The Competent Conservative

    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 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 [...]

Romney on Fox News: “If The Truth is Standard, We Win”

Remember when Gingrich started crying about negative “attack ads” by a Super Pac supporting Romney, when he said he was going to expose Mitt for who he really was?  Remember Mitt’s response?  “Hit me with your best shot” is what Governor Romney said.  It doesn’t matter how many lies and venomous attacks newt launches against [...]

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 [...]

Mason-Dixon Florida 2012 Presidential Poll REPUBLICAN PRIMARY Mitt Romney 42% [28%] (23%) Newt Gingrich 31% [5%] (11%) Rick Santorum 14% [2%] (1%) Ron Paul 6% [4%] (3%) Undecided 7% [17%] GENERAL ELECTION Mitt Romney 48% [51%] (48%) Barack Obama 44% [43%] (43%) Barack Obama 50% Newt Gingrich 41% Barack Obama 50% Rick Santorum 39% President [...]

These two polls are a confirmation that the polls released yesterday (here and here) on correct showing Romney leading Gingrich by 8 percentage points.  Today he has climb up another percent, however these polls were taking before the debate, which Mitt won, so it will be interesting to see how much he climbs in the [...]

Well if this isn’t an indication that Mitt Romney had a great debate performance, I don’t know what is!

ABC News’ Amy Walter & Michael Falcone Romney on Gingrich’s immigration ad: Romney Defends His Wealth: Romney on Gingrich promise to build Moon colony by 2nd term: While you are watching these videos,  please vote in the following polls for who won tonight’s CNN debate: Drudge Report My Fox Philly The Swash News Press World [...]

Romney lead confirmed: Rasmussen Florida 2012 Republican Primary Survey Mitt Romney – 39% (32) (41) Newt Gingrich – 31% (41) (19) Rick Santorum – 12% (11) (15) Ron Paul – 9% (8) (9) Undecided – 7% (9) (8) This Florida survey of 750 Likely Republican Primary Voters was conducted on January 25. The margin of [...]