Gingrich, The New Comeback! ( Poll, PDF )

CBS Poll: Reports that the Republican Race has become a three man race, the Candidates rate the following, Cain 18%, Romney 15%, Gingrich 15%. Thus the Romney Strategy of being the last man standing could come under attack, Gingrich had a disastrous start to his Campaign, he was written off, this blog wrote him off, but with the sexual allegations against Cain and Romney not being trusted by the Conservative and Gingrich really going after the left wing media he just might have a chance, but then we face the fact that Iowa voting in less that six weeks time, with Christmas and the New Year breaks your really talking about 4 weeks. Thus one has to ask WHY the candidates are spending so much time in debates, how about meeting the voters, the good people of Iowa and NH like to look their candidates in the eyes, shake their hands, have good debates, not quite the same thing seeing them on TV all the TIME. Lets see some polls over the next few weeks before we get excited by a two polls, a week is a long time in politics folks.

The Republican Race - Who’s UP an DOWN

The Hill: Reports a new poll on the Republican Race, the McClatchy-Marist Poll has Governor Romney on 23%, Newt Gingrich 19% and Herman Cain 17%. I will be honest folks, I never saw the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich coming back in the race after his disaster at the start of the Campaign. As those kind to read my tweets of the last but one debate the Speaker at least got referenced, he had a very good debate, and the sexual allegations against Herman Cain seem to have done some damage. The Republican fight will come down to Romney vs. either Cain or Gingrich. Lets be honest both Cain and Gingrich have baggage, thus as long as the Romney Campaign can keep the Conservative vote split the race is for Romney to lose, if he can win Iowa or come close and then take NH, he will be very hard to beat folks. But the race got interesting folks.

11/22/63 - NYT Review

The New York Times: Has a great review of 11/22/63 by Stephen King, the article even states “ It all adds up to one of the best time-travel stories since H. G. Wells. ”. One h-ll of a recommendation folks, this blog has already gotten its copy, cant wait to sit back with a nice cup of tea and start to read. As stated this blog is a great fan of time travel stories, thus very HARD to impress, lets see if Mr King should start to write for Doctor Who, that would be a compliment.

When Greece Defaults = The German Plan

Sunday Mail: Reports that Germany has developed a backup plan should Greece leave the Euro. Thus the 4th German ECONOMIC Reich has a plan to save its own skin at the expense of Greece, why does that not surprise me, they have made the Greeks suffer years of austerity and when push comes to shove it will count for nothing, the French and Germans will cut bait and allow Greece to sink in the mire, great surprise, the Greeks might want to stay in the Euro but they don’t want the eye watering austerity package that is coming their way. The Greeks have been hung out to dry by the EU, all the austerity has cut Greek economic growth and created more DEBT, thus the Greeks are about to be sold down the river by their EU family.

Israel vs. US = IRAN PROBLEM ?

Sunday Telegraph: Reports that Israel has refused to give the US advance warning of any Israeli strike on Iran. In other words folks the US wanted a VETO on any military strike, the Obama Oval does not want a military strike before the Presidential election in November of 2012. The problem is that the time frame for Iran’s nuclear ambitions does not match Obama’s re-election plan, a threat to Israel might mean that Israel has to take action early next year, thus the refusal to give the Oval a VETO. The past few weeks has seen more reports that the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu wants to take action, he might think that October 2012 might be a good deadline, it would force the Oval to back any move of face Jewish votes voting for the Republican Candidates. Thus watch this developing crisis folks, the Euro is important but there no nuclear warheads as part of the equation.

Romney on Iran

BBC News: Reports that Governor Mitt Romney a candidate for the Republican Nomination for President has stated that if he was President he would okay a military strike on Iran to prevent it becoming a nuclear armed power. As Romney is the likely candidate folks it is interesting to see his world perspective, a military strike would be in the long term interests of the US and Israel, also Romney supports the US Commanders on the ground in Afghanistan deciding when to take US troops out. These defence polices should go down well with the Republican base, the left wing media will of course be appalled, but then that benefits Romney. Thus on the whole a good defence performance from Governor Romney.