via:http://shark-tank.net/2012/01/28/breaking-news-herman-cain-to-endorse-newt-gingrich

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ??  Really?  If this is exactly as it seems, then I am flabbergasted (which is an old-fashioned word that means stunned/surprised).

Breaking News- Herman Cain To Endorse Newt Gingrich for President

The Shark Tank has learned from a source close to the Newt Gingrich Campaign that Herman Cain will be endorsing Newt Gingrich for President…

YEP, from AP: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CAIN_GINGRICH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-01-28-21-29-08

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Like a lot of you out there I have been very surprised by the incredible character assassinations that most of our republican primary candidates have been subjected to.  By our own side.

I mean all of them but for Romney and Ron Paul.  “Silly Uncle” Ron Paul is basically treated with kid gloves,  as befitting the doddering old gentleman with the suicidal foreign policy ideas.  Ya just kind of want to pat him on the head and tuck him up under a patchwork quilt, don’t you? 

So, this leads us to wonder who is behind all of the vicious attacks.  The one against Cain for example.  Cain is by all appearances, a wonderful man.  Not, in my personal opinion, a man actually prepared to run for the presidency, but a terrific guy who has extremely impressive accomplishments, and favorably impressed millions of people.  But someone didn’t want to take the risk that Mr. Herman Cain could steal the thunder.  Maybe Romney, the “front runner”, didn’t like running second fiddle to a  new comer who had no political acumen.  

Then all of a sudden the “bimbo avalanche” began. 

That handed the radio guys a two-fer.  They got to subtly bash Cain, while pretending to be outraged at the terrible and “unsubstantiated” bimbo attacks against the man.  They herded Cain around the big spin corral, the whole time pretending to be on his side.  They kept those bimbos in your face nearly every second of their daily time slot. 

After the first couple of women emerged, we all knew it would not stop until Cain dropped out.  Cain was ruining the Romney “most electable” meme.   Oh, the talk radio guys were wonderfully supportive to Cain.  Oh, how they lamented the despicable tactics of “the left”.  But they never explained why the left was worked up over Cain, who had about as serious a shot at the nomination as does Ron Paul.  These guys knew, knew – that there was no way Cain would be able to hang in there.  Cain simply wasn’t well enough prepared on too many levels.  BUT, Cain was destroying the Romney myth, and Romney couldn’t trash him the way he did to Perry.  Nor would Cain helpfully fumble for words in the first batch of debates, making himself appear too gaffe prone to be taken seriously.

To seem balanced during their destruction of Herman Cain, the radio guys would occasionally focus a moment or two on Romneys Achilles heel , oh yes, by mentioning  Romneycare, but quickly back to Cains’ blond bimbo eruption. !!!! 

Before you knew it, Herman Cain was out, and Romney was back in the lead with his unchanged, but unimpressive, 25% (ish).

Now Newt is getting the treatment.  Unrelenting, character trashing, hysterical reactions to his win in South Carolina and sharp rise in the FL polls.

Listen, I want to ask those of you who read this to keep your own counsel.  Do not fall for the hype again.  Understand that Romney has NO numbers with the public, but the establishment wants him so badly, that they will viciously destroy men like Cain and Perry and now Newt.

Drudge, Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, Cupp, on and on,….. republicans all of them.  You know why I KNOW this is orchestrated?  For the same reason that you do.  The volume, the intensity, the timing. And it just feels so contrived.

Understand that good, level headed people are out here trying to stave off the attackers, those would be assassins of the Gingrich campaign. 

One is Professor Jacobson, who runs the famous Legal Insurrection blog.  Of this he said:

There is something truly obscene about the full blown assault on Newt Gingrich’s strong Reagan conservative history from and on behalf of Mitt Romney, who unabashedly ran away from the Reagan legacy and conservative principles in his 1994 Senate campaign and 2002 gubernatorial campaign. Truly obscene.

