Gingrich Leads, But Likely GOP Primary Voters Have Not Ruled Out Romney (PRC POLL: Newt-35, Mitt-21)

Pew Research Center ^ | 12/13/2011 | Pew Research Center

[TBBT]

ewt Gingrich holds a substantial 35% to 21% lead over Mitt Romney among Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters who say they are very likely to vote in the GOP primaries or caucuses, according to the latest national survey conducted Dec. 7-11 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

But clear majorities say there is at least a chance they would vote for either Gingrich or Romney in Republican primaries in their state. None of the other Republican candidates draws nearly as much potential support.

[TBBT]

No change.

[true believer forever]

Newt Gingrich's 21st Century Contract With America

Part 1:  Legislative Proposals

1. Repeal Obamacare 
    
2. Return to Robust Job Creation
    
3. Unleash America’s Full Energy Production Potential
    
4. Save Medicare and Social Security
    
5. Balance the Federal Budget
    
6. Control the Border by January 1, 2014 
    
7. Revitalize Our National Security System
    
8. Maximize the Speed and Impact of Medical Breakthroughs
    
9. Restore the Proper Role of the Judicial Branch
    
10. Enforce the Tenth Amendment

Part 2:  Day One Executive Orders 

• Eliminate the thirty-nine White House "Czar" positions
   
• "Mexico City Policy" of Respect for Life

• Restore conscience clause protections for Healthcare Workers

• Respect Each Sovereign Nation’s Choice of its Capital
   
• End the Attorney General's Assault on the States

• The Keystone Pipeline

 

Download Newt Gingrich's Contract with America

 

Because he knows where the bodies in DC are buried...

(and lots of other reasons, too)

[VanDeKoik]

“But Likely GOP Primary Voters Have Not Ruled Out Romney”

Yeah, ok. Sure.

[VanDeKoik]

But did’cha know that he said something positive about FDR?!?!?!?!?!?

WE MUST VOTE RON-MICHELLE PERRY SANTORIUM!!!

[sevinufnine]

I just do not like Romney. Way he argues back and forth with the others is childish and shows lack of self control (i.e. manhood).

Newt, although he was FAR 2nd choice for me under Cain (sobbinb)...is the best of the bunch. Least he is VERY knowledgable as he’s been around a long, long time.

Also, he is pro-Israel. We need that as does Israel. Read in the Israel new just today they like Newt the best. SAy he’s got it right where Palestinians are concerned because Newt called it like it IS. Palestine is made up of Arabs and could have settled anywhere.

[veritas2002]

I have ruled out Romney!
Karl Rove - shove it!

[sodpoodle]

Fox News must be going nuts.

They just announced that Trump is pulling the December 27th debate and if the GOP nominee is not his choice he will run as an Independent.

[veritas2002]

I have ruled out Romney!

Karl Rove...shove it....

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I’ve decided...

[true believer forever]

You said: But did’cha know that he said something positive about FDR?!?!?!?!?!?

So did President Reagan:

“Roosevelt, according to Reagan, was a strong leader, one to emulate in certain respects. He had taken over the presidency during a time of unprecedented crisis and implemented a plan of action to bring the nation out of its doldrums. Reagan fondly recalled FDR’s Fireside Chats, which were designed to give hope to the people. “His strong, gentle, confident voice resonated across the nation with an eloquence that brought comfort and resilience to a nation caught up in a storm and reassured us that we could lick any problem. I will never forget him for that.”

As governor of California later, Reagan had to deal with a Democratic legislature. “It occurred to me that I had an opportunity to go over their heads.” How? He used radio and television to communicate directly with the people of California, a tactic he traced back to FDR’s Fireside Chats, which, he commented, “made an indelible mark on me during the Depression.”

As president, Reagan often mentioned his admiration for FDR’s spirit of leadership. On a trip back to his alma mater, Eureka College, in 1984, he reminded his listeners what it was like to experience the Great Depression, and how the Fireside Chats had been so reassuring. “All of us who lived through those years,” he instructed them, “remember the drabness the depression brought. But we remember, too, how people pulled together, that sense of community and shared values, that belief in American enterprise and democracy that saw us through.

