GO NEWT!
GO FREE REPUBLIC!!!
Posted on 02/12/2012 2:35:54 PM PST by VinL
Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin stole the show at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference where she delivered the event’s keynote speech Saturday. After slamming the President, shutting up some protesters, and saying that the drawn out Republican primary promotes competition and a better nominee, the former Alaska governor took a few questions as she headed for the door following the rousing remarks. When asked by Anneke Green of the Washington Times if she thought a surging Sen. Santorum was a threat to front-runner Mitt Romney; “Palin answered that she wouldn‘t consider him a threat but was still ’a good competitor.’”
Green writes that Palin praised the remaining Republican presidential candidates’ willingness to compete and appreciated their efforts as “warriors in the arena.”
While still not offering up an endorsement, Palin has spoken fondly about former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who she said she would have voted for in the South Carolina Republican primary.
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It depends on what you mean by “anti-”.
Facts are always welcome. There exists a huge amount of information on Newt Gingrich. His record and past have been argued ad nauseum on this site.
Rick Santorum...not so much.
I started doing research on Rick Santorum about three weeks ago and whenever I present information, I get flamed as being a Romney supporter.
Voters, in order to make an informed decision, must have as much knowledge about the candidates as possible. I did this last time, in 2008, and was flamed for trying to inform folks about Obama.
That sure turned out swell, didn’t it. /sarcasm
If Sarah were a risk taker, she would have run herself. If she wanted the pressure, she could have run herself. If she wanted to take on more of all that, she would have run herself. Expecting more from her than being beautiful and speaking what we each already speak is too much, given the path she chose instead. Thankfully, she doesn’t look like Barbara Mukulsky, so we listen, and Sarah draws seven figures because we do.
Followed by...
Gingrich for President.
B.S. Please provide links and documented proof of what you assert. Newt had a right to be angry at the lying smears about him. Mitt had outright lies aired all over Florida.
If you can, please provide one example of Newt being petty.
Hey, I agree with you, Doll. But you're mighty brave to write that on FR where, for all too many, freedom ends with trade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL5vils-4NI&feature=youtube_gdata_player. Santorum, his greatest hits on YouTube.
that's funny. I know at least a dozen Conservative friends who are female and none expressed any reservations about Newt.
That’s something I mentioned on a different political forum I frequent and got pretty hardcore flamed for it. Indeed, she is only speaking what we already speak. It’s safe, easy, not dangerous. Of course we eat it up. She’s not offering anything really profound here. She’s not leaping out and taking the hits. She’s not jumping into a fist fight and getting bloodied up here. She has her own safe haven amongst the conservative media, and the libs will always give her a platform. I can appreciate her not willing to endorse a candidate, but she isn’t really saying anything noteworthy. She goes to a certain point, and then just pulls back. She softens her blows, including “all 4 candidates” in with her criticisms. She blasts one, but then pulls back, embraces another, but then pulls back. You sit there waiting for her to drop the hammer, but then she doesn’t so we sit here speculating on what she really meant or who she really supports.
She’s lukewarm in this race, plain and simple. And that is certainly her right to not get involved in this way. But lets not fool ourselves for what it really is: Commentary, not leadership.
I don’t buy the whole “She doesn’t want to endorse lest her bad mojo manufactured by the media will latch on to whoever she endorsed”. Fact of the matter is, the media is already going after conservatives the way they went after her. It couldn’t possibly get any worse.
Count me in, I will gladly vote Newt.
No threat at all?
(Why does this make me think of David and Goliath?)
;-/
Oh you’re right about Obama and four more. America would be done.
I’m talking about Santorum’s record and his 06 campaign vs Mitt in Mass. Might surprise you.
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VinL, I am thankful for what Newt accomplished as Speaker of the House. He is the absolute best candidate we have had running for president since Reagan. Would bet that Sarah feels the same way.
As for me...I will fight for Newt until the very end. IF Newt loses the gop nomination...I am done with politics. Has America been so dumbed down that they are willing to sacrifice this nation to Obama or Romney? it will be the end of the country I love so much.
Why was Newt so ill-prepared for his run? Why wasn't he more organized early-on? Why did he start raising money so late?
Santorum is in this race and...doing better than Newt! That's why his supporters are behaving like mean, vengeful children.
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Santorum:
Voted AGAINST increasing the number of immigration investigators:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00201
VOTED AGAINST HIRING AN ADDITIONAL 1,000 BORDER PATROL AGENTS, paid for by reductions in state grants.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00179
VOTED TO GIVE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=105&session=1&vote=00058
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00154
SANTORUM: Trim Social Security now- even if painful.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j7O34Bpp42k-IlMMNiOLBkYF2zNw?docId=b1cff9ecefe24ca6ae1764a09761e361
VOTED AGAINST FOOD STAMP REFORM
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00353
VOTED AGAINST MEDICAID REFORM
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00352
Voted to increase the social services block grant from $1 BILLION to $2 BILLION
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00302
VOTED TO RAID SOCIAL SECURITY instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=2&vote=00056
Voted to impose a uniform federal tax mandate on states to force them to allow convicted , rapists, arsonists drug kingpins and all other ex-convicts to vote in federal elections.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00031
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Santorum; Big government spender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6XCZz2X1Y&feature=player_embedded
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Pop quiz: Which Republican presidential candidate supported the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor?
Hint: It’s the same one who endorsed a pro-abortion-rights presidential candidate in an earlier campaign.
Give up? The answer is Rick Santorum.
Santorum not only supported Specter. He ran an ad for him.
“Arlen is with us on the votes that matter,” Santorum said in an ad for Specter. “I’m proud to endorse Arlen Specter.”
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This is only part of it. Santorum has not been properly vetted.
Even before this RINO voting record above came out,
he stuck me as a petty, egotistical little weasel
He needs to put his ego aside, put his country before himself and drop out.
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