The Right Scoop- http://onthemark1.blogspot.com On The Mark
That’s gonna leave a mark.
- Anonymous
I hope it leaves a void.
- http://twitter.com/113KriEger 13Krieger
Yeah….I think Mitt is gonna need stitches to fix that one. lol.
- Anonymous
Not just a mark, a big ol’ dent!
- Anonymous
Wow. Sharp remarks from Santorum. Me likee.
- http://twitter.com/TammyChicago Tammy P
Oh yes it is about HIM. That’s why Romney and the GOP machine have been continuously trying to shove Romney down our throats for years now- despite the fact that 75% of the GOP think he’s very non-spectacular. Romney has become the caster oil candidate.
- Anonymous
Good job Mr. Santorum and Newt Gingrich, we do not need the man who lost to McCain to lead us to a loss to Obama.
- Anonymous
Santorum did very well getting the ball rolling. Mitt did well diffusing, and then Santorum took the air out of Romney’s balloon by making his answer seem insincere. “You’re not going to run for a second term if you become president?” Then, Newt seals the deal, putting Romney away on this. Boom!
- Darren Anderson
The only reason Mitt wasn’t a career politician is because he keeps loosing! Shouldn’t this tell you something?
- ApplePie101
Mitt Romney reminds me of that last can of tuna left on the shelf during the 2 for a dollar sale. You wonder what’s wrong with it.
- Mike Lee
Yeah! In such a right-leaning state like Mass., Romney should have been a shoe-in for re-election.
- Anonymous
Pathetic…. Really…. That’s your response? Aren’t you usually claiming all his liberal policies where because he was appearing said liberals? Get over it ,34% after all his
“Compromises” 34% was his approval rating. The guy was a loser as a moderate or “independent” as he put it when asked about supporting Reagan. He is a failure as a conservative. Look at Iowa, after 6 years and tens of millions of dollars spent he received less votes than he did originally in 2008. This guy is done as soon as the field narrows and good riddence. - http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Easbey/629408285 Richard Easbey
Well said.
- Anonymous
Romney is just incapable of living up to the meme that the media has created for him.
Obama has been able to because he has never has to respond to criticism. I think that’s about to change. The media is not going to be able to cover for him as much in an election season, especially with Santorum or Gingrich opposing him. - Josh
I bet Mitt is rethinking those negative ads now…
- Anonymous
Biggest pious baloney moment was Huntsman claiming that there had been “nasty” talk on stage about gays and unions.
Lying sack of $%!#
- Anonymous
The focus on gays is beginning to grate on me, they are not a race or a creed or a legitimate minority by any normal, natural, or moral metric. Just because they declare their particular sexual proclivities are worthy of extra protections under the law does not make it so. I wish the left would quit trying to portray conservatives as outside the mainstream just because we cherish the sanctity of marriage and the traditional formula for cultivating families.
- StNikao
A dozen likes – you are so right.
We have all been granted EQUAL rights under the constitution – not special rights.
BUT we have not been granted not equal pay.
- Anonymous
Thank-you StNikao.
- StNikao
I just don’t LIKE Huntsman. He’s creepy.
- Anonymous
Yes, there’s the word I’ve looking for……………creepy (that he is).
- cabensg
Just one more instance of Newt leading. The rest of them can talk and talk and talk but until Newt hits the nail on the head, which he always does, it’s just talk. This and his vast knowledge of history, his involvement with conservative think tanks and past record of achievement of conservative values is why he needs to be the nominee. The VP he chooses will be schooled by him and will be able to run on a successful record giving us continuity which is what we need going into the future. If one of the others win who will be their VP? Do we really need two novices in the White House? We have Islam and socialist liberals with their judges, unions and media to overcome. Who’s really up to what that will entail? Gingrich/Santorum or Gingrich/Perry are the only two combinations that will take the fight to them and be successful.
- StNikao
Gingrich/Perry (Legislator/Governor combo) with Santorum as Attorney General or Sec. of Defense and Bolton as Secretary of State?
- Anonymous
I’d take Paul as Sec of Treasury
- Anonymous
Way to lead Rick … great follow up and follow through Newt~
Looks like they are a good team!
- Anonymous
Newt and Santorum finally pinned it to Romney. This idea that he is just a successful businessman from outside the beltway is tired. If he had the chops and the record to run on, he would be a career politician just like everyone else. As Newt said, just level with the American people. This is my biggest concern with Romney. He is a plastic politician. If he gets the nomination, strap in for the nauseating left turn that will leave all of us saying, I told you so to our friends in the conservative media. Don’t whine later.
- Maxsteele
Yes, Newt and Santorum should continue to tag team up on Mitt and Paul until they run them out of the election. Then give voters the choice between the three best candidates left. They can ignore Huntsman the sycophant of Obama.