It was that engrained American optimism, that sense of hope Franklin Roosevelt so brilliantly summoned and mobilized.” In his view, FDR was instrumental in reviving an inherent American optimism that was endangered by the economic crisis.”

[pallis]

Unless conservatives can be manipulated into a three way tie, Romney loses. A Newt, Perry, Ron Paul squabble will allow Romney to win it in a walk.

[Nervous Tick]

>> “But Likely GOP Primary Voters Have Not Ruled Out Romney”...Yeah, ok. Sure.

Hey, *I* haven’t ruled out Romney.

He’s DEFINITELY still in the running — for Smarmiest RINO Of The Millenium.

It’s a close race though: McCain is giving him stiff opposition.

[LibLieSlayer]

If this corrupt progressive republican party keeps crapping in our dinner plate... I swear that the TEA Party will rise up to destroy these bastards and their putrid and rotting party! Just today they appointed a rino progressive and shunned a TEA Party Congressman... who was unchallenged until mitch the commie mcconnell forced a progressive party elitist upon us.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

I could easily vote for Perry, Bachmann or Santorum... they are all flawed but their flaws pale in comparison to newt and romney.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

Yes, but Reagan disavowed FDR's socialist ideology later in life... unlike newt. You are not going to be able to hide the real newt... you are not good enough at propaganda and newt can't keep his big mouth shut.

LLS

[VanDeKoik]

Only because you dont have a steady stream of attack articles on FR telling you those flaws.

Let them be in front(both Bachmann and Perry already got a tast of it), and then you will see.

[true believer forever]

Could you provide a link for your statement:"Yes, but Reagan disavowed FDR's socialist ideology later in life... the way I provided you a link. Thanks.

[LibLieSlayer]

I agree... all of these candidates are flawed... but their progressive problems are small potatos (or potatoes in honor of Dan Qayle) compared to romney and newt.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/print.aspx?article=1082&loc=b&type=cbbp

Reagan was a New Deal Democrat. He joked that he had probably become a Democrat by birth, given that his father, Jack, was so devoted to the Democratic Party. The younger Reagan cast his first presidential vote in 1932 for Franklin Roosevelt, and did so again in the succeeding three presidential contests. His faith in FDR remained undimmed even after World War II, when he called himself “a New Dealer to the core.” He summarized his views in this way: “I thought government could solve all our postwar problems just as it had ended the Depression and won the war. I didn’t trust big business. I thought government, not private companies, should own our big public utilities; if there wasn’t enough housing to shelter the American people, I thought government should build it; if we needed better medical care, the answer was socialized medicine.” When his brother, Moon, became a Republican and argued with his sibling, the younger Reagan concluded “he was just spouting Republican propaganda.”

Of course, Reagan was to change his views drastically in the coming years, but even when one examines his later comments about Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, one comes away with the sense that he never got over his youthful admiration of a man he considered a great leader. He would carefully parse his criticisms of the New Deal, often focusing on the honorable intent of the heart over the practical effect of the policies. Critique and praise would be mixed together as he attempted to separate the man from his programs.”

Here is a link to a book that goes into depth on Ronald Reagan's Conservative brother Moon and the arguments they had early on. It details Reagan;s conversion from the new deal ideology and how Reagan came to distrust Big Government. The fact that you did not already know in your heart that Reagan changed greatly as he grew older, wither points to your blind allegiance to the republican party or a lack of knowledge on what you are posting about.

http://books.google.com/books?id=U2cs7IHERBwC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=Ronald+Reagan+on+FDR’s+ideology+being+wrong&source=bl&ots=iXjOxXKQZf&sig=4OA59OZJSQc-xc2vrvLnnCTsEq4&hl=en&ei=tLvnTqGjJsnbtgem8L3pCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Ronald%20Reagan%20on%20FDR’s%20ideology%20being%20wrong&f=false

I cannot excerpt from this book but you can go to the site and read the pertinent pages it references.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

Oh... and the fact that you are trying to equate Ronald Reagan and FDR as being of the same caliber and ideology... all to promote and rationalize your defense of newt gingrich... when Reagan was the most Conservative presidents of the past Century... possibly the best President of the past Century... and FDR being one of stalin’s butt boys and a devout communist in every way... should have you looking into the mirror and causing some serious self reflection.

LLS