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Fear and Loathing in the Sunshine State
Gingrich pushes populist panic on eve of Florida vote.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — George Soros, Goldman Sachs, and other forces of the “establishment” are conspiring to support Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, Newt Gingrich warned Republicans here Monday, as Floridians prepared to go to the polls in their state’s crucial GOP primary.
Referring to an interview that Soros — a billionaire notorious for his funding of left-wing causes — gave to Reuters last week in Davos, Switzerland, Gingrich summarized Soros as saying, “We think either Obama or Romney’s fine, but Gingrich, he would change things.” The anti-Gingrich cabal, said the former House Speaker, also includes investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, which backed President Obama four years ago and now — having profited from taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts — is bankrolling Romney’s campaign attack ads. “Those ads are your money recycled to attack me,” Gingrich told the hundreds gathered outside Page Field airport here.
He cited no evidence that Goldman Sachs was in cahoots with Romney, and the opacity of the “super PACs” which are pumping millions into this Republican primary campaign makes it impossible either to prove or disprove Gingrich’s depiction of the malevolent forces arrayed against him. Yet he repeated similar accusations in different forums throughout the day — on ABC in the morning, on Fox News in the afternoon, and at each of the five stops on his final whirlwind tour of the Sunshine State — as if endeavoring to convince his supporters that they are victims of a vast conspiracy. Newt seemed to be providing a pre-emptive excuse for what polls indicate will be a decisive defeat for him in Tuesday’s winner-take-all primary.
Six polls within the past week have shown Gingrich trailing Romney by double-digit margins in Florida — the Real Clear Politics average of Florida polls had Romney’s margin at 12.5 points Monday — a striking reversal of Gingrich’s advantage after he beat Romney handily in South Carolina ten days ago. (See “The End of Inevitability,” Jan. 22.) The rival campaigns suddenly seem to have switched roles. Gingrich’s Carolina win was enough to inspire panic among Romney’s supporters, with Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post warning that if Newt got the nomination he would “alienate virtually all independent voters, lose more than 40 states and put the House majority in jeopardy.” But as evidence mounted that Romney’s aggressive full-court Florida attack was succeeding — and after Gingrich fared poorly in two televised debates last week — it was Newt and his supporters who pushed the panic button, asserting that unless conservatives immediately rallied behind Gingrich, the “Establishment” would conspire to deliver the GOP nomination to Romney.
Among those who have helped spread that message is former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who last week issued a Facebook warning that “the GOP establishment [is] trying to anoint a candidate without the blessing of the grassroots” and “using Alinsky tactics to kneecap Governor Romney’s chief rival.” Palin yesterday reiterated that charge during an appearance on Andrew Napolitano’s Fox Business Network program, saying that “those inside the machine” are ganging up against Gingrich. For the first time during this campaign, Palin expressed a dismissive attitude toward another Republican challenger, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, telling Napolitano that the Republican choice is “one or the other” between Mitt and Newt, adding that it is “naively idealistic” to think either Santorum or Texas Rep. Ron Paul could mount a serious challenge to Romney.
Because the Florida primary awards delegates on a winner-take-all basis, there is no benefit to candidates who can’t contend for first place here. Paul skipped out of Florida after last Thursday’s debate, while Santorum was forced to cut short his campaign in the Sunshine State because of his 3-year-old daughter’s weekend illness. Both candidates, however, have vowed to continue the fight in upcoming caucuses and primaries. Santorum picked up the endorsement of influential conservative columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin Monday and, in an appearance in Missouri (which holds a non-binding primary vote next week), vowed to avoid “gutter politics” in his campaign. When the votes are counted tonight in Florida, Santorum will be watching the results with his supporters in Nevada, where Saturday’s caucuses will be the next contest on the GOP campaign calendar.
Meanwhile in Florida, the man who looks to be the loser in this winner-take-all primary was pushing an angry populist message yesterday to the supporters who gathered at the airport in Fort Myers. Gingrich warned that the Obama administration was attempting to impose a “dictatorship of anti-religious secularism,” he promised to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and he denounced Romney as having “no clue what Reagan stood for.” (One Romney ad cites Gingrich’s long-ago criticisms of President Reagan, which Gingrich sought to refute by bringing the Gipper’s son, conservative talk-show host Michael Reagan, to campaign for him in Florida.) Gingrich welcomed the endorsement of Herman Cain — whose Tea Party-backed campaign was derailed by allegations of sexual misconduct — saying that the Atlanta businessman’s support would “send a signal that this is a grassroots populist conservatism versus the establishment.” The crowd enthusiastically cheered.
“We’re in a very simple campaign,” Gingrich said. “We are pitting people power against money power. No question — you look at the list of top ten donors to Mitt Romney, that’s money power. That is the establishment. Those are the people who would be happy, as George Soros said, with either Obama or Romney, and they do not want a conservative. Those are the people who have led the assault on me over the last couple of weeks, by all sorts of folks whose number-one goal is to keep power in Washington the way it is now.”
Gingrich then alluded to New York — that is to say, the Wall Street financiers who he alleges have bankrolled Romney’s campaign against him — as having perpetrated a fraud that he promised to expose. “I want you to know, I do not believe it is legitimate for the current establishment to preside over the decay as long as they’re doing well. I think we have an obligation to our children, to our grandchildren, to fundamentally change Washington and, frankly, to fundamentally change New York. We deserve to know the truth about the last four years. We deserve to know what happened to our money.”
The afternoon sun was shining brightly and, behind Gingrich, palm trees were swaying in the warm breeze, but he seemed to see no irony in issuing this dark and chilly warning against the menace of “money power” to a Republican audience in the Sunshine State.
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Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 6:25AM
Gingrich is the candidate of the most radical elements of the Israeli crime syndicate. Romney and Obama are the candidates of Goldman Sachs and the Federal Reserve. It has always been Ron Paul or ruin.
Vern Crisler| 1.31.12 @ 9:18AM
Jack, will you get off this anti-semitic binge and stop with the anarcho-Paulista propaganda.
Dave Williams| 1.31.12 @ 10:21AM
Good luck with that....it's who he is. What a sad little life he must lead.
Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 11:19AM
Antisemite is the word used to surpress honest discussion of foreign policy and the Federal Reserve. Newt is being given millions by Sheldon Adelson and other Las Vegas people. Sheldon has been involved in a worldwide gambling enterprise. He is under investigation for his operations in Macao for bribery and other irregularities. I read all this in the Israeli press. Heaven forbid that Newt would have to answer a question about this, from an american reporter.
