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Romney takes Nevada...Gingrich stays in race
Russ Jones

Mitt Romney's primary victory in Nevada on Saturday was never in doubt.

It was a contest that Newt Gingrich and the rest of Romney’s rivals conceded in advance.

With 45 percent of the precincts reporting, the former Massachusetts governor won 43 percent of the vote.  Former House Speaker Gingrich won the battle for second place receiving 26 percent over Texas Rep. Ron Paul who received 18 percent.  Former Sen. Rick Santorum place fourth getting 13 percent of the vote.

During a victory speech Romney, as he did in Florida, ignored his Republican opponents, directing his comments to President Barack Obama.

"Four years ago candidate Obama came to Nevada promising to help," said Romney. "Mr. President, Nevada has had enough of your kind of help."

Mormons make up about 7 percent of Nevada's population. Entrance polls indicate roughly 26 percent of Republican caucus-goers were Mormon, Romney’s faith, and 9 in 10 of them backed him. Mormons also helped Romney carry Nevada in 2008.

The "First in the West" Nevada caucuses came just four days after Romney won the winner take all primary state of Florida. Four years ago Romney also won Nevada even though Sen. John McCain was the eventual GOP nominee. 

Romney outspent Gingrich by five to one. Mitt Romney and Ron Paul spent $370,000 and $350,000 each on airtime. According to Smart Media Group Delta, the pro-Romney PAC Restore our Future spent $80,000 on ads supporting the candidate.

Rather than a traditional post-election speech, Gingrich opted to hold a press conference with reporters. He squelched rumors that he would exit the race calling it the “greatest fantasy” on the part of the Romney campaign.

“There are some very big differences evolving in this campaign as we move forward,” he said. “I also believe that the vast majority of Republicans across the country are going to want an alternative to a Massachusetts moderate who has in his career been pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase.”

Gingrich also assured the press he is taking his campaign all the way to the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

From Nevada, the campaign trail turns to caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a non-binding primary in Missouri on Tuesday. By the time Nevada Republicans caucused, Paul had already move on to Minnesota and Santorum was campaigning in Colorado.

"The one thing that is on our side is the American people are waking up," Paul said in a speech in Rochester, Minn.

Santorum continued to argue his contention that the battle for the GOP presidential nomination is not a two-man race like the media and Gingrich would like to portray. "We are not going to win this election if either of these two guys is nominated," Santorum said Saturday in Colorado. "Let me assure you. We will not win."

Santorum believes he will have better results with the upcoming contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.

Some commentators contend the most buzz from the four-day caucus actually came earlier in the week when real estate mogul and reality-TV personality Donald Trump endorsed Romney, but state GOP officials say the Silver State caucus has larger implications for the general election.

Over 3,500 volunteers participated in the Nevada Republican Caucuses. New voter registration numbers released last month showed Nevada Republicans had cut the Democrats’ voter registration advantage in half.  These figures combined with new polling data from Gallup puts President Barack Obama at 47 percent disapprove and 41 percent approve -- a five point drop in 2011.

Nevada Republican Party Chairman Amy Tarkanian said the enthusiasm behind the 2012 caucus show’s Nevada is ready to vote for a Republican president in November.

“After three years of Barack Obama’s failed policies and broken promises, Nevadans are looking for a change in direction,” said Tarkanian.   “This weekend’s caucus is a springboard to put our GOP momentum into action as we work with all Nevadans to elect a new president.”

A total of 28 Republican National Convention delegates were at stake in caucuses held across the sprawling state. Romney won at least 10, Gingrich at least four, Paul at least three and Santorum at least two. Eight were still to be determined.

Palestinian disunity good for Israel
Chad Groening

The head of a worldwide pro-Israel Christian ministry says no one should be surprised that a lack of unity between rival factions has resulted in a cancellation of Palestinian elections.

Recently officials confirmed reports that the Palestinian Authority would likely cancel elections scheduled for May due to lack of unity between Hamas and Fatah. The Fatah leader said the delay in forming a unity government is a major obstacle to elections, while an official with Hamas added that elections would not be held under two separate governments.

