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Is Donald Trump Secretly Helping Hillary Clinton?

Trump and Hillary

When Donald Trump first began his run for the presidency, it came to light that Hillary Clinton attended his wedding. Then it came out that Donald Trump called the Clintons to talk just before he started his run for the presidency in August 2015. All of this was quite suspicious, but when I saw this video of Trump praising Clinton’s performance as Secretary of State and supporting a potential run for the presidency, something hit me–a flashback to earlier times–Bill Clinton’s presidential races in the 1990s.

It occurred to me that Trump has also run or talked about running for president before, but he didn’t run in 2012. He talked about it, and seemed to have the election locked up at one time. That was a little odd because Clinton did not run in 2012 either. It makes sense that Clinton didn’t run because the democrats had a sitting presidential candidate. However, there is no similar reason that Trump didn’t run as a republican, especially with the lead that he had in the polls.

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Then another thought came to me from decades past. When Bill Clinton ran in 1992 and 1996, Ross Perot also ran. Isn’t it strange how fortune seems to shine on the Clintons and hands them a crazy billionaire candidate to split the vote and help them win? How odd it is that these candidates never spring up otherwise.

That isn’t all. In 1992 when Ross Perot ran, he also dropped out of the race for a while, right after Bill Clinton accepted the nomination and was riding high in the polls. He jumped back in later, perhaps when Clinton failed to dominate the race. In the end, Perot got 19% of the vote gave Clinton the election by running a conservative, populist campaign. He did the same in 1996 for Bill Clinton’s reelection.

Hillary Clinton explained her relationship to Donald Trump his way.

For conservatives who are thinking about voting for Trump, there is a great deal to consider. Donald Trump has a long history of supporting liberals and liberal causes.

The video below is a set of clips of liberal statements by Trump that has been collected by an opposition PAC. It is bound to create serious doubts issues for conservatives.

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January 24, 2016 at 9:46 pm Comments (0)

Mitt Romney Asks for Support: “It’s Our Time”

In a new powerful Republican National Committee ad that calls for supporters to get involved, Mitt Romney lays out a strong case for his presidency. To get involved, the RNC recommends that you go to http://www.GOP.com and sign up to get involved.

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September 13, 2012 at 11:55 am Comments (0)

The Genius of Clint Eastwood at the RNC

Clint Eastwood’s speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention was pure genius. I think almost everyone who watched it was fooled into thinking that Clint was suffering mild bouts of senility. What occurred to me while I was watching it live was that Clint Eastwood still had amazing timing, despite seeming to have lost his way. I thought, “Wow, he still has better timing than most of the other speakers, even at 82 with his mind failing.”

When I read this article by Mark Steyn, it all made sense. Clint’s brain is fine, and he’s amazingly sharp–so much so that his brazen Columbo act fooled almost everyone.

Why would Clint act this part? That’s easy. In this form, he could attack Barack Obama at will without any danger of the common charges of racism. This speech from Eastwood is laden with hard-hitting facts that seem to pop out of the ether into his muddled head. The truth stands there unassailable. What can the democrats do? Will they beat up a helpless old man? No, and the best part is that the video of Clint Eastwood has gone viral.

Don’t believe that it was all an act? Watch it again and notice how Clint’s voice deepens as he delivers each hard factual punch line. The transcript is given below.

EASTWOOD: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Save a little for Mitt.

I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, what’s a movie tradesman doing out here? You know they are all left wingers out there, left of Lenin. At least that is what people think. That is not really the case. There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

So — but they are there, believe me, they are there. I just think, in fact, some of them around town, I saw John Voigt, a lot of people around.

John’s here, an academy award winner. A terrific guy. These people are all like-minded, like all of us.

So I — so I’ve got Mr. Obama sitting here. And he’s — I was going to ask him a couple of questions. But — you know about — I remember three and a half years ago, when Mr. Obama won the election. And though I was not a big supporter, I was watching that night when he was having that thing and they were talking about hope and change and they were talking about, yes we can, and it was dark outdoors, and it was nice, and people were lighting candles.

They were saying, I just thought, this was great. Everybody is trying, Oprah was crying.