He has a couple of recent posts that I would ask you to read, time permitting, and PLEASE forward as far and wide as you can.  Don’t allow the establishment to rob you of your vote by lying to you.  A vote gained by filthy lies is a vote stolen.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/drudge-versus-history/

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/shock-video-of-newt-bashing-reagan-misleadingly-edited/  (short)

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/nancy-reagan-1995-ronnie-turned-that-torch-over-to-newt/

I don’t tweet or facebook – but if you do please send this information far and wide.  The next debate is tonight, and it is important that we spread the truth.

Thank you

UPDATE 1/26/2012 11:15 am EST – OBAMAS ATTORNEY WAS A NO SHOW.  MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT MEANS THIS WILL LIKELY GET BUMPED UP TO A HIGHER COURT ONCE EVERYTHING IS PRESENTED TODAY.  THE NEXT JUDGE MAY BE QUITE HAPPY TO DISMISS EVERYTHING OUT OF HAND, AND THIS MAY BE THE PLAN OF ACTION BY OBAMAS ATTORNEY.

David Weldon was up first, witness for Van Irion.
VAN IRION had 30 minutes to present his case.

Case # 2 Mark Hatfield, Attorney
Carl Swensson v Barack H. Obama Jr.

Case # 3 Orly Taitz up 2 hr. maximum
David Farrar et al v. Barack H. Obama Jr.
Apparently she pissed the Judge off before she even got started.

ORYR has a running commentary in the comment threat and links:

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/01/live-internet-video-feed-from-inside.html?showComment=1327590324319#c2755686850030327417

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obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/01/obamas-attorney-jablonski-slapped-down.html

I have read several accounts about this whole attempt to keep obama off of the GA ballot.  The colorful and tenacious Orly Taitz has something or the other pending.  As usual.

You know what?  More and more lately I have noticed a strident shrieking in the distance – it is Orly, and she is angry.  Angry, I tells ya.  She demands that we all pay homage to her for being the only being to consistently maintain the pressure on obama to produce his birth certificate from Africa, or Hawaii, and explain his social security number issued in Connecticut, and detail how he meets the requirements to be considered a natural born Citizen.  *GASP*  (deep breath in) 

And she has done it virtually single-handedly.  Just ask her.  She’ll tell you so.

Well, I take exception to that.  So do thousands of others.

Now lookit, I am not bashing Orly, she is what she is.  But I am not so desperate a “Birther” as to get all starry-eyed over her various attempts to ………. ah ……….. do something.  From very early on it has been quite clear that there are some paperwork, procedural and legal hurdles that Orly usually fails to clear.

Anyway, back to her current thingy.  Dean Haskins over at the Birther Summit.org has an honest, if somewhat unflattering to Orly, breakdown of what we can expect to see happen with Orly’s latest efforts in GA.  I’ll pop the link up, as well as a couple of quotes.  Out of order (of course).

http://www.birthersummit.org/news/75-has-orly-actually-won-won-won.html

Pay attention, because this is important, and it has happened in each of these “cases”  :

In the unlikelihood that Judge Malihi does not grant his amended Motion to Quash, there is something that is virtually guaranteed to happen: Obama not showing up to an administrative law hearing in the state of Georgia. Jablonski would appear on his behalf, and present a certified “birth certificate” and proof of residency for the past 14 years. As the certified “birth certificate” will be considered self-verifying by the court, nothing Orly will say will sway it.

Then this next excerpt, because I agree that this is the likely and EXPECTED outcome.  No, it is not what we “want”, but it is the humble reality of what is almost certain to occur.

Michael Jablonski submitted a sloppy, weak Motion to Quash. I’m sure he thought it would suffice with the judge—since the opposition were birthers; however, Judge Malihi obviously regards his role and the legal process much more seriously than that. And, because I’m sure he wants to make certain that, at the end of these HEARINGS (not trials), there is nothing that could be viewed as procedurally improper, he’s not going to grant the professional attorney involved any special favors. He will hold somebody accountable to understand the law, and I’ll leave it up to you to figure out whom that might be.

Here’s what will probably happen: after Jablonski recovers from his blanket party, he will likely file an amended Motion to Quash; and it will probably be one of the most thorough Motions to Quash in the history of Motions to Quash, and Judge Malihi will probably grant that motion.

