Gallup Chief: Romney’s Support Is Collapsing (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, January 20, 2012, 4:32 PM
Gallup’s editor in chief told MSNBC today that Mitt Romney’s national support is collapsing.
Via TPM:
USA Today reported, via Orbusmax:
Democrats are touting comments by Gallup’s editor in chief that Mitt Romney’s national support is “collapsing.”
Gallup’s Frank Newport told MSNBC that new data on Friday shows Romney with a lead, but a diminished one.
“Romney was up 23 points over Newt Gingrich,” Newport said, reports Talking Points Memo in a story e-mailed out by the Democratic Party. “Now it will be down (t0) about 10 points, so clearly things are collapsing.”
Indeed, Romney leads Gingrich 30%-20% in Gallup’s latest daily track; yesterday, Romney was leading 33%-17%.
Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are tied for third place, each at 13%.
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Rose commented:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/2012/01/20/fox-m-d-newts-serial-marriages-good-for-america/
Fox News medical correspondent Dr. Keith Ablow counsels that Newt Gingrich’s three marriages might make him a better president. I’m not making this up. Excerpt: 1) Three women have met Mr. Gingrich and been so moved by his emotional energy and intellect that they decided they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with him.(Snip)Conclusion: When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we’ll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we’ll want to let him go after one.
I WILL NOT EVER CONSIDER VOTING FOR NEWT.
I will vote for a write-in, for a man of character. I will not give my Authority over this government to a sleazeball. Not knowingly.
Granny commented:
Rose, feel free. Having seen first hand what Romney did to Massachusetts, I can guarantee you that neither I nor any of my family members will vote for Romney. He would be at least as bad as Obama.
Militant Conservative commented:
#1 January 20, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Rose commented:
So rose, you want 4 more years of Obama. SUCK IT UP woman, hold your damn nose
and help America. Think of someone other than your petty selfish desires.
Whomever the candidate is will get my vote, Obama will destroy America.
Obama is well on the way to doing this now. Think damn it!
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Give this link to EVERYONE who thinks they support Romney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARnzBOkKAiE
It’s 1 hour long, a remix of an Ann Barnhardt rant, which was itself amazing.
This one features her whole rant, plus oodles of news clips, interviews, and is chock full o’ humor that will have you peeing yourself.
It’s called “Not Romney”
TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH IT, and MAKE IT GO VIRAL.
Militant Conservative commented:
FYI, I’d rather have Santorum. Barring a miracle, its either Romney or Newt.
Either is far preferred over the socialist we have now.
does anyone here think Romney or Newt will subvert the constitution like
Obama?? THINK, Obama must GO!
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Didn’t Ronaldus Magnus Reagan have a divorce and some relationship shenanigans in his past?
Good thing all the “Real True Conservatives” didn’t hold that against him. We would have missed out on the greatest American president in my lifetime.
Rose, watch the video. Please.
MustComment commented:
Can’t say I’m cryin’ over this news! ROTFLMAO…
gary gulrud commented:
Jenny, quick, another post on how disgusting Neut is, how pathetic Santorum is, how insane Paul is, do all three chop, chop.
MustComment commented:
Poor Willard!! Again… ROTFLMAO!!! Hope this holds until after the SC voting polls close.
James commented:
So sad since Newt cannot win the general election. Who should we run in 2016.
Eric S commented:
Problem for Newt is that the general won’t be about the debates.
Debates won’t count for much in the general. It will be fully about raising $. Newt even says that he doesn’t expect to raise much $, and Newt is counting on the debates to counter this. Won’t happen. Plus the idea that O will sign on to Lincoln-D style debates is ridic. Is Newt going to follow O around? He’d look like a little nut. It will be about $$$. Newt sounds like another low$ McCain in that regard. Defeat guaranteed.
tommy mc donnell commented:
this is not good for the democrats, they might not get their man romney.
Mahon commented:
What’s this “collapsing?” Romney’s lead had run up 7-10 days ago after New Hampshire, and now it has dropped back to where it was then. That’s more “bouncing round” than collapsing.
Militant Conservative commented:
I see we have alot of idiot savants here at the moment.
Nice how they know the future, and its all negative.
Sucks living in thier world.
lizzy84 commented:
Maybe Romney read McCain’s opposition research file.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/the-book-on-mitt-romney-here-is-john-mccains-ent
{No one left to lie to.}
bg commented:
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i truly feel for him..
however, if he only had the balls to stomp McCain & his RINO leadership
buds in the 08 presidential run, we might not be in such a dire position..
