Posted on 12/14/2011 7:33:53 PM PST by willk
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich now trails President Obama by double digits, his second straight weekly decline since becoming the GOP frontrunner. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters finds Obama earning 49% of the vote, while Gingrich receives 39% support.
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If McNewt is the GOP nominee, then Baraq Obama will run as the ‘family values’ candidate.
Yes, I know he was briefly a front runner — until the media decided they wanted to decide how we would decide and gave Mitt and Newt much more face and talk time in the early debates and couldn’t stop talking about Perry’s so-called “gaffs.”
I imagine every dictator, tyrant and caliphate in the world has their knickers in a twist worrying that another Western “cowboy” might soon be in the White House. And well they should.
All we heard during the GW Bush campaign were snickers about his “gaffs.” Thank the Lord the voters were too smart to fall for the media’s sling and arrows.
Suicide, for the Newt haters, that’s the only way out. LOL
Newt is going to kick Obama’s a$$.
And I can just see Dick Morris saying he wouldn’t have the chance of spinning that issue his way. Democrats and Republicans are too well-defined on the family values issue. Gay marriage and gays in the military alone will tell people where Obama stands on that one.
Also, McCain had his own infidelity/divorce problem and if I recall the only time it really came up was when McCain brought it up himself at the values summit.
These polls so early are pure BS speculation. We have not even nominated anybody yet. Wait until we actually pick a nominee and you will the poll numbers change radically. Barry is going down next year.
“Amen and btw as a woman I don’t really care what Newt and his wives did.I’m looking for a President not a husband....”
Great answer. Wish other women felt the same way.
And by the way, I’ve had a Rick Perry 2012 sticker on my car long before he formally announced his candidacy. I’ve been vetting him for several years. And no, I do not know him personally.
As is your right.
Newt is not my first choice in the primary. That being said, I will be voting in the general and will NOT vote for Obama or a third party candidate. Simple as that.
Great pic there.
We can only hope.
If Newt has the luck and skill to pull this whole thing off, and then actually go on to win the White House, one of his first official acts should be a very public request to Great Britain that the bust of Winston Churchill (the one that Obama sent back very early in his presidency) be promptly returned, so that it can be restored to its rightful place in the White House.
That simple act would say a lot to Americans and to the rest of the world about the tenor of the new presidency....
He took himself out of the race all by himself.
I tried to support him for a couple of weeks early on.
It was too embarrassing after a while.
Anyway, there is a long way to go here, lots of twists and turns, so we'll see how it turns out.
Btw, when you say you won't vote for Newt if he wins, that's just an inconceivably poor attitude. I don't like Perry particularly, think he would be a horrid candidate, but would never say that.
I believe charisma is the most important factor in a general election. Show me one election since 1976 where the most charismatic candidate did not win. I think Newt has a real charisma, a grandfatherly type. I suspect his polls are a little soft now because he reminds people who aren’t very sure who he is of McCain. There’s no reason to think Newt won’t rise in the polls in the general election just as he did in the primary as people warm up to him.
I do agree that Perry is the next best choice because he also has a degree of charm and charisma. On policy, he’s just as good as Newt, but I’m not sure he would implement his policies as forcefully and ferociously. The real tough aspect with Perry is the perception that he’s like G.W. Bush because he stumbles over his words in a similar way. I think he will just bring back too many of memories of G.W. and invite too many comparisons among the general electorate. Granted the general electorate may not hate Bush as much as they used to, but we all know he wouldn’t have won a 3rd term.
The main reason is that he was attacked the moment he entered the race, and they haven’t backed off yet.
Adjusted for inflation, the annual budget deficits were reversed. How many times have we heard from the liberals that ‘Clinton’ gave Bush a budget surplus and Bush squandered it, blah, blah, blah...
There were annual surpluses in those years only because the American people voted a republican house and senate in Clinton’s first mid-term. Your point is right - cumulative national debt over has grown and grown. This is our doom if we can’t get rid of all these liberals and moderates out and start building an economy again.
I think most women will look at him, then look at Callista and not go anywhere near his button on the ballot.
I just saw that Tonya Reiman body language chick on O’Reilly reviewing Newt’s performance. She doesn’t discuss politics, but this woman usually has a barely contained disdain for conservatives, and tends to judge them as being insincere or dishonest in their body language. She just said repeatedly that Newt was an excellent communicator in the debates and seemed sincere to her rather than calculated. I think women are in tune to this kind of body language stuff more, and that Newt has what it takes to communicate effectively to the female audience and get them to warm up to him and have confidence in him.
Amen. I have four sons and I pray for their future all the time.
“request to Great Britain that the bust of Winston Churchill (the one that Obama sent back very early in his presidency) be promptly returned, “
Before the war, people dismissed Churchill as an extreme loser. But, by using his rhetorical and communication skills to persuade FDR to enter the war Churchill literally saved western civilization.
The MSM just rules.
Okay, okay....I know, a bit over the top, but honestly, there is no way you can say that Perry didn't lose his credibility by himself.
I know what you mean. I know quite a few couples who are struggling where one or both has had a loss of job or bad economic times in their own businesses.
If Newt is the candidate against Obama, I don’t think his affairs decades ago or sitting on a couch with Nancy Pelosi is going to be the first thing on their minds when they enter the voting booth.
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