Team Newt: We’re Winning Florida, Making Money, Adding Volunteers

Team Newt brags that they have picked up $1 million in donations and 500 new volunteers in Florida since Saturday:

INSIDER ADVANTAGE POLL: The firm’s latest Florida poll shows the race as Newt at 34% and Mitt Romney at 26.

GALLUP NATIONAL POLL: Last week, Gallup’s Frank Newport said that Governor Romney’s national lead was “collapsing.” The latest Gallup tracking data shows that it continues to fall. Now, Romney is at 30%, with Newt at 25%. Romney lost one point and Newt gained two in the latest release.

KNOCKOUT PUNCH MONEYBOMB: In less than 24 hours after the South Carolina victory, Newt 2012 raised more than one million dollars.

VOLUNTEERS: 500 in Florida alone have signed up since Saturday, bringing the total in the Sunshine State to 5,000.

My unsolicited $0.02? Last Monday, frankly, I didn't care for any of the candidates. Then, I watched the debates last week.

Gingrich has my support, now.

I *like* Santorum, and I think that he's a decent, nice guy. However (and you knew this "however" was coming) I think that 2012 is going to be a bare knuckles slugfest. '08 was a nasty election, and if it starts looking like BO is going to lose, then between the ugly racial component, and the MSM cheerleading it on - this year is going to get bad, quickly. I'm worried that it's going to be 1968 all over again.

So, I think that we don't need a nice guy, at least not this year. I think that we need someone who will stick an extra couple of spikes in the baseball bat, jump down in the swamp, and start swinging. And, IMHO, Newt is that guy. He simultaneously can swap punches AND clearly articulate what the conservative position is.

YMMV. And, for what it's worth, I think that Santorum might not be a bad VP. It would be nice to have some 1st stringers waiting in the wings and getting some more experience. Bush left the GOP with nothing in '08, and look what we wound up with - McCain last time, and Romney still has a good shot this time.

His problems will come with the legions in our party who previously abandoned him because of his power-hungry flaws.

I don't see Newt as power hungry but hungry for America to be what she was designed to be and take it out of the power hungry hands!

Like the elite and their desire to control, like the liberal judges and the media!! Everything that goes against Our Constitution and 'We the People'.

Perry is a PATRIOT! He showed it wasn't about him but our country! And that alone is rare these days and no one can take that from him - it's a '+ +' for him. Santorum failed and he may never have a chance, again, to mature in that area. Opportunities come when you aren't ready - it takes someone more humble to take that opportunity to do something great because it goes against the grain. Santorum's grain is TOO THICK! TOO full of himself!

The electorate in the State (FL) which sent West and Rubio to Washington, and Scott to the Governor’s office surely are as perceptive as the voters of South Carolina who, in almost every County, voted for the candidate who provides background and substance to answers on issues—a trait which is essential to garnering enough votes to defeat Obama in the Fall.

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