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I Suppose The Florida Primary Results Are Worth a Few Words

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Just the news first.  Mitt won the Florida primary.  Whether this re-establishes him as The Inevitable Candidate yet remains to be seen, though the spinning should start to that effect in earnest here shortly.

For those of you in despair over this, here’s the plan I’m using now and will continue to use through November should Romney be the nominee.

Support the conservative candidates in the other races to the exclusion of all others.  It will keep your morale up to the point that you can vote in November.  If Mitt’s the nominee and you absolutely cannot stand the thought of deciding between him or Obama the original, don’t stay home.  Vote around them with the write-in block or a third party, because any conservatives on your ballot don’t deserve to be crushed under the dead weight at the top of the ticket.

If enough of us do that, conservative gains can still be made despite this joke of a primary.  Only conservatives and Tea Party sorts were trying to do what we wanted them to do anyway.  So if all you can manage through the gloom is to support them an no one else, it just means you’re focusing on those who are actually trying to fight the good fight.

Think there are no other options besides “Mitt or Obama” or “Stay home in disgust?”  I suggest this as a way to make your own option.  You can vote, make a statement about having candidates forced upon you, support conservatives, and move the ball forward all at the same time.

News link credit:  Hot Air

No Tommy Thompson In Wisconsin

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We’re all familiar with Romney now.  He’s the guy who signed the precursor to Obamacare into law and continues to defend it.  That’s bad enough, but there’s on problem that’s flying under the radar because of the primary noise, and that’s Tommy Thompson.

Thompson’s currently trying to get into the Senate, and among the largest of the reasons you don’t want him there is that he agrees with Obamacare.  Or at least, spoken in support of the Senate vote on Obamacare using all the favorite ‘work-together’ rhetoric the moderates like to solemnly intone when they help Democrats legislate something awful.

So why put him in a position where he can be one of the people causing the problems?

There’s another candidate for Wisconsin Senate that doesn’t deserve to be drowned out by the noise of the Republican Presidential primary, and that’s Mark Neumann.  Though he doesn’t have his own web site as of this post, you can read about him and who he is at the Senate Conservatives Fund.  He’s a far better choice than Thompson, who’s just the next establishment sort to accomplish more status quo in DC.

Commentary link credits:  The Daily Caller, Senate Conservatives Fund

Two Republican Establishment Examples Before You Vote In The Florida Primary

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Gingrich is getting pounded again as the Republican establishment tries to stop him.   The attacks are coming in hard now, and while Gingrich is none to conservative himself, but he has far more of it in his background than Romney and a better track record from his time in the House.  So in case you’ve possibly opened your mind to listening, here are two reminders of exactly who the Republican establishment is and why you should think carefully before taking their word on anything.

  1. The Senate just killed the motion of disapproval for Obama’s $1.2 trillion dollar debt ceiling increase.  Some Republican staffer commented about how red-state Democrats would suffer for it, which is completely beyond all comprehension.  All any Democrat has to do to deflect blame is remind everyone that this debt ceiling agreement was bipartisan, and possibly create an ad with McCain calling all the Tea Party types who didn’t agree with the approach that just handed the Democrats a win yet again Hobbits.  None of this would have been possible without the aggressive assistance of Boehner and McConnell, which won’t be lost on much of anyone.
  2. The House is passing legislation in a shady way.  This is either because the Establishment wants to short-circuit their own conservative caucus to maintain the status quo or they’re too terrified of Obama and Reid to resist the status quo.  They broke a few more promises too, and you can read the details at RedState.

This is the Republican establishment at work.  They’re the same establishment that wants Romney.  The same people that made the House the Other Democrat in spending after Gingrich left.  The same lot that led us to 2006 and 2008.  Why would the candidate they back be any different from them?

News link credits:  RedState, The Hill

The Newt Win In South Carolina

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By now you’ve heard that Newt ran away with South Carolina in the primary.  The down side of this is that South Carolina is a proportional delegate state under the new rules.  This means that while Newt may get the largest share of delegates, he’s not taking them all.  Mitt still gets some of them, so for now the race isn’t going to be decided before it gets to other states like it was for McCain in 2008.  He had pretty much wrapped up the primaries and lost the general election around February of that year.

The biggest hit Mitt took wasn’t in delegates, but the meme of his inevitability.  Now he’s more like Mr. Inevi<CRASH>.  Since that’s pretty much all he has going for him besides the bogus electability argument (it’s what they say to promote all the non-conservative candidates nowadays), expect more shrill from his supporters.

Last, Mitt’s not the only one with something to lose.  If he doesn’t make it through the primary, it will be the first time since Reagan that the Republican establishment doesn’t get its way in a Presidential nominee.  Their reaction will likely be similar to 2010 as with Charlie Crist, Senator Murkowski, Karl Rove’s treatment of Cristine O’Donnell, and all the trouble we had with the NRSC trying to put milquetoast moderates into the race.

Still, it would be one more small victory.

News link credit:  Legal Insurrection