EASTWOOD: I was even crying. And then finally — and I haven’t cried that hard since I found out that there is 23 million unemployed people in this country.

Now that is something to cry for because that is a disgrace, a national disgrace, and we haven’t done enough, obviously — this administration hasn’t done enough to cure that. Whenever interest they have is not strong enough, and I think possibly now it may be time for somebody else to come along and solve the problem.

So, Mr. President, how do you handle promises that you have made when you were running for election, and how do you handle them?

I mean, what do you say to people? Do you just — you know — I know — people were wondering — you don’t — handle that OK. Well, I know even people in your own party were very disappointed when you didn’t close Gitmo. And I thought, well closing Gitmo — why close that, we spent so much money on it. But, I thought maybe as an excuse — what do you mean shut up?

OK, I thought maybe it was just because somebody had the stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York City.

I’ve got to to hand it to you. I have to give credit where credit is due. You did finally overrule that finally. And that’s — now we are moving onward. I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that’s okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean — you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the Russians to see how did it — they did there for 10 years.

But we did it, and it is something to be thought about, and I think that, when we get to maybe — I think you’ve mentioned something about having a target date for bringing everybody home. You gave that target date, and I think Mr. Romney asked the only sensible question, you know, he says, “Why are you giving the date out now? Why don’t you just bring them home tomorrow morning?”

And I thought — I thought, yeah — I am not going to shut up, it is my turn.

So anyway, we’re going to have — we’re going to have to have a little chat about that. And then, I just wondered, all these promises — I wondered about when the — what do you want me to tell Romney? I can’t tell him to do that. I can’t tell him to do that to himself.

You’re crazy, you’re absolutely crazy. You’re getting as bad as Biden.

Of course we all now Biden is the intellect of the Democratic party.

Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

But I just think that there is so much to be done, and I think that Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan are two guys that can come along. See, I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to the president, anyway.

I think attorneys are so busy — you know they’re always taught to argue everything, and always weight everything — weigh both sides.

They are always devil’s advocating this and bifurcating this and bifurcating that. You know all that stuff. But, I think it is maybe time — what do you think — for maybe a businessman. How about that?

A stellar businessman. Quote, unquote, “a stellar businessman.”

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane.

Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

You are an — an ecological man. Why would you want to drive that around?

OK, well anyway. All right, I’m sorry. I can’t do that to myself either.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we — we own this country.

We — we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

And — so — they are just going to come around and beg for votes every few years. It is the same old deal. But I just think it is important that you realize , that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Okay, just remember that. And I’m speaking out for everybody out there. It doesn’t hurt, we don’t have to be

I do not say that word anymore. Well, maybe one last time.

We don’t have to be — what I’m saying, we do not have to be metal (ph) masochists and vote for somebody that we don’t really even want in office just because they seem to be nice guys or maybe not so nice guys, if you look at some of the recent ads going out there, I don’t know.

But OK. You want to make my day?

All right. I started, you finish it. Go ahead.

AUDIENCE: Make my day!

EASTWOOD: Thank you. Thank you very much.

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September 3, 2012 at 3:00 pm Comment (1)

Paul Ryan’s Entire Speech at the RNC in 2012

Hello, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
very much.
Hey, Wisconsin. Thank you. Thank you.
Thanks so much. Thank you.
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellows citizens, I am honored
by the support of this convention for vice president of the
United States.
(APPLAUSE)
I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs
crisis and back to prosperity. And I know we can do this.
(APPLAUSE)
I accept the calling of my generation to give our children
the America that was given to us with opportunity for the young
and security for the old. And I know that we are ready. Our
nominee is sure ready.
His whole life prepared him for this moment. To meet
serious challenges in a serious way. Without excuses. After
four years of getting the runaround, America needs a turnaround
and the man for the job as Governor Mitt Romney.
(APPLAUSE)
I’m the newcomer to this campaign. So let me share a first
impression. I have never seen opponents so silent about their
record, and so desperate to keep their power. They have run out
of ideas. Their moment came and went. Fear and division is all
they’ve got left. With all of their attack ads the president is
just throwing away money.

