Posted on 02/16/2012 10:10:29 PM PST by VinL
If anyone needed proof that there's only one intellectual heavyweight in the GOP race, this news proves it. Here's the breaking news: [ Romney, Santorum Paul drop out of the GOP debate].
TRANSLATION: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are afraid of getting bested by the best debater in the GOP field.
Here's the reality: Speaker Gingrich has frequently mopped the floor with these candidates' backsides in the debates. Can anyone picture Ronald Reagan backing out of the opportunity to debate an opponent?
It's true that this "strips Mr. Gingrich of his preferred mode of campaigning," it gives him a different opportunity to belittle his opponents. Why would Mitt 'Mr. Inevitable' Romney and Rick 'Mr. Momentum' Santorum run from the opportunity to debate 'Down in the polls' Newt Gingrich?
They've now told the world that they're afraid to debate the smartest conservative on that stage. Think of how this looks to the average voter. These candidates aren't projecting an image of strength. They're projecting inferiority. They're projecting a lack of confidence.
Conversely, the image that Newt is projecting is that of being the superior solutions guy, the intellectual heavyweight and the man who won't back down from a fight. That's the image a winner projects...
Real men fight battles. Instead of fighting, these 'gentlemen' chose to run and hide. In hiding, these candidates showed they don't have the fortitude it takes to be the leader of the free world. If they can't stand up to a candidate, why think that they'll stand up to Putin, Ahmadinejad or Chavez?
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You go out of your way to attack Santorum because you are too stupid to make effective arguments for your preferred candidate. To me that calls for a response.
You are stupid and I pointed that out. That isn't so much an attack as an observation.
Rambling is one thing, but to just be making personal attack after personal attack for no reason, unrelated to any discussion or argument, is way out of bounds.
Dear ansel
Don’t start attacking other people and candidates and then start whining when it comes back your way.
Don’t distort and lie about what other people have said and then cry when they say you are too stupid to comprehend.
That never happened, this is the initial post.
To: GulfBreeze
“”“3 Wimps?” Maybe they just didn’t want to waste their time on a beat candidate.”””
I think that you forget that they are supposed to be three candidates at each other’s throats and wanting to do battle in debating each other. Interesting that you merely see them as a single team against Newt.
41 posted on Thu Feb 16 2012 23:09:03 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by ansel12
This is my second post.
To: GulfBreeze
Then you should have written a different post, you made them sound like a team of three.
You did not explain why they all chickened out and avoided a chance to debate each other and argue their candidacy’s view on the issues.
85 posted on Fri Feb 17 2012 10:13:21 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by ansel12
After that you just abandoned the discussion and merely started with the attacks and name calling.
You need to avoid doing that.
You need to avoid distorting what people say and avoid calling fine conservative patriotic candidate wimps if you are too wimpy to get hit back. In your case you should also avoid fast moving machinery and sharp objects.
There was no distortion in post 41, and the very fact that you think that calling three candidates wimps when they chicken out of a debate means that you are supposed to respond by launching into a personal attack and a barrage of name calling against a freeper is what the problem is.
If you want to challenge my ideas or my correction of your post, then do so, but lay off the name calling and personal attacks.
You are an idiot who damages the whole conservative cause and worse you damage Gingrich’s chances who you are supposed to be supporting. For one thing the candidates are going to debate in very soon in Mesa, Arizona.
You are also a wimp who can’t take what they dish out.
Freeper? You need to be hanging out at DU. You are moving their causes along just fine. Or maybe Romney’s campaign has a chair for you because you are doing wonders for him as well.
I give up, there is nothing adult in there to speak to.
So you are buying into Santorum’s social issue campaign, which from now I shall refer to as “Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show.”
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