I am sensing the Newt momentum has stopped and is likely slipping. I continue to believe that he is the smartest and most consistently conservative of the “electable” candidates. The primary chinks in the armour seem to be the fannie/freddie consulting and the individual mandate. His primary opponents are hitting him hard – and I fear it’s working. The fact is, despite those past actions, he has made it crystal clear that he does not support ObamaCare and will work hard to repeal it. What more can he do to make that issue go away??? The Fannie/Freddie deal is a little stickier, what can he do to get past this?
I think he will make an outstanding president in the Reagan tradition and can easily beat Obama, but he has to beat the other republicans first.
Moe Lane
PG DeFreese
Victoria Coates
Daniel Horowitz
Dan Spencer
Save yourself....
nathanalbright (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 11:05AM EST (link)Newt might be facing some scrutiny by the SEC as a result of his role in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He admitted in last night’s debate that he didn’t go after Republicans who were pro-infantacide (third trimester abortions). He’s got serious problems of his own. It’s not likely you can do anything to save him from that sort of mess.
Let's see results in Iowa...
J. Leg (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 3:25PM EST (link)Im a Newt supporter, so I’ll support him no matter what. But let’s see how Perry does in Iowa, if Perry can get 3 place behind Newt and Romney he’s still in the game.
The more choices we have the longer the primary the better. If Perry is way behind Newt and Romney, then it’s time to coalesce our support behind Newt.
I posted this earlier
znjs (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 3:34PM EST (link)But if you’ll forgive me the sin of reposting, I’m starting to go back to my original belief about Newt
When he first started the campaign I was one of those who was thought it was nothing more then a “look at me, I’m still relevant” publicity stunt. When his staff essentially said the same thing I was convinced. I didn’t believe he wanted to win, not really. However as he started going up in the polls I started thinking maybe it started that way or he was just convinced that he couldn’t win so he wasn’t willing to cancel his own plans, but now he wanted to win.
However now I see things like how he’s not going to be back in Iowa (a state that at this point if he doesn’t win he will have a very hard time lasting long given the expectations) until Dec 28th. Practically 2 weeks. He’s giving seminars on brain science. He’s going back to Washington for a book signing. And there’s still issues with him having a functioning staff in most states. I’ve yet to hear much talk about him doing fundraising activities to raise that money he’ll need. I’m starting to again think he doesn’t want to win, and is perfectly ok with crashing again. I mean if you think about it, if the plan was to stay relevant and sell books but not actually win, isn’t this going perfectly for him. at this point? Wouldn’t now be the time to half*** it and drop before you are expected to actually go through the whole primary process?
Maybe I’m wrong. But I’ve never gotten over the feeling this campaign was more about Newt then it was about the presidency. Anyone else get the same feeling?
I'm With Doc
carolynr Saturday, December 17th at 2:02PM EST (link)Let Newt KO Romney and then let Perry KO Newt…or Newt will KO Newt.