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Rick Santorum swept three nominating contests held Tuesday, upsetting frontrunner Mitt Romney and injecting new energy into the former Pennsylvania senator’s campaign.
Santorum scored broad victories in the Minnesota caucus and a primary in Missouri, according to NBC News projections. But Santorum’s most significant upset came in Colorado, where the state GOP declared him the apparent victor in caucuses there.
Santorum jolts GOP presidential race with 3-state sweep
Rick Santorum awoke to a new reality Wednesday after sweeping all three Republican presidential contests a day earlier, reshaping the contest that will decide who runs against President Barack Obama in November.
Santorum won caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado, as well as a nonbinding primary in Missouri to energize his campaign and raise questions about front-runner Mitt Romney’s ability to attract broad conservative support.
Santorum gets second wind with sweep in Minn., Mo., Colo.
Rick Santorum swept three nominating contests held Tuesday, upsetting frontrunner Mitt Romney and injecting new energy into the former Pennsylvania senator’s campaign.
Santorum scored broad victories in the Minnesota caucus and a primary in Missouri, according to NBC News projections. But Santorum’s most significant upset came in Colorado, where the state GOP declared him the apparent victor in caucuses there.
HEY! RNC! Us’ns ou’chere in flyover country….
WE DON’T WANT NO MITT ROMNEY!
I’m just real sorry they didn’t figure out before shoving him down our throats. You see, we would rather have a choice in who our nomination, and president, will be. We don’t really care whose “turn it is”. If that was the intent of the Founders, then we would have had a monarchy, or something similar. But we don’t.
Y’all stuck us with John McCain, who EVERYONE knew couldn’t win. He’s a ‘nice guy’, and politics aren’t polite! Honestly, I think that man did almost as much sucking up to Obama as the media. 
Now, I’m not saying the Romney would be a similar suck up, but he honestly doesn’t fit the criteria we are looking for in a nominee.
Is Santorum perfect? No, but those folks who are looking for the “perfect” candidate will always be disappointed!
When push comes to shove, will we be able to unite behind whoever the candidate will be? I sure pray so! Even Romney says the GOP will be united. If we do not unite, we will be saying goodbye to the United States of America. A place where, once upon a time, you could dream big, and achieve much. We want that country back! We will not get it under Barack Hussein Obama and his henchmen! We need the Senate, the House, the White House, AND the Supreme Court! And we need them NOW!
NO Second Chance
President Obama: ‘I deserve a second term’
President Obama in a pre-Super Bowl interview aired on Sunday said that despite being unable to completely turn the economy around in three years, he still deserves to be re-elected.
“I deserve a second term but we’re not done,” Obama told NBC’s Matt Lauer in an interview broadcast from the White House.
First question: Why does this fool think that anyone wanted to hear him bumping his gums on Super Bowl Sunday?
Second question: What on earth makes him believe he deserves a damn thing, other than our scorn?
Lauer noted that in a pre-Super Bowl interview three years ago, Obama had said “If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
Obama said that three years ago the economy was losing 750,000 jobs a month and the latest unemployment data from Friday shows. “Now we are creating 250,000,” he said.
Sorry, cooking the numbers doesn’t make it true. Why are there more people having to get food stamps now than ever before in our history? You said one term, we’re taking you at your word. You have NOT turned the economy around. As a matter of fact, it is worse! Even the New York Times has a problem with Obama’s numbers.
The Labor Department estimated on Friday that the economy gained 243,000 jobs.
The department also estimated that the economy lost 2,689,000 jobs in the month.
Let’s see…ya take that lost number, subtract that gain, and what do you get? A NEGATIVE! Which is what we’ve had for quite a while. The downturn started under Bush’s watch in 2007. What happened in 2007?
Snagged Off Facebook…
…from D.J. It pretty much sums up the state of the primaries so far though, doesn’t it. The media and talking heads have picked the candidate they want to lose to D’Bama, and that’s that!
No, I’m not actually ‘endorsing’ Santorum, not that anyone would think my endorsement would put a candidate over the top. Heh. I do lean more towards him than anyone else. I have to make up my mind for sure in the next week or so…early voting in Tennessee starts on the 15th of February and goes through the 28th. Our primary on March 6th, and the baby is due on the 8th, so it’s possible I won’t be in the state to vote. Y’all be sure to have your ID on ya when you go to cast your vote! 
