Monthly Archives: January 2012

South Carolina primary: Scramble ahead of Saturday vote

By BILL NICHOLS COLUMBIA, S.C. The four surviving combatants in the 2012 Republican presidential field were crisscrossing South Carolina on Friday in the final hours before a critical primary that could either end the race or raise dramatic new questions about Mitt Romney’s hold on the nomination. After a tumultuous Thursday that saw Rick Perry [...]

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Romney campaign unloads on ‘outrageous and destructive’ Newt Gingrich

Toby Harnden’s Blog There is now polling indicating a possible Newt Gingrich surge after Monday night’s debate – A Rasmussen tracking survey has him just three points behind Mitt Romney. Notably, Rick Santorum may need to start wearing a lifebelt rather than a sweater vest – he appears to be sinking fast. But the surest [...]

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Mitt Romney doesn’t really have a Republican problem

Posted by Chris Cillizza Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination even as he continues to endure whispers that he is simply too moderate to win over a majority of the GOP. Exit polling from Romney’s 16-point victory in New Hampshire tells a very different story, however. Among [...]

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Standard & Poor’s downgrades 9 European nations

By JOSH BOAK | 1/13/12 5:42 PM EST The Standard & Poor’s rating agency downgraded nine European countries Friday, confirming that the continent’s efforts to contain a debt crisis that also threatens the fragile U.S. recovery have come up short. What began as excessive debts in countries such as Greece steadily evolved into concerns about [...]

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Great People, Great Quotes…Winston Churchill

  I would like to start a new feature for Solid Principles today by introducing a series of posts entitled;  “GREAT PEOPLE, GREAT QUOTES”. Many times we get so caught up in the media-driven trivialization of life in general and American pop culture in particular, that we lose sight of some of the great people [...]

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Primetime Tebow Time: Will Broncos-Patriots Set TV Ratings Record?

Written By Robert Seidman Tebow, Tebow, Tebow, Tebow, Tebow. Are you sick of hearing about Tim Tebow yet? Tom Brady must be, but at least he can console himself with three Super Bowl rings, a Victoria’s Secret supermodel wife and just being Tom Brady! Most of us can’t do that and if Saturday night’s game [...]

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GOP divided over potential impact of Bain attacks

      By Amy Gardner and Peter Wallsten, Published: January 12 GREER, S.C. — Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney appeared Thursday to have successfully blunted attacks on his work at Bain Capital, with still more conservatives coming to his defense, his rivals backing down and voters at campaign stops in South Carolina saying they [...]

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Road to 2012 – Post NH Pre SC

Welcome to another ‘Road to 2012′ – what Pundits overlook, and what we notice NEW HAMPSHIRE:  While it didn’t offer the roller-coaster of Iowa caucus, the early call for Romney allowed the media pundits the chance to throw in comments which didn’t come to pass, but never chose to clarify. When the early reports of [...]

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Mitt Romney and the Bain bomb

[ Editor's Comment:  As we all know by now, the media loves a horse race. It's good for circulation, for viewership and for website traffic. That being said, a lot of what passes as "news analysis" is pure propaganda. When the race card doesn't work to keep people interested in a race when a candidate [...]

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Political Cartoons: Jim Morin, the Miami Herald

I don’t mean any disrespect towards Michele Bachman (who I admire) or to Rick Perry (who has accomplished a great deal in his life), but in a very exaggerated way, this political cartoon is funny. ~~John Cronin~~ By Jim Morin/The Miami Herald Check out the latest political cartoons and animations from Jim Morin.   Recommend [...]

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