Super Conservative "National Review" turns against Mitt Romney - Super Conservative Charles Krauthammer not supporting Mitt Romney - Michael Walsh in the "National Review" also charges against Romney

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Oh La La ! - Big Entertainment - This is a bullfight with charging Newts instead of bulls ! - In Spain they say that a bullfight is only good if the bulls are angry and fierce, furies that charge with all potency and bravery ! - A Good Reality Show !

National Review
January 6, 2012 12:00 A.M.
A Worthy Challenger
After Iowa, Santorum emerges as Romney’s greatest threat.
By Charles Krauthammer
January 6, 2012


After Iowa, Santorum emerges as Romney’s greatest threat.


Some excerpts :

After every other conservative alternative to Mitt Romney crashed and burned (libertarian Ron Paul is in a category of his own), from the rubble emerges Rick Santorum. But he isn’t just the last man standing. He is the first challenger to be plausibly presidential: knowledgeable, articulate, experienced, of stable character and authentic ideology.

He’d been ignored largely because he appeared unelectable — out of office for five years, having lost his Senate seat in Pennsylvania by a staggering 17 points in 2006.

However, with his virtual tie for first in Iowa, he sheds the loser label and seizes the momentum, meaning millions of dollars’ worth of free media to make up for his lack of money. He’s got the stage to make his case, plus the luck of a scheduling quirk: If he can make it through the next three harrowing primaries, the (relative) February lull would allow him to build a national campaign structure before Super Tuesday on March 6.

Santorum’s electoral advantage is sociological: His common-man, working-class sensibility would be highly appealing to battleground-state Reagan Democrats. His fundamental problem is ideological: He’s a deeply committed social conservative in a year when the country is obsessed with the economy and when conservatism is obsessed with limited government. Republicans, after all, swept the 2010 election on economic concerns and opposition to big government.

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Moreover, Iowa is anomalous. It’s not just that the Republican electorate is disproportionately evangelical and thus highly receptive to Santorum’s social conservatism (as it was to Mike Huckabee’s in 2008). It’s that Iowa’s economy is unusually healthy, with only 5.7 percent unemployment, high agricultural prices, and strong real-estate values. Although the economy did rate as a major issue in the entrance poll, in such relative prosperity it registers more as a concern for the nation than as a visceral personal issue — diminishing the impact of Romney’s calling card, economic competence.

For his part, Romney remains preternaturally inert. His numbers, his demeanor, his campaign are flat-line steady: no highs, no lows, no euphoria, no panic.

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Is this any way to pick a president? Absolutely. It works. It winnows. And it has produced, after just one contest, an admirably worthy conservative alternative to Romney.

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After months of reports suggesting that the U.S. labor market might never change, the jobless rate falls to 8.5% - In December, the U.S. added 200,000 jobs -- beating economists' expectations

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Huffington Post
U.S. Economy Adds 200,000 Jobs In December As Jobless Rate Falls To 8.5 Percent
By Lila Shapiro
January 6, 2012


U.S. Economy Adds 200,000 Jobs In December As Jobless Rate Falls To 8.5 Percent


Some excerpts :

Although part of the drop in the unemployment rate came from some 50,000 Americans leaving the labor force -- once a person gives up looking for work, they are no longer counted as unemployed -- most of it came from real progress: more jobs. And while many economists say that 300 or 400 thousand jobs per month, month after month, are needed to dig America out of the massive jobs hole the recession created, on Friday morning, labor market watchers were celebrating.

"I think it's a very positive report, unambiguously," said Mark Zandi, Chief Economist of Moody's Analytics. "Generally you have a lot of cross currents, but this suggests that the job market and the economy are gaining broader traction."

Average hourly earnings also rose by 4 cents, while the average workweek ticked up by .1 hours to 34.4.

"I thought the numbers were pretty darn good," said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist for The PNC Financial Services Group. Hoffman sees this report as the resumption of a trend in growth that began at the beginning of last year, but flattened out over the summer, slowed by rising oil prices, uncertainty in Washington, the tsunami in Japan and other threatening global forces.

