Romney is No John Paul Jones

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John Paul Jones, “I have not yet begun to fight.”   Mitt Romney, “I have not yet begun to fight, and I don’t intend to start.”

Romney will not repudiate Romney Care and he can not make a convincing case that it is any different than the popularly despised Obama Care.   Rick Santorum drives the point home, video:

Hat tip video and reax: Nice Deb:

.I found Mitt’s peevish admonition, “First of all, it’s not worth getting angry about…” to be a vain and  transparent attempt to exploit the (fair or unfair) perception that Santorum comes off as whiny  in debates.  He should save the snide put-downs for Obama, who really is a whiny, thin skinned SCOAMF

Obama economics and Obama Care are Barack Obama’s too biggest problem.   If the People want to retake the presidency, we simply can not afford to give Obama two free passes.

More reax, via William A Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, from Milton Wolf:

Campaigns always have give and take but let’s not lose sight of the forest for the trees. There are two issues that will make Barack Obama a one termer, two intertwined evil strands of DNA: Obamanomics and ObamaCare. If Republicans surrender either of these issues, they surrender the White House.

Mitt Romney is surrendering ObamaCare.

To reverse paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: We can not afford Romney, he will not fight”

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Indiana governor Mitch Daniels smacks it out of the park, video:

Meanwhile Obama stuck in time warp, video:

Barack Obama has been talking about the same problems for two, or even three years.  So either Obama does not realized that he already addressed those problems, or is too stupid to realize that his solutions have not worked.

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All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others, and abortions are safe.   George Orwell lives, from a deluded Genevra Pittman:

(Reuters Health) – Getting a legal abortion is much safer than giving birth, suggests a new U.S. study published Monday.

Researchers found that women were about 14 times more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die from complications of an abortion.

Reax,Steven Ertelt Life News:

But Paul Wilson of the Culture and Media Institute says “Reuters failed to include vital information about the study and the people it quoted – namely, that the authors of the study and both of the experts it cited were either abortion doctors or had strong ties to the abortion industry.”

Abortion may or may not be safer for the mother. It is definitely not safe for the baby.

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I don’t really have the connections to be doing a full Ramble tonight.  I’m writing this on my phone. I did however want to capture a couple more thoughts about the win in South Carolina for Newt Gingrich over the weekend.

The word is he’s going to be winning in Florida too. The New York Times is reporting at the moment Gingrich has something on the order of an 85 percent chance of winning.

The question is surely being asked now in the halls of the GOP establishment.. Why?

The question is understandable. Certainly, Gingrich is something less than the ideal candidate. He most certainly has not always been the most conservative of people. His personal life until at least recently has been something less than admirable.  On that basis I must assume that there is no hue and cry for Newt Gingrich the person to be president.

I would suggest you that the reason is rather simple. At the moment, he is the only one in the Republican field it is actually sending the message the base wants to hear… a message and a group of people that have been ignored for decades now. That group of people was heard from  loud and clear in South Carolina over the weekend and is about to be heard from in Florida, yet again.

Rush Limbaugh has a byline in his program that he’s been saying for years now. He says he articulates what the people are already thinking. That, he says, explains his popularity on the radio these days. He’s got something of a point, there.

Gingrich, I think, has tapped into that same thing. He’s not the perfect candidate, as I say, but he is the only one out there who is saying what needs to be said in the view of the conservative majority. I said it the other night, and I will say it again. The republican party ignores these people in their base at their own peril.

I will guarantee you that the GOP establishment is now looking at south Carolina and at the upcoming vote in Florida, and they are panicked. So they should be. They have nothing less than a conservative revolution on their hands.

It’s about blinking time.

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Dumbo, a/k/a Dim Won, a/k/a President Fifty Seven States, b/k/a Barack Obama is neither principled, intelligent or consistent. To make the thirty-ninth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s war on unborn children, Dumbo said, in part, from CNS News:

“As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this Supreme Court decision not only protects a woman’s health and reproductive freedom, but also affirms a broader principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters,” Obama said. “I remain committed to protecting a woman’s right to choose and this fundamental constitutional right.

Yes the right to abortion is so fundamental that it was regulated by the several states and can be found nowhere in the actual  Constitution. The fact is that Marry Blackmun invented the right to abortion, out of whole cloth.

The fact is that every unborn child has a mother, a father, grandparents and a life. It impossible to advance the cause of equal right, by giving all rights to only the mother. A mother can not create a human life on her own, but according to Blackmun and Obama she alone should have the right to extinguish that life.

From CNS News, via Karen, the Lonely Conservative:

By the time they leave elementary school, children should be able to “define sexual orientation,” and by the eighth grade be able to “define emergency contraception and its use,” according to a report containing controversial new recommendations for sex education in U.S. public schools.

