I will support Newt over Romney, but don’t ask me to be happy about it. I’m still hoping somebody beside Ron Paul surges or an acceptable outsider jumps in.
You wrote: “I will support Newt over Romney, but don’t ask me to be happy about it. I’m still hoping somebody beside Ron Paul surges or an acceptable outsider jumps in.”
Me too. bttt
We still have HOPE:
Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball
12/08/2011
2012 Republican Race: The Field May Not Be Closed
Conventional wisdom is that the Republican presidential field is set, and that it is much too late for a new candidate to enter the race.
In years past, that would be absolutely correct. Over the last few decades, dozens of primaries and caucuses have been shoe-horned into the opening weeks of the election year, with the tendency on the Republican side for the front-running candidate to score a quick knockout.
But next year, the arrangement of the primary calendar is much different. It is less condensed at the front, much more loaded with events at the back, with the prospect of a viable, late-starting candidate quite real.
[snip] Continue reading here: http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/
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Could Sarah Palin Still Get in the Race?
“.....Feb. 14 is the last day that a late entrant could enter the race and reasonably be expected to do well in subsequent races.
The scenario looks something like this: http://voices.yahoo.com/could-sarah-palin-still-race-10634503.html?cat=9
Here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/2818051/posts?page=19#19
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Rush warns GOP not to pick candidate because they sound smart
The Right Scoop on Dec 12, 2011
Rush is convinced that Newt is high in the polls in part because he sounds very smart and has done well in the debates. But he says it’s not going to go well for us if we simply choose a candidate because they sound smart. In fact he says that once we get past the nomination, debates play a very small part in who becomes president:
VIDEO: http://www.therightscoop.com/rush-warns-gop-not-to-pick-candidate-because-they-sound-smart/
Newt makes no apologies for his support of the climate change myth, ——despite criticism from all over the right including Rush Limbaugh, who argued on his radio show that the former Georgia congressman had been aiding the “enemy.”———
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November 3, 2009
Top 10 Moderate GOP Moments: They All Lead to Our Losing and Democrats Winning
http://img.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110309/content/01125112.member.html
Dick Nixon resigning, Ford-Dole ‘76, Bush-Quayle ‘92, Dole-Kemp, Specter and Jeffords switching, Colin Powell endorsing Obama, —————Newt holding hands with Pelosi, Scozzafava, -————McCain 2008. .....
Why do people in our party allow themselves to be defined, manipulated, flaked, formed, shaped, whatever, by these Democrats?” ‘Cause they appease them. They want to be liked. They want to be accepted where they live, in Washington, DC, and in New York.
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Mon, 08 Jun 2009
Explaining Reagan to Newt: We’re Conservatives, Not Purists
Reagan attracted the moderates and independents. He didn’t pander. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)
“For the record, -——Newt and the rest of you in the Drive-By Media———, I’m not a ‘purist.’ I’m a conservative. Yeah, Reagan got a lot of independents and Democrats, but how? He didn’t pretend he was one of them! Colin Powell endorsed Obama at a strategic moment to harm McCain the most. If Powell is the model for the party, there’s no reason to ever vote Republican again.” -Rush
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1/19/2009
http://johnhames.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/rush-in-a-hurry-rush-refuses-to-join-the-obama-cult/
Last Man Standing: -——Unlike Newt and many other Republicans, Rush refuses to drink the Kool-Aid -—— and join the cult of Obama. If you oppose Obama’s agenda to socialize America and change it for the worse, why shut up? (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Conservatism Over Republicanism — The difference between Rush and Newt.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/07/26/total_stack_of_stuff
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September 14, 2010 The Limbaugh Rule: Vote for Most Conservative Candidate in Primary
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2815916/posts?page=193#193
RUSH: “.....Let me expand a little bit here on the Limbaugh Rule, which needs to take over from the Buckley Rule. You know, some of these people on our side — who all of a sudden now — lovingly invoke the Buckley Rule are the same people who told us, ——”The era of Reagan is over.”~ Newt Gingrich -—— Well, Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan were inseparably good friends. Isn’t the era of Buckley over? Isn’t it amazing how selectively these people call up some of our heroes and use little slivers of what they’ve said or believed? Buckley ran against a RINO Republican for mayor of New York knowing full well he had no chance of winning. He violated his own rule then! “Buckley says you vote for the Republican most likely to win.” ...”
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The Newt of the ‘80s Wouldn’t Get Tangled Up in This Mandate Mess
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2721974/posts?page=6#6
RUSH: “....Then it all came to fruition when we won the House in 1994 and all these guys are sworn in, and they’re in the leadership of the House of Representatives. And all of us familiar with what had gone on in the eighties, the special orders, we’d blown the place up with the House bank and the House post office. We had exposed that, some of the most profound corruption around on the Democrat side. And it seemed like there would be nothing stopping this conservative advance.
And then, fast forward to a couple, three years ago -———and Newt Gingrich is among those saying the era of Reagan is over-———, and I can’t tell you how that devastated me. The one man who was single-handedly leading a movement to defend Reagan to the American people, who understood Reaganism as much as Reagan did, the economics of it, the social issue side, cultural side. Somebody like Newt who had once been able to articulate from the heart all those things he was saying, to say that the era of Reagan was over, it did not compute with me, because it’s never been over as far as I’m concerned. ....”
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November 23, 2011
Newt Says Let Illegals Stay, Drawing Raves from CNN Liberals for Having a Heart
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/11/23/newt_says_let_illegals_stay_drawing_raves_from_cnn_liberals_for_having_a_heart
“....You don’t just come up with idea after idea and throw your ideas out as policy. There’s a big difference in having an idea and having the idea become official policy.
This is what got Newt in trouble with the individual mandate. Out of the blue, “Oh, yeah, I think everybody ought to be forced to have skin in the game.” He probably hasn’t even thought about it, just off the top of his head, bammo, but it assumed it was official Newt policy. The same thing with global warming on the couch with Pelosi. Whatever the calculation was, it was of the moment. We’re talking about immigration. The fact is — and we’ve been over this countless times — you must first and foremost secure the border. Any non-enforcement approach is going to be a magnet. So, how would Newt do that? ....
.......Before we start talking about deportation or what to do with the people that are here and however long they’ve been here, we’ve got to secure the border. That remains the sieve. That remains the ongoing problem, national security problem, immigration problem. And so securing the border also means dealing with the pro-illegal alien lobby, and they’re big out there. A bunch of people who are pro-illegal alien who don’t want to secure the border.
So this has now become ———something that people are shooting at Newt at, which stands to reason, and I’m not criticizing anybody shooting at him for it.——— He’s put it out there, and he’s done it in a debate, first time anybody’s ever of heard of it now as a policy statement rather than idea. If Newt had said, “I have been thinking about this. One of the things I’m thinking about is,” and then mention this, “we have to think about it a little further,” it would be reacted to in an entirely different way last night and today. But the way he threw it out there, as full-fledged policy, -———okay, that means we can shoot at it.———— .....”
Yes, but will you support a conservative over Newt?