Hmm… Romney Packed Hall for Debate Last Night Says Gingrich Aide
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, January 27, 2012, 1:06 PM
If you watched the debate last night and wondered why the audience went nuts over Mitt Romney’s mediocre answers you’re not alone.
In South Carolina the Romney camp shipped in busloads of college kids.
(Reuters / JIM YOUNG)
Last night the Romneybots reportedly stacked the hall with Mitt supporters. At least, that’s what the Gingrich camp claims.
The Huffington Post reported:
Members of Newt Gingrich’s campaign accused Mitt Romney’s campaign of packing the audience for the Republican presidential candidate debate on Thursday night in Jacksonville, Fla., with its own supporters to ensure that the dynamics would be favorable to Romney.
“They definitely packed the room,” Kevin Kellems, one of Gingrich’s senior advisers, told The Huffington Post early Friday morning. “The problem for them is their candidate, at several junctures, couldn’t remember what he had said before on an issue or what the fundamental truth is on a given topic. TV viewers tend to notice and remember things like that.”
A more junior member of the Gingrich campaign said in an email that it was “obvious” that the Romney campaign had worked to make sure the audience was overly favorable toward the former Massachusetts governor.
“I was getting calls and emails from all over saying this,” the junior aide said. “Just average people saying, ‘Wait a minute.’”
The campaign staffer noted that the Florida Republican Party had “picked 900 plus seats.”
Florida Republican Party spokesman Brian Hughes told HuffPost in a phone interview late Thursday that the state party controlled who got roughly 900 of the 1,200 tickets issued to the debate. But he took issue with charges that the crowd was tilted toward any one candidate.
“The vast majority of [the tickets] went to rank and file. We did a very thorough job of getting them to the rank and file, vetting them to make sure they went to registered Republicans and then making sure they went out to people that were not knowingly affiliated” with any of the candidates, Hughes said.
“We worked very hard to ensure that the room was rank-and-file folks who represent the electorate that these guys are trying to speak to,” Hughes said.
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Ria commented:
If his Team was reading the blogs he would have known he made an unforced error by demanding crowd participation. I predicted the crowd would not be clapping all the time. Newt Team has be making headlines about non issues ever since he won SC.
Get focus guys. I am rooting for Newt!!!
RedBeard commented:
Is there proof of the packing accusation? Or just sour grapes from the Gingrich camp because Romney performed well for a change?
I still want someone other than Gingrich or Romney, but wanting it won’t help much at this point. Maybe we can get Harold Stassen to run again.
Patty commented:
I guess Newt didn’t think of it first.
Michael Zak commented:
Packing the hall worked for Abraham Lincoln at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
Nanna commented:
Fox News said that several Hispanic leaders have come out for Newt today.
I too am for Newt, but Santorum walked away with the debate last night.
Multitude commented:
Maybe Mitt will have Roman columns for his coronation as well. We all know that Soros says there’s no real difference between Mitt and Barack.
Remco Kimber commented:
Romney = Malcolm Milquetoast
He’s a wimp who will not fight the hard fight against Obama. McCain removed from the table any number of issues with which he could have bested Obama. McCain wanted to appear as a gentleman. As a result he got his head handed to him.
Romney is the same. Echos of Bob Dole.
Ripped commented:
As if the other 3 didn’t do the same thing. Such yellow journalism.
No facts simply baseless accusations from the sore loser of last nights debate.
Ripped commented:
Since when is Gateway Pundit taking anything posted at Huffington Post as factual.
Benson II commented:
Newt had a hard time last night because it’s pretty hard to answer your own answers with an answer. This is why the Blitz almost always started the answers with either Santorum or Romney.
To save time I suggest the next debate just have Gingrich with two ventriloquist dummies, one on each knee. One named Santorum the other Romney. It wouldn’t be much different from what we saw last night.
If we do get one of the apprentices where are they going to get their ideas when they go up against Obama. Maybe we’d be better off with the teacher.
StacyH commented:
This is ridiculous. These things have tickets. Each campaign is given an even number of tickets and the RNC hand out the rest. And I’ve watched the replays, Newt got a bunch of applause for going after Wolf at one point. I think this crowd was just ridiculously unclassy and wanted to cheer and boo.
They need to enforce the no reaction from the crowds rules.