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Mimi commented:
Amazes me that people don’t care that Newt was caught check kiting in Congress, had to pay $300,000 for ethics violations in Congress, thought Tarp was a great idea, supported a healthcare individual mandate for healthcare in the 90′s and was run out of Congress by his own party. Go Santorum!
Simsalabim commented:
Can’t we all get behind Rick Santorum?
Romney and Gingrich are both a couple of scumbag slimeballs and Ron Paul is a little old senile crazy man.
Pray for Rick Santorum and his victory, Christians!
Multitude commented:
The sole reason any Iowan I know was supporting Romney was that they believed the line: “He’s not the best. He’s a major compromise. He has flip flop baggage. BUT HE CAN BEAT OBAMA.”
That myth was exposed last night. He raced Santorum to the bottom of the awkward bumbling and stumbling, defensive debate performance. The whole scene on the tax release, something even the most inept consultants would have prepared him for, was utterly shocking. Dude, release them. Or quit. Or don’t and say it’s nobody’s business (and take the fallout). But that answer was just… strange. Born on third base thinking he hit a grand slam.
And the appeals to daddy were just uncomfortable, especially when they backfired. It sounds like country club “Daddy put me on some boards of his” one-term Mitt’s no match for his Papa who actually ran and lost to Nixon.
RNC: A whole lot of regular Americans would rather see you completely fail, implode, and the nation begin working through a House and Senate on building a new tea party than they would vote for your precious Mittens. Don’t serve up another puppy mill farm pedigreed pure-breed again; they all have serious genetic disorders.
bg commented:
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Eric S #11 January 20, 2012 at 5:02 pm
GOOD!!
then support will win the day..
so sick to death of money ‘buying of the presidency”..
that goes for both sides of the corrupted political isle.. gah!!
oh yeah, more GOOD newts..
Herman Cain to Deliver Tea Party State of the Union Response
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Blue Collar Todd commented:
Have we Republicans gone “Clintonian” when it comes to the character of our candidate?
http://bluecollarphilosophy.com/2012/01/does-gingrichs-surge-mean-the-gop-has-been-clintonized/
Too bad Perry dropped out, we may wish he had not after this is all done.
shibumi commented:
The other day, Glenn Beck was on O’Reilly, and was asked who is supporting as the nominee. Beck held up a shoe and said, “if they run this shoe against Obama, I will support and vote for this shoe, and will be excited if they have sock as a running mate.”
I feel the same way.
OMG
Obama
Must
Go.
bg commented:
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Earth to robo-poster:
Mimi #17 January 20, 2012 at 5:27 pm
your unsubstantiated opinion has been addresses several times, ergo,
please check responses to your repetitive claims in previous threads..
thankyouverymuch..
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StrangernFiction commented:
#19 January 20, 2012 at 5:29 pm
Multitude commented:
What did he tell Santorum. Maybe you should be governor of Massachusetts. Dude is pathetic.
Toddski commented:
Quoting MSNBC……Now I’ve seen everything !
rathernot@cbs.tv commented:
Militant @ 14, Idiots, yes, but I have to disagree with the savant part.
Sha Sene commented:
Newt Gingrich is a great conservative and will win the nomination
Romney is only supported by gays, mormons and establishment GOP’ers
Ron Paul is a nutjob …….If you can’t see that, then you need to up your meds
Santorum has no appeal, and is in fact a big spending social conservative, only supported by some social conservatives.
Newt just got the endorsement of most tea party groups, Michael Reagan, Todd Palin, Thomas Sowell , Reagan’s economic advisor Art Laffer
All you phony posers that claim your christian and think that divorces are a sin can crawl back in your hole
bg commented:
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Blue Collar Todd #21 January 20, 2012 at 5:38 pm
please, fill me in on the “similarities” between Clinton & Gingrich..
thankyouverymuch..
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donh commented:
Romney is not a good closer. He relies on being a foregone conclusion …. having political republicans inside the party machine bought off, a biased press on his side trashing anyone who makes a run at his fragile lead. When it come down to the 9th inning closing time…and his competitors start running ads…his support shatters. Romney will have to lead Obama by 10 points down the stretch. 5 point lead and he will LOSE.
bg commented:
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‘We need a veteran of political war who has already fought Goliath’
Amen..
