For Romney, winning ugly is still winning
Mitt Romney had a good night in Illinois, defeating Rick Santorum as expected, 47 percent to 35 percent. He still failed to win a majority of Republican votes, but the showing adds to evidence that eventually, some day, Romney will become the GOP nominee.
Ron Paul was third with 9 percent; Newt Gingrich came in last with 8 percent, confirming in his mind that the people of Illinois are frankly, fundamentally too stupid to recognize transformational genius when they see it.
The next vote comes Saturday in Louisiana, where Santorum is expected to do well. Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C., vote April 3, and five states, including delegate-rich New York and Santorum’s home state of Pennsylvania, vote April 24.
Looking at the schedule, it is now quite conceivable that Romney can have it all wrapped up, in reality if not in quite in delegate count, by the end of April.
– Jay Bookman
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JamVet
March 21st, 2012
12:02 pm
…Bama’s 14 “National Titles”…
Debbie, that is as absurd as my beloved Cornhuskers having 11.
Don't Forget
March 21st, 2012
12:02 pm
Seems like Jay’s criteria for banishment is a lot more reasonable than some of these blogs.
getalife
March 21st, 2012
12:04 pm
Dang Debbie.
Got me beat.
You can bring it.
sheepdawg
March 21st, 2012
12:04 pm
i miss newt, he’s a funny little dude
Adam
March 21st, 2012
12:05 pm
getalife: nah, he deleted my comment and all references to me so they didn’t have a chance. T hey only knew my first name and they weren’t paying attention anyway probably. The guy obviously felt powerful wielding his block button.
JKL2
March 21st, 2012
12:07 pm
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I’m sorry if someone beside yourself couldn’t accept your feeble response and it blew your mind. Please enlighten me on the millions of date rape drug victims who get pregnant and can’t figure out within 5 months that either event happened. It’s such an epidemic, I can’t hardly get down the hall with all the unwittingly pregnant girls roaming around.
Bruno
March 21st, 2012
12:07 pm
I should’ve added @ 8.54, current ACA legislation assumes private individuals WILL be paying for their own healthcare, in the form of private insurance premiums, either subsidized through their employers or purchased on the open market.
sfd–Let me enlighten you a little bit. The ACA has little to do with folks paying for their OWN healthcare, and everything to do with folks paying for OTHERS health care. Maybe in your world this is a societal value we should strive for, but it is the antithesis of the value I think should be emphasized: self-reliance.
What kills me about some of you Libs is your vocal disdain for the Military Industrial Complex, yet nary a peep about the Medical Industrial Complex and how it has nearly bankrupted our country. We really have only real problem in our health care system, i.e. out-of-control costs, and ObamaCare is only going to make things worse. Yet you guys keep cheering as if we have accomplished something.
JKL2
March 21st, 2012
12:12 pm
DDR- The reason for being banned from that one is because I said that Waters had set black women back 250 years with her ignorance.
I can’t believe I find myself standing and applauding you on this one.
Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have been more right when she said we need to “drain the swamp” (not knowing she should be near the top of the list). Both sides are long overdue for an overhaul.
getalife
March 21st, 2012
12:12 pm
Bruno,
“The ACA has little to do with folks paying for their OWN healthcare, and everything to do with folks paying for OTHERS health care.”
No, the mandate forcing you to buy health care for you not others. Stop lying.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 21st, 2012
12:13 pm
Please enlighten me on the millions of date rape drug victims who get pregnant and can’t figure out within 5 months that either event happened.
I’m not going to defend a position that I did not take, sport.
I may have been born at night, but it wasn’t last night.
Heading upstairs now….
Mick
March 21st, 2012
12:13 pm
**Medical Industrial Complex and how it has nearly bankrupted our country.**
Well, finally something new that needs to be expounded on. How do we deal with this M.I.C. ?
getalife
March 21st, 2012
12:14 pm
“We really have only real problem in our health care system, i.e. out-of-control costs, and ObamaCare is only going to make things worse. Yet you guys keep cheering as if we have accomplished something.”
The costs were unaffordable so they passed this law to lower the costs. It is a open law for future changes to make it work.
Lets get real bruno.
