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	<title>If Bush Did It &#187; florida</title>
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		<title>Rubio: Expect &#8216;All-Out Personal Evisceration&#8217; From Obama in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrkeybiz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Quick notes from a morning meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican. What he expects from the general election: &#8220;You&#8217;re going to have an extremely negative [general election] campaign. Barack Obama in 2008 spent more money on negative attacks than anybody who had ever run for office in the United States. Period. And we can expect more of the same. Basically, an all-out assault on the character of whoever his opponent may be, because [Barack Obama] cannot win on his record, he cannot win on his ideas. So he&#8217;s going to have to win by eviscerating whoever his opponents are personally. And for all the talk of hope and change, his campaign in 2008 and I expect in 2012 will be nothing less than all-out than personal evisceration.&#8221; Keep reading this post . . . ]]></description>
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		<title>Marco Rubio blasts White House on religious conscience controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video: Florida's junior senator brands the ruling an assault on "the constitutional right of religious expression."]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of Rick</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2012/02/08/the-rise-of-rick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RomieObriant368</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife is passionately rooting for Newt. I voted for him in Florida, but he imploded. This is not to say he can&#8217;t make a comeback, and that is what he says he will do. Part of what hurt him in Florida was jabs that drew blood from Rick Santorum. Santorum ]]></description>
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		<title>Santorum gaining ground before Tuesday’s primaries shows progression of both candidate and campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_227188" align="aligncenter" width="596" caption=" AP "] [/caption] The chatter among those who cover politics Monday has centered around Rick Santorum's sudden uptick in polls and endorsements, perhaps indicating that some are buying in to his claim that Newt Gingrich had his chance to be the main challenger to front-runner Mitt Romney, and failed.  The latest polls surveying the states set to hold their GOP caucuses tomorrow have Santorum jumping to second behind Romney in Colorado and slightly ahead of the former Massachusetts governor in Minnesota. The last  PPP poll on Missouri found Santorum leading Romney by 11 points before the state's Tuesday "beauty king" Republican primary(Gingrich did not qualify for the state's ballot.) The news may justify the former Pennsylvania Senator's decision to skip out early before the Nevada GOP caucuses held last Saturday in order to campaign in Colorado and Minnesota. Santorum finished last in Nevada where Romney thoroughly dominated, at the end of the day tallying a higher number of votes than the other three Republican candidates combined. Santorum has also been the topic of conversation Monday within two of the nation's most highly regarded conservative publications; The Weekly Standard and The National Review. In piece titled " Again, Why Not Santorum? " Quinn Hillyer of the National Review writes: "Rick Santorum  can  win the Republican nomination. Rick Santorum can indeed beat Barack Obama in the fall. And Rick Santorum can and would govern at least as conservatively as Ronald Reagan did. The evidence of his principled, mainstream conservatism is unambiguous, as is his record of winning long-shot races. What hasn’t been fully understood yet is why, and how, Santorum could win the Republican nomination and the presidency." [....] "For all of Gingrich’s and Romney’s vaunted debating skills, both of them have put forth at least two real clunkers of debate performances. Santorum hasn’t had a single bad debate or a single major stumble, and his reviews have become only more favorable with each contest. In a race where the economic lay of the land disfavors the incumbent, flash matters less than solidity in a challenger. It probably won’t require some sort of game-changing debate performance for a Republican to defeat Obama — but a game-changing gaffe or embarrassment could well lose it. Of all the Republican candidates, Santorum has shown himself the least prone to such gaffes." In William Kristol's  "Romney vs. Santorum?"   within The Weekly Standard, we once again hear the argument that a Romney-Santorum bout might be the best moving forward: "The Romney-Gingrich slugfest of negativity seems to have produced a low turnout in Florida and Nevada. But the choice before you remains no less important than it was before all the negative ads started airing. Indeed, you who will vote tomorrow have a chance to get us beyond the unseemly spectacle of the last couple of weeks. You can put Romney on a likely path to the nomination. Or you can create the possibility of a serious and constructive Romney vs. Santorum race." Santorum has recently gained a pack of official endorsements from conservative commentators and legislators including Michelle Malkin, David Limbaugh, and former Rep. Bob Schaffer. A poll basement dweller in the early stages of the campaign, it is truly remarkable to see how far Santorum has come. Going into the primary season Santorum was known for occasionally appearing as a Fox News commentator, the hateful media campaign against him by those in disagreement with his ideas of marriage,  a crushing defeat in his last election in 2006, or unlike his household name rivals Gingrich and Romney, not known at all. Hillyer is correct in his analysis that Santorum can tout a conservative record while being far less gaffe-prone than Gingrich or Romney, and much closer to the mainstream