In regards to Goldman Sachs, Obama and Romney recieve huge amounts from them. They are the number one contributor to both campaigns. The Federal Reserve bailed out Goldman Sachs. None of my criticism is out of line or anti-semitc. It is specific and to the point. I hate the influence of the Israel in this country. Look at the turmoil Nutt and his radical zionist supporters are doing to the conservative movement and the Republican Party. It is time to give them the boot once and for all. They are a small minority of the Jewish voters in this country and bring nothing to the table. America First and formost. Let the world run itself. 5% of the world's population can't be the policeman of the world.
Mike D.| 1.31.12 @ 12:41PM
No, Jew hater, anti-semite is the definition of YOU!
Jack in Wi.| 9.10.11 @ 10:04AM
Occcam with all due respect: Whatever good indivigual Jews have done in the world pails in comparission to the bad of the last 200 years. Atheism, communism, Socialism, Nuclear Weapons, expansionist Zionism, and nuclear blackmail.
Oh and Uh, Sieg Heil!
Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 2:02PM
Mike here thinks that Americans are supposed to carry Israel on our backs forever. Well the people of this country are sick of wars and foreign aid. Let Israel carry it's own water. A lot of us goyim are sick of doing it. Hundreds of billions of wasted dollars wasted on the Apartheid state are enough.
That statement I made is absolutly true. Communism, Socialism, Atheism, expansionist Zionism, and nuclear blackmail all come from your people. Isn't it time you apologized for your sins, repented and changed. Return to the Torah and the Commandments. Give up your false gods of Mammon, Moluch [ love of abortion ] and racist Zionism. Go back to those old Jewish priciples of intellectual honesty, love of God, and brotherhood. Shalom.
Mike D.| 1.31.12 @ 2:27PM
No actually what Mike thinks is your a Jew Hating Neo-Nazi who thinks Jews are the source of all evil in the world(we know somebody from history what thought that very same way) and who actually believes he's so self-important that he seriously believes Isreali agents are conducting Physop campaigns against him personally on message boards. Now thats what Mike thinks!
"That statement I made is absolutly true. Communism, Socialism, Atheism, expansionist Zionism, and nuclear blackmail all come from YOUR people"
Well of course, thats what all Jew Haters believe, why wouldn't you think that? Oh, you forgot Abortion, Jews are responsible for abortion in the world as well. There you go people, and some people wonder why this goofball from Wisconsin is obsessed with Jews day after day after day after day after day ad nauseum in his posts. Wonder not why anymore! Obsessions are like that.
Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 2:45PM
The truth will set you free Mike. 50 million murdered in Eastern Europe by your bretheren, brought on a huge increase in anti semitism. The seeds of Hitler were spread by Jewish Communists and their crimes. The Zionists and their racism, theft, and murder, are spreading anti Jewish feelings all around the world. When are you people going to wise up and change? Peace and friendship are the only way for a good life in this world. Shalom.
Mike D.| 1.31.12 @ 3:15PM
"Isn't it time YOU apologized for your sins, repented and changed" and "When are YOU people going to wise up and change"
Does anybody here not think that if our Neo-Nazi friend from Wisconsin had the means of force at his very disposal "you" and "you people" would be "repenting whether they liked it or not? Of course, when the "you" and "you people" were done being "repented", it might be time for some other group to have their minds made right and be "repented", say Mormans, Coptics, etc. All of course according to Jack from Wisc and his vision of God's plan! Ah Yes, that wagging finger of historic religious self-rightousness pointing again.
Mike D.| 1.31.12 @ 3:20PM
Then again we HAVE seen the "wagging finger" being pointed at those who needed to "repent" during the Inquisition periods of the middle ages. Anybody see any similarities here? Naaa, just a coincidence, just a weird coincidence.
Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 3:37PM
3 to 4 thousand people were executed by the Inquisition over 300 years. They were given long and for the times fair trials. Jews were not subject to the Inquisition. It was only for baptised Christians. Before Hitler ever got a vote in Germany millions of Christians were murdered by Trotsky, Sverdlove, Kaganovich, Lenin and Dersynski, all of whom would have been eligible for Israeli citizenship. The Jewish historian Richard Pipes, has said that Hitler was impossible without Communism. Hitler was the blowback form Communism, just like radical Isalm is the blowback from racist and expansionist Zionism. Oh! That's right the mass murderer Trosky is the father of neo-conservativism.
Vern Crisler| 1.31.12 @ 3:33PM
"The seeds of Hitler were spread by Jewish Communists and their crimes. The Zionists and their racism, theft, and murder, are spreading anti Jewish feelings all around the world."
Well, Jack, I wonder if your candidate, Ron Paul, would agree with you. No?
Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 3:40PM
I don't know what Ron's opinions on the subject are. They are the truth. Israel is the most hated country in the world. Zionism and it's lunacy is the reason.
Mike D.| 1.31.12 @ 4:20PM
Well, Vern, its like this. Jack, when it comes down to it, doesn't care what any of Pauls stands are on anything other that saving the world from the Jews. In fact it isn't even about Ron Paul, its all about Jack, only Jack and always Jack. The only thing that matters is getting those Jews taken care of. Thats all it is and ever was. Unfortunately, it looks like after Mr. Paul goes back to Texas and he will, it looks like the unrepentent Jews are still going to be around unrepented. Now thats is a damn shame after all the work jack here has done convincing eveybody with that suave demeaner and convincing style that if those uppity Hebrews(those people) weren't around we would all be in clover. C'mon, Jew hating takes a lot of work and effort. You have to get up every morning, hit the message boards and spout the same message till everybodies ears bleed all the while being stalked by the evil ones themselves tucked away in a secret message board reading chamber in Tel Aviv. Thats what I call dedication, brothers. But it looks like the party is over, the great Jewish liberator has failed and I personally would like to thank Jack from Wisc. for his unremitting and unbending effort to not get Mr. Paul elected with his daily injection of maniacal tripe that would send anybody running in the opposite direction.
Uppity Hebrews 1, Jack from Wisc. 0
loulou| 1.31.12 @ 1:08PM
"5% of the world's population can't be the policeman of the world."--But they can provide most of the scientific, technological and medical advances for parasites like you.
Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 2:13PM
The world will get along fine with us minding our own business. It will have to. We are broke and our troops are broken in senseless wars. 5% of the world's population can't keep up this burden, especially for no sane reason.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 1:39PM
Jack,
Unless you repent from your self-delusion to serve the living God (the one of the Bible), you're consigning yourself to Hell.
The WAY you are taking is call the WIDE way.
I hope you repent before you die.
"Go in through the narrow gate; for
wide is the gate and broad is the way that
leads away to destruction, and many are
the ones entering in through it.
For narrow is the gate, and constricted
is the way that leads away into life, and
few are the ones finding it.