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Bonanza driver commented:
The no. 1 issue is putting Hussein in the unemployment line…Gingrich is rising and may well be the nominee…I just don’t see Gingrich picking up women who voted for Obama or the majority of independants. Remember that Gingrich resigned as Speaker to prevent his being voted out by his Republican peers. How bad do you have to be to be voted out by your peers? His picking up the coveted Todd Palin endorsement notwithstanding…
Liz commented:
Collapsing. Good grief. Romney is the best qualified candidate with the appropriate skill set. He will prevail for the good of America.
lizzy84 commented:
We have a fighter..finally…warts and all.
Newt is the only one I would even CONSIDER voting for right now.
Studious Citizen commented:
Actually, Newt DOES plan on following Obama around. He said that, if Obama refused to debate him Lincoln-Douglas style, that he’d follow Obama around and every speech that Obama would give, Newt would rebut it 4 hours later in the same location.
Studious Citizen commented:
“How bad do you have to be to be voted out by your peers?”
How bad do your peers have to be to vote you out so they can start running deficits again?
Studious Citizen commented:
Oh my lord, can we PLEASE STOP SPEWING BULL**** ON THE INTERNET!!!
Newt DID NOT pay fines for ethics violations. He was cleared of ethics violations. What they charged him for was the cost of reviewing all of the documents he submitted.
And it was the Democrats who kept filing complaint after complaint after complaint to try and drive him out…and they got enough liberal Republicans on their side to vote him out.
And as soon as they forced him out, they went STRAIGHT BACK to RUNNING DEFICITS.
DrNSA commented:
But, Studious Citizen, you’ve claimed no expertise or acceptable credentials. How can you be taken seriously when mimi has almost convincingly smeared Newt? We only need mama grizzly to give us the journOlistic opinion we need in order to dismiss the former Speaker as an also ran.
Thank goodness for blog comment sections, otherwise I’d lead a very empty life trying to persuade others of my brilliance.
If you need a /sarc tag for this remark, you may need to lay off the internet for awhile.
Sasja commented:
Dims and RINO’s do not like conservatives. They hated Reagan and Newt. The establishment republicans are just as eager to get control over the money as dims, and the power that goes with it. There is no conservative movement in Congress, only out in the hinterland. The RINO’s main objective is to keep control of Congress and win the majority in the Senate and they think they can do that with Mittens even if he loses in the presidential race. Our objective is to get that evil out of the WH and out of our lives. With the RINO’s, not so much. Of course, holding onto the majority in Congress and winning the Senate with a republican in the WH would be great.
Sasja commented:
I should have written the “House” and not used “Congress” when referring to the House of Rep. Teach me to try to do two things at once at my age.
retire05 commented:
#32, Liz, which part of Mitt Romney’s tenure as governor do you find conservative? Which action did he take that you can point to and say “yeah, that’s my idea of a conservative”?
Patty commented:
Romney shot himself in the foot with South Carolina when he was forthright with his tax returns.
Something seems suspicious even though there may not be anything there.
S. Wolf commented:
Rose #1
Fine, then, and IF Hussein gets reelected don’t come around this fine blog… people will be mean to you.
Patty commented:
Correction: Was not forthright with the tax return questions.
#1AMERICAN commented:
Romney is just a white legal American vs. Odumbass….same just different…newt is the one to put the kenyn fraud in his place
Fionnagh commented:
#17 Amazes me that people don’t care that Newt…yada, yada, yada.
It’s not that we don’t care. Rather, it’s because we care MORE about saving the republic. It’s just…that…simple.
And that said, Militant’s got it right. I’ll vote for ANYONE who ends up being the GOP nominee rather than (1) stay home and pout or (2) write in a candidate who is not the nominee because (3) choices (1) and (2) are a vote for Obama.
Militant Conservative commented:
#36 January 20, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Studious Citizen commented:
#36 nailed it as this is the same method used to drive Palin out and just about anyone
the left disagrees with. Common tactic really, use the courts, and YOU have to disprove a
negative. But many Americans are just too damn dumb to see the tactics of the
opponent.
powder is dry
Multitude commented:
retire05: I’m with you regarding liz’s praise (and others) of Romney in that it’s really hard to comprehend from outside the fan club. It’s much like Captain Schettino who’s still a popular hero, defended by his Italian town:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/us-italy-ship-captain-idUSTRE80J1N220120120
Yes liz, I’m sure our American ship needs a captain who’s sailed ships before, and you’re absolutely right that Romney had a one-term stint (followed with absolute rejection by the people of his state and a national ranking as 2nd most unpopular out of 50 governors). He beat last place by one. But like Schettino, there’s a little more than having been a captain of a troubled ship that qualifies one for the job. Plowing Mass into the rock of Romneycare, for one, might be an issue worth considering.
