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Mark Levin slams Romney for savaging Newt yet pulling back against Obama with Rev. Wright

by Admin on May 17, 2012 in Mark Levin, Mitt Romney with 1 Comment

Posted by The Right Scoop The Right Scoop

Levin is livid over the fact that Romney repudiated anything to do with bringing up Rev. Wright in this campaign even though in the primaries he went full throttle against Newt Gingrich, even with false attack ads:

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No, anti-immigration activists don’t trust Mitt Romney

by Admin on May 9, 2012 in Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo with No comments

Via:, Wonk Blog

Forget the White House.

Protesters in front of the U.S. Supreme Court (Mark Wilson – GETTY IMAGES)For activists who want to stamp out illegal immigration, the presidency is rather besides the point, at least while Mitt Romney is the nominee.“I could write in my mother’s name. I really wouldn’t make any difference, because nobody’s listening to me anyhow,” says Dan Beck, a cop and former sheriff from Ohio’s Allen County, who still wears a sheriff’s pin on his jacket lapel.Beck was among the activists, policy wonks, and Republican legislators who are lending their voices this week to conservative radio hosts who’ve gathered in Washington to focus on illegal immigration. Organized by the Federation for American Immigration Reform — a leading advocacy group in the fight against illegal immigration — the confab made it clear that the presidency isn’t the movement’s primary battleground.

Many say they’re not entirely sure what Romney’s positions on immigration really are. And even they were, they wouldn’t believe the promises that he’s making anyway.

“At this point, we’re still trying to figure out — he’s still deciding his immigration position. I’d like him to be a little bit stronger on it,” says Rusty Humphries, a radio host from Atlanta, after he wrapped up a broadcast of his eponymous, nationally syndicated show. When I pressed him to elaborate, he stopped me. “Can I be honest? I’ve been in this room all day long, and this”— he gestures to a flyer — ”is the only thing I’ve seen, that’s been handed to me. So I honestly don’t have any idea what he’s said at this point.”

The flyer passed around the event highlighted a gaffe this week from Romney’s Hispanic outreach director, Bettina Inclan, who told reporters that the former Massachusetts governor was still deciding his stance on immigration. In fact, Romney has an entire section on his campaign Web site devoted to immigration: he wants to establish a verification system akin to e-Verify to screen employees on their immigration status, for instance, and “absolutely opposes any policy that would allow illegal immigrants to ‘cut in line.’” During the GOP primary, Romney routinely attacked Gingrich and other opponents for holding more moderate views.

But anti-immigration activists aren’t feeling too heartened: Inclan’s gaffe has made some even more wary about where Romney really stood, giving them even fewer reasons to believe that he’d stay faithful to his campaign promises. “I could not for a moment assure you that he would be a strong opponent of illegal immigration, or a strong supporter of illegal immigration. I don’t know. And I’m not sure he does,” former GOP Congressman and anti-immigration firebrand Tom Tancredo said outside the confab, shortly before a fan rushed up to get his autograph. (“Keep the faith!” he wrote in a copy of his book, “In Mortal Danger.”)

“[Romney’s] waffled so much. He claims to be a conservative, and he’s trying to convince people he’s truly conservative. Let me know the truth — I’ve been a cop for 30 years,” says Beck.

Instead, anti-immigration activists turning their sights to matters closer home: state laws to keep illegal immigrants away from the polls, bills to replicate Arizona’s police checks on immigration status, and initiatives by local law enforcement to carry out their own crackdowns. Beck, for one, wants more sheriffs to follow the model of Arizona’s Joe Arpaio — “my hero,” he says — and expand their efforts to identify and detain illegal immigrants, putting pressure on Washington from the ground up. Sheriffs “need to get out of their offices and band together as a group,” he says. “Then the group needs to come to Washington D.C. and start pounding on these legislators’ doors.”

They’ve also converged over voter ID laws, which have become a new battleground for conservative activists who want to crack down on voter fraud — and say that illegal immigrants are among the most common perpetrators. The Obama game plan, Tancredo claims, is “to identify those places, those cities and those states where you have high numbers of immigrants, welfare recipients, and that sort of thing, who can be energized to get to the polls — even if they’re not legally able to do so.” Tancredo, in response, is preparing to launch a project in Colorado focusing on the issue. “We’re going to be out in force in battleground states,” promises Tancredo. (As for Romney, he says, “I’ll take him.”)

