By Michael Fell.  Ann Coulter may be disappointed, but New Jersey gets to keep its governor.  Meanwhile, Republicans still must pick their Presidential candidate.  Despite what the “progressive” Party Pravda (aka the mainstream media) tells you, there are more than two options.

Rick Perry’s been a fairly successful governor in a State that’s created a lot of jobs during today’s depression.  Because of a business friendly political climate, lots of companies have relocated to Texas from States where economies are being destroyed by “progressive” policies.  However, there’s more to consider.  Thanks to a series of bumbling debate performances, Perry’s viability is increasingly in doubt.  An insistence on defending his State’s immigration policies remains a liability.  Border security is a major concern for most Americans.  A taxpayer funded magnet of “free stuff” for illegal aliens doesn’t fly with Conservatives.  Categorizing others as heartless for disagreeing with this position may not have been the best way for Perry to approach it.

Mitt Romney’s candidacy has not ignited passion, especially with grassroots Conservatives.  The Tea Party sees him as a RINO.  He’s the entrenched establishment’s (aka “progressives” in American clothing) ”next one in line” candidate.  To the Tea Party, he’s yesterday’s news.  Although he would love their support, the only way Romney will get Tea Parpty support is if he wins the nomination without it.  There’s more than one albatross around his neck.  The big one is romneycare.  How can a former Governor who signed an individual mandate into law possibly champion the drive to repeal obamacare because it features an individual mandate?  Then again, there’s that image of being a flip flopper fostered by his changing views on a variety of positions over the years.  Sure, he worked successfully in the private sector.  Yes, he turned the Olympics around financially.  But, does he really know how to create jobs on main street?  He’s corporate CEO kind of guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Gary Johnson has good ideas about cutting taxes and reducing spending.  He understands that even if spending is cut, government can’t be trusted to apply the money to deficit reduction, that it’s more inclined to spend the money on wasteful projects.  However, his foreign policy views and ideas on social issues will cost him dearly with Conservatives.

With Christies’ withdrawal, Jon Huntsman, who’s betting his entire candidacy on New Hampshire, might experience short term benefits there with moderates.  However, his foreign policy positions have as much chance of attracting Republicans as do those of a better known candidate who also has no chance of winning the nomination.

Ron Paul has a remarkably devoted following, hence his strong fund raising abilities.  He also has some good ideas vis a vis the domestic economy.  But he disqualifies himself from being Commmander in Chief by virtue of his Code Pink like foreign policy views.  Besides, does any Republican really want a  President who’s openly teamed with Barney Frank in sponsoring legislation to legalize marijuana?

Michele Bachmann started out strong but has slowed.  She’s stuck to her guns and maintained her bona fide Conservative positions, but a series of gaffes have taken their toll, having a negative impact on her funding raising.  She remains in contention because she’s stood by her convictions, standing firm on national defense, support for Israel, denying taxpayer funded benefits to illegal aliens, defending parental rights, and leading the charge to defund obamacare and seeing that it’s repealed completely.

Newt Gingrich remains in the race primarily because he’s still churning out ideas, but his candidacy seems a long shot due to personal baggage.  Yes, he cheated on his wife with an interm while attacking Bill Clinton for doing the same.  Yes, that made him a hypocrite.  But to Gingrich’s credit, where Clinton lied, creating the now famous phrase ”it depends on what your definition of is is”, Gingrich admitted to it and resigned.  Gingrich can rightly claim that he knows how to balance the federal budget.  In fact, he’s the only candidate of any political Party who can make that claim.

Rick Santorum is strongly Conservative on moral issues, which is fine, but is probably not the quickest pathway to victory in a fiscal election.  He’s strong on foreign policy, Second Amendment Rights, and obamacare.  However, for Santorum to gain traction with voters, he should refocus his campaign on fiscal matters, especially Joe Biden’s favorite three letter word: J-O-B-S.

Herman Cain is a strong fiscal and social Conservative.  His 9-9-9 tax reform plan is revolutionary and could ignite private sector growth, something that’s badly needed.  Cain’s been an outspoken opponent of national healthcare ever since Bill Clinton tried to introduce it in the 1990′s.  While he shares the Libertarian view that America should not preemptively go into war, he falls short of crippling America’s defense capabilities by gutting defense spending.  Herman Cain enjoys grassroots support because he’s a real grassroots American, born and raised in the south to a low income family that refused government handouts.  He’s a prime example of the American “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” way of life.  Best of all, he’s not a career politician.

