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The Birmingham News’ five-column front-page headline: “GOP support up for grabs,” over three pictures, of Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney.
The Huntsville Times: “Forum features two GOP candidates.” Subhed: “Attendees mostly agree that Gingrich performed better than Santorum.”
The Jackson Clarion-Ledger: “Decision Time.” Subhed: “Romney’s lead could be shaken or solidified.” It also features pictures of all three – Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum. (The headline below that: “Statewide voter turnout expected to be light.”)
Outside those two states, here’s the New York Post: “Redneck-&-neck: Romney looking strong down South.”
The Hill: “The presidential candidates are all facing high stakes, but for different reasons, on Tuesday as Mississippi and Alabama hold their primary contests.”
GINGRICH: Chuck Norris recorded a robo call for Gingrich. It’s called, “Chuck Norris doesn’t endorse, he makes reality.” It’s not quite as good as those ads with Mike Huckabee in 2008.
ROMNEY: First, it was owners of NASCAR teams, now the NFL. Asked on a radio show where he’d like to see Peyton Manning land, Romney said somewhere other than the AFC East, since he’s a Patriots fan. But he answered it this way: "I don't want him to go to Miami or the Jets. I got a lot of good friends -- the owners of the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets -- both owners are friends of mine….”
National Journal’s Jill Lawrence writes: “Romney didn't mention that Jets owner Woody Johnson is one of his national finance co-chairmen. A very good friend indeed. The $10,000 bet, the two Cadillacs, the $374,000 in speaking fees that Romney described as "not very much," the NASCAR team owners and now the football team owners -- it is getting hard to keep track of all the times Romney doesn't notice he is casually saying things that are completely outside the experience of regular people.”
The AP previews today’s contests with a focus on Romney: “Mitt Romney is working to seal his status as the Republican presidential front-runner with a thus-far-elusive victory in the Deep South.”
“After urging Mississippi and Alabama Republicans to speed him toward the presidential nomination, Mitt Romney is campaigning in Missouri ahead of its Saturday caucuses,” AP writes. Santorum won last month’s non-binding Missouri vote, but holds caucuses that will award delegates Saturday.
He turned 65 yesterday and has no plans to enroll in Medicare.
Romney called Santorum to the left of him on the economy: "I find it interesting that he continues to describe himself as the real conservative,” he said on FOX Business, per The Hill. “Rick Santorum is not a person who is an economic conservative to my right. His record does not suggest he has the fiscal conservative chops that I have."
Sasha Issenberg looks at Romney’s early voting advantage: “Romney's canny and competent handling of these varied early-voting processes this year has helped him accumulate a seemingly insurmountable lead in delegates. He is running the only modern, professional campaign against a field of amateurs gasping to keep up, and nowhere is that advantage more evident than in his mastery of early voting. Capitalizing on early-voting procedures demands formidable investment up front in the service of later savings." (Hat tip: Political Wire.)
Jeff Foxworthy may have endorsed Romney, but he doesn’t want to go hunting with him. "That sounds even more dangerous than Cheney if you ask me,” he said on CNN, per GOP 12. “We may start with a BB gun and work our way up to a rifle.”
Alabama’s governor thinks Mormonism could hurt Romney.
SANTORUM: Santorum on “TODAY” yesterday: “It’s a conservative party. If the opportunity provides itself at an open convention, they’re not going to nominate a moderate Massachusetts governor who has been outspending his opponent 10 to one and can’t win the election outright.”
Santorum will spend Election Day at his home in suburban Virginia today instead of on the campaign trail. He also said of Romney, "We already have a president who doesn't tell the truth. We don't need to nominate someone else who has that same problem."
Here’s this headline out of the New York Daily News: “Pro-Santorum pastor wants Romney to renounce his ‘racist’ Mormon faith.”
Is Bill Maher smarter than a 12-year-old? Rick Santorum doesn’t think so.
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".....in Dixieland, I'll make my stand, to live and die in Dixie!......"
"grits and cheese"
"grits with gravy"
"trees are the right height"
WTF is wrong with these people? Are their supporters that shallow that they think: I will vote for this guy because he loves grits????
It is called pandering to get votes. And yes, both parties supporters are shallow enough to believe this gains them a leg up in an election. Best part, while they do it in a primary, then watch them try to dance away from it in the general election.
The “South Will Rise Again” ... but hopefully not at a substantial cost to the whole country. I am totally amazed at what is presented as “Southern Conservative” political thinking and I refuse to accept it as a whole area of the country being illogical and irrational and just totally blind to reality. There are legitimate differences in political positions based on preferences for different issues - arguing immigration, taxes, government spending, women’s rights, gay rights, family values, trade issues, financial reform, healthcare reform, political reform and so on are all valid debates, however, to let manipulative aggressive appeals to biases, prejudices, fears, emotions and loyalties destroy rational thinking is ridiculous. To be “pawns” in “the money’s” game of politics is not only self-defeating it is just ignorant.
We saw Bush-Cheney totally focused on a private agenda to benefit “the few”, their strong supporters, while they gave the majority, including the total middle-class, nothing but apathy, the costs and an abundance of subterfuge to rationalize and deceive. They were fully backed by the total Republican Party as they proved beyond any doubt that the “trickle down” theory is a total fraud only making the wealthy wealthier and soliciting political support. Since then the Republican / Tea Party has stubbornly blocked and faulted all efforts while withholding bipartisan cooperation, arrogantly fighting only for the interests of “the few”, like protecting the Bush tax cuts for the very wealthy. The likes of Norquist, Cheney, Rove and others collect huge sums from “the few” and aggressively use them to coerce and intimidate their own to assure unity behind “the few’s” interests and to squelch individual consciences. They recruit “puppet” candidates who will perform exactly how “their strings are pulled” and they use their vast resources through SuperPacs and others to con the people and manipulate public opinion. These aren’t idle criticisms of a biased “liberal” but rather observations that alienated a long-term registered Republican. It is said that the current Republican / Tea Party is not capable of responsibly governing as their loyalty and concentration is completely distracted ... the last twelve years have proven that to be true.
Reducing taxes, controlling government spending and having “smaller government” are all worthwhile goals ... but they won’t solve the drastic problems we have as, contrary to the propaganda, they are not what caused the problems. What caused our problems is the aggressive exploitation by “the few”, encouraged by permissive and co-responsible politicians, that caused repeated failures in the economy always benefiting only “the few” and costing everyone else. The proof is in the reality that we are continually becoming more of a two-class society with “the few” (1%) competing in having it all and the majority (99%) struggling to survive. What we need is a government of honest and responsible representatives who are capable of bipartisan cooperation and who represent the majority, including the total middle-class, North and South as well as East and West. The only way that can ever be accomplished is by the people rejecting the propaganda, refusing to insultingly be taken for granted or to be “pawns” for “the few”, rejecting the con and along with it firmly rejecting the “puppet” politicians. Then “the money” will be ineffective and the people, North, South, East and West, will have a chance.
the south will rise again? this refers to the civil war. the south will rise again? give it up for once and for all and join the 21st century.