Posted on 01/09/2012 6:03:16 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
According to the Quinnipiac Poll released Monday, Romney leads the field among Florida Republicans with 36 percent of the vote, followed by Newt Gingrich with 24 percent, then Rick Santorum at 16 percent. Behind them, Ron Paul has the support of 10 percent of Florida Republicans, Rick Perry has five and Jon Huntsman trails with two percent. The poll also found that 54 percent of Florida Republicans say they could change their minds in the coming weeks.
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I don’t think so. I’m not supporting Ebay in any way, shape or form and I’m not too fond of the Red Cross either.
http://www.webpronews.com/ebay-founder-endorses-obama-2008-04
But you go ahead, pay your .99 and knock yourself out on a poll that doesn’t mean jack.
As I said, people like Santorum because they like his personal life. I just don’t think his ideas are very good (remember, he was in the Senate for a number of years and went along with every big government thing there was, objecting only to programs involving abortion). And I just don’t find him a very good or convincing speaker, and he has a tendency to start scolding people from the height of his moral position which I think is not going to be much of a seller outside of some conservative circles.
My feeling is that Perry would have been better than Santorum if what people think is most important is that the candidate has had only one wife. I think Perry’s ideas were more creative and convincing than Santorum’s and Perry is not a Washington insider used to going along to get along, as Santorum was.
Still, I think the best would be Gingrich: he has the best ideas and the best ability to defend them. What’s more, the Republican establishment hates him.
As for his marriages, his first wife was one of his high school teachers, somebody we would nowadays have thrown in jail for molesting him. He was a lonely, overweight military brat who was 16 or 17 at the time and she was about 15 years older. The later divorce was at her request. The second was obviously a rebound marriage, and the third one is the one that he has been in for some time now and which seems quite happy. Sometimes things don’t work out the way we hoped they would.
this guy’s record is not impressive sorry.... Rick Santorum is the last hope for the Republic?.. the guy who came in and saved the country from the democrats, Hillarycare and Clinton was Newt Gingrich.. Santorum never lead a monumental Conservative crusade like Gingrich did.. he’s not in the same universe
Right, lets get a candidate with the morals of Larry Flynt and who is as likeable as James Carville. Yep, historically the electorate has really warmed up to candidates like that...
I saw that! In all honesty, I think that has to be a de facto Mrs. Palin endorsement, too. That may not be the case, but I highly doubt that she would (publicly) endorse someone different than her husband. I have a hard time believing that they are a house divided. I think Mrs. Palin will endorse no one until after the primary victor is chosen, and then back whoever is the nominee (or whoever is third party, if the nominee happens to be Romney, and everyone pushes up a strong third party, as has been suggested). That’s the way I see it.
“Social concerns are not as important to voters as they are here on FR.”
NO issues are as important to voters as they are here on FR. That is the problem. And to pretend it ain’t so here is beyond naive.
Wouldn't that be Gingrich?
Obviously not. But you’d have to stretch the imagination to say that because I concur with a singular assessment by a family member regarding a singular person on a singular topic, that I somehow agree with the entirety of whatever political opinion that person had. Then again, you know that. It’s a liberal tactic (not to mention logical fallacy), and not one I care for.
If you’re going to attempt to put words in my mouth, you can feel free to answer yourself too, no need to even ping me about something not relevant to anything I said. Have a good day!
Thank you for stating that truth. I realize it’s election time and people are touchy, but I can assure you that putting words in someone’s mouth is never in season. He was engaging in “Reductio ad absurdum,” which is small minded.
“Reductio ad absurdum is a mode of argumentation that seeks to establish a contention by deriving an absurdity from its denial, thus arguing that a thesis must be accepted because its rejection would be untenable.”
http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio/
See my post below, at #166. I strongly feel like she will not endorse anyone until the primary is over (or nearly so). Don’t expect her to contradict her husband (at that point she likely won’t have to). It’s possible they won’t be, but I’m fairly certain that the husband and wife see eye to eye. I could always be wrong about that, but usually couples tend to think alike, and endorse similar (or the same) candidates.
I agree. One can be a social conservative, without being a Pharisee about it.
The lamestream media is picking our candidate (Romney) again?
What’s the point of South Carolina and Florida having an early primary when all they do is vote for whoever New Hampshire decides to vote for. Same thing happened in 2008. It doesn’t help in South Carolina when Nikki Haley goes full out establishment. It’s funny how almost every candidate who Erik Erickson at Red State promoted and helped people realize they existed, have gone full establishment Romney supporters.
Santorum won’t play so well north of South, but Newt plays everywhere. Romney has dropped ten points in 5 days in NH, so finally he gets some of what he has been giving out. I look for Newt to pick up steam going into South Carolina, and to my disappointment, I believe Rick Perry is coming into SC as a spoiler and now hurts Newt.
They both have superb verbal firing abilities when their engines are running, and attract the same audience of voters on that count, but Rick’s campaign was unhelpful in rehabilitating him from the early debate fails, and no one wants to listen any longer to a speech risk repeating itself, or needs the anxiety such an experience caused with the clock running. Rick Perry needs to support and finance and go to work for Newt, IMHO. RP would be very happy working with Newt.
In retrospect..I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Rove/Romney that finished off Cain.
I was afraid of this. Hopefully the field will be narrowed enough, soon enough, to help unite conservatives against Romney.
Florida, New Hampshire... LOL! Gingrich is the only real American candidate.
There were a lot of people in the media and establishment that seemed just giddy when Cain suspended his campaign.
Rove espesially was gloating a lot on Fox.
The look on his face was sickening - that’s when I really started despising ‘the establishment’ - D’s, R’s, media, including Fox.
Rove and Krauthammer for joining in, BOR for letting them get away with it.
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