With Barack Obama in the White House and Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader.
"It’s just a poll."
Consistent with others.
"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 is exuding something all right.
“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.