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Morning After Pill…And Pundits

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Welcome to the Super Tuesday hangover; welcome to Stupor Wednesday.

-Stacy McCain is either shamelessly seeking blog hits or he really believes what he published just a bit ago:

Mitt Romney has a powerful ally in his effort to win the Republican nomination: Sarah Palin, who told a Fox News reporter last night that she voted for Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich’s vote total in Alaska was more than four times as large as Romney’s 463-vote margin over Santorum….

Perhaps it’s both.

-It is an interesting question: Is Newton’s continued presence in the race from this point onward going to benefit Willard in his quest to be the GOP’s ‘It’s My Turn’ Nominee? Is his Nero fiddling while Rome burns? I haven’t made up my mind as yet.

-Another question: Will it benefit Mrs. Palin? In regards to that, here’s a report I read this morning from the Fairbanks Daily New-Miner [tip of the fedora to Wombat-Socho's Live At Five (which ain't no jive)]:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a CNN reporter in Wasilla on Tuesday that she wouldn’t rule out having her name put in nomination if the Republican Party has no winner by the time of its fall convention.

“As I said, anything is possible and I don’t close any doors that would be open out there,” she said. “I wouldn’t close that door.”

More from that CNN report cited above, [tip of the fedora to Katrina Trinko]:

Pressed on whether she would consider running for office in the future, Palin said she would "seriously consider" whatever she could do to help the country and "put things back on the right track."

"Anything I can do to help, I will be willing to help," Palin said.

-Stacy was at Santorum HQ last night in Ohio and filed a report that was published this morning over at The American Spectator. A highlight:

Weak as he is, however, Romney continues steadily accumulating an edge in the delegate count, and at least one analyst has predicted that it is already impossible for any other candidate but Romney to get the 1,144 delegates necessary to win the GOP nomination on the first ballot at the August convention in Tampa. Yet that prediction was based on a mathematical formula that might become instantly obsolete if Santorum could drive Gingrich out of the race. Santorum’s Tuesday win in Tennessee suggested that Gingrich might be vulnerable to a challenge in the South. That may explain why Santorum began his post-Super Tuesday campaign schedule with a Wednesday trip to Alabama, which votes next week, as does Mississippi. If Santorum were to defeat Gingrich in those Deep South states, the battle for the Republican nomination could come down to a "true test of conservatives" — Santorum vs. Romney — rather quickly.

Santorum’s campaign is also clearly willing to carry their fight all the way to the convention. When a reporter asked Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley about the Romney camp’s claim that Santorum can’t win a majority of delegates, Gidley retorted: "He’s got to get to 1,144 too.… He wants us out because he can’t get there." If a drawn-out campaign leaves both candidates short of the magic number, Gidley said, "so be it."

-National Review Online’s Robert Costa was also there and comments:

That was the takeaway here. Santorum had a good night, not a great one, but his supporters have energy. Their candidate has pep. It may not be enough to win the nomination, but it’s enough, for now, to keep fighting.

-After i finish writing this post, I’ll have to look at my backside to see if pig’s are flying out of it because I agree with something Rich ‘Twinkle Toes’ Lowry wrote:

In a sketch last weekend following Mitt Romney’s win in Michigan, "Saturday Night Live" had its Romney character boast that it was another instance of voters saying of him, "Eh, I guess."

"Eh, I guess" looks to be the motto he’ll have to try to ride to the nomination. It was an "eh" night for Romney, although he avoided catastrophe by pulling out a razor-thin win in Ohio where he was trailing most of the night.

Otherwise, he won one state where he used to be governor (Massachusetts), a small Northeastern state (Vermont), an essentially uncontested Southern state (Virginia), a heavily Mormon state out West (Idaho) and Alaska. In Virginia, he couldn’t get to 60 percent against just Ron Paul. Rarely has a candidate seemed so inevitable and so weak at the same time.

Willard may be Class President, but nobody wants to hang out with him after school.

-John Fund explains why Willard’s wins last night were damaging to his political cred and concludes:

Mitt Romney remains the favorite for the GOP nomination, but if his campaign doesn’t realize that tonight’s results are real danger signals for their man — with regard to both later primaries and the November election — they are fooling themselves.

Danger, Danger, Willard Robinson!

-As people were voting yesterday, Jeff Goldstein commented:

…the GOP continues its determined march to prop up as its preferred candidate for 2012 the erstwhile progressive and independent who, it turns out, when he wasn’t gladhanding his “friend and collaborator” Ted Kennedy, was busy counseling Obama to implement the very individual mandate that caused the conservative base to rally in 2010 and win historic elections for Republicans. Instead of popcorn, I recommend Absinthe. Or Ketamine. And a big tub of Poppycock. And some candy apples.

Because really, why the hell not at this point?

How un-American of Jeff: bourbon and Vicodin, son, are the only sure-fire comfort foods.

-This morning, Jeff was on fire and dead solid perfect [worth quoting at length]:

Notes Romney of his campaign going forward [emphases mine]:

Well, my message is I’m not going to say outrageous things about the president or about my opponents. It gets headlines and a lot of excitement, and it gets you, by the way, a number of days in the polls to get a nice little bump. But I’m going to talk about the real issues Americans face and talk with respect about people who have differing views. I’m not going to attack them personally. I mean, I know that’s fun, but it’s just not productive. And we need, as a nation, to come together to recognize that even though we have differing views about the country and about where we should go, we all love the country.

Sure. And by “love it,” what Romney means is “seeking to fundamentally transform it.” Kinda like the husband who shows his great love for his wife by pushing her to get a nose job, tit implants, Botox treatments, collagen lip injections, and a nice dye job — while requesting that she please just not open her fucking mouth and talk quite so much, if she wants to please him.

Romney is going to speak “with respect” to people who are supporting the deconstruction of the First Amendment. Who have backed unconstitutional mandates. Who are attacking the very idea of private industry. Who cheer when this President circumvents Congress and acts like a dictator, dismissive of the checks and balances purposely built into our system of governance.

Hell, he may even show how willing he is to cross the aisle and support the Democrats, if that brings about a sense of comity.

And yet when it comes to speaking about Gingrich or Santorum, Romney has done nothing but lie.

It’s like 2010 never happened. This is 2008 all over again, only younger, and with better hair.

I can’t add nothing to that. Bravo, Jeff.

-This musical will be around at least for a few more performances.



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