CPAC POLL

Mitt Romney 21%
Rudy Giuliani 17%.
Sam Brownback 15%
Newt Gingrich 14%
John McCain, 12%

I said it last month… maybe even January (I will have to go and see when I said it on Kimba’s site)… Newt Gingrich will dive into the race late, and he is the closest thing we have to a “Reagan”. Keep in mind both Reagan and Clinton hopped in late (I think October). Some say he has too much baggage. But if you are up front about it and try not to hide anything, like Hillary (see below), then your ducks should be in a row.

….Why, in the world, was it sealed?

Maybe it undermined President Clinton.

He proposed the same community-based programs in 1993 that Mrs. Clinton had railed against in 1969.

Or maybe it was perceived - by some in her cadre - as un-American.

It depicted an ideal world.

But it warned that only certain people could build that world and probably only with conflict.

Much of this she attributed to Alinsky.

Mrs. Clinton added a few criticisms, too: she mentioned his "contradictions" more than once, and chided him a couple of times for "war-like" rhetoric.

But she called his plan "constructive," seemed to endorse the principle that society had to be reorganized in a top-down model, and - at the end of the paper - compared Alinsky to national heroes like Martin Luther King.

Sure, it was written in 1969.

But, in the context of her recent statements, it seems relevant to the present.

It makes her campaign song - "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" - seem more like a threat than a promise.

The Republican Spectator