post primary analysis!

If you are a regular reader or browser of Politics 125 then you are aware that the primary results were called here first, far before any of the primary new organizations could even entertain or dare to speculate on the results! In retrospect ,it was clear that the innate madness of Rick Santorum , once it came on full display for the voters in Arizona & Michigan was too much too take, even with the horrible aspersion of Mitt Romney being on the wrong side of the Auto rescue(sounds so much better and appropiate than a bailout!) and with the victories in AZ. & MI. Mitt Romney is (once again) poised to grasp the republican reins on "Super Tuesday". But ,while he is poised to grasp the reins ,the question is will he? It has been a very wild ride for Romney and that is because he has failed to do just that in addressing and pursuing the Republican nomination, he has failed to grasp the reins, he has failed to lead the horse, he has failed to show the republican party who is boss! and if he truly intends to make a serious run for the white house is what he must do! he must take the reins and establish that he is indeed THE ONE, to the republican electorate! That is the only way that he will end this wild ride!  Either become the lead horse or fall to the also rans!!!! That is what Mitt must do, because if he doesnt, he will go down in history along with Bing Crosbys horse, which still hasnt come in yet!!!!

Pre Primary Analysis!

AS the Michigan & Arizona Primaries are undertaken this evening, it will be interesting to see just what spin emerges from them, and how well the spin will be taken as fact, particularly by the candidates themselves! Because the fact, not the Media spin is:If Mitt Romney loses in Michigan and wins in Arizona he still is very much in Contention for the republican nomination! A victory by Santorum(in Michigan) merely keeps him in the race. The fact is, this race for the republican Nomination will be up in the air pretty much until Super Tuesday, where a decisive victory can be had, and true front runner status claimed! Tonight will be all about spin! Media spin, Santorum spin, and if i were Mitt Romney, Id invest some of that money into someone who actually knows how to spin! (Why that sound bite of Santorum endorsing Romney hasnt flooded the airwaves yet is beyond me, and if it doesnt hit the airwaves between now and super tuseday, then Romney deserves to lose!) Because clearly he who has the best spin will win the nomination, it is the lack of spin, positive spin about Romney and from Romney that has prolonged this race! SO get ready for a long night of it! I think Romney will win Michigan in a squeaker, but that is not the battlefield where he must be the most concerned, it is the spin! Because he who wins the spin wins the primary! Something to think about tonight as the results come in( that and Erin Burnett ! Wink,Wink!

Old habits die hard!

AS the issue of gas prices becomes, for the President, just that, a issue, he must, as this election year progresses, not slip back into his old habits of letting such issues grow into major ones! He must try not to give any ground for his election opponents to stand on. And though it will be nearly impossible for a individual like himself to do, he must abandon the hope of rationale and its appeal! In THIS election , for THIS president, ACTION will speak far louder than any words, as will inaction! If gas prices, due to inaction by the president rise to intolerable levels, no rationale he can offer will absolve him of the blame! And the solid ground that it provides will be used by the republicans as a springboard into the White House in 2012! SO, in the interest of not only the American people, but in the interest of President Obama's re-election effort, I would advise him to do what needs to be done to offset a intolerable, and untimely rise in gas prices, even it it means tapping into energy reserves! And to the republicans who would pooh-pooh such a effort, I would say that the state of the American economy, and the maintenance of same, would qualify the management of Gas prices as a emergency!

Post repub debate analysis!

And down goes Santorum! Down goes Santorum! Rick Santorum took a beating not unlike the late great Smoking Joe Frazier took from George Foreman at last evenings arizona debate! And now ,you will watch his poll numbers sink like a stone!Once again, with his back to the wall ,Mitt Romney salvaged his presidential hopes by being solid when he needed to be. Ron Paul, for all his foibles, has proven to be a straight shooter when it comes to his colleagues and their "true" record on capitol hill. It is so amusing to see Newt and Santorum misrepresent themselves, forgetting that Paul was a witness to all they have done! The most telling blows struck last evening were of  course Mr. Pauls assertion of Rick Santorum's being "fake", and, while it was a negligable one, the point Mitt Romney made about Santorums prior endorsement of him in 2008! If Mitt would have simply came out with this months ago, at the beginning of Santorums rise, there would have never been a Santorum rise! This debate, and its result, now sets the stage once again for Romney to close the door on this race with  Victories in arizona and Michigan next week, and then super tuesday in march! But while the stage is set, the plays the thing!So until the curtain offically closes  on this race, we will continue to monitor the situation and see how this plays out!!!

Pre Pub debate analysis

Tomorrow in Arizona there will be a public whipping, and the whipping boy will be Rick Santorum!Rick Like Newt, and Herman cain before him, has enjoyed being the anti Mitt Romney for sometime now, but tomorrrow when he is squarely in the crosshairs, and given his record and recent public statements, he is in for a shellacking!!!! This debate, more than any other so far, will shape who indeed will be the republican nominee, since this will be the last nationwide appearance before the super tuesday votes, so the gloves will and must come off! Mitt Romney has been pushed hard throught this process and every time he has been on the brink, he has come back strong, and i expect nothing different tomorrow night, but I do see the other candidates as well as Mitt himself chomping at the bit to address the record of Santorum! So get ready because tomorrow it's on in Arizona!!

Feb 22 the brawl for it all(republican style!)

Next week in Arizona there will be a republican brawl in arizona as the republican candidates prepare once more to debate, and once more Both Mitt Romney & Newt Gingrich are at the brink of disaster! The rise of Rick Santorum among conservatives has put Mitt once again on the defensive, and has put Newt ,once again, on the outs! Simply put, this debate may be a winner take all proposititon, and make no mistake, Santorum is going to take his licks. But as far as  Mitt romney is concerned, it better be a major licking!Because with the media continually greasing his pole and with the lemming mentality of conservatives, unless Rick Santorum is taken down and hard on Feb 22, Mitt may see his dream of the presidency, and the race of his life lost! As for Newt Gingrich this deabte will be his last stand. If he continues to place third and fourth his claim to relevance will fade fast, and his relevance cannot be maintianed battling Mitt Romney, because it is Santorum who is Pushing Newt out of the race! Feb 22, the brawl for it all in Arizona! And, for Mitt  and Newt ,the gloves better come off!!! Because Santorum is posied to run away with it!!!

Oh what a tangled web !!!

As the saying goes, "oh what a tangled web we weave"! And it seems that after four years of weaving and contriving, after four years of blocking and obstructing, the republicans have gotten cuaght in their own web! With natuional polls charting the trend of President Obama surging to the lead over the republican hopefuls, and with the republican congress being held in the lowest regard, it would seem that the political deception so hard woven by the rpeublican party over the last four years has unwound around them, and they have become entangled within it! The worm has turned on the economy and due to that the republicans are now in disaray!Entangled in a web of their own making. Who is now the spider and who is the fly? And on a side bar, did Sarah Palin   ever look more attractive as a candidate than she did on Sat afternoon? And ,in her most private of moments, is she saying, Damn I should have ran?!! The republicans have a problem, and it may get a lot more serious if the president continues to surge in the polls(and if he doesnt step in any more minefields like the contraceptive issue) because if the president can stand on his own solid ground, then the democraitc party can open up on the republicans themselves! And to think that six  months ago there was much talk about the republicans reclaming the senate. Now the republicans, if this trend continues, may be lucky to hold the house! Oh what a tangled web we weave, and the entire republican party is now caught up in it!