The voter ID issue previously united the tea party and the anti-immigration movement in 2010, which came together to dispatch poll-watchers across various states and localities. Democrats cast that effort as voter intimidation and suppression, pointing out that there was little evidence of voter fraud in 2010, despite the right’s hullabaloo. But such grassroots focus on electoral nuts-and-bolts could end up helping the GOP ticket in 2012, Romney included: watching polling stations presumably also means voting at them.

Insurgent conservative candidates like Richard Mourdock, who just topped Richard Lugar in the Indiana Senate primary, could also inspire more enthusiasm from disillusioned conservatives. Anti-immigration activists hated Lugar’s support for the DREAM Act, which he originally co-sponsored. If Romney’s elected, Congress “is our only fallback position,” says Tancredo. If it’s Obama, “it’s the only thing we have.”

But like their counterparts on the left, the anti-immigration know that state and local efforts ultimately aren’t enough to overhaul the immigration system to their liking. If the Supreme Court strikes downArizona SB 1070, for instance, Tancredo admits that it will be “back to the drawing board.”

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What do they want?

by Admin on May 3, 2012 in Ron Paul with No comments

Via: Zip

I saw him interviewed a few months ago and he stated directly that he had planned to do this all along.

(The Washington Times) — Mitt Romney may be the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is quietly racking up some organizational victories that could complicate Mr. Romney’s anticipated coronation at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., this summer.

Exploiting party rules, loyalists for the libertarian congressman from Texas in recent days have engineered post-primary organizing coups in states such as Louisiana and Alaska, confirming what party regulars say would be an effort to grab an outsized role in the convention and the party’s platform deliberations.

In Massachusetts, the state where Mr. Romney served as governor, Paul loyalists over the weekend helped block more than half of Mr. Romney’s preferred nominees from being named delegates at state party caucuses — even though Mr. Romney won his home state’s primary with 72 percent of the vote. Many state GOP establishment figures, including longtime state Republican National Committee member Ron Kaufman, won’t be going to Tampa in August as official delegates.

Mr. Paul, who is Mr. Romney’s only active challenger with the expected withdrawal Wednesday of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, “is doing more with less than any modern presidential campaign in recent memory,” said Doug Wead, a Paul campaign adviser who served as an aide to President George H.W. Bush.

“More surprises coming,” Mr. Wead, an evangelical Christian, blogged this week. “It means that Ron Paul will be a factor in Tampa.”

The first public signs of Mr. Paul’s supporters’ stealth success emerged in populous DeKalb County, Ga., on March 10. Mr. Gingrich won the state’s March 6 primary, but in Georgia and other states, the selection of delegates to the national convention takes place in subsequent party caucuses. So Paul loyalists can run for delegate slots ostensibly as supporters of Mr. Gingrich or another candidate.

In Alaska — where Mr. Paul came in third in the primary behind Mr. Romney and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania — his supporters organized to elect two Paul loyalists, Russ Millette and Debbie Holland-Brown, as chairman and co-chairman, respectively, of the state party, beating out candidates backed by the Alaska GOP establishment. However, the current state members of the Republican National Committee beat back attempts to replace them with Paulites.

In Alaska, tea-party-backed 2010 GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller and wife Kathleen struck an apparent alliance with Mr. Paul’s team, and she won election March 27 as a delegate to the Tampa convention.

Mr. Paul’s forces failed in their more ambitious move in Anchorage to change Alaska party rules and give all 24 of the state’s delegates to the Texan. Alaska GOP officials say Mr. Paul still will have six committed delegates from the state at the convention.

The Paul campaign’s skill in outmaneuvering rivals in delegate selection battles could produce some uncomfortable moments for a Romney campaign with a reputation for discipline and efficiency.

Keep Reading. . .

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HANNITY PANEL EXPLODES OVER DISCUSSION OF PRESIDENT‘S ECONOMIC ’SUCCESSES’

by Admin on April 22, 2012 in Barrack Obama, Michelle Malkin, Mitt Romney, Sean Hannity with No comments

“I am going to be working so hard. We have an amazing story to tell. This President has brought us out of the dark and into the light,” First Lady Michelle Obama said while stumping for her husband.

These comments, and the possible “return of Obamamania,” became a hot topic of a debate on Sean Hannity’s Fox show on Wednesday.

“Michelle Obama can tell all the amazing stories she wants but she’s not going to be able to rewrite the sordid history of these last four years,” conservative authoress Michelle Malkin said.

