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David Karki

Thank you, South Carolina! On Saturday, you administered a most-needed beatdown to Mitt Romney and put the lie, once and for all, to the twin myths of his “inevitability” and “electability.” The sheer scale of the wipeout clearly showed just how much Romney is disliked by and will never win over the conservative base, notwithstanding denial-driven emotional protestations by the media and GOP beltway establishment.

So, with the battle now fully joined and what looks to be a long Romney vs. Gingrich primary battle serving as a proxy in the war for the soul of the GOP between the Tea Party and the establishment, we move on to Florida on January 31^st. And while this was a most satisfying victory for both Gingrich and the heretofore quiet conservative base which finally found its voice and deafeningly roared, neither should read more into it than is there or rest on their laurels.

Romney still has a big money and organization advantage, which is no small thing in an expensive state like Florida. He’s been running ads for two weeks and many early votes have already been cast, prior to the big turnaround in South Carolina. So he has a bit of a head start. Rick Santorum will bleed votes away, especially as the establishment uses him as a stalking horse, propping him up as long as they can.

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David Karki

For those of you who didn’t see Monday night’s FOX debate, all I can say is that you missed when the primary season changed.

For the first time, Romney had a poor evening. And Newt Gingrich dominated, having several huge applause lines and getting a sustained standing ovation when he put Juan Williams squarely in his place for his disgusting race-baiting setup. It’s getting increasingly clear that, if any single conservative alternative to Romney is ever going to emerge from that group of Gingrich, Santorum, and Perry, it’s going to be Newt.

That said, I didn’t care for Gingrich using the Bain issue to go after Romney, if for no other reason than it gives  despicable demagogic class warfare – that the left in general and Obama in particular wield as a veritable religion and top political weapon – more credibility when it should have none whatsoever. As far as I’m concerned, the Cold War is back and raging hot, only domestically this time with the Democrats as the Soviet Union and Obama as Brezhnev. (Or Khrushchev or Andropov or Stalin, pick your favorite dead communist premier – they all serve the allegory equally well.)

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David Karki

As we leave the traditional first two states of Iowa and New Hampshire behind and head for South Carolina and Florida, here is my take on each candidate left in the field:

•  Mitt Romney – How can someone with a hard-as-diamonds ceiling of 25% of the vote and a mere 13 delegates of 1,144 needed be such a supposedly “dominant” if not “inevitable” front-runner? And especially when his debate performances are those of a smarmy used car salesman, saying everything he knows each person wants to hear, no matter how phony each is alone and contradictory they all are when added together?

The answer is simple: the media that works for Obama wants Romney to get the GOP nomination because they know he can’t possibly win. He’s a carbon copy of McCain in 2008, except for the war-hero background and the conservative base despising Romney even more. And once Romney has the nomination, the media will swiftly and ruthlessly turn on him and Obama will win in a walk again.

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David Karki

I hesitate to put much faith in Iowa caucus goers, because their track record has generally been so poor. From Robertson in 1998 to Buchanan in 1992 to Huckabee in 2008, Iowans not only picked someone who eventually got nowhere near the White House but made people wonder in retrospect what the heck they were thinking.

So it is in 2012. While they didn’t vote themselves into instant irrelevancy by making lunatic Ron Paul a winner, they did make everyone say “Huh? Santorum?!” and scratch their heads.

Santorum in fact bears a striking resemblance to Mike Huckabee in 2008; social conservative, fiscally more liberal than you’d think at first glance, and not likely to carry the momentum much further than New Hampshire. He came into Iowa barely registering in the polls, with virtually no money, and simply rode the wave provided by Romney’s scorched-Earth TV ad assault on Newt Gingrich.

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David Karki

In less than a week, the Iowa Caucuses will officially begin the primary season. And as of right now, there isn’t a truly palatable choice available. It’s staggering to think that in an election year where President Obama is so vulnerable, this pathetic field is the best the Republicans can come up with.

First, you have Mitt Romney, who by all rights should be challenging Obama in a Democratic primary. His record places him solidly left of center, and, if his election is successfully orchestrated by the GOP beltway establishment who attached themselves to him from day one, we will see the massive expansion of government – and concomitant loss of personal liberty and freedom – Obama has rammed down America’s throat not repealed in their entirety but rather cemented into place forevermore. Nor can Romney make anyone believe he’ll do anything else; Mitt has reached the point where the more he talks, the less believable he becomes.

Romney’s arrogant, technocratic belief that he can simply better manage Obama’s disaster will only serve to get Republicans stuck with the blame for the enormous mess Obama has made.

