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Happy New Year, all- Like him or not, Newt's a hoot. New Year's Resolution for the conservative pres. candidates. If 7 days out from a state primary, a candidate is down by more than 5 pts based on Real Clear Pol. consensus- -- that candidate withdraws from that state's race.

-:)

1 posted on 01/01/2012 4:40:30 PM PST by VinL
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To: VinL

Beating Romney is so easy even McCain did it.


2 posted on 01/01/2012 4:43:04 PM PST by PAConservative1
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To: VinL

Based on “margin of errors” and polls being manipulated, not a good idea.


3 posted on 01/01/2012 4:43:39 PM PST by VicVega ( GEAUX LSU TIGERS, GEAUX SAINTS)
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To: VinL

LOL


4 posted on 01/01/2012 4:44:34 PM PST by iowamark
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To: VinL
Gingrich's nautical attack was a reference to a 2004 TV ad campaign by a group called the "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" that bloodied Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

I wonder if Gingrich realizes that the Swiftboat Veterans' ads against Kerry were also true.

5 posted on 01/01/2012 4:45:57 PM PST by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)
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To: VinL

The Iowa Caucus is a joke. Just ask anyone who won while being opposed.


6 posted on 01/01/2012 4:47:27 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: VinL

Newtis right on all counts.

It’s a fact that Romney is trying to buy the presidency.

Just wait until he runs into obama’s $1 Billion of attack ads, -— that is, provided he’s the nominee.


8 posted on 01/01/2012 4:51:53 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC:DONATE MONTHLY! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: VinL

Newtis right on all counts.

It’s a fact that Romney is trying to buy the presidency.

Just wait until he runs into obama’s $1 Billion of attack ads, -— that is, provided he’s the nominee.


9 posted on 01/01/2012 4:52:02 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC:DONATE MONTHLY! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: VinL

Interesting that he holds the same perspective on “swiftboating” as the dhimmicrats. To conservatives swiftboating means to draw back the curtains and reveal the truth about something or someone.


11 posted on 01/01/2012 4:54:20 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: VinL
It's similar to when Reagon said he paid for this mike and he was going to get his say. Same with Newt.


12 posted on 01/01/2012 4:55:01 PM PST by show
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To: VinL

Can’t stand Gingrich, but I agree he can be entertaining.


13 posted on 01/01/2012 4:57:56 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: VinL

Gingrich is a better truth teller than Romney is.


14 posted on 01/01/2012 4:58:30 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: VinL

So Newt is comparing Romney’s attacks to a conservative group whose allegations were LARGELY TRUE! Newt is basically saying the Swift-Boaters were liars which is still another example of his tone-deafness when it comes to conservative thought.

Really, why are so many of you falling for this man???


17 posted on 01/01/2012 5:06:46 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: VinL
Gingrich, who has pledged to run a positive campaign, sought to make up ground by attacking Romney — and promised more to come.

Even as he attacked Romney, Gingrich insisted he would not go negative — which he defined as distortions and lies — but would work to correct misleading charges against himself and draw a clearer contrast with Romney. He said a counter-offensive would probably include television ads.

“New Hampshire is the perfect state to have a debate over Romneycare and to have a debate about tax-paid abortions, which he signed, and to have a debate about putting Planned Parenthood on a government board, which he signed. And to have a debate about appointing liberal judges, which he did,” Gingrich told reporters at a stop in Marshalltown.

“And so I think New Hampshire is a good place to start the debate for South Carolina.”
- Washington Post
About time. Too late for Iowa. If he kept with this current strategy it would have not served him well...
18 posted on 01/01/2012 5:11:47 PM PST by TBBT
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To: VinL

I don’t find Newt funny at all. I don’t appreciate him using a term wrongly coined by the Rats to mean.


35 posted on 01/01/2012 5:47:11 PM PST by fightinJAG (So many seem to have lost their sense of smell . . .)
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To: VinL
Every GOP candidate has been backstabbed by
saboteurs for the vicious, coward Romney.

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 pts. days prior to September 18th, 2008.
So the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

Romney for Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."


The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.


"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."


"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."


"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"



41 posted on 01/01/2012 5:54:52 PM PST by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: VinL

Strongly dislike Gingrich’s implication that the 2004 Swift Boat ads were false or improper.


42 posted on 01/01/2012 5:54:56 PM PST by pogo101
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To: VinL

romney boated? as in swift boated? so he is using leftist line of thought?


66 posted on 01/01/2012 7:35:16 PM PST by skaterboy (Hate=Love....Love=Hate)
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To: VinL
Wow, Gingrich has shown his true face. By saying he was "Romney-boated" he means one of 2 things:

1. The charges that Romney is making are true. (Just as the Swiftboat charges were true.)

2.(What I believe he is saying) The Swiftboat Veterans were liars, just as Romney is a liar. HE IS TAKING KERRY'S SIDE! Is that what conservatives are supposed to do, take Kerry's side and call our veterans liars? I never thought Gingrich was this bad. Do we want a president who will insult veterans like this? Gingrich is outrageous and needs to be called his attack on veterans and siding with Kerry.

80 posted on 01/02/2012 12:35:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
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