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NBC News Accused Guilty of Editing 911 Call in Trayvon Martin Controversy

Zimmerman: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good, or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.”

911 operator: “Okay. And this guy, is he white black or Hispanic?”

The Individual Mandate is Doomed, says CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin

Well if you watched the video, which you should, then you know that many legal analyst have begun to worry that the Supreme Court will Strike down parts of Obamacare. The mandate is in a lot of danger, at least that is what we are hearing right now.

Like following the constitution of the United States is against the ethos of modern liberalism. The Democratic lawmakers were sure to remind the reporters that “The fact is, justices do read newspapers.”

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It is probably prudent to start this post by saying that the killing of Trayvon Martin is a tragedy, despite the outcome of the investigation.  This would be the case if Martin attack Zimmerman, and it would be the case if Zimmerman were to blame.  The simple fact that a young man can find himself at the end of a barrel of a gun on the way home from the convenience store alone is a tragedy.   What is not known about this tragedy is why the media and so many others have acted in poor taste since the story has broken nationally.  Of course, the whole thing has now turned political, which is the absolute worse thing that could happen if justice is to prevail here.   

Joe Oliver, one of the friends of Zimmerman, has also claimed the voice belongs to the Zimmerman.

Sanford City Commissioner, Patty Mahany, who represents the Sanford community thinks people are jumping to conclusions, and that that the police are confident that the voice in not Martin’s.

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If you have yet to hear about Eric Fehrnstrom’s comment about Romney’s campaign becoming an Etch A Sketch, you must live in a political vacuum, but here you go, this is the comment that is likely to become the theme to Mitt Romney general election campaign, or at least in the attack ads levied against him.

The Host: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election?

Fehrnstrom: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.

You could not have given the Democrats a better weapon to use against Romney unless you just came out and said it right out: Romney is not whom he has be saying he is.

So lets us get this right, Romney is not the candidate that he has pretended to be for the last year, and he plans to erase what he has been and then draw a new, better Romney that most of American is supposed to love. 

I guess since the reality is Romney if going to be the nominee, there is no reason for his advisers to be indiscreet about what they hope to accomplish in the coming months. It is not as if what was said is a prodigious revelation.  In fact, everyone with an iota of political instinct knew all along that Romney was insensate towards conservatives.  They were never going to be his friends; they were only a means to an end.

So is the big revelation that Romney is the shape-shifter of the 2012 campaign, hardly, this was already well documented in the legions of videos on YouTube.

What happen was Romney’s own advisor put a name to the Romney campaign. Using a children toy to explain how a candidate will abandon the base of his party could not have been part of the plan.

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At the end of George W. Bush presidency, he had an approval rating at a dismal 22 percent, leaving the Republican Party tired and disconsolate.  President Bush had run on being a compassionate conservative, but ended up expanding the size and scope of government as well as adding trillions more in national debt. Some liberal pundits claimed the Republican Party was going to need 20 years to recover from the damage that Bush did to the party’s reputation.

Although not always Bush’s fault, in many ways they should have been right.  The Republican Party was poised to see difficult election cycles for years to come.  They had two horrible cycles in a row, 2006 they lost Congress and in 2008 Democrats owned the lower house and the Senate.

Then Democrat misjudged the American electorate.  President Obama and the Democrats passed a leftist agenda that spawned the Tea Party, which stood for Taxed Enough Already.  All around the country the Tea Party rallied and helped spark the resurgence of the conservative base, and with that, the Republican Party was saved from the projected years of electoral defeat. In 2010, the Tea Party helped Republicans take back the Lower House and they almost took the Senate.

It was only because of the Democrats misjudged the electorate, and moved to usher in big government reforms that were not promised by the 2008 candidate that led to the disastrous mid-term election for President Obama, who ran as a centrist in 2008. The Democrats did not calculate that some of the reasons they had found so much success in 2006 and 2008 was because of conservative’s irascible response towards President Bush’s own big government push at the end of his second term.

