1. Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann
2. Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain
3. Twitter account-haver Newt Gingrich
4. Former Utah Governor/Ambassador to China/Wizard keyboardist Jon Huntsman
5. Michigan Representative Thad McCotter
6. Texas Representative Ron Paul
7. Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty
8. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
9. Former Pennsylvania Senator/Jelly enthusiast Rick Santorum
So, the non-participants are Gary Johnson, Fred Karger, Buddy Roemer, and presumed future primary candidate Rick Perry.
My own prediction is Ron Paul will come in first, followed by Michele Backmann and Mitt Romney.
The race is between the Constitutionalist Republicans Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann and the Establishment Republicans Perry and Romney.
I think the final Republican ticket will be either Paul/Bachman or Perry/Pallin.
I support a Paul/Bachmann Republican Party ticket in 2012 for both are fiscally responsible and voted down the increase in the National Debt ceiling.
A Paul/Bachmann ticket would unite the libertarian and social conservatives who are for limited government in terms of size and scope, a constitutional representative republic and a peace and prosperity economy.
Now if Ron Paul would come on out and support the FairTax, he would win in a landside!
August 12th 2011 CNBC Stock Market Squawk on the Street (Consumer Sentiment)
MORE THAN HALF OF AMERICANS SAY ECONOMY IS WORSENING CCTV News
The truth about the unemployment rate
US FED TO KEEP RATES LOW FOR AT LEAST 2 YEARS
Peter Schiff – ‘The world is propping up the Dollar’ (10-Aug-11)(FINANCE & ECONOMICS series)
Peter Schiff telling it like it is!
S&P Explains Rating Downgrade
Ron Paul: I’m Surprised AAA Downgrade Didn’t Happen A Lot Sooner
Economic Data Show U.S. Growth Slowing Considerably
Ryan, Obama Budget Plans Both Fail in Senate
U.S. Consumer Confidence Drops to Three-Decade Low Amid Economic Headwinds
By Jillian Berman -Aug 12, 2011
“…Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged in August to the lowest level since May 1980, adding to concern that weak employment gains and volatility in the stock market will prompt households to retrench.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment slumped to 54.9 from 63.7 the prior month. The gauge was projected to decline to 62, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey.
The biggest one-week slump in stocks since 2008 and the threat of default on the nation’s debt may have exacerbated consumers’ concerns as unemployment hovers above 9 percent and companies are hesitant to hire. Rising pessimism poses a risk household spending will cool further, hindering a recovery that Federal Reserve policy makers said this week was already advancing “considerably slower” than projected.
“The mood is very depressed,” said Chris Christopher, an economist at IHS Global Insight Inc. in Lexington, Massachusetts. “Consumers are very fatigued and very uncertain. In the short term, people are going to pull back on spending.”
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