Shafted…..AGAIN!
Are we being bamboozled? Is it any wonder that people are thinking their vote doesn’t count? Do you know ANYONE who is a Mitt Romney supporter? I sure don’t! Yet…there he is…on the top of the heap! I’d really like to know if there are some serious irregularities going on. Are Democrats voting in the Republican caucuses and primaries? Because, to be perfectly honest, I don’t see any other way that Romney has won anything! No self respecting conservative would fall for the BS that “he’s the only on that can beat Obama”. No self respecting conservative would vote for the father of ‘RomneyCare’ the preceded ObamaCare! No self respecting Republican would vote for the guy who George Soros says is no different than Obama!
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Unfortunately, Jesus isn’t running, so we will have to work with what we have! But Romney? *shakes head* If he is foisted on us, just like John McCain was, I will vote for him, but it will be extremely difficult! It would be even MORE difficult to vote for Ron Paul, but I’d do that too, just to get that lying, scheming, phony out the White House!
We didn’t get to this point over night, and it won’t take just one election cycle to fix it! If we end up with a RINO, then we had best make sure we have a strong majority in BOTH houses of Congress!
Deja Vu All Over Again
Romney wins Florida primary prize, Gingrich pledges drawn-out battle
Mitt Romney heads into the next phase of the Republican presidential nominating contest carrying a big win under his belt, after reasserting his frontrunner status with a crushing victory over Newt Gingrich in Florida.
However, Romney and the rest of the Republican candidates will have to fine-tune their approach as they enter the bevy of contests scattered all across the country in February, starting in Nevada this Saturday.
Didn’t we suffer a resounding defeat because the RNC decided it was John McCain’s “turn” back in 2008? And yet…here we go again. Having a flippin’ RINO shoved down our throats! If George Soros can’t tell the difference between Mitt Romney and Barack Hussein Obama, shouldn’t those RED warning flags be up all over the country? I’m starting to wonder if the Ron Paul supporters might be right…this whole thing is rigged!
I don’t actually dislike Romney. I’m sure he’s a real nice guy, and he has some fairly decent ideas. The problem is, he’s got a record of doing more flips than Mary Lou Retton. At this point in time, he is NOT the person we need to get this country back on the right track! We need BOLD, not wishy washy. We need someone who have the values of the majority of Americans, and a fairly strong conservative record. That person is NOT Mitt Romney!
Once upon a time, I honestly believed that the office of the President of the United States, or the nomination for, could not be bought. How naive of me! But then, I was much younger, and more innocent in the ways of politics. I’m sorry to say, those days are long gone. Once, men of vision, like George Washington and Ronald Reagan for example, would hold the highest office in the land. Now, whoever has the most money wins. That is NOT the American Way!
We got stuck with a freakin’ community organizer, who has never had a real job in his entire life…has never run a business, has never done ANYTHING that makes him stand out among the field other than a few pretty words read off a teleprompter, yet was elected for no better reason than ‘he is black’. He had no record to stand on, was a member of a virulently racist, anti-American church, was involved with communists throughout his youth, and follows the “Rules for Radicals” with a passion. All this, to destroy what we had left of what was once the freest nation in the world, where, with hard work and determination, ANYONE could succeed.
Thanks to the Republican elites and the media, we got John McCain, a major RINO, shoved in our faces, and the whole country lost by the election of a man/child. Now, they are doing it again, with Mitt Romney. I do NOT believe that he can defeat Obama, as they keep telling us, over and over, ad nauseum! Even though he won the Florida primary, does NOT mean he is a shoe in for the nomination….not if WE, The People will stand up against the elites, and shout, once again, NO! We’re mad as hell, and we aren’t going to take it anymore!
NO RINOS!
Tea Party Patriots straw poll: Santorum nomination would generate most enthusiasm
Florida tea partiers would be most enthusiastic if former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum won the Republican presidential nomination, according to a straw poll conducted Sunday night by the Tea Party Patriots organization.
The straw poll was conducted following a conference call during which Santorum, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and answered questions and made their pitch to the call’s participants. Texas Rep. Ron Paul was invited to participate, but was unable to do so.
Callers were asked to rank their enthusiasm for each of the candidates receiving the nomination on a scale of one to five, with five being the most enthusiastic.
