Mitt Romney, Negative Man

Not only does he have zero political courage. Not only does he like to fire people more than he likes to hire people. The only way he's winning is by suppressing turnout.

Newt's calling it exactly right and asking the penetrating questions we need in this perilous time for America. Newt Gingrich: How Romney won "should sober every Republican in the country"
 

Other than Ron Paul, Newt's the only real advocate for small government conservatism in this race. That's the message, that's got to be the mandate, that's our only hope to deal with our runaway big gov spending, our ruinous entitlements and this administration's malicious attack on our most sacred liberties.

Color me Saturday

A taste of the tropics on a dingy winter day.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Sen. Mark Kirk during his continued recovery

Senators Blumenthal, Kirk Applaud Full Senate Adoption of Pension Revocation ...

Durbin Helping Kirk's Team on Bills (why does this make me nervous)

Nevada primary today. What was the real takeaway from Florida?

ICYMI: Voter Turnout is Higher in Counties that Vote for Newt. Voter Turnout Numbers Point to GOP Enthusiasm gap

In case you missed it, the economy and jobs are supposed to be Romney's wheelhouse. WSJ: Mitt at a Minimum A sign of Romney's moral defensiveness.

Newt's latest ad:  Who's really more risky for America?

Does Obama want to eat Catholics for breakfast?

Well, that would assume he's a fe-fi-fo-fum kind of guy,  a giant.

Let's topple the Obama beanstalk, folks.

Because whether you're a cafeteria Catholic or a Latin mass lover, or even a formerly snot-nosed product of Catholic schools, this is WAR.

Even that fragile reed Peggy Noonan is on board.

But the big political news of the week isn't Mr. Romney's gaffe, or even his victory in Florida. The big story took place in Washington. That's where a bomb went off that not many in the political class heard, or understood.
But President Obama just may have lost the election.
The president signed off on a Health and Human Services ruling that says under ObamaCare Catholic Institutions—including its charities, hospitals and schools—will be required by law, for the first time ever, to provide and pay for insurance coverage that includes contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization procedures. If they do not, they will face ruinous fines in the millions of dollars. Or they can always go out of business.
In other words, the Catholic Church was told this week that its institutions can't be Catholic anymore.

He may not snooze most of the day, who knows about this multiple choice president, he may claim he falls to his knees in prayer, but our sleeping giant electorate may be roused to action this fall by a few good Jacks...or Jills:)

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Mitt Romney, Political Midget

My Internet today is so slow you'd think it was Mitt Romney not even attempting some vague understanding of what conservatives believe. Well what do you expect from a guy who sat out the Reagan revolution, then badmouthed it right off the bat when he ran for office. So what does he say fresh off the big mo from his Florida win--the one he's been prepping for for YEARS. What does this establishment darling have to say, even as he buys into Obama's un-American class warfare mindset--Mitt the political midget says "I don't care about the poor", confirming every leftist's view of Republicans. Is this the nasty brutish and SHORT Mitt campaign? I wish Vote against this guy everywhere you can. Tomorrow I am finding me a mean caffeine cafe with net

What Now? Newtmentum

First, God bless and keep Sen. Mark Kirk, fighting his way to recovery.  

I don't know about you, but I was sure hoping that was our President Barack Obama's last SOTU, about the only thing that made it bearable. 

Gov. Mitch Daniels Issues Response To Obama's SOTU

Rubio: Obama "Blatantly Trying To Divide Americans Against Each Other"

Newt Gingrich: The real state of the union.  Human Events

Byron York: What really happened in the Gingrich ethics case.  Washington Examiner

Now Newt:

NEWT NOTES....

4,000 PEOPLE IN SARASOTA AND 6,000 IN NAPLES: The headline from the Palm Beach Post: "Gingrich draws thousands in Fla. while Romney's, Santorum's crowds number in hundreds."
A park official called the Naples crowd the biggest he'd ever seen there.
Reuters writes about Deborah Schmidt, a Tea Party member: "She said she felt Gingrich best understood the pain that most Americans are feeling, something the 'Republican establishment' might not understand."
NEW FLORIDA POLL THIS MORNING: The portion of the new Quinnipiac conducted after the South Carolina Primary shows Newt leading in the Sunshine State, 40-34%, over Mitt Romney.
NEWT TAKES THE NATIONAL LEAD, SAYS GALLUP: In their daily update to their rolling average poll, Newt took a 31-27 lead over Mitt Romney on Tuesday.
FUNDRAISING: Since Saturday's victory in South Carolina, Newt 2012 has raised $2.3 million.
"WHY IS MITT ROMNEY TIMID ON TAXES?": After criticizing Romney's timid approach -- only eliminating the capital gains rate for some, for example -- Aaron Goldenberg writes:
"Newt Gingrich is the only candidate that eliminates taxes on investment, makes our corporate tax rate competitive with the rest of the world so large companies will want to relocate to the world's largest market, and flattens and lowers the personal income tax rate for everyone."
NEWT'S MEDIA APPEARANCES: NBC's Today Show, 7:00am ET.
Bill Bennett's radio show, 7:30am ET (listen here).
America's Newsroom on Fox News, 9:45am ET.
Hannity on Fox News, 9:00pm ET.