But beware of the false prophets who
come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inside
they are plundering wolves.
From their fruits you shall know them." Mt. 7:13-16.
God throws liars into the Lake of Fire. Rev. 21:8.
Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 2:09PM
Margie. " Love your neighbor as yourself. Those who live by the sword will die by the sword. What you do to the least of my brothers you do unto me. Forgive your enemies. Love your enemies. Turn the other cheek and turn it again. " You seem to have forgotten all those teachings of the Prince of Peace. Your rants are full of hate. I forgive you for your transgressions, againist me, and pray that God will do the same.
da Monk| 1.31.12 @ 2:24PM
I have to wonder how Jack react to Jesus and his disciples returned? After all they were Jewish and they did live in what is now Israel. I also wonder if Jack would blackball Jesus if he wanted to join his golf club because they were Jewish.
Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 2:51PM
I have never called for any harm to come to any Jew or Muslim. They are all God's children, if misguided. I don't think calling for peace and justice will put me in a bad light with Jesus and his Apostles. I did belong to a lower class country club full of Jews, blacks, Asians, and guys like myself. They didn't blackball me and I didn't blackball them or anyone else.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 9:22PM
Yeah. And no doubt beautiful things will happen to the Jews in Palestine when they lower their guards.
You are a vicious antisemite, Jack. You didn't blackball the Jews because it would have affected your business.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 2:35PM
Jack:
Are you really Ken (Old Tex)??
You sound EXACTLY like him, you flaming hypocrite!
Notice the Scriptures he uses to condemn me because I tell him the truth. Typical Pope worshipping punk.
Self mutilation is too kind a suggestion for you, but nevertheless, go for it: Gal. 5:12.
Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 2:22PM
The Bible comes from the Catholic Church Margie. How can you depend on such a book for your inspiration? The Roman Emperor paid for the first 50 copies, a huge expense.The Church, with the help of the Holy Spirit, decided which of the many gospels of the times were the most authentic. the same is true of the Epistles. It also included the Septuagint which Jesus and the Apostles used. The Bible is just one of many ways the Church spread the Truth of Jesus. The Church was in business for almost 400 years before there was any formal canon of the Bible.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 2:45PM
Pope worshipping Idolator:
The Bible did NOT come from the Catholic church.
It comes from God. The men He used to put His Words to paper (or papyrus), were appointed by Him to do so.
The men that He used to put the books into physical books were not the authors, GOD is the Author of the Bible.
Furthermore, the so called Catholic Religion is an Apostate Religion who since it's very beginning put to death millions of Bible believing Christians under the Papacy.
WHY?
Because the Christians rejected the MYRIAD false and unBIBLICAL teachings that the ADDED to the Holy Scriptures.
There seems to me, to be nothing so despicable as a lying shill for both Catholicism AND anti-semitism.
Which, if you do your research, both have a history of like nature.
The true church of God:
OF THE TRUE CHURCH OF GOD, ITS ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND IMMOVABLE STABILITY, THROUGH ALL. TIMES
http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/martyrs003.htm
The Apostate church:
OF THE UNGODLY AND FALSE CHURCH, WHICH IS THE OPPOSITE OF THE CHURCH OF GOD, AND THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS AND SUCCESSION OF THE SAME THROUGH ALL TIMES
http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/martyrs007.htm
P.S.
The TRUTH is only HATE to those who HATE the TRUTH.
Jesus Christ is LORD.
Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 3:01PM
God appointed the Church to be the sacred editor of the Bible. He gave it His Authority. The Church was in business for 1500 years before Luther decided he knew more then God. Within a couple years the Protestant movement starting splitting assunder in many forms. Now there are about 35000 all arguing about the meaning of the Bible, which comes from the Catholic Church. Margie here, is her own Pope. She has set up her own Church.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 3:30PM
The CHURCH is not the Catholic church.
Christ's Church are made up of individuals who do His Will, according to His Word.
His Word is contained in tat Bible you speak of.
Except for one important thing: it does NOT contain the teachings of Catholicism.
Church is not a Religion, nor is it a physical building.
According to the Word of God THIS is His "CHURCH":
"For where two or three are gathered
together in My name, there am I in the
midst of them." Mt. 18:20.
And, the Catholic Religion was not what the Apostles taught, nor did Jesus.
Christianity began way before the Apostate Religion came about, with it's false doctrines and Popery.
Again: history speaks for itself.
Papist Dan| 1.31.12 @ 6:46PM
BIGOT ALERT!!!!BIGOT ALERT!!!
The village Bigot has crawled from under her rock to with her daily anti-Catholic bigotry.
She pretends to be a Christian and lecture everybody here, but she is a fraud and charlatan.
She does not believe that Jesus is God and doesn't believe in the Trinity so she isn't a Christian. But she has appointed herself to judge who is a Christian and who is a Jew and a conservative.
She is just a plain, intolerant, stupid bigot and charlatan.
Ignore her. She is just trolling for a fight because she is pathetic.
She posts the same old every time she sees the word "Catholic" that throws her into her Pavlovian reply. Maybe she has Tourette Syndrome that forces her to spout anti Catholic bigotry.
Her reply will be: liar, papist, punk, repent.
Go back under your rock,Bigot.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 8:15PM
paist Dan your name says it all.
You are bereft of the truth and care nothing for the Holy Scriptures.
You worship at the feet of a fraud, the Pope.
The Pope is a fraud, he only exists in his own mind as the so called "Vicar of Christ on Earth", for there is NO SUCH thing in Scripture.
You crawl out from under YOUR rock only to demonize for speaking the truth, according to Scripture.
You are disgusting and despicable and speak for Satan himself because like Satan, you're a liar.
Anti-Christ Pope Idolator, I hope you repent.
But if you choose to be deceived along with the millions upon millions of other Idolators, your lot will be with the rest of the Idolators, in the Lake of Fire:
"The one overcoming will inherit all
things, and I will be God to him, and he
will be the son to Me.
But for the cowardly and faithless ones,
and disgusting ones, and murderers, and
fornicators, and users of magic, and Idolaters,
and all liars, their part will be in the
Lake burning with fire and brimstone,
which is the second death." Rev. 21:8.
Since you're both a liar and an Idolator~ I hope you go mutilate yourself. Gal. 5:12.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 8:18PM
Papist Dan:
This Scripture also applies to you, scumbag:
"You are of the Devil as father, and the
lusts of your father you desire to do. That
one was a Murderer from the beginning, there is no truth in him. When he speaks a
lie, he speaks from his own things, because
he is a liar, and the father of it." Jn. 8:44.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 3:42PM
"Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as the Prophet says, 'Heaven is My Throne, and earth My footstool. What house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or what is the place of My rest?