This story is just more Newt being a sore loser because the general consensus is that he was the loser last night. You know who I think the loser is? The American people. Because the only people actually worth electing have had the good sense to get out of the race because there’s no way to compete with liars and knaves.
DINORightMarie commented:
I saw that on Twitter last night, that the “Romney buses were making last call” or some such. The crowd went nuts over Romney much more than usual, and his answers were pretty much the same as in the other debates. Santorum had the best debate in the election, IMHO, but not many applauded. Even the Paul supporters were subdued from prior debates – and he had a good debate, too. Stacked for Romney? It is possible.
I remember that at CPAC, Romney would pack the house to ensure he won the straw poll, at least for the last couple of years. Also, Charlie Crist aids and some lucrative Republicans in FL are on Romney’s “team” (Jeb Bush, for one) – why would the FL Republican Party NOT favor Romney and ensure that the “rank and file” were people they knew supported Romney?
I put nothing as too low for the Republican establishment.
Sasja commented:
OT
I posted the article from “American Spectator” on another thread. This is Rush speaking about it on his program today re the hoopla over Newt and Reagan.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/01/27/was_elliott_abrams_deceived_on_newt
Sam Stone commented:
Romney switched around is MONEY R
Peggy R commented:
Romney may not be the right candidate, but I don’t see him as a dirty campaigner. Gee, he stood by his wife when she became ill w/scoliocis and cancer. Sure the Establishment is going all out for him, but that’s not his dirty tricks.
Newt is playing the victim again.
Sasja commented:
Mittens=snake oil salesman. Never have liked him, still don’t. After all that has been happening lately, would not be surprised if they did stack the house with his supporters.
bg commented:
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Elliott Abrams Caught Misleading on Newt
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Marooned in Marin commented:
I found a video the other day where Romey supporters in South Florida admitted to being paid to stand in front of a polling place wearing a Romney t-shirt.
Tjexcite commented:
Some may need to change the tin foil hats. It is no longer working, Mittbots are under every rock and hate Newt so much that they scare real newts from under those rocks.
Sparky commented:
Well, if these kids were all Romney supporters, they couldn’t have liked him that much because Romney got boo’d three times.
Romney and the RNC are filthy dirty. They will stoop to an all time low level to get their man into the WH.
Now would be a good time for the Tea Party to become more vocal and visible because Romney will be given the crown before too long!
Edward Cropper commented:
Your pro Gingrich bias is turning an otherwise fine blog into a joke. If Gingrich had won would he have stacked the crowd ? Regardless of the crowd people who can think should draw rational conclusions from the content of the speakers answers and proposals.
Granny commented:
#6 January 27, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Multitude commented:
Maybe Mitt will have Roman columns for his coronation as well. We all know that Soros says there’s no real difference between Mitt and Barack.
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Those were not Roman columns. Those were an interpretation of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. You might remember when Obama visited Europe during the run-up to the ’08 elections he wanted to give a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate and Angela Merkel refused to allow it. At the time he and Michelle Antoinette were challenging John and Jackie . . . but without the Berlin Wall in the background, the last big political rally there was held by Hitler and the Nazis. Check the internet – there are dozens of pictures. The mimicry is very clear.
S. Wolf commented:
Heh..
‘Gawker’s substantial Mormon readership has come through for us: Two readers have sent us confirmation that Edward Davies, Mitt Romney’s militantly atheist father-in-law, was indeed posthumously converted to Mormonism by his family, despite the fact that when he was alive he regarded all religions as “hogwash.”
As we mentioned yesterday, Ann Romney’s Welsh-born father (who Mitt mentioned in last night’s debate to shore up his pro-immigrant bona fides) was an engineer, inventor, and resolute atheist who disdained all organized religion and raised his children accordingly. Davies, his son Roderick told the Boston Globe in 2007, regarded the faithful as “weak in the knees.” But when Mitt began seeing Davies’ daughter Ann, the Romney family launched a concerted effort to convert not only Ann but her entire family to Mormonism. And they were wildly successful: Within a year of meeting Ann, Mitt and his father had converted all three of Edward Davies’ children. Days before she died in 1993, Ann Romney’s mother asked to be converted as well. Edward Davies was the only member of his clan whose soul the Romneys never claimed for their church.’
