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Republicans Take Stock Of Their Future.

Mitt "I'll flip flop on any issue" Romney is shopping for Veep spot, will deem it an "honor", but ...

... It may well be an "honor" for him, the rest of us will deem it a "dishonor", and we'll vote for another ticket -- or stay home!

Watch Romney below:

ILLINOIS IS RINO HABITAT

Don't think the loss of Denny Hastert's seat in the special election has much to do with anything outside of Illinois' own local politics. But boy, is it a doozy of a problem in the Prairie State. Illinois Republicans have won lots of elections the last 40 years, but have put in utterly ruinous characters when they did.

Starting in 1968 with Governor Richard Ogilvie, and going through Govs. Thompson, Edgar, and Ryan, they have been nothing but tax and spend liberals who destroyed the GOP brand. The last US Senator of any length was Chuck Percy, who went from being a Goldwaterite to a liberal anti-semite.

The GOP there had some decent Congressmen, but they have a tendency to stay on way too long, such as the inebriated Phil Crane who should have quit years ago and instead lost to a Democrat who is digging in. Hastert was an absolute dud as Speaker, way in over his head. He could have at least stayed until November instead of risking his seat in a special, but he was too selfish.

If Republicans are no better than Democrats, why would anyone vote for them? In Illinois, the answer is nobody.

Don't ever fall for the idea Republicans are too ideological or too conservative. That's just short-hand for "we Dems don't want to argue the issues or have to do anything for the voters, cuz' that might cost us an election." Illinois used to be one of the wealthiest, most educated, fastest-growing, and lowest taxed places in American. RINOs put an end to all that and now they can't even win elections in safe suburban seats. We should all take heed.

Charles Barkley slams FAKE Republicans/Conservatives.

Trey Grayson: Turnout for last general election "lowest in modern history."

According to Trey Grayson, "Statewide turnout was 37.8% for the general election, marking the lowest turnout in modern history for a Kentucky gubernatorial election cycle."

Continuing, Trey said that "Turnout in the 2003 general election, the most recent comparable election, was 40.2%. Turnout for the 2004 and 2006 general elections were 64.7% and 49.5%, respectively."

And the counties with the highest and lowest turnouts? Franklin County had the highest turnout percentage with 59.7% of registered voters turning out to vote. Martin County had the lowest turnout percentage with 19.3%. (I guess you know who Franklin County wanted to run out of town!)

Statewide, Democrats beat out Republicans -- 40.8%, 36.2% -- and voters listed as “other” turned out at 21.6%.

So much for some people who attributed Fletcher's loss to a HUGE Democratic turnout, and a small Republican turn out!! The voting statistics prove them WRONG.

That should prove a warning to all FALSE Conservatives.

ROMNEY SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN!

ROMNEY SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN!

From Brietbart/AP

John McCain effectively sealed the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday as chief rival Mitt Romney suspended his faltering presidential campaign.

"If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," Romney will say at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

"This is not an easy decision for me. I hate to lose. My family, my friends and our supporters... many of you right here in this room... have given a great deal to get me where I have a shot at becoming President. If this were only about me, I would go on. But I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, I feel I must now stand aside, for our party and for our country," Romney said.

Comment: As it now appears that McCain will be the party's presumptive nominee we must now support him and unite for victory in November. The stakes are too high for conservatives to sit on the sidelines and let liberal/socialists take the White House!

***** BREAKING NEWS: MITT ROMNEY WILL BOW OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE. *****

YOU HEARD IT HERE first!

Bye-bye, Flip Flopper. We hardly knew you -- or your sorry attempts to buy the Presidency!!

Mitt Romney wins Utah and Massachusetts. Well, I'll be!

Yes, indeed. He's ex Governor of Massachusetts and he's a Mormon, hence his win in Utah.

Are you a member of the "I hate Romney" club?

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Anne Coulter throws a tantrum and loses her "marbles" in the process.

I'm sure you'll ask: "what's new"? Right?

In case ANYONE forgets the REAL Mitt "I'll flip flop on any issue" Romney, watch and WEEP:

Cheney backs Romney. No surprise there. Good news for Romney if you like the Cheneys. Bad news for him if you don't.

Read about it here.

You know where I stand.

Be careful if he calls you a friend!

Yep. Oh yea, and don't let him fool ya.

Mitt Romney is courting Blacks. Ain't that a funny thing to behold!

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH, it's Romney and Clinton, but not for long ...

... yep, not for long.

I say we cannot have two Liberals running for the WH. Conservatives have to have a candidate too and so far tonight, the FAKE one won. (As for my thoughts, I did get one thing right: it's STILL the economy, stupid!)

Gay rights loom large in New Hampshire affecting how the candidates will place. Check back for my predictions.

The New Hampshire primary is set for next Tuesday, and I expect the issue of gay marriages (or civil unions, if you will) to loom large and help dictate where the candidates will place.

That means BAD news for Mike Huckabee, and GOOD news for John McCain, who I believe will be the winner (expect a barrage of negative ads from Mitt Romney).

The issue should not make much difference for Democrats, who are expected to place near where they placed in Iowa.

Talking about Mitt Romney, the BIG question will be whether he flip flops again, and tries to out liberal the Don of Liberals, Senator Ted Kennedy, in a bid to BUY votes.

Mitt is a Chameleon, you know; he can change colors at will!

Come back as I reveal my WINNING predictions.

Another UNENDORSEMENT of Mitt Romney, this time it's the Union Leader.

