Ever since Ginrich’s downfall in Florida, Santorum has surged to the front runner position – once again.  Romney’s strategy has been simple and well played: don’t attack more than one enemy at once.  It worked for Napoleon, Germany, and Israel.  Fighting a multiple front war is usually a bad idea.  Instead all of these countries when they are/were successful tackled one enemy at a time in succession. That brings us back to Romney, who, in succession, has trained his fire on Perry, Cain, Ginrich (multiple times), and now Santorum.   It’s as if we’ve entered a rotating series of conflicts, with foes dying and subsequently re-appearing later on to challenge Kingdom Romney. Except that the other kingdoms are tattered countries without any gold, populated [...] Read more

Santorum’s biggest problem is the same as Gingrich’s: not enough money, not enough manpower. The feats that both campaigns managed to muster in Iowa and in South Carolina are breathtaking given that they were unlikely victories in the GOP nomination.  Who would have guessed that Gingrich would have made yet another comeback in this race?  And Santorum’s last minute rise in Iowa was predicted by just who? They’ve been running similar campaigns: appealing to anti-Romney votes including social conservatives, and defense hawks along with some passive courting of the Tea Party along the way.  The problem is Romney’s been around longer, he’s fund-raised more, and, he’s managed to keep himself far more disciplined than either Santorum or Gingrich. Gingrich’s campaign [...] Read more

Florida’s second debate this evening will doubtless improve on its first debate, held Jan. 23 at USF in Tampa. Everything about it was mediocre at best, painful at worst. The audience was asked to withhold its applause for the sake of a fluid debate – not that there was much to applaud for with answers to Beth Reinhard’s slanted and unnecessary questions. Gingrich’s sweeping win of South Carolina came after his impassioned response to John King’s question regarding alleged false allegations concerning his second ex-wife. His verbal slaughter of liberal-controlled media for daring to include such a question in the debate had the crowd on its feet, and landed him a large win coming out of that state. But here in Florida, a [...] Read more

If the Republican Nomination battle were to be compared to a time in history it would have to be feudal ages.  Numerous lords, everyone fighting each other, and no one single dominant overlord emerging victorious. Everyone hates everybody now.  I don’t think the word “hate” is too strong a word.  Romney hates Gingrich.  Santorum hates Romney.  Paul and Gingrich hate everybody.  It’s quite the love fest going on in the Republican party right now.  I don’t know a single person who hasn’t been called “not a true conservative.”  I’m starting to wonder who is anymore. As the battle field expands to New Hampshire, the electoral armies have re-organized themselves for South Carolina… Or at least you would figure they would. [...] Read more

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