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Todd Palin Endorses Newt Gingrich
ABC News ^ | Jan 9, 2012 | ABC News’ Santina Leuci and Z. Byron Wolf reporting

Posted on 01/09/2012 10:13:50 AM PST by US Navy Vet

Sarah Palin’s husband is endorsing Newt Gingrich for president, Todd Palin told ABC News today.

But Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and John McCain’s 2008 Republican running mate, has yet to decide “who is best able to go up against Barack Obama,” Todd Palin said.

Palin said he has not spoken to Gingrich or anyone from the former House speaker’s campaign. But he said he respects Gingrich for what he went through in the 1990s and compared that scrutiny in public life to what Sarah Palin went through during her run for the vice presidency.

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To: Responsibility2nd
IF Sarah endorses Newt, will that help him or harm him?

It helps him beat Romney. Romney's strategy is to win a plurality against a fragmented field. If the field can coalesce around Gingrich (or any other conservative candidate), Romney will flame out yet again and, hopefully, for the last time.

81 posted on 01/09/2012 11:14:44 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: cotton1706
Well if that isn’t telegraphy, I don’t know what is!!

Exactly = No one will really doubt, now, where Sarah stands - and it's a great move - the extra press on this will be great -

Few would think that, if Todd is for someone different than Sarah is, he would say anything in public - which would create a media storm of negativity for Sarah later.

Most will understand this announcement...

82 posted on 01/09/2012 11:15:12 AM PST by maine-iac7 (A prudent man foreseeth the evil,... but the simple pass on, and are punished. Prov 23:3 KJV)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Interesting, if you said protestant I could agree with you. Evangelical simply means that you believe certain doctrinal statements about the faith, so catholics can be evangelical.


83 posted on 01/09/2012 11:15:54 AM PST by david1313 (Newt all the way)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Newt is a Conservative most of the time. He may or may not be a Christian, i.e., a born-again Christian. (He is a “small-c” christian, in that he isn’t Jewish, Muslim, atheist, etc.) One thing he isn’t is evangelical. (Catholics and evangelical Christians are completely separate.)

Not saying he wouldn’t be a good president; I think he would.


84 posted on 01/09/2012 11:16:39 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: txrangerette

Interesting, if you said protestant I could agree with you. Evangelical simply means that you believe certain doctrinal statements about the faith, so catholics can be evangelical.


85 posted on 01/09/2012 11:17:22 AM PST by david1313 (Newt all the way)
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To: CainConservative

Newt is not an Evangelical Christian; he is a Convenience Catholic.


86 posted on 01/09/2012 11:17:24 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Lakeshark

I was replying to you on the other thread when it got yanked.

I agree with you that this is Sarah’s way of giving Newt a bit of a bump in advance of the South Carolina primary. This is subtle, but most thinking voters will perceive that Sarah’s on board with Newt.

I also agree that two of the remaining conservatives (the two Ricks) need to step aside for the good of the country. I don’t believe that either one of them has enough support to take Romney out in the big states.

Perry’s numbers have been in single digits for nearly six months, and show no signs of rebounding. He should have ended his campaign after the Iowa vote. He’s not coming back.

Santorum’s polling numbers have been even worse, during the course of the campaign. I think his win in Iowa was interesting (maybe even exciting), but I believe it’s a temporary bubble that’s going to burst.

Looking at this as a four way race, Romney wins because the other three split the conservative vote. He’s gotta be loving it.


87 posted on 01/09/2012 11:17:43 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Convenience Catholic.

What does that mean?

88 posted on 01/09/2012 11:19:41 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Convenience Catholic.

What does that mean?

89 posted on 01/09/2012 11:19:52 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
it does not exactly sound like he’s endorsing Newt. Just that he singled him out for some extra laudatory praise.

Too late. It's already gone viral, and Rush is talking about it now. It's an endorsement, whether Todd meant it that way or not.

90 posted on 01/09/2012 11:21:10 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: exit82

Were Sarah in any way inclined to endorse Newt, Todd would not have done this.

Obviously Sarah is strongly disinclined to support Newt in the primary, so Todd took rash action.

We know that Sarah will support the nominee.


91 posted on 01/09/2012 11:21:43 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Windflier
Post 77 of mine to onyx should have been to you as well, it continues what I'm thinking.

I think any one of the three left could take out Romney if they were the lone conservative. I would go with any of them if they catch fire, but I am hoping that will be Newt. They're all flawed, but I think he would be our best candidate of those running. I'd support one of the others if they get to the top of the polls in the next two weeks.

92 posted on 01/09/2012 11:23:16 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: Strategerist

>> “Huckabee would have been annihilated even worse than McCain was.” <<

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I don’t think so; I think he would have done considerably better, but he would have been just a Republican Clinton if elected.


93 posted on 01/09/2012 11:24:44 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: lonevoice

Can’t think of anyone else near to politics that is that good looking...even on the TV News. Most in Hollywood can’t compare. That said....I doubt he endorsed anybody. You know how the media is.


94 posted on 01/09/2012 11:25:32 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: don-o

Maybe it means Newt found a religion that would overlook his marital affairs and falied marriages and give him an “annullment”.


95 posted on 01/09/2012 11:25:46 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
Ah, someone here who actually reads an article before commenting - kudos to you, and no sarcasm attached. The reason I say that, is because the comments on FR are becoming more and more like a left-wing website - more snark and insults and less positive discussion of the actual topic.

Todd P is free to make his statement if someone asks him a question. He and his family have endured more attacks in the past few years that no one should have had to experience, for no other reason than they were conservatives in the spotlight. I just didn't expect the same attacks to come from Frepers.

96 posted on 01/09/2012 11:26:31 AM PST by gramho12
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To: US Navy Vet

Okay, nice words, but...an endorsement is an endorsement. That’s not an endorsement.

The Palins. One of the few groups it’s always okay for the press to lie about.


97 posted on 01/09/2012 11:29:01 AM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: Lakeshark
I think any one of the three left could take out Romney if they were the lone conservative. I would go with any of them if they catch fire, but I am hoping that will be Newt. They're all flawed, but I think he would be our best candidate of those running.

As usual, you and I are on the same page regarding the dynamics of this race.

Like you, I would give my support to any of the three remaining conservatives should the other two bow out, but I honestly feel that of the three, Newt stands the best chance of knocking out Romney. Of that group, he would also make the better president for these times.

98 posted on 01/09/2012 11:35:11 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Before Sarah Palin announced she would not run, every statement, every tweet, every whisper was a message from her.


99 posted on 01/09/2012 11:35:11 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
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To: Da Coyote

I respect Todd Palin’s comments a lot more than I do yours.


100 posted on 01/09/2012 11:35:41 AM PST by Clara Lou (nObama, noRomney, noPaul, noBachmann, noSantorum . . .)
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