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I want to preface this by stating the obvious: I am not a Ron Paul supporter. I am, however, a supporter of former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Now that I got my disclaimer out of the way I want to make comments about the Iowa Caucuses. Over the past few weeks poll after poll have been taken in Iowa. For a while, Gingrich had a hefty lead there, but now it appears that Congressman Paul has surged to a top tier status in the Hawkeye state, even passing Romney and Gingrich in one poll. But how can this phenomenon be explained?...

Controversial radio talk show host Michael Savage, citing several reasons why he can't defeat President Obama, has offered presidential candidate and former Speaker of The House Newt Gingrich $1 million dollars to drop his bid for the GOP nomination. Savage goes on to tell Gingrich to 'put his ego aside' and 'if he really loves the country as much as he says' to 'do what's right for America' and 'take the money'. The problem is several of the reasons that Savage cites are just not true. According to Savage: •WHEN HE WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, GINGRICH FAILED TO DELIVER...

A few years ago, I was an early, enthusiastic supporter of the Tea Party movement. Its essential belief in limited government and individual freedom form the core of conservative principles. The group's message of low taxes, deficit reduction and fidelity to the Constitution resonated with me. However, my Tea Partying days are over. The shot gun wedding between the Tea Party and the Republican Party after the 2010 midterm election has been consummated. It definitely wasn't a match made in heaven. Unelected Tea Party police chieftains are calling the shots. They demand acquiescence to their agenda and intimidate Republican officeholders...

In a classic understatement, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens sent out a Facebook message this morning calling the performance of United States Representative Hank "Guam Is Tipping Over!" Johnson at yesterdays' 'Fast and Furious' hearings 'embarrassing to all Georgians'. Quoting Olens, "Rep. Hank Johnson's performance at AG Holder's hearing was embarrassing to all Georgians."

I've got some flack about supporting former Speaker Newt Gingrich since Herman Cain's sudden departure from the race for the Presidency, but just because I have been so quick to move my support does not mean that I still don't feel that Herman is the best man for the office. Further, as you can hear below, the charges against him have been completely unfounded and certainly in this case, not true at all. This call to the Roger Hedgecock Show comes from Biff Naylor, who, like Herman, was Chairman of the National Restaurant Association and was there when Herman was...

Newt Gingrich 37% Mitt Romney 22% Ron Paul 8% Rick Perry 7% Michele Bachmann 6% Rick Santorum 3% Jon Huntsman 1%

Before you get the idea that this will be an article slamming former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, I hate to disappoint you. It's not. Romney isn't my first choice for the GOP nomination or even my second as most of you know, however I want to commend him. Here's why: It has been reported today from Michael Falcone, the Deputy Political Director and reporter from ABC News that in an interview with People Magazine, Governor Romney has admitted to trying out a cigarette one time and even tasting a beer, two vices that are completely against his Mormon faith. Am...

The mainstream media, as well as publicity hog attorney Gloria Allred, is leaving no stone unturned as they have gone after former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain. However, WeArePolitics has learned that the former boyfriend of one of Cain's accusers might have a great deal of motivation for backing up his ex's claims: cashing in on the story. Oh yeah...and the mainstream media conveniently has not checked into this guys past... It seems that Dr. Victor Zuckermann has had a great deal of money problems over the last few years and might be looking on a quick payday to get...

In an interview yesterday with Scott Hennen, former Clinton campaign manager James Carville admitted he was worried that President Obama can't dig himself out of the hole he has dug for himself and the country. He then went on to completely dismiss the candidacy of Herman Cain. Carville: "Everything worries me in this environment. Nobody's gotten elected with these kinds of numbers. So, I'm worried in the general election." When asked about the chances of Cain replacing the President, the 'serpent-headed' Carville said "Herman Cain is not going to be the president of anything.... Herman Cain is a salesman." I...

A little over a year ago, I wrote the article below telling everyone of the evils of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the threat he poses to not only the Western World but especially to Israel. Nothing has changed except now the madman of Tehran is thought to be behind the thwarted terrorist attack planned on the Saudi Ambassador in the United States as well as the Israeli embassy located in Argentina. Add to that the fact that Iran has attempted to launch a Kavoshgar-5 missile carrying a monkey, which did fail by the way, and that an Iranian naval...

