- With a solid win in the Michigan primary, supposedly
a "make it or break it" contest for Romney, the establishment
is now going to have it's hands full trying to stop the surge for Romney.
The media claimed Romney's grasp of the economy was what propelled him
to victory in Michigan. Not so. It was just bad, old-fashioned pandering
to a depressed economic area, promising federal help-though avoiding the
word "bailout." Romney is not taking the high road of a Ron Paul,
who would never stoop to promising benefits. This, sadly, makes Ron Paul
less electable and easier for the establishment to dismiss. But Romney
is playing the establishment game with the best, and that is the establishment's
problem. As Romney tries to appeal to a wide audience, the election insiders
are having to promote 3 different candidates, in different ways and at
different times, in order to stop various aspects of the Romney appeal.
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- First, they are continuing to use Governor/Pastor Mike
Huckabee's pull with Evangelical Christians to undercut Romney's support
among conservative Christians. This, however, will only be viable during
the primaries of Southern states. It won't work once the Christian voters
have to choose between Romney and McCain, or Romney vs. Giuliani. They'll
go for Romney, just because the others are worse--how much worse only the
far right really knows. Huckabee probably can't win against Clinton anyway
because independents and liberals fear his "changing the constitution
to match God's law." Even though this is just campaign rhetoric telling
his people what they want to hear, the PTB don't want any more God in American
life--even if only verbally acknowledged. So they have to dump Huckabee
as soon as he has done his job undercutting Romney.
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- Second, the media manipulators organized a phony bandwagon
surge of newspaper endorsements on behalf of Sen. John McCain in order
to compete against Romney's attraction to the liberal/moderate wing of
the Republican Party. That failed in Iowa, but succeeded in New Hampshire--and
there only because Democrats and Independents crossed over and voted in
the Republican primary. Among Republicans, Romney polled higher. In Michigan,
which was a test of McCain's appeal to Republicans, McCain failed, despite
the endorsement of a former Michigan governor. Republicans know all too
well that McCain is a social liberal.
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- Third, the establishment is waiting for Florida and Super
Tuesday to see if their top choice, Rudy Giuliani can get back into the
race. The larger states have a much higher degree of corruption built into
the voting machinery, so they may just be able to pull off a "miracle"
for Rudy. But that's a big if and a big risk. Exit polls are growing nemesis
of vote fraud, essentially limiting fraud to 10-15% --so it can be explained
away. But, that percentage of fraud is usually enough to change the overall
result.
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- What the establishment can't explain away are Giuliani's
very low vote numbers --which make earlier pre-election polls of nearly
50% support look like outright lies. The word is out: Giuliani is corrupt,
a cross dresser, a womanizer (at government security expense) and pro-abortion.
And no amount of media downplay can stuff that cat back into the bag. Even
Ron Paul, the establishment's arch enemy, the hero of the anti-war and
pro-constitution movement, out-polled Giuliani in both Iowa and Michigan,
and came close in NH. In Michigan "Dr. No" got more than 52,000
votes or 6.3% of the total Republican ballots--double Giuliani's numbers.
Giuliani's campaign is broke and his staff is working without salary. This
can't go on for long.
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- Paul also beat former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee.
If Thompson doesn't pull off a win in South Carolina (unlikely due to the
media push for Huckabee) he will have to bow out of the race soon. My old
boss at Conservative Digest Richard Viguerie (the conservative fundraising
wizard) has launched a new website to support Ron Paul. Good for him. He
called Paul "a truly principled conservative in the grand tradition
of Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan....Paul just keeps picking
up his 6% to 10% each time there's a vote."
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- That won't be enough to win, but it will give Congressman
Paul some negotiating power at the convention over who is finally picked.
It might also translate into a third party run which his ardent supporters
will surely demand. Being able to pull 5-10% of the votes nationally could
deny a win to the Republican in the general election. While most conservatives
are used to voting for the "lesser of two evils," they don't
realize the movement would be better to have even Hillary Clinton as president
than another globalist Republican. At least conservatives would fight against
the legislative and globalist agenda she would pursue. I repeat that the
only reason I think the PTB want Hillary as the Democratic nominee is to
create sufficient backlash within the "hate Hillary" movement
to elect another globalist Republican. A Ron Paul independent candidacy
could put a monkey wrench into that plan.
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- Romney is being careful to play where he can win. He
is basically conceding the South Carolina primary, with its high concentration
of Evangelicals, and is concentrating on Nevada which has nearly as many
Republican delegates at stake, but is much more friendly to him. Few are
aware that Nevada, despite its corrupt night life reputation, has a high
concentration of average people with normal day jobs including thousands
of Mormons--who are supporting Romney in high numbers (except for the minority
of Nevada Mormons who are followers of constitutional scholar W. Cleon
Skousen (my uncle). These are almost all backing Ron Paul--so we could
see a Romney/Paul one-two punch in that state. The big casino operators
are, naturally, backing the democrats. No surprise there.
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- Breaking news: The Nevada State GOP has thrown a huge
monkey wrench into Saturday's caucuses by posting dozens of incorrect caucus
meeting locations on its website--that contradict what the county GOP is
posting. Despite the Ron Paul campaign's attempt to get an immediate clarification
and fix, the GOP seems to be stalling until the last minute. This smells
fishy--could be a brazen attempt to keep thousands of GOP caucus goers
driving around Nevada in a vain attempt to find out where to meet and vote.
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- MORE MEDIA EVIDENCE OF THE PLOT AGAINST ROMNEY
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- I don't usually quote neocon/Bush cheerleader Ann Coulter,
but this week on Worldnetdaily.com she did write an excellent summary of
the obvious media attack on Romney [my comments in brackets]:
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- "The candidate Republicans should be clamoring for
the one liberals are feverishly denouncing [I don't subscribe to that,
as that is no guarantee the person is principled. In this case, it is because
Romney is not an insider and may not be controllable.] That is Mitt Romney
by a landslide. New York Times columnist Frank Rich says Romney 'is trying
to sell himself as a leader,' but he 'is actually a follower and a panderer,
as confirmed by his flip-flops on nearly every issue.' [The flip flops
are true, but they happen to be in the right direction. Romney is anything
but a follower, though he acts like it sometimes because he is too hungry
for votes from people already corrupted by government promises and benefits.
Pat Buchanan points out the flip flops of McCain and Giuliani on immigration:
"Before the race began, Giuliani was a sanctuary city mayor, McCain
an amnesty man and Huckabee favored letting illegal aliens compete for
state scholarships. Now, after being battered at a thousand town meetings
and on a thousand talk shows, all of them sound like Tom Tancredo."]
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- "But Rich is in a swoon over Huckabee. I haven't
seen Rich this excited since they announced 'Hairspray' was coming to Broadway.
Rich has continued to hyperventilate over 'populist' charmer Huckabee even
after it came to light that Huckabee had called homosexuality an 'abomination.'
Normally, any aspersions on sodomy or any favorable mentions of Christianity
would lead to at least a dozen hysterical columns by Frank Rich. [This
is very true, and indicates that this push for Huckabee by liberal columnists
is very much done for ulterior motives.]
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- "At worst, Romney will turn out to be a moderate
Republican [actually, much worse if he continues down the path to globalist
intervention and torture--that will take us into WWIII] - a high-IQ, articulate,
moral, wildly successful, moderate Republican. Of the top five Republican
candidates for president, Romney is the only one who hasn't dumped his
first wife (as well as the second, in the case of Giuliani) - except Huckabee.
And unlike Huckabee, Romney doesn't have a son who hanged a dog at summer
camp. So there won't be any intern issues and there won't be any Billy
Carter issues."
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