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By Coach Collins, on January 4th, 2012%
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
Mr. 25% has done it again. Willard Romney has a thing about the number 25. If there are six people in the Republican field his 25% puts him at or near the top. When the field thins out his 25% will have to be increased or he will end up the same way he did in 2008.
Rick Santorum is a solid conservative who demonstrated that a candidate’s perceived conservatism will ultimately be the quality that propels one of the Republicans on the stage to the nomination. Whether Rick has the staying power to mount a protracted fight remains to be seen, but for now we have to congratulate him for being the first candidate to expose Willard’s 25% problem to those who believe his nomination is a settled matter.
Ron “Sanjaya” Paul has had his day in the sun. There will probably never be any way to prove it, but Paul was … Continue Reading:Willard’s 25% problem returns as 75% say “No thanks” and other thoughts on Iowa
By Coach Collins, on December 16th, 2011% By Ron Reale, staff writer
If life were fair, Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann would be doing much better than they are. I understand the reluctance to back Bachmann. I stopped backing her because she claimed, among other things, that God was sending recent natural disasters, killing people all around the world as a warning.
Santorum, to my knowledge, hasn’t made any such self destructive statements and believes with a passion what he says. He just doesn’t seem to project any passion himself. And that’s a shame. He would probably do well and is undeniably for a strong America.
Gingrich as usual was the smartest person in the room, but like Obama has an arrogance befitting a know-it-all professor and, like Obama, is an admitted progressive. He goes so far as to call himself “Wilsonian” in his beliefs. That in and of itself should scare the bejesus out of anyone. Gingrich loves big government because he believes, like Obama, … Continue Reading:The debate in “Reale time”: a wife, visiting relatives, and two dogs allowed
By Coach Collins, on November 11th, 2011% By Kevin “Coach” Collins
Starting with the 2009 elections facebook has gradually become a stronger and more reliable gauge of popularity and ultimate voter support for candidates of both Parties.
By 2010 facebook had fully arrived as a new metric for understanding the progress of a campaign. For example, in the before Election Day last year Mike Grimm, the Republican challenger in the 13th District of New York had 4 ½ times more facebook “likes” than his Democrat incumbent opponent. In New York City which is deep blue and wall to wall union, the Democrat’s $2.5 million head start did him no good and he lost. Those who watched the “race” on facebook were not surprised, all the buzz was going Grimm’s way.
On October 21 Herman Cain’s number of “likes” on facebook numbered 278,000 and Willard Romney’s “likes” were at 1,140, 000 a product of his four years of campaigning.
Over the next several days, … Continue Reading:Measuring Herman Cain’s progress via facebook
By Coach Collins, on February 15th, 2011% By Kevin “Coach” Collins
Texas Libertarian/Republican Congressman Ron Paul was the biggest vote getter in the presidential straw poll at the recently concluded Conservative Political Action Conference meeting. Ron Paul?
That CPAC’s “winner” Congressman Paul couldn’t win an actual primary where his voting record: against the Patriot Act, and the REAL ID system to help weed out illegal aliens and twice for ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to put Gays in the Military didn’t seem to matter to the collection of attendees from the fringe who flooded the process.
Of course having 3,742 voting attendees with a large percentage of them Paul supporters (twice the number 2007 participants) skewed final vote. Nevertheless: Ron Paul?
Ron Paul in real life
At the same time a self delusional CPAC was naming Paul its top vote getter, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) was voting to kick Paul off its National Advisory Board.
This action was not taken … Continue Reading:Is CPAC, quickly becoming the tree that fell in the desert?
By Coach Collins, on August 29th, 2010% By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer
An analysis of how Fox News handled Ron Paul’s candidate debate responses in South Carolina early on in 2008 may lead us to rethink our slavish conservative allegiance to this cable network. A YOUTUBE.COM video of “Campaign” Carl Cameron questioning Representative Paul becomes very uncomfortable when the Fox interviewer bluntly asks the candidate, “Do You Have Electability? Are You Viable?” The tone is almost mocking, and the audience’s laughter seems to validate that notion. However, the laughter turned to applause when Paul got into the body of his response with such replies as, “I’m a strict constitutionalist; I’ve voted against more spending,” than any other candidate. The [1]dailypaul.com website leads us to the original video still sourced on the front page of DIGG which suggests Fox cut Paul’s definitive remarks from its debate re-air. Then Paul keys in on the Republican platform planks and questions just where the GOP are on foreign … Continue Reading:Who is really looking out for you, Fox?Maybe not!
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