Mitt Romney: Put Fiorina On The Debate Stage

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As Cortney has already reported, there is controversy surrounding the decision from ABC News to exclude Carly Fiorina from the debate stage Saturday night (the under-card debate has been eliminated). Of the remaining GOP candidates, Fiorina received more votes in the Iowa Caucus than Governor John Kasich and Governor Chris Christie. She is also beating Dr. Ben Carson in New Hampshire polls. As of now, Kasich, Christie and Carson will be on the stage, Fiorina will not.

This seemingly unfair situation has prompted a number of high profile Republicans, like New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, to come to Fiorina's defense. Now former GOP Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney is adding his support.

Mitt Romney ✔ @MittRomney

Hey @ABC: put @CarlyFiorina on the debate stage! She got more Iowa votes than John and Chris. Don't exclude only woman.

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At this point, ABC News isn't changing their decision.

Sharpened Knives: Jeb, Christie Camps Coordinate Attacks on Rubio?

Guy Benson / Townhall Columnist

 

The New York Times previews Saturday night's "get Rubio" debate, reporting that the campaigns of Jeb Bush and Chris Christie are informally collaborating on methods and lines of attack in an effort to reverse the Florida Senator's momentum in the race. (UPDATE: Christie denies the story, see below). It's not official collusion, per se, but the mutual interests at play within the so-called 'establishment wing' of the field are obvious and urgent:

For Mr. Christie, the verbal barrage is a carefully calibrated attempt to damage Mr. Rubio’s standing in New Hampshire before Tuesday’s primary — and to set up a showdown with him in Saturday night’s Republican debate, possibly Mr. Christie’s best chance to impede Mr. Rubio’s surging candidacy. Mr. Rubio’s strong third-place performance in Iowa on Monday night, and his steady improvement in the polls days before the voting there, alarmed Mr. Christie and his mainstream Republican rivals, including Mr. Bush, who fear Mr. Rubio’s emerging as a breakout figure in New Hampshire. The shared concern has even prompted the opening of a back channel: Members of the Bush and Christie campaigns have communicated about their mutual desire to halt Mr. Rubio’s rise in the polls, according to Republican operatives familiar with the conversations. While emails, texts and phone calls between operatives in rival campaigns are not uncommon in the tight-knit world of political strategists, the contact between senior aides in the two campaigns has drifted toward musings about what can be done to stop or at least slow Mr. Rubio, the operatives said. In a sign of a budding alliance, the aides have, for example, exchanged news articles that raise potential areas of vulnerability for Mr. Rubio. There is no formal coordination, the operatives stressed, but rather a recognition of a shared agenda. “We do have similar goals,” an adviser to Mr. Christie said. For their part, Mr. Christie and Mr. Bush are finding ways to praise one another in public and cozy up to each other in private: Mr. Bush telephoned Mr. Christie on Monday to wish him good luck in the caucuses.

Obama had Georgetown U cover “JESUS” but didn’t have Baltimore mosque cover “ALLAH”
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

It was three and a half years ago: Obama asked Georgetown University to cover over IHS, which is an abbreviation for Jesus derived from IHΣ, the first three letters of the name Jesus in Greek, while he was speaking there. But yesterday Obama stood without hesitation under the Arabic for Allah at the Islamic Society […]
 
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Mosque Obama visited under FBI surveillance since 2010: one of its members plotted to blow up a federal building

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

“The mosque that is hosting the commander in chief, while receiving his historic benediction graduated a terrorist who plotted to blow up a local Army recruiting station, hired an imam who condoned suicide bombings and blames American ‘foreign policy’ for terrorism. Obama has to be willfully blind not to see all these ties to terror.”

Or maybe he knows all about them, and just doesn’t care — or even actively favors this activity. Those are the choices: he is either stupid, which he isn’t, or willfully ignorant, which he is unlikely to be, or simply outrightraitorous.

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America’s Decline: Economic Freedom in Eclipse

Ed Feulner / Townhall Columnist

 

When you think of the United States as being free, what comes to mind? The ability to speak your mind? To vote? To live and work where you please? Good answers, but there’s another kind of liberty that’s easily overlooked, although it affects nearly everything we do
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I’m talking about economic freedom. How free are we to earn without being over-taxed and over-regulated? How complicated is it to start a business and keep it running? Does our government spend too much? Can we trade freely with other countries?

Such questions may not leap to mind when we evaluate how free we are. But they should. They affect numerous aspects of our daily lives, from how much money we make and what kind of work we do, to how high prices and unemployment are -- and even what kind of appliances we can buy.

So how economically free are we? And where do we stand in relation to the world?

Every year, The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal release a country-by-country policy guide known as theIndex of Economic Freedom. And the 2016 Index shows that our global ranking is No. 11, with a score of 75.4 (on a 0-100 scale, with 100 being the freest).

Gallop Poll: Donald Trump Has Highest Unfavorable Rating of Any Candidate Since 1992

Donald Lambro / Townhall Columnist

 

Former frontrunner Donald Trump came in second in Iowa for many reasons, but the biggest one is that he is widely disliked by most Americans.

A national survey by the respected Gallup Poll, which was ignored by the news media, found that Trump is the most unlikeable presidential candidate in either party in decades.

Trump is known for many things, his wealth, his gigantic ego and braggadocio, and his nasty insults of people he does not like. But most Americans have known him as the presidential candidate who led in all the polls for the GOP presidential nomination. Not anymore.

That was laid to rest last week by Frank Newport, Gallup's editor-in-chief, in an analysis he titled "Trump's Negative Image."

"Most political and media commentators have at this point installed Donald Trump as the GOP front-runner," he wrote last week.

"But this narrative tends to obscure the fact that Trump is the most unpopular candidate of either party when the entire U.S. population is taken into account -- and that he has a higher unfavorable rating than any nominated candidate from either of the two major parties going back to the 1992 election when we began to track favorability using the current format," Newport said.