High Ground Underground

The GOP Race – With 5 Weeks to go Before the Voting Begins Another few weeks pass by and we have another flavor of the month (black walnut is now passé) – Newt Gingrich. I’ve heard a proposal for another dynamic duo – Romney-Gingrich. A caller to Dennis Miller’s show spoke of “splatter politics” – a debate between Newt & Biden would be like clubbing pup seals. Most experts are in agreement that it’s coming down to Mitt & Newt. Some highly unusual names – on top of Barrack. Newt is claiming to be more conservative and electable than Mitt, to which Mitt responds, “we’ll see in the course of the debates.” There doesn’t seem to be huge position differences between many of the candidates (certainly relative to Obama – except perhaps Ron Paul), and I’ve previously cited Mitt’s very conservative record in Massachusetts – despite a solidly liberal legislature. Many talking heads feel that Mitt may have a tougher time in the primaries, but do better in the general election with a greate...

The liberal media would just as soon focus on the mosque/Koran-burning issues rather than the economy & November elections, because that's their only hope -- to change the subject. Obama said it himself -- if the election's about the economy, Democrats won't do well. Less than 2 months from the election and the polls are certainly clear on that. "It's the economy, stupid!" And Democrat candidates are abandoning Obama's record as fast as they can. Is it hoof-in-mouth disease? But he just keeps on doing it . . . he can't seem to break that liberal spending addiction. And after having crashed the car, he doesn't think he can trust the keys with another driver? And now Hillary is acknowledging that a staggering debt weakens us militarily, which is exactly what I was saying in my July 28 post. Has the 2012 campaign already begun? Arguments for Iraq Revisited Trying to create yet another distraction, now the Monday night quarterbacks are coming...