Levin: Character matters and Romney’s worries me

Posted by The Right Scoop The Right Scoop on January 29th, 2012 in Politics | 305 Comments

Mark Levin wrote today of why he is troubled by Romney’s character as revealed by his all out “anything goes” assault on Newt Gingrich:

I am beginning to think that the nature and level of attacks being launched by Mitt Romney against Newt Gingrich, which he would surely use against any conservative threatening his nomination, are going to make it very difficult for Romney to unite the different factions of the GOP and the conservative movement behind his candidacy should he win the nomination.  While I have said that I would vote for Rick Santorum, I am appalled at the “anything goes” assault on Gingrich. See here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/us/politics/the-calculations-that-led-romney-to-the-warpath.html?pagewanted=all

 

Romney is not a conservative in the traditional sense, and he has a record of big-government Republicanism.  Even many years after the success of the Reagan administration, he sought to distance himself from Reagan and the GOP, self-identifying as a progressive and independent.  Thus, he resorts to spending multi-millions of dollars trashing his opponents, rather than providing thoughtful arguments on conservatism and constitutionalism.  Lest we forget, it was Gingrich who was trying to run a positive campaign and who offered to debate Romney one-on-one, asking Romney to stop with the millions in unanswered ads attacking him.  Romney declined.  I have no doubt that Romney would do the same thing to Santorum if Santorum was rising in the polls, albeit on different issues.

 

I have said that Romney is in many ways Richard Nixon, and that Romney would not successfully lead efforts to repeal Obamacare but, in fact, would grow the federal government in many respects.  Romney’s advisor, former senator Norm Coleman, has now said as much.  That is Romney’s record.  Despite having been a businessman, he was not a defender of free market capitalism while governor.  Romneycare is, as Santorum pointed out, a top-down government health care system with an individual mandate that is breaking Massachusetts’ treasury and destroying private health insurance.  It is a disaster.  Romney also backed cap-and-trade and TARP (as did Gingrich).

 

My great fear is, however, that he is the weakest candidate who can face Obama and will go into the general election with a fractured base, thanks to his own character flaws, which are now on display, and his tactics of personal destruction.  Moreover, while Romney can swamp his Republican opponents by 3 to 1 or more in every state with his spending advantage, Barack Obama will be raising more and spending more to beat him in the general election, meaning Romney’s financial advantage will be non-existent.

 

We better start paying a lot more attention to holding the House of Representatives and winning the Senate with a bunch of solid conservatives.  I have spent a year on my radio show identifying and interviewing these candidates, and will continue to do so.

I have been bothered quite a bit in recent days by the dishonest attacks that Romney has leveled on Gingrich. The attack using the false ethics charges from the 90s against Gingrich was really the one that was the final straw for me.

I know that both Gingrich and Perry went all anti-capitalism on Mitt, and that bothered me too. I won’t defend Gingrich on those, but it’s clear he was trying to defend himself against “big money Mitt”.

But Gingrich was vindicated from those ethics charges and yet Romney is running around trying to make Newt look guilty all over again. I’m sorry, but that is just too far for me to go. It is a complete falsehood, a lie, and it really does give credence to what Perry used to say about Romney, that he will say whatever he needs to say to win the election.

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  • http://twitter.com/cfallon57 Cheryl Fallon

    I just heard an ad on the radio this afternoon where Gingrich calls Romney out for many things one that I remember was a pro choice abortion supporter-so it works both ways-if I hear it again which I am sure I will I will take note of the other things he said but that stood out to me!

    • Anonymous
    • Anonymous

      But it’s TRUE that Romney was a pro-choice abortion supporter, and he’s on record saying so in many a video available from his campaign when he ran for governor. You can easily find them on YouTube. As opposed to Newt, who had all ethics charges dropped. Romney is spreading a lie when he says Newt resigned in disgrace over ethics charges. That is historically incorrect — a blatant lie. So one is lying and one is not. It’s really not working both ways.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=775953507 Berend Lienemann

        Both are politicians. If both were lying it would not surprise me.

        • Anonymous

          The nice thing about having the whole internet at our disposal, we can fact check for ourselves and not just take someone’s word for something because we like him / her.

          GB

      • energizedconservative

        Ronald Reagan, as governor of California, was a pro-choice abortion supporter, too. He signed the bill that legalized abortion in California, before Roe. v. Wade. Would you have disqualified Reagan from becoming president because he flip-flopped on abortion?

        • Anonymous

          That wasn’t my point. My point was that it’s not a LIE to say he was pro-abortion, and I’m sorry Romney and his supporters don’t like talking about that and his taxes and his anti-gun stance, but it’s absolutely true. But it IS a lie for him to say that Gingrich resigned in disgrace over ethics charges, when Romney know those charges were all dropped. That’s dishonest. Saying Romney was pro-abortion is not.

          I don’t ever want to hear the Romney campaign or Romney’s supporters talking about Newt’s integrity when Romney has shown so blatantly (4 times in the Thursday debate alone!) that he is a liar. My qualm is not about abortion, it is about his dishonest campaign tactics. It reminds me of the Chicago way. In fact, Romney reminds me of Obama, period.

          • Anonymous

            I am sick of the intentional omission, blind or biased support, and name calling. When you throw mud, you get some on yourself; Newt is NOT clean in this situation, not by a long shot. Even Levin points that out. (Though he somehow pardons anti-capitalist moves with defending against “big-money”. Yeah, I don’t get that; I thought free-market and capitalism and the freedom involved was the holy grail, the basis for conservatives.)

            “…My point was that it’s not a LIE to say he was pro-abortion…”

            Yes. technically it is ‘correct’ to state that he was once pro-abortion… but Gingrich is NOT correct in pushing this idea that he is STILL pro-abortion. A ‘lie’ is not simply stating an untruth, it is saying things with an intent to deceive. That ad is obviously trying to give people the impression that Romney is pro-abortion. He is not and there are several independent anti-abortion groups that confirm his history since his ‘flip-flop’ has been solid anti-abortion. (Yes, that included time in office at Mass.)

            “…and I’m sorry Romney and his supporters don’t like talking about that and his taxes and his anti-gun stance, but it’s absolutely true.”

            So many people accept Gingrich’s ‘change of heart’ and ‘saving moment’ to which they use to sweep incredible amounts of historical Newt-dirt under the rug… but they refuse to apply the same standard to any other candidate. Romney has several anti-abortion groups backing him, backing-up his record, and supporting his story. If you accept one, you have to accept the other. If you condemn one, you have to condemn the other’s indiscretions as well. Be consistent, or be a mindless shill.

            To fix the record, Newt DID resign in “disgrace” – but only because the court of public opinion condemned him before legal guilt was determined. …but that’s politics, and Newt DID resign because of that public opinion conviction. …well, that and he had a near revolt of republicans against him brewing. Newt has admitted that his leadership style rubbed his party the wrong way. Those are the facts.

            I am not attacking Newt, nor am I defending Romney, I am pointing out that Newt’s ads are just as deceptive and twisted as Romney’s. I think they are both liars, and this vindicates neither.

            • Anonymous

              I don’t think the two examples are even remotely comparable. Romney’s record is fair game. He owns it. If Newt wants to put Romney’s record as governor on public policies in an ad, he has every right to. The same holds true for Newt, and both need to defend themselves if they’ve since changed their minds on public policy or issues, and good luck with that if you have a history of flip-flopping on issues. Your word is only as good as your actions.

              But to base ads on total lies is quite another story. Romney knows those charges were fabricated by people with a vendetta against Newt and eventually dropped because they were totally unsubstantiated, and for Romney to suggest or imply otherwise is despicable as far as I’m concerned.

              • Anonymous

                I guess Romney lies are not comparable to Newt lies according to you. You just proved my point that people are ignoring what they don’t want to see.

                “But to base ads on total lies is quite another story.”

                Romney is not pro-abortion. Newt knows that, his PAC’s know that, and yet they are trying to push that point of view.

                Come on guys, Romney has more than enough problems already. Newt and his PAC’s pushing lies and attacking with lies doesn’t make me want to vote for him. This is below us as a people.

                “Your word is only as good as your actions.”

                I couldn’t agree more.

                • Anonymous

                  I agree it would be much more accurate for Newt to say Romney claimed to be pro-abortion his entire political career until the 2008 elections when he conveniently changed his mind. At least that would be an undisputable fact.

                • Anonymous

                  Except he changed while in office in Mass. It is interesting how often ‘convenience’ coincides with ‘necessity’, ‘experience’, and ‘reality’ – Just sayin’.

                  I am more inclined to give them all a bit of consideration and mercy in this regard, than I am to damn them for it: ANYONE who has ‘an experience’ with abortion will be polarized immediately to one side or the other, (whether witnessing, having a direct relation to, or involvement in/with an abortion). It is murder and any kind of exposure to it changes people, I don’t care who you are. It would be accurate to say that Romney WAS a liberal, WAS a democrat, and WAS pro-choice.

                  To be fair, I sure hope to say the exact same thing about a huge amount of Americans, and I will open my arms and welcome them to sanity.

                  I am not here to defend Romney, I find many of his stances and policies indefensible, embarrassing, and abhorrent. I just want to see people judged by the same standard, and that is NOT happening.

                • Anonymous

                  Romney is buying himself a presidency. He has the media elites and establishment GOP in his pocket. We The People be damned, as far as he’s concerned, and he will pay for whatever dirty trick is available to him to pick off each candidate as they show signs of surging ahead of him. Newt isn’t the first one to fall victim to his tactics, but he’s the first one to really fight back hard.

                  I can’t speak on behalf of everyone, but I can tell you that I’m willing to overlook what Newt is doing in self-defense against the Romney machine. I do understand what you’re saying, but the “fair” ship has sailed thanks to Romney.

        • bobemakk

          “Flip flopping” is just another word for changing someones mind. I don’t care about “flip flopping,” everyone has a right to change their opinion.

    • Anonymous

      Mitt has flip flopped on that issue too.

      • energizedconservative

        So did Ronald Reagan. Would you have disqualified Reagan from becoming president because he flip-flopped on abortion? Doesn’t it matter more that he became pro-life, just as Mitt has?

        • Anonymous

          I don’t think Ronald was a hard core pro-choice as Mitt. Go watch his speeches.

          We can allow mulligans in the GOP and conservative movement. The problem with Mitt is he’s played an entire round with mulligans on nearly every hole.

          • energizedconservative

            Governor Ronald Reagan signed the bill that legalized abortion in California, before Roe v. Wade. Admit it, you would have disqualified him from becoming president, and we’d have missed one of the best presidents we’ve ever had.

            • Anonymous

              We’re certainly disqualifying Willard, get used to it.

              Newt will be competing State by State to the convention if necessary, and just as he said, Romney will not be the nominee.

              I’m happy to vote for Newt, he has the vision, experience, history of conservative achievement, and backbone to make a good president.

              Mittens is a wimpy, lying, smarmy liberal–and I simply will not vote for him ever.

              • energizedconservative

                Well, I see I’m among extremists, who will be happy to see Obama reelected. Incredible.

                • Anonymous

                  I’m definitely an extremist tired of the lesser of two evils choice. I won’t vote either against Obama as they’re both soft on the constitution. With Oasswipe, at least it would spark the revolution and finally end the reign of terror of the progressive movement. It is true from time to time liberty requires the infusion of fresh blood in it’s defense and diffusion.

            • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6KRHXVK5ZCSWJ5GJQ5Z6GIJICA Dax

              I would disqualify him for blatantly lying yes. But he didn’t have to resort to that.

        • Anonymous

          If Mitt had one position then changed his opinion as he grew and evolved, I would be inclined to support him. The fact is, he has changed his positions (multiple times) on several issues, including whether or not he is a conservative or a progressive.

          Too much bouncing around makes me think he will say anything to get a vote. And have separate messages for different groups. I don’t want a president that doesn’t even have the honesty to speak up and defend his beliefs.
          IMHO

          • energizedconservative

            What about Newt’s flip-flopping? He sat on the couch with Nancy Pelosi. He’s favored a FEDERAL individual mandate. He used OWS anti-capitalist arguments against Romney. Newt is really not as conservative as you think he is. He was run out of Washington, yet Clinton was still there. Clinton used Newt in campaign commercials to get reelected, because Newt was so hated by a majority of the American people. It worked, Clinton was reelected, and Newt was gone two years later.

            • Anonymous

              Very true and I worry about his tendencies as well. But he does have a strong conservative voting record and he did accomplish several things that I feel are critical for the place we find ourselves now. Cutting spending, leading Reeps to a majority for the first time in several decades, major welfare reforms that actually worked.

