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By: Greg Wattley

Once again another election year is upon us and in a fragile economy (with unemployment hovering at

8.3 %); the general consensus is that the number one issue on everyone’s agenda will be the economy.

So begs the question, which will emerge from the GOP to challenge President Barack Obama in the
November general election. In a Republican Party where there is much intra-party disputes (since the
emergence of the infamous Tea Party), the on-again, off-again front-runner for the GOP seems to be
Mitt Romney (ex-governor of Massachusetts).

The 2012 Republican presidential primaries included more than 16 presidential debates (not
gonna lie, I actually loss count after 10), in an effort to decide who will be chosen as the
nominee to run for the Presidency in this year’s election. A total of 2,286 delegates are up for
grab and a candidate needs to accumulate 1,144 delegate votes to win the nomination. (Mitt
Romney currently has 84 delegates; Newt Gingrich former Speaker of the House has 29; and
Rich Santorum former Senator of Pennsylvania has 14).

From what started as a wide field of GOP candidates, only three remain relevant—Mitt
Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rich Santorum.

Until February 7, Mitt Romney appeared to be the clear front runner—however, the latest
national polls show Santorum with a strong surge. With recent wins in Colorado, Minnesota,
and Missouri caucuses Rick Santorum catapulted himself into a virtual tie with Mitt Romney.
The latest Pew Research poll has Santorum at 30%, Romney 28%, and Gingrich at 17%.

Nine states have already voted to select their nominee for the GOP presidential race and with
just over 10 primaries left a decision on whom the GOP will select as their candidate remain as
clear as mud.

With Super Tuesday just 3 weeks away and the last primary caucus only a few months
thereafter and with no clear direction of which direction the GOP is heading in; there is much
need for panic among leaders of the Republican Party. This is being made evident more each
day by commentators of “Fix News” I mean “Fox News” led by the temper tantrum Bill O’Reilly
and loud mouth Rush Limbaugh’s (self-proclaim wannabe leader of the GOP)—imploring voters
of the Republican Party to quickly make a choice between the lesser of the evils to run against
President Barack Obama in November’s election.

Their simple logic is this—while Rick Santorum is conservative enough, he doesn’t have the
money, nor the organized endorsements—super PACs (Political Action Committees) to run the
type of campaign needed to beat the current president.

As for Newt Gingrich, in their eyes this guy has way too many skeletons in his closet. His
womanizing past makes former President Bill Clinton look like the Dalai Lama. There is growing
concern by members of the Republican Party for Gingrich to leave the race and endorse
Santorum. Recent national publications have gone as far as to say “When he [Newt] led
Santorum in the polls, he urged the Pennsylvanian to leave the race. On his own arguments the
proper course for him now is to endorse Santorum and exit [the race].” Political analysts further
argue—if Gingrich really hates Mitt Romney so bad, he should drop out of the race now and
endorse Rick Santorum.

Now to Mitt Romney…where do I begin? First, let’s call him by his real name “Flip-Flopper
Mitt!” The guy has gone on record so many times and agreed with most of the health care
issues proposed by President Obama as well as other policies proposed by the Democratic Party
(Dems) when he was Governor of Massachusetts, but now he is running for the Presidential
Candidacy sudden has a case of Alzheimer’s.

How can we forget his infamous gaffe during the Iowa Caucus when he challenged the “not-so-
intelligent” Rick Perry to a $10,000 bet for misquoting him in one of his books? (Of all places,
in the state where the mean annual income is $20,000). He further admitted during that same
debate that he doesn’t know what it’s like to be poor. As if that was not enough he later went
record stating he doesn’t worry about the poor because the poor with take care themselves.

Romney appears to be shadier as the GOP primaries unfold. Recent financial statements
released, valued Romney’s net worth in excess of $262 million much of which is invested in
offshore accounts (at least the ones we know about). It is believed the guy makes $57,000
per day on interest alone from his investments and pays only 13% in taxes. He is a strong
proponent of huge tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.

We all know he plays dirty—with the mentality to win by any means necessary. It is purported
it was Romney’s camp who leaked the alleged sexual assault charges against formed candidate
Herman Cain only after he came out of nowhere to soar atop all of the Republican candidates.

The number one reason why the GOP is not going to be relevant going into November’s
election is Romney. After all the drama unfolds, it will probably be Romney who will win
the nomination—because after all is said and done he will simply out-spend the other two
candidates due to his enormous wealth. And here lies the problem, Romney is boring and few
Republicans are passionate, or express enthusiasm about his campaign. He runs his campaign
the same way he runs a corporation he just purchased—to him its jut another business deal. He
cannot relate to the middle class or poor people. Also, we are still waiting to hear his platform
of how he will bring our country back to prominence.

Here’s the bottomline:

With all the in fighting going on with the GOP that will continue until at least the summer—the
Dems would have had more than enough ammunition to not only knock the GOP into oblivion,
with enough to spare to keep Ahmadinejad, Iran, and Syria in check.

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