A big Gingrich win would be GOP nightmare
UPDATE: That was an impressive win. A 14-point margin for Newt Gingrich is probably more than the former speaker could dream of a week ago, and certainly was unimagined by the Romney camp. A lot of Republican Party officials will not sleep well tonight.
The voting booths close at 7 p.m. in South Carolina, and given movement in the most recent polls, it wouldn’t be surprising if the networks name Newt Gingrich the winner shortly thereafter.
If that happens — and particularly if Gingrich can push his margin into double digits, which seems plausible — the Republicans have themselves a serious problem. Newt will come out of South Carolina with the smell of napalm in his nostrils, and we all know what napalm smells like: victory.
The greater the Gingrich margin, the more it will validate his strategy of attacking Mitt Romney on the issue of his Bain-gotten wealth. As his high-school yearbook photo tells you, this is a man with a grandiose sense of destiny, and the closer he gets to seeing it realized, the more aggressive he will become.
And as I’ve pointed out before, the Republican establishment will have only itself to blame. They have trained their base to turn up its nose at even the slightest aroma of moderation. They have fed it on resentment, and instilled it with a deep disdain for the media. In short, they have turned it into an audience utterly susceptibel to a man of Newt’s talents and eccentricities.
On the other hand, if Romney wins, this thing’s all but over. We’ll know in a few hours.
– Jay Bookman
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Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:30 pm
Outta here as well…..
A Tax Cheat or A Wife Cheat (Is this the Best Republicans Have To Offer?)
January 22nd, 2012
11:37 pm
@Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:29 pm
Doom
The O worshipper probably spent time in a limo with O
January 22nd, 2012
11:30 pm
Outta here as well…..
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They are scattering like rats on a ship.
Bruno
January 22nd, 2012
11:47 pm
For Platinum Black:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z7oWdp47zI
Bruno
January 23rd, 2012
12:15 am
In case any of you missed it, Russian scientists believe they have uncovered evidence of life on Venus:
http://news.yahoo.com/russian-scientist-claims-signs-life-spotted-venus-070321311.html
From the article:
“The project is largely dedicated to analyzing what its leaders describe as a “greenhouse effect”-related eco-catastrophe that once converted Venus into an uninhabitable wasteland. New evidence suggests that right-wing Venetians lawmakers ignored strong warnings from the Venus Progressive Party regarding space saucer emissions nearly 3 million years ago, thus dooming the once robust planet. The decline was greatly accelerated by the election of Newtonian Gingrichius, who defeated the first green-skinned Venetian President, Barackus Obamian in a race-fueled election.”
Brosephus
January 23rd, 2012
5:58 am
“Roll that beautiful bean footage.”
–Thomas Jefferson
stands for decibels
January 23rd, 2012
5:59 am
mornin’.
Great story about Joe Paterno’s passing, here.
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
6:29 am
morning, dB!!
Normal
January 23rd, 2012
6:33 am
Good rainy Monday morning all y’all
You know, the Papa Joe story is extremely Karmic, if you ask me. Lots of cosmic stuff. It’s sad really…
Normal
January 23rd, 2012
6:58 am
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2012/01/23
Vinny
January 23rd, 2012
7:01 am
America already has its nightmare. Its name is Barrack Hussein Obama
Normal
January 23rd, 2012
7:03 am
Oh well Vinny….I’m still going to vote for him again…
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:08 am
Normal – me, too!
Normal
January 23rd, 2012
7:10 am
USinUK,
Good-o
Brosephus
January 23rd, 2012
7:12 am
America already has its nightmare. Its name is Barrack Hussein Obama
If that is indeed how people on the Right see things, why in the hell are they trying to replace one nightmare (Obama) with the nightmare of all nightmares (Gingrich)? Why would a group of people who proclaim to love their country attempt to completely f**k said country up?
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:18 am
“Why would a group of people who proclaim to love their country attempt to completely f**k said country up?”
is it this century’s “we have to destroy the village to save it” ???
Normal
January 23rd, 2012
7:19 am
SoCo,
Believe me, having lived there, South Carolina is NOT like the rest of the country. Saner heads will prevail…
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:23 am
Normal – were you in the “upstate” or the “low country”??
Normal
January 23rd, 2012
7:25 am
USinUK
I owned a house in Goose Creek and rerported to a ship at Charleston Naval Station.
Granny Godzilla
January 23rd, 2012
7:27 am
NORM!
Me too!
stands for decibels
January 23rd, 2012
7:28 am
If that is indeed how people on the Right see things
See, there’s your problem–you seem to care about how people on the Right see things.
I think in 2012 they’ve established themselves as the most irrational, emotion-driven voting bloc out there, and if they want to commit electoral suicide let ‘em.
the Papa Joe story is extremely Karmic, if you ask me. Lots of cosmic stuff. It’s sad really…
Understood. But perhaps one can take some small comfort in knowing that karma exists.
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:28 am
Normal – men – they’re a lot closer to the rest of the country down there than they are in the upstate … they’re downright NUTTY near Greenville …
Brosephus
January 23rd, 2012
7:28 am
Believe me, having lived there, South Carolina is NOT like the rest of the country.
