Posted on 02/27/2012 9:47:00 AM PST by Brices Crossroads
Just two days before the Michigan primary, Rick Santorum has gained the momentum going into the Michigan Primary. Two polls sampled voters both last Thursday after the debate and last night (Sunday, February 26), after Romney's disastrous foot in mouth comments over the weekend and his empty stadium appearance. Rasmussen had Obama up 6 Thursday, but now puts him up only 2, a net loss of 4 and in Rasmussen's own words a "dead heat". Mitchell/Rosetta Stone, which had Romney up 36-33 on Thursday, finds an even larger swing, with Romney dropping a point and Santorum gaining 4, a net gain of five points. Its crosstabs show that Santorum has regained much of the support he formerly had with social conservatives and "very conservative" voters, who may have been initially bamboozled by Romney's deceptive ads.
Mitchell Rosetta Stone finds an unmistakable trend toward Santorum and the RealClear Politics Average currently sports a sight that should warm the cockles of every Freeper's heart: A down arrow on Romney in Michigan:
http://realclearpolitics.com/ LINK
To my knowledge, Romney has never won a open primary that showed him with only a 1.5% lead.and he has underperformed the polls in every open primaries this year. Romney is about to lose Michigan and that will be the end of him. Good riddance.
Ping!
In Michigan, all Newt and Santorum supporters should unite.
Newtonians: vote for Santorum in Michigan to stop Romney. This way, the two most conservative candidates can then compete with each other for the rest of the primaries.
Eaton: Government’s role regarding sexual behavior
By Fran Eaton
Always Right/illinoisreview.typepad.com
Last Modified: Feb 22, 2012 02:09AM
“Keep out of my bedroom!” the Left shouts, damning any political candidate who dares to challenge behavior that leads to negative societal consequences.
The Left demands that public policy not only ban discrimination against, but approve and even institutionalize, what occurs in its followers’ bedrooms. It also wants public policy to help them keep their options open in dealing with the consequences of their sexual activity.
So the Left’s ridicule of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s religious beliefs and fear that he might try to reverse America’s loose morality trend isn’t consistent. Liberals want us in their bedrooms but only to approve, never to criticize, and certainly never to condemn what goes on.
But is the topic of sex too intimate for public policy? Certainly it is for liberals who resent sexual boundaries advocated by religions for generations. In most cases, 1960s free-love advocates are at the height of their public policy influence and are determined to use that political power to promote non-traditional sexual behavior.
Several Springfield lawmakers want Illinois students to be taught more about sexual preferences, how to practice safe sex and how to avoid unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases — while telling us to stay out of their bedrooms.
Sex education with no moral basis advocates illicit behavior that contributes to more disrespect for marriage and for religious beliefs that emphasize the sanctity of marriage as well as to the growing number of babies born out of wedlock.
A recent Child Trend analysis of 2010 census figures shows that more than half the women who gave birth at 30 were single mothers. Among blacks, the number of single mothers is as high as 72 percent, compared with 53 percent for Hispanic women, 29 percent for white women and 17 percent for Asian women.
A 2002 Brookings Institution study found that the chances of a child growing up in poverty is multiplied five times if the child’s mother is single. Poverty is a societal issue, and if a child’s family is unable to meet his or her financial needs, America’s benevolent safety net clicks into action.
What goes on in the bedroom does affect society because it affects the financial burden that taxpayers are forced to bear. Should society pass laws banning certain conduct in the bedroom? Absolutely not. But it should use every means available to promote positive social role models to promote stable families and enable more children to grow up independent of the state.
And that same pattern concerning American bedrooms should be in effect for the nearby kitchens. This week, Chicago Ald. George Cardenas (12th) proposed a 1-cent-per-ounce sales tax on sugary drinks to combat obesity and generate revenue.
And the kitchen invasion is not just in Chicago. The Illinois Hospital Association supports new or extra taxes on junk food, pop and cigarettes, saying they’re bad for us and add to Illinois’ exploding Medicaid costs.
The IHA backs a ban on non-nutritious foods from school vending machines and cafeterias. Let’s have the state provide healthy breakfasts and lunches for kids from homes where uninformed, unhealthy parents allow sugary cereals for breakfast, cookies for snacks and ice cream for dessert.
