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<\/a><\/p>\nBreaking news items. I don\u2019t usually deal in breaking news, and I don\u2019t intend to start now, but some things can\u2019t be ignored.<\/p>\n
Rick Santorum has withdrawn from the Republican Primary. That leaves Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich as official candidates for the Republican nomination. So far Santorum has not endorsed anyone nor released his delegates, but the nomination of Mitt Romney now seems very nearly inevitable. Speaker Gingrich is not likely to withdraw and Ron Paul even less so. That leaves Romney, who will certainly be a better President than Mr. Obama \u2013 if he can win.<\/p>\n
Obama inspires passion in some groups. One presumes there are some passionate supporters for Mitt Romney as well, but how many of them are organized or have political experience is not clear. Politics is messy, and it\u2019s not exclusively a media game. One needs party workers, poll watchers, get out the vote troopers, and the whole mechanism of what is generally called the ground game. Building that organization is important. That is Romney\u2019s next task.<\/p>\n
Romney has the general support of the Republican establishment, but many do not trust him much, with reason since he\u2019s not really one of them. Of course that\u2019s also true of the traditional anti-establishment right. Romney has a number of fences to mend in that direction. He\u2019s going to need some sparks and fire in his campaign. We\u2019ll see what he does next. Do understand, I intend to vote for him and make certain that any of my Republican neighbors do as well. This is a crucial election, and it is important to the country that we don\u2019t have four more years of Obama.<\/p>\n
The strange Zimmerman\/Martin case gets stranger. And as Sharpton and Jackson and others use this case to build race hatred, they won\u2019t be alone. Others will find examples of whites harassed by blacks in what are unambiguously hate crimes, as for instance the Baltimore St Patrick\u2019s Day incident<\/a>. Given that in this year of our Lord the 2012th<\/sup> black on white crime is more frequent than white on black except on prime time media shows, it won\u2019t be hard to find some. It\u2019s harder to make a living now as a white demagogue, but the more of this there is, the more of it there will be. It may be a long hot summer.<\/p>\n Wall Street is running scared as the threat of European sovereign debt defaults grows. This will greatly affect US trade as well. The Chinese economy doesn\u2019t look so great. And the American debt grows. Inflation is a tax on savings and fixed incomes, and is almost inevitable in the face of rising deficits. We are not out of the economic woods yet.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve got a bunch of the work on taxes done, and it\u2019s time for dinner. I\u2019ll catch up. I really will\u2026<\/p>\n View 720 Tuesday, April 10, 2012 We are slowly catching up again, but it is taking time. I\u2019m dancing as fast as I can. My physician just called, and my MRI is good. Nothing deteriorating that he can see. Bit of sinus inflammation but it\u2019s the pollen season, and I \u2026 Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"