Bill Sutter, executive director of Friends of Israel, says the breakdown of cooperation coincides with the stalled bid by the Palestinian Authority for United Nations statehood.

"The declaration by the United Nations of a Palestinian state is pending before the Security Council," he notes. "But the fact of the matter is they are warring parties and they really have not come together.

"So when it comes down to being able to establish a specific government, they just can't seem to put it together because they fight among themselves."

Sutter believes ultimately this disunity is actually good for Israel. "I think a robust show of unity would make it harder to deny for the United Nations the declaration of a Palestinian state."

He believes there is no more important time for Israel's allies to stand alongside her.

Pro-lifers continue to fight for free speech
Charlie Butts

The Texas capital finds itself in federal court again over a new pregnancy clinic ordinance.

The first ordinance passed by the city of Austin required the nonprofit pro-life centers to post signs and place in their advertising that they do not perform abortions. That statute was rescinded by the city after a legal challenge, but replaced by another ordinance that requires a similar notice be posted outside the facility.
 
Alliance Defense Fund is asking the court to declare that ordinance unconstitutional. ADF attorney Matt Bowman says the centers offer real help and hope to women and should not punished by political allies of the abortion industry.
 
"The city should recognize that using sleight of hand to force pro-life centers to post a message the city wants does not solve the First Amendment problems with the law," says Bowman. "Courts around the country have been striking these types of laws down that target pro-life pregnancy centers."
 
A federal judge struck down as unconstitutional an ordinance in Baltimore, and an injunction was obtained to halt enforcement of one in Montgomery County, Maryland.
 
A federal judge has also struck down a case in New York City, although that has been taken to the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Website: Crucial info on abortionists
Charlie Butts

Operation Rescue has set up a new website to identify abortionists in every state and their track record.

Spokeswoman Cheryl Sullinger says one example of the kind of information available at AbortionDocs.org is a set of recently added documents related to Nevada abortionist Adam Vincent Levy, who works at A-Z Women's Center in Las Vegas.
 
"In this case we discovered that Levy paid out $20,000 last year in a case where a woman died during a botched abortion in 2007," Sullinger explains. "That's important information for women to know when they're considering abortion -- the kinds of backgrounds these abortionists have."
 
Sullinger says documents also show Levy paid $6 million to settle a 1995 case in which a baby's brain was damaged from misinterpretation of ultrasound findings.
 
And in 2004, Levy settled a personal injury case for $7,500 after reportedly inflicting second-degree and third-degree burns when inserting a hot weighted speculum during a patient's surgery.
 
The website also reflects that Levy teaches others how to perform abortions at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas.

First, they came for the Catholics
Michelle Malkin - Syndicated Columnist

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

This weekend, Catholic bishops informed parishioners of the recent White House edict forcing religious hospitals, schools, charities and other health and social service providers to provide "free" abortifacient pills, sterilizations and contraception on demand in their insurance plans -- even if it violates their moral consciences and the teachings of their churches.

NARAL, NOW, Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation all cheered the administration's abuse of the ObamaCare law to ram abortion down pro-life medical professionals' throats. Femme dinosaur Eleanor Smeal gloated over the news that the administration had rejected church officials' pleas for compromises: "At last," she exulted, the left's goal of "no-cost birth control" for all had been achieved.

As always, tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. "Choice" is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.

Like the rising number of states who have revolted against the individual healthcare mandate at the ballot box and in the courts, targeted Catholics have risen up against the ObamaCare regime. Arlington (Va.) Bishop Paul Loverde didn't mince words, calling the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services order "a direct attack against religious liberty. This ill-considered policy comprises a truly radical break with the liberties that have underpinned our nation since its founding." Several bishops vowed publicly to fight the mandate.

Bishop Alexander Sample of Marquette, Mich., asserted plainly: "We cannot -- we will not -- comply with this unjust law."

