Super Tuesday 2012

Published at: http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/mike-ghouse/41782/super-tuesday-2012

The primaries are held in 10 states with 437 delegates at stake. To win the nomination, the candidate has to bag 1144delegates out of 2286. Each state has a number of delegates and the state decides whether each candidate gets delegates proportional to the votes casted, or some fixed and variable numbers or even the winner takes it all. 

Of the 2286 total Delegates, 324 have been assigned, and 437 are at stake on Super Tuesday; a 10 state contest. The number of delegates is figured out by the number of congressional districts.  This Tuesday at stake are; Georgia (76), Ohio (66), Tennessee (58), Virginia (49), Oklahoma (43), Massachusetts (41), North Dakota (28), Idaho (32), Vermont (17) an Alaska (24).

The current delegate count of the candidates is; Romney 180, Santorum 90, Gingrich 29 and Ron Paul 23.

This is an amazing process, politics aside, and look at the candidates... They are out day and night... for nearly a year; they are all over the country. There is nothing else going for them for a full year, what a life!

The process matures a few candidates, hardens some, and softens some. I wish this system is adopted by other nations as well. The public will get to know the candidates in all their moods, while the candidate’s fine tune themselves to the larger sensitivities of the nation and some dig deeper in their narrowness... I love this process.

Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer committed to a cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day.

Rush Limbaugh's Dollar based Apology

We know Limbaugh is wrong and he knows it as well, a half hearted apology is the most we can expect from an egomaniac and we need to let it go, his time has come.   Men like him don’t buckle because they are wrong, they do it because it affects their paycheck.  

When he saw advertisers were pulling out, and most probably the broadcasters told him, Rush, with the advertisers gone, you will be gone too.  Remember Beck?

This is a great example of turning the tables on the idiom, “evil persists because good men do nothing about it.”  Indeed, evil stops, if good people do something about it.

I am disappointed, that Republicans did not have the courage to speak up and tell Limbaugh that he was wrong. Ms. Fluke was testifying in favor of contraceptives to an all men congress and Rush jumps in and calls here a prostitute and a slut. That is disgusting intolerance on his part, and he calls himself a conservative? Where are you manner Mr. Limbaugh? Is that the way you talk about a lady? That is not what the Republican Party stands for, and that is not conservatism.

George Stephanopoulos writes at ABC news about the following candidates,

Santorum: “While Rick Santorum said Limbaugh’s comments were “absurd,” he said the radio host was an “entertainer” and “an entertainer can be absurd.”

Gingrich: “Rather than criticizing Limbaugh’s choice of words, Newt Gingrich instead blasted Obama for “opportunistically” calling Fluke on Friday to thank her for testifying.”

Romney: "It's not the language I would have used."

Boehner: “Boehner comes out and says Rush’s language was inappropriate. Using the salad fork for your entrée, that’s inappropriate”

George Will was right, “It is the responsibility of conservatives to police the right and its excesses, just as the liberals unfailingly fail to police the excesses on their own side.”

The Republicans stood on the side lines on the issue and I am disappointed. I am glad at least we had one who spoke up, Peggy Noonan said,  “Limbaugh’s comments were “crude, rude, even piggish” and that they were “deeply destructive and unhelpful.” She should have run for the president, the lady has guts!

President Obama was blunt in calling Limbaugh’s statements, “reprehensible,” knowing well that it is bad politically. Now, Rush will make it his life’s purpose to attack Obama daily.  President did the right thing and I wish the Republicans had spoken in the same manner. We are all in this together, to do the right thing and discuss issues in civil manner and not call Ms. Fluke a slut for part-taking in the democratic process.

I would urge Mr. Limbaugh to offer a sincere apology followed by decency towards women and men alike who disagree with him. It is an opportunity for him to prove that he is a real conservative, not by bashing others but by highlighting the goodness of conservatism.

I am a moderate Republican and I sound like a conservative against the Chickens Romney, Santorum and Gingrich.

Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer offering pluralistic solutions on issues of the day.

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IOWA REPUBLICAN CAUCUS NOTES

Romney and Paul are relatively a safe bet against Obama; most certainly Ron Paul will be a bigger challenge to Obama than Romney. Rick Santorum earned 5 more votes than Romney in the final tally in the Iowa Caucus. Santorum will not make it, he is a right winger shamelessly wearing a conservative badge, he will take our nation to the brink of disaster thorugh war mongering mind set.

Michelle Bachman is an embarrassment, she does not see the writing on the wall, and at least Rick Perry has seen it. Gingrich will be an embarrassment to our nation; he acts as though he will not be caught by saying one thing to you and the other to me even here in Iowa he goofed up.

I hope Bachman, Perry, Gingrich and Huntsman will drop out of the race so we can hear more vigorous debates from Romney and Paul. We need candidates who are inclusive and good for America, every one of the inhabitants of America. We are one nation under God with liberty and Justice for all.

Mike Ghouse committed to a cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. www.MikeGhouse.net 
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