Alabama Gov. Bentley endorses Rick Santorum

WaPo ^ | 03-13-12 | Felicia Sonmez

[Lazlo in PA]

Santorum might be privately miffed that the Alabama Gov endorsement didn't come two weeks sooner ...

Funny. I know for a fact that if Newt got this endorsement, it would be posted every third thread by you folks and it would be the most important event to happen ever. You folks are so transparent in your irrational hate for Santorum. This is a big deal in a race that is a statistical dead heat among the three candidates and there is about 20% undecided to pick up today.

[Yaelle]

I’m so glad that Santorum isn’t behaving like a cartoon character the way Mitt Romney is.

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You mean Foghorn Mitt Leghorn?

[FrankR]

You must be in the liberal media...trying to get a "gotcha" moment on a FReeper.

I lampoon with my graphics, and I lampoon with equal opportunity, liberals and conservatives alike. No, I did not then, nor do I think not that it was a wise move for Newt to share the couch with Pelosi, or to make the comments he did about healthcare at the time.

But to borrow a phrase from you liberals, "That was then, and this is now.".

God has given human beings the gift of rational thought and the ability to analyze and change our thought processes for the better.

I don't care much santorum, or romney - if one of them is "your guy"...tuff $#!+. I think our future would be in far better hands with Gingrich. In the end, however, I will vote for the eventual nominee, whoever he is, in order to get ride of your idol, barack hussein obama.

A laundry list of gaffs and foibles can be found on either of the candidates, but each of us has the capacity to overlook those committed by "our guy" when the need arises.

So, you continue to play your little obama gotcha game and nd I will also continue to lampoon any public figure I like, on either side, if I think a point needs to be made.

If you are making me your "project of the week", then you can go to photobucket and gaze over the 1150 graphics I have done in the past three years.

Whether you like them, or find other "gotcha" moments is immaterial to me as I will not delete or change any of them to suit you. At the time they were done, they were relevent.

You should see the file I have on my computer of ones I did that I decided were NOT relevant, they are in my X-file folder.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Newt is an opportunist who will saything to get elected.

If he gets elected, he will change his mind because he is smarter than others. He wastes no time bloviating about his own intellect.


First, Newt Gingrich has lost more "intellectual brain cells" than Little Ricky was born with ...


Second, explain to us all how much an alleged anti-conservative coward Newt Gingrich is with respect to Newt's "singular" criticisms of Bush-41's breaking his "No New Taxes" pledge ...

Newt Gingrich stood up to a sitting President, a member of his own party, on PRINCIPLE ...

CONSERVATIVE principles ...




Do your homework better next time ...



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[Yaelle]

Newt sadly follows Newt. I doubt he understands anything about being a representative of the people. He’s a legacy seeker like Clinton. See my tagline. We need steady.

[AmericanInTokyo]

For posting an historic fact supported by video, somehow I am pathetic? Does not the Speaker's words speak about President Reagan, on record and indelible, for themselves? Or is this an actor who merely did an excellent, spot-on impression of Mr. Gingrich back in 1988, or a clever splicing of words? I will hold out the possibility it was a Vegas impresionist who did a "good Newt" and actually set him up unfairly. Help me with that YouTube video of the interview HERE about Reagan's legacy and whether it should have been continued in the Republican Party with a view to the future? Additionally, the Speaker bashed Ronald Reagan on the floor of the house in this well speak as well, HERE

Then please kindly come back with rationale as to why *I* personally (not my words) am "pathetic". Most people who know me personally say and think quite the opposite, and I am quite comfortable in my own skin. Thanks in advance.

[vaudine]

I live in AL. Out the door to vote in 10 minutes. I voted for Bentley, but his endorsement doesn't sway me. Although I like Santorum a lot and have donated to him 3 times, am voting Newt. If either Newt or Rick drops out, Myth will roll over the lone survivor with big money and big media. I want Newt and Rick to split AL and MS so both stay in to convention.

Sometimes I feel so helpless when the media and theRoves keep trying to get the deal done for Myth--Myth is best name for Romney, as his whole purported agenda is one big myth. He is Obama light. He is NOT a good candidate--just a rich and well connected one.

Go vote everyone who can.

Incidentally, I have my picture ID ready. Although we have lived in this small town 40 years, and all the polling place workers know us by name, we have to present ID, JUST AS IT SHOULD BE.

vaudine

[FrankR]

While I'm at it, I did this one right after the "couch" graphic to lampoon Newt for what he said...