By all objective measures right now, we should be seeing a Reagan Conservative renaissance; instead, we are inching closer to nominating a candidate that is atypical to the very thing that helped drag the party back to winning, but he also has surrounded himself with the same oldRepublican Insiders that permeated throughout the Bush administration that had brought the party towards the precipice of obscurity in the first place.

More than two dozen veterans of the Bush administration have surrounded Romney’s campaign. Everything form policy advisers to campaign strategists have all worked for the former president and now work for team Romney.

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How come Democrats are the only Ones seemingly Capable of Matching Romney’s Negative Ads with ones of their own.

Over at Politico, Alexander Burns lays the problem out in the most simplistic manner.

Burns plainly asks – “Remember that shocking moment on the debate stage, when Santorum confronted Romney with his 2009 USA Today op-ed highlighting the individual mandate as a possible element of national health care reform?”

“Or when Gingrich called out Romney for inaccurately claiming that his investments in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were made through a blind trust?”

“No, you don’t. And neither does anyone else because — thanks to the total failure of Romney’s opponents to do basic research and preparation — they never happened.”

Burns also asked, “When Gingrich was asked at a New Hampshire event in December about the role Planned Parenthood played in Romney’s Massachusetts health care law, it appeared to be the first the former House speaker had heard of it.”

This is indeed sad, because these are the very things that cause conservative activist to recoil from Romney in the first place. What does one think the voters would have done with this knowledge? There is a good chance that many of them do not know this stuff, not when the only right leaning Television news source [Fox News] has gone out of its way to white wash all of it. Knowing that the voters would not come to like Romney if they knew he once told a Pro-Choice group that he would serve as an the agent provocateur of pro-choice causes in the Republican Party.

In the video up top, you can clearly see that Romney has spent a lot of time deceiving the Republican voters; we can all say with confidence that he supported the mandate [those who deny it just look foolish doing so].

Romney may not have ever uttered “I support a federal mandate to purchase health insurance.” Look at his record; it is difficult to infer that he did not support copying the Massachusetts plan at the federal level, which would mean the mandate is in whatever bill that would have passed if he would have been in charge. This is exactly what Democrats did with ObamaCare.

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To be honest, I myself cannot even believe I am about to say this, but it is starting to look like Newt Gingrich may just have another trick up his sleeve. Recent polls are starting to show him creep back up into contention in Mississippi and Alabama.

Mississippi – a new PPP (D) poll has Gingrich 33%, Romney 31% and Santorum 27%, Paul is so low I am not sure why he is in the race at all anymore.

Alabama – a new PPP (D) poll has Gingrich at 31%, Romney at 30%, Santorum at 29% and Paul with a lowly 8%.

Maybe it has something to do with Walker Texas Ranger star Chuck Norris recording robocall’s for Gingrich that say this:

“As my wife Jean and I watched the GOP debate, we were trying to decide which of the candidates would be best to do head-to-head combat with President Obama,” and “Now, I didn’t say hand-to-hand combat, even though I think they would win there too.  Jean and I decided that Newt Gingrich would be the best man to beat President Obama.”

I mean, in Florida it seems Mitt Romney was able to convince voters Gingrich was too capricious to be trusted as the nominee. However, I would imagine that the Southern Voters identify with Norris better than a negative ad wielding Mormon form from out east.  Some people do see his religion as something that will harm him in the general election.

Romney fire has been focused on Santorum as of late, possible opening up room for Gingrich.  It must sting Romney, at least a little, every time he is able to burn one candidate, the voters go to another.  Romney is already whining about the possibility of a brokered convention, likely an attempt to scare conservatives into voting for him.  Maybe he should stop talking about his friends that are NASCAR and NFL Teams owners.

Despite Romney’s claim that he is winning conservative voters, the opposite is happening.  We know conservative voters are sick of hearing Romney is the nominee [Trump], or a vote for anyone else is just a vote for a deadlocked convention [Dick Morris].  Well these two think Romney is likable enough.  Maybe it is the “y’all’s he has suddenly gotten so fond of [are you kidding me, who thought that was a good idea]. 