For Santorum, 35 percent of respondents said they would be the most enthusiastic, while 26 percent were in the middle. The rest were split among the other options.
Callers were also enthusiastic about a Gingrich nomination, and he had the support of 35 percent of the callers, with 24 percent saying they would be in the “most enthusiastic” category.
Romney’s support, on the other hand, was “balanced across the board,” with each level of enthusiasm receiving a similar number of votes.
Reading this, talking to many people, and comparing what is reported through the media, you’d think we were all on different planets. Well, in a way, I suppose we are. You see, the media, and the RNC elites have decided it is “Romney’s turn”. On the other hand, you have regular folks, like me, who have decided the RNC elites, and the media, are full of caca de toro, and we aren’t buying into their BS!
Many of us figured out the last go ’round, that the Republican Party is no longer the party of Reagan type conservatism, which the MAJORITY of “R” voters are. Those at the top have decided those of us who actually do the voting, aren’t smart enough to make our own decisions, so they apparently have sent out their talking points to the media, and have them pushing hard for THEIR choice for the nominee, instead of allowing us ‘small people’ to make our own decision on who WE want to see in the White House.
In 2010, we sent a very…VERY strong message to Washington, D.C., and for a few months, they did seem to pay attention. Alas, as with all entrenched politicians, those ‘powers that be’ made a very unwise decision to buck the voters, and carry on with business as usual. I think it’s time we sent them an even STRONGER message.
WE, THE PEOPLE…..do NOT want Mitt Romney as the nominee for President of the United States!
As a VERY conservative American, my preference would be Rick Santorum. BUT, I could live with Newt Gringrich. The VP pick is also very important to us out here in the real world. A combination of Gringrich and Santorum, Gringrich/West or Rubio, Santorum/West or Rubio would get us out here in the REAL world excited enough to actually put in some time and money?
So, you folks up there in D.C. might want to start paying attention. You may not have a job come November 7, because we are not playing patty cake with you yahoos anymore! We want our country back. We are a REPUBLIC….not a democracy! Please be so kind as to pull your collective heads out of your collective hinders!
No, Santorum Is NOT Pulling Out!
IMHO, Rick Santorum’s values are closer to my own than any of the others. I’m leaning more and more towards him! I’m a little disconcerted at how many on the right are falling into the media trap. This man may not have the fire of Newt, or the money of Romney, but he does have principles.
35 Reasons…er….Make That 36
Alan Caruba provides us with a list of 35 reasons why Obama should not, and WILL not, be re-elected. Obviously, this is just a partial list. If anyone were to compile a complete list, it would likely end up resembling the size of his ObamaCare bill.
1. Blamed all problems on George W. Bush, not the Democrats who had controlled both chambers of Congress since January 3, 2007 until 2010 when the Republicans gained control of the House.
2. Obamacare: challenged by 28 States as unconstitutional, subject of a Supreme Court hearing in March.
3. Supported passage of Cap-and-Trade carbon regulation legislation.
4. A strong advocate of “global warming”; revealed to be a hoax in 2009.
5. His failed multi-billion dollar “stimulus” program.
6. Admitted there were no “shovel-ready jobs.”
7. Mortgage refinance plan deemed a complete failure.
8. Appointment of White House policy “Czars”, one of whom was a Communist.
9. Failed foreign policy; Israel, Iran, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
10. Mishandling of BP oil spill; slow to react, shut down all drilling in Gulf of Mexico.
11. Abortive outreach to Muslims
12. Bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia.
13. Stopped the building of the XL Keystone pipeline. Has opposed offshore and domestic oil drilling
14. The Solyndra “Green energy” bankruptcy whose loan guarantee cost taxpayers a half billion dollars.
15. The “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal.
16. Sued Arizona for trying to control illegal immigration.
17. A rogue Environmental Protection Agency.
18. Highest federal spending since World War II.
19. Highest budget deficit since World War II.
20. Highest federal debt since just after World War II.
21. Increased federal debt more than all Presidents from Washington to Clinton combined.
22. Highest long-term unemployment since the 1930s.
23. Lowest employment (58.1% if population) since 1983.
24. Lowest home ownership rate since 1965.
25. First downgrade of U.S. debt rating in nation’s history.
26. Refused to support the Defense of Marriage Act.
29. Attempted to stop Boeing from building a manufacturing unit in South Carolina.
30. Government takeover of General Motors.
31. Authorized military action in Libya without Congressional approval.
32. Advocates major cuts to Pentagon budget for U.S. military
33. Continues to hide college records, passport and Social Security number information.
34. Not a “natural born” citizen as required by the U.S. Constitution (both parents must be U.S. citizens to be President) and thus he was ineligible to run, ineligible to hold the office, and ineligible to run again.