Did not my Hand make all these things?'" Acts 7:48-50.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 3:43PM
"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." 1 Cor. 6:19 & 20.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:23PM
58.3% reporting: Paul with 6.9% of the vote. Underperforms again!
If Paul can't beat Romney, no way would he beat Obama. I don't care what your ridiculously ballot stuffed polls say.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 2:51PM
Oh. And p.p.s. Jack Sprat: My original post, above?
It still applies to you, and is the TRUTH!
Alan Brooks| 1.31.12 @ 7:06PM
Why is Jack harder on Israel than Margie is meaner to Catholics?
Alan Brooks| 1.31.12 @ 7:07PM
or is it loving the sinner but not the sin, Marge?
MikeG| 1.31.12 @ 7:21PM
Jack and Marge make a lovely couple.
Alan Brooks| 1.31.12 @ 8:11PM
But I don't think Jack lives a "sad little life", as Dave Williams wrote. I've read his comments for months, and he appears to be as normal as anyone.
Mainly, after 10 years of 9-11 propaganda, I'm tired of it. How many decades will Afghanistan remain as it is? 5, 10?
Will Iraq break into three pieces?
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:24PM
Alan: as normal as anyone? He's an illiterate fool who believes in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion when he's not adjusting his tinfoil.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 9:13PM
Brooks is a Pope Idolator, so he says that about his fellow Idolator, the scumbag MikeG.
Brooks is another prime example of Pope worship. Like his pals, he really cares nothing for the Scriptures, only his Idolatry.
But God throws Idolators into the Lake of Fire.
Better read up and repent, fool.
Rev. 21:8.
He has no mercy on Idolators.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 9:10PM
Go mutilate yourself, MikeG. Gal. 5:12.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:00PM
Jack, WTF? Israeli crime syndicate candidate? Bit of a stretch for a Georgia cracker, isn't it?
Paul is now at 6.9% of the vote with roughly 44% of the vote in. He may not break double digits, Jack.
Looks like his campaign is going down faster than one of his supporters on a jihadist.
Alan Brooks| 1.31.12 @ 8:14PM
Yet Marge can virtually call Catholicism a crime syndicate? Rome helps far more people than it hurts.
victor| 1.31.12 @ 8:29PM
Alan:
"Rome helps far more people than it hurts."
Is that to compensate for all of the persecutions and Inq1`
victor| 1.31.12 @ 8:31PM
Alan:
"Rome helps far more people than it hurts."
Is that to compensate for all of the persecutions and Inquisitions that they instituted?
MikeG| 2.1.12 @ 6:53AM
Are you the one on unemployment comp since 2009 Victor?
PCC| 1.31.12 @ 7:18AM
There goes Newt driving his campaign off the cliff.
Thankfully, it looks increasingly clear that he won't be given the opportunity to do the same thing to the GOP campaign to unseat President Obama in November.
Purp| 1.31.12 @ 4:02PM
Wait until Romney has to defend his family's move to Mexico to avoid U.S. Federal law - twice. Oooh, that will be such a fun time watching him squirm his way through that pile of s*.
victor| 1.31.12 @ 8:36PM
PurpleDude:
"Wait until Romney has to defend his family's move to Mexico..."
So, you believe that the sins of the fathers and should be visited upon the sons, eh?
Why aren't you asking the Kennedy boys why their ole grandpa was a moonshine runner?
Your grandad was doing something outside the law maybe?
MikeG| 2.1.12 @ 6:54AM
Are you the one on unemployment comp since 2009 Victor?
Clint| 1.31.12 @ 7:36AM
Another GOP RINO-CINO Train Wreck.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:02PM
Clint, who you gonna vote for after Paul loses? Are you going to support the anti-Obama candidate, or are you gonna give us 4 more years of Obama?
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:27PM
62.1% reporting: Paul at 6.9%, in 4th. Ouch for the Paulbots. Clint, children shouldn't stick forks in their eyes. Hurts, you know. I guess we'll just have to put a cork on your fork if you continue to do this.
William R| 1.31.12 @ 8:29AM
Palin has always been a dumb biimbo
Vern Crisler| 1.31.12 @ 9:20AM
So McCain, does this represent your views too? Are you willing to throw conservatives like Sarah, and conservatism itself, under the bus for your moderate-liberal candidate Romney?
William R| 1.31.12 @ 10:14AM
Do you actually think Newt Gingrich is a conservative.
Dai Alanye | 1.31.12 @ 10:16AM
C'mon boys, get with it. Palin is quite bright if mistaken this time around. She should be supporting Santorum, who is closest to her beliefs. As for The Other McCain, he's far from being a Romney supporter, also favoring Santorum last time I looked.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 1:41PM
I would bet you that Sarah's backing of Newt vs. Santorum has more to do with who can actually WIN the nomination.
Just my opinion, not fact. And she's probably right.. though God can cause Santorum to pull ahead in the polls and get the votes if He wants it to happen.
Purp| 1.31.12 @ 4:03PM
Pray harder, Margie, pray harder.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 4:19PM
I can pray, but it is God's Will that is done.
Charles U. Farley| 1.31.12 @ 5:42PM
"I can pray, but it is God's Will that is done."
If God's plan is already written, and His will be done, you're wasting your time praying, right?
And tell me, as you've deemed yourself all knowing and speaking for God, what exactly is His interest in American politics? Strange that God is so small in your eyes.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 6:45PM
First of all, I don't speak FOR God, He speaks for Himself. That's why I quote HIS Words as to HIS Way, and those Words are from the Bible.
"If God's plan is already written, and His will be done, you're wasting your time praying, right?"
No, it's not a waste of time, because His Word says He listens to our prayers.. all throughout the Bible are examples of God's people praying, and Him answering their prayers.
Jesus tells us to pray, and He gave us an example of how to pray. In it He said, thy Will be done, because it is up to God to do as He pleases.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:04PM
I seem to recall that G-d does answer individual prayers, at times. He is also, as opposed to the Islamic moongod, a G-d of history and law. Pray away, Margie, and try to be kind to those who sin against you. All G-d's children should be judged by their best work, and you, at your best, are pretty sweet.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 9:02PM
"Margie, and try to be kind to those who sin against you."
Occam,
I tried being kind to Ken, I invited him to call or e mail me long ago. I said if he wanted to act like a brother and ralk to me and make things right to do so.
Instead, he lied here, and said that he "would have contacted me, but I changed my e mail."
He's a liar. I don't have to do anything beyond that. except continue to defend myself and point that out.
As to the others nasty freaks here~ they too can go mutilate themselves.
