The Competent Conservative

Mitt Romney pulled out a big win in Nevada. Right now with 43% reporting, these are the results: Mitt Romney 42.4% Newt Gingrich 26.1% Ron Paul 18.3% Rick Santorum 13.0% The only county left is Clark County, where Mitt currently has 59.8% of the vote reported, so I expect his lead to grow throughout the [...]

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 [...]

The New York Times has a fascinating article about what has been happening behind the scenes in the Romney Camp this week leading up to Florida primary in order to ensure that Mitt Romney is able to defeat Newt Gingrich there. Having read this description of the power behind Mitt Romney’s campaign, I feel a [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

Virtually everyone who has a television or uses a computer or smart phone has been subject to listening to the angry and bitter attacks by Newt Gingrich on Mitt Romney, Capitalism and Free Enterprise.  It’s one thing for Gingrich to be angry for negative ads run against him in Iowa, but it’s a whole other [...]

From their press release: “Newt Gingrich’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital are disgusting,” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. “There are a number of issues for Mitt Romney’s Republican opponents to attack him for, but attacking him for making investments in companies to create a profit for his investors is just wrong. Because [...]

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