Yes, the Romneys Converted Mitt’s Dead Atheist Father-in-Law to Mormonism
I have nothing against Mormonism as long as they leave me and the dead alone. A man who shuns religion in life should be respected for his choice and not posthumously converted.
same link..
‘The Mormon church has repeatedly been criticized for its practice of trawling for dead souls to convert to the faith. Catholic and Jewish organizations have expressed outrage when the names of dead popes and Holocaust victims have turned up on Mormon lists of the baptized.’
kato commented:
I said I might not, but the last 48 hours has convinced me: If Gingrich somehow becomes the GOP candidate, I’ll sit out the 2012 presidential election.
And it’s not for anything I read about him. It’s for what I hear coming out of his own mouth.
Lying, arrogant jerk. Repulsive.
RedBeard commented:
Somehow I don’t think it will matter much if some Mormon gang tries to convert my corpse. Dead, you know. Toes up. Am no more. Ceased to be. Passed over.
And if there is such a thing as a soul, it will be long gone by that time, for better or worse, and out of their reach.
They would be more productive trying to empty a bucket of water with a fork.
Widow maker commented:
Why are 90% of Newt’s attacks from the left. He sounds like Howard Dean with those attacks.
bg commented:
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GP is a guest
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ht Peggy R
GP is a guest speaker
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bg commented:
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oh please, even this nut has it right..
“Oh, well, I’m afraid of what the — that’s where I’m really afraid. I would
like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I’m afraid for my
life if I do. Mormons are the nicest people in the world… They’ll never take
a shot at me. Those other people, I’m not going to say a word about them.”
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Big Al commented:
Sounds like sour grapes to me. Too much whinin.
bg commented:
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re: #17 January 27, 2012 at 1:48 pm bg
Rush Limbaugh – Januray 27, 2012
["Since the Congressional Record for 1986 was difficult to obtain electronically, Scheve trekked to the George Mason Library to physically track down the March 21, 1986 edition of the Congressional Record. Locating it, copying and scanning, he was kind enough to send to me," writes Jeffrey Lord. "So now I've read the Gingrich speech that is the source of all the hoopla. All seven, fine print pages worth of it exactly as it appeared in its original form. I can only say that what Elliott Abrams wrote in NRO [National Review] about Newt Gingrich based on this long ago speech is not worthy of Elliott Abrams. Specifically, Abrams implies that Newt Gingrich was spewing mindless vitriol about Reagan on the House floor.
“Not only not so, it was quite to the contrary,” which, I’m telling you… These special orders is where everybody first heard about Newt, and he was the premiere defender of Reagan. That’s why all this stuff yesterday had me scratching my head. Here’s a quote from Newt on this special order: “‘Let me be clear: I have the greatest respect for President Reagan. I think he personally understands the threat of communism.’ Gingrich then goes on — at Newtonian length — praising Reagan for Reagan’s understanding of Lenin, Reagan’s understanding of the real ‘purposes of a Soviet dictatorship’ and much more.
“He lists and applauds Reagan repeatedly for the President’s appreciation of ‘the threat in a more powerful Soviet empire’ and the threats posed by Communist Cuba and Nicaragua. He ranks Reagan with the great Cold War presidents in protecting freedom. In short, time after time after, Newt Gingrich — true to form — is there on the floor of the House relentlessly praising and crediting Ronald Reagan. Is it any wonder that years later Nancy Reagan would speak so publicly and warmly about ‘Ronnie’ passing the conservative torch to Newt? Is there any wonder that Michael Reagan has stepped into the middle of this current brawl to endorse Newt?]
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S. Wolf commented:
#32
You’re not fooling me retard05..
bg commented:
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[#32 January 27, 2012 at 2:52 pm
bg commented:
I have had it with Newt. He’s nothing but a panderer. We need
someone who doesn’t think it is all about them. Newt thinks it’s
all about him.]
not me, and everyone knows it, duh fuh..
Palin, Cain, Gingrich (and cabinet) train.. Toot 4 Newt!!
uh oh, did i hear correctly, GP for Romney?? (or was
it Newt.. gah, that’s what i get for double tasking)..
