Posted on 11/16/2011 7:20:50 PM PST by TBBT
I have been agnostic on the Republican primary so far, but the time for choosing has arrived.
For the reasons set forth below, I believe that the primaries will come down to Mitt Romney versus Newt Gingrich. As such, the choice is not between Newt Gingrich and some hypothetical more perfect conservative candidate, as Newt’s most vocal critics would have us believe.
I’m supporting Newt Gingrich as the most conservative Republican who is electable and most qualified for the position of President.
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NOOT is a joke, and a danged bad one at that! He’s flip-flopped almost as badly as Willard, and has not sounded like a conservative at all during the last dozen years or so.
I’ll hold my nose and vote for him in the general, but the MSM will tear him up and Obozo will win in a landslide.
Who cares who this guy supports.
Who were you for 2 months ago?
While I would love it to be Cain/Gingrich, I could fully support a Gingrich/Cain ticket.
Obama will never be able to win an election ever again, anywhere on earth.
Newt is McCain II.
At least he’s consistent about cheating on and divorcing his wifes. They start to get sick and, boom, they’re gone.
There was a reason why we rejected him right away when he announced.
Cain has been flavor of the month, Perry has been flavor of the month, Bachmann has been flavor of the month. They got to be flavor of the month because there was or is something interesting about each of them, and we were unaware of each of their flaws. Now we know their flaws, and they all have lost or are losing their popularity.
We know Newts flaws. A long list of personal failings, and insufficiently conservative.
Newt’s argument seems to be “the people you’ve put at flavor of the month have all collapsed”. Also, not a bad debater.
That’s really not enough. Santorum is actually a better debater than Newt. Santorum can’t not attack. And he’s smart as well. And a true Social Conservative. Not a tea party conservative, but Newt’s a RINO.
We really don’t need to decide right now. When people are trying to push Newt as a Conservative, it’s time to take a big step back. No need to rush to judgement.
Wasn’t NEWT responsible for NAFTA & GAT?
How many tickets out of Iowa?
Newt’s going to have to build a ground game in Iowa pretty quick.
The Amnesty penchant alone renders everything else he might say out of the right side of his mouth as moot. Once you have 12-40 million new voting Democrat Socialists in the population you also get a one-party Democrat Unitary State very soon regardless how conservative you are.
Newt hasn’t changed. We knew who Newt was 2 months ago. And he hasn’t done anything, and really can’t do anything, to change our collective perception of him as unacceptable RINO.
He would’ve been in 1st place the whole year if we liked him.
We already know him. We aren’t learning anything to make him rise in the polls. If we thought he should be in 6th place, with 4%, 2 months ago, there’s no reason why he shouldn’t still be there.
Okay, I’m not a Gingrich fan but I think many on FR are being a little silly towards him. He is not a RINO, that is just a stupid thing to say.
He has thirty-five years of a political career to look at. He was a very conservative Congressman from Georgia for a very long time. They don’t elect RINOS. He destroyed Jim Wright, RINOS don’t do that. He along with many others orchestrated the first Republican House majority since Eisenhower, and replaced Bob Michael who was a RINO.
He helped along with Phil Gramm and Bob Walker and others to pass the Reagan economic program in the 1980s. It was Gingrich that began to use Congressional television to nightly present the Conservative message to the country. He was very much responsible for balanced budgets, welfare reform, tax reform etc. while in the House.
Does he have baggage? Sure, but doesn’t Cain and Perry?
This is going to come down to a choice between Gingrich and Romney and to say they are both RINOs is idiotic for one thing and sitting out the election because of that belief dooms our nation to huge deficits, double digit unemployment and weak foreign policy. A high price to pay for the search for the perfect Conservative candidate, a bar that not even Ronald Reagan could have met.
It is time to direct our fire on the real enemy of the country Barry Hussein Obama.
It’s past time for Rick Santorum to be flavor of the month, but PA people won’t back him.
But until he gets a bump, and gets ripped apart, we can’t make any valid argument for Newt.
Newt’s resume has more bad stuff than Santorums resume. And we don’t know anything really about Santorum.
Newt is peaking too early.
Rick’s a Socon, he should be able to do pretty well with evangelicals in Iowa.
There is no reason at all to claim that “it’s time” to do anything.
The tea party conservative will battle until the end against the establishment RINO.
Newt vs Romney is Establishment vs Establishment. If tea party flirts with supporting Newt, or Romney, one tv commercial will solve that. There still will be a tea party candidate, and this is a good year for a tea party candidate, since they did great ground game last Fall. Cain, Bachmann, Paul are tea party.
Really now. Quite a bold move.
I could support any of them but Perry in Nov 2012.
Unless you were one of Newt’s wives, why do you care about his sex life?
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