              I know he’s an ideas man, but he has put plenty of shoe leather into the programs he was passionate about and worked hard to make them a reality. I imagine you step on some toes along the way.

              So warts and all, I tend to agree with the brilliant Dr Thomas Sowell in that Newt might just be the man for the times we are facing.

              P.S. I think he may have been “run out of Washington” because he didn’t play the game that many of the powerful people wanted him to play. I do know the Dems were on a witch hunt when they charged him with unfounded ethics violations. Funny how they never go after their own even when there is proof of malfeasance.

            • Anonymous

              Another Romney troll with Romney talking points. You don’t even have the smarts to go look at the record for yourself. You just regurgitate garbage that you’ve been fed by a pack of lying jackals.

              Well, guess what? It’s working, but not the way you think. I’ve spent the evening visiting different blogs and the backlash against Romney’s scorched earth campaign has started. More and more people are posting that they are disgusted with Romney’s lies and distortions and will not vote for Mitt even if he becomes the nominee. A few weeks ago I *might* have voted for Willard in the general. But not now. Willard will never get my vote.

              Decent people don’t like this and they **will** remember. If you think the conservative base will just hold their noses and vote for Mitt after this, you are dreaming. If Romney is successful in his dirty campaign and wins the nomination, I predict:

              The base will not support Mitt. Romney. Will. NOT. Win. the. General.

            • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6KRHXVK5ZCSWJ5GJQ5Z6GIJICA Dax

              The point is….. how can you trust a guy who will lie to your face to get elected? You seem to put a lot of trust in Romney who has never really apologized for anything he’s done wrong politically.

          • cabensg

            Romney has had to flip flop, which in case no one has thought it out, is not the same as changing your mind. He was an Independent during Reagan’s presidency and voted for a Democrat (cant’ remember name) when there was a Republican on the ballot. He ran to the left of Kennedy and has only changed position to a more conservative view because he’s running for president. If you look at each situation and look at his record he is at best a moderate. A thoughtful person should be allowed to change their mind on a subject so you need to look at when and why they changed their mind. Romney’s time line of changing shows expedient reasons for changes not core beliefs that’s why it’s called flip flopping. Lumping flip flopping in with thoughtful more informed policy changes means you can’t differentiate one from the other. If a person believes something and after close examination it’ s proven to be false they change their mind. If a person governs as a moderate and changes positions because they now can’t win as a moderate it’s called flip flopping. It all has to do with the situation and how they put their past beliefs into action. Romney has never been a conservative and there is no reason to think he’s one now as he can’t even come up with any conservative ideas on his own.

    • Anonymous

      The difference is that you can play Mitsky and his words are those of a pro abortion supporter whereas saying for example Newt wasn’t important during the Reagan era can be shown in text and video and people from that era that would know that Newt was an important player.

      Slamming with the truth vs. Slamming with lies… you get the difference, I presume.

    • http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada

      mittens not only said that he would not work against a “woman’s choice” but he would also pass the law which would allow minors to go to a judge to seek an abortion, even if over her parent’s will. That is despicable since he is now touting himself as pro life. What mittens has been doing to Newt is a smear, at least calling him out on his pro “choice” stance is the truth. You can’t call that a falsehood since it’s mittens own voice saying it.

    • Anonymous

      Romney personally said he is a moderate progressive independent that did not want to be identified with the traditional Republican Party but he cannot win a national election as an Independent so he is using the R Party for his own agenda.

    • Anonymous

      TRS made the point that some of Mr. Romney’s allegations are NOT TRUE.

      There is a major difference between calling someone out on a position they hold or have held and just lying.

      GB

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_URAG4AVI7S4W2KNDC72CUSYBOY Law Wench

    Romney disgusts me. I will stay home in November if he’s the candidate.

    • Anonymous

      As much as Romney disgusts me, BO is dismantling this country and I would crawl across hot coals to vote against him!

      • Anonymous

        Bad Move. Better to take Romney down and concentrate on getting Conservatives in the Senate and House and of course changing leadership. The latter would happen with a humiliating defeat to obama which Romney would have if he is the nominee.

        If elected (which he won’t) Romney will govern as he did in MA and tea-party people will be further marginalized. If Obama wins in 2012, in 2016 we can either get a Conservative nominee, or run a 3rd Party.

        • energizedconservative

          What makes you think this country is going to add conservatives to congress if Obama is reelected?

          • Anonymous

            Mmmm, do you realize and fully comprehend how enraged the public at large is? They are tired of inaction, they are tired of wacko liberals, and they are tired of a wimpy, feckless, GOP.

            • energizedconservative

              What I realize is that Newt has sky high negatives in all the national polling. He doesn’t even do as well as Ron Paul in a head-to-head match-up against Obama. I want a nominee who can actually defeat Obama. Right now, that looks like Romney to me. I will vote for Newt if he’s the nominee, and I hope you’ll vote for Mitt if he’s the nominee.

              • Anonymous

                If you think any poll that shows RuPaul as having any chance of beating obama as valid go right ahead.

                Romney cannot defeat obama and history shows this to be correct, as does an enraged and awake base who will refuse to back him.

                I will not vote for Romney against obama.

                • energizedconservative

                  It didn’t say Ron Paul can beat Obama, it says he’ll lose. It’s just that Newt will lose by an even larger margin, because Newt’s negatives are sky high in this country. He is not well liked by a majority of the American people. I know you like him, but you’re in the minority. Romney, on the other hand, is competitive with Obama, and has actually led in the head-to-head polls against Obama at times. j

                  It’s a shame you favor the reelection of Obama. I want Obama defeated, and that’s why I’m going with the guy who has the best chance of doing that.

                • Anonymous

                  Romney has “0″ chance of defeating Obama. Keep dreaming.

                  In the long run it is better Obama is elected than electing a RINO like Romney. Yes, it is.

                • energizedconservative

                  You’re too extreme for most Americans. You need to understand that most Americans don’t agree with you.

                • Anonymous

                  Wrong.

                  You nominate a RINO like Romney and nothing changes, further damaging the GOP brand (if that’s possible).

                  America is tired of used car salesman like Romney who does not have the balls to get done what needs to be done.

                  We can, with the right Congressional leadership and Conservatives in Congress, grind down and nearly stop or defund whatever Obama has planned.

                • energizedconservative

                  I see how we stopped him from ramming through Obamacare. Without the presidency, it will be almost impossible to stop Obamacare from going forward — unless the Supreme Court saves us. If we nominate a guy who can actually win the presidency, who has said he will give the states the ability to opt out of Obamacare, then we have a chance of repealing it.

                  But I know I’m wasting my time trying to reason with you, so I’m going to leave you to your fellow extremists, and you can dream on that Newt will ever be the nominee. Even if he is, the Democrats and media will destroy him all over again, as they did while he was Speaker.

                • Anonymous

                  You’re a jackass, plain and simple.

                  Romneys aid has already said he’s not going to repeal, it. Wake up you f-ing idiot, he’s a RINO.

                  You go down with Romney, go for it. He may very well be the nominee, and he will lose if I have to VOTE FOR OBAMA to do it.

                • energizedconservative

                  Ah yes, when you have to resort to name-calling, I know it’s time to get the hell out of this extremist place. Good-night.

                • Anonymous

                  blah, blah, blah

                  I call them as I see them

                • Anonymous

                  This thread is an embarrassment. It could be titled: “Troll, Windbag, and Bigotry: 3 Ways to ‘Win’ Friends, Votes, and Elections.”

                • K-Bob

                  Good Bye.

                • Anonymous

                  “extremist”

                  *Liberal troll alert!!*

                  Buh-bye and let the door hit ya on the ass on the way out!

                • Anonymous

                  I have many friends who agree with your logic.

                  There is a fatal flaw in those polls, however. They are taken before Romney’s skeletons have been thoroughly unearthed (and there are MANY) – and before Obama’s destruction machine has unleashed its full fury on Romney.

                  Seriously, Romeny is the poster boy for the country-club, moneyed, wall street vulture capitalist that Obama’s blood hounds drool over.

                  Remember, Cain’s polls were sky-high and all it took was a few unsubstantiated attacks to knock him out of the race.

                  I don’t trust these polls that show Romney beating Obama. I don’t trust them at all.

                • energizedconservative

                  What do you think Obama’s money will do to Newt, who has already been destroyed once by the Democrats and their friends in the media (while Newt was Speaker)? Romney has been running for president since 2007. He has no skeletons, if he did, they’d have come out by now. Of course the leftists will use class-warfare arguments (just as Newt and his followers do) against Romney, but most Americans have rejected that OWS anti-capitalist BS.

                • Anonymous

                  They will run against his religion(not right, but they will) they will call him a Wall-Street insider, they will say he is out of touch, they will say he fathered the mandate. Romney will be too afraid to battle him, for fear of being called a racist.

                • Anonymous

                  Point being….

                  Obama will try to destroy both. Bulldog has a waaaay better chance that Bambi.(actually Romney has a TON of baggage. I guess you haven’t listened to the MSM drooling over the increasing possibility of Obama vs Romney.) what do you think OWS has really been about? Paving the way for a Romney take down.

                • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6KRHXVK5ZCSWJ5GJQ5Z6GIJICA Dax

                  Dont believe all the hype being pushed by the MSM and the establishment.

              • Anonymous

                I refuse to vote for Romney. No way.

      • http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada

        Don’t stay home. Vote your conscience, even if you have to write someone else in.

        • Anonymous

          The most rational post on this board. Period.

    • Constance

      Please do not stay home. I know it stinks, but please reconsider. Put your anger and disgust aside and vote for Romney if he is the candidate. We can’t allow Obama another four years. I feel as you do, but I will vote for Romney if I have no other alternative. Please just think about it.

      • Anonymous

        Please explain to me the difference between Hussein and the Ken doll?

        • energizedconservative

          One was for an individual mandate in a state where it’s popular. The other is for imposing an individual mandate on ALL the states whether those states want it or not. By the way, Newt endorsed Romneycare and favored a FEDERAL individual mandate for many years, as Rick Santorum has pointed out. Even Romney has never favored a FEDERAL individual mandate, and will give the states the ability to opt out of Obamacare while they go about repealing it.

          • Anonymous

            Newt has admitted the error of his ways in this matter. Romney has embraced his.

            • energizedconservative

              Unless you live in Massachusetts, Romneycare has no bearing on your life. A large majority of the people in Massachusetts like Romneycare. Romney has never said he wants a federal mandate, but Newt had that stance for years. Is Newt a flip-flopper?

            • Anonymous

              You have no evidence of that.

              RomneyCare is at least constitutionally legal under the 10th amendment. You have to admit that. Advocating a federal mandate for 20 years? You have got to be kidding me. We jump all over the current congress for their lack of understanding of the Constitution… and yet we are supposed to be all starry-eyed over Newt?

              Romney IS a RINO. Agreed.
              RomneyCare IS a disaster. Agreed.
              Romney is NOT the conservative candidate we’ve been looking for.

              …that does not make Newt the answer.

              Newt wants to dismiss justices on his own.
              Newt wants to increase the size of the State Dept by 50%
              Newt supports and loves GSE’s.
              Newt has 30 years of political history.
              Newt has been accused by senators and representatives of lobbying.
              Guess what? Newt’s a RINO too.

              You don’t want a RINO? Willing to throw an election to not have one? Wow guys, give Santorum a chance. At the least, he’s miles away from the RINO level that the others are at.

              This has been posted already but it needs to be placed here too.
              http://michellemalkin.com/2012/01/30/for-santorum/

          • Anonymous
      • Anonymous

        Constance, we’ve been told by The GOP Elites to just suck it up/hold our nose,etc. with Dole,McCain,etc. and where has it got us ,another loser. Secondly we have NO guarantee voting for RINO Romney will beat 0bama ,screw the polls,once 0bama unleashes his usual barrage of attack ads and he has far more money than Romney ,he will be DEAD MEAT! Secondly Romney like his predecessors are WIMPS and WILL NOT GO AFTER OBAMA LIKE THEY DO NEWT! Third, THE GOP ELITES need to be taught a lesson,that WE CONSERVATIVES ARE NOT GOING TO BE MARGINALIZED ANY MORE ! FOURTH, if by some fluke Romney got in, he would be very similar to Obama but not as bad as Obama! Fifth RINO ROMNEY has NO PLANS, just empty headed promises,where at least Newt has big plans and would shake up Washington,which is badly needed! Sorry, I just WILL NOT CAPITULATE TO “THEM” AGAIN! Fool me once, shame on you,fool me twice, shame on me,…. forget about fooling me a third time.

