Posted on 01/20/2012 9:40:04 AM PST by TBBT
Gallup chief: Romney support 'collapsing'
"Beck just said about who he would vote for, “Better the Devil you know, (Obama) than the Devil you don’t know”(Gingrich)."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2835412/posts?page=140#140
I lost most of the respect that I had for Beck a few weeks ago, and it is totally gone now. He is a putz.
Actually, I think Romney had a chance. If he would have publicly stated that in hindsight Romneycare was a mistake, promised he wouldn’t do it again, and promised to repeal Obamacare, I think more people would have forgiven his other flip-flops. But the bottom line is most people don’t trust him to repeal Obamacare because of his stubborn defense of Romneycare. I think that was his deal breaker and the reason he could never get over 25%.
I too support Newt. I still don’t think that Beck support Romney, but Ron Paul. Either way, it probably don’t matter because Newt’s going to win. (I don’t “love a single candidate” but of the two that I don’t loathe, one’s an ok choice, and the other’s dangerous).
I quit supporting Beck when he made fun of people who questioned Obama’s patently false birth forgetificate. I catch him here and there, but there’s zero logical reason to think he support Romney (although there are logical reasons for why he won’t openly trash him), but I realize people are entitled to their own opinions, based on their own understanding, etc. So that’s just mine.
I know you didn’t ping that to me, but thanks for posting it. I quit supporting Beck after his “Birther” comedy act. Not again!
I think his answers on the tax returns are just killing him. Those boos represent it and even FOX and Romney’s best media allies seem to be unable to defend his answers on those. I think it also lends retroactive credibility to the attacks on Bain, because it now seems there’s something in his financial career he wants to hide. Luckily the media’s continued to bring up Bain in the debates, which is certainly indicative of what they’d do in the general election. I still believe it was absolutely necessary that his opponents brought up Bain, because his business career is the one thing about him that is really seen as the positive quality in the minds of voters.
Please let it be.
Off topic, but is anyone else finding FR to be slow? It’s my third try at posting on this thread.
Ah, folks are finally realizing what many of us know...RINOmeny is a vapid dork.
Sorry no, they rail on Dr. Paul in pretty much every segment. They say he is “dangerous”, a “kook” all the other pablum you hear spewed everywhere. I hate to derail the thread but there are reasons, real reasons why his message is reverberating with people. He may not be right on everything but to dismiss him entirely is to dismiss the chance to accept into the platform the ideas that will work and get his supporters to come into the fold and vote republican in Nov.
Too many people are letting their personal distaste for his foreign policy get in the way of a real opportunity to change the way our government spends money and manages the economy as well as increase the size of the republican party. Especially attracting voters in the younger generation. Also, please spare me the drug user references, let’s just assume you said them shall we?
Well, that sold me....... on NEWT. Beck is so 2011.
Santorum is obviously a nice guy, but like many have noted, he just doesn’t act Presidential. His little speil about “i do my own taxes and my computer is home” was as lame a squirm as was Mitt’s.
I have yet to hear one word of his regret for backing Turncoat “what’s his name Senator from Penn”.
At this point, there aren’t enough sharks in the ocean for beck to jump over.
I don’t want any of those liberals
I certainly hope so!
Who cares what Beck says. Not relevant.
That is the Change I’ve been Hoping for!
That's where a record comes in. Not just the record of votes, which is often a meaningless toll of positions taken for political reasons on bills that were always going to pass or were never going to pass, but a record of actions taken that actually mattered.
A record of actions taken that actually mattered. Newt is the man who fits that description to a "T".
He can identify what is most important to the country, develop a plan to overcome that challenge, articulate the the merits of overcoming the challenge and why the plan will work.
I hadn't been for Gingrich initially and spent plenty of energy excoriating him, these last several years, for any number of sins he committed against the Republican/Conservative ideals. He seemed a turncoat of sorts, particularly when he babysat Pelosi on the couch.
On reflection, Newt is an attention whore seeking relevancy for his ideas and I guess I take him at his word that he made a few mistakes in his life and he has at least some regret for those decisions. God knows I am no angel and so I have to reflect on the man's ability to get things done.
Newt gave us the Republican majority, the Contract with America and completed 2/3rds of his agenda while in office.
He now has a new plan for America and with what is likely to become a Congressional Super Majority and a Senate Majority, if not Super Majority, I believe he will absolutely accomplish his agenda.
Say goodbye to ObamaCare the single biggest scam and travesty foisted upon a free people who, by right, ought to have been given the opportunity to read the bill and debate it. Instead, a win at all cost, cheating agenda was developed and it was signed with most people never laying eyes on at least page 2 of this utopian dreck.
Executive Orders Positions:
The following are all within the executive powers to simply order and with the exception of securing the border within one year, they are all easily accomplished with the stroke of a pen and no way to challenge them in the legislature.
Keystone may be challenged in the courts but I think the Executive can order the EPA to approve, under National Security Priorities and it is a National Security issue, as well, a jobs issue.
As President, Newt, could actually have a very busy 1st week or month just on these initiative alone.
1. Eliminate the thirty-nine White House "Czar" positions created during the current administration. The president does not have the authority to appoint bureaucrats to power who are not accountable to the Congress.
