The Competent Conservative

  Well, the whining from the Gingrich campaign is reaching “can’t look away” embarrassing .  We first heard today that Mr. Gingrich’s less than stellar performance at last night’s debate was due to the Romney campaign “stacking the deck” with their supporters.  Well, even if this were the case, if the Gingrich campaign couldn’t muster [...]

In the Florida debate tonight Mitt Romney owned Newt Gingrich over the ad his campaign ran dishonestly accusing Governor Romney of being “Anti-Immigration”.  Mitt called on him during the debate to apologize for the lie.

  Gingrich contract with Freddie Mac leaves questions unanswered The consulting firm founded by Newt Gingrich on Monday night released a copy of its 2006 contract with Freddie Mac showing it was paid $300,000 to provide unspecified “consulting and related services” for one of the federally sponsored housing agency’s top lobbyists. The contract between the [...]

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 [...]

ABC News has aired the Marianne Gingrich Interview….let the pain begin.  New polls out today show Newt leading Mitt in South Carolina by 6 percentage points, but things may change after the affects of this interview settle in, especially with the female voters.  If South Carolina buys Newt Gingrich with all his baggage, they will [...]

A New Rasmussen Poll out today shows that Mitt Romney may have benefited from Jon Huntsman’s endorsement more than we had expected.  Huntsman was garnering 5% of the vote in South Carolina at the time he decided to “suspend” his campaign and Romney was polling at 31%.  Today’s poll shows Mitt up to 35%, so [...]

An exclusive InsiderAdvantage poll released Sunday night shows GOP front-runner Mitt Romney gaining in his lead in the South Carolina primary, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is holding steady in second place. In the poll of 720 likely registered voters in South Carolina GOP primary, Romney was leading with 32 percent of the vote. [...]

This morning on Fox & Friends Rudy Guiliani shared his feelings about the attacks by Gingrich and Perry on Romney and Capitalism: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who ran for President in 2008 and dipped a toe in the waters of the 2012 contest, professed himself “shocked” by Newt Gingrich ’s attacks on [...]

Reuters: “Romney Gave Perhaps The Most Dynamic Speech Of His Campaign…Focusing Almost Exclusively On The Economic Record Of Obama…” (Steve Holland, “For Once, Romney Fiery In Speech After Primary Win,” Reuters, 1/10/12) “…Romney Offered The Starkest Choice Yet Between Himself And President Barack Obama On Tuesday In A New Hampshire Primary Victory Speech…” (Steve Holland, [...]

Today Mitt Romney made history as the first Non-Incumbent to win both Iowa and New Hampshire.  As Mitt Romney is already leading in the South Carolina polling, it’s going to be very difficult for his opponents to stop him from winning there just 11 days from now.  The media will no doubt try to spin [...]