…Matt Lewis interviews Ann Coulter on her new book “Demonic”

4 pm… Matt interviews former Bush Administration official Karl Rove.

5 pm…Matt interviews comedian Adam Carolla

6 pm… Smart Girl Nation with Teri Christoph

7 pm…Matt Lewis interviews Ann Coulter on her new book “Demonic”

8 pm…Matt interviews former Bush Administration official Karl Rove

9 pm… Smart Girl Nation with Teri Christoph

By Glen Asbury VIA Big Hollywood

Right Online 2011 in Minneapolis-St. Paul was the site of the first screening of filmmaker Stephen Bannon’s much anticipated new documentary on the life and career of Sarah Palin, The Undefeated. Bannon had warned the assembled attendees that we would be seeing what he styled as “the R-rated cut.” The pre-screening buzz indicated that this phrasing was in reference to the opening montage of the film where, presumably, a bit of rough language was in store. As promised, the initial three-minute sequence lived up to its billing. CONTINUE

Fingers Malloy and Paul Croteau sit down with radio talk show host Dr Gina Loudon to discuss the upcoming elections in 2012 and Sarah Palin

Smart Girl Politics Co Founder Teri Christoph interviews Steve Bannon and Sonny Johnson from the new movie The Undefeated which opens next month in theaters across the country.