Posted on 11/22/2011 8:37:01 AM PST by MNJohnnie
Whether the matchup between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney is the final bout on the GOP primary card is impossible to know. The whole season has been more like professional wrestling than boxing, with weird characters sporting implausible hair appearing out of nowhere to talk smack and explain why they are the greatest in the world (I'm looking at you in particular, Mr. Trump).
Still, let's assume for the moment that it's a Gingrich-Romney contest.
It's quite a matchup. Romney has been brutalized for having too little personality, Gingrich for having way, way too much. Romney looks like the picture that comes with the frame. Gingrich looks like he should be ensconced in royal velvet as he gestures at you with a half-eaten turkey leg in one hand and a sloshing goblet of wine Gingrichin the other. Romney seems terrified of fully committing to any idea. Gingrich speaks as if he just text-messaged with God.
Gingrich would have everyone believe he is the winner of the anti-Romney mantle not merely by default but by hard-won effort and a well-deserved reputation for conservative steadfastness. Many in the media, meanwhile, think that since Gingrich's taking the slot once held by Palin, Bachmann, Cain and Perry, he is a conservative of similar stripe. And many liberals think that since they hate him so much, he must be really right wing. (They made the same mistake with Richard Nixon and George W. Bush, both of whom were far less ideologically conservative than their press clippings indicated.)
The reality is more complicated. For starters, it's not altogether clear that Gingrich is that far to the right of Romney.
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Nice steering. There is no "SC Tea Party." The gentleman in question was the chairman of the Columbia Tea Party.
FWIW, the chairman of the Aiken County Tea Party resigned his post to become the SC manager for Ron Paul.
NRO’s still in the Romney camp? Gee, what a shocker.
Cult of Newt? As opposed to Mittwits?
You just resorted to Cult of Personality follower debate tactics 1.
Cult of Personality debate tactic 1.
When incapable of making a rational defense of the cult figure's record or statement, divert attention off the cult leaders failing by going into hysteric personal attack mode at anyone challenging the PR spin being projected around the cult leader.
Columbia is in SC...it is the capitol. Yes, the guy is the head of the Columbia SC Teaparty...nice try
Leader of the Columbia, SC Tea Party resigned his position to campaign for Newt...Allen Olson, chairman of the Columbia Tea Party, said Tuesday he will resign his post in order to endorse former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich in his bid for the White House.
“There is only one candidate for president who is leading on what I believe are the underlying issues this country faces,” Olson said in a statement. “Not only is this candidate talking about serious issues, he is providing real solutions.”
Olson said the deciding factor in his choice to support Gingrich was his advocacy for the Strong America Now deficit-cutting plan which seeks to eliminate federal waste.
Olson said he will work with Gingrich’s team in the months to come to build a grassroots movement here in South Carolina.
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