Posted on 03/13/2012 7:55:59 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA
Rick Santorum is the winner of the Mississippi Republican presidential primary, Fox News projects.
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Rick Santorum has won the Alabama Republican presidential primary, Fox News projects, and is holding onto a narrow lead in Mississippi where the race is still too close to call.
The victory in Alabama is a major boost for Santorum, a state in which he was
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Frankly, Gingrich is a great legislator, and I’d like to see him try for a Senate seat here in Virginia, where he now lives. We hopefully will take Webb’s open seat this year, but we’ll still be stuck with Mark Warner, and Gingrich would raise hell in the Senate.
you haven’t said anything yet to suggest you are not a Rombot. I’ve lived in SW Pennsylvania for the past 50 years, I’ve supported Rick since he first dabbled in politics; so if you know something so goddamned awful about him, spit it out. I sat down to dinner with him before he announced his candidacy. The man is a true conservative, a true Christian, and and honorable man. Let’s see your “established fact”. I don’t ask you to give me any damn platform, I’ll speak when I please, and as long as I don’t read you your pedigree, I guess I’ll still be here.
He would be great as press secretary, but RS would be upstaged and RS knows it.....
He’s been a leader in the drill here drill now pay less movement for many years, and he attacks Obama and Chu on this better than anyone, and he knows better than anyone how critical energy is to EVERY SINGLE ISSUE facing us.
He’s eons and eons ahead of anyone else running on this issue. He’s well researched and has been for a long time.
The like ability factor and so on is very misunderstood by RS supporters and almost everyone for that matter.
Newt is unlikeable by some measures, and RS by some others. As I said, people who dislike Newt do so for his arrogance (which he has) and his self centeredness (which I contend he has no more of than anyone else running and has much less than RS IMO) and for his bluntness. All of those are traits that folks actually start to like when the sh-t hits the fan even if they may not like it any other time.
Now, to RS, his unlikeability is something folks just will not over look. Piousness and self righteousness and being petulant are not desirable in any situation and therefor the like ability issue is much more of an obstacle for RS.
by voting!
I agree with you.
You misread my post - I said “not enough better”. Romney is a Socialist. He is pro-infanticide (abortion). He uses flawed rhetoric just like Obama.
I have used this analogy many times - and will again, since so many seem to have thickened skulls that reality just doesn’t soak through:
The USA is like a ship... a big and proud (though starting to rust, and needing some serious repair). She has been steered by some rather Left-leaning Captains (Presidents) for far too long. The ship has been piloted to the Left to the point that she is on a collision course with a massive iceberg.
We have seen a few cases over the years - where a new captain comes on board - and who turns the wheel a bit back towards the right - yet the ship is still on a collision course with the massive iceberg - if only now the impact will be along her port side instead of the bow. A few presidents have even pulled the throttle back - only to have another Leftward Captain come aboard, pushing the throttle back up, and turning that big old wheel back towards the Left.
And many times, those Leftward Captains have had the help of a majority of the crew (CONgress) - who have happily encouraged the Leftward steer into the iceberg. Some have even tried to alter the design of the ship (Constitution) to make it more difficult to ever turn the wheel back to the right.
Well - our current “Captain” is likely the most extremely Leftist this nation has ever had. He has the throttle full-open, and the wheel turned in for direct impact with the ‘berg.
What do we need now in a Captain? Do we need someone who will turn the wheel back “straight” (centrist/moderate)? Yeah - that will work really well - the ship will then just proceed directly head-long into that disaster.
What we need is someone who will turn that wheel back HARD to the Right. Of course, if you have ever been on a boat or ship where the course was radically changed - it feels unstable, and some folk might even get wet or fall off the boat. But without that dramatic course change, the boat (or in our case - ship) is destined to strike that iceberg of destruction.
So what are we left with in the current slate of “captain candidates”?
Rick Santorum - not a hard right-turn man on most issues (although on social issues maybe he is one to turn things hard to the right).
Newt Gingrich - an erratic man who has flip-flopped so many times, I’m not sure HE knows which way to turn the wheel. He acts like a drunken captain who runs ships aground. His unrepentant (at least in a meaningful way) views of the environment and “manmade global warming” are FAR FAR Left of any reasonable thinking man. His character is questionable (don’t give me the “judge not” line).
Mitt Romney - Bills himself as a Moderate Conservative (that just means you espouse a handful of conservative ideas, but don’t really bind yourself to them - and indeed often act in direct opposition to them if the political winds and opportunity suit). Even worse - he is a Socialist. He can’t use the Unconstitutional ObamaScare law as a campaign target - its based on his own socialist plan - indeed his folks helped engineer Obama’s plan. Romney is wrong on many social issues. Romney is Left of Center in most regards...
