[Williams]

“Newt would have crushed King Obama by now....”

Newt would have self destructed by now. I watched Newt self destruct against Romney. How could Newt possibly withstand a campaign by Obama when he couldn’t even hold the respect of the republican base?

[ClearCase_guy]

My recollection of two of the Republican debates is as follows:

1) Newt attacks the moderator, attacks the press, and gets a standing ovation -- nearly unprecedented at a presidential debate.
2) Newt attacks the moderator and totally humiliates him. Newt received two standing ovations in this particular debate.

It was at that point that national coverage of Newt's campaign basically came to a complete stop. He was invisible. He ceased to exist. He actually had money, he campaigned in many locations, and campaigned effectively -- but the media decided that he didn't exist.

Failure to hold the respect of the republican base is not what sank Newt.

[muawiyah]

You didn't see Newt self destruct against anybody. He ran out of money to pay to counter Romney's negative ads somewhere.

We have yet to get any of Romney's campaigning ~ this is Virginia. He stops and sees a few wealthy people and asks them to donate more money but there's no dealing directly with the people.

This, BTW, is the KEY state in the entire election and you just don't see Romney acting like that is reality.

I think he wants to lose.