2. "Mexico City Policy" of Respect for Life. Reauthorize President Ronald Reagan’s policy – also known as the "Mexico City Policy"— to stop tax payer dollars from being used to fund or promote abortions in foreign countries.
3. Restore conscience clause protections for Healthcare Workers.No American working in a medical environment should be forced to perform any procedure that he or she finds morally or ethically objectionable based on religious teaching. This protection should include, but not be limited to abortion. Existing conscience clause protections need to be strengthened.
4. Respect Each Sovereign Nation’s Choice of its Capital. Each sovereign nation, under international law and custom, may designate its own Capital. Accordingly, the U.S. State Department should be instructed to respect the choice of each sovereign nation and place the American embassy in their Capital. (Israel is the only country the United States discriminates against in this regard. The people of Israel have designated Jerusalem as their capital. Yet the United States retains its embassy in Tel Aviv.)
5. End the Attorney General's Assault on the States. Instruct the Attorney General to withdraw all immigration-related lawsuits against states immediately, including those pending in Arizona and South Carolina. The Obama Administration refuses to enforce federal immigration laws, and instead sues states who are merely trying to enforce the laws that the federal government neglects. The Gingrich Administration will secure the border by Jan. 1, 2014 by any means necessary.
Unleash American Energy by Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline. Instruct the State Department to approve a Presidential Permit immediately for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that will send 700,000 barrels of oil a day from Great Plains and Southwestern states to Gulf Coast refineries lower staggering energy prices, and create up to 120,000 American jobs.
Now we get into the details of an inclusive agenda that brings the people(you and me), through their representatives, into process. The TEA Party and conservatives are going to have a majority in both houses.
Let’s elect an Executive who will absolutely fulfill the promise of our ideals.
Newt gave us the three most important victories of the 90’s Welfare Reform, Balanced Budget and Reduced Taxes. I hope I don’t need to describe the benefits of those victories. They ought to be obvious to everyone by now.
Lastly, there have been some reports that Newt shouldn’t get all the credit. Really? Then perhaps we marginalize the accomplishments of Washington, Roosevelt, Kennedy and ….wait for it… Reagan.
Do we really want to go down the road with that kind of adolescent sophistry and parsing of what happened?
Newt is the guy who thought of these big things, proposed them and shepherded their implementation?
Newt has once again identified what is important to us now, at this time and described how we can get there with our representative majorities. He has done it before and I declare Newt Gingrich was then and is Now a leader.
We should elect Newt Gingrich to the Presidency of the United States
I actually happen to agre with you. I think Ron Paul has a lot to offer, and he is definitely a strict constructionist. That having been said, you can support the U.S. Constitution and make terrible, and dangerous, choices. I think he’s right in the capacity that the number one threat to national security is our debt. It’s not as pointed and visible as a jihadi (also dangerous), but the debt will crush us even more than a nuke can, if it continues to run rampant.
And while you putting words in my mouth is offensive (re: “Drug user references”), it’s understandable. over 1% of our population is in prison, at time nearing 1.5%. That’s nearly 1 in 60 people. AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Between 1/2 and 1/3 of ALL youths are arrested/detained by the time they reach adulthood. And we have the largest prison population in the entire world. In fact, per capita, we have over 5x the next country, Communist China (we have more in both numbers, and per capita). Most of these political prisoners are a result of the “war on drugs.” (Which should actually be entitled “Failed Prohibition, part 2.”)
I may not agree with Ron Paul on a number of issues, but that doesn’t mean he has nothing to bring to the table. That having been said, having something to bring to the table DOES NOT mean he would make a good president. I don’t think any of the candidates are great, or even good. But I think Newt can have his feet held to the fire, and do an ok job (without getting the debt under control it’s just a matter of a few years anyway). Also, I think that Newt is getting more conservative with age, and I’m seriously starting to question if Dr. Paul is not getting a bit, for lack of a better word, “loopy” with age. I therefore, have decided to support Gingrich (as of Monday) out of the remaining GOP contestents, if the dynamics of the race radically change (ie. someone else jumps in who I would be enthusiastic to support), I make no promises (though that’s very unlikely).
I support Newt too, so something may have been lost in that exchange. And I agree with you on everything you just said.
My distaste for Santorum runs second only to my distaste for Perry, followed by Romney. Santorum is a petulent child who couldn’t even win his own seat in a period in which over 90% of incumbents win. He has NEVER been a factor, even in Iowa. Iowa was a rigged game to shuffle Paul votes over to Santorum and Romney (I watched the Fox News clip, myself). They didn’t go for Romney, but to Santurum, who had always, did in New Hampshire, and is still, even now, in the GOP basement. No one (overall) wants him, no one likes him, and he doesn’t like anyone else, either.
Oh my gosh, Please let Cain be gone forever.
And I don’t like the idea of a brokered convention at all.
Particularly when you mention those two candidates.
We don’t know what the heck would happen at a brokered convention and it might not be good.
We have a decent candidate ... not perfect, but decent.
Let’s support Gingrich and hope he’s the man he could be.
Enjoyed your well written post.
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