push McDonnell over the top.

n/t

this morning plus his association with Romney, I’d say that’s not likely.

and I think you should at least wait and see how Rick Perry handles his being Gingrich’s surrogate in the post-debate ‘spin room’ tonight.

an increasing number of political reporters have been missing Perry, and he has been doing quite a few re-boot moves since Jan. 19. The most recent are the reports wondering why Perry has not been in his office very much.

I think he has been studying the Gingrich-School-of-Debating crash course in preparation for his media debut tonight.

I have only seen McDonnell on one Sunday talk show recently.
He was appearing with Maryland governor O’Malley, and O’Malley left McDonnell in his dust, rhetorically speaking. McDonnell was definitely NOT ready for primetime.

I still believe it is a Gingrich+Perry tag team to derail Romney+Paul.

btw, about the women vote? Well, some/many of The First Wives Club may not vote for Newt, but I do not think most women, especially under 40, will see him as having too much personal baggage. Glad to see Gingrich is trying to keep his message on gasoline prices.

…without even a vote.

Mark Warner is already positioning himself for another run at Governor, which means he vacates a seat in 2014. McDonnell should try for it.

bent over to MSNBC pressures on the ultrasound bill, the base is clamoring for him to screw us on the national stage. . .

bent over to MSNBC pressures on the ultrasound bill, the base is clamoring for him to screw us on the national stage. . .

Yesterday, Morning Joe claimed he attended a kitchen table discussion held by his wife and a group of her ‘rock-rib, staunchly pro-life Republican women” friends; none of them ever voted Democrat, not even once. Joe reported these women are angry and afraid of such things as the proposed required ultrasound prior to abortionin VA, and the views of Santorum on birth control. Today, he nearly fell off his chair patting himself on the back, claiming after he revealed the results of the ‘focus group’ in his kitchen, Gov. McDonnell caved. No woman will be subjected to the horror of being required to observe the living child she is carrying, thanks to the Scarborough’s.

A note to Mrs. Scarborough and her group of elite ‘rock-ribbers’ on the East Coast: You were the same group that were quick to accuse the tea party movement and the rhetoric of Sarah Palin as being the impetus behind the shooting in AZ that wounded Gabby Giffords. You were quick to jump on Obama’s bandwagon about the need for civility; have you ever come out publicly since to denounce the vitriol of the Left? Does the daily incivility revealed on Morning Joe ever cause you to speak out publicly? Joe admonishes Santorum with, ‘judge not, so you won’t be judged’. Morning Joe is nothing but hours of judgmental and often snarky, snide rhetoric. Does the Biblical reference apply to everybody but Joe? Where were your voices several days ago when Maxine Waters called John Boehner and Eric Cantor ‘demons’? Maybe there’s more scary characters on the national stage than Santorum, huh?

Also, Mrs. Scarborough, since you and your coffee group are so pro-life, how can you be so opposed to that unborn child getting one final chance at reprieve? Just maybe, Mom will decide that baby deserves a life. She may well not want her offspring but maybe (as is the case many times when a woman sees that ultrasound) she’ll grant her child a pardon so he/she can live and be cherished and loved by an adoptive family. As for the worry about the invasiveness of a trans-vaginal ultrasound, what does Mom think she has awaiting her when the abortion is performed? Abortion is about choice for the woman carrying the child. Pro-life conservatives are forced to fund these procedures both here and abroad against our wills, yet when we try to legislate a last-ditch effort at choice for the baby, we’re radical, extreme and downright scary.

Let’s be clear; Mrs. Joe Scarborough and her friends are anything but staunch conservatives. They obviously are red-blooded Republicans but the divide between the two is becoming wider and more stark. If these women truly want to make a difference in women’s lives, they’d be telling their MSNBC host husbands to report about the rape and slaughter of Christian women occurring in Egypt and in too many other places in the world. They’d be calling out the President for remaining silent about it. These know-it-all Republican women would be screaming about the doomsday policies, fiscally, socially and in foreign policy, of this Administration if rights and freedoms and choices were truly important to them.

Mrs. Scarborough, et al, if you really want to force policy reversals such as the one you’re claiming to have caused in Virginia, get out of your kitchens in CT and the Upper East side of Manhattan and go on shows like The View and talk about the over-reach of Michelle and Barack Obama’s policies into family and private lives. Talk about how parents should maintain the right to pack their kids’ school lunches. Tell other American women about the staggering fact that an add’l 3 million Americans qualified for food stamps in 2011. Tell them that their home values are the lowest now in 10 years. Talk about how the skyrocketing gas prices are going to cost their families hundreds, if not thousands more to drive and survive in the coming year. Since you’re so concerned about the govt. staying out of women’s health matters (other than to force taxpayers to pick up the tab for it), start telling American mom’s the truth about Planned Parenthood and what their child can access from their website or have texted to their phones. If you’re going to espouse outrage and fear, at least apply it to all the frightening issues facing women and families right now. There’s lots of suffering souls that could use your help.