A useful update from the AP:
The count so far in the race for delegates needed to win the Republican presidential nomination.
— 37: Romney
— 26: Gingrich
— 14: Santorum
— 4: Ron Paul
— 1,144: Delegates needed to win the nomination
— 50: Delegates in Florida. The winner of Tuesday’s contest takes them all.
This week, Ron Paul may win more delegates than Gingrich.
Mr. Costa, can someone create a credibility tracker?
Something to score the sideline punditry crowd?
We see some who look like they are stuck in quick sand...
One of the worst has to be Sarah Palin.
* I hope this email below is a complete fabrication. I hope truly for the Conservative arena's sake this is all fiction provided via this book referenced below.
Forgive me for the link to this (sent my way via email):
"...Yes, (Newt/GOP) are egotistical, narrow minded machine goons... but all the more reason God protected me from getting up on stage in front of 5000 political and media "elites" to praise him, then it be shown across the nation. At some point Newt would have shown his true colors anyway and we would have been devastated having known we'd earlier prostituted ourselves up in front of the country introducing him and acting like that good ol' rich white guy is the savior of the party.
Plus, I had nothing to wear, and God knew that too. Party machinery sucks. I can't tell you how much I hate it - nothing ever changes - we went through it before and after the VP campaign... I've gone through it all my career. We just don't fit into it, and maybe we should thank God for that. [From Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin - A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years]"
I hope it is not genuine. It is another embarrassment for the fashion which was peddled to us since 2008. This is the Celebrity many were inflating as the ideal. For sometime on the EIB, it was hard to go through an hour without Rush telling us that Sarah was the "real" deal (after debasing so many Republicans to placate a fashionable wind). It was all based on image and fan fare, growing way overboard very quickly. Did the Golden Mic even examine the offering before he began to sell the product? Hannity as well, seems to again have shown the worst political judgment again and again. (I will never forget when he was telling us Bill Maher was his friend, having the ugly loser on his program repeatedly). Levin has shown a remarkably misguided offering as well. Levin even slandered a number of fellow Conservatives regarding the Senate debacle in Delaware he pushed - he was so deeply mistaken. Do the sideline players in the Conservative Industry even bother to study what they push these days?
Examining the basis is essential to Conservatism, and it appears many of the sideline pundits did not do their homework. Now the Conservative Movement is being trashed, made a mockery by Newt Gingrich, who cannot even be honest about his forced removal as Speaker.
It is ironic, Sarah Palin's record resembles the product of a populist, not a Conservative. Her tax increases on Oil Companies, the Climate Panel Bureaucracy in Alaska, even jumping on the Maverick Ticket were sincere warning signs. How could those claiming to be the "real" Conservatives ignore the obvious?
We have watched many on the sound side revealed as being incompetent, dysfunctional, etc., or as self serving as Newt, Sarah, etc. Bill Kristol has taken the WS off a cliff yet again. Hillyer, Walsh, etc., all exposed as terribly poor offerings from the once very serious sound side. It is astonishing, as a number of these voices actually followed Gingrich, entertaining the ugly leftist "looting" attacks on successful Private Enterprise, due to their unhealthy prejudice against Mr. Romney.
It would be nice to have a score card to follow amongst those making a living in the sideline opinion peddling game. Those who get it wrong repeatedly, vs. those who prove themselves to be sound and consistent.
It has been an embarrassing Primary for so many.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseA coherent and well thought out post! Thank you!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAlso bear in mind that a lot of delegates in some places are Ron Paul supporters. They only have to cast their vote for the winner of races the first time around. If there isn't a clear cut winner, Paul will have a lot more delegates on a re-vote.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseToday will be the conservatives' Waterloo. Good riddance to all of them -- to Newt, Palin, Rush, Hannity, the whole lot. The idea that extremism can ever trump moderation in a general election was always pure fantasy. Conservatism is not, and never has been, a political philosophy. It is simply a temper tantrum meant to scratch the itch of misfits temperamentally unfit to govern and unable to cope with the world as it actually exists. It is intellectually bankrupt, thus the quality of its adherents. The entertainment's over, and the Republican Party and nation as a whole will be better for it. And the best party? The very people who claim they could never -- never! -- support Romney will be the ones who in November supply the votes to put him in the White House.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"It is simply a temper tantrum..."
For a moment there, I thought you were describing your own post.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI am so confused. Micheal Steele just said in Msnbc a while ago that florida is not in fact winner take all. He said because they violated the rules they are now proportional .He said he made the rule and the Florida GOP was wrong. Could I get a straight answer. Thanks
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHow, exactly do we get a count that has Romney at 37? He won NH--and didn't get all the delegates there. He got 7. And he may get 12 of Iowa's delegates. And that's it. Where do these additional 18 delegates come from?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNo one? No one can say here Mitt acquired 18 extra delegates?
Then it's a lie.
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