So much for “family values”.

I will be changing party registration to a newly formed conservative, true Liberty oriented party the next day.

The entire goal of the Paul campaign, by his inner circle of whackos, is to Destroy the Party of Lincoln. They hate conservatives and they hate the Party of Lincoln.

They openly talk about it at LewRockwell.com.

In that, it did not disappoint.
Does this appear to be headed toward a brokered convention?
I still fear thet, but taking a look at what we now have to choose from…not so much.

Anyone who thinks the gold standard is even a remotely viable option has no business running our country (or economy). I expect that kind of garbage from Paul, but Newt lost me with this one.

Or, as clinton might call it, the “clean chin” doctrine. Marianne Gingrich is just bitter that the man she “won” by breaking up his marriage with a cancer victim later left her for someone else. It’s easy to understand her being bitter, losing the man she stole to someone who was younger, smarter, and better looking. But being bitter doesn’t help. Let it go, Marianne, let it go.

No one worth voting for left running for President. We have to work on the Senate and pray that one of the remaining clowns can beat Obama.

With Rick Perry out, I have to switch my support to Romney, and that is sad, but we need executive experience, and no other Governor is running.

Excuse me? In South Carolina? Perry was polling worse than Huntsman before Huntsman dropped out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statewide_opinion_polling_for_the_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2012

The fact that Perry couldn’t even generate excitement in a conservative bastion like South Carolina tells a lot about why he was the wrong man at the wrong time.

and only attacks Newt/Santorum and previously Cain/Bachmann…the conservative candidates.

He wants Mitt to be the nominee, he wants it to be a 1-1 race between he and Romney so he can spend months campaigning claiming to be the “True Conservative” vs. Romney, at which point he will attack Romney.

We need Newt to win SC to keep him in the race as long as possible to thwart this.

Its also well past time that we had a funded, sustained Attack Machine go after Paul and shame his sane supporters away from him. It should be easy to do, though takes effort and funding.

It’d be helpul if a Jindal or Forbes etc… came out and endorsed Gingrich Friday. Hopefully Gingrich has a few lined up for Friday to break up the ex wife news cycle.

Perry, the only native southerner leaves the race on Robert E. Lee’s birthday.
Coincidence? Probably.

It seems that all the way back to 1995 Marianne Gingrich had it in mind to do just what she did with ABC News and her interview!

It is written by Matt Lewis. it’s very revealing.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/19/marianne-gingrich-in-95-i-don%E2%80%99t-want-him-to-be-president-and-i-don%E2%80%99t-think-he-should-be%E2%80%9D/

Quote: “In 1995, when Vanity Fair magazine asked Marianne what would happen if Newt ran for president, she boasted she could derail the bid with a single TV interview.

“He can’t do it without me,” she said. “I told him if I’m not in agreement, fine, it’s easy. I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything . . . I don’t want him to be president, and I don’t think he should be.””

I knew about the first round plan.
I hadn’t heard about the second round plan.
With delegates and stealth delegates…… the Paul campaign could be a major player in this convention.

I think the time has come for you to go on record in a diary as you did with Perry and officially request Santorum to get out of the race.

I don’t care if he won IA as I’m sure he will bring up at every possible opportunity. Whatever momentum he briefly had is long gone, so I think it is only fair now that Perry is gone that he also be forced to face the reality that he is not going to be the nominee. There is no reason for him to remain as Gingrich now is our last viable non-Romney alternative.

Everybody except abusive people have something to contribute. For example, let’s say Al Sharpton leads a march against a slumlord. Obviously Al Sharpton’s policies would make us into a third world country. If a conservative were to show up just to network and there was later a bill to stop roadblocks (aka “Sobriety Checkpoints” aka “Driving While Black Checkpoints”). You could very well get help from them passing a roadblock reform bill. They could also be helpful in defense of marriage ballot initiatives. In spite of every other word out of their mouth being a Democrat talking point, those people can still be open to contribute SOMETHING to the conservative cause.

I have a friend that is militantly opposed to the death penalty, but seems open to the premise of limited government. I’m stumped on what to say to get past that deal killer against him voting Republican.