- Anonymous
The problem with all these debates is that (from my perspective) this plays directly into the hands of Barack. All Romney, Perry, Gingrich, and Santorum have done is bash each other. They’re all liars, they’re all thieves, they’re all dishonest when it comes to true conservative values. By the time these debates are over I’m going to be so tired of hearing all the negative comments that I won’t know who to vote for.
I think a lot of others will feel the same way and those who are on the fence will probably stick with Barack.
I also think that the moderators of all these debates (mostly liberal leftists as far as I can tell) know this are playing this card with everything they’ve got.
They say that when it comes right down to it in the voting booth. People vote “with their wallets”. I really hope that’s true because these debates are (again, from my perspective) really not helping.
- Anonymous
They need to battle it out, eventually one is going to have to go up against Obama, and it can’t any of the ones who will do it McCain style. Let this play out.
- Anonymous
Thanks for the reply. Truthfully, I hope you’re right. However, I guess I would say that I still have doubts. They don’t seem to be spending much time on the issues, how bad Barack has been as a president, what we’ll need to do after he’s out of office to begin fixing the country, how they’re going to do whatever they say they’re going to do. They just bash each other. Sorry, I just don’t think in the long run that’s going to help the republicans get someone elected president. But, as I said I hope you’re right.
- Anonymous
Well, I don’t know that I am right about this because this whole thing is a toss up when it comes right down to it.
I am happy to see Romney get scrutinized by Santorum and Gingrich, and I hope it minimizes Romney and builds Santorum. Santorum has really got the momentum now and hopefully it will propel him.
- Anonymous
But battling it out here leaves less for the left to try and pin on them against Obama. People will say, “Yep, already knew that. Don’t really care. Move on.” The more that gets aired now the less “surprise” information the left will have against them when they are running against Obama.
- Anonymous
Awesome smackdown!
- Anonymous
Flip Romney: A weasel in the White House.
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Ouch. that was brutal by Newt. But good.
- Anonymous
Finally, Romney is being challenged and vetted. The poor dear crumbles miserably when he is criticized.
That’s what happens though when you have no foundation and no beliefs from which to defend yourself. He will govern via the finger in the wind method.
Romney is a sleazy, used car salesman. He wants power and money at any cost.
He is WEAK as Donna Brazille says.
- Anonymous
U can criticize Romney all day long he will still get 25 %of the vote the only way he loses is if conservatives align, I don’t see that happening unfortunately
- Anonymous
Newt is running his promised ad:
It is a despicable attack on capitalism. Newt just dropped way down to: no, thanks.
- http://twitter.com/ozziecastillo Ozzie
Wow!
Take a look at Obama’s campaign if Romney is the nominee.
- Anonymous
Right, I expected Obama to try that line of attack. There are many reasons for conservatives to attack Romney, but this is definitely NOT one of them.
Really makes me wonder about Newt. It is like his anger towards Romney made him resort to liberal arguments.
I cannot adequately express how ticked off I am.
- http://twitter.com/ozziecastillo Ozzie
You are right, I was also surprised that he went that route. I, however, do not know how he was attacked in Iowa. According to Newt, the ads against him were lies, and I don’t know how I’d react after being attacked with lies to the point where I went from 1st to 4th.
One thing remains true for me- I want a pit bull candidate against Obama….
- Anonymous
Wrong. It is not an attack on capitalism, but on crony capitalism among the elite class. Wall Street cozies up to whoever is in power, right now they’re in bed with the present regime. Mitt is cut from that cloth.
- Anonymous
I don’t see how restructuring companies to make them profitable fits what you are saying.
- Anonymous
Some companies are not restructured. Some are simply broken up and the pieces/assets are sold. It’s sort of like “junking out” an old car. The car may be in good shape and it still runs, but it’s worth more as parts than as a whole car.
When speculators decide they don’t want to invest more money than the purchase price in a company, they will simply “junk it”. They sell off the assets, lay off the workers and pocket the proceeds.
- Anonymous
That would suck big time if you are the one getting laid off. But if we are the party of the free market, and the company is worth more in pieces, and your job is to be profitable for your shareholders, is this really an argument conservatives want to have? (The profits would be reinvested in another more lucrative company that would create jobs.)
I am open to changing my mind about this, but for me the free market has never guaranteed anyone anything, it just overall provides more opportunities for the greatest number of people.
The free market works best when workers are not tied down to homes that you can’t sell. A workforce needs to be mobile and move where the jobs are. I talked my son out of purchasing a home because I want him available to move if the employment situation doesn’t improve.
- Anonymous
I clapped when I heard this one.
- http://twitter.com/113KriEger 13Krieger
Right on Newt! ZING!!!!!
That was a great line and the audience finally got it at the end and gave Newt the Seal of Approval.