For years we have been told that ideology doesn’t matter in American politics. The media proudly proclaims that voters vote for the candidates and not their political philosophy. This explained why such ideological candidates as Barry Goldwater and George McGovern were defeated by their so-called more moderate opponents. It was also used to explain why Ronald Reagan was elected twice (voters liked the man but not his beliefs). With the election of Barack Obama, the media dropped this canard. Rather, America had seemingly come back to its senses with Obama and was returning back to liberalism. Obama would be the...

President Barack Obama is on a three-day bus tour with "Motorcoach One", traveling through Virigina and North Carolina , still trying to convince everyone that his $447 billion "American Jobs Act" bill should be passed--especially after it was defeated in a floor vote in the Democrat-controlled Senate last week. Unlike his last bus tour through the midwest, this time the President Obama is holding his "speeches" in "smaller" towns--not served by "major airports"--perhaps thinking they may not have never heard or read about one of his famouse "pass this bill" speeches around the country so far. At the regional airport...

Apparently British talk show host Piers Morgan is still hacked off about the Boston Tea Party and looks at the Fourth of July as a day of mourning instead of a national holiday, as yet another guest on his show "Piers Morgan Tonight" has used it as a sound board against Conservatives and the TEA Party. Sean Penn (aka Hugo and Fidel's Pal) echoed previous guests actors Morgan Freeman and Alan Cumming (the night before the Penn interview, Cumming said that the TEA Party was driven by 'homophobia and racism.) in his their hatred of the TEA Party by remarking...

Okay, it is officially political chaos out there. For months, Republicans have flirted with having a 'frontrunner' for the GOP nomination. Sometimes, the 'frontrunner' has not even been a candidate - like Donald Trump and Governor Mike Huckabee. There have been 'if she or he ran' frontrunners like Governor Sarah Palin and Governor Chris Christie. There have been the 'comings and goings' of various candidates as leaders in the latest political polls like Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann and Governor Rick Perry. And, there is the latest frontrunner, businessman Herman Cain - the author of the 9-9-9 plan. So far, nothing has...

Political fortunes can turn on a dime and for many reasons. At this point four years ago the nominees were obviously going to be Giuliani and Hillary and McCain was going to drop out at any second. Time disproved these assumptions. For a time, the race has seemed to alternate between Romney and some upstart. Each time, the upstart would peak for a couple weeks and crash back down to reality, only to be replaced by another a little later. The one constant has always been Romney. This consistency to stay near at top has given people the mistaken belief...

As Americans suffer through the economic crisis since the Great Depression, anger continues to build. Not the manufactured anger and protests that we see at the Occupy Wall Street protests but an anger in middle America, what Richard Nixon described as “the Silent Majority”. These are voters who in 2008 elected Barack Obama and believed in his promise of hope and change. In 2010, after feeling betrayed by the leftward direction of the Obama Administration , they voted Republican believing that a Republican House would rein in the Obama Administration. Their anger continues to build. It is an authentic anger...

As I watched this video of the Atlanta version of Occupy Wall Street there are a few key points that jump out at me. The first is that I would like to personally thank this group of Leftist misfits for proving beyond the shadow of a doubt why our Founders did not establish a true democracy. Despite the fact that all on the Left and sadly even some on the right continue to refer to us as such, we are a Constitutional Republic. Thank God that is the case, because as these fine citizens demonstrate here, minorities have zero rights...

For a president who campaigned on the fact that he would be the great unifier of America, he has proven to be the exact opposite. Besides the fact that he has pitted political parties against each other in the most intense, ferocious ways since the American Revolution, he has also inflicted policies and programs that are fiscally murdering our country. He instigates social, economic and class warfare at every turn and his administration constantly and unjustly accuses Conservatives of racism. The only way our states have been united lately was when 27 of them filed lawsuits against Obamacare. Here are...

This is the most offensive interview I have ever witnessed. I cannot believe that MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell lectures Presidential Candidate Herman Cain about Civil Rights and then chastises Cain for not being a more active participant in the movement. Herman handled himself very well although you can tell he is clearly aggitated by the accusations and idiocy of this buffoon. Where is Al Sharpton on this? Jesse Jackson where are you hiding? Why isn't the NAACP standing up and screaming? I'll tell you why: Herman is a Republican. This clown O'Donnell is a hack who thinks he is God's gift...

As most of you have heard by now, former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain is now in the top tier of candidates running for the Republican nomination for President. It comes of no surprise to me, but it may shock many of you out there that in the most recent CBS poll just released, Herman has pulled into a tie for the lead with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and has leap-frogged over flash-in-the-pan and former frontrunner Texas Governor Rick Perry. The question most people have as well as the political pundits out there is now is Herman Cain an...