If no one works to penetrate shifting demographics, the math adds up to conservatism being an ever shrinking minority.

and Ron Paul is the closest thing to a small government candidate we have, and he would be a bad president on national security. I like Newts debating and style, but if he cannot talk about the tenth amendment at tonight’s debate, he is just a joke. Romney will likely be the nominee, but the media got what they wanted, more primary time, and more hits.

Romney can beat Obama in at least 30 states. Santorum cannot even beat Obama in his home state.

Newt has no credibility on the 10th amendment because he supported cap-and-trade. Cap-and-trade takes rights away from states and gives them to the federal government.

Newt made some great calls as House speaker, but he also capitulated to Clinton at key times. Sometimes, I think that Newt’s greatest moment was leading the impeachment proceedings against Clinton even though he knew that it would cost him his speakership. That is both a testament to Newt’s courage and an explanation as to why I cannot support his candidacy. Newt made too many bad decisions in life to be trusted with the power of the presidency.

If he gets in (which he won’t), he will embarrass us more than Clinton embarrassed democrats in the 90′s.

We can’t have Newt.

I will accept Romney and only Romney at this point.

Can someone please tell me why it isn’t at least a bit lame for Gingrich to hide behind his daughters to defend against Marianne’s charges and criticisms? They are NOT daughters of Marianne, but rather of his first wife, so it’s not like they are sources arguably with allegiance to both Newt and Marianne, as is relevant with regard to criticisms surrounding his first divorce.

If Marianne’s comments are something the campaign thinks is worthy of a response, then why have his daughters respond?

If the campaign does think a response is in order, why use the daughters? Yes, I know why it could be politically advantageous — in the broader sense, he’s being charged with lacking “family values”, so in effect, his daughters defending him indicates that his daughters love him so it may mitigate the damage to perceptions of him in that more broadly-defined category (as opposed to the more narrowly-defined matter of honoring marriage vows).

But isn’t it cowardly and lame to use them in this way, even assuming (as I would guess) that they are eager to help and probably want to do it?

Again, they have no connection to Marianne that would seem to justify their involvement as arguably neutral parties, as in the case of the first divorce. And even if he has been a loving father who is loved by his daughters, that doesn’t have much bearing on the validity or strength of charges and criticisms that Marianne puts forth regarding Newt as a husband to her.

By all means, someone point out what I may be missing. Otherwise I say Newt should man up and either generate no response or respond himself or via his campaign, rather than using his daughters in this way as cover.

Pat Robertson tried to game the system and take over a bunch of State Party organizations nationally – they were caught at it and rebuffed – I found myself in the middle of that in NH back in the 80′s.

Ron Paul supporters have been trying to take over GOP organizations and local Tea Party groups for years, occasionally successfully, generally only temporarily.

My guess is that he has no chance to pack the Convention with 50% + 1 so after two or three or five votes the delegates may start to look elsewhere for a unifying nominee – and that could be Perry – then “tanned, rested, and ready”.

A conservative can dream …

turn the entire Republican primary into an extended version of the Jerry Springer show. No wonder the best candidates sit it out. The left is loving all this.

Fun to have Newt rebound. Every time he rises he falls further.

Santorum and Romney are the good guys, both of them having strong conservative principles and records, both personally and publicly. But they’re too “boring” for the Republican primary electorate (not to mention they don’t generate ratings for the media, including RedState).

So for the sake of Rush, Hannity, RedState, etc., let’s hope Newt continues to throw some bombs and cause havoc.

Even if it means ruining the conservative movement and pushing decent Americans toward Obama.

Let’s not forget, Gingrich is especially strong with older voters, so I think that will give him lots of momentum out of Florida (if he wins SC). And honestly, I think the interview with the wife is the best thing that could happen to his campaign, if he can frame it as “the media is going after me”. (Not saying whether that’s an accurate characterization or not, just that it is a possible one.)

since Perry stepped out of the race. I listened to his speech and have been
reflecting on what he said, “about no one being perfect, and about forgiveness, that God is a forgiving God. As a Christian I know this to be true, God forgives
ALL our sins if we ask. We serve an awesome God. I wish things would have turned out differently but it is what it is.
I will support Newt.

