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Of the four contenders, Rick Santorum had the best night. It has taken him twenty debates, but Santorum finally ended up with the primo onstage real estate, right next to Mitt Romney at the heart of the action.
You might not know it from the extended bouts of hair-pulling-and-garment-rending anguish emanating from the Republican Party establishment these days, but the Republican Party is getting exactly what they asked for.
A Quinnipiac Poll released today shows men more likely to think the GOP candidates understand the problems and needs of women. Women, however, know better.
If Santorum beats Romney in his putative home state of Michigan, Santorum could embarrass and damage Romney enough to gain serious momentum into Super Tuesday.
The nearly universal opinion among scholars, legislators, and even the Justices themselves is that the text of the Exceptions Clause unavoidably lets Congress take free shots at the Supreme Court.
For some people, every day is already a painful reminder that they are made of dust. For these people, sin is not so much about pride, but rather the failure to have a healthy sense of self-esteem and love for oneself.
While Democrats will decry Santorum's views on social issues, and the Republican base will rally behind him, most truly independent voters may largely ignore his extreme conservatism on social issues, simply because they don't really care about the wedge issues.
Whoever emerges as the GOP standard-bearer will be deeply indebted to a handful of people, each of whom will expect a good return on their investment. And this is just the beginning. We haven't even come to the general election.
Why would either Adelson or Gingrich risk the kind of negative fallout their arrangement rightly arouses? Gingrich, for his part, has little to lose, lagging well behind Romney and Santorum for the Republican nomination and desperate for anything that might resurrect his fading prospects.
Rather than educate voters with facts and reasoned arguments, the statements and opinions of the leading candidates reflect anachronism and exaggerations at best, misrepresentations and outright falsehoods at worst.
Don't mean to overreact and risk boosting everybody's blood pressure, but this might be a halfway decent time to seek out a nice safe steel bunker to hunker down in, because it's awards season and heavy metal statuettes are being tossed around like dimes at a county fair.
Conventional wisdom holds that many if not most of today's 20-somethings don't care about electoral politics -- and won't be voting for president in 2012 -- because they are indifferent to the world around them.
With his miraculous resurgence, I figured I better focus on my new favorite conservative, Rick Santorum! I couldn't find many folks who support him but I'll look harder next time.
Hot-button issues, such as, "A woman's right to choose" will be watered down to the more fashionable, "A woman's right to Jimmy Choos."
You don't have to be enamored with any of the Republican candidates to enjoy the exercise and the proof it provides that power resides with the people.
