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Very interesting, and very savvy of you to be on top of this:
It looks like the MSM/fake-poll-spun Romney may wind up being
Gingrich’s warm-up act, as Romney ideally (to me) may serve as a stand-in for the final opponent, Obama.
Gingrich, primarily, but all others collectively may help in delivering slow-mo knockout punches over the coming months
to the “inevitable” Romney
nomination.
Regardless of what an “acceptably” good game Romney talks
in his quest for Independents and disaffected former Obama
supporters, his message simply is not going to reach millions of important voters who see themselves as making
a life-or-death decision in the primaries this year and November. Romney simply WON’T present himself as a viable alternative to Obama—he doesn’t have the fire in the belly, NOR the rhetorical/factual wherewithal to do so.
On the other hand, Gingrich is so “policy-ready” on the debate floor, that every little tidbit he puts out is grabbed and spun by the MSM to put it in the most negative light as quickly as possible (black schoolkids apprenticing as janitors, etc. etc.)
The fact is, Gingrich’s arguments and positions on just about everything BEGIN at a point most of his opponent’s
arguments NEVER GET TO: that constitutes a practical weakness he will have to straighten out right quick—how to
avoid having every little proposal you make demagogued by
the MSM, the Obama Surrogates, and ALSO your “fellow Republicans”.
NO ONE will win the nomination without Tea party support,
and now that Cain and Bachmann are gone, that leaves fewer and fewer candidates to draw that constituency to them.
Without knowing about these polls, I was forecasting the same results to someone I was having a “discussion” with last night at our annual New Year’s Chamber of Commerce meeting in Bergen COunty , New Jersey.
We all stand behind any candidate other than Romney to do as well as he can: for me, this means Gingrich.