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bg commented:
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#36 January 27, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Captain America commented:
that you Gateway Mirror, i mean, daryl,
i mean (fitb), or what S Wolf said?? /s/
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Mama Grizzly commented:
Seems like a lot of people are acting nutz over Romney, yet the organized labor groups (Obama’s buddies) are spending millions to defeat him. For no reason, do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mwBFrkBi8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P31tziQsEFw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdfZoZe3YU&feature=related
THESE AREN’T BAD PEOPLE, PEOPLE. Think about it: Obama vs. Mitt on any issue.
This election must center around the ECONOMY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ypqKig9_I&feature=relmfu
S. Wolf commented:
bg #37
re not me, and everyone knows it, duh fuh..
Yup. Definitely not you. We all know that’s the hemorrhoidic barefooted retard05.
bg commented:
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Mama Grizzly #39 January 27, 2012 at 3:03 pm
re: [his election must center around the ECONOMY.]
foreign or domestic?? /s/
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Mama Grizzly commented:
That said in my post above, I still like Santorum. Just don’t think he can pull ahead. But he should run again or for another office. He’s very committed and serious about the issues.
I don’t trust Newt. Sorry, but I don’t. Something is off. In the last debate I thought it was horrible that he was sneering and laughing at Santorum as he gave his last words. What a creep. No respect. It’s always all about Newt.
Romney or Santorum have my vote.
Mama Grizzly commented:
Well both Romney and Santorum care deeply for real and want to fix the US Economy, which will place in a position of world leadership, bg.
Of the two , Romney has the experience and the ability and the drive to do it. Santorum’s focus is on manufacturing. Brilliant because manufacturing goods is the key to the economy. Obama thinks the way to fix the economy is to “sell stuff and truck it around and stuff . . .” or some such nonsense.
S. Wolf commented:
bg #33
Levin backs Gingrich too.
‘While much of the conservative movement has seemingly lined up to oppose former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s ascent in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, high-profile defenders of Gingrich have been few and far between.
But Gingrich does have one outspoken defender, conservative talker and author of “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America,” Mark Levin. At the top of his Thursday radio show, Levin spoke out against those in the conservative movement that had decided to go on the attack against the former Speaker of the House.
“If this is what the conservative movement has become then count me out,” Levin said. “All over the Internet today, a frenzy of brutal attacks, none of them serious or substantive for the most part against Gingrich.”’
Mark Levin bucks conservative media trend, comes to Gingrich’s defense
The tide will turn. Go Newt.
DaMav commented:
Newt runs to the Huffington Post to complain about Republicans.
Maybe he can get an editorial from the NY Times blaming Romney for Global Warming? Not much would surprise me about Gingrich anymore.
Santorum 2012 ifnot then Romney 2012 ifnot then Paul (omg no) 2012
Mama Grizzly commented:
“We all know that Soros says there’s no real difference between Mitt and Barack.” (#22)
Well well well. That cinches it for me.
SOROS is the biggest Obama supporter in the world and his puppet master. If he is trying to get people off track regarding Romney, then that is BIG NEWS. Soros wants to control the world economy. I want Mitt to knock his ugly block off.
bg commented:
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Newt Gingrich is Right!!
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aprilnovember811 commented:
How pathetic. He’s Obama.
Ausonius commented:
Jim:
You are entitled to do what you want with your sight, just please don’t be suprised when I, and perhaps others, do not see you as being anything other than grossly biased toward Newt. I see your sight frequently, and nearly all of the stories are pro-Newt or designed to dimminish Rick or Mitt.
The bias is as bad in that regard as anything the msm does, except in your case it favors Newt over others instead of favoring the left over the right.
If the object is winning in November, then slanting the story lines during the primary season does not help, but potentially hurts, as we may well end up with a weak or deeply flawed candidate.
Sasja commented:
I @13,
bg @17 & 33. Thank you for re-linking what I had already done earlier today. I don’t know what most of these people on this site would do if they actually had to do go out of their comfort zone to do their own research.
Sasja commented:
Ausonius, I am sure Jim appreciates your approval of how he manages his own website. As to whether he favors Newt. So what. I’m still waiting to see the ga-zillion apologies and retractions from the lies spewed about Newt yesterday which appeared on Drudge.
