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The Spectacle Blog
Sorry to send y’all on a link chain, but at CFIF I discuss why a new column by Rich Lowry and polling by PPP both show more good news for Rick Santorum. Meanwhile, Jennifer Rubin thinks Rick Perry’s campaign may be in its final days — which is further confirmation of my report that the “draft Jindal” movement is a sign of impending doom for Perry. Again, it also could be perhaps good news for Santorum, because if word gets out that serious conservative leaders think Perry is doomed, Iowans disposed toward voting for Perry might peel off and vote for the conservative moving up (Santorum) rather than the one (Perry) fading out.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney may yet suffer from this video showing him wanting to “keep the good parts” of Obamacare, and this one in which he doesn’t just describe the mandate as something he agreed to in order to keep the Democratic legislature happy, but repeatedly returns to it as perhaps the single biggest selling point, the best practical policy advance, in Romneycare. In the last 24 seconds of that second video, he quite clearly infers that the mandate would be good policy for the nation as well. He does the same thing in this video. Meanwhile, conservative Iowa radio host Steve Deace has been running (on his web site) this excellent column by Steve Baldwin, former conservative state legislator in California and former execdutive director of the conservative Counsel for National Policy — a column excoriating Romney, very much in line with all the anti-Romney info available at Baldwin’s site RomneyExposed, which, among other things, details Romney’s economic heresies.
All of which continues to make this an incredibly fluid race going into these last six days.
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Derek Leaberry| 12.28.11 @ 12:53PM
Perry never recovered from defiantly supporting the Bush Family line on immigration. One would have thought that the man who slew Kinky Friedman would have had better political instincts. But Perry proved unable to learn from past mistakes.
kf451| 12.28.11 @ 2:24PM
What evidence do you have that Perry is fading? There's none in your link. Santorum's up one point from the last point - well under the margin of error. Perry's steady.
505.78K| 12.28.11 @ 2:35PM
Read it and weep:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/....._blog.html
He's got nobody but himself to blame.
Haddit| 12.29.11 @ 3:14PM
We need someone with a set. Newt would and will eat any of their lunches and I gurantee it wont be any FREE lunch either. They will pay for it as should everybody in this country. The man was instrumental in Welfare reform. Obama got rid of it first order of business.
Oldefarte| 12.28.11 @ 2:40PM
Jindal would be an intelligent alternative, but the very best option possible IMO for draft purposes would be Haley Barbour, southern twang and all, since he has not only governmental-administrative skills but also national GOP leadership as well. Hopefully, no one would be stupid enough to accuse him of NOT being a conservative either, but who knows??????
Haddit| 12.29.11 @ 3:11PM
Has anyone noticed that 999 seemed to die with Cain? I think that's a blasted shame. They were all for it while the man was kicking butt and taking names. Now? Nobody thinks we need some sort of tax reform. The man that goes with 999 or the fair tax will be the candidate to have in office, period. I wish Cain would come back on line. I'd vote for him in a new youk minute.