35. Does not tell the truth.
How about we add one more to Mr Caruba’s list: Abortions Help “Our Sons To Fulfill Their Dreams”
Every time I think the man/child can’t get any worse, or more offensive, he comes up with something that turns my stomach, once again.
As Of 8:11 PM CST
Now, I really wish someone would explain to me why there are folks voting for candidates that have dropped out of the race. I know…it’s a protest vote and all that, but when it comes right down to the BIG show in November, that ‘protest vote’ could end up giving Obama another four years to finish the job of destroying the country. Just sayin’.
SMACK DOWN!
Why use ‘despicable,’ clueless left-wing media to moderate GOP debates?
By Charles Hurt
There is growing consternation in Republican circles and among conservatives over why Republicans keep allowing the various Communist, leftist and otherwise anti-American TV networks to host GOP debates.
The ickiness of Diana Sawyer asking questions in her cloying voice is more than most can bear. The utter cluelessness of the questions these people think actual American voters care about is mystifying. The shameless and ham-handed pandering to conservatives by the networks is revolting.
Indeed, the entire phoenix rising candidacy of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich can be attributed to America’s abject hatred of the left-wing media. He was destitute and written off by the press when he tapped into one of the most visceral political reactions coursing through the veins of regular Americans. And once be began beating up the media, America gathered around him.
Last night, we saw once again why Republicans need to keep allowing fakers and Communists to moderate their GOP debates. Because without the leftist, elitist snobs to beat the ever-living crap out of every couple of weeks, the debates would be so much less fun.
Now I realize that what we watched last night was not a simple beating and perhaps it was wrong of so many of us to enjoy it with such bloodlust. It was more a public evisceration. A man’s entrails were picked out and drawn far out from inside him and left for jackals to chew on before his living eyes.
Read the rest of this EXCELLENT column here. Watch the first major smack down of the “cardboard cutout” here.
Now, as to who won the debate? Well, honestly, I couldn’t tell ya, but if the smack downs count, it would be Newt Gingrich. Heh. I liked a lot of Rick Santorum’s answers, and he explained a few things that other candidates, and their followers have been spreading around the interwebs. It was helpful. Mitt Romney? Well, I’m wondering if he was really there, or if that was just a big ol’ Ken doll with the string in the back. Pull string, get answer. And what can ya say about the uncle in the attic? Once again, he did his best “what the hell are you talking about” responses. He did come through a few times, and I do have to give him credit for that!
So, have I decided yet? Nope. Still working on it though. IMHO, anyone of them could, and would, be a MUCH better POTUS than the Marxist we have been stuck with for the last 3 years! Yep…it was 3 years ago today when he officially began his destruction of the United States of American! Past time to send the lowlife packing!
Best Moment of the Debate
And Then There Were Four…
Rick Perry will drop out of the presidential race Thursday and endorse Newt Gingrich, Fox News confirms, a decision that comes just two days before the South Carolina Republican primary.
The decision comes after the Texas governor, who once led the field of GOP hopefuls, endured disappointing finishes in the leadoff Iowa and New Hampshire contests. While he is polling only in single digits in South Carolina, his decision to withdraw could end up giving a boost to one of his opponents should his supporters gravitate toward a particular candidate.
To be honest, I’m rather sorry he is dropping out. He wasn’t my first choice, but I could have easily supported him if he won the nomination. There are many who worked very hard in supporting him, getting the word out about his stance on many different issues, and I’ve no doubt they are feeling more than just a bit down this morning.
I am rather surprised that he is throwing his support behind Gingrich though. I would have thought if he was that socially conservative, he would have picked Santorum, considering he actually won Iowa, not Romney. I can’t really count New Hampshire, because, well, that’s New England, and they just don’t see things the way the rest of us do up in that area. 
Just goes to show, ya never can tell. Considering the bitter ex-wife fiasco ahead, I would have thought… Why is that some women just can’t let the past go?
