Posted on 12/30/2011 10:12:39 AM PST by BCrago66
Romney 26, Gingrich 24, Paul 11.
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Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! Romney has spent MILLIONS bashing and smearing Newt. Fox News, MSM and the GOP establishment on the Romney train and YET...Gingrich is hanging tough. How would anyone survive if 10 MILLION in attack ads was spent smearing them? Romney is a piece of shit. Paul is a lunatic. Newt is the only candidate with a PROVEN record of great accomplishments as Speaker of the House.
It will be a cold day in hell before I vote for Romney. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Newt!!!!!!!!!! I am looking forward to the next debate when Gingrich nails those sobs
Which is why Mitt Romney will not win the nomination. The sooner people here realize that, the sooner we can get down to the business of selecting a conservative candidate. As long as that Mitt-fear dominates the discussion, we will end up doing something really stupid such as nominating a progressive like Newt Gingrich. Then we will be wondering what went wrong when we get saddled with GingrichCare.
Exactly. I don't understand why that simple concept is so difficult for so many here to grasp.
Newt has a higher ACU conservative rating than Santorum. He is not a “progressive” in any way, shape or form. No one other than Newt has been more successful at promoting conservatism in America since Ronald Reagan.
Newt’s showing in the polls has nothing to do with people being afraid of Mitt Romney. It has everything to do with him articulating the conservative message in the debates better than everyone else and having a track record of being conservative to back it up.
Newt’s health care proposal is up on Newt.org. Please discuss it on the merits with specifics and avoid the random, baseless fear-mongering.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean anything. When there are this many candidates in a race, no one candidate tends to poll higher than 30% or so. As candidates drop out their support will go to their second choice. Some polls have provided stats on that, but it’s hard to estimate. I remember some states had Newt beating Romney in a head-to-head matchup by 50-something to 40-something. Both get more support as people’s other preferred candidates drop out. Newt on the whole seems to get more of that support than Romney.
That’s utterly ridiculously untrue. The died-in-the-wool conservatives are backing Newt. It’s the social moderates that are backing Romney. Newt has an absolutely stellar, unimpeachable record of defending marriage and pro-life values.
Genuinely religious people understand the concept of forgiveness and not judging others for their personal transgressions. If you want to burn someone at the stake because they’ve sinned, you’re following Satan, not Jesus.
Those ACU ratings are dated and do not reflect their positions since leaving Congress. Besides, the current ACU head is backing Mitt Romney. Go figure. And yes, Gingrich is a progressive. He believes that government is the solution, which is reflected in his positions on health care mandates, and global warming.
Please read my post again. I wrote that I read polls that analyzed these scenarios and what you’re saying here is not what happens. Romney gets much closer to 50%. They’re hard to find and I don’t remember the exact numbers, but he is not going to be as easy to beat as you’re suggesting.
Palin would have to be drafted....unlikely given GOP party types being like they are
Palin would have to be drafted....unlikely given GOP party types being like they are
It’s a voting record. The rating doesn’t reflect what they said while they were in Congress either, just how they voted. I’ve watched Newt on cable news for years. When he went on Hannity and Colmes, he agreed with Hannity, not Colmes, at least 90% of the time.
The constant hampering on the health care mandate and climate change issues is getting tiresome. The facts have been pointed out again and again by Newt and others and some people just do not want to hear them. The mandate was invented to try and stop Hilarycare. Obama wanted a single-payer system, he didn’t want the mandate, but center-right Democrats forced him to use it. Newt considered it an experiment in Massachusetts and now is absolutely not for a mandate. His health care plans are on his web site and a mandate is completely ruled out.
Newt spoke out in Congress against Al Gore’s cap-and-trade plan and many of his global warming assertions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7VUg7nG3lw
Newt wrote a book called Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less. He supports developing our energy resources. It is a massive shame that conservatives would throw one of their greatest fighters and greatest advocates for their causes under the bus because of a few misstatements made over decades that are spun by liberals like Obama, Pelosi and Romney into something that they’re not.
Okay. I dislike Newt for a number of good reasons, but Myth is far worse. I’m throwing my support with Newt. God help us all.
Don’t blame Sarah. We’ve got Myth who is horrible, but we have Newt who is no prize. So many flip flops, liberal leanings, and more. I can understand she doesn’t want to explicitly endorse any of these guys, I feel exactly as she does. None of them are worth getting enthusiastic about. Sorry but it is true.
Are the national polls of likely GOP Primary Voters or of likely primary voters in an open primary state?
Are the undecided voters mentioned, especially on a national poll of the GOP Primary?
If it's no on either question, it's a lie. Tell everyone you know, especially a candidate for office. Call the radio, write an op ed, post about it on a blog, talk about it at the kitchen table. Then ask this question.
Why is there no polling information on why a likely voter is choosing a candidate?
Why is there no poll of likely volunteers, like the Tea Party activist who won the last election?
A “progressive” is a liberal. Newt Gingrich IS NOT LIBERAL.
You don't have to vote for either. You can vote for a conservative candidate instead.
Someone who thinks that the powers of government should be used to fix all our ills is a progressive. Someone who wants to incorporate 300 pages of the ObamaCare bill into his own healthcare plan is a progressive. You may not consider him a liberal, but it is certain that he is not a conservative.
Gingrich is 1000 times the conservative that
Romney is. Take your pick. One of them
will run against Obama. My choice is Newt
any day of the week.
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