Wednesday, January 25th

                                         

US Hispanic Chamber/Univision Candidate Forum

9am - 9:30am ET 

Univision Studios

9405 NW 41st Street

Doral, FL 33178

Latin American Policy Speech at FIU 

10am - 11am ET 

Florida International University

Wertheim Performing Arts Center

10910 SW 17th Street

Miami, Florida 33190

Broward Grassroots Meet & Greet

11:45am - 12:30pm ET 

Wings Plus Restaurant

9880 W. Sample Rd. 

Coral Springs, FL 33065

Space Coast – Space Industry Roundtable

3:30pm - 4:15pm ET

Brevard Community College 

1519 Clearlake Road

Cocoa, FL 32922

*Media Avail 

Space Coast Town Hall Meeting

4:30pm - 5:30pm ET

Holiday Inn

301 Tucker Lane

Cocoa, FL 32925

Offline for a few days. Debate Thursday night.

NBC's Dead Audience Debate

That's what they want, so America will tune out the GOP. They'll take one for the Obama team, since most politicos who watch MSNBC are crazed left anyway--they're not going to keep us as viewers.

The pundits are tracking twitter where we're expressing ourselves in full force--let the audience respond, otherwise the debate might as well be held in an empty room.

Romney tried to wound Newt by making over the top suggestions that he was a lobbyist, while today we learn of Mitt's investments in Fannie and Freddie, albeit in a blind trust. Kind of a draw on that one, but this is the crux of that back and forth:

The release of the tax information is unlikely to end a problem that has dogged Mr. Romney on the campaign trail. Rich Galen, a Republican strategist who used to advise Mr. Gingrich, said the Romney release puts him ahead of his rivals' disclosure, "so the number of years isn't the issue; the issue will be the sophisticated use of the existing tax code."

Couple that with Mitt's timid tax reform and you see why conservatives have deep reservations about the guy despite his private sector success.

Good ole Mitt tried one more time to connect with voters, rattling off lousy Obamanomics stats in a perfunctory manner. Mitt Romney, Talking Point Man.

But the moment that stuck with me was the question on what have you done for conservatism. Mitt thinks just raising a family and working in the private sector counts as conservative. Kind of like having to buy government healthcare just for existing. Funny, though, I know lots of flaming liberals with families and private sector experience.

Ron Paul had it right, defining conservatism as smaller government and protection of bedrock individual liberty. As did Newt. And Newt said this too: I ask Americans to be not for me, but with me.

The old Obama cheerleader media may wish the Tea Party and conservative movement were dead.

But to hearken back to another great American, we have just begun to fight:)

P.S. Black Rush caller who finally abandoned Obama over Keystone

Multiple Gang Memberships in Chicago...Dysfunctional Dem City

Doesn't this sound like an exercise in insanity--presumably murdering over turf but what gang are you acting for? Weis: Chicago murders up 25 pct last 4 months of '11

 Swarming buses.

As far as advice from Rahmbo goes...

Mr. Obama's change in tone from four years ago reflects the current political reality: At a time when the country is steeped in anti-Washington sentiment, Mr. Obama is no longer the outsider looking in, but the one leading a dysfunctional political system and a still-sour economy. [snip]
 
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mr. Obama's first White House chief of staff, suggested last week that the president's plan to run against an unpopular Congress risks suggesting that he has accepted nothing more will get done legislatively this year. "It undermines the inspirational 'here's what we're going to do,' " Mr. Emanuel said. "That's a problem."

I think our President Barack Obama should make a speech--scrap the State of the Union--come on back to Chicago and say, can't we all get along?

More.
How Illinois Lawmakers Failed You - Chicago Tribune
HT RCP: Welfare State Is Destroying America - Philip Klein, Washington Examiner

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Sun Times Not Endorsing Any More

Which seems fine to me, voters can make up their own minds, and perhaps they're smarting from their repeated endorsements of the Bizarro Blago and the disaster, even to the insatiable, kleptocratic left, that is Barack Obama. But then they go on to say, as reported by old news station CBS:

Ironically, it was complaints of bias on the part of the Chicago Tribune that in part motivated Marshall Field III to found the Sun-Times in the first place, the editorial said. Field felt it necessary to push for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and the entry of the U.S. into World War II, in contrast to Col. Robert McCormick and his isolationist and anti-Roosevelt Tribune, the editorial said.

However, the editorial is quick to point out, that was a bygone era “when many American newspapers were unabashedly partisan, and not necessarily only on the editorial page. Not unlike news shops on cable TV and the Web today, they catered to a core of readers who thought very much like them.”

Today, newspapers’ goal is to appear to the widest readership they can with unbiased news coverage.

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