      • energizedconservative

        Your point is so logical, but I’ve noticed a lot of emotionalism coming from some Newt supporters. I hope they’ll cool down and become logical about defeating Obama when November rolls around.

        • Anonymous

          Obama and Mitt are the same. There is no difference.

          The conservative base will be disenfranchised NO MORE. Willard only has the support of 25%. We are taking back OUR party.

          We will NEVER vote for Willard, never!

        • cabensg

          I will vote for the nominee. I do not want it to be Romney.

  • Anonymous

    oh, come on, Romney was leading in both SC and FL until the anti-capitalism attacks by Newt and you expect Romney to just sit down and shut up? Newt’s leadership was a failure post contract with America no matter how you describe it. Just look at what most of those who were around him say..

    • Anonymous

      Would you mind pointing yourself out?

      • Anonymous

        Well done!

      • Anonymous

        about 5 seconds in, the black one in the middle. The one talking about right wing social engineering sitting on the couch with my fav ex speaker.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=775953507 Berend Lienemann

          I don’t understand why we have to settle between 2 liberals. Why would I vote for anyone who supported abortion(Romney) and the individual mandate(Romney & Gingrich)?

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ricardo-Galvan/100001729378103 Ricardo Galvan

            Newt isn’t a liberal.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=775953507 Berend Lienemann

        LOL!

        • Anonymous

          Indeed you are a laugh. Are you a PaulBot or an Oh Bummer here to try to make some lame statement(s)?

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6KRHXVK5ZCSWJ5GJQ5Z6GIJICA Dax

      No Newt took the lead because he demonstrated his debating skills 3 days before while Romney was caught off guard with no false attacks prepared. Romney sucks without his super pack lies.

      • http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada

        He sucks even when he has the superpack lies.

    • Anonymous

      Problem is most of Mitsky’s attacks were lies whereas Newt’s were not. Can you catch the difference Romulan?

      • Anonymous

        how do you know when someone has lost the argument? they resort to name calling :)

    • Anonymous

      More propaganda and rewriting of history from Willard Central.

  • Anonymous

    I am beginning to think that the nature and level of attacks being launched by Mitt Romney against Newt Gingrich, which he would surely use against any conservative threatening his nomination, are going to make it very difficult for Romney to unite the different factions of the GOP and the conservative movement behind his candidacy should he win the nomination.

    Gingrich said something along these lines when he was explaining why he didn’t want to do negative campaigning. He said that you can win that way but you can’t govern afterward because you’ve alienated everybody and no one wants to help you.

    Personally, I think Romney is already alienating everyone and for that reason alone (never mind the multitude of other reasons) would not be able to beat Obama. He wouldn’t even get as far as winning but not being able to govern.

    I also think Levin is being much too generous when he says it will make it merely “very difficult” for Romney to unite the base. I think “impossible” is a more appropriate description.

    • Anonymous

      Put my name atop that list. Newt is far from perfect, but best represents my values. F@#K Romney

  • Anonymous

    “I have been bothered quite a bit in recent days by the dishonest attacks that Romney has leveled on Gingrich.”
    That is exactly why I have not been posting lately, I don’t care to engage in character assasination of any candidate. The level of negative discourse is poisoning the well for the GOP, as Mark Levin stated. I do support Newt, believing he has the best chance of defeating Obama and turning the country on a path of real growth, opportunity, and a return to a position of strength against all enemies.

  • http://twitter.com/doorsxp Doors Xp

    FIFY Mark:

    I am beginning to think that the nature and level of attacks being launched by Mitt Romney against Newt Gingrich, which he would surely use against any conservative threatening his nomination, are going to make it very difficult impossible for Romney to unite the different factions of the GOP and the conservative movement behind his candidacy should he win the nomination now or ever. While I have said that I would vote for Rick Santorum, I am appalled at the “anything goes” assault on Gingrich.

    Romney is not a conservative in the traditionalany sense, and he has a record of big-government Republicanism liberalism. Even many years after the success of the Reagan administration, he sought to distance himself from Reagan and the GOP, self-identifying as a progressive and independent. Thus, he resorts to spending multi-millions of dollars trashing his opponents, rather than providing thoughtful arguments on conservatism and constitutionalism. Lest we forget, it was Gingrich who was trying to run a positive campaign and who offered to debate Romney one-on-one, asking Romney to stop with the millions in unanswered ads attacking him. Romney declined. I have no doubt that Romney would do the same thing to Santorum if Santorum was rising in the polls, albeit on different issues.

    I have said that Romney is in many ways Richard Nixon, and that Romney would not successfully lead efforts to repeal Obamacare but, in fact, would grow the federal government in many respects. Romney’s advisor, former senator Norm Coleman, has now said as much. That is Romney’s record. Despite having been a businessman, he was not a defender of free market capitalism while governor. Romneycare is, as Santorum pointed out, a top-down government health care system with an individual mandate that is breaking Massachusetts’ treasury and destroying private health insurance. It is a disaster. Romney also backed cap-and-trade and TARP (as did Gingrich).

    My great fear is, however, that he is the weakest candidate who can face Obama and will go into the general election with a fractured base, thanks to his own character flaws, which are now on display, and his tactics of personal destruction. Moreover, while Romney can swamp his Republican opponents by 3 to 1 or more in every state with his spending advantage, Barack Obama will be raising more and spending more to beat him in the general election, meaning Romney’s financial advantage will be non-existent.

    We better start paying a lot more attention to holding the House of Representatives and winning the Senate with a bunch of solid conservatives. I have spent a year on my radio show identifying and interviewing these candidates, and will continue to do so.

    • Anonymous

      Try this instead. “We’re mad because all of our flavors of the month have failed so now the hell with it, we are going to torpedo the nominee”. There you go.

      • http://twitter.com/doorsxp Doors Xp

        Interesting, thanks. Say, you know, I’m kinda on the fence about who to support for the nomination. Any advice? Thanks again.

        • Anonymous

          This might help. Both Romney and Gingrich have baggage as far as their history re: true conservativism. Nonetheless, both now espouse similar agendas … repeal Obamacare, etc.

          Assuming both are sincere….

          Who can get it done? a Bambi or a Bulldog?

          • energizedconservative

            Bambi being Newt, who is whining about the way Romney is treating him during this campaign? Romney being the bulldog, who can do to Obama what he’s doing to Newt right now?

            • Anonymous

              Romney is spending 15 times more than Newt on negative ads in Florida. Romney has the backing of the Republican establishment, their money and their clout.

              What about Obama? He has the platform of the White House (free campaigning at taxpayer expense, free media coverage). He also has the entire MSM in his lap. He has (although he’s now trying to downplay it) an acquired goal of a BILLION dollars raised for re-election. He has the unions. He has the race card. His favorable/unfavorable ratings are hardly pointing to a slam-dunk on the side of Republicans.

              Romney’s advantages will wilt like a daisy in a furnace compared to that.

              Newt has the ONLY thing that can beat Obama – fire, fight, passion, and awesome articulation.

              Just in case you’ve forgotten… here’s Newt in 2008

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkaKwJ9eOUU&feature=related

            • Anonymous

              You live in an alternative reality. Get some meds.

          • cabensg

            Bulldog with 90% conservative rating while serving in government. Guess who that would be.

      • Anonymous

        Who is the “nominee”? Are you trying to say that Romney is the nominee?

        There is no nominee… yet.

        Only three states have had primaries/caucuses. Santorum won Iowa, Romney won New Hampshire and Newt won South Carolina. We still have 47 states (and Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa) to go.

        I think your comment is a tiny bit premature.

        • Anonymous

          And as Mrs. Palin said, “According to little 0 we have 54 states to go.” OWTTE

          GB

      • Anonymous

        Romney paid minions torpedoed the Republican ticket in 2008 telling us Palin went rogue.

        We are only paying Willard and his minions Steve Schmidt and lackey Nicole Wallace back.

        We are giving as good as we got.

        You guys gave us Obama. You deserve it!

        • Anonymous

          We all voted for Palin, including me. Quit sounding like a burnout. She ran and lost, and we move on. Actually I defended her all the way until she started tampering with Iowa and NH but refused to run herself. Why don’t you buy a pair of her used shoes on the internet. Pathetic.

    • Anonymous

      That reads much better.

  • Anonymous

    Both Newt and Mitt have their share of flaws. who will present better chance to beat Obama is the fist thing in many of us. For me is quite simple rather than deep sophisticated reasons: Mitt present a perfect opportunity for Obama to campaign on Rich v. Poor; In the other hand Newt WILL be picture as a caricature. His look and demeanor will be exploited with the masses. The pride of the US president look.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6KRHXVK5ZCSWJ5GJQ5Z6GIJICA Dax

      Regardless, lets let the people decide based on truth as well as without the influence of the establishment’s moderate opinion.

  • Anonymous

    “In the Reagan White House, Newt Gingrich was considered quite frankly by a lot of folks to be something of a political opportunist and who was not trusted and who had played no role whatsoever,” Buchanan said. “He was a Rockefeller Republican in the great Goldwater-Rockefeller battle, where conservatism came of age.” – Pat Buchanan

    The Reagan era people have the right to criticize Newt because he has been invoking Reagan’s name in every speech. Newt started it (once again) and people pushed back who were there. I don’t see why this is considered so unusual by Newt’s supporters. You cannot make false claims and expect not to be hit on them.

    • Anonymous

    • K-Bob

      The “no role” thing has been well refuted by many who were actually involved in the Reagan White House.

      And we have to go clear back to Goldwater to try and define Newt?

      You do know Newt’s name isn’t on the Declaration Of Independence, right? That means he’s a RINO, I guess.

      I have my major problems with Newt, but I won’t hold him to the standards of the last decade when analyzing his behavior four decades earlier. At least he wasn’t voting Democrat that far back, like certain candidates were in more recent times.

      • Anonymous

        There wouldn’t have been any push back if he had not invoked Reagan 10,000 times. Romney and the other candidates would have been fools to let him run with that.

        • http://onthemark1.blogspot.com On The Mark

          Sure. Romney would have limited himself to all the other lies he’s been telling.

          • Anonymous

            Not one lie from his campaign that I have heard of. Name one please.

            • http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada

              That he’s pro life.

              • energizedconservative

                You’d have said the same thing about Reagan. Reagan signed the bill that legalized abortion in California, before Roe v. Wade. But he flip-flopped on abortion, just like Romney. But I’m sure you’d have disqualified Reagan from becoming president, just as you’re disqualifying Romney.

                • Anonymous

                  You can’t use Romney and Reagan in the same sentence. One was a conservative and the other called himself a progressive, duh!

              • Anonymous

                Romney has a big family, I’m sure he is pro-life. He’s a family man, but still, it isn’t good enough. Isn’t it usually the philanderers that pay for abortions for their girlfriends….?

            • Anonymous
              • Anonymous

                Romney squashed your man 2 times in a row in the big week. The complainers just want to point at ads to cover up their own failings. Go with the winner. Not too late.

      • Anonymous

        K-Bob, I’m dusting off my copy of the Declaration to prove you wrong…

        Opps … My bad your Right Newt didn’t sign it.

        I bet he can quote more and explain more of it than those trying to make him the non-conservative.
        Do they realize that the GOP may never have taken the house back if it wasn’t for his vision and leadership.

    • Anonymous

      And many people who were also there have indicated (and provided evidence) that Newt was not anti-Reagan. We’ve heard Mitt himself say that he was not Reagan – Bush but was a progressive. Seems pretty clear to me.

    • ApplePie101

      Pat Buchanan’s sister Bay works for the Romney campaign. Hardly an unbiased source.

      • Anonymous

        Pat Buchanan…….like BLTs

      • Anonymous

        Pat Buchanan…….like BLTs

    • Anonymous

      You should have listened to Mark Levins program and everything you are saying would have been explained the way things really were. Mark worked in the administration and I take his word for it, he doesn’t have an axe to grind like some of the establishment co-horts.

    • Anonymous

      Lies, lies, lies.

      Romney ran as NOT Reagan. Rewriting history doesn’t work. We know the truth. Michael Reagan has even come out to call Romney a liar!

      • Anonymous

        chuckle. Newt worked with 537 congressmen and senators and all of them said he was a bum. Come on man, this is embarrassing. Even Reagan had nothing good to say about him. I’m not talking about his gadfly sons. Fact is Newt lied about his critical involvement in Reagan’s decisions. Even Levin, the neo-con admitted that.

    • cabensg

      So now we believe Buchanan’s analysis. I don’t think so.

