“Faulty logic! Newt will bring the lefties out of the woodwork to vote against him. The lefties hate him more than other candidates.
The republican turn out on the other hand will be pretty much the same no matter if Newt, Cain or Perry are the nominee.”
I think the “hate” for Newt on the left has died down somewhat given the passage of time. Obama is behind the eight ball and knows he can’t run on his record. He therefore has concluded that he must go extremely negative to win. Note how the leading liberal mouthpieces are already preparing the electorate for this upcoming strategy. So their strategy is to maximize the vote of their base and peel off independents at the margin by scaring them with lies.
Given the coming lies and negativity, it will be very important to have candidate that can eloquently call a spade a spade - just like Newt did when the moderator in one of the recent debates pre-supposed the validity of his implicit assumption that the war on terror was a matter of the “rule of law”. Before answering, Newt made everyone aware that the underlying premise of his question was false. Most of the other candidates would have taken the question at face value and dived into their answer, which in effect gives credence to the lie contained within the question.
I think Newt is probably the candidate best able to cut through the coming lies and negativity.
I can’t disagree with you on that point. The Newt-hate was very potent during the 90’s. Lot of young lefties do not know that. Listen, I am voting for the republican nominee in general, period. I hate Obama that much. In primaries, every one should be allowed to support their choice without much rancor.