People think Jesus was some kind of wimp that let people walk all over Him. They have learned about a Jesus not in the Bible.
Liars need to be told they're liars, and that's what Jesus did as well. He required repentance from Christians, and still does, before He accepts them back into a relationship, and tells us if a brother sins against you and does NOT repent, to have nothing more to do with them, and they are shunned!
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 9:24PM
I'm sorry, dear lady. But try to be kind, and don't let people get you down.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 10:47PM
"The LORD loves those who hate evil; He preserves the lives of his saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked." Ps. 97:10.
MikeG| 2.1.12 @ 6:56AM
How about those that she sins against daily here?
SARAH| 1.31.12 @ 5:01PM
How IS all that hopey-changey stuff workin' for ya, purp?
Purp| 1.31.12 @ 7:47PM
Change has come and hope reigns supreme - why else do you all hate Obama so much?
ALL LIBERALS - IN UNISON:| 1.31.12 @ 8:00PM
RACISM !!!
victor| 1.31.12 @ 8:39PM
"RACISM !!!"
That might be true, if Obama was Black, but he ain't!
MikeG| 2.1.12 @ 6:56AM
what is he then?
THE SELF EVIDENT| 2.1.12 @ 11:33AM
No more black than white?
No more white than black?
Half black half white?
Half white half black?
Unless, of course, ancestral miscegenation introduced additional white into the half considered black.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 9:16PM
To Liberals and Pope Idolators alike, speaking the truth is hatred.
Jesus commands Christians to seek, speak and serve the Truth according to the Scriptures, not play games.
And doing so, in His Eyes, isn't hatred. It's LOVE.
Pete| 1.31.12 @ 5:24PM
You must be a GOP wacko.
victor| 1.31.12 @ 8:41PM
Pete:
"You must be a GOP wacko."
WRONGA!
Will-I-Am is a Libertarian Wacko!
Not only that, but he's a Paulistinian besides.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:28PM
No, it's "Paul" has always been a dumb bimbo. 6.9% in FLA. Paulbots should stop putting TNT sticks in their crotches and lighting them.
cicero| 1.31.12 @ 8:59AM
But it would be very interesting to see who is funding the PACs that are running the adds for Romney, and who is donating to his campaign. I don't think the base or the Tea Party will stand for another bought and paid for nomination. Unless something changes, and Romney at least gives strong lip service to the conservative movement, he will destroy the Party when he tries to move to what he considers the "middle" during the general election. The Republican nominee must be a true conservative, and run on that basis. This will force the voters to choose the Republicans running on a truly conservative basis, and Obama on his record. The "middle will move to the right. It is not concievable that they will move to the left, and ask for 4 more years of this. If they do, it will be obvious that our educational establishment has done its job well, and we will be well on the way to the demise of this society.
florin| 1.31.12 @ 10:58AM
I don't know who is running the ads for Romney but a big time gambling figure is funding gingrich...and no one is talking about it...look into it and see what you think. I see gingrich false persona unraveling by the minute and revealing the disturbed, dysfunctional man beneath...and it's going to get worse as he gets more and more frustrated and angry because he is not getting the attention and adulation he so desperately craves..
Pete| 1.31.12 @ 5:26PM
You know who is funding Gingrich, but not Romney. Why not? Nice attempt to side-step the question. Something Romney would do.
albert constantine jr.| 1.31.12 @ 9:05AM
Grammy-winning songwriter Dennis O’Rourke (Randy Travis’ Honky Tonk Moon) wrote another song titled “Down and Out in Sunshine Land”. One of the lyric lines rhyming with the title chorus went “I can’t find work so I’ll go get me a tan”.
By focusing coverage on the increasingly personal battle between Mitt & Newt, an opportunity has been lost for the campaign against Obama to show what can be done to improve opportunity for those hurt economically there, wasting away again there in Obamaville.
nathan| 1.31.12 @ 9:14AM
The irony of getting Cain to endorse Newt is just marvelous! Given their respective misdeeds you can see the ads now. "We're appealing to all you guys out there who have cheated on your wives or fooled around at work. You know who you are. Get behind me and my campaign! I came back not just once but twice and I promise that in my administration I will tone down this family values stuff."
I mean come on folks! According to the surveys the guys out there who cheat and fool around look like a fair size voting block. Go for it Newt!
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 1:44PM
Well, Adultery IS the way of the World. But it isn't the way of Christians.
And as to Cain~ you or no one else knows for a fact whether or not he committed that Sin.
Are you a Ron Paul-bot?
Purp| 1.31.12 @ 4:04PM
What planet did you just drop off? Christians are far and away the majority of adulterers in this country. We're doomed.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 4:20PM
First of all, prove what you say.
Secondly, what I actually said was that it isn't THE WAY of Christians.
Not genuine Christians.
MikeG| 1.31.12 @ 6:48PM
Margie, you get more stupid every day. Purp is a proud liberal. Can't you tell from his comments?
victor| 1.31.12 @ 8:49PM
MikeG you get more stupid every day.
There's not that much difference between liberals and libertarians. Otherwise, why would RonPaul stand with 57 avowed Liberal Socialists and declare their intent to rape and pillage the military, eh?
My wife is well aware of what Purp is, just as she is well aware of what you are, which is a disingenuous Troll who palms himself off as something he ain't.
MikeG| 2.1.12 @ 6:59AM
are you the one on unemployment compensation since 2009 Victor?
MikeG| 2.1.12 @ 2:08PM
Margie/Victor
Are you afraid to answer that Victor is on unemployment compensation since 2009?
Or is it Marge? Just tell the truth.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 9:04PM
"MikeG"~ You must be truly stupid if you think that I don't realize that you're the same stinking Troll that responds to me every day here, just using the name du jour.
FOOL.
MikeG| 2.1.12 @ 6:58AM
You are paranoid "Margie."
Tommy Frisco| 1.31.12 @ 9:17AM
There are only two candidates in this election cycle that have signed, into law, mandates requiring citizens to buy health care insurance and those candidates are Obama and Romney.
It is wrong for the Government to require U.S. citizens to purchase health care insurance or to make their health care choices for them. It doesn't matter wheher it's the State telling us we have to do that or if it's the Federal Government. I don't care about the Constitutionality. It is dead wrong for any government to have control over our health care. What more intrusion into our lives could there be?
I thought, after the outrage that Americans seemed to have for ObamaCare, that Mitt Romney would not stand a chance to win the GOP nomination in 2012. Instead, it seems obvious that we will allow money, the media, and the GOP establishment to tell us who we should vote for.
