Posted on 03/27/2012 4:30:27 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Under pressure to help unify his party, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich pledged Tuesday to support Mitt Romney if the former Massachusetts governor wins enough convention delegates to clinch the nomination by the end of the GOP primary season in June.
If Romney falls short, "I think you'll then have one of the most interesting, open conventions in American history," the former House speaker said as he campaigned for votes in next week's Maryland primary.
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The media ask him if he will support Romney on every show he comes on. He has been saying yes all along. He always qualifies it with the choice being between Obama and Romney. Why they act like this is news is beyond me.
If it makes you feel any better, I promise that I won't enjoy the experience with the caveat that I will enjoy Voting to rid the Nation of Obama.
Anybody but Obama.
I agree with you. Romney is the most electable against Obama.
Newt I think understands. But some on FR haven’t a clue how truly poisonous Obama is, and how much more freedom he will have in his second term to do his evil bidding. He demonstrated a little of that in that open mic slip. Or maybe they don’t believe that there really is a socialist machine behind Obama that has an agenda to radically change this country.
Obama’s 8-years in office IS their window. We must close this window in November. America’s survival counts on it.
If it makes you feel any better, I promise that I won’t enjoy the experience with the caveat that I will enjoy Voting to rid the Nation of Obama.
Deal....lol. Hey it is early. November is a long way from now and even I may put my principles aside, take a bucket after I vote and end up with ABO.
“I just can’t believe people are allowing Romney a pass on this.”
People have whipped themselves up to believe that nothing could ever possibly or conceivabley ever ever ever be worse than Obama. Absurd. He is idle, unimaginative and not very smart or experienced. Again, he is like the crass Ernst Rohm of American progressives, whereas Bishop Willard is the diligent and organized Heinrich Himmler of American progressives.
I remember posting on FR about this time in 2008 that a McCain yard sign would never cast its shadow on my front lawn. I wasn’t going to sit out in November, but I certainly wasn’t going to lift a finger for him or show my support in any way. That changed with one helluva fantastic VP pick. Being a big fan of Palin long before he chose her, I was doing cartwheels when he picked her. I was immediately trying to find where I could get McCain/Palin signs, buttons and bumper stickers. And I was donating that very night.
Who I wonder could be Romney’s Palin? He better start giving that some deep thought.
Romney isn't my first choice or my second, but if the Republican Electorate puts him up against Obama, (despite my Primary Vote for Gingrich or Santorum), the Republican gets my Vote, period.
Mark Levin is a man of principle, so I'll go with him on this, even if it means Voting for an Orange Juice Can.
Of course Obommie the Commie has to go
There is zero chance that he will, so now what? You are going to vote FOR a gun grabbing, abortion loving, insurance mandating commie and his name is Romney, and that's your right.
Just don't you dare ever claim that you're a Conservative.
I heard Newt say this on the radio, yesterday.
You let Obama slide in and don’t YOU dare tell me you are a conservative. Have to wait and see what happens but I will be damned if I want Mr. Pigford, Solyndra, muslim sympathizer, big tax and spend destroy America and its military to stay in the white house on my tax dollars.
Guess IF Sarah, Rick Santorum, Newt, Sowell and others join forces you will call them lefties too.
In the meantime..I am praying for some miracle at the convention.
If Romney is the GOP nominee, I hope that his running-mate will be a conservative who has been a congressman and a governor, since four of the last five republican VP’s were congressmen. Those four VP’s were Dick Cheney, Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush, and Gerald Ford. The exception is Nelson Rockefeller. Bobby Jindal and Butch Otter would be good choices.
I’m thinking New Mexico Governor New Mexico Governor.
Conservative and will peel the Hispanic vote away from Obama in great numbers.
I’m thinking New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez .
Conservative and will peel the Hispanic vote away from Obama in great numbers.
From my POV, until and unless Romney became as mentally/physically unstable as McCain, he could have no Palin. My thought was that if McCain won, there was a very good chance he'd go Captain Queeg before his four years were up ("Ah! But the strawberries -- that's where I had them!") or he would suffer some medical debilitation due to the mental stress of office. Therefore the person we were really electing, was his VP. So I gladly voted for Palin.
In my heart, after some consideration and review, I believe Romney presents a strain of evil that is more potent than Obama's. Obama has an excuse -- morally, he truly doesn't know any better, nor do his followers. He truly is a void when it comes to perceiving the moral evil of abortion, the moral evil of forcing people to embrace open homosexuality, the moral evil of Death Panels, no matter how benignly created by Government. He is void, and to be pitied as much as soundly rejected for presenting such a void for evil.
As a Repubilcan, as a "conservative," as he would be called regardless, Romney supposedly would represent me, and you, and much of American goodness. We would be the ones to have voted for him. Romney's hand put pen to paper and signed, consciously, legislation to make on-demand abortion cost less, via government subsidy, than a minor cosmetic procedure. His fingers that grasped and moved the pen that condoned and promoted celebration and declaration of open homosexuality among school kids via "Gay Youth Pride." There was a conscious mind and brain that made that hand sign that piece of paper.
Could you, NavyCanDo, or YOU, any reader, move your hand such if the paper was placed in front of you?
Romney is outside of pitiful. Romney is focused, quiet, sweet, even. To all the world, as President, he would define "Repubican" and for many more, "conservative." It is why certainly the next Democrat president to follow would make Obama look like Eisenhower.
Evil begets evil. Vote for Romney with your eyes wide open and answer to God for it.
Yes. That book "State of Fear," the brilliant title by Michael Crichton -- fearful people are easily manipulated. Fear is how they're manipulated. Replace the fear with courage -- easy enough to find in knowledge -- and the manipulation flounders.
People would vote for Romney out of 100 percent fear.
That should tell us all something.
DC cannot be rolled back.
If Romney chooses Gov. Martinez, the ticket wouldn’t be well-balanced, in terms of political experience, since both of them have been governors. If Romney wants to choose a Hispanic, he should choose Sen. Marco Rubio.
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