Posted on 12/06/2011 7:35:10 PM PST by Fred
Gallup finds that 82 percent of Tea Party affiliated voters deem Newt Gingrich an acceptable Republican presidential nominee in 2012. They don't seem to realize that if he wins the nod their movement is doomed, regardless of how the general election goes. The Tea Party cannot support Gingrich without betraying its core principles. But the movement also cannot disclaim him once he is the Republican nominee.
Tea Partiers with a better instinct for self-preservation would see that none of the Mitt Romney alternatives still running would be as corrosive to their cause as the former Speaker of the House.
Why?
The Tea Party wasn't just a reaction to President Obama or the financial industry bailouts. As Jonah Goldberg puts it, "a major motivating passion of the tea-party movement was a long-delayed backlash against George W. Bush and his big-government conservatism." Support for the War on Terrorism and the invasion of Iraq caused many conservatives to stay loyal to Bush. But that didn't mean they liked No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, the attempt at a guest worker program, TARP, or the Harriet Miers nomination. Especially after the defeat of John McCain, many on the right insisted they'd never again support Bush-Rove conservatism.
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Agreed. Also, I think what Newt lacks can be somewhat tempered by a good VP, preferably with executive experience (Bob McDonnell of VA comes to mind), and a conservative GOP majority in both the House and the Senate.
“A woman having an abortion doesn’t just make her unpregnant, it also makes her the proud mother of a dead baby”
At least vote for a pro life president
You’re really quite a liar.
Gingrich doesn’t not support obamacare or the unconstitutional mandate.
Ron Paul comes across like your crotchety old man lecturing you on some obscure aspect of the New Deal. In a debate Obama will make Paul look like a bumbling senior citizen on steroids..... as he has already looked like in the GOP debates.
Hey Shallow Billy, just keep taken notes for, about, the next 12 Months.
“Seriously, we have actual conservatives running.”
Any that have a rat’s chance at WINNING???
You're not the only one who's noticed that.
Gets tiring seeing people outright lie. ...that’s what the media does and we have to sift thru their crap to get to the truth. It makes FR unreliable as the good source of information it is known for....which when I was a lurker for some time, was an attraction.
“Newt wins the Republican nomination, and we have an Obama landslide victory. Newt has more baggage”
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I know that is what Savage says.
As for myself, I dunno.
I just know that we are in one Hell of a mess,
and I have no clue as to who will save the USA.
The good people have all gone home.
They were all wrong, just like Newt. Funny, Michele Bachmann wasn't sucked in by Paulsons BS, she opposed TARP from the start. Of course, she must have been wrong because everyone knows Newt is the smartest one in the room...
Yes, of course, and the navel-gazing, nonsense blathering flaming liberal publication known as the Atlantic really, really knows.
He openly supported federal individual mandate and specifically said it is constitutional. On every tv talk show.
Anyway, amnesty is the mortal threat to this country. Newt is pushing it openly already. Just wait when he gets to WH. We must stop amnesty, now that we still can.
Gee, thanks for quoting me. LOL! And If I choose to vote, it will be for a pro-life candidate.
“Sure wouldn’t check the Atlantic to know what I ought to think about Republican politicians.”
Articles like this I have been seeing for the last couple of days confirms something for me.
The left and the Obama Journo-list media are TERRIFIED of having to run against Gingrich. They have NOTHING to run on, other than hate, and Gingrich can communicate his ideas, wether or not we like all of them.
And he keeps repeating something over and over that I really wish some here would get.
For all the big ideas anyone has, you can only do what is POLITICALLY POSSIBLE.
BTW...all the Gun issues flooding the net about Newt now is from Ron Paul...was interesting discovering that along the way...but all too obvious as I went along.
Paulites are like fleas on a dog!
No, you’re wrong and you’re lying. He has addressed this matter ad nauseum.
THEE Heritage Foundation looked into mandates when it was trying to stop Hillarycare.
Gingrich is not pushing amnesty either.
You’re hysterical.
Good to hear. ;) Hope you vote...We don’t want Obama
Leader of the pack that balanced the budget in the ‘90s, but he’s bad for the Tea Party. Sure he is.
I always get my conservative political marching orders from the radical Lefties at The Atlantic — NOT! You really must be desperate in your hateful, ill-informed anti-Newt crusade to pay a minute’s attention to this Marxist magazine’s spew. It shows me how gullible you really are.
Call me suspicious, but I can’t help but wonder if some of these pollsters are spinning the polls to push their own agenda.
While Newt isn’t the worst, he’s not the most conservative either, and it’s hard for me to believe that many Tea Partiers support him.
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