It's not just rabid right-wing politicos defying the Obama machine. Pro-life Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania denounced the "wrong decision." Left-leaning Bishop Robert Lynch threatened "civil disobedience" in St. Petersburg, Fla., over the power grab. Lefty Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne wrote that Obama "botched" the controversy and "threw his progressive Catholic allies under the bus" by refusing to "balance the competing liberty interests here."

White House press secretary Jay Carney blithely denied on Tuesday that "there are any constitutional rights issues" involved in the brewing battle. Yet, the Shut Up and Hand Out Abortion Pills order undermines a unanimous Supreme Court ruling issued just last week upholding a religious employer's right to determine whom to hire and fire. And two private colleges have filed federal suits against the government to overturn the unconstitutional abortion coverage decree.

Hannah Smith, senior counsel at the nonprofit law firm The Becket Fund, which is representing the schools, boiled it down for Bloomberg News: "This is not really about access to contraception. The mandate is about forcing these religious groups to pay for it against their beliefs."

How did we get here? The first salvo came in December 2010, when the American Civil Liberties Union pushed HHS and its Planned Parenthood-championing secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions in violation of their core moral commitment to protecting the lives of the unborn.

The ACLU called for a litigious fishing expedition against Catholic hospitals nationwide that refuse to provide "emergency" contraception and abortions to women. In their sights: Devout Phoenix Catholic Bishop Thomas Olmsted, who revoked the Catholic status of a rogue hospital that performed several direct abortions, provided birth-control pills and presided over sterilizations against the church's ethical and religious directives for healthcare.

The ACLU and the feminists have joined with Obama to threaten and sabotage the First Amendment rights of religious-based healthcare entities. The agenda is not increased "access" to healthcare services. The ultimate goal is to shut down healthcare providers -- Catholic healthcare institutions employ about 540,000 full-time workers and 240,000 part-time workers -- whose religious views cannot be tolerated by secular zealots and radical social engineers.

Is it any surprise their counterparts in the "Occupy" movement have moved from protesting "Wall Street" to harassing pro-life marchers in Washington, DC, and hurling condoms at Catholic school girls in Rhode Island? Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together. OneNewsNow

Santorum: GOP Battle ‘Long, Long Way From Being Over’

With little chance of better than a fourth-place finish in today’s Nevada caucuses, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum vowed that the GOP nomination battle is a “long, long way from being over.”

In an interview with CNN tonight from a campaign stop in Colorado, Santorum said he is focusing on upcoming races in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri rather than The Silver State.

A short time after the interview Fox News projected that Santorum would finish a distant fourth in Nevada.

“We think we can be competitive here,” he said of Colorado. “We think we can be competitive in Minnesota, Missouri, and we’re going to work those states very, very hard.”

Santorum, who ran no television ads in Nevada, predicted that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will not have the same advantage in upcoming contests that he enjoyed in the first five primaries and caucuses in terms of organization and preparation.

“I think we can do well,” said Santorum. “I’m hopeful, optimistic that we might be able to pull out one of those three and finish well in the other two.”

Santorum said he still expects to win the nomination and he pointed to a new Rasmussen poll that shows him beating President Barack Obama by 1 percent in the general election. It was the first time in any poll that Santorum has led the president.

“People are looking at this race and they are going to start to see that Mitt Romney simply, and Newt Gingrich don’t have what it takes to win the general election,” declared Santorum.

“They may be able to win a nomination but that’s not what Republican voters are looking for. They are looking for someone who has what it takes to beat Barack Obama — and we’ve got the right message and we’ve got the right background and contrast to do that.”

Maine Caucuses Begin, to Run for Full Week

Overshadowed by Nevada, the Maine’s caucuses also began Saturday, Politico reports.

Most of Maine’s caucuses will be held on Saturday, but they continue through next week and the results won’t be announced until Saturday, Feb. 11.

But it's a straw poll, for the most part, because delegates aren’t awarded until the state convention in May, Politico reports.