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David Karki

Washington these days is like a bad sequel to the movie “Groundhog Day,” in which the same events repeat themselves over and over and over again. In this case, it means the quarterly expiration of the continuing resolutions on which the federal government has been operating because scumbag Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hasn’t even tried to pass a budget in nearly 3 years!

This expiration is naturally met with the demagogic screams and wails of the Democrats, bemoaning the supposed death and destruction that mean, evil Republicans are visiting upon the innocent by not giving in to them. And this being the week before Christmas, I’m sure the Grinch comparisons are being hurled with glee.

Heck, Senator Barbara Boxer, one of the stupidest of the hundred arrogant gasbags who make up that loathsome body, went so far as to accuse the GOP of mass murder and even put a figure on it, declaring that exactly 8,100 people would DIE if the Democrats didn’t get their way!

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David Karki

The election of 2012 will, in effect, call the American people to account and give us one last chance to arrest the otherwise inexorable march to cultural and economic Marxism that has been ongoing for the last century. We can no longer afford to indulge such wrong and, yes, evil ideas that are the antithesis of the Constitutional republic the Founders bequeathed us.

We have reached the point famously described by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher:  where socialism inevitably runs out of other people’s money. Not that socialism’s believers ever consider it that, of course; they think all money belongs to government – which is to say, them – and that only they in their infinite and superior wisdom can ensure it is distributed properly. This lie is the same appeal to egotism that the serpent used in the Garden of Eden in order to sucker Eve into eating the fruit: “Ye shall be as God.”

For a century now, we have indulged this wrong-headed thinking on a societal scale, thinking that a governing philosophy that comes from a secular, humanist worldview which depends upon force and control could somehow be compatible with one that comes from a judeo-christian worldview which relies upon personal liberty, freedom and moral self-restraint.

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David Karki

Not a single Republican presidential primary vote has yet been cast. Even after the first four states – IA, NH, SC, and FL – all vote in the next 2 months, the overwhelming share of the delegates will still be available. Yet there is a distinct feeling that the process is almost over before it’s even really begun.

At this point, it seems like the Not Romney sentiment has coalesced around Newt Gingrich, perhaps for lack of any other better alternative at this “late” point after Rep. Michele Bachmann, Gov. Rick Perry, and Herman Cain were all briefly tried and found wanting.

Gingrich certainly has his negative points and reasons for many of us – present company included – to have misgivings and reservations about settling on him. He’s had liberal dalliances at times, significant personal baggage, and so forth. He also has a couple good points, prime amongst which is his willingness to go after Obama in a way no other candidate has shown thus far. Compared to Romney, a full-fledged liberal both unwilling to and incapable of going on offense against Obama but without personal baggage, Newt would appear to be a slight improvement. (If I may damn with faint praise, that is.)

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David Karki

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich got in a lot of hot water for saying during the last debate, just before Thanksgiving, that illegal immigrants will have to be normalized somehow. Scarcely did the words finish exiting his mouth before the knee-jerk, hysterical shrieks of “Amnesty! Amnesty!” came from the conservative base, right on cue.  The only thing missing was channeling Hester Prynne and sticking a big red A on Gingrich’s front.

This is not an intelligent argument in the least – heck, it’s not even an argument – and plays to the stereotypes the left has of conservatives. And it will not help us get the best Republican candidate to go against President Obama in the most important election in America’s history.

I dislike illegal immigration as much as anyone; in one of the very first columns I wrote for NorthStar National, published on February 9, 2006, I called for building a wall on the Mexican border that would put China’s Great one to shame. (And, right on cue, predictably got called racist for it in the comments that followed it on the page.) We should do that now, with dispatch. As far as I’m concerned, we can even include the crocodile-filled moat with which Obama arrogantly and sarcastically taunted us.

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David Karki

The Congressional super-committee, whose job it ostensibly was to find spending “cuts” in exchange for having extended the debt ceiling a few months ago, has given up having passed no cuts at all and with the entirely expected outcome that Democrats were engineering all along:  getting the chance to either massively raise taxes, massively cut the military, or massively blame Republicans for not getting phony, phantom “cuts” that never existed.

I do have to give it to the Democrats, though; their plan was every bit as well-thought and executed as it is utterly dishonest. And now they have the big lie that their media allies can keep spewing all the way to next November, to provide cover for them and President Obama – who was nowhere to be found as he once again “led from behind”:  that they actually give a tinker’s damn about cutting spending, and it’s all the Republicans’ fault it didn’t happen.

As for the Republicans, they lived down to their unofficial nickname of The Stupid Party and got played for fools yet again because they simply cannot bring themselves to admit the Democrats don’t mean well and to find the spine and guts to fight them tooth and nail to the bitter end.

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