111.3 million people took the time to watch the Superbowl. It’s a matter of historical fact now. Like many people, my ‘favorite’ team was not playing in the game, but I was in favor of the Giants winning. Why? I just like them better than the Patriots. They are not my favorite team, and I don’t regularly follow their games – I have often cheered AGAINST them when they are playing my favorite team. On Superbowl Sunday 2012 though, I was watching the game, and rooting for the Giants, because it is participation in an event that is tremendous and distinctly American. It brings us together as a country.
Politics has that same potential, but an increasing number of Americans don’t view it that way. In politics, if our favorite team is not playing in the championship game, we don’t watch, we don’t vote, we don’t participate, and in doing so we miss out on an event and a process that is amazing – it is distinctly American! Politics and Elections can bring us together as a country.
For football, many Americans get the stats of our favorite teams, we do competitive research on opposing teams, we call out bias in commentators, and we boo when a ref makes a bad call. Can you IMAGINE how dynamic our political landscape would be if we did that same kind of research on the candidates? It would be amazing!
This election season, get involved like it’s a football game – we are still in the very ‘early minutes’ of this political football game. Invite your friends to be a part of it, do the research on the opponents, find out the stats on your candidate/team and don’t be afraid to like a team/candidate that may not be your favorite!
Bottom line, go out and get involved ! Watch the plays that are made, do the research, find out the best plays to lead to our victory. You can participate and get involved – you’ve GOT to – because this isn’t just two hours, a trophy and a ring we’re talking about… This is the future of our great nation! The playclock is counting down. Treat this election season with the same passion you would the Superbowl, and get involved!
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know that almost 33% of our staff voted for you in the Primary…”
First, we learned that Romney is not a pushover when he is behind the 8 ball. Coming off of a pretty crummy showing in South Carolina, Romney was determined to make a good showing in Florida and did so. He exercised good strategy in spending a massive amount of money in the more populous areas for advertising. Outspending Gingrich by 5 to 1*, Romney blanketed the airwaves, and his numbers in these areas showed the results.
Also, we learned that Romney can perform well in a debate. Romney took Gingrich to task during the Florida Debate about th
e negative ads that Newt’s campaign had run. Instead of taking the most expeditious and genteel route, an immediate apology, Gingrich responded with further attack, giving Romney greater latitude. Furthermore, Romney was able to justify the significant attack ad spend as a response to Gingrich’s truculent attitude in the debate. It was a well-played debate by Romney, and may have cost Gingrich all 50 of the Florida Delegates (at least at the time of this writing). Gingrich is normally very strong in a debate, but had an off night, and came under serious attack. We will state for the record that BOTH Romney and Gingrich are entirely too thin skinned in the debates. All of the candidates are politically experienced, and should be beyond this kind of rattling
The primary also showed us that Gingrich can rally Tea Party support, but that he needs a more effective ground team in each of the states. We also learned that establishment Republicans are worried about having Gingrich as the Republican nominee. It can be inferred that this concern is due to his knowledge of the way things work in DC. Bottom line, they won’t be able to pull one over on Gingrich. Gingrich has need of a good, trustworthy, consistent ground team – and it is not too late to have one. If he gets that in the next few weeks then FL becomes a hiccup, rather than an ulcer.
The clock is counting down to Florida’s Republican Primary election day. With less than 48 hours remaining Former Governor Mitt Romney looked confident and poised as he addressed a crowd of over 2,000 attendees in the heart of downtown Naples, FL.
One of Newt Gingrich’s best events yet was missed by the mainstream media. It wasn’t a big event, and it wasn’t surrounded by fanfare. It didn’t have massive press coverage, and it wasn’t ostentatious, but because he had said he would do it, he did.
A couple of days ago, the Political Watchman published an
to putting the country back on track by getting back to the bedrock of the Constitution. The Grassroots/Tea Party groups present at the event are strong, passionate, patriotic groups, and while they don’t always agree on every point, they stand together in the belief that the country can be saved.
Primary race. Newt Gingrich believes that decision will not be decided by the Mainstream media, or the GOP establishment. He believes that the Grassroots and Tea Party groups reaching out and connecting with Americans across the nation will carry him to the Republican Nomination, and the White House. If Gingrich is right, then every call dialed, every sign made, and every vote cast by the patriots in Grassroots and Tea Party groups made his victory a reality.
Instead of running into the deadfall set up by the media, both Gingrich and Romney h
ad the opportunity to take a higher, nobler road. Gingrich could have taken that road by apologizing for his immigration attack ad on Romney by saying “You know, that ad was probably not in the best of taste, I apologize, Mitt.” then holding out his hand in friendship. Romney instead of saying “I doubt that’s my ad” in reference to his ad attacking Gingrich, could have said “You know, I know that things have been getting intense the farther along in this Primary”. Both Romney and Gingrich would have shown themselves to be the bigger man, and it would have been the “Presidential” thing to do.
that it is less of a fight for Obama.
Obama’s decision to moth ball NASA has left the once active and tourist-friendly Cocoa Beach area reeling under the weight of a stagnate economy. Gingrich’s speech described a vision that lit fires in the eyes of more than a few of the more than 600 attendees.
alanced budget. It can be argued that the former Speaker of the House is aggressive in getting things done, sometimes with conflict, but he does get them done. 
Coral Springs, FL – Speaking to a crowd of more than 1200 South Floridians, Newt Gingrich inspired belief in a return to greatness for the United States –“I stand for American Exceptionalism, not because you and I are exceptional - we’re normal- but because the system we have inherited from the Founding Fathers is the most exceptional system in history.”
lina was not going to be the norm.
It’s a whole new ball game, and Newt Gingrich just impersonated Casey Jones by crushing a home run right over the South Carolina center field wall. The South Carolina Primary is now a matter of history, but it was a victory for Newt Gingrich that will go on far beyond the “Palmetto State”.
he drive thru window of a Chic-fil-a restaurant. 
