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Rick Santorum Will Campaign Today in Creston, Osceola and Indianola, Iowa

Posted on | December 19, 2011 | Comments Off on Rick Santorum Will Campaign Today in Creston, Osceola and Indianola, Iowa

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will travel about 60 miles through south-central Iowa today and hold three public events:

7:30am CT: Senator Santorum will host a breakfast meet-and-greet in Creston, IA.
Location: Windrow Restaurant
102 West Taylor Street, Creston, IA

12:00pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Osceola, IA.
Location: Redman’s Pizza & Steak
123 South Main Street, Osceola, IA

6:00pm CT: Senator Santorum will keynote the Warren County GOP Dinner in Indianola, IA.
Location: Indianola Christian Union Church
707 East Euclid Avenue, Indianola, IA

A reporter for the Omaha World-Herald caught up with Santorum’s campaign Sunday:

The Republican hopeful said he’s held 350 town hall meetings in Iowa, such as the ones he held in Council Bluffs, Red Oak and Atlantic on Sunday.
“I feel very good about our strategy,” he told about 50 people who crammed into a small TS Bank branch attached to a Council Bluffs Hy-Vee Supermarket.
Santorum is staking his campaign on how well he does on caucus night. . . .
Those who gathered inside the bank Sunday enthusiastically hung on to his words. Most were dressed in their Sunday best, and mentioned they had just finished church.
“I wish I had a million dollars to give you,” one woman told Santorum. “You’re David, and you have to fight Goliath.”

Santorum was also featured Sunday in a Daily Caller interview with conservative activist Ginni Thomas.

Category: Election 2012, Iowa, Rick Santorum

LIVE AT FIVE – 12.19.11

Posted on | December 19, 2011 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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Category: Live at Five

Kim Jong’s Illness Finally Takes Him

Posted on | December 18, 2011 | 20 Comments

by Smitty

BBC News has an un-embeddable clip.
They also mention that Kim Jong Il’s son, the apparent new leader of the Norks, is a fine young orator, who, despite having a Marxist past and neither academic nor private sector credentials, and having been merely ‘present’ for a little while around the capitol, is expected to enjoy a regime propped up through muscular control of the media.

via Dan Riehl on Twitter

Update: American Power rounds up the headlines. Ace trots out the flaming skull to light up the North Korean darkness.

Category: North Korea

My Entry For Dumbest Political Statement Of The Year

Posted on | December 18, 2011 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

David Cameron’s decision to veto an EU-wide treaty change over eurozone rules was “largely political”, Business Secretary Vince Cable has said.

Perhaps we can come at it this way: just what portion of Cameron’s decision on the veto was not political? Cameron holds political office: aren’t the decisions of that office, by definition, political? How would Cameron make a non-political decision as Prime Minister? Would it be a decision that was made on wholly economic grounds? What would that mean, if possible?

George Bernard Shaw famously remarked “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.”  Where does one acquire such hilarity? By listening to people and taking what they say at face value.

Category: Great Britain, Politics

Santorum Campaign Sends 60,000 Mailers to Iowa Voters: ‘No Surrender’

Posted on | December 18, 2011 | 7 Comments

What’s interesting in this news is the relatively small number — which may be a sign that Santorum’s campaign has really done its homework. No more than 140,000 people are expected to vote Jan. 3 in the Iowa caucuses, and the press release says these mailers are only being sent to 60,000 “likely caucus-goers.”

Rick Santorum has campaigned in all 99 Iowa counties, and his campaign volunteers have relentlessly canvassed the Hawkeye State by phone. So we can assume that they have compiled a database of addresses for their supporters and “leaning” undecided voters. Such a “targeted” mailing could be expected to yield the maximum effect. Here are three images from the mailer:



And here is the text of the mailer:

A number of Republican leaders have suggested that the best way to win back the White House is to call a truce on talking about social issues. Issues like abortion, marriage, school prayer, and immigration. In my book that’s not a truce… it’s a surrender!
The day we stop fighting for the unborn child, or fighting to protect the sanctity of marriage, expel God from public, or decide we will no longer enforce the laws of land, is the day we surrender all our founding father’s created.
I believe what makes America exceptional is not just our economic potential or our remarkable innovation, but the fact that we are a moral enterprise. As President, I will protect American’s moral foundation, empower American families and build America’s economic freedom. And I won’t compromise on my values to do it.
Rick Santorum: A history of fighting for our values.

  • Author of the bill that ended partial birth abortions in America;
  • Named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in America
  • Washington Post called Rick Santorum a “Tea Party guy before the Tea Party even existed,” for his efforts fighting corruption in Congress, and returning to Constitutional government;
  • Founded the bipartisan House/Senate working group on religious liberty;
  • Co-authored and fought for the only vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment in the U.S. Senate;
  • Rick was an author and floor manager of the landmark Welfare Reform Act that moved millions from welfare to work;
  • Rick was a leader on U.S.-Israel relations, authored legislation to stop the growing nuclear threat from Iran, and has led the fight to protect America from Islamic radicals;
  • Rick is the best-selling author of It Takes A Family, Rick and his wife Karen have home-schooled each of their children;
  • Has passionately fought for a balanced budget amendment, and to take the immoral debt off the backs of our children.

