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Santorum sweep shatters Romney’s ‘electability’
February 8, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Following his win in the Florida primary, the conventional wisdom of the media villagers and Beltway bloviators was that Willard "Mittens" Romney now had a clear path through GOP primaries and caucuses in February on his way to "Super Tuesday" in March, and the GOP nomination.
This is the problem with a corporate media that parrots GOP establishment talking points. Saying it over and over again doesn't make it so. The corporate media's "conventional wisdom" is almost always wrong.
On Tuesday, Rick "man on dog" Santorum swept caucuses in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado (albeit non-binding caucuses). Even without committed delegates, however, Santorum's sweep of caucuses that "front-runner" Romney had been expected to win shatters his "electability" as the GOP nominee.
Romney won Minnesota four years ago. He even had his vanquished opponent, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty "of nuthin'," working the state for him and he got creamed. Pawlenty is finished as a politician. It was another embarrassing loss for "Mittens" in Missouri. And every political pundit had given Romney Colorado in advance based upon the strength of a supposed "Mormon vote," yet he lost Colorado as well. Triple victory for Santorum again upends GOP presidential race – The Washington Post.
"Electability" was the only selling point that Romney had throughout the GOP primary process, that he could claim he is the most electable against President Obama. That is now gone after losing five primary contests, four to Santorum and one to Gingrich. Romney has nothing else to offer Tea-Publican voters who always questioned his conservative credentials in the first place.
As I have said before, the more voters get to know "Mittens" Romney, the more they do not like him. Greg Sargent has Romney's upside-down negative numbers in Thumbs down for Romney. (See Update below).
Tea-Publicans may now feel liberated to turn to conservative "purity" between Santorum and Gingrich. The GOP establishment is about to go into full panic mode as GOP strategist Steve Schmidt predicted a couple of weeks ago.
Our colonial overlords are trying to subjugate Pima County and steal our water
February 8, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This is the West. Wars are fought over water, even reclaimed water from sewage treatment plants. Every drop of water is more precious than gold. Which is why the Town of Marana, represented by lobbyist Jonathan "Payday" Paton, has been trying to steal a Pima County sewage treatment plant from Pima County without paying
Shorter Santorum: Obama is uppity
February 8, 2012
by David Safier The Republican racist dog whistles continue. It wasn't too long ago when black employees had to think twice about making a suggestion to their white employers and managers. Say the wrong thing, and they were likely to hear, "Do you think you're smarter than me, boy? Do you think you know better
Action Alert: AIRC under assault today in the Senate
February 8, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Senate Committee on Government Reform has a long agenda beginning at 9:00 a.m. today, but among the bills under consideration are two bills that are part of the Tea-Publican assault on the Arizona Independent Redistricitng Commission. SB 1489 would Increase the scope of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission to require the AIRC to
I’m not the only one demanding a public apology from Michael Hicks
February 7, 2012
by David Safier If you read my post below, you'll see why I think TUSD Board member Michael Hicks needs to make a public apology. I want Hicks to retract the outrageous allegations he made in a radio interview — that Wakefield Middle School students may have been sexually abused while they were at UA.
Michael Hicks, either give a reason for your unsubstantiated allegation or publicly withdraw it
February 7, 2012
by David Safier While being interviewed on Garrett Lewis' morning talk show, TUSD Board member Michael Hicks intimated Wakefield Middle School children might have been sexually abused when they attended a college course at UA. He has yet to comment on his vicious, unsubstantiated allegation. Hicks should either give some reason why he suspects the
Purposefully deceptively titled ballot measure to kill Citizens Clean Elections passed in Senate committee
February 7, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Jonathan "Payday" Paton is no longer in the legislature, but his No Taxpayer Money for Politicians Group continues his purposefully deceptive attempts to repeal Citizens Clean Elections that began in 2010. Paton thinks the voters are just a bunch of rubes for ever enacting Citizens Clean Elections, and he wants you to repeal it. On Monday,
What will we tell the (college aged) children?
February 7, 2012
by David Safier Story after story has detailed cheating on standardized tests by K-12 teachers and administrators to raise schools' scores and rankings. Now comes the not-very-surprising fact that colleges have been cooking the books to raise their ratings on the U.S. News & World Report list of "America's Best Colleges." It's pretty much a