"All of these new signs send the same positive signal about a real improvement." Hoffman said.

Job gains came in retail, a steady winner in the post-recession days, along with manufacturing, mining, health care and leisure and hospitality. Government employment, which shed 280,000 positions over the past year, slowed its losses to 12,000 fewer positions in December.

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The American Prospect : Steve Erickson : The Republican Party now defines itself not by new ideas or adventurous thinking or anything other than a livid rage at the White House’s current incumbent

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"Why did Haley Barbour, Chris Christie, and Mitch Daniels prefer not to run against Obama ?? Each had his own reasons for demurring, but you still get the feeling that in their hearts of hearts none expects Mitt Romney to be running for re-election in 2016".

I agree with the author of this article Steve Erickson, Obama is very strong and it is a stupid lie that Republicans are telling about Obama being weak.

The American Prospect
Republican Roulette
How Rick Santorum was left holding the gun
By Steve Erickson
January 5, 2012

How Rick Santorum was left holding the gun


Some excerpts :

One of the popular canards argued by perfectly intelligent people over the last few years is that Barack Obama is a man lucky in his enemies. This bit of conventional wisdom is based mostly on Obama’s 2004 Senate race in Illinois, when a potentially formidable opponent was sidelined by scandal and in their desperation, state Republicans recruited conservative firebrand Alan Keyes, who was not merely prone to self-sabotage but imbued with a lust for it. Obama was hardly lucky, however, in his ’08 presidential race, facing the single most prohibitive front-runner in an open nominating contest since Bob Dole in 1996, or maybe I mean Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Hillary Clinton was backed by the most daunting machine in Democratic presidential politics since the Kennedys, and John McCain probably was as strong a Republican as Obama could have run against that year. Beyond all this, at what point might we conclude that the president makes his own luck? What about him did Haley Barbour, Chris Christie, and Mitch Daniels prefer not to run against? Each had his own reasons for demurring, but you still get the feeling that in their hearts of hearts none expects Mitt Romney to be running for re-election in 2016.

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Now the Republicans are the crazy-quilt hysterics, more or less equal parts evangelicals and Ayn Rand objectivists and hedge-fund robber barons, which is another reason why the party’s heavyweights sat out this round—not because those who are running seemed on the fringe but because, particularly in the wake of the 2010 midterms, the establishment heavyweights came to suspect that they are now the fringe. A Barbour or Christie is smart enough to know that Michele Bachmann, the waking refutation of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan maxim that you’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts, and six-gun-packing Fed-chairman-lynching secessionist Rick Perry, who in all his Texasanity makes George W. Bush look like Noel Coward, better embody the party.

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Very Bad News for GOP in HuffPost : "It was Independents who participated in the Democratic caucuses four years ago that enabled turnout in this year's Iowa Republican caucuses to keep pace with the 2008 levels"

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"These Independents preferred spending their evening participating in an actual election contest rather than in a party organizing meeting"

This is an Article in the Huffington Post by Michael P. McDonald and this is my comment :

Some polls are detecting a lack of enthusiasm in Republicans. Some Independents and Democrats are going to the Republican Caucuses and increase the turnout. The Big Tea Party Fervor of 2010 is nowhere to be seen.

This is my intuition : If Obama gets the votes of these Independentes and Democrats that go to Republican Caucuses then the GOP loses the November Presidential Election for lack of fervor and enthusiasm.

Huffington Post
The Tea Party Fever Has Broken
By Michael P. McDonald
Associate Professor, George Mason University
Januar 4, 2012


The Tea Party Fever Has Broken


Some excerpts :

A pre-caucus PPP poll indicated that 15% of prospective Republican caucusgoers reported participating in the Democratic caucus in 2008. With 236,000 people voting in the Democratic caucus, that means the Republican caucus were inundated with 35,400 more participants that were active on the Democratic side four years ago.

