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Expect Romney to wage a massive campaign against Gingrich's $1.6m FreedieMac involvement because as the article states Florida is "ground-zero of the mortgage and housing meltdown." Will Gingrich's "American exceptionalism" speech be enough to overcome this negative? I think the debates may help Gingrich to explain this issue.

Florida is a winner-take-all state and is a must win for Gingrich before NV, Utah, and Michigan that are all likely to go to Romney. A close second gets you zero delegates.

1 posted on 01/22/2012 11:27:41 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

We all know that Freddie Mac is a “model organization”, all companies and agencies should be more like Freddie Mac right?

lol.

/sarcasm


2 posted on 01/22/2012 11:30:53 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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Steelfish,
I am not so sure with yesterday’s drubbing of Romney in SC that the next several states (even Michigan) are safe for him. The situation is fluid to put it mildly. Gingrich is on the upswing in a major way. The surge in SC was beyond spectacular; it was an amazing thing in retrospect.

Don’t discount the idea that American’s are looking for a winner and would rather go with a Gingrich than a smooth talking non-personality in Mitt Romney. So. Carolinians overlooked Newt’s personal foibles to say they wanted strong and articulate leadership.

America is looking for a FORCEFUL leader and there is only one that I can think of that has proven his ability to organize and lead forcefully. I forked-over $50 this afternoon to his campaign and the campaign’s name didn’t begin with the name Mitt or end with Romney.


3 posted on 01/22/2012 11:41:36 AM PST by CARTOUCHE (Vote with your wallet. Newt needs the money to beat back the Romney scourge.)
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3 out of 4 GOP voters rejected Romney
again

At least he has a consistent track record over 6 years of running for president. About 25% of the people in his own party think enough of him to vote for him. That’s gonna beat obama?

He is a weak man. He can’t proudly defend his own work and wealth accumulation from the snipes of the predatory marxists, so how is he gonna defend mine?

No personality, no core values (aside from his church beliefs) no trials by fire in his privilged life.

Hurray, we have our very own GOP version of the Algor candidate. meh. Pass the magic underwear to Newt or Rick.


4 posted on 01/22/2012 11:42:59 AM PST by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common- Voltaire)
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To: Steelfish
I would like to see Newt give a clear, factual description of his work for Freddie/Fannie. Right now, no one knows squat about what he actually did, which was more than likely quite innocuous. After all it isn't like he was in government at the time.

I am tired of the idiots who seem to confuse "lobbying" with consulting and use their ignorance to attack Newt.

Mostly I don't want to see the Newt-bashers turn this into something like Romney's tax return debacle, an unforced error of Romney's imo, which he could have defused long ago.

5 posted on 01/22/2012 11:44:20 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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Florida is a winner-take-all state and is a must win for Gingrich before NV, Utah, and Michigan that are all likely to go to Romney. A close second gets you zero delegates.

The problem I see for Newt in Florida it is a state that has that stupid early voting. So if they voted before the SC Trouncing of Mitt and the Florida debates they could have voted for Mitt. Which I hope they didn’t. Newt could win this state and the whole south. Newt is a great candidate cause he doesn’t take any guff off of the elites in the party and the MSM...


6 posted on 01/22/2012 11:59:27 AM PST by tallyhoe
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To: Steelfish
OBAMA DISPAIR, OBAMA TOAST
8 posted on 01/22/2012 12:35:27 PM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: Steelfish

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

Winston Churchill


9 posted on 01/22/2012 12:38:40 PM PST by Liberty Wins (Newt --named after Isaac Newton?)
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Is Florida’s primary a CLOSED primary, and only Pubbies can vote?


10 posted on 01/22/2012 12:40:03 PM PST by Tucker39
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To: Steelfish
Newt's already on point about Fannie/Freddie. From today's Meet the Press program:

I was not a lobbyist, I was never a lobbyist, I never did any lobbying. Don't try to mix these things up. The fact is I was an adviser strategically and if you look at the only thing ever published by Freddie Mac I said, "You need more regulations." If you look at the only article ever written about my talking to the Congress it was in The New York Times in July of 2008 and I said, "Do not give them any money." Now I opposed giving money to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I think they both should be broken up into four or five much smaller companies. And I've long felt that. And so I think that to jump from one to the other is simply wrong.

13 posted on 01/22/2012 12:55:39 PM PST by JoanVarga (We no longer have the luxury of ascribing to incompetence what is plainly evil.)
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