Posted on 01/05/2012 8:02:48 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
Former House Speaker Gingrich on MSNBC yesterday:
'I think what's really striking about last night is three out of four Republicans once again repudiated Mitt Romney. Here is a guy that's spent millions of dollars campaigning in Iowa for five years and he has a ceiling of 25%
Newt said following a New Hampshire town hall meeting that voters had a choice between a "bold Reagan conservative" and a "timid Massachusetts moderate", going on to call the idea Romney was most electable as "silly".
And although he has little chance of defeating Romney in New Hampshire -who owns a home there and is up twenty points- it's great to see Newt not waiting to come at him: Mittens is a coward who likes to lob mortars from hiding, the kind that doesn't like to get called out on the rug... as Newt is proceeding to do.
After NH, it's on to South Carolina, where Newt enjoys a fifteen-point lead, followed by delegate-rich Florida, where Gingrich is out front at +7 and Mittens stuck at a 30% ceiling... a win there would put Newt instantly out-front in the delegate count.
Doubt that's what you'd be getting with a Gingrich presidency?
Art Laffer want to have a talk with you, then: he was there, as was Newt...and says that's exactly what you can expect.
Now the moment you've all been waiting for... [YouTube]
*ping*
Glad to see Newt taking the fight to Romney.
"Only a Reagan conservative can unite Republicans to beat President Barack Obama in November."
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.” ... Willard mitt Romney
The contrast is striking, Servant
Me to....it’s long past time to put that RINO out to pasture.
GO NEWT!
Newt has lost it. Has somebody put a lock on his refrigerator?
Reading this made a bit of my perma-migraine ease a bit.
Spend NH blasting his ship, spend SC and FL reeling in the delegates.
100% of Iowa voters could have chosen Mitt. Instead, 75% rejected him.
The way the local news people here in Houston were going on about the big "Romney victory" this morning, you'd think he did get 75% of the vote.
Oh come on, can’t you be happy that someone is going after Mitt for once?
Only when a moderate or a democrat is being attacked is it called negative or dirty politics.
Attacks against a conservative, however, par for the course, perfectly acceptable.
Hope Newt tears Romney a new one. I’m tired of this “let’s all unite behind the moderate so we can beat Obama” bull. Because we’ll get screwed either way.
Remember that in order to achieve the Congressional revolution of 1994, Newt first had to conquer the old guard republicans who had us mired in the minority for 40 years. Today, that old guard leadership with the likes of McCain and Bush 41 supporting Romney, stand in the way of the conservative leadership we need to defeat Barack Obama.
Newt is the best conservative leader with a true record in governance. We need him to win this!
One thing to watch..the two upcoming debates in NH. Newt will go after Mittens non stop, and I don't think that Romney will be able to handle it.
Hey, Newt tried to be a gentleman... but no need to be a sap, eh?
imho Mittens can’t take the heat... this will be fun lol
Might as well address Rev. Santorhummmm while we’re at it:
In 2004, while serving as a United States Senator, Rick Santorum claimed his legal address was a house in the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, which was immediately next door to the home of his wife’s parents. During the spring and summer of that year — in the leadup to the presidential election — Pittsburgh news crews started investigating whether or not Santorum really lived in the house he claimed as his Pennsylvania residence. Several of these “investigative reports” showed the Penn Hills “Santorum House” as abandoned, with an unkempt lawn, peeling paint, and junk mail piled up near the front door – as if no one had visited the house in many months. When the cameras peeked inside the house, viewers saw room after room empty of any furnishings; it was clear that the Santorum family did not live at that residence at all.
* The Pittsburgh media made a great stink over this, which quickly spread to average men and women on the street who became upset that Santorum didn’t really live at his “official residence”. The reason this really hit home with Pennsylvanians was because Santorum had railed against Congressman Doug Walgren for moving out of his own district and not maintaining a real residence there. Pennsylvanians hate hypocrisy — and that’s just what Rick Santorum was…a hypocrite…for haranguing Walgren for not living in his district when Santorum himself didn’t even live in the state of Pennsylvania anymore.