than Texas Rep. Ron Paul. He has stuck around with far less money than any of his opponents, and is yet to have a major scandal rattle his campaign and momentum. POLITICO's Alexander Burns summarizes Santorum's progress: "In some ways, Santorum is just the beneficiary of elite discomfort with Romney and Newt Gingrich, who leave upscale conservatives cold thanks to their perceived lack of substance (Romney) and total incapacity for political or mental discipline (Gingrich). He's also a candidate who consistently shows fluency when it comes to policy and has a real conservative record. Santorum's message — focused on revitalizing American manufacturing and taking an aggressive approach to containing Iran — has some genuinely original elements to it. The rap on Santorum is that none of that matters without a far superior campaign organization and treasury than the ones he has. A more magnetic political personality would help, too. But win or lose, the Pennsylvanian's image has come a long way since 2006, when he was run out of town as a dim and angry culture warrior." Indeed.]]></description>
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		<title>Wrong, Rove; news coverage of Romney not ‘slightly favorable’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Republican strategist Karl Rove says Mitt Romney has had an advantage in news coverage of his campaign from "traditional" outlets: February has only two primaries (Michigan and Arizona, both on the 28th) and one debate (on the 22nd). Mr. Romney can duplicate his Florida strategy, where his campaign and super PAC outspent the Gingrich forces on ads by a ratio of 5 to 1 during the last three weeks. But dangers lurk. While traditional news organizations have been balanced or slightly favorable in their coverage of Mr. Romney, the GOP blogosphere has been decidedly negative on him all January, pointing to continuing unease among conservatives. It's probably true that Romney hasn't received much love from conservative bloggers. Search "Romney" on RedState, a leading conservative blog, and the top three results are: "Mitt Romney as the nominee: Conservatism dies and Barack Obama wins," "The unelectable Romney" and "Not Romney." But it's decidedly not true that Romney has received "balanced or slightly favorable" coverage from "traditional news organizations." A study published mid-January by the Center for Media and Public Affairs found that Romney got the most negative coverage of any of the Republican candidates on the three network nightly news broadcasts and even Fox News' "Special Report": On the broadcast networks, evaluative comments of Romney were 78% negative vs. only 22% positive. By contrast, on-air judgments of Ron Paul were 73% positive vs. 27% negative, evaluations of Jon Huntsman were 71% positive vs. 29% negative, Rick Santorum ’s evaluations were 56% positive vs. 44% negative, and comments about Newt Gingrich were 52% positive vs. 48% negative. Other candidates received too few evaluations to be statistically meaningful. FOX Results  Romney fared slightly better on FOX “Special Report”, than on the networks, with 63% negative vs. 37% positive evaluations. By contrast, Ron Paul fared less well than he did on the networks, with evenly balanced coverage -- 50% negative and 50% positive comments. Rick Santorum did best on FOX with 63% positive vs. 37% negative judgments. These were the only candidates who received enough evaluations on FOX for meaningful analysis. This doesn't take newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York Times into account. But come on. Let's not kid ourselves.]]></description>
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		<title>Romney dots his ‘i,‘ only crosses one ’t’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mitt Romney has done fairly well managing expectations of his success in the Republican primary. Which is to say he hasn't thrown fists of confetti into the air while doing the Hustle under a banner that says "PRESIDENT ROMNEYYYYY!" But here's an autograph he gave in November to a supporter who's confident Romney will be the next commander in chief. Via the New York Times: ]]></description>
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		<title>Six Takeaways From Florida</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arlenschumer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the results from Florida are (Fox News) Romney received 46 percent of the Florida vote. Gingrich had 32 percent, followed by Rick Santorum with 13 percent and Ron Paul with 7 percent. Romney won all 50 of Florida&#8217;s convention delegates. The Politico&#8217;s Maggie Haberman, who has done a pretty good job in covering the GOP ]]></description>
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		<title>Romney: Welfare State So Successful We Don’t Have to Worry About Poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>If Bush Did It</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major gaffe? It probably won&#8217;t do very much damage but there is a fundamental philosophy of Romney exposed here. Here is what Romney said: In an interview with CNN Wednesday morning that should have been a Florida victory lap, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney made a fumble that could give rivals an attack ad ]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Rides Fund-Raising Wave</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NatK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney emerged from his Florida victory with a big fund-raising advantage over Gingrich and perhaps Obama.]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Educated Romney Disses Harvard Educated Obama 
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY &#124; I watched former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's Florida victory speech Tuesday night. He's looking stronger since the South Carolina debates in an attempt to defeat Newt Gingrich and show that he's no "shrinking violet."]]></description>
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