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I haven't been this hopeful for a LONG time! BTW, I jokingly noted yesterday that Mr. Robinson endorsed Newt and then Newt won. Big. In hindsight, it's no joke. WE at Free Republic have a lot of influence. We're read by many, and we're active. We're a giant in our own right!

THANK YOU, Mr. Robinson, and Thank You, Freeper Nation!

1 posted on 01/22/2012 1:17:53 PM PST by piytar
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I think Newt was polling better than the mainstream media led us to believe. Then after the debates and a few key endorsements he just took off.


31 posted on 01/22/2012 2:04:04 PM PST by FishinTX
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WE at Free Republic have a lot of influence.

How much?

37 posted on 01/22/2012 2:10:02 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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I don't see Newt as the Kwitsach Hadderach, but I'm hoping he is the Liet...

Long live the FRemen...may the Sardaukenyan blades chip and shatter!! ;^)

40 posted on 01/22/2012 2:13:28 PM PST by AnTiw1
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Establishment Republican is just a nicer way of saying liberal..for Chris Christie to have the nerve to go on TV and call Newt an embarrassment..its Christie who is the REAL embarrassment..because at the end, yeah yeah Christie went after the teacher’s union good for him, but he sounds more liberal then someone who believes in Republican principals. I expect the kind of name calling from the left, but when its coming from the right it makes me SO mad. The elitists in the GOP want Romney, they have been pushing him since 2008. Now you know what Sarah Palin had to deal with, these scumbags who are attracted to Romney trashed her for THREE + years..same crap, new year, some things never change


47 posted on 01/22/2012 2:34:39 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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***We are sick of spineless “leaders.” We are sick of the left dominated media. We are sick of the “go along to get along” establishment GOP.***

I’m thinking that Newt feels that way too and wonder when he decided to jump into the arena. It’s clear he was successful with his consulting firm, books and speaking gigs - but something stirred his soul. What did it and when?

We know that Romney has wanted to be POTUS for decades and even now has no compelling message from the heart - but IMHO Newt is clearly on a rampage of rescue.


48 posted on 01/22/2012 2:37:43 PM PST by sodpoodle ( Newt - God has tested him for a reason..)
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Newt will never garner enough independent vote to win a general election. Sure, he’s had a couple of good retorts in debates, but Obama is never going to sit down and do 3 hour Lincoln Douglas debates. Santorum is also correct in believing that you never know when Newts IED of a mouth is going to go off. I’ll take defeating Obama over some guy who claims to be a conservative and sits on a couch with Pelosi.


49 posted on 01/22/2012 2:42:32 PM PST by RLegacy (You say tomato, I say Yuck Fou)
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The only Republican that can win is the one that can defeat the media first.
Romney is running a McCain and will lose.


53 posted on 01/22/2012 2:52:34 PM PST by omega4179 (Internet ID:FU░&#BO)
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The only Republican that can win is the one that can defeat the media first.
Romney is running a McCain and will lose.


54 posted on 01/22/2012 2:52:42 PM PST by omega4179 (Internet ID:FU░&#BO)
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The only Republican that can win is the one that can defeat the media first.
Romney is running a McCain and will lose.


55 posted on 01/22/2012 2:52:50 PM PST by omega4179 (Internet ID:FU░&#BO)
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The country’s in a foul mood. Anger and fear abound.

What the pundits are missing is not only the depth of the anger, but also the fact that much of it is directed at the media. They are astounded and mystified by what they are witnessing.

Independents, the apolitical ones who admittedly elected Obama, feel duped by the media. There’s anger there because their friends know who they voted for, and it’s become a bit embarrassing. Conservatives of course, are angry because the media always shills for Dem candidates.

Anyone who works in the private sector is angry, and more importantly, afraid. They have been maligned and threatened by this administration with every utterance by Obama, every appointment, every edict, and every bureacracy they come into contact with. They know war is being waged on them.

Women will always ditch the pretty boy for the street-fighting gunslinger when they perceive that chaos looms. Yesterday in SC we saw this happen. This is a paradigm change, and is one of the reasons why predictions by those who don’t see this may be off 180 degrees.

Coulter, Hume, Dick Morris and others want Obama out of the White House, but because they still believe in the media’s power to persuade, they believe Romney is the safest, surest way to go. They’re wrong because the media has lost its credibility.

On this point, we have a history to observe. During the 2010 elections independents came our way even though the media propped up Dem candidates in each and every local, state, and congressional election. The left was bludgeoned in spite of this fact. The pundits don’t get this, which should have been the lesson of the 2010 election.

There’s a whole new dynamic now because the media is not being listened to. The Marianne Gingrich sting is a case in point. It didn’t work because people now consider the source.

I would even venture to say that the people may want precisely the candidate whom the media doesn’t want. Fool me once..... This is the new world we’re in, and those in the media cocoon just don’t see it.

The “forest for the trees” analogy comes to mind, perhaps it’s an occupational hazard. Hopefully they’ll come around when Newt gets the nomination.


58 posted on 01/22/2012 3:20:16 PM PST by wayoverontheright
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I believe that either Gingrich or Romney could beat 0bama in the general election. Personally, I will not be voting for a cult member. Sure, Gingrich has some warts . There is no such thing as a perfect candidate. I held my nose and voted for Mclame. I will happily pull the lever for Newt.


60 posted on 01/22/2012 3:26:24 PM PST by gop4lyf (Socialism is the political dream of the unachiever, the excuse maker, and the lazy.)
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I hope that when Newt is in the White House, that the libtards nickname him “Slasher” for cutting and deleting gov departments and programs. Newt is not in it for a popularity award. He KNOWS that this is a chance to go down in the historys books as a great president. And we all know what history means to him.


73 posted on 01/22/2012 4:36:26 PM PST by rightly_dividing (ICor. 15:1-4)
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