With 1144 delegates needed to lock up the Republican Nomination to run against Barack Obama this November, former Governor Mitt Romney has 658, former Senator Rick Santorum has 281, with Newt at 135 and Ron Paul at 51.
There have been approximately fourteen national polls, if you give polls any credence, since the beginning of March 2012,....from Gallup, CNN, McClatchy, Ramussen, Fox News, etc. Romney came out ahead in 13 of these polls by margins ranging from 4 to 13 points, while Santorum was tops in one poll by a margin of 4 percent.
Santorum's slight to moderate slide since Feb and Romney's upswing in the same time period, combined with the curent delegate count would lead one to believe that in the interests of getting ready for the bigger and far more importance contest with Brack Obama, that Santorum, as well as Gingrich and Paul would concede, suspending their campaigns for the greater good. Yet attacks on Romney continue, mostly from Santorum, this is NOT in the best interest of the Republican party nor this Country.
I get it that Santorum is the more conservative candidate. He is largely more experienced in foreign policy and is certainly more conservative on the family values and morals - which incidentally does not make him more so that Romney, it's just that these issues are more important to Santorum. In fact, this is also Santorum's weakness as the Liberals deceive and outright lie about Santorum's and the Republican's platform,...and example is Obama's speeches about the "Republican War on Women". How the President can lay down to sleep at night when he spent the day lying, is beyond me.
Up until about three weeks ago I was a Santorum supporter. No more. We have to unite as a party in order to unite as a Nation. So now I am not only comfortable supporting Mitt Romney, I am excited about our chances of wining the White House and not only bringing a screeching halt to the collective socialism and anti-constitutional direction of the Obama Administration, but moving forward as a conservative nation with personal freedoms and market based capitalism as the focal point to restore the promise of this Country and our status as the beacon to the world.
Cowboys and the Tea Party political movement have a lot on common. Both believe in individual responsibility; judging a man by his actions not words; and, both are disgusted with government intrusions into our lives and particularly our God given rights.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Obama on Obamacare and the Supreme Court - Arrogance, Intimidation or Ignorance?
In the aftermath of closing arguments at the Supreme Court regarding the Constitutionality of Obamacare and perhaps with the sinking feeling that his signature legislation is going down the tubes, on Monday 2 April President Obama said "I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. And I'd just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint—that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law."
Nevermind the thinly veiled attempt to chastise (or threaten?) the Supreme Court,.......now you be the judge,....Obamacare passed in Congress by a 219-212 margin,...this is "a strong majority?"
This comment of Obama prompted critics to accuse the president of trying to intimindate and bully the nation's highest court. One of those critics was Judge Jerry Smith, out of 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who with two other judges on Tuesday to ask the Justice Department to issue a three-page, single-spaced letter affirming the federal court's authority to rule on the case.
Which we think is appropriate since Obama's Justice Department serves more like an Obama support group than an independent entity enforcing the laws of this country indiscriminantly like they are supposed to. But, adding fuel to the fire, regarding Judge Smith's request, Attorney General Eric Holder went public, defending the President's attempt at intimindating the Supreme Court by stating that Obama's comments were "appropriate."
I think Rusk Limbaugh got it right when he said Obama's strategy is to inflame the uninformed masses, using the theme that the Supreme Court is "taking away your health care rights" in order to get these hand out, entitlist's engaged (and enraged) for the November election.
P.S. I was going to mention how Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, was totally inept in defending President Obama's comments on the Supreme Court, during press conferences, but this butt clown needs no flogging,....he did it to himself with the comment that what the president said was "the reverse of intimidation."
"Fathom the Hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen." - Ben Stein
Nevermind the thinly veiled attempt to chastise (or threaten?) the Supreme Court,.......now you be the judge,....Obamacare passed in Congress by a 219-212 margin,...this is "a strong majority?"
This comment of Obama prompted critics to accuse the president of trying to intimindate and bully the nation's highest court. One of those critics was Judge Jerry Smith, out of 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who with two other judges on Tuesday to ask the Justice Department to issue a three-page, single-spaced letter affirming the federal court's authority to rule on the case.
Which we think is appropriate since Obama's Justice Department serves more like an Obama support group than an independent entity enforcing the laws of this country indiscriminantly like they are supposed to. But, adding fuel to the fire, regarding Judge Smith's request, Attorney General Eric Holder went public, defending the President's attempt at intimindating the Supreme Court by stating that Obama's comments were "appropriate."
I think Rusk Limbaugh got it right when he said Obama's strategy is to inflame the uninformed masses, using the theme that the Supreme Court is "taking away your health care rights" in order to get these hand out, entitlist's engaged (and enraged) for the November election.
P.S. I was going to mention how Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, was totally inept in defending President Obama's comments on the Supreme Court, during press conferences, but this butt clown needs no flogging,....he did it to himself with the comment that what the president said was "the reverse of intimidation."
"Fathom the Hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen." - Ben Stein
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Obama's Chevy Volt - Busted!!
Cost to operate a Chevy Volt. Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money crew) test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors. For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.
Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles.
It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery hold 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery.
The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so they looked up what the cost is for electricity.
The cost is approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh.
16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery.
$18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.
Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine only that gets 32 mpg.
$3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile.
The gasoline powered car cost about $15,000 while the Volt costs $46,000.
So Obama wants us to pay 3 times as much for a car that costs more that 7 times as much to run and takes 3 times as long to drive across country.
REALLY?
"The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples' money." ~ Margaret Thatcher
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