The Associated Press has an article about Santorum’s “old-fashioned” Iowa campaign:

URBANDALE, Iowa — In a presidential campaign marked by sharp rises and falls, Republican Rick Santorum has experienced neither.
“I’m counting on the people of Iowa to catch fire for me,” the former Pennsylvania senator, who described himself as a “strong conviction conservative,” said Thursday during a debate with his rivals. “Iowans are beginning to respond.”
His dogged courting of Iowans the old-fashioned way — campaigning in living rooms, coffee shops and town squares — may be starting to pay off and at just the right time, as Iowa’s Jan. 3 presidential caucuses approach.
“Rick Santorum is the best-kept secret in the campaign,” said Tom Clark, a West Des Moines Republican and one of about 150 people who came to hear the candidate at a suburban Des Moines restaurant this past week.


Category: Election 2012, Iowa, Rick Santorum

FMJRA 2.0: Toys In The Attic

Posted on | December 18, 2011 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT – 12.16.11

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Scott Ott Serves It Dry

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Top linkers this week:

  1. The Pro From Poca (11)
  2. The Camp of the Saints (10)
  3. Lonely Conservative (9)
  4. (tied) Lisa Graas and Daily Pundit (8)
  5. Pirate’s Cove (6)
  6. The Conservatory (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline for next week’s links is Friday, December 23; please include “FMJRA” or “Shameless Blogwhoring” in the subject line.

Category: FMJRA Award

From an Undisclosed Location

Posted on | December 18, 2011 | 33 Comments

Where am I? Why am I wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and standing in front of a green screen in a studio? Read more

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Rick Santorum Will Campaign Today in Council Bluffs, Red Oak and Atlantic, Iowa

Posted on | December 18, 2011 | 6 Comments

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will travel about 90 miles through Western Iowa today and hold three public events:

11:00am CT: Senator Santorum will have brunch with supporters at the HyVee Instore in Council Bluffs, IA.
Location: Treynor State Bank
HyVee Instore, 1745 Madison Avenue, Suite 1002, Council Bluffs, IA

2:30pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Red Oak, IA.
Location: Pizza Ranch
1511 North Broadway Street, Red Oak, IA

5:30pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Atlantic, IA.
Location: Farmers Kitchen Restaurant
319 Walnut Street, Atlantic, IA

Santorum’s “No Surrender” Money Bomb has raised nearly $200,000 since Dec. 14, and continues with the goal of reaching $250,000.

Rick Santorum has picked up another big endorsement:

An influential retired Iowa pastor is asking Michele Bachmann to fold her presidential campaign into Rick Santorum’s before the Jan. 3 caucuses — and offered Iowans a scathing critique of the rest of the GOP field.
The Rev. Albert Calaway, a retired Assemblies of God minister who lives in Indianola, [Saturday] endorsed Santorum — but said he’d like to see Bachmann as the vice presidential nominee.
“There’s absolutely, positively no divine power vested in me for this, but if I had it, I’d personally love to pronounce Rick and Michele as lawfully wedded running mates,” Calaway told The Des Moines Register in a written statement.
Calaway . . . is president of the Truth, Values and Leadership, an organization that serves about 200 Iowa churches and pastors . . .
“Santorum has never embarrassed us in debate or on the campaign trail. He has a plan to bring back U.S. manufacturing and cut five trillion dollars over his first five years. He is very pro-Israel and sober minded about the Islamist threat, and I’m convinced he has the maturity and experience to run the government,” Calaway said.

Meanwhile, Santorum’s Iowa campaign is “in grief” today:

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum’s Iowa campaign is mourning the sudden death of its hardest-working volunteer, Wendy Jensen of Ames.
Jensen, 55, who had been an active member of the Story County Republican Party, had made thousands of calls to Iowans, imploring them to support Santorum’s presidential candidacy in the Jan. 3 Iowa Caucuses.
“Our campaign is in grief,” said Jamie Johnson of Stratford, a top aide to the Santorum campaign in Iowa, on Saturday.
Jensen was found dead at her apartment in Ames on Thursday, apparently of natural causes, said Cody Brown, Santorum’s state campaign director. She had attended a Christmas party on Wednesday night at Santorum’s Iowa headquarters in Urbandale and was tickled when the candidate thanked her for her hard work, gave her a hug and autographed a coffee mug for her. . . .
Jensen was a remarkable volunteer who routinely made 400 to 500 calls, working a volunteer shift from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Johnson said.

Santorum supporters who want to travel to Iowa to volunteer during the final two weeks before the Jan. 3 caucuses are urged to contact Kristin Beaulieu ([email protected]). Santorum supporters who can’t make it to Iowa can still sign up as volunteers, to participate in the campaign’s call-from-home Iowa phone-bank operation.

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‘NO SURRENDER’
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