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Posted on 01/13/2012 5:34:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney is suddenly leading everywhere – except where it matters. Pollsters say that he’s running well nationally in the Republican presidential contest, but South Carolina – which votes on the 21st – is too close to call. Insider Advantage puts Romney on 23 percent in the Palmetto state, Newt Gingrich on 21 percent and Rick Santorum on 14 percent. The New York Times has made a prediction that takes into account all the momentum swinging around following Mitt’s New Hampshire win. It comes up with Romney at 25.5 percent and Gingrich at 24.7 percent (Ron Paul slips in third with 16.4 percent).
The message is clear: Romney is vulnerable in South Carolina. And if a Right-wing alternative were to win the state, the primaries would become a two way race – a race that a consistent conservative might actually win. South Carolina is handing the Republican Right a golden opportunity to stop the Romney bandwagon.
The problem is that the conservative field is too divided to take advantage of it. True, the candidates are finally waking up to the fact that they need to do something about Romney. Gingrich’s spokesman told the Washington Post that, “The goal is to get rid of Romney. Our goal is to remove Mitt Romney from the competitive ranks.” And Newt is making good on his promise. His super PAC is spending $3.4 million running an ad that explores Romney’s dubious record as a venture capitalist. The 28-minute short film dubs the founder of Bain Capital, “more ruthless than Wall Street”. Rick Perry, who failed to make a mark in either Iowa or New Hampshire, is likewise reinventing himself as Che Guevara. He told a crowd in Lexington, “I understand the difference between venture capital and vulture capitalism.....
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Problem is...there are no conservatives left on the Republican ticket. How are conservatives going to toughen up with no conservatives to choose?
The process is akin to stopping the baseball season after playing a few games and declaring the winner of the World Series.
The stupidity of the selection process is an embarrassment to this country.
I see FR is raising money. If we think like the masters of the Republican Party since a few dollars has been collected we should declare all of it is in the bank now?
We, as a nation, need that. The campaign needs it, and the youth of the nation, especially need it.
Newt, please do it for the sake of future generations.
Zacharias Montgomery, in his 1886 "Poison Drops in the Senate. . . ," wrote of the dangers of and tendency to consolidate all the powers of government in the Federal head, and of the need to defend against that effort:
"If I have learned anything from the reading of history, it is that the man who, in violation of great principles, toils for temporary fame, purchases for himself either total oblivion or eternal infamy, while he who temporarily goes down battling for right principles always deserves, and generally secures, the gratitude of succeeding ages, and will carry with him the sustaining solace of a clean conscience, more precious than all the offices and honors in the gift of man." - Zachariah Montgomery
Perhaps such a man might just capture the imagination of voters in 2012 who are witnessing the decline of the Republic and want to restore its foundations.
With the polls this close, Rick Perry could swing this thing in Newt’s favor by tomorrow, if he dropped out.
He’s obviously holding out for something. Even his campaign advisors can’t believe that he’s got any chance of a comeback at this point. So, why is he still in it?
I haven’t heard a single good answer to that question.
It is obvious that Larry Kudlow of CNBC, and the Club for Growth, and GOP establishment really do see Romney as the chosen member of their club. In the end the question is do we seem him as a member of our club?
Until the voting machines are completely hacked and controlled for the benefit of the powers that be, we voters get the last word, and while the club spends millions to convince us.
Apparently, settling on NOOT is ‘toughening up’.
I believe the Iron Lady would call that ‘capitulation’.
If Newt loses in SC, we have our answer as to whether he can win the white house. If he loses, we need to dump him and back Santorum.
Hmmm….
Speaker Gingrich-led Republicans….the result:
* Voting on each of the Contract With America items
* Four consecutive balanced budgets
* Over $500 billion of debt paid off
* Major welfare reform accomplished
* 11 million new jobs for America
* Unemployment falling to under 4%.
And if Newt wins SC, conservatives unite to crush Willard the Lib in Florida..
SC + FL = Historically the Nomination : )
I believe RP was talked into extending his stay in the race in order to rehabilitate his image, by tuning his message into one of broader conservative principles, possibly to make his endorsement more valuable in the process. What other reason could there be when you have been shackled to single digits for weeks and can’t break out.
Unfortunately, that’s not what the polls are showing.
Polls in the head to head show Romney, not Newt winning. Even if conservatives were to back out, Romney would actually improve against Newt.
Latest Rasmussen South Carolina Primary: Romney 28%, Gingrich 21%, Santorum 16%, Paul 16%
The CFG, not surprisingly backed Willard the Lib in 2008, too. He lost then, he’ll lose now.
This works better for me...
If Santorum loses in SC, we have our answer as to whether he can win the white house. If he loses, we need to dump him and back NEWT.
GO NEWT!
Unfortunately for Gingrich, Santorum, and Paul, Senators and Representatives make the worst Presidents. (Because they’ve never run anything?) That leaves ex-Governors like Romney, Huntsman, and Perry as the only candidates with any experience, and Huntsman and Perry are virtually out of the race. That leaves Romney ...
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ARG South Carolina 2012 GOP Primary Poll
•Mitt Romney 29% [31%] (22%) {25%} [25%] (18%)
•Newt Gingrich 25% [24%] (33%) {8%} [3%] (9%)
•Ron Paul 20% [9%] (8%) {7%} [2%] (1%)
•Rick Perry 9% [2%] (8%) {15%} [6%]
•Rick Santorum 7% [24%] (1%) {1%} [2%] (1%)
•Jon Huntsman 1% [2%] (3%) {0%} [0%] (0%)
•Other 2%
•Undecided 7% [7%] (12%) {12%} [15%] (11%)
Rasmussen South Carolina 2012 GOP Primary Poll
•Mitt Romney 28% [27%] (23%)
•Newt Gingrich 21% [18%] (15%)
•Rick Santorum 16% [24%] (1%)
•Ron Paul 16% [11%] (5%)
•Rick Perry 6% [5%] (9%)
•Jon Huntsman 5% [2%] (1%)
•Some other candidate 1% [2%]
•Undecided 8% [11%]
So Santorum is the son of the South now?
Santorum, turns out, is no fighter because he refuses to give the Establishment, who arranged this whole mess, even an ounce of trouble, or push back. Dumping Toomey over for Spector was but one prime example of his dutiful dedication to the fraternity of liberal Republicans in DC.
That would be because he is indebted to the Establishment from stem to stern, hook, line and sinker, top to bottom.
This also would explain why, with the exception of shoe leather politics paying off after a solid year in Iowa, he is now on a fast train to nowhere, and soon to be back in the small change, or flat broke for those in Rio Linda. Nice guy though.
1. Margin of error.
2. Common sense says that Newt & the Ricks are splitting the conservative vote versus the liberal Willard
3. Some polls are merely establishment or Dem push polls to promote the biggest establishment or liberal candidate which is Willard in BOTH cases.
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