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I mostly agree with Jennifer Rubin’s description of Newt Gingrich’s flaws. Anybody who lived through the 1990s ought to have serious reservations about how Gingrich would translate to a general election audience, to say the least. But I think it’s a stretch to say that a vote for Gingrich is effectively a vote for Romney.
For that argument to hold, it is not sufficient to point to Gingrich’s liabilities. One must also make the case that a.) Rick Santorum can win the nomination and b.) that the cause of stopping Romney is somehow helped by Romney winning another primary. Santorum was ill served by the media narrative that Iowa was an unambiguous win for Romney, but his momentum stalled before that conventional wisdom took hold. But even with the certified Iowa results, each Romney victory from this point on will only make him harder to stop.
By all means, make the case for Romney over Gingrich and suggest that Santorum be enlisted to take him down a peg. But let’s not pretend Romney winning the South Carolina primary will somehow help a better non-Romney to emerge down the road. Republican primary voters must pick their poison.
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Dan| 1.19.12 @ 2:38PM
Rubin is getting desperate.
Gingrich refuses to get the memo.
But think of this, ------- how would it be helping Romney by preventing him from moving on from Iowa and NH to a victory in SC?
How would it be helping Romney to steal away from him the possibility of making a SC victor speech?
If Gingrich wins SC, the story changes, and not in Romney's favour.
Alan Brooks| 1.19.12 @ 4:19PM
If Dr. Strangenewt wins in SC, it will say something bad about America's judgment. I'd have rather have voted for George Wallace than vote for Gingrich today: Wallace at least meant what he said. Gingrich would literally promise the Moon- or Mars- if it would get him the nomination next summer. But he WONT.
bill| 1.19.12 @ 2:59PM
NO
martin j smith| 1.19.12 @ 3:48PM
Jennifer Rubin !Jennifer Rubin! Jennifer Rubin are you kidding the WaPo huha? Give me a break. Who cares what she thinks. a vote for Newt is a vote against Romney period. And that is a good thing.
Margie| 1.19.12 @ 4:35PM
Is A Vote for Newt Really A Vote for Mitt?
It would be considered so if you're for Ron Paul.
LOL.
Happy New Year, Mr. Antle!!
aware| 1.19.12 @ 7:18PM
It's bad enough to be the kind of person that habitually engages in adultery but how much worse is it when you think you are important or special enough to be given special status where this is unimportant or even a "privilege" granted to you? He is telling you adherence to a moral code should play no part in voting for him. Is that a code you would use in your marriage?
Newt is a text book sociopath. See here:
http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
He is clever and cunning. He knows exactly what conservatives want to hear and easily says it. Like the Piped Piper he is, he plays exactly the right tune. But he doesn't believe it. He believes he is above, not just "liberal" politics, but "conservative" politics as well. He won't conform to conservatism but he will try to make it conform to him.
I've been in his district from his first run. Voted for him from the 70s till 98. He is not the conservative avenger you think. He is very much for activist government. This means BIG government.
When he says "the Establishment" he doesn't really mean the actual Establishment, he means certain members of the Republican party he has a vendetta for. He is the Establishment as are all who derive their livelihood from the State or the multitude of feeder industries that spring up around it.
He is a poster child for the criminal gang we call our "representatives".
Margie| 1.19.12 @ 9:14PM
Aware,
You and I are on, I believe, the same page morally as to this issue.
I think it's disgusting that Newt didn't answer the question as to whether or not he asked his ex wife to accept Adultery, and as I said in the other thread, I think that'll cost him some votes.
I still say that he will be better than Obama.. God uses even the backs of the Reprobate.. and He even speaks through the mouths of donkeys. LOL (not Democrats~ you know the story I'm talking about in the O.T.!!).
I wish he would have been able to answer the question tonight when asked, but he obviously COULDN'T.
STILL: Better him than an unrepentant Marxist for another round in the people's House.
Besides, Santorum definitely isn't out of the picture yet... many won't like the fact that Newt didn't see fit to answer the question tonight.. lousy MSM or no lousy MSM. I think he should have answered it. It would show true repentance.... or not!!
Rick Santorum has the faithfulness. we shall see how things go now.
aware| 1.20.12 @ 6:29AM
Balaam and Newt have more in common than you think. Both say things that aren't really what they believe. Both do anything for money and their own ego. At least Balaam had the donkey. Newt would have argued with the angel, being such a "good debater".
I swore in 98 I'd never vote for this Judas again and if he is the nominee I won't. And Santorum has a proven Statist record no matter what he says. He thinks freedom is doing what the State allows you to do. And he is absolutely an economic ignoramus which will spell disaster in the coming reckoning. I'm disgusted with the whole corrupt scene.
Henry| 1.20.12 @ 9:02AM
What do people want in a candidate running for the leadership role of a country?
• If you want a great orator then choose a trained public speaker
• If you want someone who can win a debate at a car dealership then find a seasoned used car salesman
• If you want someone who has not really worked for living then find a rich person from an Ivy league school
• If you want someone who looks and dresses up well then find a fashion model
• If you want someone that smiles a lot then find a clown
• If you want someone that loves to generate lots of ideas that are unrealistic and self-serving then find a university professor
• If you want someone that shows he is a friend to all then find a preacher
• If you want someone that owes more allegiance to his paymasters then find a puppet politician
• If you want someone that knows how to diagnose the problems of the country and can prescribe the necessary medicine to preserve liberties and freedoms for its people then you most probably have found your candidate in an honest leader
Now which one running reflects your taste: the public speaker, the seasoned used car salesman, the ivy rich leaguer, the fashion model, the clown, the university professor, the preacher, the puppet politicain or the honest leader? Vote with your conscience rather than your senses and emotions. You may regret it otherwise.