HillBuzz Open Thread: Tuesday February 28th, 2012
59 Delegates are up for grabs in today’s Arizona and Michigan Primaries. The media, in its never ending quest to demand our attention, is claiming Michigan to be a “must win” for Romney. Santorum certainly has a shot at Michigan. He’s polling in essentially a dead heat with Romney leading up to the Primary, and most of the polls I’ve seen show him with a slight edge (still inside the margin of error). Yet something tells me that if Romney loses, he’s not exactly going to pack up his tent and go home. What say you?
The latest Rasmussen polling is fairly positive for the GOP field, other than Newt. Rasmussen shows Romney, Santorum, and Paul all within the margin of error from Obama among likely voters. A Gallup poll revealed the same for Romney and Santorum, and even had Santorum up over Obama by 3 points among registered voters.
Newt is currently bringing up the rear in this statistic with Obama holding a 10 point lead over Gingrich in most major polls. I know there are a number of Newt supporters here. What do you think about this?
Personally, although I follow politics closely and have watched all the debates and researched the candidates fairly well, I can’t say that any of them are “my guy”. There are things I like and things I dislike about each of them. I don’t really care what the media says about “electability” (or, really, what the media says about anything) because the entire game is going to change once the GOP picks a candidate and that person goes head to head with Obama.
I know there are strong opinions here about the candidates. I’d love to hear your thoughts today!
What else is on your minds?
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Have you read this Kevin?
http://obamasgarden.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/answers/
All 8 chapters are wow. Someone found Obama’s uncle’s personal web site from 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010502173913/http://home.att.net/~c.goeldner/whois_4.html
BEFORE it was abruptly pulled down just a year later.
It’s like deconstructing Obama and his handlers: The Clintons (yes Hillary!) and Bushes and organized crime. Turns out Obama even has a Saudi Arabian cousin, Abdullah al Ahmadi, who worked for Saudi Aramco.
The MSM is never going to look into this side of his family…it’s up to us to do it.
Virginia Dunham Goeldner is Obama’s aunt on his mother’s side. This is the story of her family, IN LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. And it all ties into the Clintons and the Bushes, drug-running and bank spying: the Global Mafia.
Here is more from the archive of Cecil Goeldner’s website, from 2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010410174343/http://home.att.net/~c.goeldner/whois_1.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20010221194711/http://home.att.net/~c.goeldner/whois_2.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20010224005537/http://home.att.net/~c.goeldner/whois_3.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20010502173913/http://home.att.net/~c.goeldner/whois_4.html
This is his uncle’s resume, he was a pioneer computer database programmer in [b]core banking technology[/b]: http://web.archive.org/web/20010617175653/http://home.att.net/~c.goeldner/work.html
For 30 years, he worked in the company that was linked to the Vince Foster and Mena Airport drug running scandals: Systematics, Inc. AND he had his pilot’s license.
Hillary and the Rose Law firm represented Systematics in the 1970s and 1980s. The Bushes are linked too…like I said, it’s organized crime.
comments? thoughts?
It’s a lot to read! I admit, I haven’t been able to get through it all yet.
Yes! There is a lot of info there about Barry. Kinda nice for a change.
Did you see this on Jerome Corsi:
“Never let him fool you, Jerome Corsi never lost his appetite for politics and he never moved on to other interests. He just married the new with the old to fashion himself into Frankenstein’s monster. He’s not who he presents, although I could not tell you where he stands today. But, did you know that Jerome Corsi once embraced judicial activism? As long as America has an appropriately fair and equal amount of women, minorities, and the poor serving as lawyers and judges and in law school, etc., that is. Upon reviewing Jerry’s book, Judicial Politics: An Introduction, Jamie Lincoln Kitman wrote:
“…Corsi praises the Carter administration’s unparalleled record in appointing nonwhites and women to the federal bench. Ominously, he notes that of the first 86 Reagan appointees:
“All but. . . two were Republicans; all but six were white men; the majority were wealthy, with over half reporting net worths in excess of $400,000 and almost 25 percent in excess of $1 million; and many had established conservative legal and political credentials.”