Read the whole thing at TheBirtherSummit.org.  Link above.

UPDATE:

Oh, Breitbart has decided to notice the whoo-ha commencing in GA.  Item number 14.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9SCV4SO0&show_article=1

Yes folks, it turns out that on recounting the votes in Iowa Rick Santorum pulls ahead by 34 votes!

Remember how Romney clung to his eight vote superiority after the first count?  A win is a win was his meme. 

Now Santorum has been certified the winner.  Mr. Plastic Fantastic did NOT win both states. HA!

However, I must report that there are results missing from eight precincts.  Seems mysterious and very, very sloppy.  But the GOP is OK with that.  Wait, what………the GOP is OK with missing votes?  Who would have seen that coming?

And while Romney was allowed to crow about being a winner by eight whole votes, and riding around on the magic carpet of being only the second candidate to win both Iowa and New Hampshire since 1976, he now has to STFU about all of that.  Sadly though, he already claimed and used the benefits of that supposed Iowa/New Hampshire double win.  He got the media attention, the bump in polls, and the “electability” crown was placed squarely on his perfect hair-do.

Of course, the GOP being what it is, now wants to refer to this as a SPLIT DECISION.  No, GOP, it’s Santorums win.  By a larger margin than your boy Romney had.  Likely the other eight precincts would have buried Romney much further, and that’s why no one can find them anywhere.  OK, I know that’s just my own take – but I bet I’m right.

Full article at Newsmax: http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Santorum-Romney-Iowa-caucuses/2012/01/19/id/424714

THE RESULTS: Santorum finished ahead by 34 votes
MISSING DATA: 8 precincts’ numbers will never be certified
PARTY VERDICT:GOP official says, ‘It’s a split decision’

Rick Santorum – Final total: 29,839 Change: -168
Mitt Romney – Final total: 29,805 Change: -210

It’s a tie for the ages.

There are too many holes in the certified totals from the Iowa caucuses to know for certain who won, but Rick Santorum wound up with a 34-vote advantage.

Results from eight precincts are missing — any of which could hold an advantage for Mitt Romney — and will never be recovered and certified, Republican Party of Iowa officials told The Des Moines Register on Wednesday.

GOP officials discovered inaccuracies in 131 precincts, although not all the changes affected the two leaders. Changes in one precinct alone shifted the vote by 50 — a margin greater than the certified tally.

The certified numbers: 29,839 for Santorum and 29,805 for Romney. The turnout: 121,503.

And sadly, Rick Perry will be ending his campaign.  I will only say that I respected, and trusted him far more than any of the remaining candidates. I despise the radio personalities for putting Romney on a pedestal, all the while bashing the one candidate with the most conservative record, and the best plan to steer America back to sanity.

It is with a heavy heart, and increased fear for the future of our country, that I bid adieu to Rick Perry. 

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/12/video-rick-perrys-best-ad-yet

spoke so sincerely, eloquently and from the heart, that I had to copy it over here and feature it. Please take a moment, even if you are not a fan of Perrys’ in particular, to read what I consider a very patriotic and moving point of view.

I can see the vicious attacks on Governor Rick Perry escalating right now.  Far, far more from talking heads and republican establishment politicians than his “low poll numbers” could ever warrant.  It’s like Sarah Palin all over again.  Can we stand to lose yet another?

Why have all the radio talking heads steadfastly refused to hint that they are backing a particular candidate?  They all seem to defend Romney, and they seem to brush aside the fact that Romney has hardly been subjected to rigorous scrutiny, AS HE SHOULD BE.  Didn’t Hillary go aggressively after obama?  Didn’t she attempt to obliterate him?  In a fight – one fights.

The radio guys  gloss over the fact that there is a rapidly widening fundamental difference between a Conservative and Republican, and that the Conservatives must vote the “Republican” in because we have no other option.  Except staying home or voting for obama.

Here, read this, I had read something about this for the first time yesterday.  This information cleared up a bit of confusion for me.

