Posted on 01/16/2012 2:10:12 PM PST by TBBT
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (CNN) - Newt Gingrich delivered a staunch warning to South Carolina conservatives Monday: "Any conservative who votes for anyone but Newt helps elect a moderate as the nominee."
Gingrich was speaking to a tea party-friendly audience in South Carolina's Horry County when he painted presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney as unelectable in a general election.
"Ask yourself this simple question: Why would you want to nominate the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama?"
"The only reason [Romney] is electable right now is because he has raised more money from Wall Street to buy more ads than anybody else in the race, and we're not going to win that game," Gingrich said. "If you count how much money you can raise as the number one test of electability, Obama's going to drown him."
Gingrich has five days to drive home the message that Romney can't beat President Barack Obama. In order to stop the former Massachusetts governor's crushing momentum, Gingrich needs to rally conservatives behind him over competitor Rick Santorum, who has strong evangelical support and has fared better than the former House speaker in Iowa and New Hampshire.
"If you're a conservative, just look at the polls. I am the only candidate capable of stopping a moderate from winning the nomination," said Gingrich.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Let’s see who is the most supported conservative on FR...
Jim Robinson recently took an FR poll, 20% support Santorum, 20% support Perry and 60% support Gingrich.
The point is that you argue that we must vote for the candidate with the most votes outside of Romney and who not a moderate (ie: any other candidate outside of Huntman, who just dropped out).
And based off your chart, that’s Paul. He’s definitely no moderate... and has more votes than Santorum.
Which means your argument for Santorum falls flat.
Santorum is the only semi-viable conservative left. Newt is now masquerading as a conservative - 1) Attacking Romney from the LEFT regading Bain; 2) Global Warming (Pelosi); 3) Support for individual mandate; 4) Fannie Mae (He still hasn’t provided a coherent reply regardng this disgrace - “historian” my a$$). I’m sure I’m forgetting something, but that is plenty.
I’d vote for Santorum because Santorum outperformed the polls in Iowa. I think we’ll see some surge of support. If Newt loses, it will be because of Newt, no one else.
Regardless, Newt will not be the nominee.
In this campaign, he has shown the same style of leadership that made him a disaster as Speaker of the House. His character has not changed. I’d rather have Romney than the albatross of Gingrich.
I'm closer. I am a Theocrat. (Of course I'm not running for anything.)
Weren’t you for Santorum before Santorum was cool?
>> I’m sure I’m forgetting something <<
Yep, you forgot about:
1. Right-wing social engineering.
2. Newt’s serial adultery.
3. $300,000.00 worth of ethical violations.
I am going to do whatever it takes to get Obama out of the oval office.
Santorum will not fly at all in Florida. We have had numerous earnest and religiously pure candidates like him for state office and they never get off the ground outside of a few sparsely populated rural counties.
Like it or not, people in Florida want a non-preachy grown-up with intelligent, practical ideas. That’s why the unlikeable Rick Scott got elected...but heck, he’s doing a good job, and even people who didn’t like him are now coming around.
Santorum has no chance here. Perry (whom I initially liked) will lose badly in SC and nobody wants to vote for the bottom of the heap. So that leaves only Gingrich.
Hoodat, I know from your posts over the years that I won’t be able to change your mind. I also know that you don’t take ‘lip’ any more than I do (LOL), so I won’t even try.
I want a strong leader, with a proven record of accomplishments and a clear vision for our future. I am not looking for a Reverend, Priest or Rabi or some weirdo mormon. I want a president that will turn this country around intelligently and quickly.
I am not looking for an alter boy. I don’t want poor-boy sweaters and deer eyes, I want a fighter— a man that can eviscerate Obama.
I will continue to support the one man that I believe in my heart and head has the experience and proven abilities necessary to turn this country around and set the course for my children and grandchildren to have a better future........ that man is Newt Gingrich.
GO NEWT GO.........
But what will Newt say next week?
“But what will Newt say next week?”
Gingrich supporters should think really hard about this - I could live with Gingrich’s other issues given the alternatives, but his unpredictable behavior and unchecked, undisciplined ego are ultimately why I will now vote Santorum in the primary. I can just see it now - Gingrich wins the nomination and a month later says something so stupid and undisciplined he severly hurts his chances of winning - but at that point we are stuck with him... and Obama.
I love the Santorum yahoos who point to the delegate count and say Newt should drop out. If the Iowa Republican Caucus was anything like the real world then we would all be arguing about whether we wanted to replace President Huckabee after only 4 years.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203413304577086824255350642.html?KEYWORDS=peggy+noonan
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203833104577072812757977898.html?KEYWORDS=peggy+noonan
Excerpt:
“He often seems to be playing a part in a historical novel he’s dictating in his mind—Newt the underdog, Newt the visionary. He has a compulsion to be interesting, which accounts for some of his overheated language—things are always decayed, corrupt, sick, catastrophically tragic.
He also often sounds like a cable TV political analyst, which he’s been for the past decade. He appraises his own candidacy instead of just being the candidate. The race used to be between “Mitt and Not Mitt,” but now it is between “Newt and Not Newt,” he says. He is “the only one who can win.” This week in South Carolina: “I’m the one candidate who can bring together national-security conservatives and economic conservatives and social conservatives.”
Candidates should let other people say that; serious candidates should let voters say it to exit pollsters. He shouldn’t be making the grubby bottom-line calculations, he should be making an elegant case for his leadership.”
Wow well said my FRiend I couldn’t have put it better myself. All the pro- SanBoremers Need to wake the hell up. He doesn’t stand a chance against Conmey! Stop being dense and do the RIGHT thing. Vote Newt.
Not any candidate that isn't moderate. I argue for the most electable Conservative. Paul is no Conservative. He is a straight up Libertarian using the GOP apparatus to further his goals because the existing Libertarian Party is a shambles and a joke. Plus the Libertarians probably don't want to have anything to do with Paul after his campaign stole money from them in '88.
That effectively is the totality of their argument. When Santorum is polling higher, then they say it's Santorum's fault that Mitt is going to be the nominee and urge his supporters to switch to Newt. But when Newt is polling higher, they say it's Santorum's fault that Mitt is going to be the nominee and urge his supporters to switch to Newt. Logic goes in the trash.
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