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Thomas Sowell: Gingrich Is the Only One Who Can Debate Obama
FoxNews ^ | March 10, 2012 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 03/10/2012 1:25:20 AM PST by Marguerite

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To: Pollster1

“I don’t want to imagine a Romney-Obama debate. It keeps going through my mind, but I try to stop it.

“Well, yes, Barack, but we need to tinker with a few of the details on ObamaCare to make it more like RomneyCare”.

Watch the spoof Obama-Romney debate :

http://youtu.be/mv078A36t7Y


41 posted on 03/10/2012 4:53:37 AM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: JediJones
All the FOX hosts and RINO radio gang are constantly asking every single caller or guest...whether they will vote for him over Obama if he wins the primary

And then they will go on about electability! Of course electability is an issue. But, they act like they are the sole diviners of what is electability and how it is measured. Screw 'em. Obama is beatable! Period.

All four candidates can lose OR win against the big O. All four candidates have positives and negatives traits. Which traits do we emphasize and which do we ignore?

Look at 2010, the MSM played down the fury of the electorate, but the "pole that counts", election day, spoke volumes. There are obvious problems for Obama, blindingly obvious. Gas prices, food prices, housing values, unemployment, debt and deficit. Not to mention "fast and furious" and "Solyndra" and Obamacare(if he were a Republican it would be over already).

If the Repub's focus the campagne against Obama on the numbers alone, they will win handily, because:

Gas Prices are where we drive
Food Prices are where we eat
Housing values are where we live
Unemployment numbers are where we work
Debt and deficit numbers are where are future is

That Idiot in the white house has gotten into every aspect of our lives and spread misery.

42 posted on 03/10/2012 5:05:10 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Neo-communist equals Neo-fascist)
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To: Marguerite
I will vote in the primaries for Newt against Romney and Paul...when it comes to Santorum I will put my finger to the wind to see what the whole thing looks like on April 24th....a long way off....

my problem with Newton is the baggage from the Govt shutdown and the reelection of BJ Clinton that soon followed...

....are they connected and was it Gingrich's fault....

....I cant say...there is so much hype from all sides on this issue....

as far as his marriages, that is his business and does not concern me.

43 posted on 03/10/2012 5:08:31 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: JediJones
All the FOX hosts and RINO radio gang are constantly asking every single caller or guest they talk to who is critical of Romney whether they will vote for him over Obama if he wins the primary...

Obama KNOWS Romney cant win!

President Obama offered his likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney “good luck” for Super Tuesday.

Asked at a news conference if he’d like to respond to Romney’s comments calling Obama the “most feckless president since Carter,” Obama said: “Good luck tonight.”

After the quip got laughs from the press gallery, Obama smiled and said, “No, really. Really.”

THE _RESIDENT GETS IT!!!! those in the Republican establishment are too stupid to get it.

44 posted on 03/10/2012 5:12:47 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: autumnraine

“Thomas is right. The problem is how many who vote actually WATCH debates.”

There’s a more basic issue. It’s the criteria used by those that do watch the debates. Just because a conservative thinks Gingrich won a debate does not mean that someone else will.


45 posted on 03/10/2012 5:13:11 AM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: Marguerite

In an open venue with no special one-sided audience control, no cherry picking of moderators/panelist, he could out-debate Obama.

However, if he were the GOP nominee, this would never happen. Such a debate would be the most hamstrung, controlled debate in history. It could be more likened to a Kabuki play than a debate.


46 posted on 03/10/2012 5:16:40 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Marguerite

“Sorry; posted it on the wrong thread.”

That’s OK.

Good news is welcome wherever one finds it!


47 posted on 03/10/2012 5:20:57 AM PST by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: stormhill

I love it!

Cavuto - “Are you calling Obama a villain?”

Sowell - (Pause....Longer pause....VERY long pause...eyes saying [do I dare go there?]......)

Priceless!

Can anyone isolate that last bit of the clip and post it?


48 posted on 03/10/2012 5:23:44 AM PST by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Movemout

Newt Gingrich Outlines the 21st Century Contract with America, September 2011:

http://youtu.be/_hd23sdf4CE


49 posted on 03/10/2012 5:29:26 AM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: All

21st Century Contract with America

http://www.newt.org/contract/

A Note from Newt Gingrich

“America’s exceptional nature is based on the self-evident truths contained in the Declaration of Independence. Our rights are endowed by our Creator and they are unalienable.

If we are to solve our jobs crisis and meet the challenges of the 21st century, we need a plan for national renewal based on these timeless American values.

That plan is the 21st Century Contract with America.”


50 posted on 03/10/2012 5:31:55 AM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: Marguerite; FrankR
To promote and honor a great FReepers work:.......
51 posted on 03/10/2012 5:32:07 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: no dems

Turnout the only way Mitts get any delegates in AL & MS is if there is a low turnout.


52 posted on 03/10/2012 5:32:15 AM PST by Bailee (Santorum vs Santorum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELbCuLEe7Sw)
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To: Marguerite
It is hilarious watching Newt's backers slaver at the prospect of debating Obama.

What makes us think that Obama will debate Gingrich? He won't. He'll just sit back and blow a billion in dishonest Romney-style advertising. Newt has enough dirt that it will stick. Fools.

53 posted on 03/10/2012 5:35:30 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The RNC would prefer Obama to a conservative nominee.)
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To: JediJones

FOX is powerful and it showed when they went on the ewt after SC.

The establishment knew that they had to stop Newt from getting my state and so they got their talking heads and FOX to attack with everything they have and it worked and FOX knows it.

Fox can hardly mention Newt now as if he is way behind and going no where.


54 posted on 03/10/2012 5:37:08 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)
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To: Marguerite
Only One Who Can Debate Obama

That's sort of become my take too. (Of course Obama would have to participate and so would the MSM.)

ML/NJ

55 posted on 03/10/2012 5:39:35 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: Marguerite

Yes, and sadly, the MSM has kept Newt silenced, even though he has stepped up his effort and message.

They do not care about this country, even one ioda. All they care about is their immediate popularity and revenue stream.

The script from the movie Gladiator still haunts all of us; “Rome is nothing but a Mob.....To win your freedom, you must first them over. For, whomever controls the Mob, controls Rome!”


56 posted on 03/10/2012 5:40:34 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Carry_Okie
What makes us think that Obama will debate Gingrich? He won't.
Three debates are practicaly an institution now, and they most likely will happen, even if Gingrich is the nominee. I think Obama will be forced into them, like it or not.

And even if Obama decided just to blow them off, there are ways to handle that and Newt himself has addressed that issue by referring to the way Lincoln shadowed Douglas, who at first refused to debate.

57 posted on 03/10/2012 5:41:30 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Marguerite

In baseball, they have the designated hitter. I propose we let Gingrich be Santorum’s designated debater.


58 posted on 03/10/2012 5:44:09 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Marguerite
"THE FACT that he is NOT a lawyer. Sick and tired of lawyer-presidents!"

As Spock (the Vulcan, not the pediatrician) would put it.....INDEED!

59 posted on 03/10/2012 5:49:04 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: Marguerite
Let's see... Obama needs a teleprompter every time he speaks. When he's without one he sounds so damned incoherent you can't understand the weenie.

What's everyone afraid of? Someone going to faint at his gatherings?

He had an advantage at the last election because no one knew a damned thing about him. He's got a miserable record to go on this time. Pound him into the sand and don't let up.

Thanks for the article Marguerite.

60 posted on 03/10/2012 5:49:10 AM PST by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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