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Who won the debate last night on CNN from Florida? Rick Santorum clearly won the field after hammering both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for their bickering. The former Pennsylvania U.S. senator went on to beat up Romney over his health care plan in Massachusetts. Mitt has been defending it vigorously but last night Rick Santorum presented facts and cases as to why Romney-Care was a failure and how the same results will plague the nation as Obama-Care takes hold. Newt Gingrich had a bad night, for that matter a bad day as the entire apparatus of the Republican Establishment attacked him. One would think they were watching a production of Shakespeare′s ″Julius Caesar″ with all of the stabbing blows delivered in a coordinated effort. Ron Paul also had a good night as he prepared to launch his new post-Congress career as a stand-up comedian. Here are the details…

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Very often a run for the White House is disastrous for the loser. It’s often just as bad for the runners up in the primaries, too. Campaigns for the White House are littered with politicians who made a grab for the brass ring and ended up not only losing that effort but finding their whole political career on the wane or even at an end. Apparently it’s happening again as Rick Perry is seeing some troubles in Texas now that he’s stepped away from the campaign trail.

As I mentioned, if you look through history the great preponderance of pols that threw their hat in the ring in the race for the White House found that their campaign basically ended their political career. In fact, even most of those that became vice president found their public life at an end upon leaving that office. After all, most of our VPs were presidential contenders at some point and took the second chair as their booby prize, if you will. But only a handful of VPs went on to become president, some of them only because their president died in office.
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Barack Obama threw another of his ′tarmac tantrums′ yesterday as he read the riot act to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. It seems that Obama was not pleased with a passage in Brewer′s recently published book where she related how he berated her at the White House over the Arizona immigration law. You know, the one the state passed since Obama was failing to do his job and protect the nation′s borders! This is not the first time Obama has gone spastic on a tarmac to a sitting governor. In 2010, Obama chewed out Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal on a tarmac for criticism over Obama′s handling of the BP oil spill.

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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was campaigning near Cape Canaveral yesterday, telling the folks of Florida′s ′Space Coast′ that if he were elected president, American would have a base on the Moon by the end of his second term. ″I comae at space from a standpoint of a romantic belief that it really is part of our destiny, and it has been tragic to see what has happened to our space program over the last 30 years.″ Gingrich did not give any details, but did talk about offering prize money to private enterprises that invent and develop the technologies needed for such an undertaking. He also said he would eliminate any wasteful programs that NASA is currently spending money on. Newt went on to promise a renewed push for manned missions to Mars.

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During this Presidential primary season, I’ve noticed how few of the members of the Republican Congressional leadership during the 1990’s have come out to support Newt Gingrich’s candidacy. After all, he was responsible primarily (with the help of Bill Clinton and the NRA, of course) for the takeover of the House and for placing many of these men into leadership positions.

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The Massachusetts Democrat, Senator John Kerry, sported a broken nose and two black eyes when he showed up at the White House Monday as Barack Obama greeted the Boston Bruins, winners of the 2011 Stanley Cup. Kerry′s spokesperson, Whitney Smith says that Kerry suffered his injuries during a ′pick-up′ ice hockey game with friends and family over the holidays. Some speculated that he had gotten some plastic surgery or was feeling empathic to the beating Mitt Romney got in South Carolina. But as it turns out, Kerry does enjoy playing hockey and as participated in the Congressional Hockey Challenge a number of times which earns donations for charity. So no jokes about black eyes coming in 57 varieties!

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Obama really does think we are stupid, or maybe it’s that his reputation for “soaring rhetoric” is a myth. According to a Smart Politics study, every one of Obama’s State of the Union speeches have been written at an 8th grade level. Worse, using the Flesch-Kincaid test designed to measure the readability of written text, Obama owns three of the six lowest-scoring addresses since Franklin Roosevelt’s era.

Smart Politics notes that Obama said, “My message is simple,” and goes on to ask, “But was it too simplistic?”
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Yesterday on CNN, during an interview with John King, Nancy Pelosi revealed that she knows some information that will keep Newt Gingrich from ever becoming President. She would not reveal what this tidbit is, preferring to keep it in reserve until Newt became the Republican nominee. The video is below.

When told this on Fox News, Mitt Romney stated, “I wish I knew what that was. I’d tell people what it is right now.”

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