Rick Santorum Is On Fire!

While he's been one of my favorites all along (as well as Cain and Bachmann, both of whom are sadly already out of the race), I didn't expect to see such a slam dunk performance by former Senator Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses yesterday. Congratulations to you, Sen. Santorum, and for God's sake, keep it going!

As I've mentioned before, we Republicans have been blessed with an awesome field of primary contenders to choose from. Unfortunately, however, the trend for the past several months - impacted in no small amount by the mainstream media political talking heads, of course - has been a rousing game of musical chairs. King Romney has been planted firmly in one seat and a slew of other (much, much) more conservative candidates taking the remaining seat. One by one they have been picked off, not only by strong media criticism, but also by the factions within our own dismal party.

Ever since Rick Santelli's iconic rant on CNBC, the sleeping giant within the GOP now known as the Tea Party Movement has placed a firm grip on the true conservatives of America, and placed themselves squarely at odds with the strangest of adversaries - no, not the bleeding heart liberals in the White House - our own stodgy, GOP political elite, also known as 'the Establishment.' Mwahaha! It sounds so powerful and daunting, doesn't it? The Establishment has become such by riding along with the status quo, compromising conservative values in order to stay in office, and racking up an enormous federal budget in the meantime.

The make-up of the GOP has been firming up for the past nearly three years, and it looks like 2012 could be (dear God, please let it be!) the year that the Establishment is kicked to the curb and conservatives grab the GOP wheel and yank us all back to the right.

What Santorum needs now is a solid New Hampshire victory next Tuesday to push him over the edge and into front-runner position. Hopefully right now he's getting floods of donations and Republicans all over the northeast are driving in to help his team go door-to-door and make calls. If you haven't gotten involved in this race yet (and I am definitely one of the folks that hasn't), now is the time! This next weekend/week is going to be fun!

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