God help us if either of these two candidates win in November. Voting for either of these two candidates is voting for socialized medicine. Once that is implemented, we will be a Socialist nation. I will stay home in November if Romney or Obama are my choices because the end result will be the same. It will be game over.
BTW, Romney has constantly said he would give all 50 states a waiver on ObamaCare on his first day in office. The ObamaCare law prohibits any waivers after 2012. And, having a weak-knee'd Republican senior campaign advisor like Norm Coleman is a good indication for how hard Romney will fight for repealing ObamaCare in its entirety. Coleman said it won't be done and I believe him.
Vern Crisler| 1.31.12 @ 9:21AM
The Republican party is dead.
SUBVET| 1.31.12 @ 10:28AM
VERN-------it was dead long ago have you been napping. Yes a PARTY a PARTY of fools this empty suit Romney is just what the machine wants....same old same old.
Newt...scares the Sh*t out of them I say gut the elephant.....go get em NEWT.
Patrick| 1.31.12 @ 8:32PM
I want Romney out of the picture. Even so, putting Newt intoo the picture is ever so slightly more nauseating than the former.
Seriously, it's like choosing a whore over a stripper in a modesty contest.
MikeG| 1.31.12 @ 6:49PM
Vern, what is your solution, roll over, vote for Obama and keep whining?
victor| 1.31.12 @ 8:50PM
No, voting for RonPaul is voting for Obama.
MikeG| 2.1.12 @ 2:11PM
victor
have you been on unemployment compensation since 2009?
You do know that Obama is a socialist and Paul is a libertarian. Two totally different idealogies.
LaFong| 1.31.12 @ 9:39AM
Looks like Romney hit the friggin' tip jar.
Drunken Sailor| 1.31.12 @ 9:43AM
I find it odd that we have one canidate that has the backing of all these people that Republicans used to praise for their conservatism, yet they Republican party is throwing their weight behind the other guy. Newt has the backing of:
Thomas Sowell
Hermain Cain
Sarah Palin
Fred Thompson
Rick Perry
Rudy Giuliani
JC Watts
Yet the Republicans say he isn't conservative. Yet you have Romney with the backing of moderates
Bob Dole,
Chris Christie
Charles Krauthamer
Ann Coulter
and yet the Republican establishment is behind him.
And they wonder why conservatives are pissed off? Go Figure!!
William R| 1.31.12 @ 10:18AM
Newt Gingrich is no conservative. Period. End of discussion. He openly praised Obama care back in 2009
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=37290
Bottom line, Gingrich is just another reprehensible NeoCon chicken hawk
Drunken Sailor| 1.31.12 @ 11:52AM
William. Your paulista is showing. There are other conservatives.
William R| 1.31.12 @ 1:36PM
It ain't Gingrich or Santorum
victor| 1.31.12 @ 8:53PM
William R:
"Newt Gingrich is no conservative. Period. End of discussion."
So saith King William, The Sun King!
VonMisesJr| 1.31.12 @ 10:29AM
Drunken Sailor, I would down a beer with you any day. You got it spot on.
You forgot John McLame who gave us McLame Feingold and Barack Obama.
Drunken Sailor| 1.31.12 @ 11:56AM
How could I foget him. 1st round on me.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:06PM
Get to Northern Minnesota, to my favorite Irish pub, and first round's on me, guys.
Al Adab| 1.31.12 @ 10:37AM
It is the same old debate within the GOP dating back to Tom Dewey in the 1940's. Do we accept the legitimacy of the social welfare state and promise to manage it better or do we stand against statism no matter how well intentioned and propose smaller, less intrusive government? That is the issue which defines the wings of the GOP and the Conservative Movement. Which approach has brought success over the years?
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 1:45PM
Ann Coulter's a moderate? Yikes. LOL. :^).
RCV| 1.31.12 @ 5:03PM
My reaction, exactly.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:11PM
RCV: Ann is acting like a moderate Republican right now. Look, I'm going to vote for Santorum in my caucus in Minnesota, and then I'm going to vote for the Republican (early and often) in the general, 'cause it ain't gonna be Paul. Then, when I win, you and I will exchange data through Ken, and I'm getting my $50.00 gift certificate to Ruth's Chris, Minneapolis, and I will think fondly of you as I dig in. I will also be glad to treat you to same should you find yourself in Minnesota or ND.
Just 'cause I disagree with you a lot doesn't mean I don't like 'ya. Any good suggestions for introductions to the Constitution for kids?
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:13PM
And, I must make people understand, I respect Newt more than Mitt, and Mitt over Obama. I just like Santorum, and, as a Cub fan, I appreciate his story. I also appreciate his views on Israel and crippled kids.
RCV| 2.1.12 @ 11:21AM
I've given you suggestions on kid's books on the constitution at least three times, Occam! Hope you follow up better with your patients.
Bill| 1.31.12 @ 10:15AM
PLEASE VOTE NEWT GINGRICH!
-Orchestrated the 1994 GOP Revolution
-Balanced the budget 4 times
-Reformed the welfare
-Impeached Bill "Serial Rapist" Clinton
-Passed the Crime Bill
Gingrich will REPEAL Obamacare, the Dodd-Frank Bill, and the Sarbanes-Oxley law. He'll also drop litigation against AZ, SC, AL, GA over immigration and the Voter ID laws.
Gingrich is the "Shadow of Ronald Reagan."
SC voted Gingrich, FL will do so.
DEFEAT ROMNEY!
-Romneycare
-pro abortion
-pro gay marriage
-pro gun control
-pro cap & trade
A "New England big-government liberal RINO."
William R| 1.31.12 @ 10:20AM
The national debt went up 1 trillion dollars while Newt Gingrich was speaker. The budget was never balanced. Gingrich Clinton took money out of Social Security to cover the budget shortfall.
Gingrich loves Obama Care.
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=37290
Bill| 1.31.12 @ 10:57AM
Romney warships Obama. There is not even a dime difference between Romneycare and Obamacare. They are identical. The only difference between two: one is from New England and another form Rush Belt.
2Anglico| 1.31.12 @ 11:16AM
William, every Congress since the Johnson Administration has been spending Social Security revenues. To try to blame it on Gingrich is lame. Gingrich is one of the few politicians who will openly say there is no such thing as a Social Security Trust fund. When he attempted to reform the system he was crucified.
I don't need to refer to any website for my info on Newt, I actually listened to him over the years. He has ALWAYS been a conservative.
Bill| 1.31.12 @ 11:44AM
AMEN!
William R| 1.31.12 @ 1:37PM
I'm not blaming it on Gingrich. Just pointing out he's lying about balancing the budget
George S| 1.31.12 @ 2:03PM
The budget was balanced shortly after the capital gain tax rate went from 28% to 20% in 1997 (Gingrich and Kasich). Bill Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming into signing it (he was presented with five budget versions before signing).