And he is pretty experienced at that.
(APPLAUSE)
You see, some people can’t be dragged down by the usual
cheap tactics. Because their character, ability, and plain
decency are so obvious. These and deployment, that is Mitt
Romney.
(APPLAUSE)
For my part, your nomination is an unexpected turn. It
certainly came as news to my family.
(LAUGHTER)
And I’d like you to meet them. My best friend and wife
Janna, my daughter Liza and our boys Charlie and Sam.
(APPLAUSE)
The kids are happy to see their grandma who lives in
Florida. There she is, my mom, Betty.
(APPLAUSE)
My dad, a small town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we
lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life.
I’d like to think he’d be proud of me and my sister and
brothers.
(APPLAUSE)
You know what?
(APPLAUSE)
I’m sure proud of him and where I come from, Janesville,
Wisconsin.
(APPLAUSE)
I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the
same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of
place. The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I’ve
tried to live up to their trust. And now, I ask those
hardworking men and women and millions like them across America
to join our cause and get this country working again.
(APPLAUSE)
When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said
let’s get this done. And that is exactly what we are going to
do.
(APPLAUSE)
President Barack Obama, came to office during an economic
crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two. Those are very
tough days. And any fair measure of his record has to take that
into account. My own state voted for President Obama. When he
talked about change, many people liked the sound of it.
Especially in Janesville where we were about to lose a major
factory. A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at
that G.M. plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama
said, “I believe that if our government is there to support you,
this plant will be here for another 100 years.”
That’s what he said in 2008. Well, as it turned out, that
plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to
this day. And that’s how it is in so many towns where the
recovery that was promised is no where in sight. Right now, 23
million men and women are struggling to find work. 23 million
people unemployed or underemployed. Nearly one in six Americans
is in poverty. Millions of young Americans have graduated from
college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts
and get moving in life.
Half of them can’t find the work they studied for, or any
work at all. So here’s the question, without a change in
leadership, why would the next four years be any different from
the last four years?
(APPLAUSE)
The first troubling sign came with the stimulus. President
Obama’s first and best shot at fixing the economy. At a time
when he got everything he wanted under one party rule. It cost
$831 billion. The largest one-time expenditure ever by our
federal government.

