Does the Main Stream Media Really Understand Romney is Having Trouble with Conservatives? Oh Yea, Only Too Well!

I was reading on RedState.Com a little while ago and saw an article by Erick Erickson more or less titled that the Republican base does not like Mitt Romney and why can't the main stream media understand that? I like RedState and Erick a lot to be honest but he missed the boat on this to a certain degree. The main stream media knows conservatives don't want Romney, they also know that Obama is taking on water. The term I like to use is called "positioning". Notice the attacks they launch at the drop of a hat on conservatives in the race and how Ron Paul goes seemingly untouched most times. Ever wonder why that is? How hard have they really gone after Romney so far?

The left and liberals in this country are starting to have legitimate concerns over Obama getting re-elected, as they should. Their worst nightmare would be that a true conservative gets elected along with a Republican majority in the congress. The left knows that they have pushed the envelope as far as they know how and that they have angered and alienated a large portion of the American public. Having a conservative come into office with a mandate to undo what they have done such as Obamacare is a scenario they truly fear. With someone more "moderate" like Romney they think the damage won't be so severe. As such the media is simply trying to foster a moderate Republican as the more or less anointed candidate. What Erick did point out accurately is that Romney is favored by inside the beltway Republicans, not the rank and file.

As for Ron Paul, everyone and I do mean everyone including him, knows he is not getting the nomination nor is he getting elected. Ron Paul is the favorite poster child for the left wing media, he shows how "kooky" conservatives are and he sucks up oxygen in a room which keeps other legitimate candidates off the air. The more they are talking about someone who can't win the less they are talking about someone who really can. How many times does Paul need to run before people get the idea he knows going out the door he is not winning. Paul knows his ideas are not Tea Party hits as you would be lead to believe listening to the media. Paul knows his foreign policy is a pacifist dream and a disaster for this country as things now stand. Paul also knows dropping the blame for 9-11 at America's feet is a non starter, but yet he continues and the main stream press is more than happy to cover him, so why is that? When the left has a nut job running around like Dennis Kucinich he gets shut down fast as soon as he may actually start to hurt their candidate, in this case Obama. Why not Ron Paul, Kucinich is painted as someone who can't win and over the top, and the difference is what?

The media is not liking the strong showing the conservatives are putting up, be it with Santorum or Newt, they simply don't like it. They fear eight or more years of a conservative agenda rolling back and then going further into, on all their favorite programs let alone what they just accomplished. Their view is simple, at least with Romney the fear level is knocked down a bit because he did after all invent Romenycare, he is not the most pro-gun nor pro-life person out there and he is of course a Mormon with ties to big business so they always have those lines of attack against him. The true attack on whom ever gets the nomination will come and the best the left can hope for is that Paul will run yet again as a third party candidate and take whatever votes he can from the Republican nominee, thus furthering their goal.

No, I don't believe the main stream media doesn't understand the Republican/conservative base doesn't like Romney, I think they understand it all too well.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and holiday season. As a nation we have a long way to go but compared to most we are truly blessed. Spend some time with family and friends, slow down a bit and enjoy what you have and what you value most. If you are serving our nation in the military and can't be home for the holidays just know that millions of Americans are with you and thank you for your service.

There will be time in the coming days for politics, the economy and other problems but for right now celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and don't worry about the Toys R Us or Wal Mart commercials for the after Christmas sales. There will be plenty of time for that as well.

Merry Christmas

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What Does the European Union, Socialism, Obama, the New World Order and the US Economy Have in Common? You Might Be Surprised!

Lets talk about Europe and our economy, such that it is. We have all heard how what happens in Europe will affect us, we have heard that European debt could bring down the world economy. What you don't hear is how it got this way and why the European Union even exists to begin with. Americans are familiar with the term "European styled Socialism". We have all hear people talk about the "New World Order", right? What if I told you it is all tied together and was meant to be for the past five decades or so? The European Union, Obama, Socialism and the New World Order all have something in common. You might be surprised what that is and how it is causing an issue today.

To understand the problem you need to understand how it became a problem, how was it allowed to form in the beginning? The crisis right now in Europe is over how to save the European Union, period. This "union" was a dream that came into being after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. think back and remember what in Europe was called the "peace dividend". That would be the same peace dividend that John Kerry was speaking about in his early Senate career. The concept is simple, its the micro version of the New World Order scenario. The idea is more or less to tie all of the country's of Europe together in an economic framework so they become dependent on each other for survival. The idea was to tie them together to the point they can't start a war with each other. It's simple, the concept was designed to prevent another world war. The European Union itself and the Euro are the product or mechanism to make this happen. The big crisis now is that there is a real fear the union will break up. At the core of this mess is Germany and France, the two great economic powers in Europe. The two countries have decided if they are to put their money into the pot to bail out nations like Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy they want greater control in return. If they don't bail them out the Euro could collapse and so with it the E-U.

As you can imagine other counties aren't so fond of this idea. Europe as a whole and individual governments in particular have fostered and developed the entire socialism way of life so as to tie people to each other and to the governments of the countries in which they live. Those governments are in turn tied to other governments inside the European Union. Which is the concept with making it economic suicide for a country to go to war with it's neighbor. Many on the left believe that socialism is the only and or best way Europe can survive and unfortunately for us, that idea has crept into the United States. We have long talked about Obama and his desire to create a European Style health care system or his overt socialist bent. If we go back only a few decades being called a socialist would have been the kiss of death politically for someone yet today we have a socialist in the White House. The media and the left don't even bother to argue the point anymore, how sad is that?

Back to Europe. As I said this is more or less the New World Order concept on a smaller scale. Countries, corporations and big business have wanted to form eco-political ties for decades. Americans have all heard about the defense industry and the military industrial complex, well this is the real industrial complex on a global scale. The European Union is exactly that, only on the European continent. In 2007 and 2008 when congress approved the bank bailouts and TARP, hundreds of billions of American dollars, American tax payer dollars, went to European banks to keep them from collapsing, which was seen as the greater threat. The idea was to keep Europe afloat, plain and simple. Counties like Ireland and Iceland couldn't be saved simply because there was not enough money to go around. Now with most of southern Europe sliding in the same direction and being the socialist/communist organization it is the European Union has a plan. This plan involves getting counties like Germany and France who are still viable to put in more money, that would be spreading the wealth in Obama speak, to bail out other countries who don't have any money and can't pay their bills. In America we call that bailing out the car companies, welfare, TARP, HUD, the Stimulus Bill, free student loans, free child care, free health care, public education, food stamps, low income housing and a few other social programs I can't think of. The point is that Europe has all these programs as well as they are having the same problem we are, they can't pay for them either.

The fear is the European Union will go belly up and countries will have to start dealing with each other without having one hand tied behind their back. More or less if country "a" doesn't have the money country "b" doesn't have to give them whatever it is they want. And that is the exact worry in a nut shell. This has happened before a few times in the past like in 1913 and 1914 and then again in the early 1930's. The concept is a simple one, you trade peace for freedom. I have also heard a wise man who said that he who trades freedom for security deserves neither.

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