About that debt increase... every year the debt goes up because entitlement spending kicks in by law. Blame it on whose watch wrote the laws -- FDR and Johnson -- instead of a talking point crutch against the nearest conservative. A clever argument it does not make.
Bill| 1.31.12 @ 2:16PM
William, you're very stupid liberal Obama-Dog! Gingrich never lied, perhaps Clinton was busy molesting Monica Lewinsky and he got away with it.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 2:57PM
Bill,
He's actually a rabid Paul-bot. Same thing, though. These people seem to hate the Republicans more than they hate Obama!
Mike W| 1.31.12 @ 4:43PM
"William, you're very stupid liberal Obama-Dog! "
Calm down. Newt never had a real chance. The party knows that even though Romney might not win, Newt will not only lose, but lose big and give the House back to the Democrat Party.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 1:47PM
Very true, 2Anglico. And dittos!
Bob K.| 1.31.12 @ 11:00AM
McCain, you and Newt both wrongly call it "populism" and the Democrats, who you let define what Republicans are, love it when you use this term to describe Republicans!
I don't know if it is true that the Republican Party is the stupid party, but if you and Newt are any indication, it's leadership is the "stupid leadership!"
This argument is really about Money Politics and who the winners will be in governing this Nation! You know, something like "Money Ball" and who the winners will be in Baseball.
Populism has cultural and nationalist roots.
If you want to see REAL populism in action look at the La Raza movement in Southern California. It is a Latino nationalist movement that is being driven by Latino populist leaders pushing for a dominant Latino culture there.
While you and Newt are using this "democrat" epithet to slander good Conservative voters the democratic leadership is cheering on this rise in real populism in our South West.
Pete| 1.31.12 @ 5:29PM
Stacy McCain is using populism to discredit the Tea Party. The GOP establishment only have contempt for the Tea Party people because they have become uppity.
Clint| 1.31.12 @ 11:50AM
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
Bill| 1.31.12 @ 11:52AM
Romney's "Bain $" and the "Mormon Brigade" cannot save his ass in FL, just like he was sucked in SC. It's the "Great" South. No Country for RINO!
Rick| 1.31.12 @ 12:19PM
BREAKING NEWS: President Obama has agreed to throw his full support behind the Newt Gingrich campaign! He's also inviting Newt, Palin, Cain & Fox's Sean Hannity to the White House to sing their newest single: "We're Just a Swinging". Stay tuned for further updates.
Bill| 1.31.12 @ 1:05PM
BREAKING NEWS: President Obama just endorsed Mitt Romney! Obama said "I expect Romney to win the GOP nod, it'll make my life easier since I will beat Romney in a landslide. By the way, thanks to Romney, for implementing ObamaCare." He also promised that he would give Romney a job since Romney would have been bankrupted by the time the election is over. Obama also invited Romney, Chris Christie, Ann Coulter to his victory party after the 2012 election, saying "I did it again!"
You get the picture, don't you!
RCV| 1.31.12 @ 9:46PM
BREAKING NEWS: Bill's lucicrous forecast that Gingrich would win in Florida has been proven about as prescient as his confident prediction that Perry would coast to the nomination. Gingrich is toast, bill. He can't even win in a neighboring state like Florida, he's not even on the ballot in Missouri and Virginia, and he's about to eat more dirt out West, where he is hugely unpopular. If you don't think you can get aboard the Romney train, you'd better start looking around for a third party. I hear Gary Johnson will be running!
Clint| 1.31.12 @ 1:03PM
Attention:
The New Shipment Of "Vote For Newt" Mormon Undergarments Has Arrived And Will Be On Sale In The Lobby.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:14PM
Clint, What the HELL does that mean? Don't you know Paul is doing Mormon outreach?
RCV| 1.31.12 @ 9:41PM
For a guy who rightly squeels when Catholics are attacked and ridiculed, your religious bigotry is strikingly hypocritical. But its what we've come to expect from you.
Indy| 1.31.12 @ 1:06PM
What more will we learn?
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....omment-bar
The Dems must be giggling themselves to sleep at night.
Louis Jenkins| 1.31.12 @ 1:19PM
As far as can be concerned between them, neither truly represents the conservatives. Newt maybe slightly better with his debates, but he has appeared with Nancy and others on the newsmedia. Romney with Romneycare. Shake a trash can up and turn it up-side down.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 1:49PM
Nah, Louis. Newt isn't like Romney.
He had a bout of temporary insanity perhaps with that Pelosi thing, but he's no Socialist.
David| 1.31.12 @ 1:29PM
It is clear that Santorum has been the adult in this race. It is also clear that he has been the true, principled, consistent conservative his entire politcal career.
If you want to know why the republican congress was decimated after taking control, just read Joe Scarborough's article in Politico. It details how Newt did orchestrate the contract with America and a republican takeover, but what came next is scary.
Take a look of you want to know how and why the repub congress lost its way and allowed the dems to takeover again.
Vote Santorum all day long.
William R| 1.31.12 @ 1:40PM
Santorum voted for 95 percent of the Bush agenda. I'm sorry, but there was nothing conservative about the Bush agenda
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 1:51PM
"The Bush agenda."
LOL.
To a rabid anti-semite and Ru-Paul backer, we all KNOW what you mean by THAT.
Bill| 1.31.12 @ 2:17PM
Tax Cut!
David| 1.31.12 @ 2:05PM
Santorum did not sit on a park bench with Pelosi to warn us about global warming. He does not support individual mandate for health ins as Newt and Mitt have. He did not support the Wall Street bailouts. He cannot be accused of being a flip-flopper. He cannot be accused of telling people what they want to hear. All of those are true of Newt and Mitt.
It is clear that Santorum has been the adult in this race. It is also clear that he has been the true, principled, consistent conservative his entire politcal career.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 3:32PM
True, David.
But will the people vote for him in the numbers necessary for him to win the nomination?
RCV| 1.31.12 @ 4:24PM
Newt for Lunar Colony Governor!
INQUIRING MINDS| 1.31.12 @ 5:11PM
In Oakland this past week a reprobate and charlatan californian, who no doubt abhors tea party conversatism and the policies they espouse, vomited:
"Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich."
Was that you, vomit-breath, or just one of your devout church-going educated brethren scholars?
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:17PM
Dear RCV:
I lived in Galveston for 4 years. I gave thanks every day to the Space Program for saving my ass.
