Posted on 03/31/2012 1:51:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum have agreed to a debate in May sponsored by the Texas Republican party. “Both my staff and myself have reached out to the campaign of Governor Mitt Romney and have been told that they are considering attending the debate,” state-party chairman Steve Munisteri says in a press release. The statement notes:.....
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Interesting. Thank you for the new numbers.
It,s time for all conservatives to rally around RS and give some much needed money to his campaign or we,re we,re all going to be stuck with Etch.
No thanks.
The debate should be held and all of the candidates should participate.
The anchor should be a Republican and conservative and perhaps even a libertarian.
The thrust should be “Kill Obama” every question and every answer should be intended to make a cut and draw Obama blood.
There should be agreement to lay off each other but bring out the long knives to produce the maximum Obama blood and Gore.
At the end, Obama should be cut to ribbons and politically in extremis. The MSM should be apoplectic with rage at the total absence of fairness that would allow such a grisly spectacle to occur on TV
It’s time for conservatives to reassess and remember why Newt Gingrich brought about the 1994 Republican Revolution and realize that he is the only one ready and prepared to do it again.
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http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/what-really-happened-gingrich-ethics-case/336051
Byron York Chief Political Correspondent, Washington
Examiner – Jan 24, 2012
“The Romney campaign has been hitting Newt Gingrich hard over the 1990s ethics case that resulted in the former Speaker being reprimanded and paying a $300,000 penalty. Before the Iowa caucuses, Romney and his supporting super PAC did serious damage to Gingrich with an ad attacking Gingrich’s ethics past. Since then, Romney has made other ads and web videos focusing on the ethics matter, and at the Republican debate in Tampa Monday night, Romney said Gingrich “had to resign in disgrace.”
In private conversations, Romney aides often mention the ethics case as part of their larger argument that Gingrich would be unelectable in a race against President Obama.
Given all the attention to the ethics matter, it’s worth asking what actually happened back in 1995, 1996, and 1997. The Gingrich case was extraordinarily complex, intensely partisan, and driven in no small way by a personal vendetta on the part of one of Gingrich’s former political opponents. It received saturation coverage in the press; a database search of major media outlets revealed more than 10,000 references to Gingrich’s ethics problems during the six months leading to his reprimand. It ended with a special counsel hired by the House Ethics Committee holding Gingrich to an astonishingly strict standard of behavior, after which Gingrich in essence pled guilty to two minor offenses. Afterwards, the case was referred to the Internal Revenue Service, which conducted an exhaustive investigation into the matter. And then, after it was all over and Gingrich was out of office, the IRS concluded that Gingrich did nothing wrong. After all the struggle, Gingrich was exonerated.
I wrote about the matter at the time, first in a 1995 article about Gingrich’s accusers and then in a 1999 piece on the Internal Revenue Service report that cleared Gingrich. (Both pieces were for The American Spectator; I’m drawing on them extensively, but unfortunately neither is available online.)”..............................
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[A full read will educate anyone who is ignorant of the facts and interested in the truth]
Now that post was severely graphic!
I hate to say it, but this thing will be over by the end of April. By May 29 all 3 will be out of the race. Their money will dry up by then. The momentum for the nominee has begun. It is what it is, now we have to start planning alternate plan B, what ever that is.
And yes, this entire Primary has been a disaster. Like 2008, the wrong candidates were picked by both sides within the party again.
Bravo, bert!
MAke the debate about Obama and his FAILED energy policies and FAILED domestic economy and FAILED foreign policy, not about which ice cream do you like best.
Then All delegates are released to vote their conscience or pocketbook. Bet there will be huge amounts of Horsetrading for those delegates.
Course at this point with the lack of enthusiasm in the four candidate I expect a new name to be on the ticket.
Romney...”they are considering attending the debate” What an “imperial bass-turd!
Perhaps it's simply that Newt absolutely knows what the rats are going to do to romney in an election and that romney will never be president.
These racial tensions that obama is neutering like a child at breast? There's a good reason they want to run against romney.
It's going to be a very ugly thing.
Bump! the Texas Debate.
Bump! the Texas Debate.
Neutering??? I think you mean nurturing?
The last thing Zero wants to do is neuter racial animosity.
But you did hit the nail on the head. All this stirring up of race animosity is to boost “protected minority group” enthusiasm and turn out for the election. (Yes “protected minority group” vote 97% Rat but the actual numbers of those who vote is quite low, except in 2008!)
Also it has the added benefit of getting the “troops” stirred up to subtly intimidate in case the Arizona sheriff’s efforts actually turn into anything.
Everybody should contact the Romney campaign and urge Mitt to avoid the Texas debate at all costs! Plenty of good solid reasons for him to avoid it.
Then Texans can return the compliment and avoid his name at the polls. And if Romney doesn’t win in Texas, the argument against his nomination is strengthened. He should go to the convention as lame as possible, if he has to go at all.
Mitt Romney is the pink slime of American politics.
So?Mitts ties to conservatism, and the R party, by Mitt himself.
: ) lol -sorry for the mispelling.
Amen! would bet that Newt and Perry share the same views on Romney:) Chuck Norris should be helping Newt in Texas too.
Just love your posts:)
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