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To: TBBT

So Newt is the new Grant? Seriously?

He will throw conservatives under the bus at the first opportunity that suits him. That said, so will Romney. At this point we will end up with one of them.


4 posted on 12/03/2011 10:30:24 AM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: Soothesayer9

Just a loose analogy...

Don’t blow a gasket....


6 posted on 12/03/2011 10:31:59 AM PST by TBBT
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To: Soothesayer9

He could certainly stand to read Washington’s Rules of Civility.


11 posted on 12/03/2011 10:39:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Soothesayer9
So Newt is the new Grant? Seriously?

Maybe she's trying to tell us that Newt drinks.

Reagan had a way of making people feel that he was on our side and we were on his side.

Sorry, Newtonians, but Newt has a way of alienating people, of making us feel that his fight isn't quite our fight and our fight isn't his.

16 posted on 12/03/2011 10:57:46 AM PST by x
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To: Soothesayer9
He will throw conservatives under the bus at the first opportunity that suits him. That said, so will Romney. At this point we will end up with one of them.

So if you've grasped that reality - isn't it time to get on board and start pulling the wagon from the right end?

"He has the right to criticize, who has the heart to help" Lincoln

24 posted on 12/03/2011 11:24:19 AM PST by maine-iac7 (A prudent man foreseeth the evil,... but the simple pass on, and are punished. Prov 23:3 KJV)
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To: Soothesayer9

It will probably be Newt, much better than Romney IMHO though ANY Republican is better than Barry.


29 posted on 12/03/2011 11:43:51 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Either Obama can beat any GOP candidate or no GOP candidate.)
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To: Soothesayer9

Grant was a reported Drunk! Great General though!


32 posted on 12/03/2011 11:52:47 AM PST by tallyhoe
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To: Soothesayer9

Here’s the catch. Romney can throw the conservatives under the bus because they haven’t supported him at all during the primary—and everyone knows it. So when he’s President he can run left and say everyone knew I was really a lefty.

Newt on the other hand will have to deal with the backlash of losing his soft support from conservatives. Right now Newt is the safer bet.

The one thing Romney has over Newt though is that he’s actually ran something before. Newt did a good job recapturing the Congress for REPUBLICANS (not necessarily conservatives though).

Too bad Bachman didn’t live up to her potential. But who knows things may swing back around to her if she can speak in motivational sense and not get sucked into the press tricks. That’s the one reason I like Newt he appears to now be able to talk over the press and get his point across without getting stuck in their games.


42 posted on 12/03/2011 12:05:51 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Soothesayer9

“So Newt is the new Grant? Seriously? He will throw conservatives under the bus at the first opportunity that suits him. That said, so will Romney. At this point we will end up with one of them.”

The hell we will. Third party before EITHER the flip-flopper or the flip-flopping philanderer. I’m the uncommitted independent—and I vote.


66 posted on 12/03/2011 6:06:23 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Newt Gingrich, a great conservative? Before he was Speaker and had to walk the walk, sure.)
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[He will throw conservatives under the bus at the first opportunity that suits him. That said, so will Romney. At this point we will end up with one of them.]

I think Newt is more conservative than Romney (which isn’t saying much), but Newt’s real saving grace may be that he backtracks when conservatives hold his feet to the fire. Romney gave his Romneycare an ‘A’ even given the chance to back down.

I’m not saying Gingrich is the best for us, just that we might be able to hold a blowtorch to his feet until 2016.


68 posted on 12/03/2011 8:09:45 PM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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