The media entrance polls further support that some people who participated in the Democratic caucuses in 2008 participated in the Republican caucuses in 2012 -- although the pollsters did not directly ask this question. In 2008, only 13% of polled caucusgoers reported being an independent. In 2012, this percentage of independents increased to 23%. (These folks predominantly supported Ron Paul, followed by Mitt Romney.) Without these crossover Independents, turnout in the Iowa Republican caucuses would have declined. And without them, Romney would not have won his squeaker victory.

Politicians running for office this November should take notice. The extraordinary Tea Party enthusiasm that buoyed Republican candidates in 2010 is unlikely to repeat itself. And on top of weakening Tea Party enthusiasm, we are assured that November turnout will be higher for pro-Democratic groups, such as young people.

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The New Republic : The difference between a primary campaign that lasts two weeks and one that lasts two months could make all the difference in the world for Barack Obama. And Rick Santorum now has the power to make it happen

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Rick Santorum probably won't be the Republican Nominee, but he can kill all the hopes of Mitt Romney to be President.

The New Republic
How Rick Santorum Could Cost Romney the Presidency
By Noam Scheiber
January 4, 2012


How Rick Santorum Could Cost Romney the Presidency


Some excerpts :

Last night we re-learned an important lesson from 2008: In Iowa, the Republican candidate with momentum way exceeds his final poll numbers; the Republican candidate named Mitt Romney ... doesn’t. In 2008, Mike Huckabee exceeded his final polling average by about five points; Romney actually dropped off by about a point-and-a-half. This time out, Rick Santorum exceeded his final polling average by almost ten points. Romney was up about two-and-a-half.

In both cases, the explanation was pretty obvious: Romney was well known heading into caucus night and not much loved. People who hadn’t decided to support him beforehand were unlikely to do it on the spot. By contrast, Santorum was positioned to scoop up anyone who showed up thinking they’d support Perry or Gingrich or Bachmann then decided they’d like to back someone who had a chance of winning. Thus it was that Santorum ended up crashing Romney’s coronation.

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Now, the press will dwell on Romney’s vulnerability. We’ll point out that, despite his best efforts, three-quarters of the Republican primary electorate still won’t give him the time of day. Though he’ll almost certainly still win New Hampshire, the margin will be smaller than it otherwise would have been, perhaps much smaller. Santorum may well come out of New Hampshire with more momentum than Romney, since the bar there is so low for him, and since the boost he gets going in will be much bigger after fighting Romney to a draw in Iowa. That creates real danger for Romney as the two men head into South Carolina, a state where social conservatives predominate and Mormons struggle.

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Is the Tea Party a dog that runs away and tucks his tail down between his hind legs ?? - Iowa's big winner wasn't Romney or Santorum, but Obama. - Where are the wild crowds for Romney ?? - Where is the Republican Enthusiasm for Romney ??

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The Republican Nomination is very difficult but not impossible for Rick Santorum :

So all the Tea Partiers will become meek followers of Mitt Romney ?? - Or are they energetic enough to know that Santorum is the best possibility for them to have a conservative in the White House ??

The night that Obama won the Iowa caucuses in 2008, thousands of Obama supporters went wild with Enthusiasm and Energy to follow and work inside the Democratic primary contest.

Where is Republican Wild Enthusiasm, Vibrant Energy, Powerful Strength, Ideas, Force ??

How many people are going to sacrifice their time, money and comfort to support the Rich Guy, the Mormon Missionary that is "entitled" to the White House with the Blessing of Wall Street, Financiers, Banks and the richest people that want to avoid any possible taxes, even if they sink the nation in another depression like the one of 1930 and beyond.

Definitely, President Obama should be very happy watching the results while drinking a delicious cup of coffee in the White House.

Vicente Duque

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Mitt Romney, the Mormon Missionary - The establishment knew very well in 1960 that the Kennedys were playboys and that their Catholicism was BS and Opportunism - Mitt is another creature of another planet

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Mitt Romney, the Mormon Missionary :

Read the story of Mitt Romney : the anti Hippie, anti California, anti Woodstock, pro Vietnam War and Jingoist, anti Vietnam Protests, anti Modern World, the development of a Bigot, Jingoistic War Monger and pure sheer Mormon. A box of Uber Nationalism and enthusiastic believer in what is irrational fantasy.

