Newt becomes the frontrunner and Romney will start smelling a lot like a loser.

“It is his [Romney's ]race to lose.”

InTrade has flipped in the last few days.

They are now showing for the Florida primary.

Romney 81.6%
Gingrich 19.0%

If there’s a thrid coming of Newt, it will be follod by a thrid collapsing of Newt.

I have read pro-Newt stuff. I have read pro-Mitt stuff. I’d read more about Santorum if I thought he had a realistic shot. And I know enough of Paul to not bother education myself about his voting record; his foreign policy stuff is just THAT coo-coo.

I CANNOT wrap my brain around a “conservative” backing, and signing into law, an individual mandate – states’ rights not withstanding.

I CANNOT wrap my brain around a “conservative” who believe such a mandate would be the answer at the federal level – going so far as to advocate it through the mid-2000s.

I CANNOT wrap my brain around a “conservative” backing Tsongas in 1992.

I CANNOT wrap my brain around a “conservative” declaring that Bush 41 abandon Reagan (who was, in his words, “a failure”) or risk losing his election bid.

I CANNOT wrap my brain around a “conservative” believing in man-made global warming, advocating for cap and trade or sitting on a couch with Stretch Pelosi.

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera…

Is it just me, or is YOUR head spinning too???

So, this becomes a “stop Obama at all costs” election, in which case, only Romney seems to have the appeal (and national polling numbers) to have a shot at it.

I’m just beyond sick.

If Santorum does drop out before the vote (or even if he does not), his hard-core social conservative supporters may just sit home, even if S endorses Romney because Santorum may be deluded into believing a backroom promise as Romney’s AG. a promise Romney will never keep.

Perry’s ground troops in SC turned on a dime to help Gingrich.

I just wonder if they are doing same in Florida. The veteran and active military vote could be Gingrich’s key.

Plus, I do not care what today’s polls say, the news reports have Romney with foot-in-mouth on every issue that Florida cares about. The only way Romney wins the Miami Cubans is if his congressional endorsers (Diaz-Balarts and Ros–Lehtinen) are in overdrive mode. I still can not believe Ileana Ros-Lehtinen will go into GOTV overdrive for Romney. She is too smart for that. Of course, I still do not understand her Romney endorsement in the first place.

Too bad ECI never broadcast their “We Can do better than Ron Paul” ad in SC after Gary Bauer endorsed Santorum. Y’all can view that ad here:
http://www.committeeforisrael.com/

And the other candidates as well.
This debate belongs to the GOP candidates and the GOP audience. Not CNN.
Do not let CNN control the debate.
They are not your friend and are a tool of the Obama reelection team.

Do not allow the moderator to present false narratives about financial inequality.
Do not indulge the moderator by answering dopey question as if they are not stupid.
Do not let them silence the audience.

There is no downside to ridiculing the moderator if he starts asking lightweight or fluffy questions that have nothing to do with our nation’s pressing issues.

Finally, if the moderators are not asking the questions that GOP want to talk about then seize control while you have the spotlight and say something like “This country is $16 trillion dollars in debt and the Senate led by Harry Reid has not passed a budget in over a 1,000 days. Is there some reason you haven’t brought that up yet…?”

I do not doubt for a second that CNN wants to make Newt crash and burn tonight as this is sort of the Alamo for his campaign.
He cannot allow them to define him or his campaign in their terms and needs to push back hard when they do.
Also he cannot allow them to waste time by attempting to pick fights between him and Romney.
He needs to take it to Obama even if he has to go right around the moderator.
He needs to throw the audience some red meat.

He needs to show us a president who will stand up for conservatives.

Romney is good at throwing Gingrich off his game and yet Perry got Romney so flustered that it was obvious that Romney will be an easy target for Obama.

I don’t like any of the candidates I have to vote for. I know this…however, I prefer any of them over Obama.

Romney is a liar. He lied through all the debates and the press never hit him on ANY OF IT. Sounds like another pimp job by the press as it was for Obama.

