Romney Takes The Sunshine State

Mitt Romney has won the 50 delegates from Florida in his pursuit of the White House.

With almost all of the precincts reporting in the official vote count is as follows:

During his victory speech Romney sent the President a message by putting a twist on a quote from Thomas Paine:

“Mr. President you were elected to lead, you chose to follow, so now it’s time for you to get out of the way.”

Romney supporters are quick to use Florida in order to declare over all victory and the Republican nomination for Mitt. But according to Newsmax, Gingrich says not so fast, this race will last another six months, unless Romney drops out:

“Newt Gingrich vowed on Tuesday to keep the Republican race for the White House going for six more months, despite poll predictions that he will lose heavily in the Florida primary.

He even said that the only way that the race will end much before August’s Republican National Convention in Tampa is if front-runner Mitt Romney drops out.”

Even though Romney’s 85 delegates puts him a long way off from the needed 1, 144 to claim the nomination, it does put him way ahead of the pack as the chart below displays (click to enlarge):

The next stop on the campaign trail is the state of Nevada and it’s 28 delegates. The fate of which will be decided through it’s caucuses on Saturday. But just like in Florida, Romney is expected to win Nevada by a wide margin.

Undaunted by this prediction, Newt Gingrich said to his crowd of supporters in Florida tonight:

“I will be back in Florida, as the Republican nominee in August.”

#1 January 31, 2012 at 8:45 pm
Patty commented:

I thought the way the pundits were digging and ragging on Gingrich the spread would be far worse.

15% is that terrible. But winner takes all isn’t great. Fight on and on! We need to keep this going. When more of America speaks the more things seem more grounded and true.

We must defeat Obama but Obama will hit Romney on immigration but there is a bundle of things that Romney could use or Gingrich or Santorum. Paul is to far out there.
#2 January 31, 2012 at 8:51 pm
clarityrising commented:

What can I say but people are generally stupid, I’ve learned that after Obama was elected and now they are going for more of the same with Romney. Pathetic. But on the bright side, maybe the US-blamer and Israel-hater Ron Paul will drop out after that poor showing.
#3 January 31, 2012 at 8:54 pm
Jayne on Left Coast commented:

Shows you just can’t fix stupid. Will not hold my nose ever again and vote. RNC/GOP better not call or send me any mail. I have a earful for them.
#4 January 31, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Patty commented:

Early voting and Romney ran a better campaign. He was there during first primaries. There were many factors that brought him this win. But for the most conservative, hands down, Gingrich.

Sarah sees it. Levin sees it, Reagan see it, Perry sees it, Todd Palin sees it. The real conservatives see that the best Candidate is Gingrich but those women just can see beyond Romney’s looks.
#5 January 31, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Greg commented:

Rah! Rah! Rah! vs. Step by Step Specifics.

Oh, bye the way, George Soros says “Thank You!”
#6 January 31, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Dave-O commented:

Any of the Republican candidates would be 1000% better than the moronic imbecile we have now.
#7 January 31, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Steve commented:

Wow! All the Obot’s on the left saw their grandparent vote tonight!
#8 January 31, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Jim W commented:

It is a shame that 68% of the people are so stupid not to recognize the brilliance of Newt.
#9 January 31, 2012 at 9:14 pm
donh commented:

The women for Romney are like all those Teenage groopies who swoon over Ryan Seacrest ignorant to the fact he is closet gay. 17 million dollars …an all out media blitserkig establishment crackdown force feed and a 53% majority of the voteres still said NO to Romney.
#11 January 31, 2012 at 9:24 pm
bg commented:

++

fyi re: Florida

[Florida is set to host this year's GOP convention and the state's
delegates could be getting the worst seats in the house.

At the national party's winter meeting Friday, Florida GOP officials tried
and failed to restore the full voting power of our republican delegation.

The party's national committee voted to cut the
state's delegation in half from 99 people to 50.

