Posted on 01/20/2012 12:20:21 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Snerdley, start answering phones, I'm gonna get to calls here. I want to find out what people thought about this. And, by the way, a specific question, was your mind changed? Have any of this that's happened in the last two debates changed your mind about anything? And don't worry, I'm going to tell you what I thought. It's just if I start out telling you what I thought then nobody's gonna care what you think. It would be anti-climactic to put you on after 
what I say, and so I'll save it. I'll save it. I'll just tell you, there is one apparently piece of conventional wisdom -- how best to put this? There's one area where I apparently am a lone wolf in my review of what happened last night. I can't find anybody who agrees with me. I'm alone. Well, as far as I know. Among the people that I have spoken to I hold a view of what happened last night alone.
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RUSH: Here's Don, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Great to have you on the program, sir, on Open Line Friday.
CALLER: Yeah, Rush, nice to be on the line with you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: The media might be surprised that I'm from South Carolina and I'm actually calling you on a smart phone. But you asked earlier if any of these debates --
RUSH: Yeah, but you probably had to leave the cockfight in order to make the call.
CALLER: Yeah, that's right. You asked if anybody's changed their mind over the last couple days of these debates. Well, I have. I was at the Myrtle Beach debate. Going into that, I was probably 60% leaning Romney. I was up to the belief that he was the only one that could beat Obama. After that debate, Newt really kinda raised up in my mind and really, after last night, I'm voting for Newt.
RUSH: Now, what was it specifically that Newt did that changed your mind?
CALLER: I'm a conservative and Mitt never really, you know, never really captured that in me, but I bought the idea that Mitt was the only one that could win it. I thought Mitt probably had too much baggage so really going into the Myrtle Beach debate I was kind of 60% Romney and 40% Santorum. Santorum, to me --
RUSH: Wait a second. I want to make sure I understand this. You were 60% Romney, 40% Santorum, and now you're a Newtster?
CALLER: Yes. I mean I've always liked Newt in the way he's expressed the conservatism, but I really was -- his so-called baggage, I didn't think he had a chance to win.
RUSH: You think he's withstood the values charge? Well, he's obviously withstood the values charge. Do you think he can beat Obama?
CALLER: Yeah, actually I think he can. I don't think Obama is this -- I think it kind of goes back to you need to go ahead and stand up for conservatism, compare and contrast against Obama's socialism, and I think Newt's the best person to do that.
RUSH: Well, it's interesting. I've always said, let conservatism reign. Let it triumph. Just put it out there, articulate it passionately from the heart, and it won't lose. National election. But the consultants just won't let it happen. They think you gotta go middle of the road, moderate. They think conservatism scares off the independents, much less the Democrats.
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Seeing as how the candidates really don’t get much of a chance to discuss what they will actually do or how they’ll do what they promise, I believe the majority of people that watch the debates have already decided who they want. I think most people watch them just to see how their guy did so the next day they can talk about them.
I would just LOVE to see Newt and Zero in a debate. Newt would clean the floor with him.
“CALLER: I’m a conservative and Mitt never really, you know, never really captured that in me, [B] but I bought the idea that Mitt was the only one that could win it. [/B] I thought Mitt probably had too much baggage so really going into the Myrtle Beach debate I was kind of 60% Romney and 40% Santorum. Santorum, to me —”
Important to remember that there are really people that are this easily influenced in deciding how to vote.
For 3 years we’ve had a spineless, empty suit of a nothing in the WH being protected at every turn and no matter how heinous his actions by the MSM. People found it refreshing when Newt skewered King last night. He’s decisive, he loves America and he’s an actual man.
For me I have and am a Sarah Palin fan and wanted her to run for President. When she declined I wandered around for awhile and finally settled on Newt. Bottom line is I was for Newt before the last two debates so my mind has not changed. GO NEWT GO!
Nope!
My journey:
Palin -> Cain -> Newt
I’m kinda ticked at Sarah. Feel she jerked us around. What a shame Cain got trashed by the GOP elites. Newt is the only one left that can beat nobama. I like him but he’s sorta the choice by default.
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