Posted on 01/20/2012 8:42:51 AM PST by Signalman
Dear Friend,
In this video commentary, I discuss who won last night’s Republican debate in Charleston, South Carolina. One man won the debate. The other will win the election! Tune in!
What did he say (for those of us at work in no position to pull up a video)?
He said Santorum did, and that will make Romney win the SC primary.
Wrong, and wrong.
Well, without reading it, I would bet he said Santorum won the debate byt Gingrich will win the election. That’s my guess.
Santorum lost me last night. I’m for Newt, but I would actually vote for Romney over Santorum, now.
We already have a petulant child in he White House. Never again.
...and I personally think Gingrich schooled Santorum in the debate. Unfortunately, Santorum, to me, came across as someone desperate and grasping at straws.
Morris missed it on this one. He needs to revert to what he does best, find a toe to suck on, and STFU.
Morris said:
Santorum won the debate. However, this hurt Newt since most of the votes Santorum will get will come from Gingrich. And Mitt, as a result will win SC. And if he wins SC, he will win FL (where he’s already laid in a 3 1/2M Dollar ad buy)and then the next primary is NV, and then MI, both states which he (Mitt) will win. That’s it, game over.
Santorum won last night. He won a one way ticket back to Virginia. He will be joining Cain, Bachmann and Perry on the sidelines.
Nordlinger's thoughts were good--especially about Santorum, who seems, at times, like the 'good' older brother in the Prodigal Son story--too many awkwardly-placed "I's," appearing just a bit too jealous of the merits, and way too biting in comments on shortcomings of fellow 'sibling' candidates.
The word in Coastal S.C. is the tide is in Newt’s favor!
I actually thought Santorum won the debate, beginning to end, but the only parts getting any play are Newt’s opening and Romney’s stuttering on tax returns. While I thought it was one of Newt’s weaker debates (other than his opening fireworks), the coverage coming out of it will do nothing but help him. That opening was played over and over again on the radio and TV all morning.
He knows he won't win the nomination yet he burned his bridges with the two front runners. Stupid move all around.
I think if Santorum wants to be president some day, it would behoove him to go out and become governor of Pennsylvania for a few years. Take Bobby Jindal? If he ever decides to run, he’s going to be difficult to ignore.
I don't think it will put Santorum over the top, nor will it hurt Newt.
Romney looks more and more staged and plastic with each debate.
As usual, DICK Morris is full of crap!
Why anyone continues to pay any attention to what this idiot has to say is beyond me.
I do not believe there is any way that Romeny can win South Carolina. I do not believe the polls showing it to be close. If he *should* win, I will not believe it was a fair election. I don’t think they will vote for a damn yankee, and Romeny fits that description better than anyone in the race.
Oh, and Dick Morris is a damn yankee too.
Newt is finished. The female vote will never go for him after the way he has treated the women in his life. There has been a lot of noise about his debate performance, but underneath it all, his lack of moral integrity will do him in. First wife he cheats on and asks for divorce while she is suffering from Cancer. Second wife, he cheats on and asks first for Open Marriage and then divorce shortly after learning she has Multiple Sclerosis. This guy has the moral compass of an alley cat. Come to think of it, the Alley Cat is a peg above him.
That's where a record comes in. Not just the record of votes, which is often a meaningless toll of positions taken for political reasons on bills that were always going to pass or were never going to pass, but a record of actions taken that actually mattered.
A record of actions taken that actually mattered. Newt is the man who fits that description to a "T".
He can identify what is most important to the country, develop a plan to overcome that challenge, articulate the the merits of overcoming the challenge and why the plan will work.
I hadn't been for Gingrich initially and spent plenty of energy excoriating him, these last several years, for any number of sins he committed against the Republican/Conservative ideals. He seemed a turncoat of sorts, particularly when he babysat Pelosi on the couch.
On reflection, Newt is an attention whore seeking relevancy for his ideas and I guess I take him at his word that he made a few mistakes in his life and he has at least some regret for those decisions. God knows I am no angel and so I have to reflect on the man's ability to get things done.
Newt gave us the Republican majority, the Contract with America and completed 2/3rds of his agenda while in office.