Tundra Dude
March 21st, 2012
12:19 pm
Looking at the schedule, it is now quite conceivable that Romney can have it all wrapped up….
Oh, goody!
We might be rid of this Food Stamp president.
Romney will be the Soup Line president!
(no, not another gubmint giveaway….peeps will be required to bring their own soup)
Mr_B
March 21st, 2012
12:20 pm
Bruno @ 12:07. Then you should logically abstain from the purchase of any insurance, since the whole point of insurance is to get other folks to pay for your healthcare, accidental loss, liability or death.
BTW, I agree that health care costs are at the bottom of our problems. The fact that about one in six dollars in this economy go to health care is beyond ridiculous.
Darwin
March 21st, 2012
12:29 pm
Can’t wait to hear from the die hard Republicans in this state why they’re voting for a guy who instituted government run health care over a guy who instituted government run health care.
timbo
March 21st, 2012
12:36 pm
If you really believe that ObamaCare is great, talk to a Doctor.
BeeJay
March 21st, 2012
12:43 pm
Headline has nothing to do with the article, which has fewer words than my last facebook status. And Bookman’s being paid for this?
BeeJay
March 21st, 2012
12:45 pm
I will answer “Darwin.” I will vote for Romney over Obama because I would vote for ANYone over Obama, Mr scaryass president who has run our country’s economics, security, and pride into the ground.
Sagegirl
March 21st, 2012
12:46 pm
jkl2- Thanks for not answering the question.
Next deflection…
In case you haven’t been listening, Let me splain it to you.. 1. Women know when they’ve been raped, unless they’ve been drugged out ot their minds by their date or in some cases, husbands. 2. Most women take abortion seriously. It’s not something they run out and get just to make “it” go away. It’s a hard, emotional choice that we don’t take lightly. I’ve never had an abortion and probably never would, but I am not going to stand by and watch as women rights are slowing chipped away. So if they need up to 26 weeks, so be it. 3. I don’t want an old white guy with an R behind his name telling me what I need to be doing with my body and getting in between me and my doctor. It’s MY uterus, MY body, MY choice and until he’s been raped, can give birth, or walked in a woman’s shoes, he needs to keep his mouth closed.
Hope that helps!
My Party has ALL the answers. Your party is full of poopyheads! (formerly That Black Guy)
March 21st, 2012
1:04 pm
Adam
March 21st, 2012
9:05 am
What the hell is wrong with home schooling your children?
For starters, teaching them that evolution and global warming aren’t real and keeping them away from anything that might show them evidence that they absolutely are. And hell, you wouldn’t want them to think SCIENCE is anything other than god magic…. Think as you’re told, not for yourself!
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Yup, because EVERYONE who home schools believe that and the ALL teach their children that way.
“Ding Dong” (doorbell)
Adam. “who is it?”
“I have a delivery of extra strength generalization and a extra large broad brush”
Adam “OH Goody, just in time. I’ve used up my last 2 55gal drums of the stuff on the blog already”.
timbo
March 21st, 2012
1:10 pm
Adam,
You do have proof that global warming exists, right? Because you seem to be the expert here on this blog.
ken
March 21st, 2012
1:19 pm
Mass was 48th in growth because not one NE State is growing in population. No people, no jobs. All blue states by the way.
Darwin
March 21st, 2012
1:21 pm
That’s what I thought BeeJay. No specifics. Just hard won prejudice and ignorance.
oblama
March 21st, 2012
1:21 pm
Here I am again on the “Bookman for Oblama” love line again. Oblama’s mug on that hideous flag the other day reminds me of his cousin Castro’s face on the Cuban flag. Birds of a feather flock together. Contraceptives at CVS are $10 a month – not $3,000. We have Erkle in The White House. This is America and we don’t worship Oblama. My leader is Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior.
DEFEAT May SERVE As Well As Victory
March 21st, 2012
1:32 pm
@RB from Gwinnett
March 21st, 2012
11:55 am
Defeat, are you arguing that illegal aliens should be allowed to vot because they’re here???
Can my 12 year old vot too? She”s here.
DDR, the current conversations have been about the murder of unborn children and who should pay for birth control, yet somehow you think the topic is women’s bodies? Are you just not paying attention or are you trying to avoid discussing the actual issues?
