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.”
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Rasmussen:
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
South Carolina: Romney 35%, Gingrich 21%, Santorum 16%, Paul 16%
Romney may win a battle on Tuesday, but not the war.
Rick Santorum will have to make a decision about pulling out and deciding who’s side he’s on.
His continued presence in the campaign splits conservative votes and helps Romney.
I don’t know about you but I’m old enough to have watched Yogi Berra play. That said, I could, just as easily, have attributed that quote to Lenny Kravitz. I hope you didn’t miss the point about Washington and Valley Forge.
Chalk it up to Ego. Or perhaps a messiah complex. In my experience, conservative candidates tend to think they are the *only* one who can save the country. Whereas right now, as Rush once said, a can of orange juice really would be better that the current occupant of the White House (but no, I don’t think Romney rises to that lofty standard). Pseudo-Utopian disasters always come from one of two sources: A) Those who genuinely believe the world is waiting for their particular combination of genius and character to solve all problems, or B) those willing to cynically use the utopianism fantasies of others to enrich and empower themselves. I believe the GOP and Dem elites, as well as most of the communist leadership of the last hundreds years, belongs to the latter group. It’s about swimming pools and sex and living large. Whereas good people like Santorum and other Don Quixote candidates belong to the former. In this situation in which we find ourselves, the self-appointed messiahs are capable of doing almost as much damage to the cause of freedom as the cynics. Their egos will not let them do the math, and you can’t really do the right thing if you don’t do the math. Santorum will only quit if the money vanishes. Bank on it.
Rubio has NOT endorsed Romney.
Here’s the poll from South Carolina’s primary:
Mitt Romney’s lead in Saturday’s South Carolina primary is eroding, but he’s still up by double digits, according to a new CNN/Time/Opinion Research poll.
The poll showed Romney’s 18-point lead from a week and a half ago declining to 10 percent.
He now leads Newt Gingrich 33 percent to 23 percent. Rick Santorum, who is competing with the former House speaker for the conservative anti-Romney mantle, is third at 16 percent, Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) is fourth at 13 percent, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry is fifth at 6 percent
It is very true. Have you read Gingrich's written policy statement on immigration?
Any legislation that legalizes the status of those who broke our laws by entering our country illegally and allows them to stay and work here, the object of their crime, is amnesty. We must not only prevent the Democrats and some moderate Republicans from hijacking the meaning of the word amnesty, but the public must be made aware about the true impact of an amnesty.
The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty would be $2.6 trillion just for increased entitlement program costs. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen.
Newt wants to legalize the status of those with "family and community ties, and ability to support oneself via employment without the assistance of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other entitlement programs." This is amnesty and it is also unworkable in terms of cutting off various benefits like Medicare, Medicaid, and SS.
He will say anything but his track record is a litany of social liberalism and cheap labor, hardly the sort to be 100% anti amnesty
I don't care about his reprimand...silliest charges ever of which he was later cleared...it was payback orchestrated by the Dems at the request of a bitter political rival (Cooter) and drummed up by the media...I mean really look at the charges...over events that took place before he was speaker what that event told us is that the left was determined and Gingrich made enemies...I'll give you that
It is more than just making enemies when 85% of your Republican colleagues vote for the reprimand and the financial penalty of $300,000. How does one explain that to the public at large, which is generally not very well informed? Is he going to become our new Marverick?
I will vote for whomever is selected as our nominee. Will you?
“Newt is unelectable. Pure and simple. Most folks are smart enough to realize that.”
Actually, that would be filtered and ignorant.
That vast majority of conservatives are voting for Gingrich in the Primaries and they disagree with you. You’re in the minority in that opinion.
“Newt is unelectable. Pure and simple. Most folks are smart enough to realize that.”
Actually, that would be filtered and ignorant.
That vast majority of conservatives are voting for Gingrich in the Primaries and they disagree with you. You’re in the minority in that opinion.
“anyone who agrees that there is global warming and that the global warming is caused by man’s activity ...”
Newt Gingrich will never support Cap and Trade and that is the bottom line here. CO 2 is a naturally occurring substance and not a poison as the lefties would have us believe.
The lefties say global warming is manmade therefore let us tax the carbon credits. That is their agenda. Newt shouldn’t have bought into the false premise, however, he isn’t going to have anything to do with Cap and Trade.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Why did you pick that one instead of Rassmussen's last poll before the primary? Rassmussen on January 19 (two days before the South Carolina Primary) had Gingrich up two points.
All the polls had Gingrich up in their last polling 1-2 days before the South Carolina Primary - what happened that week is a lot of people were literally changing their minds; the polls were accurate but because they are released after the sample time they were lagging a bit.
In this case you have numerous legitimate polls trending towards Romney, with him having a large lead well above margins of error, and the election is too soon for that to start going the other way (short of Romney being arrested for molesting a nun or something tomorrow).
I wasn’t going to read your post because lengthy posts seem to drone-on. However, after reading your post in its entirety, I was left asking, “Who was that Masked Man?”
No worries.
There are still miles ahead of this marathon.
The people can see through the whole picture,
and Newt is that Big Bold leader that will create
millions of new jobs! How? He has proven it during
his leadership in Congress working with Reagan.. on to
Clinton.
Romney is weak, Newt is strong, sure he cant be right
all the time, what we are looking for is a strong
leadership with big bold ideas, just like Reagan!
That's completely bogus - but even if accurate for the sake of argument those are not qualifications to be President. Otherwise, Obama is the most qualified President in recent history (so long as he has his teleprompter operating, of course).
I have engineering friends who have worked in Florida.
Eventually, private enterprise will do more and more in this field. So many facets to it.
Sputnik was a terrible embarrassment. The space station is no longer USA!! Disgusting.
Beyond their voting records, Gingrich has supported various liberal positions on global warming, health care (the individual mandate and prescription drugs), amnesty, etc.
Tuesday's or Wednesday's or Thursday's .. the point remains the same .. it ain't over til it's over, and any of you who are taking any of the published numbers at face value at this point - esp. in light of the shit fest the marxists have engaged in this past week - are well and truly naive.
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Rick's kid is very sick. Say a little prayer.
Speak for yourself. To quote Luke Skywalker, I care. It was one of the most amazing, formative moments of my youth, realizing we had been able to put human footprints on the Moon. The space program demanded solutions to seemingly impossible problems. Miniaturization of transistors led to electronic calculators and the first generation of home computers. Think how different our present world would be if we had not taken that dare. I think Newt was right to appeal to our natural impulse to reach ever higher. Remarkable achievement is the hallmark of the America I grew up in and came to love, and the antidote to the deadly slumber of socialist mediocrity that now threatens us. So I say yes, Newt, take us to the Moon again.
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