“Ideally, comprehensive sexuality education should start in kindergarten and continue through 12th grade,” says the “National Sexuality Education Standards” report, drawn up by a range of advocates, academics and public education officials.

The Future of Sex Education (FoSE), an initiative started by sex education advocates, developed the standards “to create a strategic plan for sexuality education policy and implementation.”

Also involved are the American School Health Association, the National Education Association Health Information Network – the non-profit arm of the nation’s largest teacher’s union, the NEA – the American Association for Health Education and the Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical Education.

Her reax:

What a brave new world we’re living in. Education “experts” all calling for sex education to begin in kindergarten in a new report on recommendations for national standards. Heaven forbid we leave these things up to the parents. I guess they think we aren’t doing enough to sexualize our little ones.

The Obami find their concept of privacy broad enough to allow a mother the right to kill her unborn child, but too narrow to allow a born child’s parents the right to decide what should considered normal, healthy, acceptable and desirable.  Rather the Obami cedes the question of moral values to Planned Parenthood and GLSEN.

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From Howie Carr, Boston Herald:

Mitt’s still got an 18-point lead in Florida, or did before last night’s Newt landslide. But he’s got to learn to lie better in these debates. That lame story of his about why he didn’t run for re-election in Massachusetts in 2006 was bad enough, but on the question of releasing his income tax returns, he squirmed like a gaffed fish. He was drowning in flop sweat.

Why is Mitt ashamed of having a lot of money? If Newt, the born-again Catholic, can brush off his cheating past, how come Mitt can’t explain coherently why it’s OK to pay a 15 percent capital gains rate on money you’ve already paid the top 35 percent income tax rate on when you first earned it?

Yes Mitt Romney is rich.   Then so is Massachusetts’ other playboy politician and one time presidential wanna be John “French” Kerry.   Frenchy never had to defend being filthy rich,  never apologized for making millions by marrying his first wife, then having  the marriage to the mother of his children annulled to marry an even richer trophy wife.

No Newt was right.  Liberals don’t object to being rich.  They just throw a hissy fit when somebody actually earns their money.    Democrats only approve of having money if you marry into or sell your Food Stamps on the street for cash.  The problem the ‘rats have with Mitt, is that he got his money the old fashioned way, he earned it.

Yeah divorcing your wife is taboo, but annulling the marriage to the mother of your children is so cool.

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What kind of moron would rather buy oil from our enemies than our friends? The moron who is our president, video:

Hat tip:   Smitty,  Other McCain.

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Newt Gingrich walked away with South Carolina’s GOP presidential primary today. The early reports have Gingrich taking all but two counties there.

The interesting part of this, is the Exit polling.Those polls report that the largest number of independents in that state went for Gingrich.

Did you see that? Go up and read that last paragraph again. Now look at the numbers:

Conclusions:

The conventional wisdom, that I have always fought against, is that to attract independence we need to be timid. We need to avoid confrontation. We need to be embarrassed about being conservative. That has been the mantra coming from the GOP establishment for the last several cycles. Despite the fact that they’ve got their heads handed to them on several occasions, IE; Dole and McCain, and several congressional races… they still haven’t gotten the message.

Gingrich, on the other hand, has been coming out strong. He has been hitting his opponents with both barrels… including Obama. He is as strong a proponent of America and the American way of life as this party has seen in the years since Ronald Reagan. It is that level of testosterone…. that amount of testicular mass, that caused so decisive a win in South Carolina. That’s not me saying that… that’s in the exit polling.

As I said on this site a mere three hours ago, those cheers that you’re hearing both on the video in question…(the debates)… and from around the country right now are not because confrontation was avoided, but because Gingrich had the actual stones to go after bias when he found it. Not timidly, not in a tone of false friendship, but with both barrels.

I was sitting in a rest area outside Ulster, New York during that debate, putting together some rough notes for the Ramble that night. I can tell you there was a lot of cheering going on… with many happily saying “It’s about time”.

The path to victory is not being timid. The path to victory does not involve the canine courtesies as prescribed by the supposedly mainstream media, and the establishment GOP’s consultants. The path to victory is going after lies where they are found, with both barrels.

I tell you now that the GOP establishment ignores this message to their peril.
And as an aside I will tell you that these are precisely the comments that you’re going to be hearing out of Limbaugh, at 12:06 eastern time, come Monday.

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Mitt Romney, who has attempted to paint himself as the inevitable nominee has lost his second race in three outings, from WLTX, Columbia, SC:

Columbia, SC (WLTX) – Newt Gingrich has won the 2012 South Carolina Presidential primary, upending the race that will now turn Florida into a battleground.

Polls closed at 7:00 p.m.

At 7:01 p.m. NBC, Fox News, and ABC projected Gingrich as defeating Romney. CBS and the Associated Press followed suit about 20 minutes later, once the first official results arrived.

