Posted on 03/03/2012 3:36:45 PM PST by VU4G10
Newt Gingrich has turned his sights on Rick Santorum in a new robocall going out to Oklahoma and Tennessee voters, bashing the former Pennsylvania senator as having “cozied up to the labor union bosses.”
The ad will reach 150,000 voters in each of the states, according to ABC News.
“On the campaign trail, Rick Santorum talks a good game about his blue-collar roots, and about being for the average family,” a female narrator says. “But here’s the record Rick Santorum doesn’t want you to know about: As a senator from Pennsylvania, Santorum cozied up to the labor union bosses, and voted for the AFL-CIO, and against a national right-to-work bill that would have let workers opt out of paying union dues — union dues that hurt families and small businesses.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Yeah, I’d like to thank Gingrich AGAIN for helping Santorum, Newt’s fellow conservative against the two libs, Willard and Crazy Ronnie.
Results for Washington Republican Caucus (U.S. Presidential Primary)
Mar 03, 2012 (12% of precincts reporting)
Mitt Romney 1,272 30.9%
Ron Paul 1,116 27.1%
Rick Santorum 991 24.1%
Newt Gingrich 556 13.5% :>(
NEWTORUM MUST UNITE! Or Willard gets the nom, folks.
To receive all the delegates, I believe you need over 50% of the vote Tuesday.
Newt will likely get right around 40% — therefore the delegates will be split up with the other conservative, Rick and with Willard the Lib.
Isn’t that how it works in Georgia? Just asking...
No, the link identifies MORE than one in TN. Nice try : )
As far as Georgia goes, Newt will win his home state with a whopping 40%. He’ll be VERY proud of that, I’m pretty sure.
Actually, Joe, your guy Rick is the one relying on Time Mag for HIS political commentary, not me. I’m just the messenger. Tricky Ricky seems to think Time is worthy because he is proudly using their name and quote in another one if his misleading campaign ads. Stepped in it didn’t you?
“Santorum......one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America.”(Time Magazine)
I guess that says a lot about your respective world views.
Joe, Joe, Joe. Let’s step back, you jumped all over a pro Newt post as you usually do. I posted an accurate quote used by Santorum in HIS campaign ad, then you questioned the authenticity of it and accused me of using Time as a source, when in fact, your candidate did. My only point was, that a devout catholic was unable to carry the catholic vote, yet he is named one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in the country. You obviously have blinders on if you cant see something a lttle off with that. I said nothing negative about evangelicals.
Gingrich will be the spoiler who hands the nomination to Romney.
You're so dishonest. I generally avoid Newt threads. I've been on two tonight, mostly to defend Rick, but apart from that, I defy you to tell me the last time I was, "all over a pro Newt thread."
Setting your lies aside, what's your point? Either Rick being named an evangelical is a good thing or a bad thing. Time uses the term as codespeak for a devout Christian.
Since you seem to think that's somehow a bad thing, I merely question where you're coming from.
He didn’t get the rich Catholic vote in Michigan. Did you look at the exit polls? He didn’t get the CINOs who will vote for Obama anyway.
Go hawk your garbage on a Gingrich thread.
Um, this is a pro Gingrich thread.
Jeez, you Santorum people are touchy angry people. What’s up with that?
You got that one right. He’s unquestionably the spoiler in the race. I just heard Ari Fleischer tell Wolf Blitzer on CNN that Gingrich doesn’t have any chance of capturing the nomination.
Go ahead and vote for that whine bag Santo. You seem to be somewhat on the ball, that said: between Santo and Newt who best articulates today’s issues?
Santorum was untouched by attacks for so long..they are now hitting and more voters are waking up. Just went to Huckabees forum site on FB and loaded with Newt folks
“Gingrich’s top aides in GA are switching over to Santorum.”
Point us to the Post.
Otherwise your part of the problem.
Keep stirring in the Pot and we will add Santorum to Any body but camp.
This is absolutely traitorous that 3 days before the election, that Newt Delegates jump ship because Santorum did not seat any.
I thought Santorum was Social Conservative a Born Again. Starting to look to me like another Power Hungry GOP-E that will sell his soul for a shot at Power.
Sorry we are working to get Newt 50% in GA.
26 posted on Saturday, March 03, 2012 6:21:39 PM by Joe 6-pack: “Relying on Time Magazine for your political commentary these days? Are they still in print?”
Yes, they are. I subscribe. I grew up with Time Magazine and my family have been Time readers for at least three generations, back to when they were a conservative anti-Communist magazine.
While Time long ago ceased to be a conservative magazine, as recently as a decade and a half ago, their religion reporter was an elder in the Christian Reformed Church. I met him several times at denominational meetings and was shocked to find that he actually knew me from my coverage of church-related news. He was a legitimate expert in religion coverage and he would not have been pleased to see his magazine make such an egregious mistake of confusing conservative Roman Catholics with evangelical Protestants.
Farther back in history, there is no way the Luce family would have allowed an article like that to appear, and if it somehow got by all the editors, people would have been fired as a result. The founders of Time were intimately involved with the missionary movement to China and understood religion news very well, and also understood the political implications of Western religion.
I don't like the New York Times political slant, but they do an excellent job of covering news and they almost always get their facts right, which is part of what makes them so dangerous to conservatives. I can't see New York Times reporters making a mistake that egregious. Luce, who was so strict about errors that he had his copy editors at Time Magazine reading articles backwards (in the days before spellcheck) to make sure there were no typos, would be spinning in his grave at what his magazine has become.
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