The Bretton Woods globalist conference convened by Soros last year included Mittens, who bought Clear Channel Communications in 2006 (news radio like Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Savage, Noory, ever heard of them?). It isn’t so much the money he has or how he made it, as what he intends to do with it.

So, now I understand better why one minute Rush Limbaugh was slamming Mitt’s own self-comparison of his actions with Bain being the equivalent of obama taking over Chrysler, banks, etc., and then screeching that Perry is exactly like Hugo Chavez for applying the (admittedly lame) phrase “vulture capitalist” to some of Romneys Bain activities.

What an about face.  Didn’t we all think it was socialist for obama to take over the auto manufactures, not to mention a lot of what went on with the banks and big corporations?  And there is Romney – Mr. Presidential shoo-in – stating that his work with Bain was just the same sort of thing that obama pulled, nothing to see folks!

But Newt and Perry are out of bounds and acting like fascists for pointing out the down-side of some things “capitalist”?

It’s not as though Bain is all Main St. Mr. Mom and Pop.  Crony capitalism isn’t at all the same as the Joe the Plumber brand of capitalism.

You know what I think?  Mitt Romney is the odds-on favorite for the GOP nomination primarily because he is the one with experience running for president, at least as far as the PUBLIC is concerned.  I think he’s the chosen one for the establishment because he is the opposite of a Tea Party conservative, and the entrenched ones are terrified to get anyone in there that they can’t be certain will continue the debauchery in DC.

I was pleased that Sarah Palin popped up and said that Romney needs to address this, and release his tax records.  I agree with her.  I think Newt and Perry need to keep after Romney, but in a smarter and more strategic way. 

Read this on a comment thread somewhere today, and I agree with it completely:

If Newt and Perry, by pointing out business practices they do not agree with are “attacking the core of capitalism and endangers capitalism,” then attacking Newt and Perry for democratic elections campaigning practices Romney and his supporters may not agree with, is nothing less than a full on frontal asault on Democracy itself, and if you do not stop it, our entire way of life will cease to exist!

Little dramatic, and not a very well structured sentence – but you get the point.

Get you some.

SNIP:

To paraphrase Reagan, Mitt Romney is from the government and he’s here to help you. In the end, this is the Mitt we’d see in a general election, as he pivots back and tries to out Obama Obama in one fashion, or another. That will depend on what the polls tell him to say, I imagine.

MORE:

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Correction: In 2003 Romney Channels Obama

Update: My bad. I should have linked the shorter clip at RCP, too. The video below is from 2003. Change!

You have to break down what Romney is actually saying here to fully grasp it. Video below. What it demonstrates is Romney’s Progressivism. I’d wager he’s trying to spin away his business past, given that it was 1993 2003. He claims he disagrees with the classical Republican view of getting out of the way of corporations to allow them to thrive. The only thing that can mean is regulation and taxation.

He defines the Democrats as believing in investing in government. He then pivots to claim that in contrast to those two views, he believes in “people.” But that’s where the spin unravels, as he doesn’t stop there. He goes on to say that in his view we must invest in people and to give them more freedom. At this point, he’s merely spouting gobbledygook. Government doesn’t bestow freedom when it acts, it always curtails it for some, if not all.

If he really believed in liberty, he’d say government should get out of their way. Instead, he says government should invest in them. Hello, that is precisely the progressive Democrat view he had just disavowed. It’s a lot of fancy words to say that he is, in fact, a progressive, if not a Democrat. Government can’t “invest” in people unless it taxes some to give to others – that’s wealth distribution in one form, or another.

In reality, he is saying precisely what Obama would say on the stump today. Liberty is not his focus, his focus is using government to give people “freedom” via education, or what have you. It’s a mash if you break it down but in the end it is pure Obama. Government must help people, left to their own device, they are incapable of succeeding. To paraphrase Reagan, Mitt Romney is from the government and he’s here to help you. In the end, this is the Mitt we’d see in a general election, as he pivots back and tries to out Obama Obama in one fashion, or another. That will depend on what the polls tell him to say, I imagine.

Dan on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 05:20 PM