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• Gay Marriage Could ‘Determine The Future Of The GOP’ - 18 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns

  The modern primary system for determining presidential nominees we take for granted nowadays began in earnest in the 1970s. For the Republicans, it really started in 1976 when Ronald Reagan challenged President Ford. That year Reagan won 11 states and was the runner-up for the nomination. That’s the same number of states Rick Santorum won [...]

• Bob Casey’s poor record will help Mr. Smith go to Washington, Part II - 11 Oct 2012
  posted in Columns & Pennsylvania & Politics & Govt & States

  Part One here. Though Bob Casey Jr. lives just twenty miles away, I cannot recall ever seeing him in the Wilkes-Barre Area—either before or after 2006 when he was elected our US Senator. Casey’s greatest nemesis, Carl Romanelli is from Wilkes-Barre. Perhaps that is why the Senator has been AWOL. He knows his election was [...]

• A Late Nigh Endorsement: Santorum throws support behind Romney - 08 May 2012
  posted in 2012 & Executive & People & Politics & Govt

  Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum endorsed his one-time fierce rival Mitt Romney on Monday, a move that may help the party’s presumptive White House nominee win over religious conservatives. Santorum said in an unusual late-night statement that the two have differences, but that he came away from a meeting with the ex-Massachusetts governor impressed [...]

• Ron Paul Pandemic causes Romney split - 20 Apr 2012
  posted in 2012 & Columns & Media & Numbers & People & Politics & Govt & States

  There is a split at the senior levels of the Mitt Romney campaign over how to deal with the ongoing Ron Paul takeover of the Republican Party, this, from an old friend inside.  Some are saying, “Let it happen, so what?  We have the nomination, they represent youth and Hispanics and they are the future, [...]

• With Santorum out, tea party turns to Romney? - 12 Apr 2012
  posted in 2012 & Numbers & People & Politics & Govt & Tea Party & U.S.

  HARRISBURG — Surveying the Republican field after Rick Santorum’s exit from the presidential race Tuesday, Ana Puig’s gaze settled on the only candidate she could support: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. “The tea party is about fiscal issues and smaller government,” said Puig, a co-leader of the Bucks County-based Kitchen Table Patriots. “The tea party [...]

• Brent Strafford, an American hero - 12 Apr 2012
  posted in Uncategorized

  La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid. “Vengeance is a dish best served cold.” While all the political news yesterday focused on the end of Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign a colorful drama unfolded in faraway St. Charles, Missouri Tuesday night.  This was the scene of the re-scheduled, famous, St. Charles County GOP Convention. [...]

• Memo: Romney delegates counted too high - 09 Apr 2012
  posted in 2012 & Numbers & People & Politics & Govt

  Rick Santorum’s delegate count is much closer to front-runner Mitt Romney’s than reported, a memo prepared for a conservative campaign huddle in Virginia says. While most estimates show GOP presidential hopeful Romney with 657 or 658 delegates and Santorum with 273 to 281, “the real count” gives Romney 571 delegates and Santorum 342, the memo [...]

• The Great Pretender: Thou Shalt Not Covet What God Does Not Intend You To Have - 05 Apr 2012
  posted in Columns & Issues & Opinion & People & Politics & Govt & U.S.

  While Rick Santorum campaigns for Democratic union votes in one more of those open primaries, where Democrats have only one candidate in their primary, is campaigning hard for Democratic union voters to vote in the GOP primary and cast their primary votes for him. Santorum, who calls himself the only true Christian conservative in the [...]

• Santorum Battles Perceptions That Race Is Over - 02 Apr 2012
  posted in 2012 & Numbers & People & Politics & Govt & U.S.

  PEWAUKEE, Wis.—Rick Santorum faces a likely triple loss Tuesday night and a mounting sense among Republicans that the party’s drawn-out presidential nomination fight is all but over and that Mitt Romney will be their standard bearer. Mr. Santorum has pitched himself for months as the candidate best-suited for blue-collar states like Wisconsin, which holds its [...]

• A spy’s report from inside the Romney campaign - 30 Mar 2012
  posted in 2012 & Columns & People & Politics & Govt & States

  How the Romney Campaign is using the fear of Ron Paul to defeat Rick Santorum This fascinating, but anonymous report, published by Ron Paul Forums Liberty Forest, offers an insider look at how the Romney-establishment is trying to beat Rick Santorum and use the fear of Ron Paul to do it. The Report: Tonight I [...]