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Grover Norquist, in his CPAC speech, revealed exactly why the GOP establishment favors a Romney win . All we have to do is replace Obama. …  We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. … We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don’t need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming... Read Full Story

The Republican presidential race appears to have shifted from debating the economy to discussing social issues – same-sex marriage, abortion and, amazingly enough, birth control. The year is 2012 and Republicans are discussing the morality of birth control. Go figure. In the kerfuffle involving the health care law, religious-affiliated organizations and birth control, the Obama administration neatly stick handled responsibility away from the organizations and onto the insurers. Mr. Obama... Read Full Story

My picks from Political Humor . “Mitt Romney lost all three of the primaries. Today, he begged Donald Trump to take back his endorsement.” –David Letterman “It was a big setback for the Mitt Romney campaign. Even the very poor said they felt bad for him.” –David Letterman “Rick Santorum was the big winner. He is feeling very cocky. He already is being fitted for an inaugural sweater vest.” –David Letterman “Rick Santorum says that he is what the Republicans really want. Mitt Romney... Read Full Story

File this one under “ you’re kidding me, right? ‘ Riding upon a chariot of Hummers driven by bald eagles, Mississippi Rep. Steve Holland filed a guns blazing cowboy steak of a bill, proudly waving our nation’s red, white and God-fearing blue to protect our American coastal waters. This week, Holland introduced H.B. 150 to Mississippi’s House of Representatives Marine Resources Committee — a bill that, in summary, would “for all official purposes” rename the Gulf of Mexico (or “body of water... Read Full Story

Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, are the combined epitome of the Washington insider. Yesterday, he added to this by pointing out that Speaker Gingrich and Senator Santorum both had a spend, spend, spend approach to governing thereby making the two lawmakers  “ the very Republicans who acted like Democrats .” This prompted a HuffPo reader to... Read Full Story

No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the night. “ I don’t stand here to claim to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. I stand here to be the conservative alternative to Barack Obama .” A slap to the side of the head of Romney while pushing him aside and casting himself as the one and only true conservative who has the creds to take on the Kenyan guy – and he did it with... Read Full Story

A shout-out to my buddy Pete Moss who has taken an giant leap and joined the ranks of liberal bloggers. I’m quite aware how difficult it is to get heard when you’re competing in a blogosphere with a 100,000 other voices all clambering to get heard at the same time. It’s easy to get discouraged and drowned out in the noise. So why do it? I imagine every one has their own reasons for taking the time and effort to create a physical blog, put their thoughts into words and then do the marketing... Read Full Story

Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary…and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy for the process. And despite Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion that “ …independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption ”, E.J. Dionne has a more cynical take on the Citizens United ruling. We have seen the world created by the Supreme Court’s Citizens... Read Full Story

This political cartoon by Wiley Miller is posted for our friend and diehard Libertarian, Tommy. It comes compliments of E.A. Come on, Tommy…is none of this registering? __ Follow MarioPiperniDotCom on Facebook , Twitter and Google+ . . Read Full Story

This illustration by Lian Amaris says it all. Excellent. The backlash against Komen has been tremendous announcing that enough is enough with senseless conservative crap of this kind which does nothing more than satisfy the narrow-minded while endangering the lives of people. You can contribute to Planned Parenthood here and voice your thoughts via email to Komen here . __ Follow MarioPiperniDotCom on Facebook , Twitter and Google+ . . Read Full Story