Looks like we have a ball game now.
It seems to be beat up Newt day from people we think are on our side. Newt needs to punch back, cause it’s all Romney-tied.
Newt did run a positive campaign, and Romney ran a dirty campaign to win Iowa (but still failed). I remember Newt in the early debates saying they shouldn’t be attacking each other but focusing their fire on Obama.
Newt is right. We need to get the word out. They protest too much. Something is amiss here. Hello Florida, we have a problem: it’s called Mitt Romney. Will Florida let him buy this election with the money his buddies took from the housing market? Really, unbelievable.
There’s talk about the Romney family having ties to Saul Alinsky. Romney’s dad is said to have praised Alinsky.
If Limbaugh doesn’t discuss this—in detail—very soon, I can’t think of any good reason for conservatives to continue listening to his program.
This is where the rubber meets the road. We knew, all along, that we would have to take on the establishment, and Mitt Romney is proving at every turn that he is the Republican donkey.
Matt Drudge, Ann Coulter, et al, can kiss my tea partying *ss. It's war.
After the convention, Romney and Gingrich will be all making nice-nice with each other
500 people is a large crowd for the small town of Mt Dora.
It strikes me that Romney has a good answer for this charge, which Gingrich seems to have ignored.
Romney is saying that all of his investments are in a blind trust, and that he therefore did not know that his portfolio has Freddie Mac stock.
Gingrich continues to make an issue of this in the face of what sounds like a very reasonable response from Romney.
Anyone who reads my posts on FR can see that I am a very enthusiastic Newt supporter at this point, but it pains me to see him continue to try to nail Romney on this issue because I think it the voters will buy Romney's answer and come away with the impression that Newt is making bogus claims.
Romney may have used a clever tactic in his attempt to minimize Gingrich's contributions or work during the Reagan years. The point may not be whether Reagan "mentioned" him, but where was Romney during that period and what contribution was he making to conservatism?
Methinks Romney supporters protest too much in their Pelosi-like efforts to discredit Gingrich. By doing so, they may discredit themselves and their authenticity as spokespersons for conservatism.
Hopefully, the unveiling of the video of Nancy Reagan's words might reveal Romney's misleading comments about Gingrich's links to Reagan and the conservative cause of that era.
Voters might ask, where were Romney's efforts in the conservative victories during those years. When Brian Williams asked about any such efforts, Romney seemed to think that raising a family and starting a business career in a "consulting firm" qualified as contributing to the "conservative movement."
In the meantime, during those same years, other business men and women were spending their dollars and their time out there warning citizens that if they didn't rein in their elected representatives in government and return to constitutional principles, the free enterprise system which allowed them the freedom to "raise a family" and "work in the private sector" might disappear from the earth.
Working in what Romney calls "the private sector" and working to preserve the Founders' "freedom of individual enterprise" principle which underlies all the other freedoms Americans enjoy are two very different things.
Romney has done the first: Gingrich has done the latter.
Krauthammer's frank assessment of the apparent incapability of Romney to explain conservative ideas is a telling evaluation. By the way, ordinary citizens out here know the difference between fast talk, blinking eyes, discomfort when asked to define "conservatism" and shifting to another subject entirely versus the Gingrich ability take a question, calmly set the answer in a context of understanding, and provide more depth of explanation than the questioner implied.
When viewing, it's like the difference between a used car lot salesman avoiding the CarFax question and a Lexus commercial. One just "gets" the difference.
Warn the villagers The rinos are coming! The rinos are coming!
If Romney succeedes, then he will lose to Obama-and I will relish it!
I just got back from the rally..... said, “Hi Byron, how are ya?”, to Byron York as he passed me on the steps going into the Lakeside Inn. He acknopwledged that he was doing great. :)
I took lots of pictures on my i-Phone, but don’t have time right now to post them. I hung around for about an hour after the rally in hopes of seeing other happenings unfold. That’s when I ran into Byron, and got pictures of Newt and his wife answering questions from media (that was also still hanging around), just as they were boarding their black _FORD_ SUV to head out to Jacksonville for another campaign stop and the debate tonight.
The media are saying there were 500 people there, but it seemed like a lot more than that to me. It was a beautiful location under the trees with the lake as a backdrop.
Within the next half hour, I heard Neal Boortz interviewing him on his radio show, so I figure Newt was probably talking to him from his SUV.
Picked up bumper stickers, campaign buttons, and a Newt 2012 T-Shirt. Tried to get some yard signs, but Newt’s campaign doesn’t have the money to provide any for free right now. You have to order them from his web site, I guess.
A good time was had by all! Whoo Hoo!
In December of 1996, as the ethics investigation was nearing a conclusion, a married couple (who just coincidentally happened to be Democrat activists) were driving in their car, just coincidentally within a mile of John Boehner driving his car in Florida. The couple, the Martins, just happened coincidentally to have a police scanner in their car, attached to a recorder. They just coincidentally had their scanner turned on and tuned into the same frequency as John Boehner's car phone. John Boehner just coincidentally pulled off the road to be on a conference call with Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, Tom Delay and Bill Paxon talking about Newt's coming response to the ethics charges which were to be disclosed later that day.
After the Martins recorded the phone call, they wasted no time getting the recording to Baghdad Jim McDermott, who got it almost immediately to the New York Times, who all hoped there might be something about the conversation that could lead to charges against Newt for discussing his strategy re: the ethics charges. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/january97/cellular_1-14.html
I heard that Tom DeLay came out today to pile on Gingrich, along with Bob Dole. Speaker Boehner hasn't said anything yet, but you can bet he wants to. When Newt busted him for his part in the GOP attempted coup of 1997, Boehner tried to convince Newt that he was only acting as a mole, a double agent if you will, to try to find out what nefarious plot the others were up to. You can bet Gingrich didn't buy it for a minute.
Surely Newt also put together the fact that Boehner's "intercepted" car phone call of a few months earlier was no accident, and wouldn't have been possible had Boehner not been an eager participants, perhaps even hatching the plan himself. Interestingly enough, Boehner was the only guy who didn't say anything during that conference call. Once again proving how weasely he was, just like when he tried to convince Gingrich that he was only spying during the attempted GOP coup.
There are very powerful forces allied against the possibility of Newt Gingrich becoming the nominee. These are people who haven't been sleeping well at night since the Gingrich surge. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried...and why. They are fighting for their very lives.
Would it be illegal if Newt, while if FL, said something like: “If I win the nomination, I’d love to have someone like Marco Rubio for my Vice President” ? Would that be any kind of a campaign-law violation?
At this point with Dole, McCain, Fox News, Krauthammer, etc. etc. etc. in “scorched earth” mode, I wouldn’t care if Newt is a communist I’m voting for him.
Eternal enmity.