--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
Going to be with Newt in Gainesville, GA tonight!
GO NEWT!!
Should be interesting because I think Limbaugh is right, the GOP elites now desperately fear Romney getting the nomination and then getting his clock cleaned. If that is true we can count on them to exercise their usual duplicity and steer the nomination to Santorum or Newt before sabotaging them later on in the fall.
Given their well-documented hatred for Newt, that appears the most likely. Throwing a loyal soldier under the bus who saluted and endorsed Specter would create other problems for them.
Santorum’s arrogance and ignorance lead him to take on Romney in Romney’s own state. STUPID.
Newt knew that would be a waste of money and energy so used Rick’s weaknesses to his (Newt’s) advantage.
This is who Newt is ....
” Newt provided strategic counsel to the Pentagon and Secretary of Defense on how to better address threats facing the United States. He is also the longest-serving teacher of the Joint War Fighting course for Major Generals at Air University and taught officers from all five services as an honorary Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at the National Defense University.
In 1999, Gingrich was appointed to the United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, the Hart/Rudman Commission to examine our national security challenges as far out as 2025. The Commission’s report is the most profound rethinking of defense strategy since 1947.”
I like Newt, I support Newt, and I'm planning to vote for him, assuming that he's still in the race when things get around to my state. It will be nice to have a candidate where I don't need to hold my nose while pulling the lever.
However, I'm not optimistic. About the only things that I see happening are a Romney implosion (pretty unlikely) or Newt, Santorum, and Paul picking off enough odds and ends of states to force a brokered convention (a little more likely, but still not very).
I think that’s true. The question is whether the voters genuinely want a conservative or not. The GOP establishment clearly doesn’t want one.
Santorum was exactly as big government and establishment as Romney and his entire Senate record bears this out. However, Romney is a genuinely unlikeable candidate, and I think for a while Santorum was liked better simply because he played up the little Ricky from humble roots story and his social issues conservatism.
But there’s really no substantive difference between them, and the question now is whether voters really want someone with an entirely different take on things and, if so, whether Gingrich can get his message out in time.
Romney won with his scorched earth negative campaign tactic once again, destroying his opponent rather than running on his record. Turn out was depressed and will likely stay suppressed for the general. Romney screwed his opponents, and has poisoned the general election for himself.
I thought voting against Obama would be one of the greatest votes in my lifetime and now I'm gonna have to drink a fifth of whiskey just to enter the polling booth in November.
Newt couldn’t even beat Ron Paul in Michigan.
Santorum lost by 3 percent.....Newt took 7 percent total. Something doesn’t look right here. I don’t want to say that Newt took votes from Santorum but........
And he is still the smartest man in any room he enters!
As bad as Newt is on his inconsistencies and flip flops, he is very disliked in terms of the establishment type Republicans, and therefore is a far better alternative in my mind.
Romney can be counted on to go along with whatever the Rockefeller Republican wing of the party wants to do, and if it comes to that, I'd rather have someone who is more interested in slashing and burning the status quo.
If Romney ultimately wins the GOP nomination what does that tell us of voters even within the Republican ranks - no less the general public? Arrogant, tall, smooth talking’ BS artists like Obama and Romney can bully, schmooze and Big Money their way to the election. Pathetic—I puke on the whole sorry state of affairs this joker of a process!
Santorum’s loss in MI certainly made my vote next week in the OH primary easy: Newt. I was going to vote for whomever could stop the Mittster, but clearly that isn’t Santorum and I prefer Newt over Santorum anyway.
Go Newt!
Newt went for FL and lost badly. Santorum went for MI and lost but managed a split of the Delegates.
They both have been burned by Mittens war chest. Maybe they have both learned to campaign smarter not harder.
Time will tell. If either of them starts campaigning heavily in Mass or Vermont well they have simply lost their mind no matter what the polls say.
One good thing Mittens spent a ton of money in FL and MI his war chest has to be several Million lighter.
Wrong on several points, but one is this:
Last poll showed Santorum leading in Texas, huge.
The idea that Santorum cant play in the south is wrong.
And I dont see how Newt coming in 4th in Michigan is a Newt win. Yesterday was a Romney win, no matter how its spun.
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
“......Santorum’s momentum would peak and a week he’ll be polling 10-15% again.”
** President Newt Gingrich-”Our beloved republic deserves nothing less.”
I think more news will be coming. My uncle in Ohio was planning to vote for Rick if he beat Romney. He told me this morning that he and my aunt are now voting for Newt.
Now, Gingrich can capitalize on that outright admission that the Administration is totally callous as to what the Obama policy is doing to force working Americans into poverty.
It shows no empathy for American citizens who often, in their desire to work, drive 40+ miles each way, sometimes at jobs which do not pay high wages, and that they are being sacrificed on the altar of "environmentalism" and lust for power by its worshippers.
I guess I’m just a math geek but I look at the numbers and I don’t see Gingrich winning anything.
But I guess you have to forget about numbers and admire hindsight analysis of the civil war.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Go, Newt!