      • Anonymous

        Pat B is the gold standard of conservatism. You guys are becoming simply laughable. Confusion reigns.

  • Anonymous

    I have gotten to the point where I can see myself walking into the voting booth in November and voting down the republican column minus one: the presidency. I’d rather leave it blank than vote for Romney. I wasn’t a big fan of his before, but I was open-minded and willing to cast my vote for him if he ended up being the one nominated, but after this past week, I have decided I just can’t do it.

    • Anonymous

      A republican house and senate would still be a stand off to obama, but to romney they would probably go along with anything he wanted. That is an argument, I think for leaving Romney for president blank on the ballot.

      • cabensg

        No they will not. Obama’s foreign poliicy will get us all killed or converted which is just as good. Just because we’re hurting financially doesn’t mean we can forget what we’re up against world wide. That’s pretty damn short sighted.

        Without a Republican president (Gingrich I hope) a Republican Congress will just wander around like they have been trying to stay out of Obama’s way and listening to him diss every effort they make trying to change things. We need someone using the Bully pulpit to inform Americans what is going on. The press ignores Republicans in Congress while hanging on Obama’s every word. While the press corp refuses to ask any pertinent question of Obama’s mouth piece. We need someone who will get the word out to the public themselves and through their press secretary so they can’t be ignored.

        If it wouldn’t be starting off on the wrong foot I’d like the Republican president to start off his first press conference by welcoming the press back after a four year vacation.

        • Anonymous

          I agree wholeheartedly about Gingrich, but if Romney is the one to win the GOP primary he is going to lose to obama. McCain reincarnated. He will not seriously fight obama, and the GOP only wants the house and senate, they obviously do not see obama as a threat to their careers, and they don’t care about the threat to the constitution and the people of the US.

    • http://twitter.com/PuritanD71 PuritanD71

      This is an interesting argument that I have not thought through. I would deeply have trouble voting for Romney as the presidential nominee. However, I am all for strengthening the position of Congress….Richard Mourdcok for Senate to replace Lugar!!!

    • Anonymous

      I just cannot see anything through R and D glasses anymore. A big government, anti-liberty progressive still stinks as bad if they put an (R) next to his name.

      Never ever again will I hold my nose and vote.

  • Anonymous

    Both Newt and Mitt have their share of flaws. who will present better chance to beat Obama is the fist thing in many of us. For me is quite simple rather than deep sophisticated reasons: Mitt present a perfect opportunity for Obama to campaign on Rich v. Poor; In the other hand Newt WILL be picture as a caricature. His look and demeanor will be exploited with the masses. The pride of the US president look.

    • Anonymous

      Really? That’s what you’re worried about? If all you’re worried about is image may I suggest you go back to your couch and watch the Kardashians. Politics is clearly over your head.

  • Trust1TG

    Romney lied three times on the air during the last debate:
    1. He denied having accused Newt of exaggerating/lying about his part in Reagan’s administration
    2. He lied about his own ad that bore his voice
    3. He claimed all his business was run by a blind trust, a tactic that Mitt himself called ‘the oldest ruse in the book’ in a previous campaign.

    Romney’s departures from reality and truth are so frequent, they are disturbing indeed…seemingly pathological.

    Romney continues a bitter campaign of character assassination, attacking Gingrich openly with ads on the congressional investigation though Newt was exonerated and covertly using the media such as Drudge, Coulter, Town Hall and other media sources to prejudice popular opinion against Gingrich.

    Today as I listened to ‘Judge Janine’ interview Sarah Palin on Fox News, the snideness, cynicism, assertions she used were similar to the snide facial expressions Glenn Beck used when interviewing Newt. This ‘Judge’ has as little respect for the truth as Romney – she asked Palin, “So Newt is going to make the moon the 51st State?”

    Hope these big mouths get paid well for their lies and sarcasm.

    Romney and/or Soros have invested their money in power…for what? To get richer? To make their names admired or feared? To get their way?

    May the Lord have mercy on the soul of America when such people are really in charge.

    • Anonymous

      You forgot one. He also said he voted for republicans in the past when there was a republican to vote for, but if you look back at the Gingrich ad exposing his lies, it turns out when George H.w. Bush and Buchanan were running, he voted for a liberal democrat.

      So that’s 4 lies that were exposed in one short night.

      • Trust1TG

        THANKS! I added that one.

    • Anonymous

      AMEN! Thank you for your thoughtful and thorough post.

    • Anonymous

      pathological.

      That’s the word I wanted!

  • Anonymous

    Re: Romney’s spending and Obama’s spending capacities…yes money can talk alright….it can talk TRASH.

    Caveat Emptor!!

  • Anonymous

    I’ve been saying this for months now about the base and Romney.

  • Anonymous

    What we have here is another smarmy opportunist who is trying to keep his fringe audience cowed. In 2008 he said Romney was a conservative. He knows Romney will win the nomination due to ability, talent, etc., but he and the other dead-enders make money when people are miserable. Their worst fear is a successful Romney presidency. They would rather see Obama back in than see the country prosper with Romney as president.

    • K-Bob

      You seem intent on picking fights. Calling Levin and Palin “dead-enders” and claiming that identifying a stalinesque tactic is equivalent to comparing someone to a mass-murderer are ridiculously inflammatory. You know it, and I know it. If you want to pick a fight, this is not the site for you.

      A little anger and some harshness is expected, and we tolerate some of it. but you’ve crossed that line several times. Final warning.

      • KenInMontana

        More warning than I would have given. ;)

        • K-Bob

          Heh. I’m easy.

          • Anonymous

            … Like a Sunday Morning? ;)

            GB

    • Trust1TG

      Prosper like Massachussets being 47th rated in economics growth and jobs?

      Here’s a bit more:
      “Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum, who has researched Romney’s record, said the state lagged the U.S. average during that period in job creation, economic growth and wage increases.
      “As a strict labor market economist looking at the record, Massachusetts did very poorly during the Romney years, he said. “On every measure you’ve got, the state was a substantial under-performer.”

      At a campaign rally here on Saturday, Romney’s supporters handed out flyers promoting the candidate’s economic credentials, a central theme in his campaign, saying he had “closed a nearly $3 billion budget deficit without raising taxes” during his term in Massachusetts.

      But the $3 billion deficit projected by Romney and state legislators in January 2003 at the start of his administration never rose that high because a surge in capital gains taxes more than halved the shortfall to $1.3 billion.

      While Romney and the state legislature cut $1.6 billion from the 2004 budget, analysts noted he also generated more than $500 million by raising fees and by closing corporate tax loopholes — actions considered tax rises by some businesses.

      “There’s never been under his watch an economic turnaround to speak of,” Michael Widmer, president of the independent Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, told Reuters. “We added a few jobs over the last three years of his tenure but very few. He also raised corporate taxes and fees.”

      (http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/20/us-usa-politics-romney-record-idUSN2033704120080120?sp=true)

      • Trust1TG

        Here’s what Mitt Romney supported as Governor of Massachusetts:
        1. Pro-abortion with taxpayer funding (added it to RomneyCare, refused to line-item veto it).
        2. Pro-government mandated healthcare.
        3. Pro-government mandates in general (“I like mandates” his own words on tape).
        4. Pro-gay marriage with full state sponsorship (was first Governor to install it, had earlier broke the law in his quest to issue gay marriage licenses, then called opponents of his actions “right-wing”).
        5. Pro-transgender education to children in public schools (promoted by Governor Romney’s administration).
        6. Pro-global warming caused by human activity (his own words)
        7. Pro-environmental regulations to combat global warming (imposed massive environmental regulations in Massachusetts, according to the Wall Street Journal).
        8. Pro-taxes on businesses (closed loopholes, then raised business taxes by $300 million as Governor of Massachusetts, according to USA Today).
        9. Pro-amnesty for illegal immigrants (path to citizenship for illegals, his own words)
        10. Anti-second amendment (supported the strict gun control laws of Massachusetts).
        Romney’s track record is to the Left of most Democrats.

        • Trust1TG

          He also signed into law gay adoptions in Massachusetts with NO RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION.

          • Anonymous

            We need another button. A “LIKE THAT YOU POSTED THAT, BUT I DON’T LIKE WHAT IT SAYS” button.

            GB

    • ApplePie101

      Mark Levin’s listeners…that’s a big fringe audience you’re insulting, dougx. Do you think that’s wise?

      • Anonymous

        Yeah, I guess I was a little rough there. I took the smarmy part out.

        • Anonymous

          I took her out once.

          I took her home early.

          GB

    • Anonymous

      You guys are the dead-enders. We have been telling the GOP for 3 and a half years that we won’t vote for Willard.

      • Anonymous

        and I won’t vote for your candidate…there you go, just what you want, another term for Obama.

  • Anonymous

    And so it begins…

    Palin and now, Levin, are articulating the conservative backlash against Romney.

    • Anonymous

      Not really showing in the polls though.

      • Anonymous

        Because Romney’s machine has paid them off. Rasmussen has been in the tank for Willard since the beginning.

  • Anonymous

    G-D help this country if mittens romneycare wins. Like soros said, there’s not much difference between comrade downgrade and mittens romneycare.

    Plus, I want to see a real debate between gingrich and comrade downgrade.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve lost what little repect I had for Romney. Newt almost lost me attacking Bain’s business accumen, but Romney disgusted me, so I ran and jumped, and Newt caught me like a baby…and gave me a binky. OK, I just made up that binky part :-)

    Newt would be so exciting. Nine out of ten liberal heads will be wrapped with bandages like so many post head explosion swamis. It’ll be tough to tell the libs from the Islami-cysts. It kind of is now but the swami wrap would clinch it.

    Newt would nominate strict constructionists versus Romney’s, go along to get along middle of the roaders. Newt would have strong department heads, Romney would have mushy compromisers.

    Newt would shake things up like they need to be shaken (not stirred). We need big change, dramatic change. The people need to have that changed explained to them in a way they can understand and agree with. Newt can do that. He can inspire and Americans need inspiration. We need confidence and faith in our direction and our director.

    Romney might turn the ship a degree or two. Newt would be more likely to order a full about course correction and battle stations. The Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable. Many people similarly make the mistake thinking America is too great to fail. We are about to hit an iceberg that will take us down. We need a new Captain. While American ideals are indeed too great too fail, we are not being guided by those ideals. We are being being misled into opposing ones. That is what will sink us.

    The barbarians are at the gates and Romney is one of them. The GOP entrenched establishment is a bunch of them.

    • Anonymous

      We need big change, dramatic change.

      Sudden and relentless reform.

    • http://twitter.com/doorsxp Doors Xp

      Excellent! More please.

      • Anonymous

        Ok, one more thing regarding Romney and the GOP entrenched establishment.

        They, and the politicians they approve of, will go the way of the Dodo, while mired in doodoo :-)

    • Anonymous

      Well said Rshill7! I am almost at the point of becoming what I was despising, if my guy doesn’t get the nom I’m not voting… I have been saying ABO, but like you I lost any respect I had for willard and the lack of trust been growing like a snowball rolling down a hill. I am at the point that I would rather buy a used car from anyone but willard. I don’t trust him to do anything with 0b0macare other than maybe rename it to 0rommycare.

      Like Rush said about GOPs running moderates “you can’t out liberal a liberal”. I don’t see much difference between Romney and 0bo.

      The light went on why I do not trust WMR, Willard the 1971 horror film, where willard trained the rats to do his dirty work.

    • Anonymous

      You are so easy. Even suggest a binky and you will follow ‘em anywhere.

      GB

  • Anonymous

    I was never for Romney, but I am now 110% against him.

  • https://id.mixi.jp/9700106 Danny

    Newt may have been vindicated of those particular ethics charges, but I think his record on ethical behavior is pretty shoddy. A late-life conversion to Catholicism at the behest of his third wife and second mistress doesn’t excuse a record of philandering.

    Is nobody worried that almost everyone who served with him is explicitly not endorsing him? Tom Coburn is no lib and he pretty explicitly said he couldn’t support Gingrich. Meanwhile Bachmann, who didn’t serve under him but competed against him, said recently:

    Through this exhaustive process of consideration, it was strikingly obvious that one candidate could not be less acceptable to be our Party’s nominee. He lacks the poise, experience and moral fiber to represent our principles and values. That candidate is Newt Gingrich.

    • KenInMontana

      Switched political parties recently, did you Danny? ;)

      • https://id.mixi.jp/9700106 Danny
        • KenInMontana

          Hell I haven’t even decided if I will register as a Republican yet (we have switched to a closed primary this year) much less who I will vote for in the primary if I do. As for polls, I don’t pay them any mind, as their samples are narrow and not an accurate barometer of how things will go in November.