Now, if Paul would drop out as well, we MIGHT have a better chance in November. No doubt, he is going to hang in there, split the vote, and the party, and we’ll end up with four more years of destruction.
Are You People DEAF????
Spending Bills Passed by GOP House Increased Debt $1T in 10 Months
Federal spending bills approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives have increased the national debt by more than $1 trillion dollars in just 10 months.
Republicans won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the November 2010 elections and took control of the House on Jan. 5, 2011, when the chamber convened and elected Rep. John Boehner (R.-Calif.) as speaker.
Was our message not clear enough? Should we have camped out in your offices to make sure you DID get the message??? Should we behave like the trashy Occupy Wall Street slimes, and take up residence, smelling to high heaven, sharing vermin with the rest of the residents of the area?
But the Republican-controlled House did not gain a veto power over federal spending until March 4, 2011. That was the expiration date of the continuing resolution (CR) that the lame-duck Democrat-controlled Congress approved in December 2010. After March 4, federal spending has been approved by legislation that needed to be approved in the Republican-controlled House.
On March 1, 2011, the Republican-controlled House passed its first CR to fund the government after March 4. Since then, it has approved a series of CRs to keep the government funded. The Republican House approved its latest CR on December 16. It will keep the government funded until the end of fiscal 2012 on Sept. 30.
ONE TRILLION DOLLARS! $1,000,000,000,000!!!!
Eighty-six House Republicans went against their party leaders and voted against the Dec. 16 CR, which actually garnered more votes from House Democrats (149) than House Republicans (147).
When the Republican-controlled House approved its first CR on March 4, 2011, the national debt was 14,182,627,184,881.03, according to the U.S. Treasury. As of the close of business on Jan. 9, 2012, the national debt was 15,236,506,139,986.86.
Those 147 Republicans should start looking for a new job! I’m not the only one that is fed up with D.C. wasting OUR money! The Democrats have been having a high ol’ time spending money that doesn’t belong to them for many decades now, and evidently, the Republicans are trying to play catch up! HEY!!! IT IS NOT YOUR MONEY!!!
That means the debt increased by $1.05 trillion over the past ten months.
That equals approximately $8,964 for each of the 117,572,000 American households estimated by the Census Bureau.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a spare 9 grand laying around each month. I don’t have a spare quarter, thanks to the stupidity that runs rampant up there! The whole idea of 2010 was to STOP the madness, and bring some sanity back. Obviously, it didn’t work, and WE, The People got screwed over, once again!
At the current rate, the Republican-controlled House is agreeing to allow the U.S. Treasury to borrow approximately an additional $896 per month American household per month.
Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution says: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” Article 1, Section 7 says that every bill “shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate … before it become a Law.”
The hell with it! You are ALL FREAKIN’ FIRED! Seems that ‘oath of office’ means NOTHING to you people! Not a one of y’all are worth the effort that we put forth to get y’all elected, with one or two exception. And I’m starting to wonder about them as well!
No Voter Fraud?
NH poll workers shown handing out ballots in dead peoples’ names
Video footage provided exclusively to The Daily Caller shows election workers in New Hampshire giving out ballots in the names of dead voters at multiple voting precincts during the state’s primary election on Tuesday.
The bombshell video is the work of conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe and his organization, Project Veritas.
Voters in the Granite State are not required to present identification to vote. O’Keefe’s investigators were able to obtain ballots under the names of dead voters at polling locations Tuesday by simply asking for them, he said.
So, my question is….how many dead people ended up voting, and just who did they vote for? Who was it that said there was no voter fraud going on? Right! And I suppose they don’t consider dead people voting fraud, right?
Huh?
Romney wins New Hampshire primary
Mitt Romney captured the nation’s first primary election Tuesday, withstanding both stepped-up attacks by his Republican opponents and late slippage among voters.
With 17% of precincts reporting, the former Massachusetts governor had nearly 36% of the vote, followed by Texas Rep. Ron Paul with 24% and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman with 18%. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum trailed with 11% and about 10%. Texas Gov. Rick Perry lagged with less than 1% of the vote.
Ok, I’ll be the first to admit I’m not the brightest bulb in the box, but it seems to me that with just 17% of the precincts reporting, how can anyone project a winner? That leaves 83% of the precincts haven’t been counted. So, someone has decided that Romney has won, and that leaves those other people in the 83% of precincts that took the time to go vote, their vote doesn’t count?
