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Subscribe to RSS“Voter turnout was down from 2008 in five out of seven states that held their Republican presidential primaries on Super Tuesday, according to a new analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center,” the Boston Globe writes. “The analysis found that voter turnout dropped from 2008 in Tennessee, Georgia, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, and Florida. It went up in Vermont and Ohio. It did not measure turnout in the three states that held caucuses.”
GOP strategist Whit Ayres said if Republican don’t figure out how to better appeal to Latinos, not only will Florida not be in play, but Texas will be.
GINGRICH: He talked about a brokered convention last night on FOX, per GOP 12, saying that Arizona and Florida should really be proportional.
ROMNEY: Romney admitted this during an Alabama radio interview about campaigning in the South “I realize it’s a bit of an away game.” And per NBC’s Garrett Haake, Romney said at an event in Mississippi: "I am learning to say y'all and I like grits, and ... strange things are happening to me.”
Some conservatives aren’t willing to hand Romney the nomination yet. The Weekly Standard’s Anderson challenges Romney’s math argument in “Romney's Curious Claim of Mathematical Inevitability.” He writes, “delegate-wise, this contest is still early in the second quarter — or, if you prefer, in the bottom of the third inning. Has Romney run up such overwhelming tallies in the early part of the game that it’s time to invoke the mercy rule? Hardly. First, this is a contest to win the Republican presidential nomination and take on President Obama in perhaps the most important election since the Civil War. There is no mercy rule.”
“Bob Dole, the Republicans’ 1996 presidential nominee and a former US senator from Kansas, [yesterday] reasserted his endorsement of Mitt Romney in advance of this weekend’s Kansas caucuses,” the Boston Globe writes.
Romney got his license renewed while home in Massachusetts. There, residents have to update their license photo every 10 years, and “Romney was due this year,” the Boston Globe writes. He got to register at a special office not with the general public.
Noting big ad buys by Restore Our Future, Reuters writes, “Santorum could pick up support in a series of primary fights this month in the kind of strongly Republican states where the former Massachusetts governor has had little success so far. To help fend off the challenge, the Super PAC outside spending group that supports Romney - by far the biggest fundraiser in the Republican field - has been pouring millions of dollars into anti-Santorum advertising.”
SANTORUM: San Diego Charger quarterback Philip Rivers, an Alabama native, endorsed Rick Santorum: "I am supporting Rick Santorum for president because of his stance on issues that attack vital Christian values our country was founded upon: no abortion, upholding traditional marriage, defending religious freedom, no euthanasia.”
“In fact….” Santorum in Alabama, per the The Huntsville Times: "Obamacare is, in fact, the death knell for freedom, and that's why it must be repealed.”
(By the way, Herman Cain was campaigning in Alabama, too, for someone running for public service commission.)
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Dear Sheldon Adelson,
With regard to your recent pledge of 100 MILLION DOLLARS to assist the Republican Party in winning back the White House and ending the cratering effects of Obama's governance on the US citizenry and the national economy, I would like to make a suggestion on how you could help most.
There are SIX different campaign commercials from 2008 in which Obama appears on screen railing then President Bush, John McCain, and Repulicans for high gas prices. Please acquire these commercials and create a loop TV ad and play them is swing states NONSTOP or whatever your 100 MIL will get you.
The media certainly won't report or point out how much of a hipocritical double speaker this failure in the White House is but you can!
Today, the President shot himself in the foot. He personally called over a dozen democrats and asked them to vote against the keystone pipeline. The pipeline that has the approval of about 70% of Americans. Now I and maybe most Americans understand that the pipeline may not lead to lower prices in the short term but it does show Americans that the President's "all of the above" strategy is nothing but more LIES.
Americans don't appreciate LYING Presidents. Remember Bill Clinton? He was a very successful President. But boy oh boy did his approval ratings go down the drain when he was proven to be a LIAR.
It's time for this LIAR to go and fade away into the ash heap of failed Presidents.
Thank you for all due consideration to my suggestion.
Rob in MA
Speaking of the pipeline... I don't understanding Kohl's railroad amendment to the transportation bill----the part about anti-trust. Can anyone enlighten me?
Romney is an absolute nightmare of a candidate.
Everyone knows he won't play well in the South. But for him to acknowledge that is to acknowledge he's not quite of the same kind of "conservative" thinking as an entire region of the country. Talk about highlighting your outsiderness.
And then, to make matters worse, in the span of a few lines he tapped into his chief negative and managed an oblique insult of this region. He joked about trying to learn to talk 'southern,' which amplifies the beyond-suspicion people have of him that he will say absolutely anything to get what he wants. And in this case, he characterized the mechanics of this particular 'say anything' episode as 'strange.'