This type of thing is actually sort of within my area as a scientist, of a type. Might I advise you to look up the history of scientific discovery to learn why the Space Program has more than paid for itself, and how it is likely to continue to do so. Fortuitous accidents tend to occur to those who are pushing the boundaries.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:21PM
Galveston hurricane of 1900, RCV. Look it up, and then consider what the space program has done for us. Imagine Katrina with early to mid 1900s warning.
Now, please note that satellites can also be used to search for oil.
RCV| 1.31.12 @ 9:39PM
Occam. You couldn't find a stronger supporter of the space program than me and my family. My wife has taken the kids to over a half-dozen shuttle launches in Florida, and even went to Baikanour in Kazakhstan to watch the launch of a US crew to th international space station. We are charter members of the Planetary Society and major donors to the Udvar Hazy Space and Flight Museum that the Smithsonian in Washington. As a result of our raising her that way, my daughter maj0red in Astrophysics at Cornell. The money spent on our space program has been among the best investments we've ever made.
Having said that, I would still rather have Gingrich as Governor of the Lunar Colony, which I would welcome, than anywhere closer to the White House.
SARAH| 2.1.12 @ 11:41AM
How IS all that hopey-changey stuff workin' out for ya Mr. Dopey-Upchuckey?
David| 1.31.12 @ 4:28PM
Well, he is the best and most conservative candidate and would be much better as the NON-ROMNEY candidate than Gingrich.
I will vote for him if he is still running when the primary comes to Texas. I will vote my conscience for the principled person in the race. I will vote for the one without all of the political and/or personal baggage. I will vote for the one who has been running on the issues, and the candidates' records, and for the one who has not MISREPRESENTED the other candidates' records.
Did you read the Scarborough article? Don't deprive yourself. I almost didn't read it either because I don't like him anymore, but I am sure glad I did. It explains a lot.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 4:48PM
I haven't made up my mind as to who I'll vote for in the Primary.
I usually vote for the Republican who it looks like can beat the Democrat.
Right now that's Newt.
We shall see if that changes, and if Rick's numbers get stronger.
I just want Obama out~ and whether it's Newt or Santorum, I'm behind them.. I'm hoping Romney fizzles, but sadly I think he is a reflection of the general public.
Pete| 1.31.12 @ 5:34PM
I am hoping the primary season lasts long enough. Notice a pitch by the Romney folks to say that this primary decides the candidate. Why is that? Are they afraid that conservatives will take a harder look at him and not like what they see?
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 9:19PM
They think that by simply saying that, it'll somehow be true.
Margie| 1.31.12 @ 4:48PM
Oh, I haven't read said article yet.
Pat| 1.31.12 @ 5:01PM
Gingrich is positioning himself as the typical Democratic Party “Rags to Riches” candidate and maybe we should respect that - just as our mainstream media automatically disrespects any Republican who refuses to run as a tool of the rich. Not since John F. Kennedy over 50 years ago have the Democrats fielded a wealthy candidate for president, or at least one having obtained his wealth prior to entering the Promised Land, also known as the White House. Romney is rich by media accounts and most Democrats believe if you’re smart enough to get rich before entering public service, then you’re too mean spirited to help all those “disadvantaged” folks by generously giving away someone else’s money.
Back to back – first Clinton and now Obama are the “pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps” kids. During his Governor of Arkansas, “I’m only paid $22,000 a year”, tenure, Bill Clinton knew what it was like to be almost poor – in fact, if not for Hilary’s deep market insights into trading cattle futures, the Clinton’s would have been eating grits and pork rinds for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And while Obama never eats grits, he did have to serve a short apprenticeship in Chicago shaking down neighborhood banks for mortgage loans to the deserving but chronically insolvent.
But Gingrich should definitely run on this “I’m not a gazillionaire, but I wasn’t too dumb to make it in business” persona. Because any Republican candidate will need to go that extra mile in order to win hearts and minds among the “po folks”. And that’s because Obama’s allies within the mainstream media are currently finding these “servants to the wealthy” Republican candidates using “racist code words” in their attempt to defeat Obama. So, that’s another strike against any potential Republican candidate – either strike 1 as being wealthy before earning it while in "public service" or having inherited their wealth - with strike 2 being knowing some or all of those famous “racist code words”. So, words and phrases to avoid like bubonic plague during the campaign – “handouts”, crack cocaine, Willy Horton, basketball players, any reference to Dr. King, welfare mothers and KFC fried chicken or Mickey D’s – any of which could be construed as racist code words, or at least as expertly decoded by Juan Williams, Leonard Pitts or the good folks writing for the Detroit Free Press.
Pete| 1.31.12 @ 5:33PM
You telling me that Gore and Kerry were not wealthy before they ran for President?
Pat| 1.31.12 @ 7:06PM
Pete: You're correct, should have said a Democratic candidate who was elected. Both Gore and Kerry are wealthy but weren't elected - maybe the two are connected in the minds of Democratic voters.
Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:19PM
Gore was worth about 2 million when he ran for President---wealthy, but not super wealthy. The Global Warming scam gave him his money.
Oldefarte| 1.31.12 @ 8:44PM
This Republican infighting is truly sad and reflects the idiocy of 11/4/08. People still don't GET IT.....THAT IT'S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPIDS! The money financing this assault against Ginguich is not primarily coming from Romney's wealthy associates, but instead from the middle east oil magnates. It's all tied to the Muslim Brotherhood taking over Arab countries' governments, and its all being orchestrated through the community organizing efforts of the Democratic Party. KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE. Wake up America before its too late. Liberals [ie Democrats] hate ultra conservatives like Ginguich, and can live with [and eventually olitically manipulate moderates and 'electable' cnadidates like Romney etc]. KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE. Its all about community organizing, funding Acorn with taxpayer dollars, keeping the welfare train running and the populus stupid through propagandized brainwashing. KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE. Stiff arm Newt, vote for the other three and keep the country managable and in debt up to it eyeballs. KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE. They hated Goldwater, they hated Reagan, they hate Ginguich and Buchanan. They are liberals=Democrats !!!!!!!!!!!
Stuart| 1.31.12 @ 10:22PM
Maybe Newt is "consulting" with Hilary about the vast right wing conspiracy?
POST American| 1.31.12 @ 10:26PM
---------------------FINAL WORD-----------------------
"What the Globaists couldn't accomplish
thru world wars and revolutions --they
ARE accoplishing through decades of
covert and ILLEGAL 'treaty making'."
---Gingrich --McCain --Gore --the Clintons
--Bushes --and Rockefellers ---one and ALLLL
at the helm during the 80's-90's handover
to RED China and NAFTA--
--------MUST STAND TRIAL FOR TREASON------
THERE IS NO OTHER WAY
ALLLLL else is DIS---traction.