This is NOT NOT NOT another "Catholic" John F. Kennedy. ( Catholic in name only )

Mitt Romney in Wikipedia


Some Excerpts :

In July 1966, Romney left for 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary, a traditional duty that his father and other relatives had done.[10][24][25] He arrived in Le Havre with ideas about how to change and promote the French Mission, while facing physical and economic deprivation in their cramped quarters.[25][26] Rules against drinking, smoking, and dating were strictly enforced.[26] Like most individual Mormon missionaries, he did not gain many converts, with the nominally Catholic but secular, wine-loving French people proving especially resistant to a religion that prohibits alcohol.[10][25][26][27] He became demoralized, and later recalled it as the only time when "most of what I was trying to do was rejected."[25] In Nantes, Romney was bruised defending two female missionaries against a horde of local rugby players.[26] He continued to work hard; having grown up in Michigan rather than the more insular Utah world, Romney was better able to interact with the French.[17][26] He was promoted to zone leader in Bordeaux in early 1968, then in the spring of that year became assistant to the mission president in Paris, the highest position for a missionary.[25][26][28] In the Mission Home in Paris he enjoyed palace-like accommodations.[28] Romney's support for the U.S. role in the Vietnam War was only reinforced when the French greeted him with hostility over the matter and he debated them in return.[25][26] He also witnessed the May 1968 general strike and student uprisings.[25]

In June 1968, an automobile Romney was driving in southern France was hit by another vehicle, seriously injuring him and killing one of his passengers, the wife of the mission president.[nb 4] Romney, who was not at fault in the accident,[nb 4] became co-acting president of a mission demoralized and disorganized by the May civil disturbances and by the car accident.[17] Romney rallied and motivated the others and they met an ambitious goal of 200 baptisms for the year, the most for the mission in a decade.[17] By the end of his stint in December 1968, Romney was overseeing the work of 175 fellow members.[25][29] Romney developed a lifelong affection for France and its people, and speaks French.[31] The experience in the country also changed him. It instilled in him a belief that life is fragile and that he needed seriousness of purpose. He also gained organizational experience and a record of success that he had theretofore lacked.[10][17][26][29] It also represented a crucible, after having been only a half-hearted Mormon growing up: "On a mission, your faith in Jesus Christ either evaporates or it becomes much deeper. For me it became much deeper."[25]

While he was away, Ann Davies had converted to the LDS Church, guided by George Romney, and had begun attending Brigham Young University.[10][21] Mitt was nervous that she had been wooed by others while he was away, and indeed she had dated others, but at their first meeting following his return they reconnected and decided to get married in two weeks but agreed to wait three months to appease their parents.[21][32] They were married on March 21, 1969, in a Bloomfield Hills civil ceremony presided over by a church elder; the following day the couple flew to Utah for a wedding ceremony at the Salt Lake Temple.[32][33]

Both Mitt and Ann Romney went to college at Brigham Young, where he gave the commencement address at graduation.

Romney began attending Brigham Young too.[9] He had missed much of the tumultuous American anti-Vietnam War movement while away, and was surprised to learn that his father had turned against the war during his ill-fated 1968 presidential campaign.[25] Regarding the military draft, Romney had initially gotten a student deferment, then like most other Mormon missionaries had received a ministerial deferment while in France, then got another student deferment.[25][34] When those ran out, his high number in the December 1969 draft lottery (300) meant he would not be selected.[13][25][34][35]

At culturally conservative Brigham Young, Romney continued to be separated from much of the upheaval of the era, and did not join in the few protests against the war or the LDS Church's policy at the time of denying full membership to blacks.[13][25] He became president and successful fundraiser for the all-male Cougar Club and showed a new-found discipline in his studies.[25] In his senior year he took leave to work as driver and advance man for his mother Lenore Romney's eventually unsuccessful 1970 campaign for U.S. Senator from Michigan.[13][32] He graduated from Brigham Young in 1971, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English and giving commencement addresses to both his own College of Humanities and to the whole university.