Hannity Panel Explodes Over Discussion of Presidents Economic SuccessesFox News contributor Tamara Holder, Sean Hannity, and Michelle Malkin

“There seems to be here,” host Sean Hannity said to Fox News contributor Tamara Holder, “a disconnect because the president … he lectured George Bush about $4 trillion in eight years. We now passed the $5 trillion in debt mark.”

“Do you think this deserves comparisons to Jesus?” Hannity asked, referring to the First Lady’s biblical-esque claim that her husband has “brought us out of the dark and into the light.”

“I think that’s a little bit of a stretch in your own right Sean,” Holder responded.

“What’s a stretch?”

“The stretch is that the average person does not really understand that the large enormous debt that you continue to talk about really doesn’t hit the person at home …”

“Five trillion, we just passed the five trillion in 39 months!” Hannity interjected.

“Which is because the Republicans, they wanted to go to this war, or I’m sorry, two wars to go find somebody,” Holder snarked.

Steering the conversation back on point, Hannity said: “It seems to me that on every measure the President fails and on every account those that are deeply, almost hypnotically, entranced by Obama, they go back to some excuse.”

At that moment, Malkin jumped in: “One of the main talking points they use is the one that Tamara just invoked which is that ‘average, ordinary people just don’t understand.’”

“Really the average person isn’t so excited about Mitt Romney. The average person knows that they are actually coming back to work, they’re getting jobs,” Holder said, “their foreclosure rates are down. There are certain things that people are seeing, the person next door, nobody understands five trillion.”

Malkin unloaded:

Conservatives online are not accepting these fables that have been shoved down our throat. The idea that Obama has brought us out of the light when he’s plunged us deeper into the sinkhole of debt, that somehow Obama has opened up Washington D.C. to make it as transparent and open as possible, when they’ve done all of these deals and subverted the rule of law behind closed doors.

That somehow Obama is more likeable than any Republican and somehow he’s a nice guy. I hate hearing this from Mitt Romney. He’s got to get this talking point out of his mouth. Barack Obama is not a nice guy.

At this point, Hannity himself felt compelled to challenge Holder and asked her to name at least one economic success the president can claim as his own.

Holder tried to use  unemployment as an example but, as could be expected on the Hannity program, she didn’t get very far.

“No unemployment is higher … You’re wrong,” Hannity said.

Apparently, the combination of being challenged on the president’s economic “successes” and having to do battle with Michelle Malkin proved too much for Holder.

“I don’t understand why you have me on the show and you don’t have to like what I say but you’re fine with Michelle and everybody talking about their conservative flowery talking points and you don’t want me to finish my position,” Holder huffed.

She then turned the conversation away from a defense of the president’s economic record and instead chose to focus on the presumed Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.

“The guy [Romney] is borderline brain-dead,” Holder said, demonstrating for all to see that “new civility” we’ve heard so much about.

Video via Fox News Insider.

This article has been updated.

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Malkin To Romney: Stop Saying Obama Is A Nice Guy, He Is Not

by Admin on April 19, 2012 in Michelle Malkin, Obama Propaganda, Obama's Economy, Obama's Radical Ideology with No comments

Michelle Malkin: The thing that has changed phenomenally between 2008 and 2012, is that we don’t have to rely on Barack and Michelle Obama and their Alinskyite storytellers in the mainstream media and all of their operatives to set the tone and the storyline for this election. That is what underscores all of the victories that we’ve seen over the last four years on the right.

 

 

Conservatives online are not accepting these fables that have been shoved down our throat, the idea that Obama has brought us out of the light when he has plunged us deeper into the sinkhole of debt. That somehow Obama has opened up Washington, D.C. to make it as transparent and open as possible when they’ve done all of these deals and subverted the rule of law, behind closed doors.

That somehow Obama is more likable than any Republican and somehow he is a nice guy — I hate hearing this from Mitt Romney. He’s got to get this talking point out of his mouth. Barack Obama is not a nice guy. He has dealt brutally with the right, with people like Paul Ryan and brave Republicans who have been calling him to the carpet on all of the disgusting culture of corruption that has reigned and that’s the darkness that we have to get out of in November.

