For Newt after Santorum goes stark raving, March ‘improving economy’, Mad(ness)

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  March 12th at 01:07 PM  | 

The Whippersnapper snapped when he accepted the Democratic Party media fiction while The Legend’s campaign is as much against the media as it is for the GOP presidential nomination Thankfully, former Speaker Newt Gingrich is every bit a social conservative as the former senator from Pennsylvania, and so would have that historical advantage that, along with the “It’s the economy, stupid” rule, regularly results in the election | Read More »

Super Tuesday: The Legend, The Whippersnapper or The Hedgehog

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  March 6th at 12:46 PM  | 

Any of these Republicans would deny Obama re-election The view from this South Carolina gamecock’s Stone Mountain of Georgia roost sees Newt Gingrich winning from whence he made conservative Republican history, second only to Ronaldus Maxus. DeVine Law dictated this Southern Baptist’s vote for the young Catholic, while my long-time, part-time, lifetime-Democrat girlfriend will be casting an anti-religious bigotry vote for the savior of the Salt Lake City Olympics | Read More »

Does Newt’s support for Bush Rx Drug bill win Florida but lose conservatives?

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 25th at 09:33 AM  | 

Mitt Romney’s attack on Gingrich for alleged lobbying prompts full-throated defense of Bush Medicare reform Tea partier criticism of President George W. Bush and the early 2000s’ Republican Congress as oxymoronic “big government” conservatives have always focused on his signature No Child Left Behind education accountability reforms and the addition of coverage for Rx drugs via Medicare Part D. Then Senator Rick Santorum voted for | Read More »

Newt speechless on Bain, paid hush money by Freddie but squeals for Bush Rx bill

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 24th at 10:46 AM  | 

Former Speaker finally finds his “big government” voice The tropical climate of Tampa finally loosened the Newt’s vocal cords for singing the praises of government intervention in the economy and the biggest expansion of government after LBJ’s Great Society, before ObamaCare. Newt Gingrich is big man with big ideas who helped balance four budgets with capital gains tax cuts, and once again proved at Monday night’s GOP presidential | Read More »

SC teaches its gamecock a lesson: Newt is acceptable

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 21st at 08:35 PM  | 

Our native state teaches the GOP and its now Stone Mountain of Georgia-roosted gamecock a lesson: Newt is acceptable to tea partier conservatives Mike DeVine Law Gamecock is humbled. That so many voters that have earned my respect for so many years have chosen to support Newt Gingrich over Mitt Romney convinces me that Mitt is not so much better than Newt, that a vote | Read More »

No tea partiers remain and Newt could lose to Barack

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 20th at 11:23 AM  | 

Babe Ruth’s homers were prodigious but Hank Aaron hit more I well remember the good old days, way back in 2011, when Mitt Romney was lauded for being the great debater among those boys (and Michelle Bachmann) of Summer. Thus is the ephemeral nature of debate moments and home runs; much as was the hope for a tea partier conservative GOP presidential nominee. Winter and | Read More »

The SC GOP Primary: Vultures, capitalists, evangelicals and gamecocks

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 16th at 10:39 AM  | 

Palmetto State poised for pragmatic pick over preening vulture anti-capitalists South Carolinians have seen too many shuttered textile plants never visited by Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital to fall for Newt-Perry slurs that blame the buyers of companies already failing due to the internal policies of the sellers or external policies of governments. Vultures eat the dead. Bain, under Romney, saved jobs worth saving in the private | Read More »

Newt was paid hush money by Freddie Mac

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 21st at 02:19 PM  | 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. …Someone else said “All that needs to happen for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke) In the Election of 2010, tea partiers and conservatives sent the loudest message associated with the Grand Old Party of Lincoln since 1948. Hence, the aversion to nominating another McCain Establishment-type named Mitt Romney as | Read More »

Cain can’t deter Iran after Wofford College/Spartanburg, S.C. debate

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 14th at 08:44 AM  | 

[A post-Florida Gator-devouring USC gamecock's Stone Mountain of Georgia roost-view of his undergrad alma mater, Wofford College and Spartanburg hometown's hosting of the South Carolina, CBS/National Journal, Republican Party presidential debate] Let the Big Dog eat! The motto of Wofford Terriers’ (pictured) sports teams is “Let the Big Dog eat!”, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich looked like the Big Dog eating away at GOP | Read More »