He now has a new plan for America and with what is likely to become a Congressional Super Majority and a Senate Majority, if not Super Majority, I believe he will absolutely accomplish his agenda.
Say goodbye to ObamaCare the single biggest scam and travesty foisted upon a free people who, by right, ought to have been given the opportunity to read the bill and debate it. Instead, a win at all cost, cheating agenda was developed and it was signed with most people never laying eyes on at least page 2 of this utopian dreck.
Executive Orders Positions:
The following are all within the executive powers to simply order and with the exception of securing the border within one year, they are all easily accomplished with the stroke of a pen and no way to challenge them in the legislature.
Keystone may be challenged in the courts but I think the Executive can order the EPA to approve, under National Security Priorities and it is a National Security issue, as well, a jobs issue.
As President, Newt, could actually have a very busy 1st week or month just on these initiative alone.
1. Eliminate the thirty-nine White House "Czar" positions created during the current administration. The president does not have the authority to appoint bureaucrats to power who are not accountable to the Congress.
2. "Mexico City Policy" of Respect for Life. Reauthorize President Ronald Reagan’s policy – also known as the "Mexico City Policy"— to stop tax payer dollars from being used to fund or promote abortions in foreign countries.
3. Restore conscience clause protections for Healthcare Workers.No American working in a medical environment should be forced to perform any procedure that he or she finds morally or ethically objectionable based on religious teaching. This protection should include, but not be limited to abortion. Existing conscience clause protections need to be strengthened.
4. Respect Each Sovereign Nation’s Choice of its Capital. Each sovereign nation, under international law and custom, may designate its own Capital. Accordingly, the U.S. State Department should be instructed to respect the choice of each sovereign nation and place the American embassy in their Capital. (Israel is the only country the United States discriminates against in this regard. The people of Israel have designated Jerusalem as their capital. Yet the United States retains its embassy in Tel Aviv.)
5. End the Attorney General's Assault on the States. Instruct the Attorney General to withdraw all immigration-related lawsuits against states immediately, including those pending in Arizona and South Carolina. The Obama Administration refuses to enforce federal immigration laws, and instead sues states who are merely trying to enforce the laws that the federal government neglects. The Gingrich Administration will secure the border by Jan. 1, 2014 by any means necessary.
Unleash American Energy by Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline. Instruct the State Department to approve a Presidential Permit immediately for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that will send 700,000 barrels of oil a day from Great Plains and Southwestern states to Gulf Coast refineries lower staggering energy prices, and create up to 120,000 American jobs.
Now we get into the details of an inclusive agenda that brings the people(you and me), through their representatives, into process. The TEA Party and conservatives are going to have a majority in both houses.
Let’s elect an Executive who will absolutely fulfill the promise of our ideals.
Newt gave us the three most important victories of the 90’s Welfare Reform, Balanced Budget and Reduced Taxes. I hope I don’t need to describe the benefits of those victories. They ought to be obvious to everyone by now.
Lastly, there have been some reports that Newt shouldn’t get all the credit. Really? Then perhaps we marginalize the accomplishments of Washington, Roosevelt, Kennedy and ….wait for it… Reagan.
Do we really want to go down the road with that kind of adolescent sophistry and parsing of what happened?
Newt is the guy who thought of these big things, proposed them and shepherded their implementation?
Newt has once again identified what is important to us now, at this time and described how we can get there with our representative majorities. He has done it before and I declare Newt Gingrich was then and is Now a leader.
We should elect Newt Gingrich to the Presidency of the United States
I appreciate your opinions and reasoned analysis, but with due respect the crowd response in the hall indicates that Santorum’s attacks fell flat.
Sure, the crowd is only a tiny percentage of the folks watching, but there is no reason to think that two thousand folks from SC are really any different from the other three-four hundred thousand from SC who watched at home who will vote.
If, like Rush, you don’t hear the sound and just watch the words, Santorum might have seemed to score. But if you heard his desperate tone and the way he was put down by an adult on several occasions - and heard the way it played in the hall - I find it not plausible that he won.
I guess we’ll see Saturday. Thanks again for reasoned thought out arguments BTW...
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