Those delegates that get to go will be seated in the back of the arena.]

don’t believe it.. it’s all part of the RNC plan for
Obama to pass the elite torch to Romney.. /s/

==
#12 January 31, 2012 at 9:29 pm
bg commented:

++

Orlando Florida – January 31, 2012

Newt Gingrich: “We are Going to Contest Everyplace”

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#13 January 31, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Conservative to the Core commented:

“We know who will be our nominee.”
~Georgette Mosbacher, October 5, 2011
#14 January 31, 2012 at 9:31 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

another good day for the democrats.
#15 January 31, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Jim W commented:

So far in this section, two thirds of the people that voted are stupid. Women that voted for Romney are swooning airheads. Throw in gays there too. Keep it up, you’re really going to bring them into the Newt camp. May want to look in the mirror before desparaging everybody as stupid or airheads.
#16 January 31, 2012 at 9:53 pm
donh commented:

Its the same crowd that fell for John Edwards because of his $300 salon hair.
#17 January 31, 2012 at 9:59 pm
Sparky commented:

Jim W.

Let me be the next to say that those who voted for Romney are ill-informed and ignorant!

I am a Canadian watching this election with interest and it does not take a brain surgeon to realize that Newt is Conservative and Romney is a lying, flip-flopping Democrat.

Instead of voting for the candidate who is anti-establishment and anti-Wall Street, voters fall for the candidate with the most money, good looks, a swaggering step, negative ads, and a bully in the debates.

American voters are stupid because they do not listen to the message and think about who will babysit the rot in Washington vs who knows where the rot is and has the courage to eradicate it.

The establishment is terrified of Newt because he will do what he says. Newt will make the necessary bold changes.
#18 January 31, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Sparky commented:

#16 donh:

And Michelle Obama’s magnificent arms….gag!
#19 January 31, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Christopher Taylor commented:

Ron Paul: “why isn’t anyone voting for me?? I keep winning polls online!!!”
#20 January 31, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Jim W commented:

Sparky, that 32% isn’t going to get any candidate elected. And I doubt that will get higher with time And I was a Santorum backer. He is a real conservative, not a pseudoconservative. But it appears in reality, he is not going to make it either.
#21 January 31, 2012 at 10:47 pm
LilyBart commented:

I don’t like Romney. Really don’t like him.

I don’t think he’d be much better than Obama. I think he’s a statist, big government, crony capitalist who doesn’t respect the average American. I think he’d nominate ‘moderate’ supreme court justices who’d side with the progressives. I think he’ll only tweak Obamacare. I think he’d spend the next four years trying to win a second term.

And in the end – he’ll give conservative a bad name.

I have no problem with his religion or his money. I don’t like his politics.
#22 January 31, 2012 at 11:06 pm
Estragon commented:

Newt is losing it, as we know from past history he was bound to. He’s desperate and looks it.

You idiots who think he’s conservative must be drinking the Kool Aid. The SOB has stabbed conservatives in the back continually through his uninterrupted 35 years in DC sucking the federal teat. It was conservatives who threw him out of the Speaker’s chair. Ask Largent or Coburn. Heck, ask any of the hundreds who served with him why they haven’t endorsed him if he was such a great leader.

Nancy Reagan’s people are now pointing out Newt took the “torch” comment out of context completely – AND in fact she didn’t write the speech, the sponsors wrote it.

I know the Newtists found some kid named Jeffrey Lord to claim Newt was influential in the Reagan years. First, how many of you ever HEARD of the kid before now? He was the White House Political Director, not really in the inner circle from his office in the basement. The people who actually worked with Reagan like Abrams and Buchanan says Newt wasn’t involved at all. Lou Cannon doubts Reagan even knew him by name. And Reagan’s own diary – famously detailed on who was there – mentions him only in the group meeting Romney brought up.

But he worked with Reagan on bringing down the USSR?

Are you people even serious? Is this some sort of sick joke?
#23 January 31, 2012 at 11:33 pm
Saint commented:

That Rick Santorum is being treated as a serious Republican candidate as opposed to a blue dog Democrat with authoritarian leanings is something I find utterly depressing. Hasn’t the country been made a bitch of the unions enough? Is the public really so fond of the bailouts?
#24 February 1, 2012 at 12:04 am
Molon Labe commented:

#8
Jim

Too bad 53% of Republicans thought Romney to be an out of touch liberal from Massachsuetts.
#25 February 1, 2012 at 12:06 am
Molon Labe commented:

#22
I believe you are a sick joke and probably weren’t even born when Reagan took office. For anyone to make such a stupid statement you would have to be so ignorant as to be a product of the Amherst school system and a graduate of Columbia.
#26 February 1, 2012 at 12:08 am
Molon Labe commented:

#21

LilyBart

Something you should read about the sainted Romney and his “progressive” politics. From the well respected Rightwing News Blog:

Over the last few weeks or so, various elements of the mainstream media have reported that, aside from gay marriage, Romney continues to support much of the gay agenda. He does not talk about his positions on gay issues but if questioned, he invariably comes down on the liberal side. Indeed, Romney has come out in support of allowing gays to serve openly in the military, “anti-discrimination” laws, domestic partnerships and gay adoption rights. Of course, all of these positions come at the expense of the constitutional rights of others, military morale, and what’s best for children, but Romney does not appear to care, yet he continues to portray himself as a social conservative.

