Posted on 11/26/2011 1:27:05 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Unfortunately, Romney is going to be difficult to eliminate.
I think after Tuesdays debate the polls are going to move away from Newt. We’ll see.
Romney’s counting on the conservatives being split. I’d love to see him come in fourth in every state primary or caucus. Maybe then he’ll get the message.
Ask President Huckabee why it is so important to win in Iowa...
And Rick Perry is so irrelevant that they did not even want to waste the ink it would take to print his name.
Iowa
Likely Republican
Caucus Goers Nov 2011
Bachmann 6%
Cain 6%
Gingrich 27%
Huntsman 3%
Johnson -
Paul 16%
Perry 5%
Roemer -
Romney 20%
Santorum 6%
Other -
Undecided 11%
Regardless of what ‘some’ folks think of Newt, he will be far better than the alternatives... Romney or Obama.... and America is waking up to that fact.
Go Newt.....
Paul’s numbers continue to astound me. He’s solid in areas of fiscal and monetary policy but a train-wreck everywhere else. As far as I can figure he’s become somewhat of a cult figure.
Mr. Potato Head would be far better than Romney or 0bama.
Gingrich is looking good. I would assume that at some point the other people who want to be President will start using the time tested political campaign tools against Gingrich, like negative tv ads.
There might be a sizable pro-divorcing your wife on her deathbed (I know, the tumor wasn’t cancerous, etc) constituency, but I’m guessing there are very few who would be “More likely to vote for Gingrich if they knew that”.
RE: Ron Paul
My one main fear is the man might run as an Independent. We have a significant number of Ron Paul Cultists in America who will ensure a second Obama term if this happens.
AND move towards? You don’t have a clue.
Ditto what you said
Maybe a sizable number of people believe that “Conservative” means “smaller Government”, not “big government doing things that people who consider themselves Conservative like”.
He’s really the only one that people can trust to actually make cuts, because he’s the only one who actually votes against spending.
Some people believe that when the foreign policy is exactly the same whether it’s Bush, Clinton, Bush or Obama running the show, it really isn’t a “Conservative” foreign policy.
And if Ron Paul is the nominee, do you vote for Ron Paul in November 2012?
Does Bloomberg run as a 3rd party? Or Trump? Or Romney?
What “Ron Paul Cultists” are doing a lot of these days is calling Iowans in an organized fashion. Voter ID and GOTV.
Is he a Mormon too?
I’m not sure what a Ron Paul third-party run would do. A lot of the youth vote that went to Obama last time would shift to Paul, as would the votes of the kind of leftists who think Obama has just followed in Bush’s footsteps because of his failure to shut down Gitmo and his Libya intervention.
I suspect he’d prove to be more of a John Anderson than a Ross Perot.
After Newt wins in SC and Florida, its all over. These other so called contenders can kiss his butt to try for a good job.
I’d appoint Christie Atty Gen. He can finally cleanup Holder’s mess.
Big cheap narcissistic thrill for the nutcase perps, major headache and trouble for the nation.
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