Let’s pass laws to make sure that parents do the right thing for their children and themselves in their kitchens. And we should employ pantry and refrigerator inspectors to make sure everyone’s buying healthy foods at the supermarket. Better yet, let’s make grocery stores provide a log of all those who’ve purchased non-nutritional Oreos and potato chips.
Such laws are highly unlikely? Maybe, but when you look around, it’s really not so far-fetched, is it? We’re in bizarre times, that’s for certain. The only possible positive outcome of all this intrusion into our private lives is that freedom-loving people will wake up and realize how many liberties have eroded while they were asleep or preoccupied.
Freedom is a sacred gift bestowed upon us by those who fought for it. Unless we take good care of it, preserve and nurture it, we will lose it.
When leaving Philadelphia’s Independence Hall after the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, “Well, Doctor, what do we have, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin’s answer was short and poignant and should be remembered — “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Fran Eaton is a Southland resident who co-founded and edits the conservative political blog, illinoisreview.com
Nice.
ML/NJ
Good job Santorum. I hope the whole nation wakes up to Romney's character defects.
Barf Alert!
chicagotribune.com
Santorum is Obama’s dream come true
Kathleen Parker
February 27, 2012
WASHINGTON — Let me be blunt: If Republicans nominate Rick Santorum, they will lose.
The prospect of four more years of Barack Obama holds some appeal for many Americans, but probably not for most Republicans. It may give doubters among them some comfort, however, to know that Obama and Santorum share the same prayer: that Santorum be the Republican nominee.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/ct-oped-0227-parker-20120227,0,1575224,print.story
Here in Minnesota I voted for Santorum. I would have gone with Newt but heard just days before our caucus that Santorum was polling well and had a chance to win MN, so I voted for Rick to stop Romney.
I think Newt is our candidate, presented to our nation in this time of great need by God on a silver platter, but our hearts and minds are too obscured to see it.
I agree, ml/nj
Unless he wins by a wide margin tomorrow, ROMNUTS=EPIC FAIL.
Sit back and learn.
I don’t read anything written by this hormonally challenged witch rhymes with.
Is the Daytona 500 being run today, or has it been postponed again like yesterday??
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The National Weather Service is predicting more rain for the Daytona area on Monday, which will hamper NASCAR’s plans to run the postponed Daytona 500.
A 90 percent chance of rain and thunder showers is in the forecast until 6 p.m. this evening before the percentage drops to 30 percent tonight.
NASCAR president Mike Helton announced the sanctioning body has made the decision to push the hoped for 12 Noon ET start back to 7 p.m. Monday evening.
Don’t you just love seeing that down arrow for Rom?
Gingrich is a good man- but at this point in time he needs to put country first and gracefully withdraw. If by any chance Romney pulls off a win in either MI or AZ, he has Gingrich to thank for. Romney is pulling ahead of Santorum with the female vote although not by much, but his lead with this demographic is leaps and bounds over Gingrich who gets mainly the male vote. If Gingrich drops off, much of this male vote will go into the Santorum column. The sure and decidedly clear way to stop Romney is for Gingrich to withdraw.
Early in the race, Gingrich himself wanted Santorum to withdraw. But now Gingrich doesn’t have a snowball in hell’s chance of winning any more states with the possible exception of GA and even there his lead is very narrow. His campaign is kept alive only because of Vegas gambling mogul Adelson who may have ulterior motives in slowing down Santorum’s momentum and in effect helping Romney. There is a distinct possibility that the Gingrich die-hards are being taken for a ride.
From the get-go, Gingrich came into the race with baggage large enough to fit into the holds of a luxury liner and make it sink. His negatives are through the cellar. It’s time for him and all of us to face reality. Gingrich can make a good Sec. of Education or Labor in a Santorum administration.
To volunteer to help Rick Santorum in Michigan by calling from the comfort of your home (even if you don’t live in Michigan):
The good of the nation will be served by him winning and implementing his agenda, not by tossing the race to some guy because he has some bandwagon thing going on.
Those of us that support Newt do so because we actually KNOW what he stands for and what he wants to do, not because he can rattle off some generic talking points and take a good photo.
Heaven willing, people on our side will actually grow a brain and start acting like we care more about positions and less on emotional attachments before it gets us into a horrible spot when it will be far too late to change.
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