The reason I’ve never regarded him as a worthwhile candidate, however, is his lack of meaningful business experience. I’m sure to teachers, government workers, service employees, etc. that being an “executive” sounds impressive. I’m ashamed that too many have pulled the wool over your eyes. Being born of pedigree, Romney was given board seats and honorary positions; a certain amount of lift comes with country club entitlement. But he never went further than those who just coast do. He got the credit (and blame) for those who actually did things in those organizations. He was a name for a board that represented influence and association. The middle class needs to stop being fooled by those resume stuffing children of privilege.
Combine that with the realization yesterday that he can’t even explain a basic issue without a consultant, a poll, a fence to straddle, a hedge, and you know he’s never had to figure out who he is. He just does what those who give him money (formerly Daddy, currently powerful special interests) tell him to do and say.
Please tell me how this is any different than Obama?
bg commented:
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#21 January 20, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Blue Collar Todd
re: Perry
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bg commented:
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Rose #1 January 20, 2012 at 4:38 pm
that you All-red?? /s/
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Rose commented:
#2 January 20, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Granny
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Can’t say I like Romney either! I’m leaning towards a write in for someone with character and PROVEN support for the Constitution, unlike any of the men now in the race.
But Newt is a nasty piece of work and most people I know wouldn’t let a local man of his reputation inside their own house to sit and have a cup of coffee.
When I was a teen, my mom laid the law down to Dad and forbid one of the men THEY were friends with, friends with the WIFE as well, where the man was a thousand times BETTER than NEWT – Mom told Dad he better not ever let the man come near our home again, no matter what, or she would prolly break down and tell his wife everything she had heard about the man. The lady was really nice, real pretty woman, and clear as day she worshipped her man. Another of those cases where she was a 100 times prettier than some of the females he was running around on her with, too. House full of kids, too. He was always involved in family activities aimed at making a good environment for the kids.
We were inclined to not believe my mom – but then suddenly that marriage busted up because the wife caught him red-handed.
Everybody loved him, he was so fun to be around.
_ _ _ _ _ _
ABLOW at Fox News saying this makes Newt a sure bet because everyone likes him so well – well, Newt couldn’t even resist making a friend and allie out of HANOI JOHN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY2Uh6TKqnk
Newt Gingrich John Kerry Global Warming debate 2007
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http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/full-text-campaign-buzz-december-15-2011-fox-news-gop-iowa-debate-transcript-republican-presidential-candidates-debate-sioux-city-iowa/
NEWT: ” … I NEVER WORKED WITH PEOPLE I DON’T AGREE WITH…” Dec. 15, 2011 Fox News Debate, responding to Michelle Bachman regarding his conduct re Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiMAq0AEryw
Newt Gingrich 2007: Increase the State Department by 50%
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http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/98507/newt-gingrich-health-care-comparative-effectiveness-rationing#.Tuir_lS9Gdw.twitter
More Health Care Heresy from Newt
Jonathan Cohn December 13, 2011 | 11:01 pm
“Oh, and did I mention he had some help? Gingrich had a co-author: John Kerry, the Democratic senator and former presidential nominee.
“The title of the article was “How to Take American Health Care from Worst to First” and it was actually a collaboration by Gingrich, Kerry, and Billy Beane. If you follow baseball or read (or saw) Moneyball then you are familiar with Beane. He’s the revered general manager of the Oakland Atheletics who helped pioneer the use of “sabermetrics.” ”
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Sadie commented:
My choice, Rick Perry, is now gone. I don’t care for Newt or Romney. They are less than ideal. BUT, I WILL VOTE FOR WHOMEVER gets the R nomination over Obama. W.H.O.M.E.V.E.R gets the nomination. I can’t stress this enough.
My country is at stake. Everything I’ve known about America, our Constitution, our culture, our prosperity, our standing — everything is at stake, on the line. You can damned well be sure that if you pout and sit out voting for x, y or z that you are helping to commit American suicide. Hope you can live with yourselves.
Rose commented:
#50 January 20, 2012 at 7:36 pm
bg
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Don’t hand ME that garbage.
I’m 60 yrs old and “BACK IN THE DAY” my generation’s parents were still taking adulterers and wife beaters to the woodshed. they were NOT letting the “womanizers” in polite society. One of my best friends was not allowed at our high school graduation dance because she married 6 months before and STILL WAS NOT PREGNANT. she and her husband had dated for a couple of years and he had graduated the year before and was a manager at a large grocery store – they were just trying to be MORAL. But the mothers said a MARRIED WOMAN couldn’t come to the Graduation Dance, even if she was NOT married “because she had to be”.