    • Trust1TG

      Here is Michele Bachmann’s introduction of Newt Gingrich to a Congressional group that shows her admiration:

      • https://id.mixi.jp/9700106 Danny

        Right, that was then, this is now. Or rather, that was something that she was expected to do, this is her speaking honestly.

  • Anonymous

    Romney has fractured the GOP base and has done everything he could to destroy any candidate he viewed as a threat. He has websites registered for years to attack, one is Career Politician to launch attacks at Perry. Governor Perry got in the race because people called for him to do it. I was one. Perry must know more about Romney because they were in the RGA together. Mark is right when he wrote Perry said Mitt would say anything to get elected. I do not trust him at all.

  • Anonymous

    Go read the NY Times article, this jerk has his supporters infiltrate Newt’s townhalls, etc and heckles him. This man is about as low as Obama.

    • Trust1TG

      Romney also bought up almost all the tickets to the last FL debate to get all his people to cheer him.

      • Anonymous

        Thx, I read it in NYT article.
        I ilve in MA and think I voted for Romney in 2002 but am not 100% sure that I did vote. I had breast cancer that year and was having chemo by election day. I had what they call chemo brain, I can’t remember if I voted for him. He’s been running for POTUS since he’s been elected Governor. It was a career move for him, he had no chance to be reelected. Romneycare is a disaster here.

        • Anonymous

          Carolt2, you sound like someone who knows what’s happening in Massachusetts with Romneycare. Could you fill us in on what’s happening? I understand premiums are much higher now and there are lots of people gaming the system for “subsidized” payments for their insurance. Is this true?

          • Anonymous
          • Anonymous

            I will, Romney signed that law in 2006, with Ted Kennedy, and the MA speaker of the house, Sal DiMasi, who is now in jail in the background. As far back as I can remember, nothing good happens when Ted K works with a republican. No Child Left Behind, the amnesty that they tried to force on us in 2006 or 2007, but we fought back. There is more but it’s early for me, those two stand out.
            I work for a small co. and our premiums have skyrocketed. I have not had this happen to me, but many have to wait months to see a PCP or specialist. One year our premiums went up over 30%. We had to change to a high deductible plan. I know of another co. that had a premium increase of 55%.
            I also had our employees take things out on me. Some have had babies before Romneycare and did not have to pay anything. Before we changed to the high deductible plan BCBS started co-pays of $250 for hospital stays, $250 for surgical co-pays etc. I have told people that they should call the phone number on their insurance card before going into the hospital because those changes were forced on us, we did not choose them. Last year BCBS tried to give us a lower increase, but only if we opted for a hospital choice plan, which we refused. It included an extra co-pay if people were to use several hospitals in Boston, including Dana Farber, Mass General and others. If we chose that plan, people would have to pay an additional
            co-pay of $1000 to be treated at those hospitals, in addition to the deductible.
            There are people I know that lie about income to game the system so that they have great premiums for a family plan, one told me he pays approx. $200/mo.

            For several years, people would pay the fine, rather than pay for insurance, but would then sign up through one of the exchanges when they needed it for surgery, and then would cancel the coverage. They stopped that by only allowing enrollments in some months or they cannnot enroll until the next year.
            I could write much more about it but those are the first things that I can think of. It is a disaster, Romney owes us an apology.
            I also have to do report every year how many employees we have, how many are on our BCBS plan and have on file a form that an employee that is full time who is eligible to enroll but declines to sign a form stating they have coverage.

            I cannnot file my state taxes unless I have a 1099 form from BCBS that shows I had insurance that year.
            Romeny left at the end of 2006 because he had no chance of being reelected.

            • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Florey/100002838321254 Mike Florey

              Carol,
              I wish everyone could read your comment. This is the kind of wrack-and-ruin corporate raid that is Romney/Obamacare. Your story is a macro of our future and Romney’s aides are already saying Obamacare may not be completely repealed. In other words, not repealed at all. Not to put too fine a point on it, the Romney administration won’t even make an attempt at repeal. The more I learn about Mitt Romney, the more I find disturbing (if not outright alarming). He has shown no tendencies toward social or fiscal conservatism which leaves him in the pig pen with the RINOs and the liberals. We’ve been given the numbers on this man and I don’t want, like Obamacare, to elect him to find out what’s in him.

              • Anonymous

                Mike-
                Mitt is a complete phony. He thinks he can buy his way to the GOP nomination. I hope the people of FL vote for Newt and or Santorum. I’m afraid we’re going to end with with Mitt and he won’t win against Obama.
                I don’t like what he and his surrogates are doing to Newt. My iPhone has the Drudge report app on it, everything was all Newt last week and the week before, all of it untrue. Drudge had the sirens go off, it was very annoying. I was not for Newt, I wanted Rick Perry to be the GOP nominee, it did not work out and then I was going to vote for the nominee. Now I have doubts, I will vote for Newt on Super Tuesday. I think it would be great if Mitt lost MA!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Florey/100002838321254 Mike Florey

    One of Romney’s aides said “This isn’t about beating Gingrich, its about destroying him”. That tells me everything about the Romney campaign that I need to know.
    Most any candidate would be welcome in my house. Just not Mitt.

  • Anonymous

    They have all gone too negative…the Dims are keeping score and will use many of these diatribes against us all in the fall….stay clean, candidates.

    • http://twitter.com/PuritanD71 PuritanD71

      What negative stuff has Santorum used?

  • Anonymous

    So money, not character or ability, will win the Presidency of the United States? God help us.

  • http://twitter.com/TammyChicago Tammy P

    I cannot fathom how Mittens squares his tactics with his religion. He has demonstrated that *his* need to become POTUS is far greater than *our* need for him to become POTUS.

    • http://twitter.com/doorsxp Doors Xp

      He has demonstrated that *his* need to become POTUS is far greater than *our* need for him to become POTUS.

      Excellent point. In fact, Newt camp should be making it loudly.

    • Anonymous

      He’s a cultist and that’s how cultists act.

  • Trust1TG

    CHARACTER MATTERS?

    Here are a couple of comments from some business people, fellow capitalists questioning Romney’s 25 very profitable years in business:

    “Mitt Romney the “buyout baron” is a liar, a con man and a scam artist. He is the founding father of the “private equity” Wall Street scam. They take over a company and inflate its short-term profits by laying off workers, cutting pensions and selling assets. They then take out huge loans in the acquired firm’s name and immediately transfer the money as “dividends” and “fees” to Bain capital. If the now deeply debt-ridden acquired firm goes bankrupt, Bain gets to keep all that money as it is untouchable in bankruptcy proceedings. Bain socializes their losses to banks, pension insurers, etc. and privatizes their gains in the same kind of Wall Street con job that led to the mortgage crisis. Bain donates to Democrats and keeps the laws in place to allow this to go on. Nominate Romney and you will see all of this exposed by the liberal media in the fall. He is a classic Wall Street crook and will become unelectable. If he did win, you can only expect the collusion between big government and Wall Street to become deeper and more endemic, driving the nation further into bankruptcy.”
    http://www.therightscoop.com/sarah-palin-if-i-lived-in-s-c-id-vote-for-newt/#comment-413990524
    —
    “Ask Mitt about the FTD deal (1994-95) that was essentially a hostile buyout forced on the 20,000 members in writing as a “MERGER” but was actually and legally a SECRETLY held Public Auction that ripped off its members, and was a very questionable legal transaction that was not tested in the courts but was DEFINITELY, morally and ethically, of the lowest caliber. Mitt’s knowledge, participation, and or influence, needs an explanation, with NO platitudes or non sequiturs. The first dots to connect are Meg Whitman and Perry Capital NY. The dots will lead to the money, hundreds of millions.”
    Wally Greenlaw (Google “wallyozzy” in quotes) http://townhall.com/social/wallyozzy-528444/strongest_case_against_romney_a_few_sheets_short_of_a_ream_cmt_3757770

    There are two other stories being investigated: Romney’s involvement in Medicare/Medicaid fraud and his business deals with China (Romney’s cousin Jon Huntsman was there, wasn’t he?)

    • Anonymous

      I read something today that said Bain Capital’s buyout of Dominoes Pizza was much the same. The company was very successful and not struggling, but Bain’s buyout and “reworking” left Dominos so far in the hole that 50% of its current profits are being used just to service its debt.

      I will have to see if I can find that article and link it here.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe it’s wishful thinking, maybe there’s something to it, but I think a whole lot is going to change before the Florida election. Romney is beginning to suffer from GOPitis and Gingrich has been given a jolt of patriotism.

    • Anonymous

      From your lips to God’s ears.

  • Anonymous

    I would say I am surprised but I am not because leopards don’t change their spots and Mitt did the same thing in 2008 trying to destroy his opponents. The only thing different this time is the establishment is behind him, whereas in ’08 it was McCain. Mitt Romney has singlehandedly split the GOP into factions which will take years to heal unless done swiftly.

    We all know politics is a dirty business but Mitt and his surrogates have gone above and beyond to destroy everyone who has come against him. As Mark said he has done it with everyone and I would point out and should he ever be elected, which I doubt, would aim his destructive tactics at the American people, just like Obama does. Mark is right, this is about character and from where I sit Mitt Romney has none.

    From the beginning I have said anyone but Obama or Romney. I have not changed my mind, nor will I.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard Romney mention the Constitution. Has he read it? I’m not comfortable voting for someone who has a record of socialism.

    • Anonymous

      He mentioned it once when he passed off to Ron Paul a question that required a Constitutional answer.

  • Constance

    I know that all politicians lie in one way or another. It is the nature of the best. However, I am dead tired of absolute liars and deceitful politicians. There is a difference. Every time I see Romney smile, I do not believe in him. Just as I never believed anything that came out of Clinton’s mouth when he smiled. There is something creepy about Romney to me. I voted for him last time around, because he was all that was left except McCain by the time it got to my state, and even then, he dropped out the very next day. I truly don’t want to have to vote for Romney again this time. I will if I have to, but it will not make me happy. If this is the best my party can put forward, then I need to seriously consider my allegiance to the GOP.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=715251609 Pete Gardner

    Romney drew first blood with his negative and false attack ads. The whole process could have been very different if everyone kept civil. But now we know that Romney’s natural taqctics are the very same as Obama’s will have to be–bash and lie about the other guy, because you can’t run on your own merits.

    • Anonymous

      But not when he goes against obama I’m afraid.

  • http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada

    I still can’t understand why people would get behind the one who lost to the one who lost to dear leader?

    • Anonymous

      Excellent point, ABIC. OBTW we are all coming over for dinner soon.

      You did say you like to cook, right? Well we could not let you cook for Mrs. Palin without checking the food – a couple of times.

      Security reasons, you know.

      GB

      • http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada

        LOL! I forgot everyone’s coming. Hope you don’t mind having to eat outside, as our house is only a little thing- but we’ve got plenty of pretty scenery to look at. Home made veggie soup (fresh from the garden) to start, tomato pie, pork pie, red beans and rice. Desert- well, maybe you can bring that ;-)

        • Anonymous

          Honey, with a menu like that you may have to drop the “CANADA” from your moniker soon.

          Sounds like Pecan Pie is about the only fittin’ dessert to bring. LOL

          I hope you have a wonder-filled day tomorrow and see you about 6:00? LOL

          GB

          • http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada

            LOL- I still like my back bacon, donuts and maple syrup too much to drop it completely, but I also have come to LOVE southern cookin’! I even cook with bacon grease lol!

    • Anonymous

      Exactly.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/2GR77FIJZ2A2ZBKZFGRXYG7QY4 kim

    I think most people don’t understand the Bain attacks.

    Here is a lucid explanation of the difference between venture capitalism and the Bain model (vulture capitalism).

    Go here,
    http://www.butleronbusiness.com/podcasts.html
    Go to the 1/25/12 podcast and listen to Segment 6 (which starts at about 56:00 and runs for about 5 minutes).

    • Anonymous

      kim, thank you. That is an awesome podcast link. (for anyone else wanting to self-educate, it’s worth the small headache pulling it up).

    • Anonymous

      Thanks so much for that! That was very helpful to me!

