It's MittCain!

Mitt Romney has a growing problem; Rick Santorum is making this more evident as time goes on. Romney has yet to excite the base of the Republican party. Santorum's recent rise in the polls is evidence of this. Santorum is in first place for Michigan. Apparently the money Romney has amassed is not helping him much.

I consider this upcoming race (next Tuesday) to be the most important for Romney. If Santorum wins Michigan it proves that Romney can't get the Republican base. Let me put it this way, every vote for Santorum is a vote for Obama and here's why. I think that Santorum voters have a greater dislike of Romney than they do a will to vote out Obama in 2012. That is to say that if Romney gets the nomination a lot of Santorum voters will just stay home for the general election, just like they did for McCain. I believe that Romney is McCain --Part Two.

The media has been trumpeting that Romney has the money and the organization to go up against Obama, but all of the money and organization can't get him in front of Santorum? I think that the Media is more scared of Santorum than they are Romney and that's why you are seeing the hit pieces on Santorum. It's simple; Santorum excites the Republican voter base. Romney's strong point is polling well with moderates, which means nothing if you don't already have the base. And like I pointed out in my piece about moderates, you can't attract people who don't know what they stand for. Moderates will be attracted by a strong showing in the polls and and general excitement for a particular candidate (they ride the wave). The media knows this and that's why you see so many polls with slanted questions to sway public opinion; it's the moderates they're going after. Moderates are followers, it's that simple. You gain moderates by attracting the people who influence them. There is no way to know who influences them, so sticking with the base makes the most since. Because Obama now has a track record to defend more people are leaning towards a Republican candidate, regardless of what the polls show, secure those people already looking in your direction and moderates will follow.

So, to sum it up. Moderates only help Romney when he's doing well. When he's not, they scatter in all directions. You attract moderates directly at the cost of the base. It's for this reason that the base is so important. Romney has an inability to convince the Republican base that he's a true Conservative. If or until he does, he'll remain the "First 'Second Choice' Candidate".

The "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009" limits choice? It does if you are a Catholic. By now I'm sure that you have heard that the law mandates that Catholic institutions pay for birth control in their health plans. You can't have any government interfering with church beliefs. Wait a minute! Isn't religious freedom (i.e. freedom from government interference) in large part why this country was founded?

This is just the beginning of the "overstepping". I found something in the health care law that should raise eyebrows everywhere! I wrote about this on 08/13/2009 before the health care bill became law. Educate yourself; this might help more people to understand what the "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009" is really designed to do. When you understand how the bill is designed to work, you'll understand how any exemptions to the law are meaningless.

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A few years ago I did a post about global warming. I pointed out the gaps in logic which I could see in this consensus driven "science". It seems that I couldn't have been too far off the mark because some scientists are starting to back me up, check out Cycle 25.

Pal Brekke, senior adviser at the Norwegian Space Centre, said some scientists found the importance of water cycles difficult to accept, because doing so means admitting that the oceans – not CO2 – caused much of the global warming between 1970 and 1997.

Why would scientists have and issue with something that doesn't support their hypothesis? That's the purpose of science is to find truth. Are the people pushing CO2 as the cause of Global Warming "real" scientists?

The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.

The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.

Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.

The East Anglia Climatic Research Unit consists of the same clowns whose emails were leaked showing that they doctored temperature readings to make it appear as if there were temperature increases when in fact there weren't. They were petitioned to release the raw data from which their predictions were made. It looks like they finally have; what do we see? We see that the data suggested the exact opposite of what we were told!

Meanwhile, leading climate scientists yesterday told The Mail on Sunday that, after emitting unusually high levels of energy throughout the 20th Century, the sun is now heading towards a ‘grand minimum’ in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters and a shortening of the season available for growing food.

Solar output goes through 11-year cycles, with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak.

We are now at what should be the peak of what scientists call ‘Cycle 24’ – which is why last week’s solar storm resulted in sightings of the aurora borealis further south than usual. But sunspot numbers are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the 20th Century.

Analysis by experts at NASA and the University of Arizona – derived from magnetic-field measurements 120,000 miles beneath the sun’s surface – suggest that Cycle 25, whose peak is due in 2022, will be a great deal weaker still.

Anyone who believes that the sun plays a minor role in this planet's climate is denying reality. What happens at night? The sun goes down and so does the temperature (with the exception of a warm front). Why do seasons change? Because the earth tilts on its axis causing sun to reach the surface at an increased angle (more radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere and the planet's magnetic field). Why is it colder at the north and south poles? This can easily be observed.

Dr Nicola Scafetta, of Duke University in North Carolina, is the author of several papers that argue the Met Office climate models show there should have been ‘steady warming from 2000 until now’.