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WHEN did some of you start STAYING ON TOPIC?
YOU people JUMP all over the place.
So don’t question what I WANT TO TALK ABOUT….that is my right.
oblama
March 21st, 2012
1:43 pm
Planned Parenthood owns the Dems……. keep your eye on the ball America. Our problem is not $10 a month contraceptives but a $15,000,000,000,000 debt. You can buy a WHOLE lot of birth control pills for $15 trillion. Think about this. The day your baby is born, if Planned Parenthood doesn’t talk you in to aborting him or her, your BABY will automatically owe $47,000 as his/her part of the bill for the national debt. Oblama is not a bad man but a very NAIVE and misguided man. If you think Mitt Romney’s 47 % win in Illinois is ugly then take a look at Oblama’s so called “plan” to reduce the national debt. His plan is TAX and SPEND. That’s where we have been ever since Lyndon Baines Johnson (democrat) got us in debt in Viet Nam – tax, big government programs and spend beyond our means. FIFTY years of TAX and SPEND has gotten us a 15,000,000,000,000 debt. That is what I call UGLY.
MrLiberty
March 21st, 2012
1:49 pm
Winning by cheating doesn’t seem to be an issue either. Just look at what happened in Iowa, Washington, Maine, and several other states where all indications are that Ron Paul won. Once you eliminate the momentum, get the media to perpetuate the lies for you, you effectively reinforce the belief that he cannot win. The history of this election cycle will go down in the history books as by far the most corrupt for the GOP and the complicit media who will do everything possible to prevent Ron Paul from restoring the constitution to this country along with freedom and liberty.
My Party has ALL the answers. Your party is full of poopyheads! (formerly That Black Guy)
March 21st, 2012
1:50 pm
Adam
March 21st, 2012
10:33 am
If you care to have a legitimate debate about that, I will consider that you may actually be an independent.
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Female Voter, don’t fall for it unless you want to be smaked with broad generalizations, assumptions and wish to be told what you are “actually” thinking or saying.
My Party has ALL the answers. Your party is full of poopyheads! (formerly That Black Guy)
March 21st, 2012
1:51 pm
oops make that *smacked*
Janney
March 21st, 2012
1:51 pm
Adam: Late to this blog, and only have gotten to page two of the comments, but THANK YOU for your 8:55 post. “What the hell is wrong” with them, indeed!
oblama
March 21st, 2012
2:10 pm
Did you see on the video on Yahoo where Celo Green gave an Oblama fund raiser the finger and told him to (F word) off? Guess he was tired of people leeching off of him.
oblama
March 21st, 2012
2:12 pm
Get on the Bookman for Oblama band wagon before the wheels come off.
oblama
March 21st, 2012
2:17 pm
$15,000,000,000 national debt but what about free birth control? In Georgia you can go to the health department even if you are rich and get free birth control. CVS sells them for $10 a month. In a 4 way race for president Oblama wouldn’t get a majority either so why does Bookman see 47 % in a 4 way race for the Repub nominee as being ugly? He is a DEM – that’s why.
Jim
March 21st, 2012
2:19 pm
Jay. you are a horrible excuse for a human being.
oblama
March 21st, 2012
2:30 pm
Jim – that is your opinion? Are you kin to Jay? What can you tell me about him – other than he is left of center? I don’t necessarily think that makes you a horrible human being – but it doesn’t help any.
GT
March 21st, 2012
2:31 pm
Ari Fleischer should be cast as a hit man in the Godfather. Last night he coldly declared money is a form of voting, if the others were hot they could raise money. Buying an election is an American tradition which explains all you need to know about the GOP Party. A few nights ago he was calling Obama out for now supporting the super pac, a flip flopper. What is really driving Ari crazy is O lets him pick his weapon only which ever one he picks they both have the equal use of it. Wouldn’t it be cool if Mit had all the money and the president sat out the dance on moral protest. The only hope the Republicans have to win this election is to out spend , out lie, out promise the left, just as Mitt is doing to his follow Republican. When the other side has no money you can cover up a lot of wrong with yours. Ari in his GOP George Bush roots tried to bully his point across that money is not bad and if that is all you are about I guess I see his point. Mr. Smith does not go to Washington anymore, they don’t even pretend he is there. Sad but our country is not run by who can run the best commercials like everything else.
