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Why the Republicans need to pick Gingrich, despite his past failings
Canada Free Press ^ | December 27, 2011 | Daniel Wiseman

Posted on 12/27/2011 3:36:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Windflier
I don't see her stepping in.

Sir Isaac of the original Newtonian revolution was as big a putz in his own way as sometimes our present day Newton is.
Sometimes you need a putz!

21 posted on 12/27/2011 5:49:23 PM PST by Reily
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To: Windflier
Then they can tread sand.

Lots.

How's them apples?

/johnny

22 posted on 12/27/2011 5:58:32 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Reily
I don't see her stepping in.

Few people do, but you just never know in times such as these. There's a huge push on to get her to reconsider her decision, given the state of our field, and what's at stake in 2012.

Eisenhower refused all appeals for him to run for president, until he finally gave in at the 52(?) convention. I'm not saying the same thing will happen with Palin, but it could. It's still too early for me to cross off any possibility.

23 posted on 12/27/2011 5:58:59 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: freedomfiter2
but he’s a moderate Republican.

So.. he's somewhat leftist.

Thanks. No.

/johnny

24 posted on 12/27/2011 6:00:43 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Texan going to listen to a Canadian about who to vote for? I'm not polite to other Texans on the subject.

The author's American -- a fact easily found out if you can just bother to click on the link and look.

25 posted on 12/27/2011 6:04:20 PM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Then they can tread sand. Lots. How's them apples?

I don't know what your beef with the writer is. Canada Free Press is simply a website that posts conservative commentary and news.

Who cares if their physical address is across the northern border? So is Free Dominion's, FR's sister site.

26 posted on 12/27/2011 6:06:39 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: BfloGuy
S'ok. I have no respect for Americans writing for Canadian rags either. I'm equal opportunity.

/johnny

27 posted on 12/27/2011 6:07:25 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Windflier
S'ok. I'm equal opportunity. I think the writers at the StartleGram (Star Telegram, Ft. Worth, Texas), are sissies that need to grow up and smell the coffee.

I don't much care for what a reporter from Ft. Worth thinks either.

/johnny

28 posted on 12/27/2011 6:11:21 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
S'ok. I have no respect for Americans writing for Canadian rags either. I'm equal opportunity.

Now that's the sort of f***ed up attitude that gives us Texans a bad name. Next time I see some Freeper turning their nose up at Texas, I'll think of you.

29 posted on 12/27/2011 6:33:43 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Tell me why I should care about a Texan that writes in a Canadian newspaper to try to influence the presidential election?

I should care? Why? If you want to influence Texans, hold coffees here, with meet'n greets. Or write for the local liberal rag.

And I double dog dare you to tell me that the Startlegram and the Morning Snooze aren't liberal bastions. I know too many of those folks.

/johnny

30 posted on 12/27/2011 6:39:09 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Okay, so he’s not going to hire me for public relations but at least he’s usually to the right of McCain.


31 posted on 12/27/2011 6:43:44 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Tell me why I should care about a Texan that writes in a Canadian newspaper to try to influence the presidential election?

Canada Free Press isn't a newspaper. It's a news and opinion website.

Lots of conservative writers can't get published by newspapers, or even get their work posted by the more popular conservative news sites. If they want their work to get exposure, they have to go where they can get published.

That might just wind up being a friendly conservative news site that's just across our northern border.

32 posted on 12/27/2011 6:48:17 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
My northern border is the Red River.

And it's obvious the writer was (may still be) a lib.

I don't buy it. Sorry if it offends you, but I've had so many people pee on my boots and tell me it was raining that my trust is gone.

It's going to take something better than someone who was against Newt the first time, on a Canadian web-site, supported by a 'Texan' that wasn't born here to convince me.

Don't hate me. I was born this way.

Problem you have, is, so were millions more.

Sleep well.

/johnny

33 posted on 12/27/2011 6:56:54 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: freedomfiter2
at least he’s usually to the right of McCain.

You aren't helping much.

That is for true.

/johnny

34 posted on 12/27/2011 7:00:56 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I don’t know what your problem is fella, but curling your lip and spitting at your fellow conservatives isn’t hip or cool. It ain’t Texan, and it sure as hell isn’t American, no matter how smug it makes you feel.

I’ve got nothing vested in the guy who wrote the article. I’ve merely been attempting to explain why the guy’s work is on a website out of Canada. From what I’ve seen of your posts on this thread, you dismissed the guy out of hand without even reading the article, simply because he was posting on a Canadian website.

Sounds to me like some writer pissed in your Cheerios a long time ago, and you’ve never gotten over it. Guess what? Nobody gives a rat’s patootie about your personal grudges and gripes.

Want to talk about the meat of the article? Someone here might actually be interested in that.


35 posted on 12/27/2011 7:12:38 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: EGPWS

When was the last time we elected a back-bencher from the House or a rejected senator to the White House?


36 posted on 12/27/2011 7:13:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: Windflier
The 'meat' of the article is that we should vote for Newt.

I'm not comfy with that.

And I really don't care if I'm hip or cool. But I am old and grumpy enough to say "Cow:Cabbage".

But I do take umbrage with supposed Americans and Texans telling folks like me how I'm supposed to vote. Especially when it comes from Canada.

And it's ok if you don't understand.

You will. In November.

The GOP hasn't been so obnoxious about driving off potential voters as long as I can remember.

/johnny

37 posted on 12/27/2011 7:20:09 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When was the last time we elected a back-bencher from the House or a rejected senator to the White House?

Andy Jackson?

/johnny

38 posted on 12/27/2011 7:27:45 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
The 'meat' of the article is that we should vote for Newt. I'm not comfy with that.

Fair enough. That's your opinion, and I'll respect it. I haven't been all that comfy with Newt, either. I'm sure that you recall that not all that long ago, this website was jam packed with posts condemning Newt for his many transgressions against conservative ideals.

When folks here first started talking him up, my first reaction was, "you have GOT to be kidding me. Newt?"

I haven't forgotten all the times he pissed me off, and still have a somewhat sour taste in my mouth about him. But -- weighing our options at this time, I can't escape the reasoning and logic that's compelling so many conservatives to get behind him.

I wish like hell we had a better choice who also had a snowball's chance of winning the nomination, but I just don't see that we do. If I've got to choose between Newt and Mitt, it's Newt all day long, and twice on Sunday.

39 posted on 12/27/2011 7:28:20 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
but I just don't see that we do.

That's been pretty obvious.

Either the GOP nominates a conservative. A REAL conservative, or they go home.

We don't have to win every game. I'm not sanguine about it, because I know that there will be pain... but until the GOP gets a clue... or we replace them... there is no good option.

And sometimes, in life, there IS no good option. You just have to live through it.

But I will be damned if some Canadian blogsite is going to change my opinion. Shake my hand, we might talk. Broadcast from a foreign country? Fergetit.

/johnny

40 posted on 12/27/2011 7:36:12 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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