This same reviewer aptly labeled Jerry “progressive” and a “left theorist,” and described his book on judicial activism as animated with “left political values.”
I have a difficult time understanding this as it is not clearly written. I don’t believe Jack Cashill nor Joseph Farah are shilling for BHO. (I know Jack personally.) The conspiracy angle is interesting and BHO may be rotten to the core, but this screed doesn’t advance that storyline well at all. I read the entire post (skimming towards the end), slept on it, woke up wondering what was that?
I didn’t have any problems getting through it, it was worth the time. Sounds like you’ve had a different experience with Jack Cashill, but that doesn’t discount someone else’s experience. I thought the whole thing was intriguing and made sense …. but unfortunately, there’s probably too much truth to it.
When it is head to head it will be serious. I will be solidly behind whomever the Republican nominee ends up being. We must do whatever it takes and put all of our energy toward the ultimate prize. I am onboard.
Think positive about this at all times!
I’ve also decided to stop paying attention to the polls, since they can be so easily manipulated to produce the results desired. The only polls which matter are the ones on voting days, like today.
Newt is the only one with both government experience and
private business experience, running his own company since
leaving office. He is also the only one who affected reform
in our government in the 90′s.
I actually enjoy listening to him. He has a wealth of information in that brain of his. I love the way he corrects the moderators at the debates or the interviewers on tv.
The Obama Presidential Library
The presidential library concept we have today began with FDR, who in 1939 donated his papers to the federal government in the belief that such documents were an important part of the national heritage and should be made available to the public.
We will not see the items below in the OPL — an admittedly incomplete list that will be much longer by the time Obama exits in 2017, if he’s re-elected in the fall[3].
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/the_obama_presidential_library.html#ixzz1niBwVrgT
My choice for POTUS is not running at present. She is home in Wasilla. She is the only one who is not corrupt and who is not for sale.
I have to vote next Tuesday. My family and I are casting our votes for Newt simply because I believe there is a plan to get us to a brokered convention. We need a fight on the floor of the convention. The soul of the GOP is at stake. We need to decide once and for all WHO we are.
Romney has won AZ, and with about 30% of the reporting completed in MI, it’s close between Romney and Santorum.
My bf and I will be out of town on vacation the day of the Illinois primary election. So I went to the county building and voted already, in-person absentee, on my lunch hour last week. On my way there, I honestly didn’t know whom I would cast my vote re the GOP nominee for president.
Ultimately I voted for Newt. He is not my favorite person; but he speaks out against Obama, calling a spade a spade, etc. And he has ideas–many good ones.
When it comes right down to it, I am an ABO Republican in the General Election: Anyone But Obama! I will work hard even for a guy I am not particularly fond of because I think getting rid of Obama is an absolute necessity.
Definitely ABO here as well. The NC primary isn’t until May, so I have time to vacillate. Right now I still like Newt but I’ll back whoever ends up getting the nomination–even Mittens. Am I the only one getting a little nervous that Santorum is given to providing quotes that will make it way too easy for the opposition and the media (but I repeat myself) to portray him as a neanderthal religious zealot? Granted the eventual nominee will be excoriated anyway by virtue of the (R) behind the name, but all the polls about electability are starting to get to me.
I am not one to worry about electability at this point. I’m with Kevin on the opinion that the media beats the “electability” drum to promote their preferred candidate. Whether the MSM is promoting Romney because they think Obama can beat him, or because they think he’s the least “dangerous” of the GOP is debatable.
I am personally keeping my powder mostly dry until the GOP candidate is chosen. As many others have said, my preferred candidate is not in the race. There are things I like and dislike about each of them. They all have a few glaring problems which will be magnified well beyond actual proportions by the MSM and Obama’s billion-dollar campaign of lies and negativity.
That being said, Santorum has made a few comments in the last week or so that seem to have hurt him even among the GOP.
Isn’t it a huge embarrassment to Romney that Santorum ends up within the margin of error in the Michigan primary this late in the game?
Heck, if you add together Santorum’s and Gingrich’s votes, they beat Romney handily.
