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Rush is right of course. He usually has his finger on the pulse of the Conservative Americans and not the establishment Republicans who are acting more like Democrats every day.

All Gingrich has to do now is keep attacking, attack Obama, attack the progressive media and he can not only win the nomination but take the White House and help keep this country free.

Re: Republican Establishment

Can anyone list two or three of the top names in this Establishment?

You know, the people or organizations who “forced” Romney, McCain, Dole, and GHW Bush onto us poor little helpless Conservatives?

I thought Conservatives got outvoted?

And please don’t use the “Open Primaries” excuse.

Anytime the GOP or Conservatives want “Closed Primaries,” we can have them.

How?

We can pay for our own primaries.

Today, state taxpayers pay for our primaries, so we have to obey state government rules.

Rush is on to the fact that Romney simply relies on "platitudes" to express his feelings about America and its founders.

That is not enough. Dr. Thomas Sowell's column, posted on another thread provides his excellent summary of South Carolina.

Isn't it reassuring that one can trust the intellect, wisdom, and understanding of Sowell to see beyond the armchair pundits and politicians to the heart of the Gingrich appeal in South Carolina?

Brit Hume's always wise-sounding, but this time shallow, "analysis" concluded that it was just the points in the "debates" and that "debating" won't carry the day in the November elections. Others, who clearly are trying to mold our minds to their wills, say it's just that Newt expresses our "anger," and that his "negatives" make him undesirable as a candidate.

Yes, the so-called "progressives" and their domination of education's failures have succeeded in "dumbing us down"--but not that far down.

We still, as South Carolinians proved, can think for ourselves, and we can "get" the difference between someone who can articulate the great ideas of America's Founders' Constitution and someone who has to rely on memorized phrases like "private sector," "hope of the earth," and verses from "America, the Beautiful," to fill in what should be thoughtul, substantive debate on how to defeat the ideology of Obama and save American liberty, in all its dimensions.

What American voters need between now and November is a clear articulation of the first principles underlying freedom for individuals in a society. If that can happen, then the ideas of Marx and other sources of redistribution and oppression will be exposed and rejected. Florida voters now may help to decide who has displayed a likely ability to accomplish that task.

South Carolinians decided already.

As Dr. Sowell indicates, it is a "make or break" decision for "the future of this country."

Kerry was ahead of Bush in the polls all year in 2004, at least up until July, when one poll had him 7 points ahead. Not everyone can be so ignorant to think that what’s in the polls now is set in stone for the rest of the year, especially when South Carolina just swung 30 points to Newt in less than 2 weeks.

This is absolutely not about electability. As Jonah Goldberg brilliantly wrote weeks ago, the GOP establishment is afraid Newt will WIN, not that he will lose, as written in the article linked below. Frankly, I don’t fully understand why. But I know the electability argument for Romney is bogus, because experienced politicians are not so ignorant as to think polls are set in stone this early in an election.

Newtzilla to the Rescue

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/285680/newtzilla-rescue-jonah-goldberg

The Rinos know the conservative base of the party. They just hate conservatives. Rinos think they are superior to the base of the party. They think global socialism and corporatism is superior to American constitutional liberity and small business. They want to work with rich, beautiful people - not the riff raff nobodies. They think they are citizens of the world and they don’t like Americans.

Last time conservatives rose up against them and Newt was in power, he made the election conservative and national and Rinos did not fare so well. It’s time for them to go.