Now, Gingrich, according to his own words, lied in the debates. So…let’s see…who is going to win the coveted Liar in Chief. The one currently occupying the throne is a liar and anti-American. Gingrich has been all over the playing field and I don’t know what position he takes. Will he be for the American people or will his “I know better” attitude come out? Romney..he’s a cookie cut out of a Hollywood version of what a president should look like. However, the man lies. He lied with Perry, he lies about his record, he’s for…GET THIS…REPLACING OBAMACARE. This legislation alone will bankrupt America…Forget Dodd Frank and all the other crap…this is a TAX bill…redistribution…and we are listening to Romney tell us that he will “replace” it. Throw out the Constitution…let’s just give him the title KING WILLARD.

The tea party movement just sits there…no words about Obamacare…no position…just silence. And…if you do not think this is all orchestrated…try reading Drudge and see that the House has introduced a bill TO REPLACE OBAMACARE.

If the housing market didn’t stink so bad…I’d be ready to pack up and leave. No…I’ve done my bit, my demonstration, my blogging, my e-mailing, my calling Congress, my giving money that was literally burned the minute it left the envelope for “insider” ideas. Guess what…this is exactly how Obama has played this…counting on me to “surrender”…and yet…tea party and all…WHO do we have as candidates? LIARS Feel betrayed…join the crowd…it won’t do any good.

“Santorum is scheduled to participate in Thursday night’s debate in Jacksonville along with the other three remaining Republican presidential candidates.

But then he’s set to head north this weekend for a pair of fundraisers in Virginia, where he owns a home, and he plans to prepare his tax returns for release. He told reporters this would be the first time he’d slept in his own bed since Christmas, ”

I hope Santorum drops today and endorses Gingrich. Reports are Santorum is leaving FL after tonights debate. Or if he stays in the debate, go after Romney then endorse Newt right after. FL is winner take all so Santorum is done.

People are so stuck in the past, falling for the intentional plan by the media.

We must look at candidates like investing in stocks. It’s not so much where they’ve been(although impt) but where they are going, given current and future anticipated environment.

The media narrative on Gingrich is he has no organization. It was never reported that Gingrich had the LARGEST organization of all candidates in SC. Gingrich was reported to have the LARGEST paid staff in FL, more than Romney, as well. But that doesn’t fit the media narrative so its not widely reported. I read about it online and have not seen one single reference on TV.

The race is Newt/Mitt – tea party&outsiders vs. DC establishment.

There’s a reason why Reagan and Thatcher were such big fans of Hayek.

I’m mainstream, not an Austrian, but they provide some very valuable insights – and many of their good ideas have become part of mainstream theory – and if there’s something I wouldn’t call Austrian School theory is boring. It’s actually very exciting and deserves to be studied.

I don’t think “boring us all with Austrian economics” is a bad thing at all. More people need to hear that message, and the convention’s as good a place as any to present it.

Someone else wins.

Write it down.

Santorum seems much closer to Newt. The marital issues? Or what?

Romney wins.

Write it down.

CNN is going to allow the audience to applaud the candidates so it should be much more lively than the NBC sleeper.

Honestly, all the candidates have their flaws and after researching all four candidates in depth I decided to throw my hat in the ring for Rick Santorum. I feel he’s the most conservative of the bunch, although he probably won’t get the nomination because he’s low on money and he doesn’t have the comprehensive campaign organizational skills in place to go it for the long haul. I did put my money where my mouth is and donated recently to Santorum’s campaign, but I realize it may have been in vain. At least I have the satisfaction of knowing I supported a true social conservative. If Santorum bows out I would expect many of his supporters to support Newt Gingrich but we’ll see.

Having said that, my next choice would be Newt Gingrich because he’s a Reaganite and he accomplished quite a lot when he was Speaker of the House. Balancing the budget was obviously one of them. I feel Newt is also getting a bad rap from Mitt Romney and also from the Romney Super-pac ads, with many of them being downright dirty and chock full of untruths. If Mitt Romney or his cohorts would willingly lie and/or distort the truth concerning Newt Gingrich, what would stop Mitt Romney from lying to the American people or from “flip-flopping” back and forth like he’s done so many, many times previously if he indeed became President? Just saying. I really have trouble trusting Romney and obviously his propensity to distort the truth and/or tell outright lies is one of those reasons. But if Romney gets the Republican nomination I’ll certainly do my part to vote for him for president. I might have to pinch my nose when voting for him though. But obviously the main goal is to get rid of socialist Obama and his disastrous, failed administration.