In all seriousness, if I was on his staff I'd be looking for a way out right now. Who needs to deal with this kind of liability?
It doesn't seem to matter what part of the country he speaks in, Romney manages to sound like an outsider. I heard him in Portland, ME. last month and I haven't seen a more "foreign"-seeming politician since Vice President Al Gore toured us after an ice storm.
Mitt doesn't care for people who aren't like him, in the top 1%. Getting his MA driver's license renewed in private helped him avoid exposure to the general public according to this article. Mitt isn't very good at understanding the needs of people or dogs it would seem. We are all alike, and so far beneath him. The only folks he is interested in are the ones who can show him new ways to fatten his wallet, often at the expense of the common man.
I agree, Mitt Romney lives in a different world, but at this juncture in America's history, I want someone at the helm who is known for fixing broken things, and has been rewarded handsomely for doing so. The community organizer currently in the White House doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground and seeks only to undermine American exceptionalism. Romney's GOP opponents have exactly zero experience in anything other than insider politics. Regardless of their politics, none of them possess Romney's experience and ability. If you are offended by his wealth, your problem could be simple jealousy. Some of you no doubt have been sipping the koolaid too long in your Evangelical churches, and none of Romney's accomplishments will ever trump his religion for you. Regardless, you have failed to see that Romney is the square peg that fits in the square hole in this election year. I challenge each of you to read his book, "No Apology" during the next month. You can check out the "Book on CD" at the public library and listen on your commute each morning. The brilliance and insight of this man is eye-popping. His depth of knowledge cannot be conveyed in 12-minute interviews and stump speeches like it is in this book.
DR. Ray, I followed your suggestion and looked up Romney's No Apology. Haven't read the whole book, but here is a quote from his website. Basically, sounds like boilerplate Republicanism to me, hardly "brilliant"
Rob, are you planning to post your job application all over the web? Why not just send it directly to Adelson?
Paul, I agree... Romney remains out to lunch. The people at Disney need to get that cyborg fixed, and fast.
Since Alabama is in play is it not time to resume debate over the electrified fence along our Southern border? Newter can get Herman to replay his fried bodies twisting in the wind image. Alabama is the nexus of the anti undocumented immigrant controversy.
Would be interesting to get updated on how the crackdown is working out for them.
That is assuming the RNC has not redlined this topic for fear of losing more Hispanic support.
America remains mired in the longest jobs recession since the Great Depression. It's been 49 months since the U.S. hit peak employment in January 2008. And with nonfarm payrolls still 5.33 million below their old high, the jobs slump will continue for several more years.
The previous jobs recession record — 47 months — came during and after the comparatively mild 2001 recession, which saw unemployment climb to only 6.3%. The average job recovery time since 1980 is 29 months, not including the current slump.
The labor market won't truly return to health until some 10 million positions are created to rehire all those who lost their jobs and to absorb new workers.
There's different kinds of recessions, Bob. Most are industrial recessions - the usual kind, that revolve around normal, cyclical slowing periods, which cause industrials to slow production. But what we had in 2008 was a financial recession which got dangerously close to a credit seizure.
The Bush Administration, for all its flaws, handled that crisis about as well as it could. And the 2008 campaigns should be commended, too, for not trying to score political points off it at the time. I can guess there were a fair amount of phone calls between the administration and both campaign managers. We were really staring off the edge of a cliff, about a month or so before the election.
How we got to that precarious position is subject to debate, and unfortunately much of it is from partisan pea flingers still wed to this idea they can win that argument for their party.
And that grinding, crunching sound is Bob's brain trying to grasp what you've said.
Wow. There you have it in a nutshell. The imaginary world that exists only in the mind of a Ricks Tantrum supporter.
It amuses me that Mitt wouldn't even get his Massachusetts driver's license renewed in the same room as the general public, and had it done privately. Mitt really doesn't like people very much who aren't like him. Southerners are not going to allow him that many new delegates, and they shouldn't. Mitt does not care about the common man or dogs for that matter.
Moonbats seem to dwell on Seamus, the Romney family's happy and lucky family dog in the 1980s.
This is used to attack Mitt Romney, because the dog was put on a carrier on a vacation trip.
The moonbat mind? Bizarre...weird...hateful..
It could be worse. They could be obsessed with finding ways to get the government to shove various objects into women's bodies against their will in order to punish them for making the mistake of letting somebody shove something else into their bodies. That makes tons of sense, at least in the minds of Virginia Republicans and their King Bob.