By the way, a "bandwagon conservative" is one who jumps on the bandwagon of the current leader, Newt is currently not the leader and I still support him.

However your quick, kneejerk reaction to the Woody graphic shows me that you are -in fact - riding with the winners...so you decide.

[Antoninus]

Good stuff. Go Rick!

[Yaelle]

Thank you. I’d switch to voting newt if it were reversed too. Though I believe Santorum would be the better president. And in the debates I’d rather a poorer speaker who’s bright and boldly conservative than a cafe au lait slick metered prompter reader. (meaning that even though santo is not as good as newt in a debate, he’s a heck of a lot better than Barry)

[Yaelle]

Wow, great post! Are you the other Santorum voter in the southland?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thank you. I had to do it. Could not hold my tongue any more. I am more familiar with President Reagan that many people on the Forum would ever know. And believe me, these photoshop jobs showing a glowing, halo-ish Ronald Reagan beaming down on Newt Gingrich had to have been one of the most disgusting, if not DISHONEST things I have seen in American politics in 40 years of involvement--and today when I saw one of these revisionist pieces on FR, well, it was quite frankly the last straw.

The interviews, the well-speeches, of the Speaker about Ronald Reagan just had to come out.

[GulfBreeze]

Thanks.

I like Woody. He was the CONSERVATIVE guy you could depend on when others got distracted with Global Warming and Imaginary Moon Bases.

[GulfBreeze]

Has anyone ever posted that as a thread?

[parksstp]

you’re free to vote for whomever, but your logic is flawed. By splitting the vote in the south, with no Anti-Romney getting 50% (which is what they would get in a one on one) Romney is picking up 10-15 more delegates in each southern state than he normally would. Added into his favorable states will get him over the 1,144 hump. All the campaigns have done the math. At this rate, Romney will clinch the nomination on June 19 when UT votes, unless something changes.

[AmericanInTokyo]

This needs to be done. The FREE REPUBLIC FOR YEARS on the TOPIC OF NEWT GINGRICH is the true FREE REPUBLIC, not the Temporary Aberration of Convenience over the last 16 weeks which in my estimation is nothing more than a rationalizing “flash in the pan combined with bovine, herd mentality.”

[FrankR]

It's very simple...when presented with the alternatives...Santorum and Romney...Gingrich is the best of the lot, warts and all.

Just to show you how fair I am, I also did this one in reaction to Newt's "couch" event:



Obviously you have no concept of satire and/or lampooning. If you did you would see that I was not in agreement with Newt for the Pelosi couch, nor his comments on obamacare.

But those issues have been brought in several debates this season, Newt has said he regretted them, and no one is even talking about them anymore...except you.

But bear this in mind, I will continue to lampoon anyone I like, and if it's "your guy"...tuff nookie.

But the better question is, if Newt is so far behind why are you so afraid of him?

[Yaelle]

Yup. Newt was a laughing stock around here. He was, then, about as much of a conservative as mitt Romney.

If he were our nominee, and Obama pulled out those videos of him dissing reagan or sitting with nancy like Obama with a pakistani on a loveseat...

[DoughtyOne]

You got to look at everything including where he is at now.  Is that where you folks are looking when you take Santorum to task constantly?  You ignore what he's been saying on the campaign trail.

Newt is an “out of box” idea man and of course some of those ideas will be atrocious. They were atrocious for twenty-six years that we know of.  He was daming Reagan from early in his administration, right through until the end of it.  He was also saying the Reagan legacy was dead later on.  No, Newt, the Reagan legacy will never be dead.  The things he espoused were/are timeless.  You didn't know it.  Out of the box?  Sorry, but it's more like out of the toilet.  That cooperative effort with Nancy Pelose was the icing on a more than twenty-six year stint of dingbat statements.

Other ideas will be brilliant. Well, that strikes me as a situation where he's going to come up with atrocious ideas mid term, and you realize that.  We're in agreement here.

None could fly without getting past Congress. You mean this sterling Boehner Congress that caves on everything Leftist that comes along?  That comforts you?  That's your last line of defense, so it's okay if Newt misfires from the Oval Office?

Focus on nothing but negatives about everybody and you will miss out on a terrible lot.  You mean like Santorum's negatives?

I've see a considerable amount of focusing around these parts.

For the record, I think Newt's presentations on the Founding Fathers and our Founding Documents are some of the most brilliant ones I've ever seen.  Then during the Reagan administration he couldn't have adhered to what he knew to be right if his life depended on it.

If Newt is the nominee we're stuck with, I'll  no doubt vote for him.  I honestly hope he isn't.