Posted on 01/23/2012 5:06:26 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Team Newt brags that they have picked up $1 million in donations and 500 new volunteers in Florida since Saturday:
INSIDER ADVANTAGE POLL: The firm’s latest Florida poll shows the race as Newt at 34% and Mitt Romney at 26.
GALLUP NATIONAL POLL: Last week, Gallup’s Frank Newport said that Governor Romney’s national lead was “collapsing.” The latest Gallup tracking data shows that it continues to fall. Now, Romney is at 30%, with Newt at 25%. Romney lost one point and Newt gained two in the latest release.
KNOCKOUT PUNCH MONEYBOMB: In less than 24 hours after the South Carolina victory, Newt 2012 raised more than one million dollars.
VOLUNTEERS: 500 in Florida alone have signed up since Saturday, bringing the total in the Sunshine State to 5,000.
Nationally, thousands of volunteers have joined the campaign the last 24 hours.
I think Newt is on a glide path to pull”A Reagan”he is positioning himself to run against the moderate republican candidate not just Romney. The last quote I heard from him was”If you want some one to manage the decay then vote for Romney” Folks that’s powerful stuff but even better it’s a totally new way of characterizing Romney. That’s why they can’t lay a glove on him when it’s a fair fight.
Gave $30 — but it’s all I can do. I also wish I could get my Cain money back ...
Where DOES that money go?
Is it going to his inane bus tours with Colbert? That really stinks.
LOL It is just now dawning on CNN that Newt called Obama an ‘Alinsky radical’. They’re trying to smooth it over and deny.
Totally new only coming from a significant player in politics. We rabble have been noting that both the GOP and DEM parties are masters of decay and deceit; with the difference being one of speed toward demise, not of direction.
I got my vol sign up reply email really fast.
Send Romney 5 bucks.
Just donated $100...will give again if he wins the nomination. I’ve liked Newt since ‘94. He disappointed me with the Scozzifava and Pelosi incidents, but I believe he has seen the error of his ways, and have always felt he had some of the best and most practical solutions.
Woohoo, Newt!!!
Just a minute ago (9:15 EST) I saw a red headline (no link yet) on Drudge:
FLA POLL: Gingrich 41% Romney 32%... developing...
I have given Newt $350 so far without telling the wifey which she busted my chops last week. Might as well make it a round $500.
” I wish I had my Cain money back!”
You and me both! $100 down the drain.
I didn’t say a FL win would seal the deal. I said it would make it tough for Mitt to recover.
Have a nice day.
the MSM is reporting 100,000 to 200,000 votes have been already cast via absentee.
also, early voting is already under way.
IOW the polls are officially open in FL.
I dunno. Paul LePage seems cut from similar cloth as Newt, rather than from McKernan and wife (Olympia Snowe) cloth. The republican establishment is about as well liked in Maine, as it is in South Carolina.
I don't have much faith in Santorum, since he has proven in the past to be all for himself. He demonstrates that regularly, especially all through this campaign season and in the debates.
Santorum cannot win, and will only draw money and support from Newt. But more importantly, I really do not think he is smart enough to understand what the right thing to do is. I really tip my hat to Rick Perry. He surprised a whole lot of people when he drooped out, especially HOW he dropped out.
“Santorum was campaigning on a platform of self-righteousness...that he believed he is holier than the others who are running.”
Fortunately we live in a country that forgives. When Santorum reaches the age Newt is, nothing he ever did or said or felt will be held against him. Holier than thou is not a sin...and maybe he is. In later years people will just say, “He’s matured.” Santorum has done nothing differently than he did when he entered the campaign. He was arrogant then and he still is. People said it was confidence. They loved him because he was passionate and respectable. My candidate was Rick Perry. Still is, even though. Most of us were loyal and stayed on the bandwagon until the end. There just werent’t enough of us. I’ll willingly vote for Newt in the general. I would have willingly voted for Cain in the general. By the time the primary starts in my state, it won’t matter. But, I’ll still wish the real deal will come along and save us from ourselves. We should have been searching for and promoting the most acceptable Republican candidate that the whole country would have liked. Instead, after the primary, we’ll be fighting within our own party, that Newt isn’t as bad as he seems. Newt’s confessed and forgiven sins are not the issue. Nobody cares about that. It’s a smoke screen. We would never have leaders if a man had to be pure. His problems will come with the legions in our party who previously abandoned him because of his power-hungry flaws. They still feel the same way about him today. I wonder, like Governor Perry, if there are enough of us.
And this is before the debate. 50% here we come!
2 Cor 10:12 "We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.
Proverbs 27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.
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