- http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson
This a great slam on Romney. Anytime any of these guys try to say they are not a politician, it is a mistake. They are all Politicians who pander to certain groups. Even our beloved Rue Paul is a Politian. He just panders to hate groups and psychos.
- Is_Sense_Common
Rupaul is the biggest hypocrite of them all. He’s been in DC for like 26 years & hasn’t lead any major legislation that I know of. He just whines about what everyone else brings forward.
- james wells
it’s like Sarah said…this is the guy obama wants to run against….Santorum & Newt do seem like the right team IMO
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- Anonymous
That is the best I’ve seen Santorum! And welcome back Newt!
- Maxsteele
Romney and his pompous, irritating, giggle when anyone says anything truthful about him and then his silly smirk afterwards. I think this arrogant jerk will appeal to the middle of the road democrats because they all act the same way. Thinking they are so intellectually superior then everyone else.
Romney has been running and losing for political office since the 90′s and he only won once. When he was governor he set his sites on the presidency immediately and when he knew he could not get re-elected as governor he did not run for a 2nd term because he knew he would lose. It is obvious and his deciept is evident. - Is_Sense_Common
Let’s face it Max, if our country wasn’t so completely twisted, Romney would be running for the Dimocrat ticket, not the Republican.
- Steven
OMG! Santorum destroyed Romney here. Now imagine Obama. We need a conservative to run in 2012. Santorum 2012!
- Anonymous
Someone got his arse kicked. Santorum made good points about Reagan slammer, Romney.
- Anonymous
Newt said exactly what I was thinking. To hear Romney say again and again how he was voluntarily left public office beacuse he’s such a fan of the private sector, nonsense. For 20 years he’s been running for office, a decade for president. I don’t begrudge a man for running for office, I do when he comes off as pious and dishonest about it.
The coming debate about Bain capital will be interesting. I know some are already saying ‘oh look Newt’s being anti-capitalist’ to criticize Bain. Are we going to say ANY way you make money is fine because it’s ‘capitalism’? Are you going to paint Romney, a mega millionaire himself, son a mega millionaire, blue blooded and Ivy League as it gets, a simple ‘businessman’? Do you see Wall Street as capitalism? I don’t in many cases, Wall Street IS what Sarah Palin was campaigning against, Chrony Capitalism. Tell me Bain Capital is just a simple little start-up company, it’s not. It’s a connected company, a club. They make millions off a phone call or single bit of information. Is that the hard working capitalist or the chrony capitalist?
We are about to run a man in Romney that is virtually a real life Gordon Gekko, the left/media will have a field day, the blue collar dems that *might* bolt from Obama will be less likely to do so with Mitt as our guy.
If any capitalism is good, what about pornographers? They make a ton of money, perfectly legal. So nothing to criticize, right? What you have in Romney is a Wall Street hack, who’s Father paved the way for him, he passed on the rolodex to his son, very impressive. Main street is capitalism too and it’s being crushed by Big Government AND Wall Street.
I don’t think the Conservative pundits that jumped on Romney’s wagon thought out how flawed he really is. Obama will *love* going after him, the ads alone will be brutal. I’m glad Newt brings this up, after all, in Iowa, Romney unleashed his PAC’s against Newt, then taunted Newt that it’s nothing to what Obama will do. So ok, Newt’s turn to vet Romney, thank God SOMEONE finally is. - Anonymous
Oh God, I just watched this clip again… “run again..?, that would be about me.” That was one of Romney’s worst moment of the debates, watch it around the 2:10 mark, it’s as phony pious plastic nonsense as you will ever hear a politician be.
- Mike Lee
Well, if anyone knows about “pious baloney”, it’s certainly Newt. Yeesh. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
- bobemakk
I wish the republican candidates would get together and agree to stop trashing each other, it is not good for the party. They must focus on the failures of Obama, and there are too many to list.
Gingrich for president. The lamestream media is trashing Newt for “historical” baggage. All politicians have baggage if we dig deep enough, but the lamestream/left socialists won’t expose democrats, they love the big zero/Obama. Newt has made his mark with his “Contract with America,” a contract he fulfilled that no other politician can match. He is a true conservative.
However, I will vote for anyone who runs against the Obama regime.
- Anonymous
It is finally time to vet Romney. The Rombots are in for a rough couple of weeks as this plastic facade is crushed and the slime insect hiding in that mask is exposed. To bad none of these guys decided to do this earlier but I guess governor Perry had to be destroyed first. Got to have our priorities straight.
- http://twitter.com/jmw242 jmw24
Bottom line guys, Gingrich, to me, is the only candidate that would/could rip Obama apart in a debate.
Santorum gets the ball rolling in this clip by noting that if Romney’s record was so good in Massachusetts, then why didn’t he run for reelection? Romney hits back saying that he didn’t run for reelection because it’s not about him. Then comes the line of the day from Newt: “Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney?!”
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