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 What Happened in Florida Won’t Stay in FloridaPosted on Feb 2, 2012By Joe Conason Mitt Romney’s convincing victory in the Florida primary erased his earlier defeats and perhaps any serious obstacle to his nomination. The question that still troubles party leaders, however, is the damage he will sustain before returning to Tampa in September for the GOP convention. Triumph could cost Romney much more than the million dollars or so that bought each point of his 46-32 margin over Newt Gingrich. Already the former speaker has shaped the plutocratic image of Romney now visible in national polls. A furious, wounded Gingrich could go still further—demanding, for instance, that Romney release many more years of tax returns. But the electorate can also learn much about Romney from Ron Paul, if the Texan ever summons the courage to articulate their profound differences on war, national security and defense spending. The scorching character assaults that incinerated Gingrich have left him yearning for revenge, and he is a past master of the politics of personal destruction. In Florida, he became the target of the same tactics and rhetoric that he popularized among Republicans two decades ago, when he created GOPAC to take over Congress. Although Gingrich’s own copious defects often blunt the impact of his attacks on Romney—as they did during the final debate in Florida—his message can still be effective. And he will continue to dream of discovering the silver bullet that will take down his patrician tormentor—perhaps a document proving Romney, like so many other multimillionaires, used loopholes to pay no income taxes at all while making those lucrative private equity deals. Advertisement Although Paul’s unorthodox views on the Mideast conflict and Islamist terrorism may be unpopular, most Americans today share his aversion to foreign wars—and would be dismayed to learn that Romney has hired on the same discredited crew that misled us into Iraq, and that botched the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan at a cost of trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. A military veteran who served at the height of the Cold War, as he often points out, Paul has the credentials to expose Romney’s hollow, bellicose but still dangerous posturing. What remains to be seen in the weeks ahead is whether he has the grit to do so.
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By drbhelthi, February 6, 2012 at 11:04 am Link to this comment
“NOOO! he is a racist! Really, all the pundits say so and so, it must be true.” AMeshiea
Pundits are pundits and are not known for either truthfulness or accuracy. The history of Dr. Ron Paul demonstrates that he has not behaved as a racist, according to Black or Negroid Americans. Your blogs identify you as a supporter of the MOSSAD defamation campaign against Dr. Ron Paul and supporters. The publication of the GAO audit of the Federal Reserve reveals why.
The non-US-owned, Federal Reserve had secretly handed out
$16,000,000,000,000.00 (TRILLION) to US banks and corporations and foreign banks
everywhere from France to Scotland, between December 2007 and June 2010, without notifying the U.S. Congress.
http://uspatriot38.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-ever-gao-audit-of-federal-reserve.html
None of which would have come to light were it not for the efforts of congressman Ron Paul, who championed a GAO audit of the Federal Reserve. Although the first in
Report thishistory, it should be done annually, similarly to the U.S. budget. It is thus no wonder
that the Wall St. Zionists and their Israeli MOSSAD cousins have implemented a
defamation program against Dr. Ron Paul and his supporters.
By AMeshiea, February 3, 2012 at 2:02 am Link to this comment
I see “Truth"diggers are still digging holes in their
own back yard, trawling z-list media outlets to fill
them with.
Yes RP is demented because he wants to end foreign
wars, the drug war, the closed-back room fed system
that feeds the fat cats, the NDAA, the Patriot act.
NOOO! he is a racist! Really, all the pundits say so
and so, it must be true.
Sorry did I interrupt the Two-party system is a farce
echo? Repugthug Demobot blah blah…
Look how nuts he is!
Report thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_embedded&v=uQ2g3BYL18Q
By Blueokie, February 2, 2012 at 2:10 pm Link to this comment
When is truthdig going to stop with the backdoor endorsements of Dr. Demento?
There was an interesting article at Salon today about the alliance between Dr. Demento and Thurston Howell III. I read months ago about how the Nevada Republicans were in bad shape after Ensign and Angle imploded the party and Paul’s organization swooped in, now the story is Romney’s inevitability.
Dr. Demento wants his moment in the sun at the Convention, then he will endorse a candidate who is opposed to most of his professed views. Part of the price includes the elevation of Ayn Rand Paul, so that he might carry on the family business.
This really isn’t too surprising, as the distilled essence of Dr. Demento and Thurston Howell III’s philosophy is that the world should be run by and for white men of inherited wealth.
Report thisBy litlpeep, February 2, 2012 at 12:12 pm Link to this comment
Political talking heads tend to the proclamations, like “Mitt Romney’s convincing victory in the Florida primary erased his earlier defeats and perhaps any serious obstacle to his nomination.”
William Faulkner was a bit more circumspect when he said, “The past is always present.”
Thankfully, each of us chooses who/what to believe.
Report thisBy Jerry_Leigh, February 2, 2012 at 11:06 am Link to this comment
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There IS one thing that can be, effectively, used against Romney. The Book of Mormon verse, Mormon (7:5), states: “Know ye that ye must come to the knowledge of your fathers, and repent of all your sins and iniquities, and believe in Jesus Christ, that he is the Son of God, and that he was slain by the Jews, and by the power of the Father he hath risen again, whereby he hath gained the victory over the grave; and also in him is the sting of death swallowed up.” The Fox Latin American network recently apologized for a Who-killed-Jesus posting, where one of the multiple choice responses was “the Jews”; here, we have the possible titular head of the Republican Party believing in deicide. If the Republican Jewish Coalition gives Mitt a pass, they’ll risk comparison with those German Jews who dismissed Hitler’s rants as just more of the usual German antisemitism.
Report thisBy balkas, February 2, 2012 at 9:28 am Link to this comment
i wonder if the prez is already chosen and elected? and who at this time
Report thiswould best serve the both-ways-openended INTERESTS of the
onepercent? [yes, yes, i know, damn it, okayed by 98% of american pop]
id’s say it is obama!! just like in ‘08!! he was then the best MAN and
would be the best MAN this time also.
===,
as to paul, i got tons of bad news of him and his libertarians and their
two-open-ended Interests, but if u want to hear them, u have to pay. my
INTEREST is also openended, but one end only! thanks
By DonSchneider, February 2, 2012 at 6:28 am Link to this comment
Inherit the wind ! welcome on board, pleasure to meet you !
Report thisBy Don Schneider, February 2, 2012 at 6:24 am Link to this comment
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Thank you for inherit the wind ! Glad to have you aboard !
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, February 2, 2012 at 4:34 am Link to this comment
Since Ron Paul has just been blitzed by Anonymous, it has turned out that his connections to White supremacists and neo-nazis are not just organizational, but personal as well.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/01/ron-paul-exposed-as-white-supremacist-by-anonymous/
Given that Paul is now in the process of being revealed as no more than a David Duke in disguise, he’s probably not the “White Knight” (pun intended) needed to take down Romney.
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