Posted on 12/17/2011 7:56:50 AM PST by tcrlaf
Rep. Barney Frank is predicting that President Obama would easily win a general election against Newt Gingrich, but stopped short of guaranteeing that Obama would eclipse his 2008 victory.
The retiring Massachusetts Democrat recently said that a Gingrich nomination “would be the best thing to happen to the Democrats since Barry Goldwater.”
Asked for a prediction on electoral votes, Frank this week told The Hill, “The thing is [Gingrich] could carry most of the South.” He said Obama's count would be “in the 300s” against the Georgia Republican.
To win the White House, 270 electoral votes are needed.
Obama won 365 electoral votes in 2008 against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who captured 173. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson won 486 electoral votes to Goldwater’s 52.
Earlier this fall amid Texas Gov. Rick Perry's surge in the GOP primary polls, Frank said Mitt Romney would present a more difficult challenge for Democrats in the general election.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I think they REALLY FEAR Gingrich speaking plain truth could bring everything tumbling down for them.
Hmmmm—maybe Bwarney has his shorts in a twist....I hear that can stop blood flow to the brain.
This prediction brought to you by the same man that said Fannie and Freddie were doing fine.....
Thus is the canary in a cage proof that the biggest supporters of Obama fear Gingrich the most because if it were true Barney Frank would never publicly say it.
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and Carter was 20 points ahead of Reagan !
I don’t think he’d win by that much but he will beat Gingrich.
Democrats lie. A democrat will lie about what he had for breakfast. If they're saying Gingrich will ensure an Obama win, then you can be confident the opposite was true.
Notice no Democrat says anything bad about Romney during primary season.
That’s the same Barney Frank that told us there was nothing wrong at Fannie Mae, right?
Romney’s position is a lot worse. He would lose the south and his home state of Massachusetts.
Gingrich would win both of his home states by wide margins. Virginia and Georgia are a lock if Newt is the nominee.
Yeah, especially when your brain is between your legs.
So Romney would lose by even more. Meh
...so what makes anyone think that he will be right about predictions on who is going to win an election which occurs in 11 months? ...
Then I hear charlie gasp perino state basically the same thing.
Must be the new narrative.
fox has become the SOS, not worthy of my time anymore.
Awwwww, it’s just Barney Frank talkin’ out his love-hole, again. No, seriously, he can literally talk out of his love-hole. His love-hole has had more traffic than the Holland Tunnel. It’s so wide that his vocal chords dropped down into his bowels. There’s still guys missing in Barney’s love-hole from the Obama victory celebration back in 2008. See if you can find any clips of him singing by a piano. He won’t do it. He tried it once, and there was a candelabra behind him on the piano and he blew out all the candles when he did his rendition of “I LOVE BEING A GIRL!”.
Barney Frank next job will be a comedy show in Vegas with Debbie Wasserman Shultz.
I don’t know what Frank is on, but it must pretty good stuff to get him that far from reality.
Are there that many voters that are on Obama’s side? If so, America is lost.
aahhhh....Barney’s scared.....
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This is the BEST proof yet we are on the right track!
I’m not sure the “Mean old white dude” line of attack is going to work nearly as well on Gingrich as it did on McCain. The only way the Democrats get to 300 EV’s is with massive fraud - which will work equally well against any Republican.
America’s economy and security have become one big junkyard. It will take a “junkyard dawg” to clear the place up. I’ll give Newt a 4 year shot at it. He knows his way around the yard and is not afraid to bite. He knows he has only one shot left to go down in history as the President who saved America from the Marxists/Socialists/Communists. Its Newt’s time.
Yea, like I’m going to listen to a guy that will put a feces incrusted p*nis in his mouth.....
Can we act like adults here for a moment? Who really gives a frip what the queer Bwaney Frank thinks?
Good Point.
Whew! With Barney’s record, I am now sure that the OPPOSITE will come true.
I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard this ridiculous notion. Who will they fear next? Santorum?
Well, while he's pulling numbers out of his fat wrinkled butt, why not a million billion electoral votes? With all of the rat fraud we can expect, that's probably going to be closer to the final count.
Considering the miraculous {snicker} decline in the unemployment number to 8.6% from 9.1%, and considering that the MSM and Dems have about 10 months for rehabilitation and resurrection, they can make Obama look great by next November.
And they have plenty of time to go through Gingrich’s trainload of baggage, little by little during the coming months.
The GOP nominee will have an uphill battle by next November. I just don’t see another Grand OLD Party white-haired guy getting much of the current 48% or so who support Obama already, nor the guy making much headway, unless the economy collapses and joblessness rises back into the 9-10% range.
For all the hoopla, Gingrich has too much baggage and the MSM/Dems will reveal every piece of it they can.
What has been seen, cannot be unseen.
You may not like them all, but Gingrich has real accomplishments while in a position that mattered.
Wait... You are joking, right?
No. They do not fear Gingrich at all. He is the establishment candidate that they want.
Name 5 things different that Obama has done that Gingrich would have done differently.
Is there ANYTHING about this guy that isn’t perverted?
Gingrich in Presidential Debate 10/11/11
IMHO, I think that 0 would be hard put to accumaulate 300 EV’s if he ran unopposed.
Don’t know how Gingrich would do, but I’m going to claim straight-up bs on that one.
Exactly what baggage do you fear? What makes you think that these MSM/Dems won't exploit Romney's baggage or any of the other potential rivals or should I say likely rivals.
Barny Frank must be on the same drug as Dr Michael Savage.
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Exactly. There's a reason Barney Frank is saying this. And it's not because he believes the lie. He's trying to negatively influence gullible voters.
Well then the RATS have Zero to worry about. Good thing
people don’t mind being unemployed.
Well then the RATS have Zero to worry about. Good thing
people don’t mind being unemployed.
LOL!
Then why say it? If my opponent is on the verge of doing something that will benefit my side, i'm surely not going to point out what a disaster it'd be for him.
It's obvious that Gingrich makes the democrats (and establishment republicans) nervous, for he is unpredictable, uncontrollable, and would unquestioningly shake up the status quo if elected. Romney is the safe pick for the ruling class, one who wouldn't stray too far from our current headings should he beat Obama. Then after 4 or 8 years the dems would be able to pick up where they left off without too much trouble.
Frank’s probably right...the biggest problem Gingrich has is that nobody likes him...personally. He maybe be smart, competent, a great debator, but nobody likes him...He is bombastic, arrogant, pompous, conceited, looks down upon people, and all around, not likable. He’s the male Hillary Clinton and Al Gore combined-—and, let’s be honest, you have to be likable to be president. Just like at the current one, he’s totally incompetent and ridiculous, but probably a great guy to have a beer with.
They fear Newt because, while taking a nap, he can mentally best any liberal.
Well whatever you might say about him he got the job done before and I hope to see him do the job needing done ahead in out country.
Frankly I don’t care if people like Newt or not...he’s got the goods we need as a nation to get rid of those who are taking it down...and i won’t expect him to be liked while he’s doing so.
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