Yeah, we all remember a lot of “UNFAIRNESS” going on back then – but you know what – NOT so many kids were living in bad homes or broken homes or in abject poverty – because people took their RESPONSIBILITIES more seriously than their “RIGHT TO PARTY HARDY” as they pleased no matter what they did to others around them.
Guess what – THIS DEGENERATE GENERATION NOW is NOT a basic improvement over THEN.
All this garbage folks like YOU are dishing that folks like me are all “sanctimonious” or something – it ain’t like you are trying to defend a STATESMAN – he has a lot more Marxist Policy “SUCCESSES” under his belt than any accomplishment I CAN FIND of a Conservative nature.
You are defending a CON ARTIST from REPROBATE CHARGES as if he is worth fighting for – and it ain’t like he’s a muslim woman about to get stoned. Then NONE of you guys would be fighting in his defense. He just MIGHT not get to be President. Oh BOO HOO!
Watch him slobbering all over Hanoi John here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY2Uh6TKqnk
Newt Gingrich John Kerry Global Warming debate 2007
HOW GROSS!
He’s a degenerate Marxist.
http://emergingcorruption.com/2011/11/newt-worthy-or-not/
THERE WOULD BE NO “GLORIA ALL-RED” making money off of exposing these sleazeballs – if people like YOU were not trying so hard to ELEVATE the sleazeballs and ignore the facts.
Saddest to watch folks withb a rough life who feel embarrassed about something in their own life who defend scum USERS like NEWT, just because they have a sense of shame over something – maybe divorced, too or something – BUT THEY WERE NOT THE USERS AND SCUM like NEWT. But they would rather identify with NEWT than admit he has NO PLACE in LEADERSHIP, since he has been CAUGHT not being faithful to the POLITICAL CAUSES he espouses any better than he was a horrible husband.
NOTHING IN COMMON with a SLEAZE like him, but you cannot admit it – admit he is using you same as he did all those women – because you had fun while you were being used, and then stomped on.
Fun to hear him blast John King – BUT HE IS THE SAME GUY THAT SLOBBERS ALL OVER HANOI JOHN!
bg commented:
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April 24, 2009
Newt Rips Gore’s ‘Facts’ To Pieces
bit more here..
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Rose commented:
#52 January 20, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Sadie
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I would do precisely the same thing if I thought there was ONE QUARK OR ION OR ATOM of anything to stand on that these guys WOULD be a BENEFIT AT ALL to America instead of AS BIG A DETRIMENT as Obama and Clinton and Carter combined.
Just a plain BENEFIT – say 51% FOR to 49% AGAINST.
I don’t see that. I SEE A NET LOSS with these candidates.
WHY are we treating this like an ordinary Election? Just take whatever they shove at us?
bg commented:
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They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said,
Rose..
“All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!”
so much hatred, so little proof.. *sigh*
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Fionnagh commented:
#53 “…ignore the facts.”
You do, you know. You selectively post what supports your own agenda.
“Horrible husband?” Are you in fact Marianne posting as Rose?
Here are some FACTS, Rose. Marianne did an interview for Vanity Fair in 1995, stating she had an affair with a married man with three children. The affair ended when she met Gingrich, so she had an affair with him instead. At that time, he had already filed for divorce from his first wife.
From an AT article posted today: “There is a question of her credibility since in a July 2000 Associated Press article it was reported that ‘Marianne Gingrich disclosed Tuesday that she has suffered from neurological problems that could be a precursor to multiple sclerosis…Such an episode could represent a single event, perhaps related to a viral infection, or be a forerunner of multiple sclerosis.’ Considering they were divorced in the late 1990′s, it does not appear that her recollections during the recent interview are accurate.”
Newt is my candidate of choice, so I performed my own research rather than take Marianne’s word as to his character. May I suggest you do the same.
Gary commented:
Oh brother
Romney was tapped for this after 2008
The rest is kabuki theater.
Resistance is futile.
Militant Conservative commented:
Rose I have lost all respect for your critical thinking
Ability. Obama has to go. Any port in a storm.
Your being an obstinate child, your part of the reason
We’re in the mess we are in. Thanks a pant load.
You’re no better than the socialist tearing the
Country apart. Nice having ethics with no country.
Think woman!
Molon Labe commented:
After Dole, Bush and McCain I’m glad to see that people are starting to be able to tell the differences between RINOs and winners.
