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Hard Landing

Posted on January 31, 2012 by mduminiak

Newt Gingrich is limping out of Florida with no momentum, little money and not much to be happy about. After his substantial victory in South Carolina and visions of soaring to the moon, Newt has crashed back to earth. His supporters are pinning his loss on negative ads from the Romney side, but that argument [...]

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Newt Handed the Debate Win by CNN

Posted on January 19, 2012 by mduminiak

CNN handed the debate to Newt Gingrich on the opening question about his ex-wife’s allegations. With an economy in the toilet, millions out of work, a debt that is out of control and so many other issues facing us, CNN decided that the old allegations dredged back up by ABC were the top issue to [...]

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President of the A.V. Club

Posted on January 19, 2012 by mduminiak

Whoopidee doo, Ricky Santorum maybe, kind-of, possibly won in Iowa, but we’ll never know. We’re in South Carolina now and voting in Florida in less than two weeks. Those are big league primaries. No offense to Iowa, but who cares what they think? (Actually, I guess that is an offense to Iowa – but given [...]

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How Far Will Perry’s Endorsement Go?

Posted on January 19, 2012 by mduminiak

Rick Perry bowed out of the race for the Presidency and endorsed Newt Gingrich. Given how poorly Perry was doing in the polls, his endorsement isn’t worth squat if all it gives Newt is Perry’s voters. What Newt needs and Perry has are money and contacts. With the Florida contest only a short way off, [...]

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The Problem With Romney

Posted on January 18, 2012 by mduminiak

There are plenty of pundits explaining why Romney is the best candidate to go up against President Obama in November. The effort to find the candidate who has ‘the best chance of beating Obama’ has been the topic of countless editorials and discussion groups. Certainly defeating Obama is a critical goal, but victory in November [...]

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Is Newt The Comeback Kid?

Posted on January 17, 2012 by mduminiak

Newt was focused and seemed to be resonating with the SC Republicans at the last debate. He made Santorum and Perry seem like lesser alternatives for the conservative vote. He’ll have to convince people finally in the debate on Thursday that he is the single conservative candidate to rally around if he hopes to [...]

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Time to Stand

Posted on January 12, 2012 by mduminiak

One of the greatest problems plaguing the political scene is cowardice. More particularly it is ideological cowardice. It is an admitted fact that candidates run to the fringe during primaries and then run to the center for the general election. That is considered good politics. Unfortunately, it makes for bad government. The level of [...]

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Hollow Victories?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by mduminiak

One aspect of the Republican race for the nomination that may yet become a serious issue is the penalty assessed on NH, SC, FL, AZ and MI because they held their primaries before February. It has been the case that no Republican has won the nomination without winning SC and either IA or NH. Yet, [...]

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So Much for the New Newt

Posted on January 10, 2012 by mduminiak

Many years had passed since Newt Gingrich served as Speaker of the House. In those years, Newt told us that he had matured. He had seen his mistakes, found religion and was ready to put policy solutions and a positive vision for America at the center of his campaign. He refrained from fighting with the [...]

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Lessons From History

Posted on December 30, 2011 by mduminiak

There is a saying often attributed to Mark Twain that goes, ‘History does not repeat itself but it does rhyme.’ Any fools with a nostalgia for the late 70′s learned the truth of that in the past few years. Being President is about more than smiling and speaking in grand platitudes. It is a harsh [...]

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Ron Paul: Foreign Policy Radical?

Posted on December 28, 2011 by mduminiak

Below is a video with highlights from the 2000 Presidential Debates by George W. Bush on his foreign policy ideas. If I’m not mistaken, he sounds a lot like Ron Paul when it comes to being over-deployed, being overly involved in the internal affairs of other nations and getting into fights we have no exit [...]

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Ron Paul: The Only Flawed Candidate?

Posted on December 6, 2011 by mduminiak

Ron Paul can’t win. That’s the going theory, right? He can’t win because he’s soft on national security. He can’t win because he’s soft on drugs. End of story. The question that remains is how it is instant that Ron Paul’s issue flaws are fatal but every other candidate’s issue flaws are explained away? We [...]

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A Dismal Fight for Relevance

Posted on October 18, 2011 by mduminiak

The GOP Presidential debate in Las Vegas highlighted not only some of the candidates’ fight for relevance, but the fight for relevance for many voters in the nation. Nevada joined the growing number of States moving up their primary election. The voters in many States have felt as though their votes did not matter. Key [...]

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Is It Too Late?

Posted on October 12, 2011 by mduminiak

Some very wise political analysts wrote that things have changed since 1992 when Bill Clinton got into the race late and managed to win. The need to build a national campaign network, raise money and meet the demands of 24/7 campaigning without making a single mistake are hurdles that put late joiners at a serious [...]

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Mindless Media Madness vs. Reality

Posted on October 12, 2011 by mduminiak

Another Republican Presidential Debate is in the books and another mind-bogglingly clueless post-debate analysis from the media has followed. Let’s not even get into the utter uselessness of the so-called fact checking that can’t even grasp the simple concept of static vs. dynamic scoring. The fact is that so much of the media is so [...]

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Neo-Santorum?

Posted on April 25, 2011 by mduminiak

Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania Senator, has been making the candidate rounds for months. Yesterday on “FOX News Sunday”, Santorum called his vote on the Medicare prescription drug benefit a mistake. In an effort to paint himself as the fiscal conservative he would like to campaign as, he is working to distance himself from his record [...]

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Where’s the Leadership?

Posted on April 11, 2011 by mduminiak

There is little point even getting into the way many of us feel about the way the government funding situation was handled. Suffice it to say that only those who make their living fawning over the party leadership and never have an opinion until they are given one are happy with how things turned out. [...]

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