If Newt Gingrich is the Answer, Tea Party has Failed

LadyJazzer wrote: ...And as I've previously stated, PLEASE let Gingrich win the nomination. There is no way that anyone that bat-sh*t-crazy and Tax-Evading-Aristocrat-identified has a prayer of getting elected. The opposition-material writes itself.

Keep dreaming LJ, the current Secretary of the Treasury is a Tax-Evading Aristocrat - as is half of Obama's cabinet and they were all confirmed by vote without any problems at all. Warren Buffet owes the IRS over a BILLION dollars and you don't see his happy backside warming a bench in a federal pen either - in fact, he's the one that Obama chose to name a tax increase proposal after. The man says he should pay more in taxes and hasn't even bothered to pay the taxes he does owe yet, even though they are less than he feels they ought to be.

I AM dreaming... PLEASE let it be Gingrich....

I will admit, he's not my first choice either, but he's a much better choice than returning the current occupier.

Science Chic wrote: There's definitely a better choice than Gingrich or Romney.

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/ ... -handicap/
The Huntsman Handicap
By ROSS DOUTHAT
November 29, 2011, 10:23 pm

“I don’t claim to be the perfect candidate,” Newt Gingrich told a South Carolina radio station last week, as he settled into his role as the latest not-Romney in the Republican race. “I just claim to be a lot more conservative than Mitt Romney and a lot more electable than anybody else.” It’s a plausible line...But is it accurate? Not if you judge candidates on their record, rather than by their affect. By that standard, the most electable conservative remaining in the Republican race is probably Jon Huntsman.

Huntsman is branded as the Republican field’s lonely moderate, of course, which is one reason why he’s current languishing at around 3 percent in the polls. But as Michael Brendan Dougherty noted in a summertime profile for the American Conservative, Huntsman’s record as Utah’s governor isn’t “just to the right of other moderates, it is to the right of most conservatives.”

At the same time, because Huntsman is perceived as less partisan than his rivals, he has better general election prospects. The gears and tumblers of my colleague Nate Silver’s predictive models give Huntsman a 55 percent chance of knocking off the incumbent even if the economy grows at a robust 4 percent, compared to Romney’s 40 percent.

You see sweetheart... we don't want a moderate in the office... or as a candidate. You know what happened when the right had McCain. Of course you know. Do you really think we are so stupid that you can even attempt to make a suggestion like that? Stop insulting people on this forum.

I think Newt's peaking about 6 months too soon to win the nomination. To time it right, one must be peaking right around the beginning of June to survive and be the nominee. That's why Sarah Palin has disappeared. IMO, she is waiting in the wings, biding her time until she will emerge around summertime to energize the base and the party and try to swoop in and grab the nomination at the convention.

Latest poll...

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has carved out a clear lead in what’s become a three-candidate race in Iowa, according to The Des Moines Register’s new Iowa Poll. Texas Rep. Ron Paul has risen into second place, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has slid to third with just over a month before the Iowa caucuses kick off voting in the presidential nominating process. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann ties with retired Georgia business executive Herman Cain at 8 percent. Rounding out the field: Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania at 6 percent each, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman at 2 percent.

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2 ... -the-pack/

Ha... Rick Perry is polling below Cain.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

Science Chic wrote: There's definitely a better choice than Gingrich or Romney.

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/ ... -handicap/
The Huntsman Handicap
By ROSS DOUTHAT
November 29, 2011, 10:23 pm

“I don’t claim to be the perfect candidate,” Newt Gingrich told a South Carolina radio station last week, as he settled into his role as the latest not-Romney in the Republican race. “I just claim to be a lot more conservative than Mitt Romney and a lot more electable than anybody else.” It’s a plausible line...But is it accurate? Not if you judge candidates on their record, rather than by their affect. By that standard, the most electable conservative remaining in the Republican race is probably Jon Huntsman.

Huntsman is branded as the Republican field’s lonely moderate, of course, which is one reason why he’s current languishing at around 3 percent in the polls. But as Michael Brendan Dougherty noted in a summertime profile for the American Conservative, Huntsman’s record as Utah’s governor isn’t “just to the right of other moderates, it is to the right of most conservatives.”

At the same time, because Huntsman is perceived as less partisan than his rivals, he has better general election prospects. The gears and tumblers of my colleague Nate Silver’s predictive models give Huntsman a 55 percent chance of knocking off the incumbent even if the economy grows at a robust 4 percent, compared to Romney’s 40 percent.

You see sweetheart... we don't want a moderate in the office... or as a candidate. You know what happened when the right had McCain. Of course you know. Do you really think we are so stupid that you can even attempt to make a suggestion like that? Stop insulting people on this forum.

Unfortunately they all become moderates when in office and yes politics have made us "stupid", so why not Huntsman?