Posted on 01/29/2012 8:01:41 AM PST by TBBT
Five weeks ago, this might have been a game changer. Is this a case of too little, too late?
Atlanta businessman and former presidential candidate Herman Cain endorsed Newt Gingrich Saturday night at a West Palm Beach Country Republican gathering after two months of wavering on whether he would offer his support to a fellow candidate.
The endorsement comes just three days before the crucial Florida primary, by far the largest state to vote so far in the GOP sweepstakes, and could help Gingrich energize tea party support. Gingrich campaign has flagged since his upstart, double-digit victory over front-runner Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primary a week ago.
“I had it in my heart and mind a long time ago” to endorse Gingrich, Cain said in a surprise appearance at the dinner. “Speaker Gingrich is a patriot, Speaker Gingrich is not afraid of bold ideas, and I also know that Speaker Gingrich is … going through this sausage grinder. I know what this sausage grinder is all about. I know that he’s going through this sausage grinder because he cares about the future of the United States of America.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Spot on. Rubio credited McRomeny with his win in his FL Senate race.
I call BS....the Tea Party and Jim DeMint's PAC did more for Rubio than McRomeny did!
Face it, even if Santorum wasn’t in the race Florida would have been tuff. When Santorum in the race Gingrich never stood much of a chance here or any of the other swing states.
Romney will keep racking up wins (except in the South) until Santorum drops out and endorses Newt.
Yep, possible right it looks like it was set up so the media could influence the voting before SC. But it is only 50 so it is really not a game changer. In hindsight Newt should have never talked about the moon ect. He can be made to look cooky on that. Nobody cares about going to the moon.
I like his Idea of putting up money for space because new developments would possible come from it. I think however it was a terrible mistake. Hopefully not.
I refuse to give up. Just went to the Fla wall and there were an amazing number of attacks against Romney. Look, we know that Fla is a multi cultural melting pot. Newt has the West folks and many strong Tea Party voters on his side. I still say that Newt will win some big states. Paul is zapping delegates from Romney too. Romney is getting frantic and losing his cool. He is explosive and lots of comments on that all over the internet. So we lose Fla? it aint over till the fat lady sings and anything can happen. It would be great ( a miracle) if Rush would join us. Never have I heard so many conservatives rant against Faux News, Drudge, the media, the establisment in my life and believe me they are all over the internet. Keep blogging, tweeting, fighting. Dont be a wimp.
You got it. But far from presumptive.
phooey, I missed that joke
He said he would cut 40% of Obama’s gov’t on day one with executive orders. Romney will do nothing.
Short of a miracle, after Florida, the only thing Newt will have left is debates. There are no recent polls for the upcoming states, but, no doubt, if Mitt wins Florida, they’ll all go to Mitt, except for Georgia. The E is going to milk it for all its worth. Mitt has too much money and nobody is going to want to sink anymore money into Newt’s camp. Hate to sound so negative, but that’s a reality. Newt had two debates here in Florida in which he could have destroyed Mitt, and he didn’t for whatever reason. But the bigger thing is that Mitt just has too much money and his ads are devastating, lies that they are.
Newt will probably do better in other states. In Minn he had a 50-29 lead over Mitts
I don’t see Newt as a small government guy, he is more of a reformer, innovator than he is a cutter. He did say he’d roll back to 2007 level spending where possible but clearly cutting government is not what Newt is about. Reform Yes, Cut, slash and Burn, not so much. Folks that want to really cut government would make getting rid of the income tax by eliminating the 16th Amendment a top priority since it is the income tax that enables big government.
If Romney wins, I will hide under my bed. Better yet, I will go the Newt’s moon base- and hide under my bed.
I am afraid this time the GOP onslaught, FOX and conservative talkies and Drudge have done their damage....and his debate performance was soft.
All the polls show Newt down sharply and beyond any recovery at this point baring a Truman/Dewey scenario.
Unless Santorum dropped out very publicly tonight or tomorrow and endorsed Newt passionately.
and the pressure on Santorum not to do that from the very folks who have so wounded Newt must be enormous.
hence...where to go from here?
IF Newt stays strong nationally, continues to get funding and Santorum shows so weakly in FL that he does finally withdraw then Newt is till in it.
Romney will likely at that point refuse to debate much if any and let the media campaign for him and deny Newt a platform.
at that point the only ones who could push Newt over the finish line will be Rush Limbaugh, Sarah on the ground and not so tepidly and Levin and maybe some others.
Hate to be so dismal but running against the leftist Media and a leaning leftist “what culture war?” GOP and FOX etc is a very very tall order.
I have my doubts Magnus could have done it in 1980 had Bush the First had such a political army and funding on his side.
I'm done with them...locally and statewide yes...but I fear the GOP cannot be changed from within. It is a northern US beltway party...California used to be a a power source to balance that but it's gone. Reagan was an anomaly they had to tolerate.
there are no big primaries in the next month to favor Newt...Georgia is over a month and Texas 2 months...good thing for Mittens Texas is not up front
the rest are purple states or blue states till then..places like Florida that will favor Mitt
I'm sorry
You’re right, not presumptive, delusional ...
Going around Florida telling lies about Newt saying he left congress in disgrace. The guy is a NWO sellout working for the “man” who is shafting us all.
I’ll go ahead and suggest Rasmussen is just more of the same cabal of Rino “opinion leaders” who we’re supposed to believe doesn’t have an agenda.
Sorry. Scott.
I don’t believe you.
Mitt Romney, if nominated, will represent the GOP’s de facto endorsement of Obamacare. I can’t believe that out of all the guys the GOP could have put up to face Obama, we’re going with the one who completely removes Obamacare as a campaign issue. Absolutely pathetic and inexcusable.
My biggest problem with Newt is amnesty, which he currently supports. I am also concerned that the Dems will really go after him on his reprimand from the House, the only sitting speaker ever to suffer such a rebuke. The vote in the House was 395 to 28. Over 85% of Gingrich's GOP colleagues in the House voted for the reprimand. It is very hard to spin that fact even if the charges were trumped up and politically motivated.
The 2012 election should be a referendum on Obama and his policies. We can't allow the Dems to distract us with attacks on our candidates so that we spend more time going over past issues with the GOP candidate on the defensive. I fear that we will be fighting the past war on Newt's baggage with the help of the MSM, and not enough time and effort going after Obama. If Obama gets another four years, this country is finished.
Yeah there has to be another party to rise. The GOP has always been about getting money into a few hands and that is about it. They couldn’t care less about social values, except working for them. They are the biggest problem in America because they offer no alternative. They are the enablers of the left.
Mitt sucks. And truth is Newt is not a very pricipled man. I may not vote in the Presidential race, but I won’t jump on the latest FR bandwagon either.
IMHO your biggest problem with Newt is you can’t find a Santorum thread to post on.
Just saying.
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