The voters have spoken, and they want a conservative.  Time for Mitt Romney and Ron Paul to suspend  their campaigns.

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OK, John King got his butt handed to him in a basket by Newt Gingrich. David’s got the video up already, so I won’t bother with it. We all know of the exchange. Frankly, it’s no great feat of foresight that Gingrich saw the question coming.  The supposed mainstream media is nothing if not predictably leftist.  Which is not to say Gingrich doesn’t deserve accolades for knocking it out of the park.  Indeed, I would think an ill prepared for the Presidency indeed had he not seen it coming.

But, please, let’s not fall into the trap of thinking that the liberal media has learned its lesson by this.  I will guarantee you that John King is being inundated by leftist admirers in his emails and phone calls.  He is being greeted and hailed as a liberal hero.  And of course, his objectivity is never in question in these comments. The same goes for Brian Ross.

Essentially what happend there with John King happens all the time.

Brian Ross, the guy who went after the interview with the former Mrs. Gingrich, that King played off of, tried to pull a Dan Rather.  I will remind you that Dan Rather lost his job over that.  Frankly, the same should happen to both Brian Ross, and John King…. They both should lose their jobs.   That is, if ‘objective’  is at all prized in the supposed minatrseam media…but I tend to doubt that’s going to occur.

But let’s look at the nature of the “Gotcha”

First off, there are divorced people all over this country.  Finding an ex- husband or ex-wife who is actually LIKED by their ex, is in fact the rarity, not the norm. So on that point alone, this story is not news. But further, the story was already out there…. years ago. And found no traction, then and if the numbers in the South Carolina race are of any indication, it’s not found any traction in the more current iteration, either.

But let’s remember, also, back in 1994 when Gingrich hadn’t even taken the speaker’s gavel yet, that the supposed mainstream press was trying to attack him then, as well.  It didn’t stick then of course, but neither did Gingrich’s innocence in the matter change the leftist mantra.

And let’s look at the response from Gingrich, who says:

Newt Gingrich

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. And I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.

Obviously, Gingrich makes a great response.  But he doesn’t go far enough here.  The question should have been raised why the press never directs that kind of questioning and that kind of ardor against leftists.  Even there, however, they wouldn’t be ashamed for their double standard having been revealed.You see, the fact of the matter is, you cannot shame a Liberal.  They are totally without shame.  Anything…. any lie, any mistruth, any stretched truth, any fact ignored, is worth the price to them of furthering the agenda.  That is the ultimate goal.  This situation was nothing if not a clear demonstration of how the supposedly mainstream media can and does control the agenda… tilting the national argument to the left.

And lest we forget which way the press leans, let’s remember that the supposedly unbiased “mainstream” press that takes such pride in attacking Gingrich is the same one that carried the water of Bill Clinton for the best part of a decade. So, their bias was already revealed in any case.

There are those around the sphere who will point out that Gingrich got press out of this thing that Romney,Satorum, and Paul cannot touch.  I’ve even seen accusations that John King tossed Newt a softball. I doubt that in the extreme. I suspect, rather, the he hoped Gingrich would flub the response, thus killing his electoral chances. Clearly, that backfired, but don’t anticipate that that’s going to change any minds in the supposedly mainstream media.

Addendum, 5 minutes after posting:

There’s something else that needs to be said here as an extension of these thoughts.  For decades we on the right have been told that we should not directly confront leftist bias.  We should not call the socialist left what it is.  That we must, in fact, avoid all confrontational with such.  The reason given is that the press will never like this.  Without the presses support we can’t get anywhere.   The fact of the matter is, we will never as conservatives get the support of the press.  That is simply put because they are died in the wall leftists.  They are not unbiased.  They are fighting for the leftist cause.

Those cheers that you’re hearing both on the video in question and from around the country right now are not because confrontation was avoided, but because Gingrich had the actual stones to go after bias when he found it.  Not timidly, not in a tone of false friendship, but with both barrels.

I was sitting in a rest area outside Ulter, New York during that debate, putting together some rough notes for the Ramble that night.  I can tell you there was a lot of cheering going on… with many happily saying “It’s about time”.

The path to victory is not being timid.  The path to victory does not involve the canine courtesies as prescribed by the supposedly mainstream media, and the establishment GOP’s consultants.  The path to victory is going after lies where they are found, with both barrels.

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Will Newt Gingrich ride into the White House on crest of belittled and mocked Lame Stream Media reporters.   Saturday night, Juan Williams tried carrying water for the Obama campaign,  and go humiliated for his efforts.   Last night, ignoring Williams’ carcass, and got more of the Newt Treatment, from Don Surber, Daily Mail (WV)video:

Reax:

“The audience gave Newt Gingrich a standing ovation for his response at to a question about whether he asked his second wife for an open marriage, which was the opening question at Thursday night’s CNN Republican presidential debate.