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by Admin on April 14, 2012 in Voter corruption, Voter Fraud with 1 Comment

DERWOOD, MD - APRIL 03: A voter uses a digital voting machine during the presidential primary election at the Agricultural History Farm Park April 3, 2012 in Derwood, Maryland. Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hopes that primary elections in Maryland, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia will help secure his lead over rivals former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA). (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In a follow up investigation to an earlier report today concerning the outsourcing of vote tabulations for the Nov. 2012 elections in the U.S., this reporter has learned that SCYTL, a Spanish corporation run by a major Obama contributor, has contracted with 900 local jurisdictions in over 14 states to count the votes in the Presidential election. According to SCYTL’s website, the company’s software will be used to report election results in the state of Arkansas along with 13 other states: “Scytl’s election management subsidiary, SOE Software, has recently been selected by the Arkansas Secretary of State’s Division of Elections to provide its Clarity ENR solution and enhance the State’s web presentation of Election Night Results. With this selection, Arkansas will join over 800 Election jurisdictions in 13 states that leverage the industry leading election results solution.  Clarity ENR presents results data graphically through the utilization of maps, bar charts, totals and downloadable reports. Ballot contest and/or issue information may be presented at the state and county level with granular detail provided down to a specific voting precinct. The solution will empower every web visitor with access to user friendly presentation of voting data to include contest details, status of counties / precincts reporting, voter turnout, vote type summaries and more.”

In addition, SCYTL has contracted with the state of Virginia to develop new technology that will be used to tabulate absentee and military votes.

And in February of this year the state of Connecticut awarded to SCYTL a contract to conduct online poll worker training. Among the states so far that have contracted with the company are Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Connecticut, Washington, Virginia, and West Virginia. The state of New York has contracted with the company to do its overseas vote tabulations. During the 2010 midterm elections, SCYTL ‘modernized’ the electoral process in 14 states:

During the midterm elections in November 2010, SCYTL successfully carried out electoral modernization projects in 14 States. The company boasted that  a “great variety” of SCYTL’s technologies were involved in these projects, including an online platform for the delivery of blank ballots to overseas voters, an Internet voting platform and e-pollbook software to manage the electoral roll at the polling stations. The states that used SCYTL’s technologies during the Midterms were New York, Texas, Washington, California, Florida, Alabama, Missouri, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nebraska, West Virginia and Washington DC.

SCYTL technology was the subject of controversy in South Carolina during its 2012 Republican primary. The Ron Paul campaign charged that there were major problems with the process of vote tabulation implemented by local elections officials who had been trained to use the SCYTL platform. There were also reports of numerous technical failures on the part of electronic voting machines. Bev Harris, an elections and voter fraud expert, wrote that the manner in which SCYTL reports election results are very hard to monitor for fraud. According to Harris, a citizen observer would have to be present at the time the polls close to capture evidence of precinct results. Otherwise there is no way to compare the numbers. Harris’ online vote watch venture, BlackBoxVoting, contains a disturbingly lengthy list of an assortment of problems associated with elections and voter fraud in the U.S., including widespread evidence that government officials can now see exactly how an individual citizen voted. The site also delineates how state and local elections officials in certain states routinely mislead the public and outright violate the law. In the South Carolina case, results were tabulated privately, which is against state law. The state requires that the vote count be done openly, in public. But in order to make sure that the SCYTL machines report the accurate numbers, observers must actually see the physical evidence of the vote before the information is entered into the database. Such a requirement may be difficult if not impossible to implement, since many states no longer require a paper backup to electronic votes. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson sent an official letter to the U.S. Department of Justice to delineate potential fraud in the voting process in the state. Over 900 people who supposedly cast ballots were found later to be deceased. The fact that each state uses its own system and operates according to its own laws would prevent a nationwide scheme to tamper with the 2012 vote. It is therefore impossible under the current system for the Obama Administration, for example, to implement a vote counting system for every precinct in America, although there are government officials who have made it known that they wish to mandate a uniform voting system that would be used in every state. At present, however, the various states and precincts are not capable of such a thing due to economic issues and other logistics. But the fact that the SCYTL system is being used in 900 voting jurisdictions in the U.S. means that the potential for widespread vote tampering, even enough to skew the November election, does in fact exist. According to one political activist who recently presented evidence to a Congressman concerning these issues, the only way for citizens to get something done about preventing potential massive vote fraud in 2012 is to volunteer to be a poll watcher, become a precinct worker, and send the information contained in this article to every local, state, and national politician, along with phone calls and emails to Congressmen, Senators, and state legislators to request investigations. Notice! My latest entry in what is turning into a regular, ongoing series of musings after midnight at my blog, The Liberty Sphere, is now posted. I present more in depth personal reflections delineating the acute danger America faces at this hour. It is a dire warning to the serious reader who loves freedom and the principles handed down to us by the Framers. Don’t miss it.