My Party has ALL the answers. Your party is full of poopyheads! (formerly That Black Guy)
March 21st, 2012
2:55 pm
Adam
March 21st, 2012
11:48 am
What’s also funny: Days later, he posted 7 points of “how liberals argue,” and in each of the 7 points I could name a few examples of people here who do the exact same thing. Trouble is, all the examples I found were conservatives, not liberals.
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SHOCKER!!!!!!!! :SHOCK:
My Party has ALL the answers. Your party is full of poopyheads! (formerly That Black Guy)
March 21st, 2012
2:55 pm
OOPS
My Party has ALL the answers. Your party is full of poopyheads! (formerly That Black Guy)
March 21st, 2012
3:07 pm
I’ve been banned from HuffPo after having a “debate” suggesting that the political tone in this country is caused by D’s AND R’s. Go figure.
I also was banned from the Dallass Kowbouys site until 2098. But I was being an azz
Joseph
March 21st, 2012
3:07 pm
Kinda like the way Obuma defeated Hillary??? Ugly???
My Party has ALL the answers. Your party is full of poopyheads! (formerly That Black Guy)
March 21st, 2012
3:16 pm
Sagegirl
March 21st, 2012
12:46 pm
3. I don’t want an old white guy with an R behind his name telling me what I need to be doing with my body and getting in between me and my doctor.
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Is it ok if there is a D behind his name? Obamacare.
oblama
March 21st, 2012
3:27 pm
Definition of a Dem: We are going to save the world with YOUR money.
GT
March 21st, 2012
3:39 pm
And what a good cause for the Republicans to spend their money on don’t you think?
Billybob
March 21st, 2012
4:10 pm
granny,
winning ugly is defined as 73 million people voting a socialist and a marxist into the white house…….losing ugly will be defined by barrack hussein obama mmm, mmm, mmm this fall…..enjoy the exposing of hussein this time around and the utter didsdain for his radical leftist views from republicans, independents and moderate dems who now realize this isn’t what they voted for…….good day libs…..
road scholar,
fluke was brought up at the last minute and had no expertise on the actual subject of the hearing which is why she was not allowed to testify…….your ilk are lying to you if that is your belief of the events that transpired……and the dems did not hold a hearing on the actual topic of the republican hearing, what they held was a press conference for another one of their ‘victims’……they parade victims out in order to try to promote their ideas, you need to wake up and understand….. i know jay does understand and he hates to see people like me on this blog enlightening all to the chicanery of the left……it’s fun
dude
March 21st, 2012
4:40 pm
So Eric Fehrnstrom says the positions Mitt takes can erased just like an Etch a Sketch. You guys have no core values except one; dollars!
bob from account temps
March 21st, 2012
4:52 pm
Becky
March 21st, 2012
8:40 am
What you need to remember becky is that you can still get your abortions or buy any birth control you like. nothing changed in spite of what the libs tell you.
AndyInAtl
March 21st, 2012
5:08 pm
There are so many liberal morons posting here you’d think this website is for some rag in Maine, and not in Southeast. If a guy wants to use contraception, he goes and buys condoms. If a girl wants to use contraception, she can go and and purchase whatever her method of contraception is. It’s not rocket science; it’s very simple stuff. Insurance is not going to cover that. Nor should insurance cover Viagra, Cialis or other thought up garbage that is direct result of unholy communion between “doctors” and drug companies. Erectile disfunction is not a disease, and as result the little blue pill should not be covered under insurance plan. Neither should contraception be covered. What’s next, prescription for ky jelly? Or maybe for a vibrator for another disease that is yet to be dreamed up?
I would like someone to...
March 21st, 2012
5:41 pm
explain in laymen’s terms who the healthcare plan will cut healthcare cost.
Who is the voice for the...
March 21st, 2012
5:47 pm
aborted fetus? What about their bodies? Oh yeah, that is just one little tid bit the women spouting off about their bodies like to forget.
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