Newt may not be my first choice but he’s better than Obama. As for Romney I don’t know if he is better than Obama. Certainly not to judge from his record in Massachusetts.
lee commented:
Romney bad used car sale men
S. Wolf commented:
Rose #53
re Guess what – THIS DEGENERATE GENERATION NOW is NOT a basic improvement over THEN
True. That bad leftist education American children and adults are afflicted with plus the instant gratification decadence since the sixties has given us degeneracy..
‘There are two types of conservative politicians. Gatekeepers and revolutionaries. The gatekeepers are consensus builders, they talk a great deal about traditional values, and are elected to keep change out. This defensive strategy is a dead end because the real changes are happening outside the direct purview of the gatekeepers, who usually lack the imagination and courage to do anything about them. When the left pushes hard enough, the gatekeepers fold and add the new order of things into their panoply of American values.
The gatekeepers will put up a vigorous show of fighting gay marriage and then ten years later they will proclaim gay marriage as the embodiment of our family values. They will make a great show of fighting Global Warming legislation, and then five years later they will say that our courage to confront climate change is the deepest sign of our values of responsibility for the world around us.
Gatekeepers often don’t believe anything they say. They believe some of it, but not very vehemently, and they lack the imagination to think of anything else. Expecting them to intelligently counter the left’s cultural warfare is absolutely hopeless. At their best they put on a superior smirk and dismiss it as ridiculous, only to concede when the debate has flanked them and the voters are no longer firmly in their traditional corner.
The Republican Party is full of gatekeepers. There are a great many of them who have been defending traditional values and will go on defending traditional values, even though they cannot begin to explain what traditional values are and why they defend them except in circular self-defining terms. Traditional values and American exceptionalism are their goal and as the goal posts keep moving, so do they.
Revolutionaries are rarer. They are dangerous and explosive. Sometimes they are erratic. They are full of ideas, determined and unwilling to compromise. They rarely make good politicians, but sometimes they make very explosive ones. Find the political leader whom the rest of the party hates and can’t wait to get rid of for his obstructionism and sabotage of the gatekeeper agenda, and you may have found a revolutionary.
The revolutionaries cannot transform this mess or turn back the clock solely through their elected office, but they can dismantle the power bases of the other side and they can support and help create counterbalancing institutions. But their most valuable contribution is a refusal to accept the consensus, they refuse to do business at the exchange price set for them by the left.’
So You Want a Revolution…
We don’t have any revolutionaries among the GOP candidates, all we have are gatekeepers, i.e. RINOs. If you can’t vote for Gingrich well fine but at least vote for Congress people, maybe that is where the revolutionaries are.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#63 S. Wolf
As always, excellent comment and link.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Rose, put your faith in God. Put your faith in Christ.
No man will save our nation now.
And then, when you realize that, you will quit worrying.
Satan is real, and stalks the earth, head held high with pride as he surveys his domain.
His time is nearing an end, and he knows it. And he wants you to put your faith in man.
He wants you to keep searching for a human savior of humanity.
Don’t give him what he wants. Put your faith in Christ, and his Promises.
Adi commented:
Sorry for being such an obtuse, but I don’t see the “collapse”.
bg commented:
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S. Wolf #63 January 20, 2012 at 11:12 pm
if i read your post correctly, then Gingrich is
more of a Revolutionary than a Gatekeeper..
ht mcc: Newt-Goldwater 1976
[Long before there was a mighty Republican machine running Georgia,
there was a handful of brash conservatives plotting to lift their tiny,
financially struggling party so they could end more than a century of
Democratic dominance.
Among the chief architects was Newt Gingrich, a West Georgia College
assistant professor who ran for Congress three times in a blue-collar
district – twice against an entrenched Talmadge Democratic incumbent
- before finally winning.
Gingrich, now a presidential hopeful, traveled West and North Georgia
during the 1970s and ’80s, preaching the Republican gospel and arguing
that the GOP had to choose between remaining a silent, permanent
minority or aggressively taking the fight to Democrats.
He chose confrontation and played the role of
provocateur, unwilling to accept second place….
U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Savannah, calls Gingrich an “indispensable early
trailblazer” for Georgia Republicans. Kingston remembers his college days,
when Gingrich came to the University of Georgia to recruit students to
get involved in GOP politics.]