Gingrich is counting on this very outcome as part of his strategy to become the nominee.

Over that last few weeks, many have called on Gingrich to exit the race [I am one of them] in the hopes that a united conservative base would stop Romney from winning the nomination.  I still believe it would.  So why is Gingrich staying in the race? If you ask him, he will tell you it is because:

“I went to work to change Washington,” Gingrich said. “This is somebody [Santorum] who had Washington change him. He had to go along. I am not running to go along to get along.”

Despite the hyperbole nature of this argument, Gingrich does have a valid plan, it is a long shot, but not unprecedented in American politics.

For starters, According to the RNC, Gingrich has more bound delegates than Santorum at this point: Gingrich has won 107 delegates compared to Santorum’s 95.  According to a story that was first broke by Huffington Post [yucky], Santorum’s wins have come almost from all caucus states, and for the most part, those delegates are not bound to a candidate in the first round of voting.  That is what Gingrich is counting on winning the nomination.

There are going to be a significant amount of delegates that are able to change their mind either before or at the convention.  Gingrich only needs to see Romney and Santorum fall short of the required 1,144 delegates.

Before Super Tuesday, Jim Galloway broke the math down why if Romney did not sweep the states, then he would be hard pressed to get all the delegates before the convention. 

According to Politico’s delegate tracker, which does include bound delegates the list looks like this:

Romney – 424, Santorum – 212, Gingrich – 103, and Paul – 2; there are 82 unallocated.

Here are the lists of bound and unbound delegates.

Here is a list of unbound delegates by state: AL-3; AK-3, American Samoa, Ark.-3, CA-3, CO-36, CT-3, DE-17, DC-3, Guam-9, Hawaii-3, ID-9, IL-69, IN-19, IA-28, KY-3, LA-21, ME-24, MD-3, Mass.-3, Minn.-40, MS-3, Montana-26, Neb.-3, NM-3, NY-3, NC-3, ND-28, Northern Marina-9, OH-3, OK-3, OR-3, PA-72, PR-3, RI-3, SD-3, TE-3, TX-3, UT-3, Virgin Islands-9, VA-3, WA-3, WV-3, Wis.-3, WY-29.

Here is a list of bound delegates by state: NH (12), SC (25), FL (50), Nev. (28), AZ (29), MI (30), Wash. (40).

Here is a list of winner -take-all state contests that have already happened: AZ-29; FL-50; SC-25. Michigan was winner-take- all at the congressional district level.

Here is the list of winner-take-all state contests still to come: CA-169, DE-17, DC-16, MD-34, NJ-50, PR-20, UT-37, and WI-39.

There five other states:  IN, KS, MI, VT, and VA that all have various winner take all fat the congressional district level.  In VT, Romney got 9 delegates while Santorum got 4, and Paul got 4. Romney got 43 in VA, and Paul got 4. KS netted Santorum 33 delegates, and Romney 7.  Michigan netted Romney 16 and Santorum got 14.

If you look at these lists, you can see that it is possible that Gingrichsurvives this.  Romney could get the 720 delegates he needs, but they would not all be bound.  There is a possibility that Romney does not get to 1,144 even with the unbound delegates added, which in that case there are going to be a lot of unbound delegates.

Just for this exercise, Let us say Gingrich can dominate each of the remaining southern states: Alabama (50) and Mississippi (40), then Louisiana (46), Arkansas (36), Kentucky (45), Texas (155), and New Mexico (23), he would end up with 498 delegates.  After watching Gingrich come back two times already, I would not be willing to write him off just yet.

Spreading Rumors that Gingrich is planning to pick Rick Perry asVP if nominated would make many conservatives happy as well as pick him up some support in southern states like Texas. Even if both camps have attempted to quash the speculation. 

Gingrich could conceivably last until the convention, and then somehow talk the unbound delegates into voting for him over Romney or Santorum.  I am not exactly sure that this would happen, but it is not impossible. The goal for Gingrich is to simply make sure Romney cannot clench the nomination himself. Once at the convention, he would then have to talk enough delegates into fleeing other candidates.

