


By Dr. Milton R. Wolf
Victory requires Mitt to complete his conversion

Conservatives gathered in Washington this week are increasingly relishing the prospect that the Republican presidential nomination fight will extend for months, and could even lead to a brokered convention in Tampa this summer.

Now on sale through President Obama's re-election campaign, 18 designer garments which are part of the campaign's new "Runway to Win" collection from 23 top designers. The GOP has its own suggestion for an addition — super PAC flipflops.

Is another surprise surge for Rick Santorum percolating at the polls? Voters like him personally, and they admire his tenacity and decorum on the campaign trail. "Again, why not Santorum?"

Only three months after proposing a mortgage-relief plan, President Obama went back to the drawing board Wednesday with another proposal that would allow millions of "underwater" borrowers to refinance home loans and would impose a new tax on big banks.

In the battle of unlimited-money political groups that will play a major role in the 2012 general election, Republican groups have stockpiled far more cash than their Democratic rivals, and a tiny group of people is set to have a dramatic influence on the electoral process.

Picture this: Newt Gingrich discussing national health care, arguing for wealth redistribution and an individual insurance mandate, all while sitting next to Hillary Clinton, the whole discussion caught on videotape. A sneaky, fact-fudging attack ad, unleashed by a rival presidential contender or enemy super PAC? Not exactly.

A White House spokesman Monday called Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus "desperate" for comparing President Obama to the Italian cruise ship captain who abandoned the passengers of his sinking vessel.
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Setting a bleak table for President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night, the Republican National Committee launched a TV ad in three battleground states accusing the president of a failed economic record.

Delivering a broad defense of tax increases on the wealthy to help pay America's bills and finance new investments, President Obama used his final pre-election State of the Union address Tuesday to urge Congress to act, warning that he was prepared to leave them behind if they fail.

There are rumblings that Mitt Romney, after Thursday night, may be a no-show in the six remaining GOP debates, now scheduled for Florida, Arizona, Georgia, California and Oregon through mid-March.

The RNC enjoyed a fourth quarter of fundraising in 2011 that shows it is able to compete with the Democrats again.
Trying to give weight to an issue that party officials say has been ignored in debates and on the campaign trail, members of the Republican National Committee hope to jar candidates' attention with a resolution raising Taiwan's security as a campaign issue.

Behold: Sarah Palin and Herman Cain will visit Fox Business Network anchorman Neil Cavuto Tuesday night to weigh in on a presidential primary drawing a global audience — where the economy trumps all and a third-party interloper may be an uncomfortable reality.

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