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 »

Gamecock Open Thread: Who is Perry supporters’ Second Choice

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 13th at 09:38 PM  | 

This former Rick Perry supporter recently announced his post-vulture Bain capitalist-attacks decision to express my preference that Mitt Romney (in a close call over Rick Santorum, with Jon Huntsman now a distant third for me) win the South Carolina primary as I think it critical to the conservative movement that a win my native state not be attributed to anti-capitalist, class warfare-aiding attacks. I think | 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 »

Perry loses cool in Vegas as Cain wins GOP debate 3400 to 999

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  October 18th at 11:45 PM  | 

Cain wins Nevada GOP debate 3400 to 999, Perry loses cool Garden-gate attack on Mitt Romney and inappropriate  show of temper may make Rick  Perry wish his performance could have stayed in Vegas by the time the next polls are conducted. But Herman Cain heartened anti-Romney conservative hearts by offering a blockbuster alternative to RomneyCare and/or ObamaCare with a call for interstate competition in the health care industry. | Read More »

Debates show Cain more able than Romney, Perry et al

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  September 23rd at 05:07 PM  | 

The businessman eschews semantics and revising history in favor of taking care of America’s business Is Social Security a  Ponzi scheme? A “failure”? Who cares what one-word description best fits says Herman Cain. Leave such irrelevancies to politicians, academics and bloggers with time on their hands. He would rather be about the business of curing what ails America. Admittedly, it helps to have a record in | Read More »

Treason, states rights and patriotic post office unity

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 18th at 11:49 PM  | 

Conservative fealty to the U.S. Constitution in the Age of ObamaDems’ Great Depression II and the Race for 2012 The occasion of America’s first great depression saw the exponential growth of a heretofore limited central government that was thought to have been a key ingredient of the 1789 Miracle at Philadelphia that had made our country exceptional. The post-WWII military retrenchment remained unrecognizably large by pre-Hoover | Read More »