For those familiar with Romney’s gubernatorial record, these stances are not shocking. He has always been a strong advocate for the homosexual agenda but many conservative groups, writers, and even talk show hosts have declined to write or talk about it for reasons that are mystifying. Indeed, Massachusetts pro-family leader Amy Contrada has written a 1,000-page book – Mitt Romney’s Deception –documenting in incredible detail the hundreds of actions and policies pursued by Governor Romney in support of the homosexual agenda. The book is a plethora of shocking information yet very few conservative writers will review the book.

Contrada’s book makes clear beyond any doubt that Romney initiated what was perhaps the most aggressive effort in American history to advance gay rights. He appointed gay judges, issued gay proclamations, gave a “parents of the year” award to a gay couple, funded gay school programs, promoted gay pride parades, gay proms, and much more. Additionally, Governor Romney aggressively and unilaterally implemented the Goodridge gay marriage decision even though the court never ordered him to do so. Moreover, he personally issued special “one-day” permits for 189 same sex couples to marry. So much for opposing gay marriage “at every opportunity” as his campaign claims he did.

Romney’s consultants are thrilled that much of this has been ignored by the media but with Romney on the verge of winning the GOP nomination, isn’t it about time all aspects of his record are analyzed? After all, his actual record will be far more indicative of how he will govern as President than are poll-driven campaign sound bites.

The Romney’s campaign has boasted of how he was a proponent of abstinence education while Governor, but when one researches his record, his abstinence program was watered down to the point of being useless, was placed in only a small fraction of schools and, as one Romney staff member stated, “did not replace comprehensive sex education.” In other words, they kept the Planned
Parenthood “have-sex-with-anyone-for-any-reason” sex ed program intact. By this time, Romney knew he was running for President so it’s likely his phony abstinence program was designed to give him fodder for future campaign speeches.

However, something else has come to light that’s even more revealing regarding Romney’s weak abstinence record, and that’s his support for the AIDS Action Committee (AAC). Despite its charitable sounding name, the AAC is an extremely radical homosexual group that aggressively opposes abstinence education and promotes a total hedonistic homosexual lifestyle including “transgenderism,” sadomasochistic behavior and group sex. It opposes any moral limits on sexual behavior, no matter how risky or unhealthy. And it’s no secret – they’re very boastful about their views.

One might say, ok, well, so what, what’s does some wacked out gay group in Boston have to do with Mitt Romney? Well, according to financial records released while governor, Romney personally gave $10,000 to this group in 2004.

In contrast, Romney gave $2,500 in 2003 to the Best Friends Foundation, an organization operated by Bill Bennett’s wife that promotes abstinence among teenage girls. So a radical hedonistic anti-abstinence gay group gets $10,000 from Romney but an abstinence group run by conservatives receives a quarter of that amount. Hmm…

One of the AAC’s more infamous publications is The Little Black Book, Queer in the 21st Century, which was published, as the booklet itself states, with assistance from Romney’s Department of Public Health. The booklet promotes the most perverse behavior, including “water sports,” “rimming” and “fisting.” It also lists local gay bars. Incredibly, this filth was distributed to public schools. In 2005, when some parents discovered the booklet was passed out at Brookline High, all hell broke loose. Apparently, some parents thought teaching their kids how to urinate on one another wasn’t a good idea. The controversy was covered by the Boston Globe and Romney was questioned by a reporter about it. He had little choice but to denounce The Little Black Book as “graphic pornographic material” that didn’t belong in the public schools.

However, a year earlier, Romney’s own Department of Public Health assisted AAC with the publication of the booklet. Moreover, the AAC has always used graphic material in its publications, even during the time period it received $10,000 from Romney. It’s what AAC is known for. It is hard to believe Romney didn’t know this. Romney apologists will argue that AAC also worked to prevent AIDS, but it hard to see how a group that promotes such risky behaviors can do any good preventing AIDS. AAC’s support of the lets-have-sex-with-as-many-partners-as-possible lifestyle and its advocacy of group sex, bathhouses, and opposition to abstinence programs make them the poster group for everything that created the AIDS epidemic.