The big problem, other than this being highly unlikely, is that in pursuing this strategy, he all but guarantees that Rick Santorum does not get enough delegates, while risking that Romney does get enough to clinch the nomination. 

Then there is the likelihood that even if it play out the way Gingrich envisions up to the convention, that the delegates do not go to him, but decide that Romney is the best positioned to beat Obama.

Maybe Santorum is right and the delegates choose him instead.

It seem an awful high risk from a man who once said that Romney must not be the nominee because he was not conservative enough to beat President Obama.  The risk is that if Romney wins because Gingrich refused to leave the race and endorse Santorum, one has to wonder what was more important to Gingrich, beating Obama, or him being the nominee.  Most people would say the two are mutually exclusive.  Will Gingrich’s great gamble pay off for him, the Republican Party, or the country for that matter. 

The recent news that President Obama’s approval ratings are falling may just give Gingrich that opening to make a case it is time for a conservative president again, a real one this time.  Gingrich’s whole stradegy depends on Mississippi and Alabama swinging his way, and there are a few reasons to believe they just might do that.

Reporting from Damascus, Syria, Alexandra Zavis of the Las Angeles Times, reports how some of the Syrian Christians are worried that if Bashar Assad’s regime does ever fall, then the proceeding civil war will result in revenge attacks against them.  These worries are coming from the knowledge of the sectarian attacks that have been reported coming out of Iraq and Egypt.

The uprising could end the security provided by President Bashar Assad’s autocratic but secular government.

This has to be a difficult situation for this minority groups inside Syria.  Like with most dictators, there is a level of stability involved with the regime. The power they project across all groups in the country they reside in sometimes does cause a level of security that is shattered when the regime is taken down. This happened in Iraq, where the U.S. security forces were caught in the middle.  Civil war usually follows when the dictator falls.

Repeated attempts to stop the violence have not been successful, and the time is likely coming near for outside military intervention.  The United Nations estimates that 7,500 people have been killed since the violence started.

Just last week it was reported that 62 people were killed in Syria and this happen just before a United Nations envoy arrived.  Mr. Annan, who is the former United Nations secretary general, was sent to Damascus by the United Nations and the Arab League to try to negotiate a cease-fire. Mr. Assad told him there would be no negotiations until the other side laid down their arms. Which is somewhat odd being that is the Syria regime that has been brutalizing them.  I see no reason for the rebels to lay down arms.

There have been increased calls for action in the United States from John McCain, who is a ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.  McCain contends that the U.S. should lead a military air assault on Syrian Ground forces, stating that President Obama’s attempts at peace through diplomacy have started to look more like hope than a real strategy to stop the killing.

If the world does take action, they are going to have to assure that the Christian Minority in the country remains safe.  This is something that has not been the focus in other situations like this in the Middle East.

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Without Gingrich, Romney is still the likely Nominee, but with Him, Romney wins a plurality.

The numbers just do not add up to anyone stopping Mitt Romney’s path to the nomination as long as Newt Gingrich is still in the race.  Any objective observer should tell you that right now, the only chance there is to stop Romney lies in a united conservative base.

The overall vote totals should leave you to believe that if there were only one conservative/not-Romney in this race, then Romney’s path would have some huge hurdles placed in front of it.

Romney’s wins are coming when either there is a strong home state like advantage (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, or one of the states that have a heavy Mormon populace built in), and he had to outspend his opponents by 3-1, 2-1, and sometimes 5-1. There are more people voting against Romney than there is voting for him.

Romney won Massachusetts by 220,000 votes on Super Tuesday, and none of the conservatives were on the ballot in Virginia, he is still not holding over half of the votes cast.

There is still some chance that Romney does not become the nominee, but this happens only if either Santorum or Gingrich drops out.  Gingrich has not done well in a state outside of Georgia since the electorate got a glimpse of what millions in negative advertising does to his support.

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