The conservative pundit onslaught against Newt did not really help Romney. It will be even worse for Romney if they duplicate such attack against Santorum. Santorum. Doesn’t that have a Latin feel to it. Santorum unites fundamental Catholics and Evangelicals, both of whom are not going to respond with anything but secret pleasure to Santorum’s charge that there is a Satan and that he is leading the charge against America’s institutions. It might spell doom in the general, but in the primary, it probably only increases the dedicated support Santorum has.

Here’s one way to keep the people actually and fiscally empowered: Don’t pay for gov’t spending by inflation. I was looking at a site where it showed a glazed donut was purchasable with food stamps, but the thing that caught me was the glazed donut was 99 cents. A simple glazed donut. 99 cents.”

An acquaintance of mine ran a blog on which he occasionally linked to the infamous Ms Amanda Marcotte; usually as an example of a paradigm case of vulgar leftist lunacy run amok.

Following one of the links, I came across this classic piece of exposition; wherein Amanda reasons her way to the inevitable conclusion that it’s not their fault, it’s yours.

“Poverty, theoretically, should not make you the marionette of others’ social expectations. High-calorie, low-nutrient food is insanely cheap.”

http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/tiny_tim_said_mother_stop_savoring_that_gruel_before_someone_thinks_were_no

The author of that bit is the same one who posted this penetrating observation: “Of course, there’s lots of ways to get sick that have nothing to do with where your apples came from. The recent death of Ted Kennedy, who got brain cancer and didn’t die from any kind of abuse of his body, should be a somber enough reminder of that.”

” and didn’t die from any kind of abuse of his body …”

Well, she may know that a life spent as a fat, morally dissolute drunk, contributed nothing to his ultimate condition and demise, and she may be right. But as of this moment, I would suggest that the jury is still out on that one.

It took us 70 years (more or less) to get here, it’s going to take us a while to get back. BTW – Getting back means rebuilding the culture of independence. It means getting local control back in out schools and ending the lock that unions have on education. It means restoring equality before the law. It means (eventually) balancing budgets and restoring the 10th amendment. It means term limits on congressmen and returning the selection of Senators to state legislatures, who can remove a sitting Senator by super majority vote.

Figure at least two perhaps three generations of erratic and slow movement back to a real constitutional republic. I know it seems impossible, but it can be done. The next tiny step in the right direction comes in November, but there will be many many more ugly battles before the nation is restored.

Curtis: – Hewitt has been in the tank for Romney since the beginning of this election cycle. Do not expect unbiased analysis from him.

Shrinking government is a fantasy. I’d just like to keep government from continuing to grow.

While it would seem that Republicans would be in the best position to do that, I’ve never seen them be able to contain themselves, either.

For me, I’ll go with divided government anyday. A strong, foreign policy executive and a congress of the opposite party. Which party in which branch? That would depend on the nature of the Supreme Court at the time, which is why it really doesn’t matter to me now – the old and dying justices are all liberals anyway.

All it takes is a visit to Walmart on a busy Saturday to understand how ill equipped the average American is to deal with a society of pulling their own weight and then some.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/charleskadlec/2012/02/13/the-audacity-of-power-president-obama-vs-the-catholic-church/

Can it really be only one week since the mask came off? For all those who fear a second Obama term, the Rubicon was crossed, was crossed one week ago.

The deficits and borrowed money have been out of reality for too long, the only way it can all be handled without a violent crisis is via deliberate inflation. The entitlements and “free stuff” will have ended up just being political party sucker bait for the lower-middle and below classes. The Democratic Party, with the indispensable assistance of some RINO friends, has become probably the most successful racketeering organization in the history of mankind….

http://www.businessinsider.com/ (where-the-one-percent-live-the-15-richest-counties-in-america)

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

Clicked yer link — good stuff. It strikes me as pretty sound analysis.

I share what I perceive as your dismay at where we’re all headed, believe me.

Curtis (9:14 pm),

Am I cuckoo, or should we (society) strictly limit what can be purchased with food stamps? We’re giving the (coerced) charity, our motive is to keep down-and-out folks nourished, hey, okay, let’s-all do that. But no friggin’ doughnuts!!! Just decent food that will keep a guy/gal afloat until s/he can fend for him/herslef again.

“People say I’m a dreamer,
But I’m not the only one . . .”

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G’night fer now . . . (gettin’ late in my time zone on my present work schedule) . . .