Posted on 01/17/2012 7:17:07 AM PST by C19fan
Mitt lost the Bigfoot vote, and perhaps the felons-who-are-voting vote, but batted away the Bain and super-PAC attacks with ease and delivered some superb general-election answers. Newt regained ground and then gave it back. Meanwhile, Rick Santorum made steady progress after the felons stuff, which just doesnt make any sense to me at all. (In eleven years with a nationally syndicated talk show, I dont recall the subject ever coming up, so it simply cannot be salient in any meaningful way.)
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Romney sided with Santorum against Newt’s plan for Social Security which is similar to the one successfully implemented in Chile. Romney and Santorum are just status quo on SS at a time when we need a real change.
>> an opportunity to flame Romney’s biggest cool aid drinker <<
I doubt seriously that Hewitt minds. He would probably even thank you, if he had a chance. When you post stuff like this, you simply drive traffic to his site and increase his ad revenues. Like it or hate it, that’s just the way things work in the modern Internet world.
You know if Romney wins he will call together an “expert” panel filled with academics then they will come with a plan to perhaps raise the SS retirement age and increase FICA taxes perhaps by eliminating the wage cap on FICA taxes and/or imposing FICA on non-wage income; Obama already pushed the camel’s nose by imposing Medicare tax on non-wage income as part of ObamaCare.
Romney has to play this just perfectly to win. He needs both a strong Santorum and a strong Gingrich in the race to thread the needle, and so far ... he is succeeding because the Santorum supporters can't see that they are being manipulated.
What I heard is Santorum likes the idea, after we get our fiscal house in order. Gingrich said the idea would spur economic growth, glossing over how he would enable such a plan without adding to the debt.
So, who actually sounds “status quo” here?
Before it’s over Rush and Hannity will be supporting Romney, too.
Hewitt wrote a book a few years back called, ¨A Mormon In The White House¨, so he´s hawking it big time.
If I’m wrong it’s going to screw up my conspiracy theory. Then again, I can always say “Rush is speaking out against Romney to make us think it’s all legit.” See how all this can really screw up one’s mind?
Hugh Hewitt is a Rush wannabe without the intellectual patience or multidimensional curiosity. Kinda like a mediocre divorce attouney. Guess he’s not argueing SCOTUS cases these days. Reminds me of Dr. Phil going into a commercial break.
Excuse me but that would be Michael Medved.
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