Erick says that if Santorum drops out, he thinks it will be a net benefit for Mitt Romney.

Then Erick says “If [Santorum] wants Mitt, he stays in.”

It sounds like no matter what Santorum does, he is set up to be in the tank for Mitt Romney.

Could it be instead that like Erick, Santorum has his own opinions about where his supporters would turn, and that dropping out or staying in isn’t necessarily a good predictor for those of us who can’t read Santorum’s mind?

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Disclaimers for the attack trolls: Yes this is an honest question/thought, no it is not meant to denigrate Erick or anyone else. Yes I am happy to be corrected or shown better insight. And no I am not a Romney or a Santorum supporter.

“But he is going to do better than many have expected and he’ll get a prime spot at the Republican National Convention to bore us all with Austrian economics.”

It’s exciting and fun and…ok, it’s boring. But it is also a pretty good model of our current economic situation.

I would recoil at the thought of Newt as the nominee, but Romney as the nominee does nothing for me. For that reason, I want to see Newt win in Florida. If he wins in Florida, the race will continue and I think it might just scare a new candidate into the race.

Rush made a good point today saying if Mitt wins Florida and becomes the defacto nominee, Obama will have nine months to carpet bomb him. Mitt will be a burned out hulk by the time November rolls around. In other words, we’ll lose.

The establisment forces, and I hate to use that phrase, have dropped daisy cutters on Newt today so it will be tough for him to win. Still, I hope smart people realize the race must go on, otherwise we’ll be stuck with buyer’s remorse.

As I said though, I admitt I’m hoping a Newt win scares a better candidate into the race.

This sounds like the same talk-down manipulation that helped to drive
Rick Perry from the race … leaving us with four guaranteed general election-losers.

Since Newt is such a dismally-poor candidate why not suggest that Newt
could crash and burn in Florida and it become a Paul-Romney-Santorum
race?

Or even better – they all lose to Rick Perry – who is still on the FL ballot,
and they all get out!

Then Perry recruits Allen West as his running-mate and we have a landslide victory in the General.

How long will it take for pundits to realize than None Of The Above is the best answer to these four?

Having your surrogates like Dole and company to go out and savage a fellow Republican is not the act of a true conservative. More like a candidate whose only core belief is that he be President. Romney=Blumberg. He’s one of those liberals who couldn’t break into the Democratic Primary line to be be governor. So, he ran on the Republican ticket.

Eric, every reason not to vote for Romney can be found in this video. How low will someone pander to be president? Who let the dogs out?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwwAaVmnf4

2012 could have been the year the GOP destroyed the left permanently and saved America by choosing a really strong candidate. Instead, we’re left to choose between the amoral serial adulterer and the phony flip-flopping elitist. Pathetic. Is it too late to draft Jindal or Daniels?

Obama

He support the healthcare law
He hates gun rights
He is proabortion
He raised taxes after saying he would not
He cost his voters jobs
One of his biggest fans was Ted Kennedy
Another fan is John Kerry
He has nominated Liberal Judges
He has no remorse for any of these actions.

Oh.. did we say Obama? We meant Mitt Romney

Some blogger looked into Gingrich’s statement concerning Reagan AND ONLY HALF of the statement was quoted with the rest of the statement nullifying what the headlines on Drudge claim.

Sometimes success does that. He knows better than that. He ran with it because he wanted to. The whole of attack was full of half-truth and both Rush and Drudge.

I understand many of you are leery of Rep. Dr. Ron Paul’s foreign policy. But need I remind you there was a day and age where conservatives were leery of foreign entanglements. Remember men like Sen. Robert Taft (R-OH) were opposed to joining NATO on constuitional grounds. These wars cost money we simply don’t have.

Gingrich lost my trust when he was unfaithful to his wife. Mitt is a serial flip-flopper. Santorum would have my support if not for opposing Right to Work (which will be law in Indiana within the next month) and his overly aggressive foreign policy. Agree with him or not Dr. Paul is the consistant conservative and should get your support.