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E-Verify group to pressure Boehner with ads

by Admin on March 7, 2012 in Illegal Immigration, Immigration, John Boehner with No comments

Says speaker has stalled House vote

House Speaker John A. Boehner (Rod A. Lamkey/The Washington Times)

House Speaker John A. Boehner (Rod A. Lamkey/The Washington Times)

Is attacking Mitt Romney’s health care record the best campaign strategy for Rick Santorum?

Fed up with Republican congressional leaders, a group advocating a crackdown on immigration will begin running ads Thursday demanding that House Speaker John A. Boehner allow a vote on legislation requiring businesses to use E-Verify, the government database to check workers’ legal status.

NumbersUSA, the group sponsoring the ads, accused Mr. Boehner and his fellow Republican House leaders of blocking the bill over fears that it will anger Hispanic voters in an election year. But NumbersUSA says enacting the bill — which cleared a key committee in September but has since stalled — would help clear out unauthorized workers and open those jobs for Americans.

“Our gloves are off,” said Roy Beck, executive director of the group, who noted that his organization has pushed for action behind the scenes without success.

He said the group is now ready to take the issue public with radio and television ads designed to force the GOP to choose between politics and American workers.

“At some point, you just have to bring this stuff out into public. We’ve given the leadership all kinds of time, all kinds of excuses, but it’s been six months,” Mr. Beck said.

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BREAKING: Mitt Romney Urged Obama to Embrace the Individual Mandate

by Admin on March 2, 2012 in Barrack Obama, Mitt Romney, Obamacare, Romneycare with No comments
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Had Michigan not been as close, the Democrats would have waited to spring this on us in the general election. Luckily we have it now and I hope Ohio voters are paying attention.

English: Governor Mitt Romney of MA In July 2009, Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed in USA Today urging Barack Obama to usean individual mandate at the national level to control healthcare costs.On the campaign trail now, Mitt Romney says the individual mandate is appropriate for Massachusetts, but not the nation. Repeatedly in debates, Romney has said he opposes a national individual mandate. But back in 2009, as Barack Obama was formulating his healthcare vision for the country, Mitt Romney encouraged him publicly to use an individual mandate. In his op-ed, Governor Romney suggested that the federal government learn from Massachusetts how to make healthcare available for all. One of those things was “Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages “free riders” to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.”

Health care cannot be handled the same way as the stimulus and cap-and-trade bills. With those, the president stuck to the old style of lawmaking: He threw in every special favor imaginable, ground it up and crammed it through a partisan Democratic Congress. Health care is simply too important to the economy, to employment and to America’s families to be larded up and rushed through on an artificial deadline. There’s a better way. And the lessons we learned in Massachusetts could help Washington find it.Romney continues further down in the op-ed bringing up the individual mandate dreaded by conservatives.

Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn’t have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages “free riders” to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others. This doesn’t cost the government a single dollar. Second, we helped pay for our new program by ending an old one — something government should do more often. The federal government sends an estimated $42 billion to hospitals that care for the poor: Use those funds instead to help the poor buy private insurance, as we did.

Friends, if Mitt Romney is the nominee, we will be unable to fight Obama on an issue that 60% of Americans agree with us on.

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Tancredo on Kudlow: “Barrack Obama most left winged candidate we have ever had”

by Admin on February 29, 2012 in Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Tom Tancredo with No comments

Begins at 6:45 mark.

