When Bush the Elder couldn’t get NAFTA through the Democratic Congress, the big-money boys saw to it that Bill Clinton was elected, because they thought he could, and the event proved them right.

Some goes with W, Obama, and SSMM.

By doing what his big-money backers want, Obama is assuring himself of a lucrative succession of jobs once he leaves office. Look how Tony Blair has been doing the past few years.

Interesting that Spitzer should have this on his show. Suggests pretty strongly that he believes the NSA was involved in taking him down.

My fellow Americans, we’ve travelled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. Yet here, in the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon.

Can you say, “light at the end of the tunnel”?

My fellow Americans, we’ve travelled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. Yet here, in the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon.

Can you say, “light at the end of the tunnel”? William Westmoreland could, right before the Tet Offensive.

Santorum doesn’t look like an Italian name. The ending looks like the Latin masculine genitive plural (corruption of “Sanctorum”, “of the saints”?)

Santorum’s father was Italian, from Riva del Garda in the Trentino. Is the name a dialectical form? Ladin (a form of Rhaeto-Romance) is spoken in the far northeast of the Trentino. Could the name be Ladin? There are some Germans in the Trentino, and at least in Germany and Austria some surnames are Latin. Could that explain the name?

The Democratic Cox/Roosevelt ticket only won 11 states (10 in the Old Confederacy plus Kentucky) in 1920. The Democratic Davis/Bryan ticket in 1924 took precisely the 12 states of the Old Confederacy and nothing else in 1924. The Democratic Stevenson/Sparkman ticket in 1952 took seven states of the Old Confederacy plus Kentucky and West Virginia. The Democratic Stevenson/Kefauver ticket in 1956 took six states of the Old Confederacy plus Missouri.

The point? A party can be limited pretty much to the South in a presidential election, and nevertheless retain the status of a major party.

If the Republicans nominate Santorum, he will undoubtedly lose badly in November, but they will avoid a split in their party. If, on the other hand, they nominate Romney, they may split their party.

If a vacancy appears on the Supreme Court, Obama should make it clear that he will fill the vacancy temporarily with a recess appointment if the Senate proves unwilling to confirm any of his nominees. Indeed, since recess appointments don’t require confirmation, he could appoint a liberal that would never have a hope of getting Senate confirmation. The threat of doing that might just be enough to persuade the Senate to be willing to confirm a nominee.

Well, the difficulty is deciding when the evidence really is ironclad. When the authorities have railroaded somebody, the evidence they bring forward can very well look ironclad. It’s only years later that we sometimes discover that the evidence was fraudulent.

Especially since Romney’s wife, according to her Wikipedia entry, was diagnosed with MS in 1988, and underwent (successful) breast cancer surgery in 1998.

Ron Paul also now opposes another racist policy, capital punishment. That’s one of the few times he has changed his position on something.

Considering that the Anonymous hacktivists who claim to have discovered that Ron Paul continues to associate with leaders of a hate group also said this (in your link):

We put extra effort in ruining the life of A3P webmaster Jamie Kelso. On top of being on the board of directors of A3P, former $cientologist, and high ranking Ron Paul organizer, he also is the account owner of german nazi forums and store nsl-forum.org, rhs-versand.com. We went ahead and wiped those websites off the internet as well, dumping private messages and order information. Aside from us releasing his information such as his social security number, address, resume and private discussions, we also heard some folks went on a joyride with Kelso’s credit card and made some lulzy purchases, including sex toy purchases and making donations to the Anti Defamation League and many others. Oops.

We call upon not only other antifascists but all those opposed to white supremacy to utilize this information and make hell for these white nationalist scumbags. It is essential if we wish to live in a world free from oppression to expose and confront racists at their jobs, their schools, at their homes and in the streets.

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I wonder how reliable their undocumented claims are.

The media have barely mentioned what I think is the worst thing Marianne Gingrich said in her interview: Newt announced he wanted to divorce her after they learned she had MS, and he announced to his first wife Jackie that he wanted to divorce her after they both knew she had cancer. I can’t imagine that impressed many women.

The phone calls in the poll were made Friday through Tuesday, i.e., before Romney’s comment about not being concerned about the very poor.

I just found it very interesting that Gingrich, you know, told the truth about Romney. That was pretty much verboten by Ray-gun

That was after Romney already did it first to Gingrich.

I think there was a deliberate choice by the PTB that Romney would be annointed this year.

Yep, just like they chose Dole in ’96. And, in Dole’s case, it was because the PTB wanted Clinton to be re-elected.

Latest NH poll has Ron Paul a pretty strong second. If Paul wins Iowa, that should be wind for his sails in NH. If he keeps Romney’s victory in NH to single digits, would you still say a Paul victory in Iowa is irrelevant?

New Iowa poll puts Ron Paul 3 points up, ahead of second-place Romney. Gingrich 9 points back. Paul leads in Iowa.

Congress would have to approve any end to Medicare and Medicaid, which I am sure must already have survived challenges in courts.

A President Paul, on the other hand, would have the power all by himself to end wars and to end investigations that violate constitutional rights.

So what will that do to the race, if Ron Paul wins in Iowa? Will that make him the anti-Romney candidate? Will he be acceptable to Republicans in the South, so many of whom are militarists?