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S. Wolf #44 January 27, 2012 at 3:20 pm
thanks, that’s great..
but exactly who is defining “high profile” defenders
(well, other than the IslaMarxst Dhimmis & RINO’s)??
i mean, are folks like Art Laffer or Thomas Sowell, (not to mention
Fred Thompson, Todd Palin, or Chuck Norris, and others..
and these tell a different story as well..
Republican Convention ~ Green Paper
NYT – last updated Jan 22, 2012
CNN Jan 23, 2012
more here..
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Mama Grizzly commented:
Nice kids too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7aPlHxgWFI&feature=related
Fionnagh commented:
#24 I said I might not, but the last 48 hours has convinced me: If Gingrich somehow becomes the GOP candidate, I’ll sit out the 2012 presidential election.
And I’ll vote for him, whether he’s the nominee or not.
So I guess that’s two votes for Obama right there.
Ausonius commented:
#44 S. Wolf
Unless he has changed positions, Mark Levin has maintained supporting as his first choice Rick Santorum and has for a while. Should Rick not get the nomination, he supports whoever is running against barry.
I think he, like Rush, were defending Newt against the allegations of him being anti-Reagan.
Rhymes With Right commented:
Well, Newt and his staff SAY that the Romney campaign stacked the crowd.
Evidence? Well, not so much.
Guess they need to have some explanation for why their candidate faltered, floundered, and fell flat in Florida.
Ausonius commented:
Sasja #51:
Unless you are functionally illiterate, it was disapproval actually of the Newt slant, just so you know.
I, however, would prefer stories without such a slant. Unlike some here, I would like an honest appraisal of the candidates, good and bad, in order to make an informed decision.
Knowledge is kind of important, you know.
I’m kinda getting sick of having to dig through original source material when a story breaks in order to determine what is actually there, and what is spin, which seems to be coming from nearly all directions.
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Sasja #50 January 27, 2012 at 3:58 pm
you’re so welcome & thank you..
you got the ball rolling with this one,
i’m just running with it so to speak..
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FurryGuy commented:
Enjoy your serfdom when the government takes away the last of your freedoms you so resolutely refuse to defend.
The choices we are being given are far less than ideal, but I won’t be an idle non-participant when I still have a voice.
Mama Grizzly commented:
Mitt on Family Values (walking the walk):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VNJyTYyEDo&feature=endscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOuizLehD2k&feature=endscreen
FurryGuy commented:
How very democratic of you to tell others how they must think and what they must believe.
So what if Mr. Hoft has a contrary (to you) opinion and supports a candidate you don’t like? Are you now abrogating to yourself that you are the sole arbiter of what is correct thought and beliefs?
I might disagree with parts of the content of some of the threads posted here, I have broadened by outlook on the candidates because of the diversity.
If you are so offended by the bias here then I suggest you do go elsewhere and/or start your own blog so you can reveal the truth to the unwashed masses you so condescendingly want to educate.
Ripped commented:
#38 January 27, 2012 at 3:02 pm
bg commented:
Off your meds?
Mikey commented:
Romney is looking a lot like the Obama campaign. Just downright DIRTY. He has all his minions sling the mud, tell lies and innuendos and says what? Hey, it wasn’t me? There is no way to prove that Romney did what was stated, but all the snarling at Newt is making me think the Romneybots are no better than the Ron Paul fanatics. I particularly love how Newt is being attacked for NOT being a Conservative; like platic Mitt is. PLEASE!!!!!! Romney will run a campaign like McCain did. He WILL NOT go after Obama; certain things will be off limits; and of course those are all the things that MATTER about Obama. Remember Reverend Wright? So, go ahead and support Romney. I see a lot of people say they will stay home if Newt is nominated, well for me, if Romney is; I will stay home. Romney ain’t it foks, WAKE UP!!!!!!! We need a fighter not a Ken Doll. NEWT 2012
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re: S. Wolf #44 January 27, 2012 at 3:20 pm
FABULOUS!! and know i’m probably missing a lot by not tuning
into him, but i have way too little time & too much to do as it is,
so thank you so much for posting that!!
another excerpt:
“So what’s going on here?” Levin said. “I’ll tell you what’s going on here. There’s an effort to clear the path right now for Romney. I guarantee you if Santorum was considered a threat, they’d be pulling out quotes from him and twisting them and turning them, and turning him into a pretzel, too. If they thought Ron Paul was a threat … they’d be turning him into a pretzel, too. Romney pulled the same thing with Fred Thompson. He pulled the same thing with Rudy Giuliani. Ladies and gentlemen, if you are conservative, if you are tea party activists, you’ve got to step back and say, ‘What the hell is going on here?’ All these commercials aimed at destroying opponents, not in communicating facts, not in advancing our principles, not focused on Obama, who’s the problem, but turning people into monsters.”