  • Anonymous

    Romney wins i stay home November, rather 4 more years of Obama so people will really get piste off, and in 2016 we will get real conservative people

    • http://twitter.com/PuritanD71 PuritanD71

      At least vote for the rest of the ticket…..congress is still very important

    • Anonymous

      Come on. Four more years of Obama will be irreversible. Just think what he will do when he doesn’t have to worry about getting reelected. I’ll vote for Romney or Newt and if we don’t like them or what they did over their four years then elect someone else. Obama makes me scared for our society as a whole. To each their own.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DECOEP7V7555K2FSYEQNLSSUNQ Old Fan

    Levin’s credibility continues to sink like a rock. Levin began his demise over the Delaware disaster in 2010. Not only did he and Palin help provide Democratic Partisans with a huge gift with Biden’s old Senate Seat, Levin managed to slander the offering of Powerline’s Mr. Mirengoff. It was simply not Conservative at all. It was ugly, and Levin may have thought he could get away with it having the power of the radio audience.

    Today, Levin continues the folly. Gingrich could not even be honest about his support for Rockefeller over Goldwater. Newt is a disaster. Newt’s sitting on a couch with Nancy Pelosi at the request of Al Gore in 2008 for a TV spot peddling global warming nonsense says it all. Newt Gingrich even grafted 1.8 Million via Fannie and Freddie while for years he was blasting Washington, selling a facade to Our Base.

    Fred, Palin, Levin, Hannity, etc., all losing their reputations over an unethical failure like Gingrich. Newt pushing Amnesty takes the cake, even played the old Democratic Partisan victim game with references to “Grandmothers”.

    Gingrich is crushing the reputations of the once sound Conservative Movement, and many are following him again right over a cliff. Seeing Gingrich run leftist attacks against successful Private Enterprise simply takes the cake. A complete joke.

    • Anonymous

      Romney’s tactics at Bain and Damon were very questionable. Many see those tactics as dirty, and detrimental to the economy and the people involved. I’ve seen some businessmen coming out against the Bain Buyout Baron model, and I believe you are going to see more of it–Newt was right, and the issue is not going away.

      There will be a debate regarding changing bankruptcy laws so that no one can again get away with what Romney did–intentionally overloading a company with debt to transfer funds out of the company and to Bain where those funds were then unrecoverable in the inevetible bankruptcy. It will end up being called the Romney law…

      Romney is a living breathing joke.

      As the primary season wears on, and Newt has pledged to go all the way to the convention, more and more and more conservatives will flatly refuse to vote for Romney in the primaries or the general.

    • Anonymous

      “Gingrich is crushing the reputations of the once sound Conservative Movement” (old fan)

      Huh? Newt is one of the main authors of the conservative movement. The only movement Romney induces is that of the bowels, or perhaps a reverse peristalsis episode. This is tired tripe, and the “leftist attacks” (lies) are coming from Romney, not from Newt. he made a mistake going after Bain. Romney has been solid and unrelenting in his mistakes. Dishonesty and mischaracterization is his ongoing mistake with his ongoing immoral campaign. The end seems to justify the means to him.

      Since when does working for an entity and collecting money for that work equate to something heinous? Never, that’s when. Also his work culminated in Newt telling Congress to let Fannie and Freddie fade away. Right? newt didn’t cause these institutions to fails so miserably. He was trying to help with good advice.

      Also your losing their reputation media list is way off. The biggest reputation loser here is Coulter. You’re like a sleeping bat with his back to the observer, in that you have everything upside down and backwards.

      What is there to get excited about regarding Romney?

      Ralph!

      • http://twitter.com/PuritanD71 PuritanD71

        Let us not forget that there is a third option here…..Santorum

      • http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada

        Hey now, watch that ralph business. It was my grandpa’s name, my dad’s middle name and my son’s middle name. How about puke, hurl, gag, barf…. I don’t think there’s anyone here with that name ;-)

        • Anonymous

          I did NOT know that. I apologize unreservedly :-)

    • http://twitter.com/PoeAllen Allen Poe

      And, we all thank you for your contribution, DNC.

    • Anonymous

      It is too bad that you speak mostly in half truths, and complete falsehoods. For example: Newt is not pushing amnesty! Either you are ignorant or arrogant or both. Is English your first language? Newt never, never, never, pushed amnesty. As Levin would say you are a backbencher. Get the facts straight.

      It must be tough being you. All alone, making up lies and trying to convince us you are some type of academia. Please do some homework and get back to us.

    • Anonymous

      If this is the same Old Fan from NRO, people should know he is a strong Romney supporter.

      If your complaint is Newt supported Rockefeller before he supported Goldwater, shall we go through the list of Romney flip flops?

      Since Reagan is the subject, shall we start with this one?

      And then maybe move to this…

    • Anonymous

      Willard and your post are the complete joke.

    • Anonymous

      What you said about Gingrich is true. Pelosis couch was a disaster. His call for a healthcare mandate. He said he supported on a conference call that has just come out. Pretty damning evidence. I’m not promoting Romney at all. I just think it right to sweep Newts bad decisions should not be overlooked no matter who he is running against. I just want what’s right and that is the honest truth from all the candidates.

      Neither of these fellas are true conservatives. Sorry I’m typing on an iPhone and can’t edit my

      • Anonymous

        I was trying to say I’m typing on an iPhone and it’s impossible it seems impossible to correct mistakes on grammar. Hopefully y’all will be able to figure out what I said.

  • Anonymous

    Romney is a white Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Buzzfeed has something about Romney and his camp want to destroy Newt, not just win in Florida, but destroy the man. They are furious that they lost in SC, and they want revenge…Romney is a creep and I almost think 4 more years of Obama would be better than him..at least we know what we are getting with Obama, but Romney is so passive-aggresive, we will always be left wondering what he is up to. Come on Florida..do what is right vote newt.

    • Anonymous

      I read it, Thanks. I am turning my computer off before I get sick. It’s up to Florida to teach Mitt a lesson and I hope they vote for Newt! All the dirty tricks he’s pulled make me sick but even worse, he is supposed to be so religious. The Mormon Church should throw him out!

      • http://twitter.com/doorsxp Doors Xp

        The Mormon Church should throw him out!

        You’re probably right, I’ve heard they have some pretty high standards for membership. Perhaps I’m wrong about that.

        • Anonymous

          I don’t know anything about them but religion is for Peace, Love of God, the golden rule- treat others as you would like them to treat you, etc. Love one another, and the ten commandments. I am Catholic and do not go to church but I do try to live as I was taught. It’s just that I do not like to sit still, that is the reason I do not go to Mass.
          I read, somewhere, that Romney was pretty high up in the church he attended in MA, but it must have been in one of the local news websites. I will look in the one I usually read.

      • http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada

        I hope they vote for Santorum myself, but I agree with all what you said.

    • http://twitter.com/PuritanD71 PuritanD71

      Forget Newt….vote Santorum

  • Anonymous

    It’s time to change the format of these Republican primaries so that a) every state gets to have it’s voice heard and counted b) take the mainstream(Anti-Republican)media out of the process c) Minimize the effect of MONEY on the campaigning,because the richest campaigners have a significant advantage over those who don’t. d) establish some basic rules of friendly campaigning. First of all the primaries should be of a short duration 1-2 weeks followed by simultaneous voting everywhere with the results with held until all voting is done.Secondly,as much as possible only allow media that is friendly or neutral to cover it and make it a precondition of allowing them to cover it ! Thirdly, limit the amount of money to a reasonable level so that most candidates can go to most states.Fourth, form a committee to come up with a fair and reasonable set standards for them to campaign by, to limit and control the MUD SLINGING !

  • http://twitter.com/PoeAllen Allen Poe

    Nice blog, Mark. I listened to Newt’s great speach. He has my vote. I am LDS, but I do not like Romney. I think your candidate, is a campagn buster. We have got to stop trashing our own people.

    • http://twitter.com/doorsxp Doors Xp

      Just curious, how many LDS do you think are supporting Romney primarily because he’s LDS?

  • http://twitter.com/PoeAllen Allen Poe

    Maybe a letter to Santa? If you get involved locally, you can change things.

  • http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/an-election-year-dawns-without-keith-olbermann/?src=tp Unicon

    Bella is doing fine…. Rick will head back to the campain trail soon:

    https://twitter.com/#!/shushwalshe/statuses/163791229472079872

    • Anonymous

      I am heartened to hear that. I think it is time for Rick to suspend his campaign and endorse Newt. He has not seen a signifcant bump from the debate(which he won hand’s down) and he has no money. He needs to do this, so Romney will not win. I like him, and if he was leading and had the cash, I would urge Newt to do the same. This may not be his time, but I have a feeling he will play a big part in the next Admin.

  • Anonymous

    Just a note:

    I expect another dump tomorrow on Newt. I suspect that the establishment is going for the kill and hoping they can totally destroy Newt. This is part of the Alinsky playbook.

    This method of dumping all kinds of crap before a debate or vote, which does not allow Newt & his people to disavow is a proven method of snakes like Obama & Romney.

    Already the bought and paid for poll takers are trying to bend the branch enough where the people for Newt may feel defeated.

    Please do not take the bait. Fight, scratch, claw and do what must be done not to let these corrupt individuals take away the America we know and love.

    If you have any friends, relatives, etc., in Florida please call and save America from Romney and Obama. The same coin with two different sides.

    Every vote will count.

    PS

    If you have nothing to do on voting day, please keep an eye on the voting stations to be sure every vote is counted. Remember Iowa. Vote tampering is another thing I am sure the establishment has learned from the Democrats.

    The machine is big and ugly.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VVZODHFH7JZH7YGYOHGY6P7DY4 JR Dogman

      Can you imagine if Romney was actually working for the current administration? I don’t think he is — I just think he’s a creep and obsessed with being president — but it’s not something I’d put past either him or the other side.

      I honestly don’t get how the GOP establishment thinks as it does. I thought 2010 exposed them for just how insider-y they are — sandbagging O’Donnell and Angle, etc. — but really that was nothing compared to what I’m seeing. They despise the democratic process as much as the Democrats, apparently: they have contempt for us, so much that they can’t just allow the primary to be fought out on civilized grounds.

      I was so angry when Rep. Bachmann was muscled out of the Speakership in favor of Boehner. I knew he was a fraud and wouldn’t do what he said. I was pissed off about him and about the trashing/abandonment of O’Donnell, Angle, et al, because they didn’t just endorse their rivals in the primaries, they aided in their defeat in the actual election. They gave DE and NV away, and they took credit for the victories handed them by the Tea Party. All this I was aware of — we all were — yet I told myself Get over it, be happy with what we won, there’s enough Tea Party people coming into the new congress to make a difference. And look where we are.

      The GOP establishment hates the Tea Party. They loathe the everyday Americans whose support they seek. It’s sick. More than that, it’s suicidal. How many more elections do they think we’re going to allow them to ruin before the base jumps ship?

      Third parties may have a tough time getting going, but it can happen — and major political parties can die and be replaced.

      I’m at the point where how these people operate amazes me even more than it infuriates me.

      • Anonymous

        I’ve been feeling the same way. If “we the people” could get enough to unite, would it be enough (financially) to fight the machine and the unions? I have a dream that we could have all of the Tea Party candidates join, but then realistically, the “establishment” would run candidates against ours and spend a gazillion dollars on negative ads. Best to just push the Tea Party message and get more elected and change the party.

        Another dream I have would be to just eliminate the D’s and R’s from our politics. Let everyone run on their own merit and ideas and campaign & debate together. Everyone would be on one ticket, and primaries would be held on the same day in every state. Then the top 4 (or whatever) would go to the general election.

        All I know is what we have right now sucks! By the time I get to vote I usually have to hold my nose because my favorites have already dropped out after the early primaries, so I really don’t get my voice heard at the ballot box.

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VVZODHFH7JZH7YGYOHGY6P7DY4 JR Dogman

          “If “we the people” could get enough to unite, would it be enough (financially) to fight the machine and the unions?”

          I don’t know. I do remember it being said that the GOP was actually the party supported by small donations from individuals — and I think that’s probably correct. But I haven’t supported the GOP since the 2004 election; I’ve been donating to individual candidates, e.g., Reps. West and Bachmann. Any official mail they send me never even makes it into my apartment — it goes straight into recycling. I would guess many other conservatives disgusted by the GOP do the same. In fact, I can’t see your average Republican donating directly to the GOP. So who exactly is it that is keeping the machine afloat these days? It has to be very wealthy donors. Thus, I think if the Tea Party were to put together a very basic conservative platform, leaving contentious social issues to the states, it would represent a real threat to the GOP. It might not take the presidency right away, but it would take the majority of the small donations, for sure.

          I hope it doesn’t come to that, but the GOP machine is so entrenched and so horrible — and so tone-deaf — it could happen.