It went to companies like Solyndra, with their
gold-plated connections, subsidized jobs and make believe
markets.
The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate
welfare anachronism at their worst.
(APPLAUSE)
You — you the American people of this country were cut out
of the deal. What did taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus?
More debt. That money wasn’t just spent and wasted, it was
borrowed, spent and wasted.
(APPLAUSE)
Maybe the greatest waste of all, was time. Here we were
faced with a massive job crisis so deep that if everyone out of
work stood in single file, that unemployment line would stretch
the length of the entire American continent.
You would think that any president, whatever his party,
would make job creation and nothing else his first order of
economic business, but this president didn’t do that. Instead,
we got a long, divisive, all or nothing attempt to put the
federal government in charge of health care.
(CROWD BOOS)
Obama Care comes to more than 2,000 pages of rules,
mandates, taxes, fees and fines that have no place in a free
country.
(APPLAUSE)
That’s right. That’s right.
You know what? The president has declared that the debate
over government controlled health care is over. That will come
as news to the millions of American who will elect Mitt Romney
so we can repeal Obama Care.
(APPLAUSE)
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obama Care
came at the expense of the elderly. You see, even with all the
hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with the
new law and new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the
planners in Washington still didn’t have enough money; they
needed more. They needed hundreds of billions more. So they
just took it all away from Medicare, $716 billion funneled out
of Medicare by President Obama.
(CROWD BOOS)
An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is
being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn’t
even ask for.
(APPLAUSE)
The greatest threat to Medicare is Obama Care and we’re
going to stop it.
(APPLAUSE)
In Congress, when they take out the heavy books and the
wall charts about Medicare, my thoughts go back to a house on
Garfield Street in Janesville. My wonderful grandma, Janet, had
Alzheimer’s and she moved in with mom and me. Though she felt
lost at times, we did all the little things that made her feel
loved. We had help from Medicare and it was there, just like
it’s there for my mom today. Medicare is a promise and we will
honor it. A Romney-Ryan Administration with protect and
strengthen Medicare for my mom’s generation, for my generation
and for my kids and yours.
(APPLAUSE)
So our opponents can consider themselves on notice. In
this election, on this issue , the usual posturing on the Left
isn’t going to work. Mitt Romney and I know the difference
between protecting a program and raiding it. Ladies and
gentlemen, our nation needs this debate, we want this debate, we
will win in this debate.
(APPLAUSE)
Obamacare, as much as anything else, explains why a
presidency that began with such anticipation now comes to such a
disappointing close. It began with a financial crisis. It ends
with a job crisis. It began with a housing crisis they alone
didn’t cause. It ends with a housing crisis they didn’t
correct.
(APPLAUSE)
It began with a perfect AAA credit rating for the United
States. It ends with the downgraded America . It all started
off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of
something new. Now all that’s left is a presidency adrift,
surviving on slogans that already seem tired., grasping at the
moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on
yesterday’s wind.
(APPLAUSE)
You know, President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect
on any mistakes he might have made. He said, “Well, I haven’t
communicated enough.”
(LAUGHTER)
He said his job is to, quote, “tell a story to the American
people”. As if that is the whole problem here? He needs to talk
more and we need to be better listeners?
(LAUGHTER)
Ladies and gentlemen, these past four years, we have
suffered no shortage of words in the White House.
(APPLAUSE)
What is missing is leadership in the White House.
(APPLAUSE)
And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting
blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man
assumed office almost four years ago. Isn’t it about time he
assumed responsibility?
(APPLAUSE)
In this generation, a defining responsibility of government
is to steer our nation clear of a debt crisis while there is
still time. Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion
national debt unpatriotic. Serious talk from what looked like a
serious reformer. By his own decisions, President Obama has
added more debt than any other president before him.
And more than all the troubled governments of Europe
combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.
He created a new bipartisan debt commission. They came back
with an urgent report. He thanks them, sent them on their way,
and then did exactly nothing.
AUDIENCE: Boo.
RYAN: Republicans stepped up with good-faith reforms and
solutions equal to the problems. How did the president respond?
By doing nothing — nothing except to dodge and demagogue the
issue.
So here we are, $16 trillion in debt and still he does
nothing. In Europe, massive debts have put entire governments at
risk of collapse, and still he does nothing. And all we have
heard from this president and his team are attacks on anyone who
dares to point out the obvious.
They have no answer to this simple reality: We need to stop
spending money we don’t have.
(APPLAUSE)
Very simple. Not that hard.
My Dad used to say to me: “Son. You have a choice: You
can be part of the problem, or you can be part of the solution.”
The present administration has made its choices. And Mitt
Romney and I have made ours: Before the math and the momentum
overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation’s economic
problems.
(APPLAUSE)
And I’m going to level with you: We don’t have that much
time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do
this.
After four years of government trying to divide up the
wealth, we will get America creating wealth again.
(APPLAUSE)
With tax fairness and regulatory reform, we’ll put
government back on the side of the men and women who create
jobs, and the men and women who need jobs.
My Mom started a small business, and I’ve seen what it
takes. Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every
weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison.
She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her
small business. It wasn’t just a new livelihood. It was a new
life. And it transformed my Mom from a widow in grief to a
small businesswoman whose happiness wasn’t just in the past.
Her work gave her hope. It made our family proud.
And to this day, my Mom is my role model.
(APPLAUSE)
Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing.
All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants,
cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores, these didn’t come
out of nowhere. A lot of heart goes into each one.
And if small business people say they made it on their own,
all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week
in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the
door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and
worrying, and sweating for them.
After all that work, and in a bad economy, it sure doesn’t
help to hear from their president that government gets the
credit. What they deserve to hear is the truth: Yes, you did
build that.
(APPLAUSE)
We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal
of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
(APPLAUSE)
In a clean break — in a clean break from the Obama years,
and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep
federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. Because that is
enough.
(APPLAUSE)
The choice — the choice is whether to put hard limits on
economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and
we choose to limit government.
(APPLAUSE)
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America,
from the author of the Reagan tax reforms, the great Jack Kemp.
(APPLAUSE)
What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in
the possibilities of free people, in the power of free
enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and
despair. We need that same optimism right now.
And in our dealings with other nations, a Romney-Ryan
administration will speak with confidence and clarity. Whenever
men and women rise up for their own freedom, they will know that
the American president is on their side.
(APPLAUSE)
Instead — instead of managing American decline, leaving
allies to doubt us and adversaries to test us, we will act in
the conviction that the United States is still the greatest
force for peace and liberty that this world has ever known.
(APPLAUSE)
President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises
on the record, and then calls that the record.
(LAUGHTER)
But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is
not the economy that Barack Obama inherited, not the economy as
he envisions, but this economy that we are living.
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in
their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and
wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
(APPLAUSE)
Everyone — everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy
is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you
understand this too, if you’re feeling left out or passed by:
You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.
(APPLAUSE)
None of us — none of us have to settle for the best this
administration offers, a dull, adventureless journey from one
entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country
where everything is free but us.
(APPLAUSE)
Listen to the way we’re already spoken to — listen to the
way we are spoken to already, as if everyone is stuck in some
class or station in life, victims of circumstances beyond our
control, with government there to help us cope with our fate.