Transcript: first up, it’s just under an hour before polls close in michigan, arizona later. cnbc’s john harwood joins us live from detroit. good evening, john? reporter: larry, there are some polls that will be open until 9:00 in michigan, as well so we’ll have to wait a bit for those results, but we already know this is a very, very close race in michigan. pretty high stakes for the norm nation. my take is that mitt romney wins michigan in arizona he’ll be the nominee, and i think he’ll be the nominee even if he loses michigan, but it will take longer and much rougher. both went after each other by name and mitt romney singling out rick santorum. mitt romney said he’s late to that party. i’m glad he ridiculoecognize is a campaign about the economy. it’s time for him to focus on the economy and for you to all say okay, if the economy is going to be the issue we focus who has the experience to actually get this economy going again? senator santorum is a nice guy, but he’s never had a job in the private sector. but, of course, rick santorum makes the argument that it’s not only about economic issues. social issues especially those conservative christians in the western and northern parts of this state are key targets for him and so he makes a much broader, tack on mitt romney for his health care plan and imp implications for social issues. it’s about government control of economic lives and regulating you, taxing you, forcing you to buy things and forcing their values on you and your religion. which, by the way, romney did to catholic hospitals in massachusetts by forcing them to distribute the morning-after pill. why would we give those issues away in this general election? at the core of what’s at stake in this country, why would we put someone out there who is uniquely unqualified to make that case? so we’ve still got a turnout operation going on. mitt romney, larry, is at the superior organization here as in other states and what rick santorum hopes is that some of those inflammatory comments he’s made may comp state by stirring up some of those conserve tich christians, evangelicals or tvangelicals. many that cross over from the tea party. thanks for this. now let’s turn to republican senior strategist steve schmitt. he was top dog in the mccain campaign in 2008. steve, welcome back to the show. you’re welcome, larry. i want to ask you about president obama a minute. president obama talking to the uaw says this, my bailouts of the car business saved detroit, saved michigan and saved the economy and steve, we are getting better consumer confidence and we are getting better jobs. the dow is over 13,000. let me just ask you, can obama really be beaten in a better economy? well, larry, it’s a closely-divided nation. it continues to be, this has been a terrible stretch for the republican candidates and a lot of good things are happening for the president and the real clear politics average has him up about five points over mitt romney and six points over rec santorum. it’s a close election, but boy do republicans have some work to do. we are talking about things that are irrelevant to the lives of average americans. we are ceding economic arguments to the president talking about 52-year-old speech that president kennedy did in houston and talking about contraception, making from senator santorum’s perspective and i think ludicrous charges about the president wanting people to go to college so they can be indoctrinated and so republicans will have to offer to win this election a pro-growth opportunity message that explains and defines what opportunity looks like to the american people in the 21st century. we need an update in a modern, conservative argument. steve, did mitt romney get that done. that’s still obama’s area of vulnerability and i presume the budget deficit and the debt also. no doubt. did mitt romney get that done in his economics club of detroit’s speech. was he able to sell it and will he be able to sell it? no, i don’t think he got it done and i don’t think he’ll be able to make the pivot until he gets into a general election contact. the season has been disappointing for a lot of reason, but i think it’s on the course that it is right now. we’ve not yet had the candidates looking over the horizon, explaining to the american people what a 21st-century vision of conservatism is. how do you create prosperity? how do you create opportunity. how do you resuscitate the manufacturing base in the country? you know, this race has been about small things and it’s been about personal attacks and one of the consequences of it, larry is we have a fractured conservative base in the republican party, but independents who had soured on the president just a few months ago are going back to them and they’re going back to them in a big way. so we’re going to be starting this general election whoever the nominee is in a pretty good sized hole of our own making. steve, extremism in the culture war doesn’t sound like a winning issue to me. is that going to play a role tonight. did santorum lose the lkt lkt ability argument because he’s gone too far on contraception, on prenatal care, on the jfk speech on four-year colleges and so forth. will that hurt santorum tonight? well, it should hurt santorum if republican voters are focused on beating president bush. let’s look at one state, larry, virginia. republicans have to win back virginia. northern virginia is a moderate swing state area. there is no market for these issues in the american electorate that rick santorum is talking about. this is the antithesis of limited government conservatism. i believe it was a mistake for the congress to intervene in a family court decision in florida with the terry schiavo deci with the terry schiavo decision, but you now see rick santorum out there on a daily basis talking about these issues which are mainstreaming schiavoism into all manner of different areas in the party and then he spent a paragraph or two paragraphs or three paragraphs explaining and that’s a recipe for disaster? apparently he reneged on the jfk thing so he’s coming and going. absolutely. you were great to give us your time tonight. i know you’re