Gingrich turned John King’s question around, saying, “I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. And I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.”

The former House speaker categorically denied the allegation that his second wife, Marianne, apparently made in an interview that ABC News has yet to broadcast.

Every adult of voting age knows several divorced people.   It is fair to say, that the nastiest phrase in the language is ‘the ex.”    The phrase is wielded like a tomahawk and for the same purpose.    There is no purpose in interviewing an divorced person, on the subjecvt of their former, other than to dig for dirty.  John King, how does it feel to be covered in your own dirt?

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Ulster, NY- Been a hell of a long week. Tomorrow’s the last day I’ll leave here and run to Newburgh, then to Northern NJ to grab some pasta… and head to Rochester with it

• Huntsman: Huntsman joins the list of those who dropped out….( alongwith Perry, who is a seriously classy act, but shoulda dropped out some time ago.) Already I’m hearing about how Huntsman couldn’t cut it in the GOP race because he wasn’t being hateful enough. Wouldn’t call Obama what he is… a grade one socialist. Two things strike me about this; First, that Romney wouldn’t either… and he was until recently running away with the thing. Funny how they don’t even attempt to explain that one.  The other thing that strike me here is that the timing is suggestive that Romney’s people got to him and are dangling the prospect of Vice President in his face.  If I’m correct about that, it’s the ultimate slap in the face to the GOP rank and file and will ensure a GOP loss.
• Oh… and About Romney…  After touting a win in Iowa….. turns out he lost to Santorum.
• Gingrich: Newt’s picking up support from those who dropped out. Romney, who was mere days ago being touted as the nominee, is now at serious risk as the UnRomney is revealed…. and it looks like Gingrich is the one.  Newt’s a point and a half back in the polling numbers. Remember, Gang…. at no point has Romney ever gotten over 25% in the polling…  except in New Hampshire… which Romney threw everything he had at. In case I need to spell this out for you, 75% of the party wants Romney nowhere near the White House. Those numbers are starting to gel, now around the survivor…. Gingrich. Watch for the press attacks to start up on Gringrich… including yes, sexual innuendos. His response at the Debates tonight on THAT topic was spot on. He came out kicking ass and not worrying about the names. Good for him, and good for us.
• Ron Paul:  … is still an inexcusable moron. His still being in the race only goes to prove how far people are willing to go to eliminate the liberal death grip on this nation. He has no chance at all of winning. Thank God.

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This may be the greatest debate answer in the history of presidential primary debates and the loudest standing ovation ever in any debate,  video via Jill, Pundit & Pundette:

Juan Williams, for whom I have some regard and respect, persisted in the most ill-fated attack since what July 3, 1863.

Williams suggests that saying that blacks should look for jobs before Food Stamps is racist.    Yet no one ever become successful looking first for welfare.

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The grounding of the Costa Concordia shows that like  Captain Francesco Schettino our culture is headed in the wrong dirction, from Daily Mail (UK) via Jill, Pundit & Pundette:

Men refused to prioritise women, expectant mothers and children as they pushed themselves forward to escape. Crew ignored their passengers – leaving ‘chefs and waiters’ to help out

Shocked?

More:

Frenchwoman Isabelle Mougin, 38, who is five months pregnant, wept as she described her battle to get off the sinking ship with her husband. Interviewed in hospital, she said the captain refused to let them leave the vessel, even though she pleaded that she was a priority case because of her pregnancy.

Alas, it not a baby, only a choice, non-viable tissue mass.

Reax, Jill:

That woman had some very old-school expectations of “grown men,” it seems. And special treatment for pregnant women? Based on what?

Sadly predictable.

Mere chronological advancement does not equal to progress.   We becoming both more technologically advanced and more culturally backwards.   Like it girls?

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Who knew piss was offensive?  The hyperbolic over reaction to the Marine0s’ short arm salute has me well pissed, from, Wikipedia:

Piss Christ is a 1987 photograph by artist and photographerAndres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist’s urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art‘s “Awards in the Visual Arts” competition,^[1] which is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects. A print of the photograph was damaged using a screwdriver or icepick on April 17, 2011 while on exhibit in Avignon, France.

Maybe the four Marine gentlemen should apply to National Endowment for the  Arts for a grant to  cover the cost o their legal defense.   I mean it is not like the tax payers have never paid for stuff like this before.    I mean if offending millions of Christians should qualify for a federal grant,  what is the problem with offending Muslims, or the difference?

If  the Marine gentlemen had  urinated on the Taliban gentlemen while  they still alive, it would be called kinky.    If the Taliban were dead,  it then becomes performance art.

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