‘If temperatures continue to stay flat or start to cool again, the divergence between the models and recorded data will eventually become so great that the whole scientific community will question the current theories,’ he said.

He believes that as the Met Office model attaches much greater significance to CO2 than to the sun, it was bound to conclude that there would not be cooling. ‘The real issue is whether the model itself is accurate,’ Dr Scafetta said. Meanwhile, one of America’s most eminent climate experts, Professor Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology, said she found the Met Office’s confident prediction of a ‘negligible’ impact difficult to understand.

‘The responsible thing to do would be to accept the fact that the models may have severe shortcomings when it comes to the influence of the sun,’ said Professor Curry. As for the warming pause, she said that many scientists ‘are not surprised’.

I agree; Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs are not going to cause a change in climate, neither will reducing cow emissions. There is absolutely no reason to pass legislation in an attempt to control the climate. Climate change legislation is absurd and is designed to slow economic growth in the U.S. and the rest of the developed world. I will cover this in depth later, for now, the link above is my source material.

Don't fall for it.

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Now we are hearing from Obama campaign manager Jim Messina that they're worried about Mitt Romney's "Smear Machine"? Hmm... I somehow doubt this. As I pointed out in the last post; the MSM and the Democrats are going to attack those who they fear. One thing you will never hear is who they are really fearful of politically.

This is the Main Stream Media's way of telling Florida voters, "Good job, you're voting the way we want you to. Here's a little bone to make you feel good about Romney".

I wonder when the MSM media attacks will start for Rick Santorum?

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After reading quite a bit on both candidates and paying attention to who the MSM (Main Stream Media) is attacking. I think there are a few things at play here.

I think that most of the political analysts are hit with something they were never taught about in school. There is a huge swing in polling between Florida and South Carolina. Newt won SC but it looks like he might loose FL. Why? I don't know for sure. All of the same attack ads used now in FL were there in SC, but the outcome was different.

This I do know. There has never been (in modern history) a situation where people were truthfully scared for the country; not like now. I think that Republican voters know that Obama must go. Not because of partisan differences or whatever the media likes to call it. But because Republican voters sense that there is something wrong and that the nation might not recover from four more years of Obama.

Gingrich has the most attacks so far amongst any of the candidates. Romney is still left alone and that worries me. I want a candidate who is despised by the Obama camp. The left and the MSM will only act if they think that a candidate is a threat to their agenda, it only makes sense. Look what happened to Herman Cain.

The attacks on Newt Gingrich by former Reagan administration officials seems a little fishy to me also. Do these former officials keep such close ties with each other that they can all come out at the same time with damaging stories? What jogged their collective memory? It seems that they where incorrect in their portrayal of Gingrich.

“It does no one -- least of all Elliott Abrams or Governor Romney -- any good to try and say that Newt Gingrich, as loyal a friend and ally to Ronald Reagan as could be found in the day -- was somehow some crazed anti-Reaganite who got the Cold War wrong. Not only is this not true, its laughably untrue,” writes Lord in today’s American Spectator.

Abrams, Lord writes, was surely hoping no one would bother to “get into the weeds” and uncover the full record of what Gingrich said in 1986. But someone, a former Gingrich foreign policy staffer who now works in private industry, did, tracking down the Congressional Record for that year.

The record shows that Gingrich said of Reagan in a floor speech on March 21, 1986:

"Let me be clear: I have the greatest respect for President Reagan. I think he personally understands the threat of communism."

Gingrich, writes Lord, went on to praise Reagan for his understanding of Vladimir Lenin and applaud Reagan for understanding the threat posed by the Soviet empire and by Nicaragua, where $1 billion in assistance from Moscow fueled a Marxist revolution.

“The Newt Gingrich who spoke on the floor of the House on March 21, 1986, was thoroughly pro-Reagan, honestly engaging in a serious intellectual effort to assess the strengths and weaknesses of American foreign policy in the day from a hierarchy of vision, strategy, operations or projects and then, last but not least, tactics,” wrote Lord.

Lord calls Abrams’ criticism of Gingrich, published in a National Review Online article on Thursday, “shameful.”

In the end the vote is up to you and me. Just remember, things aren't always what they seem. These people are trying to convince others that Gingrich was anti-Reagan when he obviously was not. This is much worse than any corny attack add.

This proves that Gingrich is not the establishment candidate, and that establishment republicans are worried that Gingrich might call them out if elected. In my opinion establishment Republicans should be called out and voted out of office. Getting rid of the moderate Republicans is just as important as defeating the Democrats.

Now is not the time for moderates! Now is the time for Conservatives.

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