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Ripped #62 January 27, 2012 at 4:27 pm
hey mthere TW by any other name claim.. /s/
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S. Wolf commented:
Mama Grizzly #46
re That cinches it for me
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Sasja commented:
Ausonius. Just so you know. My comment about your comment regarding your perception that Jim favors Newt, was a “so what” if he does. I don’t recall an edict which demands owners of blogs not have an opinion, nor a favorite candidate running for any office.
bg commented:
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Fionnagh #54 January 27, 2012 at 4:08 pm
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Sasja #67 January 27, 2012 at 4:35 pm
could have sworn GP said he supported Romney via the radio show
i listened to earlier, but then again it could have been Newt, not to
mention having short term memory problem.. so i’ll have to find out
if it was taped or not..
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S. Wolf #66 January 27, 2012 at 4:34 pm
so is Paul..
but then again, so are many other Dhimmis & Rino’s
this is an eye opener, if you haven’t listened to or read it as yet,
and you’re serious about knowing the truth (or at least getting
as close to it as you possibly can), then pray tell, what are you
waiting for??
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Molon Labe commented:
If Newt’s staff can’t rise above such tactics then they suffer from poor planning and a lack of vision. Newt’s performance was, ah, substandard, and his presentation of amnesty was pure Obama.
Little wonder Romney racked him. Santorum got much applause and wasn’t bothered by a stacked deck nor CNN.
I still don’t understand why the GOP allows CNN to moderate these debates. And since the GOP allowed Hispanics to sponsor this will there a similar event for Nordics, Celts, Germans, Asians, etc?
S. Wolf commented:
bg #64
You’re welcome.
#70
re what are you waiting for??
I’m not waiting for anything. It’s obvious the RINOs and Dhimmis are putting their lucre ahead of country while the country crumbles around them. Note in Acebridge link GM is listed, the same GM taken over by Hussein and unions. These cronies are having a feeding frenzy over America before America is even dead, ripping chunks of flesh from the still quivering body. They are the enemy including Romney.
Molon Labe commented:
#61
Furry:
Nice post. Quite agree with you. Its nice to meet those who hold differing view as long as they back it up with facts and have a coherent line of argument. One is bored of the mobys, trolls, and ignorant who post their bumper sticker slogans and do they ride by braying.
You can’t hold a reasoned discussion with people who know that 2+2=5.
Molon Labe commented:
#72
Wolf:
You’re spot on. Obama is just “redistributing” the wealth to his supporters. But do you expect the GOP to do anything about it?
bg commented:
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re: #52 January 27, 2012 at 4:05 pm bg
List of Newt Gingrich endorsements: click on [show]..
[standard disclaimer: source Wikipedia, looking for another
source, or maybe someone else have one they could post??]
Palin, Cain, Gingrich, TEA Party Train.. Ging O Newt!!
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donh commented:
I agree with Newt. A debate official admitted to tight vetting of attendants in his defense of the accusation, but it sounded more like an admission of guilt. When tickets where handed out only to carefully screened recipients , that suggests only hacks who take orders from party machine foremen.
Ausonius commented:
#61 FurryGuy:
Yeah, perhaps you could read my post again and explain where I tell others what they must think?
It was expression of opinion, I’m entitled to mine, you are entitled to yours.
James commented:
Wow, is that what made Newt say he was pro amnesty.
Molon Labe commented:
Romney’s defense of Romneycare and government dictates to the serfs may well have required a packed audience. But Newt had the opportunity to savage Romney over Romney’s “its not a big deal” and failed to do so.
Sntorum savaged Romney and pointed out the reasons Romney cannot beat Obama.
Romney is the healthcare what Ron Paul is to foreign policy.