So we see- none of the remaining candidates offer a lot of hope to turn the ship from destruction. I held my nose to vote for McCain/Palin - and I viewed that prospective Presidency as a potential disaster (though slightly less so than Obama). Romney is well LEFT of McCain. I just cannot have that guilt on my hands of voting for him. The other two Repub. candidates are hovering around just to the right of “centrist”, with Santorum’s social Conservatism giving him the nod as the candidate most likely to be willing to turn the wheel back (at least some) to the right... and maybe pulling back on the throttle a little.
But we oh so desperately need a President/Captain willing to make the hard choices - to turn this ship back.
But this brings me to the latter part of my previous post - focus on CONgress. If you have the majority of the ship’s crew with the right “leanings” - they can not co-operate in the Left-turning of the Captain, and indeed can be in a position to stage a mutiny to prevent even more disastrous affairs.
Mr. "Man-Made Global Warming", the author of "A Contract with the Earth"...as Energy Secretary? Are you absolutely nuts?
You are really shallow. Very shallow. Newt is a complex guy and I have no use for his dalliance with enviro issues at all. Having said that, he has also been a leader in the drill here drill now pay less movement for many years.
Hell, his organization made up that damned cliche you clown. Besides that, he has been the leader in this campaign on going after liberal energy policy and correctly defining Chu as a bike riding academia nut. Or do you even know who Chu is?
Are you even paying attention to this campaign? No, wait, don't answer. Obviously not.
Now THAT is the funniest thing I have read about Newt in some time... well researched and a “leader n the drill here drill now” movement? Pure and unadulterated BS!
Newt has been on the Manmade Global Warming wagon for the last several years. He made a decision, supposedly based on that same “well researched” personality to jump on that train, to sit with Nanci, and to write that book (you know -that inconvenient “A Contract with The Earth” - that is a pro-manmade global warming pile of garbage.
You REALLY trust a man like that to run the Dept of Energy? He has, more than once, expressed support for Cap and Tax type legislation...
How can you post such hyperbole and name calling, all while completely ignoring the book Newt has published that completely contradicts every one of your points? How? We keep hearing how Newt is the one with the “Conservative Accomplishments” - unfortunately, he has thrown all that out the window for political expediency... and now wants it back...
Shall is the man who will continue to believe the lies. Or as the Bible puts it (in reference to returning to sin) - “as a dog returneth to his vomit”...
Gingrich is professorial and that is a good thing. Many conservatives look down on intellectuals. We do that at our peril — the fact that most of our universities have gone left into cloud cuckoo land does not mean we should advocate ignorance. Some problems require considerable intellect even to address, let alone solve.
The problem of evaluating a professorial candidate is that such men write books — lots of them — and a fair evaluation of their views requires reading hundreds or thousands of pages of what they've written and what others have written about them.
Energy policy simply is not an area in which I have expertise; not only have I not read what Gingrich has written on this issue, I'm not sure I have the background competence to understand him. That means what I know about Gingrich's views on energy policy is what I read that others have written about him, and I think C. Edmund Wright and TheBattman are accurate reflections of radically different views I hear from conservatives on what they think about Gingrich on energy policy.
I welcome this discussion and hope it continues.
Much as I would like a Santorum presidency, can he really get masses of Americans behind him the way Romney could ? I choose to withhold celebrations until I am convinced that Santorum can get mainstream Americans to place their faith in his plans to permanently solve the unemployment crisis, lower our debt and make our economy as stable as it was in the 80s and 90s. It’s been official for a while now that Americans by and large care about that WAY more than anything else, including terror threats.
You started the name calling idiot, I was giving it back to you so you could see how childish it seems. Sorry I over estimated your ability to figure things out.
You are the epitome of a half baked half researched idiot who ignores fully half of history because it doesn’t line up with your view.
To demonstrate the superiority of my argument, I did not deny the reality of the book and in fact mentioned that I totally disagreed with it. I did point out true facts about Newt and the oil industry and his research on it, which is all historical facts.
I am historical. You are hysterical. I doubt that even when I am not angry any more, that I will have any different notion of your ability to engage in anything resembling adult conversation, so, BYE.
If no one is massing around Romney in his own party, how is he going to get anyone behind him in the general?
Just go through some of these swing states and add Newts and Ricks numbers compared to Milts. Milt cannot even consolidate his base for crying out loud.
Santorum has a message that resonates with middle class voters. He is winning these people in elections. He also has very high favorables even though the MSM and the GOPe is slamming him as a puritanical religious zealot.
Battman and some other children do not wish to have the serious conversation on energy that you would like to have unfortunately. They would rather continue to misinterpret and over analyze the Pelosi PSA and make themselves out like they are some kind of witty genius on energy.
That PSA aside, look up historical info on “American Solutions,” a PAC Newt has run for years, and see how they have been, with Sarah Palin, leading on the pro drilling front. Look also at Newt.org or simply google Newt and energy and spend a few minutes seeing how researched Newt is on energy and how vital he thinks it is.
Meanwhile, Batman can stay in Romper Room and luxuirate in his blithering ignorance and leave us adults to have serious conversations, which I will gladly engage in.
Why do headline writers write headlines using the same sentence structure as Yoda?
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