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Newt Gingrich: Paper Tiger Candidate?
Right Side News ^ | 11/18/2011 | Michael Beckel

Posted on 11/19/2011 4:53:48 AM PST by IbJensen

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Posing with Nutsy Pelousy to co-endorse the junk science claim of gorebal warming was bad enough, but this dude is a NWO nitwit.
1 posted on 11/19/2011 4:53:50 AM PST by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

Is Newt today’s John McCain? Maybe, but then why has McCain been making himself so visible the past couple of months? ‘Tis a puzzlement.


2 posted on 11/19/2011 5:01:58 AM PST by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge)
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To: IbJensen

This is bull$&!t! If he wins the nomination enough money will flow in for him to win the election! If he loses it won’t be the money!!


3 posted on 11/19/2011 5:01:59 AM PST by ontap
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To: IbJensen
What is more important is, to help the MSM take down any candidate who moves to the front. The more experienced and qualified they are, the more we need to take them down and destroy them. Because we need somebody who has to ask someone else how to do the job that in the past, was a total requirement.

Because what is important is, that we spread our effort and money around in chaos, to ensure that no candidate can really win against one of the most heavily funded and organized parties in history.

You see, what matters most is our pride and principles. If we can't win it all exactly the way we demand, then we will teach them a lesson they'll never forget, and we will even become more fragmented and chaotic and vote for some 3rd party idiot who hardly nobody has ever heard of, or we will stay at home on election day.

So what if the entire country goes completely down the tubes. At least we will know that those rotten, evil, nasty Republican RINOs will go down with us.

4 posted on 11/19/2011 5:06:41 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

The so-called MSM (Main Stream Media) can bear that handle no longer. They’ve abrogated their once important role and are as irrelevant as today’s comic sections in their worthless rags.

Thank God and venues like Free Republic!


5 posted on 11/19/2011 5:17:16 AM PST by IbJensen (What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

The MSM is copying Rush’s Operation Chaos, where Rush supported Hillary to keep her in the election longer to bash away at Zero. Everytime someone gets some traction, the press unleashes on him, with the help of a lot of the more rabid FReepers around here, and beats them back down to the pack. That way they continue to gash away at each other until voters think none of them are worth a damn.


6 posted on 11/19/2011 5:21:47 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, "Paradise Lost")
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To: ontap

Mitt spent a small fortune in 2008 to try to buy the GOP nomination. How’d that work out for him?


7 posted on 11/19/2011 5:47:30 AM PST by Josh Painter ("The only thing these 'investments' will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy." - Palin)
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To: Josh Painter

That’s was my point. Did you read the post?


8 posted on 11/19/2011 6:07:39 AM PST by ontap
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To: IbJensen
While he has surged in recent polls, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich may be missing one key ingredient for making a late-stage power play for the GOP presidential nomination: money.

So?

Let me introduce you to Greg Ballard...

Main article: Indianapolis mayoral election, 2007

Ballard was the only Republican to file for mayor, as few members of the city's once-dominant Republican Party were willing to run against Peterson.

Ballard was dramatically outspent by Peterson. He had only $300,000 in campaign funds and low name recognition when he began the race.[4] In comparison, Peterson already had $2.9 million in April while Ballard had only $9,560 at the time.[5] As late as October 14, Ballard had run no TV ads.[5] An October 19 campaign finance report showed that Peterson had raised $1.5 million since April and still had that much on hand to spend. At that point in time Ballard had only $51,000 left, meaning that Peterson had 30 times the funds that Ballard had during the last three weeks of the campaign.[6]


9 posted on 11/19/2011 6:17:32 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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"Obama had raised about $89 million for his own re-election campaign. That's nearly 31 times the amount Gingrich raised during the same period. It's even more than 2.7 times the amount raised by Romney..."

So?

The Demos KNOW who their candidate is (so it seems).

Just wait until the primaries are over, and the money can be focused on one; instead of scattered all over the landscape.

10 posted on 11/19/2011 6:22:18 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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The Demos KNOW who their candidate is ...

Though he might get tossed under the bus as the FULL impact of his looming loss becomes undeniably apparent to those behind the throne.

11 posted on 11/19/2011 6:24:15 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: IbJensen

For some reason I just can’t get excited about Newt. He wimped out as speaker of the house when things in the kitchen got hot. And he has a lot of baggage the dems are going to open up in the same kitchen if he is the “R” candidate.


12 posted on 11/19/2011 6:45:10 AM PST by chainsaw (Sarah Palin would be my first choice. .)
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Newt, the big moderate, just like Juan, and he has already said the problem we have is not reaching across the isles. Oh well it was a good run, Willard wins. We lose.
13 posted on 11/19/2011 6:56:04 AM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Yes!

Think back to the period of time when the on-going debate was whether we could become a real nation. A very great issue was that of slavery.

Surely, there was/is not a more foundational question to be dealt with than that one. Had those strongly opposing slavery not concentrated on the grand prize of what the new nation might be(come), they could have so insisted on the purity (and dare I say, righteousness) that they could have refused to “settle”.

It appears that we had RINOs, even then. And look at the colossal mistake that has been these last two hundred years plus! Why, we and the world are vastly worse off for having struck that odious bargain with “the Devil” than had the anti-slavery advocates stuck unwaveringly to their guns.

Isn’t it wonderful that we have so many here that will not fall into that trap again!!!


14 posted on 11/19/2011 7:06:50 AM PST by JimInMO
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To: Josh Painter

Maybe that’s why so many have decided it’s now “Mitt’s turn.” Our little Republican primary voters always seem to choose the wrong nominees.


15 posted on 11/19/2011 7:21:41 AM PST by Theodore R.
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Odd when you were racing around here trash talking everyone not Newt, never heard a word of complaint about how people on FR were helping the enemy.

Guess we are only helping the enemy when we ask tough questions about your St Newt hmm?

16 posted on 11/19/2011 7:23:57 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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Did You Know?

The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?

Now That You Do, Donate And Keep FR Running


17 posted on 11/19/2011 7:24:20 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Odd when you were racing around here trash talking everyone not Newt, never heard a word of complaint about how people on FR were helping the enemy.

Guess we are only helping the enemy when we ask tough questions about your St Newt hmm?


18 posted on 11/19/2011 7:25:03 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: IbJensen

Maybe, but remember that Barack Hussein Obama, the paper cornhole candidate with no fire insurance, was elected President.


19 posted on 11/19/2011 7:27:48 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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I thought this article was abut financing for the campaigns?!


20 posted on 11/19/2011 7:30:53 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (This tagline has been suspended or banned.)
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