Posted on 11/22/2011 6:29:07 AM PST by katiedidit1
Newt Gingrich gets good and bad news from polls today, one taken nationally and the other in the key primary state of New Hampshire. The national poll taken by Quinnipiac shows him doubling his support in the last three weeks to jump into the lead, 26/22, over Mitt Romney. He bests Romney in a two-man race by a wider margin, but still hasn’t gained much traction against Barack Obama:
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Newt ..the comeback kid leads in another poll...http://blog.nj.com/njv_john_farmer/2011/11/newt_gingrich_the_comeback_kid.html
Newt is going to pick a woman too? who could that possibly be?
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It was a woman and it was not Bachman, can’t remember the name but some woman from the north east. They also said he had 16 possible running mates.
If the candidates came with a vehicle:
Newt is U-Haul truck, and it’s full of baggage. However, within that baggage is a warehouse of great ideas, and a track record of fiscal responsibility, acceptable social conservative voting record (albeit not so much in his personal life), and a vision of the future that makes more sense than anyone else’s.
Mitt is a shiny limo, but all that’s inside of it is an empty suit and good hair. There are bottles on the shelf labeled “whiskey” and “vodka”, but inside, there’s nothing but plain water. We’ve tasted it, it tastes like water, but he insists it’s vodka and whiskey.
Perry is a big truck with Texas plates and horns on the hood, but it’s being driven by 38 illegal immigrants.
Santorum is a minivan full of his 7 kids and some nice shiny ideas, but, it’s a MINIVAN.
Ron Paul is a ‘77 Pinto. Cheap, efficient, and bare bones, but it’s so old and rusty nobody wants it.
I can’t think of any for the other candidates...
I still support Rick Perry because he has the best ideas and resolve of the entire bunch. The man is solid as a rock and exactly what this country needs. My support will not waiver.
I didn’t hear that about Newt. My response was concerning Mitt’s announcement on his VP selection.
Mitt, the slow-socialist-in-disguise or
Newt, the quintessential insider-who-morphs-into-conservatism-when-convenient.
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I don't see either of these winning against Obama next fall.
More and more, it seems the GOP are going to be satisfied with possibly gaining the Senate and conceding the WH to Obama (or his replacement?) and the Dems.
Romney hangs on at about 21% and his numbers are not fluctuating much at all. 19% are still undecided on any of the wannabes.
Gingrich is this flavor of the week (hopefully).
I heard someone on CNN stating that Newt is “just too mean.”
First off, he’s a lot “nicer” than he used to be.
Secondly, we’re electing a President, not a frickin’ Prom King.
Obama’s biggest failure is his inability to handle
the economic problems. There is no way that he would ever be
reelected, even running against Romney.
Very good;)
Huntsman’s is a made-in-China limo.
Bachman has a school bus for all her adopted kids.
Agree....! Obama will loose in a landslide regardless of who the opponent is.
He’s Gone.....!!!
No way Romney beats Obama.
CNN would cry if they had a bad hair day...so Newt is mean. Patton was mean...we need someone with a tough hide to clean up the mess. America’s future is at stake.
If the election is held today, I agree, but who knows what the government’s figure for unemployment will be next year? If it is below 8%, as terrible as that figure is, the media will paint him as a genius (even though when it jumped to 5% under Bush in 2004 they said it was the worst economy since the depression)
If you’re faced with a u-haul with some good stuff and bad stuff you can unload the good and try to keep the bad stuff on....some of the bad will eventually get unloaded or just fall off. Everyone comes with baggage and has to be weighed as to whether the good stuff outweighs the bad. Everyone has to make that decision themselves and I personally try not to judge them. Baggage andf all I would take any of these candidates over Zero...even Mitt!!!
I will gladly vote for a person who can eloquently express conservative principles and has a record moving them forward legislatively.
GO NEWT!
I highly doubt it would be Bachmann. He will probably be more concerned with winning independents than shoring up the base, and Bachmann doesn’t bring anything to the table there.
The potential female running mate I’ve heard mentioned with any seriousness so far is Nikki Haley. I haven’t followed her career closely enough to form an opinion as to whether that would be a good idea, though.
**I heard someone on CNN stating that Newt is “just too mean.”**
It’s called ‘tough love’ and telling the truth.
Sorta like Truman - see his quotes:
http://listverse.com/2007/12/19/top-25-quotes-of-harry-truman/
1. There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
2. The buck stops here.
3. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
4. A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants
5. All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
6.. Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
7. Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
8. Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
9. I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
10. I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
11. It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
12. My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.
13. Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
14. When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril.
15. You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
16. You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
17. The Republicans believe in the minimum wage — the more the minimum, the better.
18. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.
19. Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
20. Republicans don’t like people who talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don’t talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.
21. These polls that the Republican candidate is putting out are like sleeping pills designed to lull the voters into sleeping on election day. You might call them sleeping polls.
22. Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, “Two cars in every garage”. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, “Two families in every garage”.
23. Any denial of human rights is a denial of the basic beliefs of democracy.
24. There isn’t any doubt that a woman would make a good president. They make good senators, good members of the House of Representatives, and have held other important offices in the government of the United States.
25. I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
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