Ann Coulter’s choice for the GOP nominations isn’t running…is yours?

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About Michael Fell:  Michael is a former MCA recording artist and traveling minstrel from the seminal punk rock era who’s toured America from coast to coast. A Fine Arts student in college, he’s continued activity as a visual artist working primarily in oil on canvas. Today, Michael’s a leading voice in the new Tea Party Conservative movement. He’s been active since the February 2009 inception of the Tea Parties, and is a strong proponent for the bread-and-butter Conservative issues of lower taxes, reduced government and spending, strong national defense, secure borders and a return to the traditional American values of E Pluribus Unum, Liberty and in God we trust. He’s founder and Chairman of the Westwood Tea Party, a founding member of the Los Angeles Metro Tea Party Coalition, a member in good standing with the Tea Party Patriots, Vice Chairman of the Westside Republicans Club in Los Angeles CA, and an elected Republican delegate to the Los Angeles 47th Assembly District Central Committee. In 2010 he was Campaign Manager for a primary winning Congressional candidate, as well as working on campaigns for Santa Monica and Los Angeles City Council candidates.  Michael’s a nationally recognized Conservative blogger who’s a contributing writer for https://conservativedailynews.com/,  https://beforeitsnews.com, https://www.redcounty.com, https://www.uspatriotpac.com, https://westsiderepublicans.com, as well as his footprint on both Facebook and Monica Crowley’s blog: https://monicamemo.com. His personal impressions, expressions and opinions on today’s news events and political climate can be found on his own blog: https://mjfellright.wordpress.com/

(By Randy DeSoto)  I was Joe Miller’s Communications Director during his Primary Campaign in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Alaska, and now I’m holding the same position for Marc Scaringi, who’s running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. I see some interesting parallels between the two races. The first is that Marc, like Joe, is undaunted by the challenge of taking on an incumbent Senator with a big family name, who appears to many unbeatable. That is how Lisa Murkowski looked heading into and throughout most of the primary election season last year. Originally, the seat had been given to her by her father in 2002, Alaska’s then newly elected governor Frank Murkowski. He had held the Senate seat the previous 20+ years and decided his daughter was the best person to take his place. Two years later, she managed to pull off a narrow victory when she ran for a full term, while her father remained sitting Governor of the state.

Up for re-election in the 2010, she had the requisite over 50% approval rating statewide, and over 70% among Republicans that should have made her a shoe-in for re-election. Those numbers did not deter Joe Miller. He saw that her voting record, despite her party affiliation, was liberal. In fact she had voted with the Democrats and against the majority in her party more than any other Republican Senator up for re-election: over three-hundred times on issues like government bailouts and other vast spending bills, and against the pro-life position. Joe decided no one should be automatically elected to office because of family name or position, especially when her votes were so contrary to the best long-term interests of the country, so he announced his candidacy on Lexington-Concord Day, April 19.

Joe then set about tirelessly campaigning all over our country’s largest state making the case that Lisa Murkowski was part of the Big Spending, Big Government problem in Washington. Though not someone of great means, he seeded his campaign with $50,000 to get the campaign off the ground. Donations were slow at first, so Joe reached down in June and put another $50,000 of his own money into the campaign. Steadily momentum built, then came Governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement, and the Tea Party Express jumped in on Joe’s side too. The Tea Party Express would spend about a half a million on the race in independent expenditures. The entire Joe Miller of U.S. Senate campaign would come in at just over $300,000 for the primary race. Lisa Murkowski meanwhile had $3 million in her campaign war chest, and she still enjoyed an over 30 point advantage in the polls in early July.

The Senator looked to be cruising to an easy re-election, but Joe’s campaign caught fire. We could feel his support growing, and there was a deep-seated faith among the staff that Joe could win this thing. By early August, Joe was just 11 points down. During the week heading into the August 24 Primary, everything seemed to click: commercials we produced with Murkowski in her own words giving contradictory statements on her position on Obamacare and others in which she sounds just like President Obama on the need for government spending aired on TV and radio throughout the state; Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin cut robocall ads for us, which went out to thousands of voters; meanwhile, our volunteers waved signs and canvassed Alaska for Joe. We got wind of an internal poll days before Election Day that had us just 1 point down. We knew the election may well be ours. The rest was history with Joe pulling off perhaps the upset of the whole primary season, “shocking” the political world, Rocky-style.

It’s interesting for me to see the same sort of race shaping up here in my home state of Pennsylvania. Joe Miller sees it too, and decided to endorse Marc last month.

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