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S. Wolf commented:
Taqiyyotomist #64
Thanks
bg #67
I hope so. He’s certainly a survivor, i.e. tough, and that’s what we need. On that…
‘So, we have a GOP Presidential candidate who will probably NOT be the nominee, and an interview with his Wife #2 about his sex life is all over the mainstream media. And yet, we’ve yet to see an interview or video on ABC News or in the Washington Post with sitting President Barack Obama’s “down low” ex-girlfriend, Larry Sinclair. Why? After all, if it’s okay to continue to broadcast what we already know–that Newt cheated, why won’t they give equal time to the Obama cheated story? Equal time for equally unsubstantiated “he cheated” videos.
I’ve never ever mentioned or posted the Larry Sinclair video before because I think it’s sleazy and uncorroborated. But the same goes for this Marianne Gingrich stuff and yet it’s all over network news, etc. Fair is fair. And if they won’t broadcast it, I will. What’s good for the goose is good for the Obama. The Sinclair incident allegedly happened when Obama was already married to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Hussein Obama Idi Amin Dada. That’s cheatin’.’
Forget the Gingrich Cheating Vid; What About the Obama Cheating Vid?
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S. Wolf #68 January 21, 2012 at 12:16 am
main difference between what Newt & the others..
..NO LYING LIARS TELLING LIES INVOLVED..
btw, i have a minor beef..
the ex is just as guilty of “cheating” as he is..
and who really gives a flying bats guano anyways..
i mean really, the country is circling the drain and this is what we’re focused on??
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S. Wolf #68 January 21, 2012 at 12:16 am
re: Sinclair..
this is much worse imho.. *sigh*
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S. Wolf
ps re: #67 January 20, 2012 at 11:51 pm bg
Gingrich engineered the first Republican takeover of the House
of Representatives in 40 years — followed by the first balanced
budget in 40 years
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S. Wolf commented:
bg #70
re i mean really, the country is circling the drain and this is what we’re focused on??
We aren’t, the media is. The MSM knows what their Hussein has done to the economy, yet they defend him and attack GOP candidates.
#71
Yes, that is worse.. killing those who might embarrass the One a la…
WHITE HOUSE INSIDER: I Hung My Head…
‘Insider: I do. Or something related to it…they were onto something. Let me try and summary – summarize it all up here.
You got a guy who is found dead. Alone. 50-odd years old. Been missing for a coupla weeks before they are discovered. No signs of foul play. The coroner comes out and says natural causes – no investigation. None. Now this person…they are kinda high profile…they got links to presidents for f-cks sake…and NO INVESTIGATION into cause of death? That’s a huge alarm right there. HUGE.
So this person now dead…you look back the past few years. They got a story…an awful strange story about the President of the United States. Soon after that story happened, they have a business associate getting charged – now going to jail. Good chance this individual was told about that story…and maybe more. Or maybe…coincidence?
You got a U.S. Senator…powerful Senator…they come out against the administration shortly after the events in Denver. Not long after. Why? Just politics? Or something else? Then again…maybe just coincidence.
You have my friend in 2010 battling against the Obama approved candidate for a position that could provide the means to take on the administration – full on. Now this campaign is going down less than a year before my friend is to be found dead. Coincidence?
Follow that up with the Senator who then has their campaign fund robbed by a person who once headed up a group called Californians for Obama. Coincidence?
And let’s talk about that time when my friend died. How the Senator…the words they used to describe that death. “No one knows HOW. No one knows WHEN. No one knows WHY.” My gut tells me that Senator may not know the answer to the first two…but they know…yes they know the answer to the third. And that statement…those words were chosen very carefully. And then they follow it up with speaking out BEFORE the president on the only real achievement the administration can try and claim as a victory – the Bin Laden killing? This senator is the one to make the first public announcement – not the president? And they chose to do so at the memorial for my friend? Coincidence?
No…this senator was sending a message. They knew the real deal about Bin Laden…or some of it. They knew enough to challenge…if backed into a corner they would…they would challenge the story the White House was gonna come out with – the story that painted Barack Obama as a hero. The senator was telling the White House to back off…
…you can snuff us out…people like me. But to take on a sitting Senator…even a president has to proceed with caution on that…especially if that senator has the goods, and I am pretty certain this one does.
So there’s that story. You think it’s got some value? Fine…publish it. Whatever. I’m gonna go back to work on Holder…get him out. He knows all of this sh-t. All of it. Get him gone…and it’s gonna be a campaign issue now. They delayed it…the administration…Issa played along…now it’s a campaign issue. Murderers. All of them. Fu–ing murderers…’
#72 Thanks for the link, good stuff. So Mr. Palin endorsing Gingrich was no mere whim..
