Posted on 03/18/2012 12:18:16 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
After today’s “This Week” roundtable, I spoke more with former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour about his views on the Republican presidential race, whether he regrets not getting into the contest, and his defense of his controversial pardons before leaving office in January.
Barbour told me that he voted for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in last week’s Mississippi primary, saying, “out of friendship, I voted for Newt.”
“I didn’t endorse anybody [before the primary],” Barbour told me. “I didn’t want to try to influence anybody’s vote, so beforehand I didn’t say who I voted for. But Newt and I have been friends a long, long time.”
....The former Republican National Committee chairman said he had no regrets about not entering the GOP race himself, saying he “never had the fire in the belly” to run for president.
“I made a very conscious decision after months and months of serious deliberation,” Barbour said. “I’ve been around long enough, been in enough campaigns: You either gotta be all in or not in at all.”
If he had run, Barbour said he would have worked to keep more of the focus on President Obama’s record on the economy and deficits.
“Every time that we spend a minute not talking about Obama’s policies and the failed results of those policies, then we’re not taking advantage of our best ground,” Barbour said...........
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That settles it then Newt will win for sure.
No we would rather be squabbling about contraceptives, porn, and English in Puerto Rico. Those are the hills that real conservatives want to live or die on.
Well, Zell Miller sees the same thing happening to the Republican Party (but not being taken over by "right wing extremists" but rather a GOP-e who has turned their back on Reagan conservatism).
"Former Georgia Governor and United States Senator Zell Miller, is national co-chairman of the Newt 2012 campaign. Georgia’s current Governor, Nathan Deal, is the other co-chairman of the Newt 2012 campaign." Source
I know!!
Smart minds know
They want Newt to win but they like others, will not go public.
It would seem those who owe for past favors, and those who want party backing in the future, have made a “deal” with the GOP-e.
If they won’t endorse Mitt, they must sit silent.
Newt, Haley, and Evelyn McPhail orchestrated the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress. Of course, Haley voted for Newt. I should have figured that out from Haley’s silence on the subject prior to the primary in MS. I have a hard time stomaching the idea of any of these candidates as POTUS, but Newt is the best of the ones left. He just doesn’t have the like ability factor.
I wonder if this revelation will move some Louisiana voters over to Newt?
Wow. Thanks Haley. Next time maybe you could get behind Newt before the vote. Just a thought.
Since Newt has apparently lost his abilitity to recover, it is timefor him to do the right thing and bow out. If he is a part of the establishment, he will not do this, for as it now stands, he is key for Romney’s victory.
Since Newt has apparently lost his abilitity to recover, it is timefor him to do the right thing and bow out. If he is a part of the establishment, he will not do this, for as it now stands, he is key for Romney’s victory.
I don’t think it is a slam. Newt is not warm and squishy or a shuckster. The slam is more on the shallow voters who want a president who makes them feel good. Newt comes across as an intellectual. I love that. I loved that about Dick Cheney.
If Newt gets out.....
GALLUP: ROMNEY, SANTORUM TIE AS GINGRICH VOTERS' SECOND CHOICE
Telling it like it is!
Cheney/Rumsfeld.
A ticket for the ages. Too bad they’re not so inclined and a bit too elderly now, but they would take names and kick @ss.
Romney wins... Unions win..
Santorum wins.. Unions win..
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