It’s the exact opposite of everything I learned
growing up in Wisconsin, or at college in Ohio.
(APPLAUSE)
Now when I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing
lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some
station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an
American journey, where I could think for myself, decide for
myself, define happen as for myself. That is what we do in this
country. That is the American dream.
(APPLAUSE)
That’s freedom and I will take it any day over the
supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
(APPLAUSE)
The failures of one administration are not a mandate for a
new administration. A challenger must stand on his own merits.
He must be ready and worthy to serve in the office of president.
We are a full generation apart, Governor Romney and I. And
in some ways, we are different. There are the songs in his
Ipod, which I have heard on the campaign bus…
(LAUGHTER)
… and I have heard it on many hotel elevators.
(LAUGHTER)
He actually urged me to play some of these songs at
campaign rallies. I said, “look, I hope it is not a deal
breaker Mitt, but my playlist starts with AC/DC and it ends with
Zeppelin.
(APPLAUSE)
A generation apart — a generation apart, but that does not
matter. It makes us different but not in any of the things that
matter. Mitt Romney and I both grew up in the Heartlands, and
we know what places like Wisconsin and Michigan look like when
times are good.
(APPLAUSE)
We know what these communities look like when times are
good, when people are working, when families are doing more than
just getting by, and we know it can be that way again. We have
had very different careers, mainly in public service, his mostly
in the private sector. He helped start businesses and turn
around failing ones, and by the way being successful in
business, that’s a good thing.
(APPLAUSE)
Mitt — Mitt has not only succeeded, but he has succeeded
where others could not. He turned around the Olympics at a time
when a great institution was collapsing under the weight of bad
management, overspending and corruption. Sounds kind of
familiar, doesn’t it?
(APPLAUSE)
He was the Republican governor of a state where almost nine
in 10 legislators are Democrats and yet he balanced the budget
without raising taxes. Unemployment went down. Household
incomes went up, and Massachusetts under Governor Mitt Romney
saw its credit rating upgraded.
(APPLAUSE)
Mitt and I also go to different churches, but in any
church, the best kind of preaching is done by example, and I’ve
been watching that example.
(APPLAUSE)
The man who will accept your nomination is prayerful and
faithful and honorable. Not only a defender of marriage, he
offers an example of marriage at its best. Not only a fine
businessman, he is a fine man, worthy of leading this optimistic
and good-hearted country. Our faiths come together in the same
moral creed. We believe that in every life, there is goodness,
for every person there is hope. Each one of us was made for a
reason, bearing the image and likeness of the lord of life.
(APPLAUSE)
RYAN: We have responsibilities, one to another. We do not
each face the world alone. And the greatest of all
responsibilities, is that of the strong to protect the weak.
The truest measure of any society is how it treats those who
cannot defend or care for themselves.
(APPLAUSE)
Each of these great moral ideas is essential to democratic
government, to the rule of law, to life in a humane and decent
society. They are the moral creed of our country, as powerful
in our time, as on the day of America’s founding. They are
self-evident and unchanging, and sometimes, even presidents need
reminding, that our rights come from nature and God, and not
from government.
(APPLAUSE)
The founding generation secured those rights for us, and in
every generation since, the best among us have defended our
freedoms. They are protecting us right now. We honor them and
all our veterans, and we thank them.
(APPLAUSE)
The right that makes all the difference now, is the right
to choose our own leaders. And you are entitled to the clearest
possible choice, because the time for choosing is drawing near.
So here is our pledge.
We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.
We will not spend the next four years blaming others, we
will take responsibility.
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will
reapply our founding principles.
(APPLAUSE)
The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best
of all of us — all of us, but we can do this — we can do this
. Together, we can do this.
We can get this country working again. We can get this
economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again.
We can do this.
Whatever your political party, let’s come together for the
sake of our country. Join Mitt Romney and me. Let’s give this
effort everything we have. Let’s see this through all the way.
Let’s get this done.
Thank you, and God bless.