Ausonius commented:
#27 Sha Sene
It is not about divorce, but the on-going adultery on Newt’s part that caused them that creates the problem for many with him. Alot of conservatives remember when it was disqualifying for a democratic presidential candidate (late 80′s) to get caught having an affair, and are not quite ready to accept as the new conservative norm the clinton standard (sorry bg, they’re BOTH serial adulterers, and I’m quite certain that Newt did alot of lying during two long term affairs).
#11 Eric
You are right on. This election will not be won by debates. The delusional Newt will never get barry to agree to a 3 hour Lincoln-Douglas debate.
It will be won by responses to attack ads and one’s past stances on key issues. When your response to an attack is “hey, that was fourteen years ago,” then you are going to have problems.
With Newt, he’ll be the gift that keeps on giving to barry, in terms of baggage to be used against him. The baggage will extend way beyond just having two affairs.
Then there is the negative favorability aspect of Newt, which runs in the double digits.
This guy as the nominee is very likely a trainwreck.
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this should have it’s own post, if for nothing else, to get the truth out..
“Newt Gingrich’s oh-so-controversial college course that he started
back in 1993 before he was Speaker. Remember how Democrats
denounced it?” Jackson began. “Tax fraud? Well, never mind. After a
three-and-a-half year examination, the Internal Revenue Service –
Bill Clinton’s IRS – has issued an official finding: no violation of tax
laws.”
and shut the know it all know nothings the hell up once & for all
)!!
(well, maybe that’s aiming too high, but at least we’d have a GP
reference link..
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Mama Grizzly commented:
#37 is using an age-old tactic of trying to discredit the messenger (in this case me) because the message itself is causing the opponent some difficulty.
The base level of ugly coming from so-called “conservatives” on this blog leads me to conclude that a majority of the posters here are political operatives of the opposition.
The same people who are now hysterically suppoting Ginrich were JUST AS HYSTERICAL in their support of Palin, then Cain. Now it’s gush gush gush over Newt Gingrich.
The absurd vitriol is the “tell” of the Left.
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Romney would make a fine president. Santorum would too, probably not as good, but he doesn’t know how to gather the crowd yet.
Gingrich comes on the scene (and he’s been around a while y’all, even in this race) and the Left sees a chance to maipulate the Right and they’re going for it.
Newt wins even if he loses. This is something to remember.
Mama Grizzly commented:
“Collapsing” = spin.
Mama Grizzly commented:
“Richard Quinn, a longtime South Carolina GOP strategist who worked for Jon Huntsman but signed on to advise Gingrich this week, told CNN Friday that the former House speaker will walk away with “between a 4- and 6-point plurality win” in the contest.”
So a Huntsman strategist is employed to defeat Romney and push Gingrich.
Unreal.
S. Wolf commented:
Mama Grizzly #77
re The same people who are now hysterically suppoting Ginrich were JUST AS HYSTERICAL in their support of Palin
For someone who implicitly identifies with Mrs. Palin, viz Mama Grizzly, for you to characterize her supporters as hysterical is ludicrous. We are not hysterics.. and as for operatives methinks you fit your own description of an operative, so called conservative pushing Individual Mandate Romney..
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Mama Grizzly #79 January 21, 2012 at 11:38 am
am i supposed to guess where those quotes came
from, got a link, or reference directions?? thanks..
oh btw, Huntsman endorsed Romney, ergo, if anything
cynical, he could very well be the enemy within, go fig..
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Jon Roch commented:
Enjoy your nomination Christians¬. Below are a few of the Mormon beliefs in which Romney is a high ranking member. Really want a shock, look up the “White horse prophecy and president”¬. Personally I am not standing in front of God explaining why I supported Romney. I’ll take anyone else regardless of how much I like his stance.
The Bible is unreliable and incomplete for faith.
God curses certain individual¬s with dark skin.
The races are determined by how worthy individual¬s were prior to this mortal life. Blacks were not as faithful…(Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation 1:61-7 McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 527-8
God needs a wife to become God.
God the Father has at least one wife that He needed in order to become exalted to Godhood,..¬. (McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 516-7 Young, The Journal of Discourses 1:50;
The Heavenly Father has a Heavenly Father before Him.
God the Father has a Father whom He followed as Jesus had followed His Father in order to become a god (Fielding Smith, The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 373
The God of this world was once a man who became God.
God is an exalted man, who needed to do certain things in order to become God for this world (Ibid.; and James Talmage, Articles of Faith, 430).
Humans may become Gods for other worlds as God is God for this world.
Worthy Mormons may become gods toD&C 76:50-8 and 95, 132:15-23, 29, and 37; and Gospel Principles, 302 [1997 edition]).