The Competent Conservative

Gotta wonder what this is all about.  Does he want to distract people from his second electoral drubbing in one week or is he taking his ball and going home?  We shall see. Instead of the traditional election night party, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will hold a press conference after the Nevada Caucus on [...]

    I couldn’t agree more with this analysis from Dick Morris: For students of American politics, following the way the Romney campaign played Newt Gingrich in Florida is a lesson to learn and to keep. Romney’s people must have realized that Newt does best when he is positive. His bold ideas, clear vision, revolutionary [...]

It’s come to this… Romney’s little joke suggests that he understands that his most glaring weakness may be his lack of a poetic flaw, a useful element in a politician’s essential task of connecting with other human beings. Romney’s perfect hair and perfect family, his abstinence from petty vices (alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine), and his [...]

No, its not exactly the same thing as we are experiencing now between Newt and Mitt but, it does remind us that Ronald Reagan never took himself too seriously (unlike a certain former Speaker of the House) as evidenced by his invitation to Mr. Rickles to perform at his inaugural.  Besides, its good to lighten [...]

I, along with other Conservatives, have been quite dismayed over the last few weeks by the tactics of some Republican candidates in their quest to achieve the nomination of their party to run against Barak Obama. I was taken aback by Newt Gingrich’s assault on Mitt Romney’s business record which came straight out of Ted [...]

I have to agree with Bosman at Rightosphere.  I believe this is the best performance I have ever seen Mitt Romney give.  Wow!  It is quite long, but well worth watching.  If all those people who attended could spare an hour, so can we:)  Listen to how Mitt answers the question about running in 2012.  [...]

In this piece, Mark Halperin gives a fairly accurate assessment of Romney as the “front-runner for 2012″ GOP nomination and the most prepared to go against Obama. In a party that has often picked its presidential nominees by primogeniture, Mitt Romney is now the front-runner for 2012 and presumably will hold on to that status [...]

This is indeed an endorsement, is it not?  It is not a “campaign season” endorsement, but it is absolutely an endorsement nonetheless.  Scott Brown knows Mitt Romney’s abilities having worked close with him in Massachusetts.  It will be interesting to see how much media attention is given to this endorsement so early on. From the [...]

I remind those who keep up with the Presidential polling, and to inform those who do not, Huckabee was leading in all the PPP polls just a few months ago….until the cop slayings occurred as a result of the clemency he granted.  Romney’s poll numbers have actually risen since, 1. He launched his book tour, [...]

Mitt talks about the things he believes in when it comes to health care and points out differences between MA health care and Obamacare.  Although there are some similarities, those things that are similar are things that Republicans in the house and Senate were okay with.  The differences are stark and when one really dives [...]