The Competent Conservative

It wasn’t hard for me to predict, nor anyone else that has seen Newt’s vitriol on the campaign trail, that Newt Gingrich would officially enter the sorest losership competition by using his Florida speech to attack Mitt Romney.  When Newt won South Carolina, Mitt Romney congratulated him on his win.  When Newt loses, he blames [...]

Distasteful as it is when Palin abuses the trust of her fans, there is a silver lining: the debate raging in the comments on her Facebook post is a small window into the arguments with which Tea Partiers are wrestling. What follows isn’t a random sampling of movement opinion. But it is a single data [...]

Republican hopeful Mitt Romney has opened up a 20-point lead in the final days leading up to the Republican primary in Florida, according to a Suffolk University/7NEWS (WSVN-Miami) poll of likely Republican primary voters in Florida. Romney led Newt Gingrich 47 percent to 27 percent, while Rick Santorum got 12 percent and Ron Paul finished fourth [...]

  Ouch!  This one’s going to leave a mark… Lest you think that Ron Paul is the only Republican Presidential candidate with newsletter problems, Brody Mullins and Janet Adamy of the Wall Street Journal have unearthed one by Newt Gingrich, also flagged by Andrew Kaczynski. The since-redacted April 2006 newsletter from Newt Gingrich’s Center for [...]

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 [...]

  Earlier this month, Rick Santorum applied the word ‘grandiose’ to Newt Gingrich, obviously not intending to do him a favor. Newt, however, decided to embrace the term, saying “This is a grandiose country of big people doing big things.” Whoa, there Newt. Crack open a dictionary before you start throwing terms around like that. [...]

This is about as hard hitting as they come.  Tom Brokaw has been known on the left as well as the right for being a decent journalist.  And just think, all the baggage on Newt hasn’t even begun to surface yet.

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 [...]

Mitt Romney delivered a new zinger against Newt Gingrich in an event in Orlando just now, mocking him over his complaints about this week’s debates. “I had fun last night, I gotta tell you,” Romney said. “Now Speaker Gingrich said after the debate before last night that the crowd wasnt allowed to cheer so he couldn’t do so [...]