AP Declared Obama “Kenyan-Born”
Posted on May 18, 2012 by Conservative Byte

What most people know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news services. What most people don’t know that is in 2004, the AP was a “birther” news organization.

How so? Because in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, and which was, as of this report, available at

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

The AP reporter stated the following:

Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

Obama citizen-detention plan in trouble
Posted on May 18, 2012 by Conservative Byte

A district-court judge has suspended enforcement of a law that could strip U.S. citizens of their civil rights and allow indefinite detention of individuals President Obama believes to be in support of terror.

The Obama administration has refused to ensure that the First Amendment rights of authors and writers who express contrary positions or report on terror group activities are protected under his new National Defense Authorization Act.

Targeted in the stunning ruling from U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest of New York was Paragraph 1021 of the NDAA, which Obama signed into law last Dec. 31. The vague provision appears to allow for the suspension of civil rights for, and indefinite detention of, those individuals targeted by the president as being in support of terror.

It appears that the Democrats waited for Bush41/Rove/Drudge/Fox/Priebus to deliver the GOP nomination to Romney and now will begin destroying him on behalf of Obama.

Romney Saved Salt Lake Olympics From Scandal, But at What Price?
Apr 12, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
The GOP presidential hopeful touts his biggest managerial success on the campaign trail. Wayne Barrett digs into his relationship to some of the central figures in the scandal.

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The rambling observations of one sometimes-journalist sometimes political-commentator …

One-term ex-Massachusetts governor, and perennial candidate, Willard “Mitt” Romney may be about to win a Pyrric victory in the 2012 GOP Primary.

Together with the money and organization of Bush 41 (George W/Bush 43 seems to have steered-clear of this Primary), Karl Rove, Mormon business-political-church networks, Bain Capital associates, self-protective GOP insiders, friends at Drudge, Fox, and the RNC (especially Chairman Priebus) Romney may have successfully won the Primary but guaranteed himself a General Election loss.

The methodology of of Romney was an unholy nexus of Obama/Chicago scorched-earth versus opponents and an ends-justify-the-means hostile corporate acquisition.

The game plan assumed that Romney could remain above-the-fray, playing the role of nice-guy, as his surrogates and a Super-PAC pursued a Sherman’s March through the heart of the GOP Primary.

The reality-on-the-ground became a public perception of no separation between the negative campaign and Romney, exacerbated by an investigative report which showed both SuperPAC and campaign residing in the same building with a free-flow of communication and staff between them. (The absence of obvious FEC and Justice Department intervention to enforce law and regulation has been curious. Some have speculated that either money purchased a blind-eye or Democrats intend to prosecute during the General Election.)

Romney’s negatives skyrocketed as his Borg-like strategy mechanically absorbed establishment-political endorsements while gathering-in delegates state-by-state.

Party leaders will plead with various unhappy elements of the traditional GOP coalition to remain united, based on their common opposition to the reelection of Barak Obama, but the very improbability of Romney defeating the incumbent President will liberate said groups to go their own way without fear of blame for Romney’s loss.

If the current flow of events play-out Romney’s coup may net him the stewardship of a Party in decline. Appearances are that significant elements of the GOP coalition no longer believe that their future is with the GOP and they are looking for a new alternative.

If the Party-coalition fractures, following the summer Convention in Tampa (if not sooner), there will be a scramble among many individuals and organizations to establish credibility to lead a new conservative Party. Beneficiaries of their competition for alliances will show-up across US House, Senate, and Gubernatorial races in 2012.

Adding to the General Election troubles for Romney will be two well-funded, well-organized, and well-positioned third-party candidacies; those of Libertarian Gary Johnson and Americans Elect Buddy Roemer, both prior governors with equal or superior records to that of candidate-Romney.

Johnson has already begun his out-reach to fiscal conservatives and Roemer to moderates; it is unclear how effectively either can appeal to social conservatives, many of whom feel marginalized (even disenfranchised) by the process.