Read it here, the second UNENDORSEMENT in a row from his "home" newspapers. In fact, it appears that none of these newspapers plan on endorsing him. Rather, the newspapers all appear to be fighting for the prize of who will "diss" him the MOST.

Here is the gist, from the Union Leader:

THERE IS A reason Mitt Romney has not received a single newspaper endorsement in New Hampshire. It's the same reason his poll numbers are dropping. He has not been able to convince the people of this state that he's the conservative he says he is.

Like a lot of people in New Hampshire, we wanted to believe Romney. We gave him the benefit of the doubt. We listened very carefully to his expertly rehearsed sales pitch. But in the end he didn't close the deal for us. Now, two weeks before the primary, the same is happening with voters.

Republicans and right-leaning independents in New Hampshire gave Romney a chance. His events have not been sparsely attended. Nor have they been scarce. He's made more campaign stops here this year than any other Republican, even John McCain.

And after a year of comparing Romney to McCain, of sizing up the two in person and in the media, Granite Staters are turning back to McCain. The former Navy pilot, once written off by the national media establishment, is now in a statistical dead heat with Romney here.

How could that be? Romney has all the advantages: money, organization, geographic proximity, statesman-like hair, etc.

But he lacks something John McCain has in spades: conviction.

Granite Staters want a candidate who will look them in the eye and tell them the truth. John McCain has done that day in and day out, never wavering, never faltering, never pandering.

Mitt Romney has not. He has spoken his lines well, but the people can sense that the words are memorized, not heartfelt.

Last week Romney was reduced to debating what the meaning of "saw" is. It was only the latest in a string of demonstrably false claims -- he'd been a hunter "pretty much" all his life, he'd had the NRA's endorsement, he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. -- that call into question the veracity of his justifications for switching sides on immigration, abortion, taxes and his affection for Ronald Reagan.

In this primary, the more Mitt Romney speaks, the less believable he becomes. That is why Granite Staters who have listened attentively are now returning to John McCain. They might not agree with McCain on everything, as we don't, but like us, they judge him to be a man of integrity and conviction, a man who won't sell them out, who won't break his promises, and who won't lie to get elected.

Voters can see that John McCain is trustworthy. Mitt Romney has spent a year trying to convince Granite Staters that he is as well. It looks like they aren't buying it. And for good reason.

Are you starting to feel me now?

New Hampshire newspaper, the Concord Monitor: Romney should not be the next president. I AGREE!

The New Hampshire newspaper, the Concord Monitor, has just released what I consider a first: an UNENDORSEMENT of a candidate!

Who is the candidate you ask? Mitt Romney. You can read their UNENDORSEMENT of Romney, and I wholeheartedly AGREE. Here it is, excerpted:

Romney should not be the next president

Monitor staff
December 22. 2007 3:00PM

If you were building a Republican presidential candidate from a kit, imagine what pieces you might use: an athletic build, ramrod posture, Reaganesque hair, a charismatic speaking style and a crisp dark suit. You'd add a beautiful wife and family, a wildly successful business career and just enough executive government experience. You'd pour in some old GOP bromides - spending cuts and lower taxes - plus some new positions for 2008: anti-immigrant rhetoric and a focus on faith.

Add it all up and you get Mitt Romney, a disquieting figure who sure looks like the next president and most surely must be stopped.

Romney's main business experience is as a management consultant, a field in which smart, fast-moving specialists often advise corporations on how to reinvent themselves. His memoir is called Turnaround - the story of his successful rescue of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City - but the most stunning turnaround he has engineered is his own political career.

If you followed only his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, you might imagine Romney as a pragmatic moderate with liberal positions on numerous social issues and an ability to work well with Democrats. If you followed only his campaign for president, you'd swear he was a red-meat conservative, pandering to the religious right, whatever the cost. Pay attention to both, and you're left to wonder if there's anything at all at his core.

As a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1994, he boasted that he would be a stronger advocate of gay rights than his opponent, Ted Kennedy. These days, he makes a point of his opposition to gay marriage and adoption.

There was a time that he said he wanted to make contraception more available - and a time that he vetoed a bill to sell it over-the-counter.

The old Romney assured voters he was pro-choice on abortion. "You will not see me wavering on that," he said in 1994, and he cited the tragedy of a relative's botched illegal abortion as the reason to keep abortions safe and legal. These days, he describes himself as pro-life.

There was a time that he supported stem-cell research and cited his own wife's multiple sclerosis in explaining his thinking; such research, he reasoned, could help families like his. These days, he largely opposes it. As a candidate for governor, Romney dismissed an anti-tax pledge as a gimmick. In this race, he was the first to sign.

People can change, and intransigence is not necessarily a virtue. But Romney has yet to explain this particular set of turnarounds in a way that convinces voters they are based on anything other than his own ambition.

In the 2008 campaign for president, there are numerous issues on which Romney has no record, and so voters must take him at his word. On these issues, those words are often chilling. While other candidates of both parties speak of restoring America's moral leadership in the world, Romney has said he'd like to "double" the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, where inmates have been held for years without formal charge or access to the courts. He dodges the issue of torture - unable to say, simply, that waterboarding is torture and America won't do it.

When New Hampshire partisans are asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary, we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves and the rest of the world, we'll know it.

Mitt Romney is such a candidate. New Hampshire Republicans and independents must vote no.

(Check other endorsements for the other candidates).

YEP, A SNAKE OIL SALESMAN!!

NEED ANYONE SAY MORE?