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August 30, 2012 at 1:02 pm Comments (0)

Newt’s Third Party Run and Rise of Santorum

I have been documenting the so-called conservative media’s attempt to hijack the primary for Mitt Romney. The media’s strategy constists of two parts: Some, like Matt Drudge and Ann Coulter, have been hammering Romney’s conservative challengers, particularly Newt Gingrich (click the image to the left to see for yourself). Others, like Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin, have been promoting conservative alternatives, like Rick Santorum, in an effort to split the conservative vote.

The establishment forces for Romney hit a fever pitch after Newt Gingrich trounced Mitt Romney in South Carolina. The National Review and others smeared Newt as an opponent of Ronald Reagan. The lies were coordinated with attack ads that Mitt Romney was running at the time. On a thursday January 26, 2012, a day that will live on in infamy for conservatives, Drudge linked it all together on his website.

In response, Michael Reagan came out to defend Newt Gingrich and his true legacy of working with and supporting Ronald Reagan. Newt Gingrich and his supporters spread a video of Nancy Reagan proudly proclaiming that Ronald Reagan had “passed the torch” onto Newt. However, all of it was too late to correct the lies before the election.

Additionally, Michelle Malkin and the Limbaughs came out to endorse Santorum in an effort to split the conservative vote. A parade of has-beens, including Tom Delay and Bob Dole, were brought out by the republican establishment to smear Newt’s record. Ann Coulter wrote an article entitled “Re-Elect Obama: Vote Newt!” The coordinated attack was so obvious that even many liberal media outlets took notice.

The result was that Newt Gingrich went from a commanding lead in the polls in Florida to wide loss by the time the election took place. The establishment and their comrades in the press cheered. All of their attacks, along with Mitt’s multi-million dollar attack ad bonanza, had secured victory for Mitt Romney, and he went on to win in Nevada too. Everything was finally right with the world, they thought.

However, something was not quite right. Newt gave a concession speech after Florida where he said what many interpreted as a hint at a third party run. He said that he would no longer run a “Republican campaign but a people’s campaign.” Whether Newt meant it or not is hard to say, but many of Newt’s supporters picked up the idea of a third party run and vowed not to back Mitt.

Other troubling signs existed in Mitt Romney’s wins. The voter turnout in South Carolina was up 35% from 2008, where Newt won. In Nevada and Florida, the turnout was way down. Romney’s campaign had been strictly negative, and it showed.

It has become increasingly apparent that Mitt Romney can not win the general election and that conservatives voters are likely to go to a third party or stay home. Worse still for the old conservative media, people have been tuning them out (I have switched to Newsmax, CNS, American Thinker, etc.).

What could the old media to do? They decided to take the farce and run with it. They all got behind the other anti-Romney candidate, Rick Santorum, and pushed him to a three-state sweep: MN, CO, and MO.

Will the old media continue to back Rick Santorum? Will Mitt Romney come back? Will Newt stay in and attempt a comeback or plan for a third party run?

If Mitt Romney does manage to win the nomination at this point, conservatives will need a third party candidate. Mitt Romney would lose anyway, but having him as the leader of the party would leave the base so despondent that the Republican Congress would suffer greatly. A third party run by Newt Gingrich would not only have a chance of winning, but it would be the best method for getting conservatives to the polls.

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February 8, 2012 at 3:22 pm Comment (1)

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