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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    A NOT Endorsement.


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 08:53:22 AM EST
    Tags: Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann (all tags)

    Frankly, the best conservative candidates for president are either gone, or not running.

    Sarah Palin, the smarter than you think VP candidate of 2008 sparked the imagination of tea folk throughout the country, and had already been exposed to the chicken pox of media skewering. She would have been immune to their poisoned quills this time around.  However, the generosity of the milquetoast Republican establishment would not be forthcoming.  Where the media left off, the supposed spokespeople of the Right picked up, and inserted doubt of viability. Her decision to remain a viable voice meant NOT running.

    Shame.

    Herman Cain, one of those folks who actually understands how to identify problems and assign the proper talent to them, was probably the best hope in advancing the conservative message.  He was the first out of the gate with a plan for tax reform, and whether one agrees with HIS proposal, its hard to argue what we have currently is remotely correct.  Decidedly innovative, its too bad he is not running still. There is no doubt he was the greatest threat to the current admin for a number of reasons.

    Disappointing.

    Michele Bachmann has been fighting the tea party fight in DC consistently, yet never got the full support she needed.  When Herman Cain dropped out, much of that support went to Newt.  If she had hung in at least to Florida, I believe she would have had a resurgence.  Next to Herman, she was the best representative of tea values in the recent slate.

    And out of those left?

    Paul -
    Out of the park wrong on foreign affairs.
    Newt - Questionable values, probable opportunist.
    Romney - Romneycare. (need we say more?)

    Did I forget someone?

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    Yes you did forget someone (none / 0) (#1)
    by Corinthian Scales on Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 09:38:46 AM EST
    But don't feel too bad about that, the MSM and Party elite have been doing their best to forget about him too.

    Some that didn't run (none / 0) (#2)
    by grannynanny on Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 09:59:19 AM EST
    Jim DeMint
    Paul Ryan
    Mike Pence

    I'm not sure . . . (none / 0) (#3)
    by Kevin Rex Heine on Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 10:13:00 AM EST
    . . . if you've noticed, but Rick Santorum is still in it.  All he did was take time off to be with his very ill 3-year-old daughter (and he probably isn't going to win Florida anyway).

    Just as a quick sidebar, according to The Green Papers, the "soft total" of delegates as of today (with Florida not in the mix yet) is:

    • Newt Gingrich:  27 delegates (4 IA + 23 SC) . . . why this doesn't include the 3 from Iowa that went to Rick Perry is beyond me
    • Mitt Romney:  17 delegates (6 IA + 7 NH + 2 SC + 2 from John Huntsman)
    • Ron Paul:  9 delegates (6 IA + 3 NH)
    • Rick Santorum:  6 delegates (6 IA)

    I'm not sure how we view Rick Perry around here, but I did notice that in return for endorsing Gingrich, Perry has been placed in charge of a committee tasked with investigating how to most effectively transfer back to state control everything that the 10th Amendment says ought to properly be exclusively under state sovereignty (along with the funding sources for those things).

    I'm not going to go into a whole lot of detail here (because I want to do it as a separate blog post), but I've started to notice that most of the negatives about Gingrich are either disinformation or outright urban legend.  (It's got to the point that Newt has a separate page on his campaign site devoted solely to setting the record straight.)  I'll grant that it isn't everything, but it's more than enough to raise a flag in my head every time someone tries to cite the negatives against NLG as reason to not vote for him.

    Realistically, we may be down to a three horse race by the time the primary gets to Michigan.  So we'll have to choose between Gingrich, Paul, and Romney.  (There's an outside chance that Santorum may still be viable by the time that the primary gets this far, but I'm not sure it's realistic.)  That being the case, I've already ruled out Romney and Paul as options in the primaries.

    Rick Santorum has one major problem. (none / 0) (#9)
    by KG One on Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 02:42:42 PM EST
    He voted in support of the creation of Medicaid Part "D" (a.k.a. Robamacare-lite).

    He can distance himself from that vote as much as he wants.

    Bottom line: It was NEVER an enumerated power of Congress when he voted on it (and Bush v2.0 signed it).

    Now you have yet another segment of the population hooked on spending other people's money.

    Interesting post by a woman in Florida (none / 0) (#12)
    by Bruce on Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 04:02:02 PM EST
    NRO dislikes Romney's approach (none / 0) (#13)
    by Bruce on Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 04:24:10 PM EST
    Great Thomas Sowell article out now (none / 0) (#19)
    by Corinthian Scales on Wed Feb 01, 2012 at 12:42:17 PM EST
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