So far, the only Republican hopeful to have visited Maine this cycle is Ron Paul. Paul and Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who won the state four years ago, are considered the heavy favorites.

Maine Republicans say it’s a two-man race between Paul and Romney, Politico says. Charlie Webster, chairman of the Maine Republican Party, said Romney is an established brand in the state, with a reputation boosted by his tenure as governor of nearby Massachusetts. 

DeMint: Republicans Would be ‘Naïve’ to Compromise on Spending

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint tells Newsmasx.TV that congressional Republicans would be naïve to think that they can compromise with Democrats on spending.

“I can guarantee you in the Super Bowl this year the two coaches are not telling their teams to go out and work with the other guys because the other team has an opposite goal,” DeMint said in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. “In politics —unfortunately now in Washington — the Democrats’ goal is completely opposite of what the American goal really should be.”

Compromise is simply unworkable given the present relationship between his fellow Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate.

“They’re here to beat us. They can’t work with us,” declared DeMint, author of the new book, “Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse.”

With America’s spiraling national debt, now surpassing the $15.3 trillion mark, DeMint said America is actually facing a long-term debt of close to $100 trillion when Social Security, Medicare and similar programs are factored in.

“There’s no way we can pay that back. And as interest rates climb because of our printing money, and our loose monetary policy, our interest over the next 10 years could be a trillion dollars a year, just on our national debt,” DeMint said.

“We need to do something now. This is not something we can keep putting off until after the next election. We need to start cutting spending and taking things we do at the federal level and letting them do more at the state level.”

He added that Democrats are attempting to seize more control for the federal government in Washington, D.C., at the expense of America’s individualistic and entrepreneurial spirit of the past.

“I think Republicans are naïve to think that we can somehow come up with a compromise that actually moves us toward a balanced budget,” DeMint insisted.

He said that every major compromise over the past 10 to 12 years has ended with additional spending, more borrowing and bigger government.

“We need to move things out of Washington because what we’re doing is not working. We can no longer afford it,” acknowledged DeMint. “We’ve got to stop this. And we can’t compromise with the Democrats as long as they want to move the country in the wrong direction.”

DeMint writes in his book that the differences between the parties are irreconcilable.

“I wouldn’t have said that 10 years ago. In fact, when I first came to Congress, just about every bill that I introduced, I had a Democratic co-sponsor,” recalled DeMint. “I’ve seen over several years — particularly in the Senate — that Democrats cannot get elected statewide unless they’ve completely sold out to labor bosses and environmentalists and others who want centrally controlled political and economic power.”

The 2012 election cycle is critical because America stands at the precipice of a tipping point where those receiving benefits from government will soon exceed half of the entire country.

“A dependent voter is a dependable vote for Democrats. The Democrats figured that out a long time ago. And that’s why they continue to expand welfare, food stamps,” according to DeMint.

“That’s why their whole stimulus program was based on supporting government workers at the state level. But the more people are dependent on government, the more likely they are to vote for people who promise more from government. And that’s the Democrat Party. We’re at a point right now where about half of Americans are getting something from government and the other half is paying for it.”

With 23 Democrats up for re-election in the Senate, DeMint said Republicans have an opportunity to take back the Senate with the help of organizations like the Senate Conservatives Fund (senateconservatives.com), which he chairs to raise money for conservative candidates.

It will be far more difficult for Republicans who want to rein in spending to get elected once the ratio hits 60/40 in favor of those receiving something from government.

“That’s why I think this year is our last chance. I think it really may well be now or never to save the America that we know,” according to DeMint.

With only 29 percent of people over 18 voting in the 2010 elections, he said it’s also clear that more Americans must get involved.

“The country belongs to the people, not the government,” said DeMint. “We have to take it back. But we can’t do it if we’ve got one party that’s trying to organize those who want more from government.

“Republicans have to organize the rest of the nation who believe in freedom and individual liberty and limited government,” he added. “And we’ve got to unite Americans this time. It is a critical election. The book ‘Now or Never’ is a playbook for how every American can get involved and help us turn things around.”   NewsMax

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