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Posted on 01/18/2012 11:07:09 AM PST by Red Steel
Newt is exuding something all right.
. . . just like Newt put his country first and dropped out when Santorum was polling ahead of him in Iowa and New Hampshire. Oh wait . . .
“It’s still a conservative country.”
With Barack Obama in the White House and Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader.
—— Conservatives did not go to the polls in 2008 because of McCain.
“It’s just a poll.”
Consistent with others.
-— The only poll that matters is primary day(s). Much time between now and then.
“Don’t you realize that the conservative vote in the primaries is being split 3 ways, maybe even 4 if you count Ron Paul as a deficit cutter?”
I do, but Newt Gingrich is arguably the most well-known and consequential conservative leader since Reagan. He really ought to have wiped away the conservative competition and crushed Romney. The fact that he can’t consolidate even his own party behind him, much less the conservative wing of his own party, is problematic.
-— Newt has been under the radar since 1998. Most of the youngins don’t know him. A recent poll indicated Newt’s support among the youngins was ZERO. This will change with time. Also, the “baggage” is a problem relative to the other 3. Crushing Romney is impossible due to “open primaries” that allow Democrats to pick our nominee, like they did with McCain, aided by a willing media.
We need to field DINOs to counter RINOs. Democrats In Name Only, that will allow conservatives to leverage the Open Primaries to push Conservatives in Democrat primaries the way Liberals push McCain/Romney in ours.
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Mitt Romney
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Favorable - 72%
Unfavorable - 14%
Haven't heard enough - 10%
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Newt Gingrich
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Favorable - 59%
Unfavorable - 29%
Haven't heard enough - 9%
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Rick Santorum
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Favorable - 59%
Unfavorable - 8%
Haven't heard enough - 33%
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Take a close look at which candidate has the highest negatives and which candidate has the lowest.
So am I. And Rick Santorum knows that the federal government cannot afford to get involved with health care, while Newt Gingrich believes that it is an obligatory function of government to get involved. So you tell me which candidate is more fiscally conservative. Candidate A who will give us Gingrichcare? Or Candidate B who will get the federal government the hell out of the health care business? Well?
Newt Gingrich is not fiscally conservative. And his platform proves it. The entire time he was speaker, personal income tax rates remained at the highest level they had been since Reagan first took office. And spending increased every single year. So keep that in mind when you cast your vote for reliving the glory years of the Clinton Administration.
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