It's starting. Drudge is going after Santorum hard now. Prepare for Santorum's numbers to drop very shortly.
Front page on Drudge right now...
Posted on 02/21/2012 7:46:04 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
False choice at this point.
er one debate can change everything, you know it and I know it and they most certainly know it and that is why Santorum and Romney backed out.
Like I said I can’t stand the crap where one candidates supporters have to come out and then attack another person thinking they are the devine right or something
Hell even FOX hardly mentions Newt since he was attacked here in FL.
you’re a Cain supporter any idea where he is out on the trial?
thanks for the photo, it will be out there time and time again putting Santorum as a religious nut and it did not help when he said God told him to run.
The MSM will spin this crap time and time again and that is why FOX is mentioning Santorum a lot now, just wait till a couple of months and he is attacked like Newt, can’t have us choose our own guy or gal
I find Santorum's judgement to be very questionable and not just his endorsements but for example his legislation with Lieberman and Hillary to conduct a study on the effects watching tv has on children to the tune of 90 MILLION dollars of taxpayers money! and don't forget the bridge to nowhere and voting to raise the debt ceiling, congressional pay hikes. America is broke! we need Newt!
Evidentualy, the voters of PA didn’t like Santorum enough to re-elect him! and we all know why.
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I have a feeling that tomorrows debate will be the last
The argument that women will not vote for Newt is a fallacy. Working women, young women who use birth control and single mothers will not vote for Santorum and his nosy nanny preaching.
There is one demographic that is rarely cited to refute the ‘electibility factor’. ‘THE MALE VOTER’.
IMHO men can identify with Newt on many levels; his effort, his successes and failures, his creative solutions and hard work ethic and paying for errors in judgement - both personal and professional - and the courage to admit them.
I’ll help the girl on the right with anything she needs :)
please tell me that is photoshopped!?
we have on our side all the issues, gun running, green energy pay off with tax money to donors etc and instead we have to deal with all of this and when I and some others point this out we’re now told to stay home or we want sharia law.
Not only the establishment seem keen on losing in Nov but now it seems we have some supporters on our side wants the same.
Santorum has not yet been attacked like Newt but it is coming and he needs to stay on message, stay on the issues and stay away from anything religious right now
I think Rush has been struggling with a bout of what’s been going around: thinking whoever the leading not-Romney is there must be another better not-Romney to be had.
I have a feeling that tomorrows debate will be the last
Your feeling is probably correct in that Super Tuesday is 15 days out and by the end of the night I expect we’ll see one or more candidates dropping out.
Case in point, this ad from Rick might be swaying them back to Newt:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2848555/posts
Rush almost never outright predicts anything. It’s part of his schtick. No one can predict the future and I find his analysis to be perfectly reasonable, but he isn’t taking any risks on being proven wrong by subsequent events.
He sorta kinda said Newt may reemerge.
Newt Gingrich has been very vocal about Obama’s war on religion and the Obamacare discrimination again’st the Catholic church.
I can esily show you Obama and Hilary pandering for religious votes on CNN in 2008. There was a religious forum and they both went on at great length (lied) about how God and Jesus guide their actions. Obama did it again recently at that prayer breakfast.
There was a time, and still is for many people, when there was no shame in talking about God and good as guiding forces and the devil/ evil as things to be fought.
I think people might just respond to Santorum’s personal example of avoiding moral rot.
Newt’s strong point is his potential to deal knock-out debate performances - if he is on his game and the moderators don’t hamstring that - they know better now than Juan Williams did.
I think Rush’s estimation that further debates could bode Newt well is correct on the face of it. But, contrarily, I believe that the last thing on Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney’s minds is opening up the potential for Newt to break out fast and hard in another debate. It just won’t happen. If they didn’t allow him to debate in Georgia, a place where they know he has a majority, they will not allow the chance in states where Newt has even less support. Why give Newt the chance to shine?
It will boil down to massive use of resources for Romney, and prominent publicity for Santorum by the media, even if it is negative from a Christian Conservative view point - that publicity will translate into Christian Conservative dollars for his campaign.
Newt is going to have to hustle and speak EVERYWHERE as much as he can. He needs to muster dollars for adds that don’t whine, but address the economy, jobs, defense and drastic spending reduction. I hope he has the money and stamina. The cards are stacked against him.
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