However, in retrospect, Romney did support some of AAC’s policies. Romney had no problem with condom distribution in the public schools, another AAC goal, despite the message such a program sends to children. When asked about distributing condoms in schools, he replied, “if a community feels that condom distribution is a helpful thing, then that community should be able to do that. And if another community feels that’s something they don’t support, then they should have the right to do that, as well.” That’s real leadership for you.

The AAC contribution raises many troubling questions. Most importantly, why kind of moral compass does Romney possess if he’s willing to give $10,000 to a group that openly supports the most hedonistic and unsafe homosexual behaviors? How can Romney be a faithful Mormon and still support AAC? Is this Romney’s idea of gay “rights?” Lastly, if Romney thinks the AAC approach is the way AIDS should be fought, what will he do when he has control of the Federal Department of Health and Human Services?

No wonder the Leftards will not attack Romney.
#27 February 1, 2012 at 1:42 am
chilipalmer commented:

Will Al Gore be Romney’s Climate Czar? Romney is loaded up with Bush era retreads who are big into cap and trade, fed. gov. regulations, and the ‘climate’ litigation racket. The left will find out eventually George Bush was a great friend to them. He and those on his staff did plenty to advance the organized crime infested global warming racket including the polar bear endangerment thing. Romney is the single person most responsible for the 2007 Supreme Court 5-4 decision against CO2 as he was Gov. of Mass. for the 4 years of the lawsuit, Massachusetts v EPA. He actually sued the US Gov. to declare CO2 a pollutant. The GOP is near extinction, ie has almost completely melted into the democrat party. Accordingly, I’ve begun working on getting open primaries in all states so there will soon be no reason at all to be a registered Republican. Already 28 states have open primaries. It will be easier this way than starting a third party.
#29 February 1, 2012 at 3:21 am
Lime Lite commented:

All I can say is that if Romney is the answer then just how stupid is the question?
#30 February 1, 2012 at 4:14 am
RedBeard commented:

The enemy is Obama, not Romney.

The enemy is Obama, not Romney.

Repeat until it sinks in.
#31 February 1, 2012 at 6:32 am
Mikey commented:

I bet Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and all the enemies of the left were dancing in DC last night hearing the news. Hate to say it, but with a Romney nomination, you guarantee another four years of tyranny under our Statist Dear Leader Obama. Thanks a lot, Florida for NOTHING.
#32 February 1, 2012 at 6:40 am
Gary commented:

OK
So the new mantra is the majority of people were stupid because they voted for Romney right?
But the majority of South Carolinians were smart because they voted for Gingrich, right?
So then the majority of people in New Hampshire are stupid and the high majority or people in Iowa are stupid too right?

The hilarious thing here is that a few months from now, Newt will be out of the race and almost everybody here will be supporting Romney against Obama.
Of course when you decide it’s time, then it will be the smart thing to do, right?
When other people reach the inevitable conclusion before you do, it’s stupid, right?

OK. I guess I’m clear now on smart and stupid.

But wait, later when you realize that Newt couldn’t win and Romney is the nominee, won’t that make me smarter for realizing it sooner? Boy I sure hope so! Hope that doesn’t confuse you all who sit in judgment on smart and stupid.

And let’s hear the other excuse now that Romney outspent Gingrich 10 to 1. Well, he did the same thing in SC and lost. But that’s right, SC is a state that neighbor’s Gingrich’s neighboring Georgia. Oh, but wait, so is Florida. Hmm.. I just can’t make sense of this outspending logic in that case. Please explain it to dumb old me.
#33 February 1, 2012 at 7:55 am
Paul in N. AL commented:

This vote by the “GOP” in Florida shows absolutely why Florida is not part of the South nor recognized by Southerners are part of the South. They are in their own fictional world kinda like Massachusetts.
#34 February 1, 2012 at 10:11 am
Ron? commented:

On Nov.05, 2012 when rOBAMAney loses to Obama if he gets the nomination, I’ll be there saying “I told you so”. I hate being right sometimes.
#35 February 1, 2012 at 11:27 pm
cracker commented:

The Sad truth, Obama is a better moderate Republican, than Romney could ever pretend to be in the White House. just think about for a second.