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Reverend Phillip Kayser says that Homosexuals should be executed and he is an enthusiastic supporter of Ron Paul - Ron Paul Campaign welcomed this Christian Bible Literalist and Bigot as a Great Contribution. - This shows the kind of Cretins that Ron Paul has as followers

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Ed Schultz talks with Mike Rogers from RawStory.com :

Ron Paul: "Execute Homosexuals".




Uploaded by libertyangel500 on Dec 30, 2011

Ed Schultz claims Ron Paul's team are happy with Philip Kayser's endorsement. Kayser calls for the execution of homosexuals in Texas.

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VIDEO, GOP Freakshow in Iowa : The collapse and ridiculous in Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry may do well, Ed Schultz, Mike Papantonio, Erin McPike of Real Clear Politics, E. J. Dionne of Washington Post

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Papantonio: GOP Freakshow Lands in Iowa


Uploaded by golefttv on Dec 31, 2011


Mike Papantonio appears on MSNBC's The Ed Show to talk about what we can expect from next week's Iowa caucus.

Papantonio: GOP Freakshow Lands in Iowa

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"Not only is it currently seen as unacceptable to suggest that minorities or women are not entitled to liberty or equal protection as they were not at the time of the Constitutional ratification, but neither do advocates of the living Constitution believe that the framers intended, or certainly demanded, that their 18th century practices be regarded as the permanent standard for these ideals"

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"Living Constitutionalists suggest that broad ideals such as "liberty" and "equal protection" were included in the Constitution precisely because they are timeless, due to their inherently dynamic nature. Liberty in 1791, it is argued, was never thought to be the same as liberty in 1591 or 1991, but rather was seen as a principle transcending the recognized rights of that day and age. Giving them a fixed and static meaning in the name of "originalism," thus, is said to violate the very theory it purports to uphold".

Originalists and Textualists hate "The Living Constitution" : Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Antonin Scalia, Judge Robert Bork.

1987 Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe ( great friend, mentor and professor of Obama in Harvard ) are "Living Constitution" friends.

"The Living Constitution" in Wikipedia


Some excerpts :

One of the arguments in support of the concept of a "living Constitution" is the concept that the Constitution itself is silent on the matter of constitutional interpretation. Proponents of the living Constitution assert that the Constitutional framers, most of whom were trained lawyers and legal theorists, were certainly aware of these debates; they also would have known the confusion that not providing a clear interpretive method would cause. Had the framers meant for future generations to interpret the Constitution in a specific manner, they could have indicated such within the Constitution itself.[29] The lack of guidance within the text of the Constitution suggests, therefore, that either: a) there was no such consensus, or b) the framers never intended any fixed method of constitutional interpretation.

Relating to the pragmatic argument, it is further argued that if judges were denied the opportunity to reflect on changes to modern society in interpreting the scope of Constitutional rights, the resulting Constitution either would not reflect current mores and values, or would necessitate a constant amendment process to reflect our changing society.

Another defense of the Living Constitution is based in viewing the Constitution not merely as law, but as a source of foundational concepts for the governing of society. Of course, laws must be fixed and clear so that people can understand and abide by them on a daily basis. But if the Constitution is more than a set of laws, if it provides guiding concepts which themselves will in turn provide the foundations for laws, then the costs and benefits of such an entirely fixed meaning are very different. The reason for this is simple: if a society locks itself into a previous generation's interpretive ideas, it will wind up either constantly attempting to change the Constitution to reflect changes, or simply scrapping the Constitution altogether. While we remain bound by the rights and powers provided in the Constitution, thus, the scope those rights and powers should account for society's present experiences. "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote in 1914: 'The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas....They are organic, living institutions.'" James, Leanoard Frank (1964). The Supreme Court in American Life. Chicago: Scott, Foresman. Pg. 159.

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