I personally can’t bring myself to place any major value judgments on the results of an open primary. If one is to trust the media line regarding Democrats turning out to vote for Santorum, then that would have certainly impacted his vote. But then again, I avoid trusting the media line on anything. Still, Santorum did admit to using robo-calls to Democrats a few days ago.
Romney’s lack of convincing victories is not surprising, even in Michigan. No matter what else anyone says or believes either in favor or in opposition of Romney, he is undeniably NOT an exciting conservative candidate. To be fair, I think some of the things that some people believe about Romney are not accurate reflections of his actual record. But he’s no conservative superstar.
I personally think Romney’s biggest downfall is his inability to articulate a convincing defense of himself, or of capitalism in general. If Romney was the exact same person but spoke with the conviction of a Christie, I think a lot more people would like him.
I happen to be a Newt supporter, but I do see why folks say Romney is more electable. While I and surely everyone on this site pay attention to what the candidates say, I think there are many voters that rely on their gut feel. Newt can’t win with those people. He doesn’t have the “it” factor. Like him or not, Romney does, and frankly his wife makes a better First Lady than Newt’s, hands down.
http://100777.com/nwo/barbarians
New World Order Barbarians
Interesting. I only had time to scan it. I can’t speak to the authenticity of the site or its content, but if it were actually accurate it would be quite an interesting “coincidence” that so many of those things have come about.
Yes! And today the 2 “medical ethicists” from Australia on post-birth abortions.
The Global Mafia, and Obama is implementing a lot of what this guy said. They have to be outed.
We must focus on Senate races, what are your thoughts on Snowe’s retirement? The timing of her announcement is interesting along with her statement.
Here is a story to counter the “dog on car” episode for Romney: SOMETIMES IT TAKES A HERO:In 1996, 14-year-old Melissa Gay from Connecticut disappeared in NYC. After about a week of fruitless searching, the father turned for help: Robert Gay’s boss didn’t hesitate. He said, ‘I don’t care how long it takes, we’re going to find her.’ A few hours later, he and other executives of the Boston-based firm were on the shuttle to New York; preparing to organize a huge volunteer effort. “My business partner stepped forward to take charge”, Robert Gay recalls. “He closed the company and brought almost all our employees to New York.” For Melissa Gay, a hero had appeared.
That hero was Mitt Romney.
Melissa was found and reunited with her parents. Check the link for the full, compelling story.
ROMNEY with a SIDE of PAUL!
Monkees Singer Davy Jones Dead at 66 From Heart Attack
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/28/obama-sidesteps-ndaa-provision-requiring-military-custody-for-terror-suspects/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
I don’t know quite why all you guys are even worrying about this “primary” business. I don’t believe there’s even going to BE an election in November.
Obama’s just (heh) declared himself to be a dictator – he’s already declared his disdain for the legislative many times, and now he can just imprison people, indefinitively, without any respect to the judicial.
The issues surrounding the NDAA were often misrepresented by news articles. I read the actual bill and nothing in it gave anyone the authority to imprison U.S. citizens under any circumstances, or non-U.S. citizens arrested on U.S. soil, indefinitely without respect to the judicial. It did give authority to imprison NON-U.S. citizens captured OUTSIDE U.S. soil indefinitely, in military prisons.
My understanding of this specific move is that Obama is sidestepping the part about military prisons. I see nothing in this move that would allow him to imprison any U.S. citizen indefinitely regardless of where they were captured.
I still don’t like it, as I don’t think any person should actually be imprisoned forever without trial under any circumstances. But I don’t feel that Obama is somehow able to use this to take dictatorial control over the United States.
People on the other side said Bush was a dictator, and that he was going to suspend elections, and even after the elections proceeded and Obama won that he was going to declare a national emergency, impose martial law, and not relinquish power.
These thoughts are not realistic. No dictator can ever come to power or maintain power without the support of the military, and we all know our military would never back Obama becoming a dictator. Elections will not be suspended. At least not this year.
I like Newt from the present field. But can you imagine if we had a Cristie/Rubio ticket from a brokered convention? I can dream can’t I?