January 26, 2012

The Marvelous Meekness of Merely Mitt

By Stuart Schwartz
"Pit bull, pit bull, pit bull," comes the chant.  And for now a pit bull, a Beltway-bred and media-anointed pit bull -- one Newton Leroy Gingrich -- has come out of the South Carolina fight with a win.  But Mitt Romney, the not-politician and not-pit bull, continues in Florida and states beyond, offering a true conservative alternative, a citizen-conservative alternative to politics-as-Washington. "Pit bull" cast the ballots and pushed Obama's Bizarro doppelganger, round and white and breathtakingly cynical, to 40 percent of the vote in a Republican primary.  In South Carolina, "pit bull" pulled the levers, touched the screens, and checked the boxes.  You can understand the anger, the urge to punish those who corrupt a nation while spending us into oblivion.  "Pit bull" is straight from the gut, a visceral reaction to the cynicism and avarice that President Obama and Beltway Washington have e unleashed upon an exceptional nation.  But, as Hugh Hewitt...(Read Full Article)