Am watching the re-run.
I don’t feel Romney has had THAT great of a night. He’s had a few good moments, and also some very prickish moments that were quite offensive. Santorum also really roughed him up on healthcare and he was unable to respond in any convincing way.
However, Newt has once again stayed calm and focused, with eloquent answers. He knows himself. At times it almost seemed as if Wolf Blitzer was “feeding” the questions into Mitt who had his rehearsed answers at the ready.
Santorum — just looks simply loud mouthed and far too lawyerlike. His constant attacking gave me a headache listening to him. He seems to have one volume, one monotonous level. He’s right about a lot ...but he almost kind of scares me.
The space and moon idea, although it seems a little nutty, shows me how Romney thinks and what he’s all about. He’s a money guy. He thinks in one dimension. Yes, our country has money problems ...but it also has a problem of the soul — of a lack of creativity, of innovation, of proper and hopeful goals. I remember our country at the time we went to the moon — I was only 5 years old ..but it allowed me to grow up fiercely proud of being an American. To hear Romney tromp all over it and say he’d fire any employee who would propose it almost makes me want to cry.
Lots of Americans had “silly” ideas ...but all incredible American innovations started out as dreams in one way or another ...I’ll stop now, but I feel Romney just has no soul.
“Santorum — just looks simply loud mouthed and far too lawyerlike. His constant attacking gave me a headache listening to him. He seems to have one volume, one monotonous level. He’s right about a lot ...but he almost kind of scares me...
...Lots of Americans had “silly” ideas ...but all incredible American innovations started out as dreams in one way or another ...I’ll stop now, but I feel Romney just has no soul.”
Right on both counts.
You are correct that Romney simply doesn’t connect. He is spending a tremendous amount of money to try to force people to support hims (forget liking him) and the entire Republican establishment is pulling out all the stops to kill Newt.
Being in S. Florida I can only tell you it soon gets transparent. People catch on to the prickish stuff. I thought he stepped into a heaping pile when he started talking about how proud he is of his Swiss bank accounts and now we know his blind trust claim is bogus. He is a rich, self-absorbed guy who is throwing a lot of money around and I think it could well backfire.
My gut tells me that we haven’t seen Newt’s best yet. He is gathering huge crowds and getting good local press. He is saving his money for the end. Judging by last week, he can take down the Massachusetts Moderate fast. He just needs to pour it on and counter this junk. I just don’t see Romney pulling 40% of the vote. We will see...
Oh yes...and CNN even stated after that "Wolf" was the "other" winner against Newt. Can you believe it!
I'll be looking forward to Newt's responses tomorrow but he's sure been taking more than just heat this week....am just praying he comes out of the Primary ALIVE!
Newt is a visionary - Mitt can only see as far as his pocket.
He hasn’t had one idea about anything. It’s always - our country needs to put people back to work and he’s the one to fix it. He is SO FLAT in his answers, it’s pathetic. He never really answers the questions but says something so it looks like the question is being answered.
Mitt couldn’t touch Newt’s ideas - much less understand them. He doesn’t have the mind for it. Neither does santorum. There aren’t that many visionaries and they are usually open to ridicule because the average person just can’t reach that high. Newt really would make one awesome president. America would be greatly enriched.
Lots of Americans had “silly” ideas ...but all incredible American innovations started out as dreams in one way or another ...I’ll stop now, but I feel Romney just has no soul.
Well put. Money problems are one thing. Problems of lacking soul are quite another... and much worse.