I wish the choice were better than Mitt or Newt.

anti american nutcase. ron paul makes mitt romney look like ronald reagan

The ruling class hysteria
Ann Coulters latest
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48877

Coulter; Romney a futurist
Wow, it’s a long piece in defense of Romney. Who knew that after Hillarycare went down in flames in 1994, (bad Newt bad) that Romney was not deterred, he saw the future and it was socialized medicine which he gave to Massachusetts, (Romneycare) in 2006. This led the way for another futurist, Obama to give the nation Obamacare in 2010. From her wisdom we also lean that during the 90’s speaker Newt almost killed the .com industry and Perry during his long tenure as governor of Texas has brought back the horse and buggy. That both men practically force us to use the quill pen on paper is something I was not aware of. That the constitution was written on paper using a quill pen I was though. But according to Ezra Klein the constitution is old, (over 100 years) and has no meaning today, maybe Coulter might agree. One thing is for sure, she is knocking the conservative stool from under her feet and hanging herself with another new idea, “Romneyrope“.

PS; there are reports coming out of Iowa that the results were manipulated to give Romney the win going into the New Hampshire primary. Is this the future of how results will be calculated. Sounds leftist to me.

and Obama driving this country over a cliff at 100 MPH I would propose that you do not have the luxury of worrying about Newt’s marriages/infidelity/sex life.

To make a point, Christie is not a conservative, but he is certainly authentic, has fortitute, and while far from perfect, would easily beat Obama. Romney is obviously fake i.e. inauthentic and it shows. Newt is obviously authentic (for better or worse) has a track record and has accomplished conservative things. Newt has what it takes and what is needed now.

Santorum is laughable choice to anyone in the PA area (where I live).

what I heard, and only the realtime time, made me think of a relay race, not just the runners in a 1600 yrad relay passingthe baton, but a more complex long distance relay, like the biathlon.

I still maintain there is NO way for either Romney or Santorum to beat Obama, but I am not going to repeat the DNC strategies here.

I do see a path for Gingrich, but admit he has to do better with female voters. I never noticed it was Gingrich leading the charge to impeach Clinton in the late 1990′s – too busy working – and I did think the whole episode made the GOP look vindictive at the time. Iam 59, so if I do not remember that about Gingrich, then I do not think disillusioned fiscal conservatives who used to be dems and/or independents, will carry THAT grudge because somehow everyone had a job and the budget was balanced (huge DoDef cuts helped as did raiding the Social Security lockbox).

But, as I read this thread, and all the other factors that I have noted since following this ‘rigged game show’ GOP nominating process,

and with this new concept of Ron Paul’s stealth campaign to have fake Romney delegates,

it makes sense for Perry to ‘pass the baton or biathlon rifle’ to Gingrich to insure SC and Florida do NOT give Romney unstoppable moment.

February is just Nevada and Maine caucuses.

All four on tonite’s debate stage could very well implode in February.

Probably why Mitch Daniels is giving the GOP SOTU counterpoint.

And, depending on what sport analogy fits in February, an ace relief pitcher could UN-suspend his campaign.

Ok, switching from a long distance biathlon relay to baseball may sound odd, but I do not remember the rules about biathlon relays – whether the starter can suddenly be substituted back in for the final leg.

Just know that being able to cross country ski for 10K and then shoot five bullets, and still be able to sprint the last 2K is why I love biathlon more than watching America turn into a wasteland of lap dog JournOlisters and half the voters not thinking it worth voting.

For me, Romney is worse than Nixon, who, as I recall, was lucky enough to run against the anti-war left parents of today’s OWS.

But back then, we still could get jobs.

just wanted to say hello to ptttx333 and ava’, and scope, et al because I am too sad to even watch this debate tonite. I can wait for the Jon Stewart edition next Monday to see if anyone landed Mitt Fits.

I just can not bear to watch Ron Paul, who is so very dangerous, domestically and foreign.
A soveriegn nation with a currency needs a Central Bank. Can not go back one hundred years as if history means nothing.

We are where we are.

and, to carolyn, who mentions how Perry stood in pain, for us, and the USA –

as Perry told DM Reg Kathy Obradovich in an interview that I guess no one watched in Iowa, when he finally did admit his 10-week recovery from back surgery had slowed him down, he quickly said:

No Excuses. It is what it is.

Presidential Leadership NO EXCUSES. IT IS WHAT IT IS.

am going to go back to websites where I can return to critiquing foreign policy. Much easier to focus on Iran than what has become the politics of America.