The Patriot Post Chronicle 3-7-2012

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 3-7-2012
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Editor's Note: The Patriot Post has not endorsed any GOP candidate in the primary.

"Each candidate won where he should have. ... Romney won in Massachusetts, Vermont, and Virginia -- where neither Santorum nor Gingrich were even on the ballot. Santorum can only wonder what his night might have been like had he had the campaign infrastructure to get his name on the ballot in [Virginia]. Santorum won in Tennessee, Oklahoma, and North Dakota - which I thought might be a Ron Paul win. ... Mitt Romney's campaign will claim that the real contest is for winning delegates, not winning the popular vote in these states and he's right. But, the story of last night was supposed to be that the race was now all but over because Romney demonstrated such strength in so many places. ... It was far more of a struggle than it was supposed to have been. ... Rick Santorum is not going anywhere. He will have the political support and the money to continue at least through the rest of the Spring and perhaps all the way to June. Or, all the way to August." --political analyst Rich Galen

"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. ... A clear demographic split was evident in Ohio. Santorum won non-college graduates and Romney college graduates. Santorum won voters making less than $100,000, Romney voters making more than $100,000. This speaks to a weakness with the working class that could hurt Romney in the fall if he's the nominee." --National Review editor Rich Lowry

What's your take on Super Tuesday?1

"So why are the Left and the media still pushing and publicizing a campaign for advertisers to dump the [Rush] Limbaugh show and end his career? ... Liberals want this government-mandate controversy to be not about religious liberty, which is devastating, but about contraceptives, which works in their favor. That is intellectually dishonest. They want to position conservatives as 'anti-women.' ... The Left honors their own pundits as 'brilliant' for verbally assaulting women, then circulates petitions calling for advertisers to drop the Limbaugh show because his 'anti-woman tirades are appalling.' To the Left, this is simply an opportunity to put their attacks on religious liberty in a feminist frame, and an opportunity to try and shut down Limbaugh." --columnist L. Brent Bozell

"It was just a few days ago that General Motors announced it was [temporarily] killing the Chevy Volt. ... [Monday], the Geneva Auto Show named the Volt its 2012 Car of the Year. ... You can even drive 'an EPA-estimated 35 miles' without gas! Which means you can hit the 7-11, Whole Foods, and pot dispensary in one trip before having to recharge for three hours. ... It turns out that after crash tests done by federal safety regulators, the batteries burst into flame. No wonder there are over 6,000 unsold Volts in stock. Perhaps we can ship them to Europe. In five years, President Obama can buy one ... from abroad. Your stimulus dollars at work!" --columnist Ben Shapiro

Editorial Exegesis

Editor's Note: Just for fun, here's what The New York Times thinks of the Republican primary.

"Long before Super Tuesday, the Republican Party had cemented itself on the distant right of American politics, with a primary campaign that has been relentlessly nasty, divisive and vapid. Barbara Bush, the former first lady, was so repelled that on Tuesday she called it the worst she'd ever seen. We feel the same way. This country has serious economic problems and profound national security challenges. But the Republican candidates are so deep in the trenches of cultural and religious warfare that they aren't offering any solutions. The results Tuesday night did not settle the race. Republican voters will have to go on for some time choosing between a candidate, Mitt Romney, who stands for nothing except country-club capitalism, and a candidate, Rick Santorum, so blinkered by his ideology that it's hard to imagine him considering any alternative ideas or listening to any dissenting voice. There are differences. Mr. Santorum is usually more extreme in his statements than Mr. Romney, especially in his intolerance of gay and lesbian Americans and his belief that religion -- his religion -- should define policy and politics. ... Mr. Romney has been slightly more temperate. But, in his desperation to prove himself to the ultraright, he has joined in the attacks on same-sex marriage, abortion and even birth control. He has never called Mr. Santorum on his more bigoted rants. Neither politician is offering hard-hit American workers anything beyond long discredited trickle-down economics, more tax cuts for the rich, a weakening of the social safety net and more of the deregulation that nearly crashed the system in 2008." --The New York Times2

The Demo-gogues

Don't drill, baby: "Well, if there's one thing I know about New Hampshire, it's that your political bull detector is pretty sharp. You know we can't just drill our way to lower gas prices. You know there aren't any quick fixes or silver bullets." --Barack Obama

Gas prices are about his re-election -- no wait, they're about families: "Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? ... Look, here's the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families." --Barack Obama

He protests too much: "So if during this political season you hear some question my administration's support for Israel, remember that it's not backed up by the facts. And remember that the U.S.-Israel relationship is simply too important to be distorted by partisan politics. ... So there should not be any doubt of it by now: when the chips are down, I have Israel's back." --Barack Obama

Hope needs another four years: "Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual." --Barack Obama

He just cheats at everything else: "I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf." --Barack Obama

Straw woman argument: "It's time ... the Republican Party end the war on women they started. Whether it's the Blunt-Rubio amendment, personhood or attempts to repeal Roe v. Wade, we aren't going to let extremist politicians dictate to women what we can or cannot do with our bodies." --DNC bobble head Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)