Sasja commented:
OT
This may prove to be a stickler for Mittens. I’ll reserve comment. It’s up to you to make of it what you will. I just found it interesting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2836991/posts
S. Wolf commented:
Molon Labe #74
No. Most of the Republicans and all of the Democrats are part of the problem or more accurately are the problem and need to be diselected if America is to survive.
valerie commented:
Apologies if this has already been posted.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/sarah-palin-this-ridiculous-opposition-dump-on-newt-was-nothing-short-of-stanlin-esque-re-writing-of-history/
“We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent….”
For me, it’s not the notion of criticizing the candidate: it’s the lying.
FurryGuy commented:
I read what you had to say more than once, to more than adequately understand what you meant and intended. All you did was whinge that you don’t like the apparent unfounded bias that Mr. Hoft (in your mind) shows, and then petulantly complain you would leave if Mr. Hoft didn’t change things to suit you. Look to your bias first before you openly kvetch about others.
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I’ve seen other people complain about Mr. Hoft supposedly supporting virtually every candidate (Ron Paul, Romney, Cain, Bachmann, the list is nearly endless) that was running at the time, each and every one kvetching about the “undeserved support” said candidate was receiving from the proprietor.
Sasja commented:
My parents, who reside in Florida, are still voting for Newt. Mom said, after listening to Palin and then Rush today, they have decided that left-wing tactics usually expected from the dims, but is now being used by a GOP candidate is totally unacceptable. Their little group, consisting of 70+year-olds (it’s their bridge club) and totaling 28 so-far living souls, have decided to stick with Newt. And there is no earthly reason for telling you this except I told my parents I would.
wtd commented:
As Jim stated, the BYU students were bussed to South Carolina. It’s a long ride in a bus to Florida. Perhaps that explains the silent treatment imposed on the NBC debate with Brian Williams on Monday, 1/24. The bus probably couldn’t arrive in time to deliver the canned applause for Romney.
jdripper commented:
Poor little newter everyone is picking on him. Why would anyone want this little toad after he got his butt kicked and then is attempting to make excuses about it. Why was anyone backing this guy?
bg commented:
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FurryGuy #83 January 27, 2012 at 6:05 pm
[#69 January 27, 2012 at 4:42 pm
bg commented:
I’ve seen other people complain about Mr. Hoft supposedly supporting virtually every candidate (Ron Paul, Romney, Cain, Bachmann, the list is nearly endless) that was running at the time, each and every one kvetching about the “undeserved support” said candidate was receiving from the proprietor.]
huh??
#69 January 27, 2012 at 4:42 pm bg
Sasja #67 January 27, 2012 at 4:35 pm
could have sworn GP said he supported Romney via the radio show
i listened to earlier, but then again it could have been Newt, not to
mention having short term memory problem.. so i’ll have to find out
if it was taped or not..
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bg commented:
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jdripper #87 January 27, 2012 at 6:20 pm
huh??
what are you grumbling about??
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bg commented:
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valerie #82 January 27, 2012 at 6:01 pm
GP opened a post about it..
but i love their headline too..
Sarah Palin: “this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt
was nothing short of Stalin-esque re-writing of history”
thanks..
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Ausonius commented:
#83 Furry Guy
Perhaps you cannot read at all, as my post never says I’ll leave at all. I didn’t even imply it.
I’ll stand by the statement of bias I made. I went back to the 12th of January to find one story concerning Rush and others having to openly rebuke Newt for attacking capitolism like a democrat would. Only one story. Absent are numerous, not the least of which would be what has started Newt’s slide in Florida, namely Marco Rubio having to publicly rebuke Newt for comparing Mitt to Crist and running a radio ad calling Mitt the most anti-immigration candidate of the primary (again, just like a democrat would sound). The campaign immediately pulled the ad.
That is a kinda big story to miss, don’t you think?
That is hardly the only one, but I won’t waste time offering more because you can’t seem to read (or perhaps comprehend) what I am saying anyway, since you like to attribute to me statements I didn’t make.
Wild Thing commented:
Good for Romney and Newt grow up and stop being a drama queen.
GOP KICKS ASS commented:
Gingrich is such a whiner. Geez! First he’s pissed that the audience was silenced and now he’s pissed that they clapped for Mitt instead of him for Newt’s lame performance. I think if Newt and Paul would get out Santorum would have a chance.