I'd wager a Mitt top of the ticket would be at least as harmful, down ballot - and my gut tells me it would be more harmful to the party as it is currently constituted.
For me, that's a win-win outcome. The GOP as currently constituted is damaging to the country.
Hogwash. If Newt keeps going after the media, and right to the American people, these #'s will reverse toot sweet.
My first though was, How old are these numbers and from whom did they come?
I've cast around a little but don't come across a source.
These sorts of numbers are "perishable" and could turn on a dime in his favor.
All one needs to do is look back at the 2010 midterms and remember that the silent majority is still pissed.
LOL! Almost Steynesque!
“On the one hand, Gingrich’s national favorable-unfavorable ratings of 26.5 and 58.6 percent, respectively make him not just unelectable against Obama...”
Nonsense. A full 48% (or more) of registered voters will never vote for Obama. A wet dish towel can beat Obama. It’s more a matter of who will make the better POTUS: Obama-lite Mitt, or Newt.
Bull hockey.
Obama is the millstone, and he's not around the GOP's neck.
Two simple reasons for Newt’s SC victory:
#1 The people loathe Obama and how he has wrecked our country
#2 The people loathe the main stream media for protecting Obama and the Leftists.
And Newt articulates this loathing better than anyone
Nothing more; nothing less than this
Gingrich has a proven track record on how to nationalize congressional elections like no other. I don't see why he could not use his skills to both help him get elected and create coat tails.
“...Gingrich’s national favorable-unfavorable ratings of 26.5 and 58.6 percent...”
Same tactic and argument that was used against Reagan, and don’t forget how women voters were scared by Reagan, even when they turned out in large numbers to vote for him.
It’s time to show the RNC that there is a new sheriff in town, and the corrupt thinking that brought us McCain and now Romney isn’t going to win the day.
6. We don’t end up w Mitt Milquetoast as the nominee and lose to commie Obamie.
Newt will have to go out and earn those votes, but -- KEY POINT -- he has shown that HE CAN DO THAT. Every debate, he picks up supporters, or at least, assauges some detractors. (He'll create more "he's not my guy, but I'll support him if he wins" voters or even "hold their nose and vote" voters.)
And on the other, Romney will have shown in two successive contests—one in a bellwether Republican state, the other in a key swing state—an inability to beat his deeply unpopular rival. If this scenario unfolds, the sound of GOP grandees whispering calls for a white knight, be it Indiana governor Mitch Daniels (who, conveniently, is delivering the Republican response to Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night) or Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan or even Jeb Bush, will be deafening.
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Yeah:
1) We did the polite and nice McCain who is loved by the media who did not take the Left to task on their treason, and the Conservative base did not come out.
2) The left got their hardest left candidate to run, and they got record turnout. Playing to the middle to win is a myth. It only disgusts your base, and without your base you lose.
3) I wish Sarah or West or someone else articulate and FAR right are down ticket.
4) A Mormon president is a serious issue. It is OFFICIAL NOTICE that the Christianity going on in the USA is worthless to the max, since it is not producing leaders, along with all the sin among Christians. Most Christians are not ready to admit this, so they will pick a “not Romney”.
5) Who is Mitch Daniels? Not another blue-blood Bush!!!