The week before last, some Catholic organizations were told they'd have to allow their insurance providers to offer (at their own cost) birth control to their employees. Rightbloggers were outraged at this violation of the Catholic orgs' civil rights.

Last week, the Virginia legislature passed a bill that would require women who want an abortion to get ultrasound -- and in some cases be wanded via their vaginas. Rightbloggers were outraged at this violation of the women's civil rights.

Ha -- just kidding about that last part, folks. Actually they thought it was a great idea.

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On Friday the Obama Administration revealed its compromise with religious organizations, such as Catholic hospitals, who didn't want to offer birth control in their health insurance plans. The orgs won't have to pay for it if it offends their beliefs, the President said -- the insurers would be obliged to supply the pills and whatnot themselves.

Problem solved! Well, not really. Rightbloggers stormed the internet barricades to complain that, because the church groups pay the insurers for insurance, their activities on behalf of church-group employees who want birth control are an unconscionable violation of religious liberty.

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Last week, breast cancer org Susan G. Komen for the Cure suddenly withdrew its support of Planned Parenthood. In response, many Planned Parenthood supporters complained. So Komen had to back down, which was a blow to its public image.

That's the story as seen by normal people. In rightblogger land, here's what happened:

Last week, Komen heroically withdrew its support of baby-killers. In response, totalitarian feminists bullied, jackbooted, and threatened to destroy them. So Komen had to back down, which was ultimately good for conservatism.

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Now that Newt Gingrich, newly amplified as a Presidential candidate, is regularly using Saul Alinsky as a club to beat Obama, the conservative obsession with long-dead community organizer has gone bigtime.

Perhaps overexcited by this new opportunity to lecture America about one more thing that they hate, rightbloggers have begun to accuse not only Obama, but also each other of Alinskyism.

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Was it the video hit his Super PAC put out on Romney? Was it his heroic denunciation of his ex-wife and the Liberal Media (mostly the Liberal Media)? Whatever the reason, Newt Gingrich won a big surprise victory in Saturday's South Carolina primary.

Rightbloggers who've always loved the former Speaker were delighted, and hastened to tell the world how his come-from-behind win will help someone else beat him for the Republican nomination.

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When last we left our heroes, the 2012 Republican Presidential challengers, they were inevitably folding to Mitt the Man Whose Turn It Is. Then Newt Gingrich -- or, excuse us, a Newt Gingrich Super-PAC to which he is not connected -- decided to go out swinging with a little film that portrayed Romney's early career at Bain Capital as an example of capitalism run amok.

While some of the brethren defended Romney against the charges, others skipped the middleman and instead defended capitalism run amok.

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Since the recent Iowa one-two finish by Romney and Santorum, there've been a couple more debates and a lot of palaver about the GOP Presidential race.

But let us level with you: Despite all our jokes about The Next President of the United States of The Week/Month, it's become painfully obvious that the relatively moderate Mitt Romney will be the nominee.

How can we tell? Rightbloggers, who've heretofore been giddily following whatever Great Right Hope might defeat Mittens, are glumly getting with the program.

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The wheel of fortune has spun once again, and the GOP Next President of the United States of the Week is now Rick Santorum.

Mind you, no one thinks Santorum will actually be the nominee. He's just running third in some optimistic polls -- of the Iowa caucuses, which is no bellwether. Yet all the world declares a Santorum Surge.

In rightblogger world, where everyone gets to be the NPOTUSOTW for a couple minutes at least, that's usually good enough for some rah-rah. Yet the brethren are surprisingly neutral to negative on Santorum. Why?

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Everyone else has been the GOP Presidential front-runner -- why not Ron Paul? He's one point behind the current Next President of the United States, Newt Gingrich, on the cusp of the Iowa caucuses, and has been on the Jay Leno Show.

Naturally this has led to attacks on Paul -- but not so much by the fabled Main Stream Media as by his alleged fellow conservatives. Have you heard, for example, about the racist sentiments in some old Ron Paul newsletters? If you follow rightbloggers, you've heard plenty.

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Maybe it's because of the holidays, but we're learning to stop worrying and love Newtmentum.

Amazingly, the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich looks like the front-runner in the Republican Presidential race. This delights rightbloggers who enjoy Gingrich's cantankerous style. But it's not a unanimous verdict: A few of the brethren fret that the polarizing former Speaker isn't what the GOP needs to knock off a sitting president, and are trying to derail his campaign.

This is double fun for us rightblogger watchers; we not only get to hear them squabble amongst themselves, we also get to hear from people for whom Newt Gingrich is actually not conservative enough.

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