Uh oh. Did Rick Santorum really win the Iowa Caucuses?

This is how I believe McCain got the nomination. I mean who the hell wanted McCain?

Looks like the establishment doesn’t want their man-made global warming believing, small scale universal healthcare initiating, seer-stone religion adhering candidate, Romney, to get pummeled by someone who spent chump change, compared to the other candidates, to win Iowa. Rove and the rest of the big government republicans need to take a long walk off a short pier, as Mark Levin’s guest says.

I bet Karl Rove was behind this.

Well, interesting. Santorum still is not my choice but I would take him over Romney. Here is a very good article from Dr. Jack Wheeler at To The Point News about Governor Perry and the Republican field. Dr. Wheeler is a real interesting person. He worked for the CIA and has an amazing background. He also worked for Ronald Reagan. He’s supporting Governor Perry.

THE MEETING THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, 05 January 2012

Gobsmacked. It’s the word Brits use when they are stunned by something ridiculously astounding. Late Tuesday night (1/03), I was beyond gobsmacked when I heard the results of the Iowa Caucuses. Now it is Thursday (1/05), and I remain profoundly shaken by the stupefying stupidity of the Iowa caucus voters.

It tells me that Zero’s election in 2008 was no fluke, no spasm of temporary masochistic insanity. That voters are into reality-denial up to their ears. That whatever part of their brain they are using to vote with, it is most assuredly not their ratiocinative part.

Iowans have no idea what they did to their country Tuesday: they substantially increased the odds that Zero will win re-election in November. It wasn’t Romney or Santorum who won in Iowa. It was Zero who won, hands down.

I have been just as delusional as Iowa voters in my own way for a long time, so I owe them a soupçon of gratitude for snapping me out of it.

I should have realized America was in mortal peril when the video went viral of Zero’s preacher, to whom he had listened and followed for 20 years, praying for God to damn America – and instead of it nuking any chance whatever of Zero’s electability, Americans just shrugged it off.

Yet I chugged on, convincing myself that voters would come to their senses, that it was as impossible as a cat giving birth to puppies for Zero – the most laughably unqualified candidate in presidential history, and the most explicitly Anti-American to boot – to actually be elected. And he was.

Temporary insanity – that’s what it has to be, I deluded myself. Then came the Tea Parties. Yes! I exulted. The insanity was over, Americans are being Americans again! The overthrow of the Pelosi Congress in the 2010 elections with a Tea Party Congress in its place convinced me more than ever.

But as 2011 dragged on, and the Tea Party Congress morphed into the Boehner Defund-Nothing Wimp-Out Congress, my conviction faltered.

During the summer, I read Rick Perry’s book, Fed Up!, which raised my hopes and dashed them at the same time. It advocated exactly what is needed for America to be America again – eliminate the federal government’s unconstitutional powers and programs via the 10th Amendment – yet its author clearly had no intention of running for president. No one with that intention would ever write such unmentionable truths as Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.

Then Perry looked at the Pub field full of folks driven by their ego and oblivious to their inadequacies. He felt a calling, a God-given duty against his desires to do his best to rescue his country from the abyss. It was too soon. He had to have serious back-surgery, the pain medication made him dingy, he said dumb things in the debates, his support melted away and looked elsewhere.

But there was no elsewhere. Romney was McCain redux, who excited no one, with a ceiling of 25% composed of folks supporting him only because they thought he could beat Zero. Gingrich was a Rockefeller Republican in conservative drag, angry, vindictive, and mean.

Cain imploded. Bachmann had no qualifications beyond being a nice classy lady with good values who had been in Congress for four years. Paul had a following of folks who thought it no problem if Iran nuked Israel.

Huntsman was a glowarming Chicom lover. Santorum was an earmarking deficit spender who couldn’t get himself reelected senator, losing by 18% to a Dem neophyte.

And every other marquee name refused to run – Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, Tim Pawlenty, Paul Ryan, and of course, the heartbreaker, Sarah Palin.

So at 2011′s end, there was no one else – if you wanted a real deal small government 10th Amendment conservative – but Rick Perry, flaws and all. Besides, there isn’t a conservative alive who doesn’t want leftie journalists put in their place like Perry did to Politico’s Mike Allen.

Iowans thought otherwise. One primary reason is they would rather have their country collapse as long as they keep getting their ethanol money. Perry was the only candidate to clearly say ethanol subsidies and mandates would not exist in his presidency. The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association hammered him on this, and built up Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum, pro-ethanol panderers all.

So let me tell you about a meeting that could change the world.
http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4816/2/

I hope Little Lord Fauntleroy took a beating.

Update: Rick Santorum on On the Record with Greta Van Susteren said that Matt Strawn the Chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa told him there was another vote discrepancy of 21 votes in Mitt Romney’s favor that offset this 20 vote error in Santorum’s favor.

Gee, what a coincidental mistake. If it’s true it will be tough for me to believe it was an accident.

I think he’s telling us what we already suspected. It sure took a long time for that last 2% of votes to get counted.

The republican establishment is just like the dnc, they will lie, cheat and steal to remain in power. They need to be prosecuted.

PRISON NOT PROFITS FOR INSIDER TRADING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
Written by Gov. Rick Perry
Friday, 06 January 2012
From Tothepointnews.com

Earlier this week (1/04), the Chicago Tribune ran a little noted editorial on the insider trading scandal plaguing Congress, calling out phony efforts to reform the rules and demanding that we finally put a stop to this outrageous and unethical behavior.

If you haven’t read the editorial yet, I recommend you do because while the professional political punditry class is more interested in superfluous items like the political horse race and candidate attire, the reality is that members of both parties in Washington, D.C., are abusing their positions and ordinary Americans have had enough.

As the editorial notes, “’60 Minutes’ reported that Pelosi and her husband participated in an initial public offering from Visa in 2008, just as credit card legislation started moving through the House. The Pelosis bought 5,000 shares at the IPO price of $44 a share. Two days later, the shares traded at $64. The legislation, which was likely to cut credit card company profits, went nowhere that year. It passed two years later.”

It’s not enough members of Congress make $174,000 a year, some are trading on inside information to use their public service to enrich themselves.

The Tribune is right, the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department should be using every available tool to put a stop to this. But they are not. So, Congress needs to pass the STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, HR 1148) as a matter of urgency, to do even more to ensure that this kind of thing is stopped dead in its tracks.

In addition to calling for tough measures to outlaw insider trading by Members of Congress, I’ve called for making Congress part-time like the Texas legislature, cutting congressional pay in half, and amending FOIA to apply to Congress and the White House.

We have a $15 trillion national debt that is growing by the day, a direct result of establishment, insider politicians who are more interested in constantly increasing their personal power and profit than in reforming the system, bringing spending under control, and doing the work they were elected to do. It’s time to uproot and overhaul Washington. We can start with ensuring insider trading by members of Congress results in prison time, and not unseemly profits.

—Rick Perry

“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator – 106-43 B.C