          • Anonymous

            I do the same thing regarding donations, to my choice of candidate only, never to the party. There is a lot of frustration in the country now, and it makes me so angry to see to GOP establishment fighting against the Tea Party folks who were elected last year. Guess they are so entrenched and corrupt they won’t give up easily. But, we have to keep trying to change things.

  • Anonymous

    This website is just a Romney hate site led by Mr. Right Scoop. If a pure conservative candidate such as Palin would have run I would be behind her, but she did not. There is no pure conservative in this race. Your hate for Romney clouds all of your judgments. I agree that Romney is not a conservative purist, but neither is Gingrich. Gingrich has many many conservative heresies and you all mostly ignore these in order to take down Romney.

    You all have fun echoing the same views back and forth! I am out of this hate chamber.

    • K-Bob

      Set that bar low enough, and you’ll trip over it.

    • Anonymous

      ta ta

    • Anonymous

      Correction, my friend. There is a Conservative Reaganite, if I want to be very very fair I can say “Conservative leaning” for Newt.

      Romney is a liberal Republican or Rockefeller Republican, or RINO. That’s not hate, that’s fact.

      Choice between Newt and a vision to return the government to the people, to downsize and deregulate our lives, to have a real energy policy and foreign policy OR vote for a candidate that will keep things as they are and tinker around the edges, that candidate is Willard Romney.

      If you can’t take this heat, what do you think is going to happen in the general? I’ve been in the midterms IN CHICAGO and this blog and the folks that are on it are as fair and real as it gets.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t agree with you on your opinion of this website but I do agree that there is no real conservative in the race. Newt did a lot of questionable things after he was speaker. I’m regretting my being a critic of Santorum. He is an angel compared to these other two. Ugh, I wish the people I hoped for would have run.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VVZODHFH7JZH7YGYOHGY6P7DY4 JR Dogman

    *You’re* out of the “hate chamber”? You’ve got to be kidding. You’re free to support Mitt Romney, but that the man has run a scorched-earth campaign from the very start is a fact; he’s the one running a hate chamber. You’re complaining that others find his behavior revolting and uninspiring — on what grounds? Because you prefer him, we should ignore this blatant ugliness and dishonesty?

    And why should we prefer him as you do, when he seems to stand for absolutely nothing? Why should we throw our support from candidates who are promising to work to repeal Obamacare to the man who laid the blueprint for that disastrous program? We want Obamacare repealed. It’s important to us, and we’re not going to just give up our stance and throw our support to someone we don’t feel wants to repeal it.

    Lastly — as if your candidate’s finger-in-the-wind attitude toward issues I hold important weren’t enough — I don’t want to vote for Mitt Romney as a dog-owner and dog-lover.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VVZODHFH7JZH7YGYOHGY6P7DY4 JR Dogman

    *You’re* out of the “hate chamber”? You’ve got to be kidding. You’re free to support Mitt Romney, but that the man has run a scorched-earth campaign from the very start is a fact; he’s the one running a hate chamber. You’re complaining that others find his behavior revolting and uninspiring — on what grounds? Because you prefer him, we should ignore this blatant ugliness and dishonesty?

    And why should we prefer him as you do, when he seems to stand for absolutely nothing? Why should we throw our support from candidates who are promising to work to repeal Obamacare to the man who laid the blueprint for that disastrous program? We want Obamacare repealed. It’s important to us, and we’re not going to just give up our stance and throw our support to someone we don’t feel wants to repeal it.

    Lastly — as if your candidate’s finger-in-the-wind attitude toward issues I hold important weren’t enough — I don’t want to vote for Mitt Romney as a dog-owner and dog-lover.

  • Anonymous

    New poll from Sunday night has Newt Gingrich pulling back to within 5 points of Willard.

    Pollster, who accurately predicted SC win, says the trend favors Gingrich, and that men are moving to Gingrich in “droves”, and Newt is leading substantially among Latinos…

    So I suppose the tagline could be: Real men vote Gingrich.

    • energizedconservative

      Insider Advantage is unreliable. Rasmussen has Romney ahead by 16 points, while NBC/Marist has Romney ahead by 15.

      • Anonymous

        Insider Advantage was the first to pick up Gingrich’s rise in SC, and the first to pick up his slide in FL.

        You’ve got it backwards, just watch.

        • energizedconservative

          Not true. Public Policy Polling actually showed Newt jumping to a six point lead, while the unreliable Insider Advantage only showed Newt by two on that same day.

      • Anonymous

        Yeah for Mitt Central at least. Rasmussen has been in the tank for Willard since the beginning.

    • Anonymous

      I should have scrolled down, I was busy writing away about the poll, and here it was already out! I was so excited to see it, I am happy to read it again and again!

  • http://twitter.com/TammyChicago Tammy P

    The GOP machine has assured Romney that he will be nominated. He expects it. What is even worse; he feels *entitled* to it. Think about OWS. Those people also have a false sense of entitlement. Look what can happen to behavior when those who feel entitled start to see it slipping away. I don’t think Mittens will start crapping on police cars but he has demonstrated an “end justify the means” attitude. We already have one of those in the White House. Muck Fit Romney.

    • energizedconservative

      Isn’t it ironic that it was Newt who was using OWS anti-capitalist arguments on Romney? Santorum didn’t do that, but Newt did. Now I see many of Newt’s supporters continuing to use the OWS anti-capitalist arguments on Romney. It’s almost funny.

      • Anonymous

        Its absurd to say that Newt questioned capitalism–absurd.

        Newt pointed out the very questionable actions of one man, Mitt Romney. You will see more such questioning.

      • Anonymous

        I have been in business before and Romney’s stock-price baiting practices leave me deeply uncomfortable. It is legal, but it is NOT the way I would ever choose to make money.

        Newt is right. Questioning Romeny’s business practices makes a lot of sense.

        This is NOT attacking capitalism, but it is attacking certain business practices that make a LOT of us who have been in business deeply uncomfortable.

        If it makes us uncomfortable, how will it play into Obama’s destruction machine?

        “Raising a question of judgment about a particular person in a particular company who has made that [business experience] one of his two major claims for running for president is hardly an attack on capitalism,” Gingrich said. “The Bain model in some companies, you look at Georgetown Steel and you can look Gaffney as two examples, the Bain model is to go in a at very low price, borrow an immense amount of money, pay Bain a great deal of money and leave [the debt to others]. Now, I’ll let you decide if that is really a good capitalism.

        “I think it is exploitative. I think it’s not defensible. You’ll notice he doesn’t try to defend it. He hasn’t brought up a single one of these companies,” said Gingrich

        see full quote here…

        http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/01/gingrich-calls-bains-model-exploitative-111217.html

  • ApplePie101

    A hard-hitting expose of flip-flop Romney:

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Hey all, I was just at Newsmax, and the new Insider’s Advantage Poll has Newt surging to 31% and Snake-Man Romney at 36%. I don;t know if this is an outlier, but it is good news if true. Turns out men are leaving Romney in droves and turning to Newt. He still has a problem with woman though. I think betwen Sarah, Cain and Levin’s op-ed things may be turning. Hope people, hope is everything.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7YZKRU6ALJJRZNT7FAR6UU6FGI Tim N

      If you’re talking about the Barack Obama kind of hope, it is meaningless and is used to make people feel warm and fuzzy. If you are using the version of hope the rest of us realize (where there is at least a chance) then Romney just might lose.

      • Anonymous

        Of course I am not talking about Obama’s hopey changey stuff…yuck, I am talking about the greatest of all things..hope.

  • Anonymous

    The GOP may very well get exactly what they are asking for. A repeat of 2008.

    McRomney will never win in the general. The GOP learned NOTHING from 2008 or 2010. They have no intention of learning anything from conservatives. Newt is precisely correct that Romney will not win a 49% to 51% battle with Obama. The leftist machine will eat him alive.

    The GOP is giving the grass root conservatives the finger.

    They would rather roll with the Democrats than with the Conservatives.. They have consciously made their choice. That way it is business as usual. The Rino’s keep their status and power and money. The Rino’s don’t want to fight, they want to get along.
    The truth of the matter is BOTH parties want the same end results. The only difference is one wants to get there at 150 mph and the other is willing to take a more scenic route and cruise in at 55 mph under the radar..

    The GOP might as well put out the sign:

    Conservatives need not apply.

    I had a friend that was telling me 8 years ago that there wasn’t a dimes bit of difference between the two parties. That they were herding us down the same chute to the same end. I thought he was a little crazy back then, but guess what….

    • Anonymous

      Time for a THIRD PARTY

  • http://www.facebook.com/david.masiwchuk David Scott Masiwchuk

    Romney is a scumbag. Its thats simple.

  • Anonymous

    I know everyone here is very passionate about what is going on right now, and sometimes the comments get a little heavy. So, I thought I’d bring a little levity to the string to end the weekend. Here’s a short video that made me laugh. A remote control car and cattle. I had many ideas what each could represent when it came to the situation and the voters. I’m sure the clever folks here will have a great interpretation. (BTW, don’t call me a racist, ha ha ha) I didn’t put this together. Hope this puts a smile on your faces.

    http://wimp.com/carscows/

    • Anonymous

      Made my day, Maxine!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Valdez/1806887704 Steven Valdez
  • Anonymous

    Former Lt. Governor of New York State, a Ph.D. who wrote a book about Obamacare, says Romneycare and Obamacare are identical…

    http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/romneycare-obamacare-healthcare-identical/2012/01/29/id/425900

    Notice how Willard Romney just goes on and on defending Romneycare–its the one and only thing he hasn’t flip-flopped on, which is utterly amazing when you think about it–and now his aide, Coleman, has come to say specifically that Obamacare will not be repealed…

    When Romney switched to the Republican party to run against Ted Kennedy in 1994, his wife said they didn’t personally know even one single Republican–Romney was 47 years old…

    He’s a moderate/liberal/statist and opportunist lacking conviction. He’d tinker around the edges of Obamacare, just enough to get his name on it–certainly he’d have a 349 point plan–but we’d be stuck with the individual mandate and a much bigger bossier expensive government.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Perry likes Newt.
    Cain likes Newt.
    Michael Reagan likes Newt.
    Palin likes Newt.

    That looks like pretty good company to me. What am I missing here, Scoop?

    • http://twitter.com/n4cerinc N4CER

      Let’s not forget Allen West, Tim Scott, J.C. Watts.

  • Trust1TG

    ROMNEY LIES ON AIR – CNN DEBATE

    1. He denied accusing Newt of exaggerating/lying about his part in Reagan’s administration only three days before on Monday night in Tampa.

    2. He lied about his own ‘ghetto language’ ad that bore his voice

    3. He claimed all his business was run by a blind trust, a tactic that Mitt himself called ‘the oldest ruse in the book’ in a previous campaign.

    4. He said he voted for republicans in the past when there was a republican to vote for, but if you look back at the Gingrich ad exposing his lies, it turns out when George H.w. Bush and Buchanan were running, he voted for a liberal democrat.

    5. He denied the cost of Romneycare to taxpayers in Massachusetts. “Half of those people got insurance on their own. Others got help in buying the insurance.”
    This is false. In fact, 98% of the additional people insured after Romneycare was passed have it paid for or subsidized by the federal government or Massachusetts government. Of the 412,000 additional people who had health insurance in 2010 who did not have it in June 2006 (pre-reform), only 7K of the 412K (1.7%) had unsubsidized health insurance. The rest were covered through Medicaid, Commonwealth Care, or a program of subsidized care for the unemployed.

    6. He denied the impact of Romney care on citizens of Massachusetts. Romneycare has increased the price of healthcare premiums for every citizen of Massachusetts. Premiums have increased by 55 percent since Mitt Romney became Governor, a rate 13 points higher than the national average and the third highest growth rate among the states.

    7. He said he lowered taxes in Massachusetts 19 times. Yet he raised fees and corporate taxes twice. No wonder Massachusetts was rated at the bottom of all the states (47-49th) in job and business growth.

    Romney’s departures from reality and truth are so frequent, they are disturbing…truly pathological.

    (continued – more Romney lies)

  • Trust1TG

    Romney continues a smear/character assassination campaign by perpetuating the LIE that Newt was guilty of the congressional investigation though he was exonerated.

    Romney is covertly LYING by using the media such as Drudge, Coulter, Town Hall and other media sources to spread LIES and prejudice popular opinion against Gingrich. Romney’s Bain Capital owns the company that owns Drudge.

    As ‘Judge Janine’ interviewed Sarah Palin on Fox News, the smirky smile, snide innuendo, false assertions she used were similar to the snide facial expressions and comments Glenn Beck used when interviewing Newt. This ‘Judge’ has as little respect for the truth as Romney – she asked Palin, “So Newt is planning to make the moon the 51st State?”

