Virginia Right!

Tom White and I “met” electronically and decided at almost the speed of light:  Virginia Right endorses TED CRUZ for US Senate! A few reasons why (from Wikipedia): Cruz has been endorsed by David Barton, founder and president of WallBuilders,[15] the Club for Growth, a conservative political action committee,[16] Erick Erickson, editor of prominent conservative [...]

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Parentalrights.org reported it to the email I get (with 48,000,000 other people!) on good news on the latest UN Treaty, the Convention of the Rights of Disabled Persons: CRPD: Stopping the Runaway Train After the hearing, several of our staff stayed in D.C. to visit once again the offices of the members of the Senate [...]

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I was pleased (thanks to parentalrights.org) to report that former PA Senator and Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has expressed his opposition to the UN Treaty on the Rights of the Disabled: Rick and Karen Santorum said: “The ultimate responsibility of all parents is to care for your child, a responsibility that only takes on added [...]

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I am admittedly disappointed that former PA Senator Rick Santorum is getting out of the race.  I theorize that Santorum was running the risk of not being relevant in 2016 or even perhaps there is a Pennsylvania race in his future:  Governor of PA or Senate again!  (I have no evidence for this, it’s just [...]

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Former US Senator Rick Santorum announced a short while ago that he was suspending his campaign for President. During the weekend, his daughter Bella, who has a rare condition, was hospitalized due to her illness. She rebounded and is said to be home and doing well, but it gave the Santorum family pause to consider [...]

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Primaries are about momentum. Once it becomes inevitable, or nearly so, the voters begin lining up behind the winner. And that looks to be what is happening in Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum’s home state. Mitt Romney now leads in Pennsylvania by 5 points – 42% to 37% according to a new PPP poll. The only candidate [...]

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Reports I have been monitoring suggest that RP delegates to district and state conventions have done very well in today’s caucuses in Missouri. In Jackson County, near Kansas City, the combined Paul/Romney Beat Obama slate won the day 531 to 237, ensuring Paul will get 80% of the delegates from this county to both the [...]

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Last night was a pretty big night for Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. He won the Illinois Primary by a pretty good margin. It seems that Republicans are coming to grips with a Mitt Romney candidacy. Many are still reluctant to “settle” for a New England Moderate. Not that Romney is light years better than [...]

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Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum has tongues wagging in Conservative circles about the “toll” of Social Issues on the Conservative movement. A recent comment on a post Is Governor McDonnell Losing Virginia Christians and Conservatives? is a case in point. This comment buys into the argument that somehow Social Issues are not Conservative and are, in [...]

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A Conservative he is not! The Virginia Republican Establishment’s Anointed Candidate Mitt Romney is at it again. According to the Liberal LA Times, which is beginning find more and more reasons to support Romney: “For high-income folks, we are going to cut back on that so we make sure the top 1% keeps paying, paying [...]

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You can be a Democrat and a Christian. You can be a Liberal and a Christian. You can be a Liberal Democrat and be a Christian. But you simply cannot be a Progressive and a Christian. The two are mutually exclusive. Progressives will use Christianity. They will use Islam. They will use any religion or [...]

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The news for Mitt Romney is getting worse by the day. Rick Santorum has opened up a double digit lead over rival Mitt Romney in Gallup’s latest daily tracking poll. The survey finds Santorum with support from 36 percent of registered Republicans nationally, topping Romney at 26 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) follows [...]

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Is it in the water?  A time warp?  This is the biggest year for Virginia politics since 1841.  Virginia native (born in Winchester!) and resident Rick Santorum was the first resident of the Old Dominion to win a major party caucus – Iowa.  Then Virginia resident Newt Gingrich wins the SC primary, another first for [...]

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Rick Santorum had his biggest night last night picking up wins in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. While doing little to actually pick up delegates, the victory shows that Conservatives – particularly in the Heartland – are not fans of Mitt Romney’s brand of liberal politics. Squishy Republicans are not the answer for many Conservatives. Another [...]

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State Senator Tom Davis, prominent conservative and former chief of staff for Governor Rick Sanford, endorsed Ron Paul today! How important is it?  Ask Rick Santorum: “To get an endorsement from someone like Tom Davis is a big deal,” said former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, who announced a White House bid in June. “It would [...]

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It looks like as expected, former MA Governor Mitt Romney won the NH primary.  But the story is the solid second place that Ron Paul placed.  CNN has projected Paul second.  Former Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman came in third.  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich and former PA Senator Rick Santorum are fighting for fourth. I [...]

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Should all of us interested in true transparency in politics let this go by because it helps my candidate (For those readers of my blog from Mars, that is Ron Paul)?  Igot to speak up. Several of the GOP candidates will not be on the Virginia ballot.  Paul and former Massachusetts Governor Romney are confirmed [...]

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Well, it’s down to three. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. The rest of the Republicans, Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann and now Rick Perry will not be participating in the Virginia Republican Presidential Primary in 2012. All failed to turn in the required signatures to comply with Virginia Electoral laws. From the Republican Party [...]

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Editor’s Note: Put your paws together for Layla the BlogDog. We watched the debate together last night and she decided to write her next post on her take on the Republican field. Last night’s debate was really cool. I learned a lot more about the candidates. After a big meal of some ground up looking [...]

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