busy. thank you ever so much. thank you, larry. let’s bring in two more experts to make the case for romney and santorum. we have gop chairman and current romney backer saul onassis and former colorado republican congressman tom tancredo. tom tancredo, you heard steve schmitt. he had harsh words for your man and saying this was is the antithesis of limited government conservatism on jfk and contraception. what is your response to what steve schmitt said. most of the stuff will not be relevant come the general election. what both of those candidates are trying to do today, what four of them are trying to do and the two really and truly at the top of the heap are trying to win a primary and in the a primary election and in the republican primary you’re going to talk to conservatives and you’ll be more conservative than you would otherwise be. we’ve seen that happen a hundred times. in this case i think santorum really is the conservative and mitt romney is trying to be because you’re going after republican primary voters. after the primary’s over with we enter into a brand new phase, but let’s talk about the issue that came up in terms of the economy. i am concerned. i think we all should be that bill clinton’s admonition to his campaign, remember, it’s the economy, stupid. the economy’s being looking better. if it looks better, that’s right — it’s even — romney loses his main issue, right? that’s his thing. if the economy is better than you’ll fight it out over ideas. saul, let me ask you. steve schmitt did not think that mitt romney got the job done with the 20% tax cut and his overall economic plan to the detroit economics club, and i presume that that’s one of the reasons this race is too close to call, saul. what’s your take on that criticism? well, look, first of all, mitt romney’s argument is going over well in michigan. i’m cautiously optimist take he’s going win tonight. i think he’s doing extremely well in the messaging. i’ve been traveling around the state and yesterday i was listening to his pitch. they want to make sure we have jobs and we have a lot of midwestern states that are hurting economically. tom tancredo, democrats may be very important to this race today. michael moore is out on the tape some place saying all his friends are going vote for santorum because he’s the weaker candidate and they want to cause mischief. what about the democrat turnout, tom? how will that impact things? i don’t know. i understand that’s an interesting thing because i know the democratic party has done a robocall for that purpose to encourage people to vote for santorum and santorum has done a robocall to democrats asking them to vote for him. so one of the two — i mean, the democrats are hoping that if santorum is the weaker candidate, but i’m telling you you better be careful what you ask for, democrats. here’s the thing, honest to goodness, here’s what gives santorum an edge and perhaps in a different election with a different candidate or incumbent things would be different. against a clinton, probably santorum would not have much of a chance. this is not a bill clinton. this is barack obama. he is the most left-wing candidate that — i mean, candidate for re-election we have ever had. you don’t have a right wing candidate against a moderate and i’ll tell you, barack obama is far more left wing than santorum is right wing and when you get those two together america votes, i think — more to the right. i understand, but saul, i’ll give you the last word. basically, do you believe that mitt romney’s economic growth message, not only the 20% tax cut, but reforming entitlements, slashing spending, getting deficits and debt down, do you think that trumps the extreme culture war and is the best way to beat obama? that seems to be the issue this evening. absolutely. i think when mitt romney is talking about the economy and he’s talking about jobs he’s winning. when rick santorum has to bring in democrats, and labor to vote in his favor, republicans all over the country i think will reject santorum’s campaign tactics here. this is about the economy. if we focus barack obama and his message, if we can focus on the economy, gas prices, unemployment mitt romney’s going to win. i think that rick santorum is basically doing a disservice to the party right now. i think that he’s being a little bit hypocritical being the washington insider and trying to run as an outsider. if you want to draw contrast between obama and a republican candidate, mitt romney is coming from the outside and run a business and can run a state and make a difference. saul, thank you very much. tom tancredo, thank you again. coming up on kudlow, eric cantor reveals his jobs act to jump-start small business start-ups. next up, live and exclusive, turns out obama may agree with cantor. free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. i think it’s a pretty good campaign message, too, on kudlow, we’ll issue right back.

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McRINO: The GOP Primary Is “Like Watching A Greek Tragedy”…

by Admin on February 29, 2012 in McLame, Progressivism, RINO's with 1 Comment

Via: Weaselzippers

Kind of like your train wreck of a presidential campaign in 2008?

Via Boston Herald:

Former GOP presidential candidate John McCain said yesterday he fears Republicans will be stuck with a bloodied nominee so sapped by months of campaign attacks that he can’t beat President Obama — even as the party’s four combatants prepare to do battle again today in Michigan and Arizona.

“This is like watching a Greek tragedy,” McCain told the Herald. “It’s the negative campaigning and the increasingly personal attacks … it should have stopped long ago. Any utility from the debates has been exhausted, and now it’s just exchanging cheap shots and personal shots followed by super PAC attacks.”

The Arizona Republican, who endorsed Romney earlier this year and is set to rally with him in Phoenix tonight, said he believes the former Bay State governor will get the nomination, yet he worries a long, drawn out primary campaign could leave Romney too wounded to triumph in November.

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