    This week, we also watched FL Attorney General Pam Bondi sell her soul on the air this week. She has been hired by the Romney administration task force to implement Hillarobamneycare. This is scandalous. She has sold her advocacy for the people of Florida as well – She cannot fight Obamacare with one hand while approving it with the other. She is obviously a double-minded liberal pretending to be conservative – like Romney.

    Hope these people with no integrity, joining Romney in his campaign of lies, who sell America and its constitutional principles down the tube, are going to get paid well.

    Romney and/or Soros have invested enormous amounts of money in attaining power…for what? To get richer? To make their names admired or feared? To get their way? Control? To dissolve the US into a single global economy, government, religion, society, etc.

    May the Lord have mercy on the soul of America when such people are really in charge.

    • Anonymous

      This whole FOX team is starting to look pretty slimy.

      I had always thought that FOX was a conservative bent news organization who endeavored to add liberal spokesrats to achieve fairness and balance. My wife insisted I was blind.

      But now I see. Amazing.

      • Anonymous

        The worst is Miss Piggy in the middle of the curvy couch

      • Anonymous

        They fairly balance a lie against the truth so that no one can clearly see either.

      • Anonymous

        Welcome to reality.

        Soon, you will be presented with a “choice” between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan will back both, just as they did Obama and McCain in 2008.

        There is only one man who has a real chance to throw a wrench in the wheels of the machine that is the Wall Street bankster oligarchy.

        That man is Ron Paul.

        • Anonymous

          I assure you my reality doe not include Ron Paul. Nightmare, maybe…

          • Anonymous

            You don’t realize it yet, but you will soon enough.

            • Anonymous

              You guys are starting to sound like OWS people or Brown shirts and you are losing your credibility.

              If you have a case, make it. Otherwise, pack it.

              • Anonymous

                I have made the case several times, but I understand you may have missed it in other threads.

                Securing the nomination is all about delegates. In 2008, John McCain locked up the nomination easily because he got momentum out of New Hampshire, carried that through SC and Florida, and then won big on Super Tuesday in early March. In 2008, Republicans awarded delegates in a winner-takes-all format.

                In 2012, the GOP changed the rules. All primaries before April, with the exception of Florida, are proportially allocating delegates. As a result, even though Newt Gingrich won SC convincingly, he only won a portion of their delegates.

                At this point, all four remaining GOP candidates have delegates. Tomorrow’s primary in Florida is winner-takes-all 50 delegates. Unfortunately, it appears Mitt Romney will take those 50 delegates and that is 50 less he needs to secure the 1,144 delegates required to lock up the nomination. In addition, this loss in Florida will really deflate any momentum Newt had remaining from his big win in SC. Meanwhile, Rick Santorum will likely see the (money) writing on the wall and suspend his candidacy after coming in a distant third or even fourth behind Ron Paul. Ron Paul, having campaigned very little in Florida, will finish third or fourth, but will triple or even quadruple his 2008 results in the Sunshine State (3%).

                Heading into February, there are a number of caucuses in various states across the country that favor both Romney and Paul. Newt will have little momentum to work with after losing Florida, and not much money either after blowing his wad competing with Romney there. Romney and Paul will compete vigorously in Nevada (28 delegates), Maine (24), Colorado (36) and Minnesota (40). These are states that both had good success in last cycle and have good organization to work with. These are also states that do not favor Newt (nor Santorum for that matter).

                Later in February and into early March, there are three primaries and roughly 100 delegates up for grabs…Arizona (29), Michigan (30) and Washington (43). Michigan is Romney country as he was born there and his father was governor, but Washington gave Paul 22% in 2008 so he will expect to do very well there.

                Next is 437 delegates on Super Tuesday, March 6. If Newt has managed to survive until then, he might expect to do well in GA and TN, but other states that day favor Romney and Paul such as Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Vermont, Massachusetts, and of course Virginia…which is Newt’s home state but he is not on the ballot.

                Bottom line…Newt needs momentum. He has vowed to take it to the convention in August, but it will be tough for him to make it through Super Tuesday without a win in Florida and some unexpected strength in the February caucus states.

                The two GOP candidates with the organization and money to make it to Tampa are Mitt Romney and Ron Paul.

    • Anonymous

      “Romney and/or Soros have invested enormous amounts of money in attaining power…for what? To get richer? To make their names admired or feared? To get their way? Control? To dissolve the US into a single global economy, government, religion, society, etc.”

      All of the above. There is no doubt we are be moved aggressively into a pultocracy/oligarchy. Concentration of financial and government power in the hands of a few.

      The left is being manipulated into thinking it is the “evil rich” who are doing it so that the government can get even more power to tax and control all but the elites at the top.

      The right is being manipulated into thinking that the entire risk is due Obama’s policies so that we will replace him with a “business man” so that the power remains with financial elites.

      Both groups of citizens are being played the same. So no matter if Romney or Obama is president, we end up in the same trap set for us. Both of them are propped up by two sides of the same interest.

      They fear only one thing – the people finding out the truth.

      http://mydescentintomadness.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/is-america-a-plutarchy-or-a-corporatocracy/
      http://www.nolanchart.com/article4425-a-fabian-socialist-dream-come-true.html

      “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
      Karl Marx

  • Trust1TG

    A Comment on Romney’s character by an active Republican Party worker in Virginia who says that ROMNEY AND HIS PEOPLE HAVE ESTRANGED PEOPLE WITH THE SAME TACTICS WE SEE GOING ON NATIONALLY.

    http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2012/01/29/republican-establishment-out-to-get-allen-west/comment-page-1/#comment-884413

  • Anonymous

    I unfortunately can’t defend either one of these fellas. Both have lied about something. Whether its Newts national healthcare mandate or Romneys lies by ommision on Newts ethics charges. There other lies by both. I didn’t think I could be more disheartened than I was when McCain ran. That was painful to watch but this election is worse. They should’ve just explained and apologized for their mistakes and got it over with in the very beginning.

    I wish they would focus on Obama. Focus on HIS failures and how they both would handle him

    • StNikao

      Romney lied at least seven times in the last debate.

      His campaign is a destructive series of lies.

      Evidently, he is aligned with the ‘father of lies’.

      • Anonymous

        Of course, he’s in bed with Soros.

        • http://twitter.com/cfallon57 Cheryl Fallon

          Do you have any proof of this?

  • Anonymous

    Romney’s dishonesty and his dirty tactics is what is going to help us lose the election. There is no way he’ll be able to win against BHO. What is the contrast between the two? That he ran successful businesses? And, given his current actions – it may be true that he was insensitive brute when buying/selling/closing businesses.

    A persons character does reflect who that person is and quiet frankly I don’t want any part of it.

    IF he wins the nomination, my conscience would not allow me to support him.

    • Anonymous

      Romney does not give independents and disappointed Democrats enough incentive to vote for him over Obama.

      Newt and Santorum may seem attractive to conservatives (they shouldn’t, but they do) but they do not attract and in fact repel Indies and Dems. Neither comes close in head-to-head matchups with Obama.

      Only Ron Paul has the ability to win the independent vote away from Obama, and that is where elections are won.

  • cabensg

    To little to late, Levin. Backing Santorum when it’s really a two man race between Romney and Gingrich shows you aren’t that all knowing after all. If this were an ordinary race where the U.S. was running along fairly smoothly and we didn’t have Islam at our doorstep Santorum would be an adequate president. This is not the case and Santorum is no perfect conservative by any stretch. I’m very disappointed in you and Limbaugh both.

    • Anonymous

      It is a two man race, but it is between Romney and Paul.

      • Anonymous

        Wow, you’re still ignoring reality, I see. But then again, you support Paul so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

        • Anonymous

          What reality do you speak of? Ron Paul is steadily building national support, and is heading into caucus states favorable to his strategery and historical success.

          On the other hand, Newt is about to lose Florida and his SC momentum with it. Santorum’s momentum left the building before he ever had it because of how close the vote in Iowa was.

          It will be interesting to hear Rush and Levin talking about Romney and Paul this summer, probably desperately calling for Palin or Jeb to enter the race (ironically handing Obama another term, just as they feared a Ron Paul third party run would do).

  • Anonymous

    At this stage of the process, a lot of Republicans are uncomfortable with Mitt, and a lot of Republicans are uncomfortable with Newt. Santorum winning is what would really “continue the vetting process.”

  • Anonymous

    Ahem… Romney is a turd.

  • Anonymous

    Romney just don’t get it; You can lead a Conservative to the Kool-aid but you can’t make him drink it.

    Newt 2012!

  • Anonymous
  • StNikao

    This morning, Michele Malkin tippy-toed very close up to the endorsement line right here:

    “Lest we forget, this election is not about choosing a showboat candidate to run against John King or Juan Williams or Wolf Blitzer.
    It’s not about “raging against” some arbitrarily defined GOP “machine.”
    For many grass-roots conservatives across the country, Romney and Gingrich are the machine.
    And at this point in the game, Rick Santorum represents the most conservative candidate still standing who can articulate both fiscal and social conservative values — and live them.”

    Read it all: http://michellemalkin.com/

  • Anonymous

    Levin (and Scoop) are saying what I’ve been thinking: Romney is not to be trusted.

    My opinion is that if you’re not “a conservative in the traditional sense”, then you’re not a conservative.

    And I think obama would trash Romney in the general.

  • bobemakk

    It is sad the way these candidates are slamming each other day in and day out. I actually wrote to Rep. Allen West and asked that he sit them down and tell the to stop this childish nonsense. It is ruining the chances of the republicans winning back the White House and also ruining the image of the republican party.

    Maybe Mark Levin can sit them down…someone has to do it, it is getting closer and closer to the election and it must stop now.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe we ought to draft Santa Claus to run for Pres. I understand his workload is somewhat reduced and there’s a guy who never offended anyone.

    Newt.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EFVVN4ILMQ42UE3ZEKHNDTZ3J4 Jim F.
  • Anonymous

    Flip is a political weasel. I didn’t like the d#ckhead in 2008 and I reaaaaaly don’t like him today. I like real people, not robots. Like Dennis Prager stated, conservatives need to know who the person is before they support them. You can’t really explain what Flip believes.

    A friend of mine floated a theory past me last week. I told him that Flip Rominee appears robotic, distant, and just can’t connect with the base. He told me the reason for that, “is the mormonism.” He told me that the mormon culture that he was reared in, makes him appear robotic, cultish, and empty.

    I’m not sure if I agree with him 100%, but it was the first time I had linked to two together. It’s interesting.

  • Anonymous

    I am sorry to say, if Mitt is the nominee, I will sit down and let Rome burn. The Republicans do not get it. We want to pick our candidate, not have the establishment tell us who our candidate will be. They will blame it on the Tea Party, but I don’t care. Mitt, you have to earn our votes, we aren’t duty bound to vote for you. I guess the establishment hasn’t hit rock bottom yet. I will help them.

  • Anonymous

    Romney is ahead also because that is who the main stream media would love to have against Obama. Romney is “milque toast”…and I think Obama would rip him up. He’s always got that mopey look on his face, afraid to raise his voice…too much like McCain. I want Gingrich or Santorem. Romney is not the one. We need to make sure this race continues. Vote for Newt Florida people…even just to keep the race going. Romney stutters already, imagine him with Obama. And….he keeps getting headliners as the only one who could beat Obama because that is what they want us to believe. Let’s not be stupid here, conservatives. Romney is not the conservative one here. Santorem actually is….followed by Gingrich. And it is so improper for Romney to continue to attack Newt as having been proven unethical years ago….if you check out the facts, that is not what happened….and Romney knows it. If he would lie, …..

  • Anonymous

    I know that both Gingrich and Perry went all anti-capitalism on Mitt…

    LOL. Thanks. I needed a good laugh.

  • Anonymous

    Gees, can’t anyone see the forest for the darn tree’s. Romney is buying his nomination. Mitt hasn’t stopped campaigning since 2008. He’s got everyone paid-off, hmmm– seems he’s taken the same tactic’s right out of SOROS’s playbook. Romney’s a snake, his money is tainted “it’s called looting” and he will fold against Obama or should I say………..if Mittins is lucky, he might squeeze out a win?

    The establishment is no better then the left. Yeah, I know, many are saying ABO– really, and by what margin????? let Rome burn.

    I’m behind Newt, it’s unfortunate that Romney tactic’s are so sleazy and in the end, trying to convince myself to vote for such a scrupulous person “Mitt Romney” leaves me disgusted once again.

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