* Records ultimately showed that Santorum lived exclusively in a $600,000+ near-mansion in Virginia. This is another thing you need to understand about Pennsylvanians to appreciate just how damaging this was to Santorum. On paper, Santorum claimed his residence was a $90,000 modest house in a suburb of Pittsburgh, when in reality that house was abandoned and Santorum was REALLY living in a house six times as expensive in another state. Here in Chicago, $600,000 can’t buy you a big house, but in Pittsburgh it would land you a palace…so the people who heard about Santorum’s residency scam were enraged that he “abandoned the state” and “lied to his constituents” by living in what they perceived to be a mansion instead of the Penn Hills residence he claimed.
* After the 2004 election was over, Santorum very quietly tried to eliminate the appearance that his Penn Hills home was abandoned by renting it out to unnamed individuals. This didn’t solve the problem, but only made things worse, because the renters registered to vote using Santorum’s Penn Hills address. It’s a similar situation to what Rahm Emanuel found himself in when he rented out his Chicago home when he moved to Washington, only to later try to claim he still lived there — technically — when he wanted to run for Mayor of Chicago. Just like with Emanuel, Santorum was able to survive the residency challenge because he paid $2,000 worth of property taxes a year on his Penn Hills home and still held its deed…even though he hadn’t lived there in many years and had no intention of moving back there (at least not until the lease expired with the people he rented it to).
* The net effect of all this was an ingrained sense amongst Pennsylvanians that Rick Santorum couldn’t be trusted, was a slippery snake, and that the things he did “just weren’t right, even if they were legal”.
* The other shoe to drop in all of this was the question of where, exactly, Santorum’s children were living and who was paying for their education — the people of Pennsylvania or the people of Virginia. Even though Santorum’s family was clearly living in Virginia, Santorum was billing the state of Pennsylvania — and the Penn Hills School District in particular — around $40,000 per child to educate each of his five children in the “Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School”. After the Pittsburgh local news stations started showing viewers the tours of Santorum’s empty and abandoned Penn Hills home, irate citizens started demanding an investigation into the legality of Santorum charging the Penn Hills school district for the expensive education of five children who didn’t really live there, and instead were living in Virginia.
* Things got incredibly ugly as this was all hashed out in both the media and in the court of public opinion. Ultimately, Santorum yanked his kids out of the “Cyber Charter School” program and had his wife Karen start homeschooling them instead — but he refused to reimburse the state for the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were spent “cyber-schooling” the Santorum children while they lived in the state of Virginia. When confronted about any of this, Santorum became incredibly brittle on camera, lashing out at those who questioned him, and earning a solid reputation as an insufferable and impersonable jackass
Here is an actual Rick Santorum quote: “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.” And also, “Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that’s okay, contraception is okay. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
These comments were not dug up from some bygone moment of ideological purity, before dreams of a presidential campaign. He said it in October, to a blogger at CaffeinatedThoughts.com (they met at Des Moines’ Baby Boomers Cafe).
It’s pretty basic: Rick Santorum is coming for your contraception. Any and all of it. And while he may not be alone in his opposition to non-procreative sex, he is certainly the most honest about it — as he himself acknowledged in the interview
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/04/rick_santorum_is_coming_for_your_birth_control/
I for one am sick of candidates that don’t fight, or think if they just keep it down, maybe it wont “scare” people.
Other than Cain, Newt was the only one that isn’t afraid or calculating. He knows what a war is and is willing to fight it.
Go get him Newt! I look forward to the debate this weekend. Maybe Newt’s debate expertise can knock the phoney smile off that used car salesman, Joe Isuzu Romney.
McCain (NDAA sponsor) public endorsement of Romney is worse than any ad Newt could run.
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