Social conservatives, especially Evangelical Christians, preferred Texas Governor Rick Perry. Perry was ill-served by an inexperienced staff who rushed him into the Primary while still recovering from major back surgery and into televised debates while still on pain medicine. The result would have been predictable to a competent political team. Perry was savaged by the media and his competitors, never allowed to recover, then strategically-withdrew from the process - creating a huge political vacuum for conservatives.

Former US Senator Rick Santorum stepped into the vacuum, attempting to emulate elements of the 2008 candidacy of ex-governor Huckabee, he made a direct appeal to socially-conservative Evangelical voters. As described in a prior blog post, in addition to a variety of political liabilities, Santorum was known as a “devout Roman Catholic"; while Santorum tried to talk like an Evangelical he had limited success breaking free of Evangelical discomfort.

Lumbering into the process came an old political warhorse, ex-congressman and ex-Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. Gingrich also attempted to seize a part of the political vacuum. Newt brought a rhetorical skill some labeled “quip-puking” which enabled him to seize attention and to motivate conservatives desperate for some political “red meat".

Sabotaging Newt’s effort were decades of personal and political baggage and an abysmally-poor campaign plan. Stacked on top of that was an erratic personal style and wild spending of campaign funds, mostly on personal luxuries, sinking the effort deep into debt just as opportunity presented.

As Gingrich and Santorum battled for the conservative vote Romney pounded them with negative advertising while promoting himself, despite a clear record to the contrary, as the true conservative.

In April Gingrich scaled-back his campaign and then Santorum suspended his. Gingrich resolved to selectively contest for delegates in hopes of denying Romney a first-ballot victory at the Convention, or to at least secure a voice in the writing of the Party Platform. Neither appeared likely.

Meanwhile, President Barak Hussein Obama, II, made the most of his resources as the incumbent and as the media-preferred Democrat candidate, to secure his base and to begin the very sort of negative strategy against Romney he had used against his fellow Republicans.

2012 and beyond …

While 2012 may become the year when conservatives ignored the Presidential election and focused on US House and Senate races 2014 may actually bring a new Party, or two.

In 2014 candidates may be pressured to associate their names with more than one of them. If one of the conservative Party organizations displaces the others 2016 could be the year of their first Presidential nominee.

More to come …

Before anyone applauds Rick Santorum for a strategic surrender, a decision some have speculated he made in order to fight-again in 2016, one must recall his political history.

Rick Santorum has surrendered to the pressure of establishment Republicans in the past.

One of the major elements mitigating against Santorum’s claim to a conservative core has been his past endorsement of incumbent Congressman Arlen Specter over challenger Pat Toomey.

In 2004 Santorum was an incumbent US Senator from PA. One might argue that his endorsement of an incumbent fellow-Republican Congressman was all-but pro-forma. An incumbent is generally considered safer pathway for a Party to hold its membership than a newcomer.

The reality-on-the-ground was somewhat different. Specter’s record had been very liberal on fiscal and social issues and challenger Toomey was mounting a strong conservative Primary challenge.

Specter was re-elected as a Republican then immediately switched to Democrat, giving them the vote they needed to attempt to block Bush’s conservative nominee to the US SUpreme Court and to pass a number of harmful bills, not the least of which was “Obamacare".

Santorum lost re-election to the US Senate by 18%, in part due to tepid support from angry conservatives. In his next election Specter lost the Democrat Primary, abandoned by the very Democrats he had befriended as he sabotaged conservative Republican efforts, and Republican Toomey defeated the Democrat in the General.

During his 2012 Primary campaign, Santorum was challenged by other elements of his record, from questionable profits received as a Board member of a teen-home with a long record of abuse and neglect charges, a variety of votes for legislation opposed by conservatives, and public statements at-odds with his Presidential campaign rhetoric.

Santorum may have been persuaded the “He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day” but the truth may be that Romney mortally-wounded him long-term with incessant negative advertising. It may also be true that there are several stronger spokesmen for the conservative cause waiting in the wings for 2016, including Rick Perry and Allen West.

2012 may well be the end of Rick Santorum’s national aspirations.