Romney downplays expectations, Gingrich surges as South Carolina votes

It's a big day for politics in South Carolina Saturday on CNN. Tune in at 4 p.m. ET to see the candidates debate the issues from Thursday night's edge-of-your-seat debate then, at 6 ET, CNN's special live coverage of the South Carolina primary begins. See the results as they come in on CNN, CNN.com/Live and the CNN mobile apps.

SC voters are perceptive and do not fit the Obama/MSM image of them. They are representative of voters throughout America who see that it is ideas and the power of the ideas of liberty which will defeat Obama in November. Money and organization can be topped by Soros and others of his philosophy.

Earlier this week, Charles Krauthammer observed, that "he (Romney) simply doesn’t have the capacity to explain with some color and sort of force conservative ideas."

Which is precisely why he has no business going up against an ideologue who does "have the capacity to explain with some color and sort of force" the ideas of redistribution.

Krauthammer has been slow to come to admitting the obvious fact that Romney doesn't "explain" conservative ideas because they are not part of his intellectual DNA, as they are with someone who has immersed himself/herself in the ideas of America's founding history.

Gingrich's quick analysis of opposing ideas, combined with an ability to put them in historical context, didn't just come about by osmosis. They came about through a lifelong study of history. In recent decades, Ronald Reagan is the only American president who was so familiar with our founding ideas that he could weave them into discussions on "issues" of the day; thereby giving clarity to threats to liberty.

By the same token, the Fall 2012 opponent has studied, been mentored in, and well understands the ideology and strategies for presenting his case for redistribution, government planning, and control--all the while masking them in benevolence and "taking care" of those to whom he appeals, even as his policies are enslaving future generations.

His Republican opponent needs to be able to rebut, rebuke, and reveal the cloaked tyranny encased in his appealing message to those who see him as a benevolent leader, not a threat to their posterity's Creator-endowed right to be free.

Gingrich is right.

The goal of the primaries is to determine a candidate who can bring such clarity to the ideas of conservatism that Obama's counterfeit ideas will be defeated. Romney, in the words of Krauthammer, "simply doesn't have the capacity" to do it. At least, he has not shown it to this point; and that "capacity" cannot be coached. It must be a natural outgrowth of understanding.

"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle [usurpation of power], and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much. . . to forget it." - James Madison

I am convinced in those 2 minutes that Speaker Gingrich forced CNN "moderator" propagandist John King to soil his underwear on national TV was Gingrich's Joseph N. Welch Moment

"Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad... If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think that I am a gentle man but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me... You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

I am not making the comparison to say that Sen McCarthy's questioning or motives were not correct - on the contrary - history has proven that he was all too correct. However, that moment when Welch dressed him down in the hearings was when public support of the hearings melted to zero degrees Kelvin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2iiovYq70

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If Gingrich pulls off a comeback win in South Carolina, the momentum may shift this race away from Romney being our next McCain. We don't need a candidate who is mostly liberal, chosen by the media, and set up to lose.

May God in heaven give us a champion to fight against the abject evil that infests the current administration.

SC voters are perceptive and do not fit the Obama/MSM image of them. They are representative of voters throughout America who see that it is ideas and the power of the ideas of liberty which will defeat Obama in November. Money and organization can be topped by Soros and others of his philosophy.

I agree. I lived in South Carolina for 5 years, although I am a native Yankee. Let me tell you, much of the population of South Carolina is just as fierce as their forefathers who had the conviction to stand up for what they thought was right. I am not going to re-fight the Civil War nor defend the sin's of either side - but the people of South Carolina will not be told by the media how to vote.

Sadly, there are huge swaths of minorities in South Carolina who are just as much slaves on the plantation today as they were 160 years ago. The can be freed, but it is going to be difficult, hard, and arduous.

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