True, but the South typically marches to the same drumbeat. I don’t see any reason to think that any other Southern primary would turn out any different. In the same line of thought, the way the South goes, so does the GOP in most cases.
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:28 am
that should have been meh … not men …
stands for decibels
January 23rd, 2012
7:29 am
Here’s why I’m planning to vote for him again.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/rulings/promise-kept/
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:30 am
“In the same line of thought, the way the South goes, so does the GOP in most cases.”
one can only hope …
meanwhile, THIS is classic
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:31 am
dangitall, the link would be helpful
http://ladailymirror.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/fake_washpo_page.jpg?w=279&h=265
Doggone/GA
January 23rd, 2012
7:31 am
“that should have been meh … not men”
Close enough!
Granny Godzilla
January 23rd, 2012
7:31 am
Anybody for a hot steay cup o’ truth?
Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong. More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figures.
mm mmm good
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:32 am
dB – and this is why I am:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/respecting-religious-exemptions/2012/01/22/gIQA0ZESJQ_story.html
stands for decibels
January 23rd, 2012
7:34 am
from GG’s factcheck link
But Gingrich strains the facts when he accuses Obama of being responsible.
if he didn’t strain the facts, he wouldn’t have any facts at all.
Granny Godzilla
January 23rd, 2012
7:35 am
steamy steamy steamy
stands for decibels
January 23rd, 2012
7:35 am
UnU @ 7.32, that, and of course judicial appointments.
He coulda bailed on half of those “promises kept” things and he’d still be preferable to the Federalist-society monsters that Mitt will be committed to appointing.
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:36 am
dB – facts, schmacts … he’s never let the truth get in the way of a good soundbite …
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:38 am
dB – 7:35 – gah – and can you even conceive of Newtster’s appointments???
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:41 am
for those of you who are fans of the American version of The Office, you’ll appreciate this “separated at birth”
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320×320/406761_3071800076132_1338620649_n.jpg
stands for decibels
January 23rd, 2012
7:41 am
and can you even conceive of Newtster’s appointments???
Why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
Normal
January 23rd, 2012
7:42 am
Good morning Granny G.
When you said “Me too.” Did you mean you owned a house in Goose Creek or that you reported to a ship at Charleston?
Granny Godzilla
January 23rd, 2012
7:43 am
I’m not so worried about Newt’s possible appointments as I am about his dates!
Granny Godzilla
January 23rd, 2012
7:44 am
NORM!
No matter who told you what…I never was a fleet follower.
stands for decibels
January 23rd, 2012
7:45 am
Switching gears a bit, but would it be shrill of me to suggest that the NRA should whoop, holler and hang up a big “Mission Accomplished” banner to celebrate this news?
Normal
January 23rd, 2012
7:46 am
Granny Godzilla
January 23rd, 2012
7:44 am
Larry Craig
January 23rd, 2012
7:46 am
I never was a fleet follower.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:48 am
dB – Barb??? is that you???
Normal
January 23rd, 2012
7:48 am
Stands,
One thing I have to say, I really respect that woman. The country will miss her….and, on a personal note, I wish she had become the poster child to better gun laws.
Jm
January 23rd, 2012
7:48 am
Newt is not going to win the nomination
Granny Godzilla
January 23rd, 2012
7:50 am
Jm
On that we agree.
stands for decibels
January 23rd, 2012
7:55 am
One would think that Mitt merely pointing out that Speaker Heap-Big-Idea-Man couldn’t even get his fat ass on the damn Virginia ballot would be enough of a slam to keep even slightly rational GOP primary voters from supporting Newt, but who knows.
Maybe there aren’t enough slightly rational GOP primary voters to matter.
USinUK
January 23rd, 2012
7:56 am
“Maybe there aren’t enough slightly rational GOP primary voters to matter.”
no, I think that’s the problem … there are entirely too many slighly rational GOP primary voters … not enough fully rational ones …
I mean .. SANTORUM??? NEWT??? criminey.
Paul
January 23rd, 2012
8:01 am
morniin’, USinUK
“I think that’s the problem … there are entirely too many slighly rational GOP primary voters … not enough fully rational ones … ”
Saw a Fox exit poll of those who were undecides right up ’till the end. In the same proportion as Newt’s victory, they rated true conservatism ahead of the economy and the other question had to do with could they vote for someone of that religion.
For the sake of the party, I hope that’s not representative. But then again, it’s their bed to make -
Jay
January 23rd, 2012
8:01 am
sheets
Granny Godzilla
January 23rd, 2012
8:03 am
OH and a final thought.
Thanks Mitt for releasing tax return for 2010….
But can we look at 2008? How’d you handle that 45 million loan/gift to yourself?
Dr.EB
January 23rd, 2012
8:35 am
I keep saying that Gingrich is a fighter. Those of us in Georgia know this. Sure, he can be arrogant and hypocritical as far as I am concerned. He has baggage, but he fights as hard as anyone.
However, I heard someone say it best over on a radio program. They said that that the South Carolina debates, especially the one where Juan Williams was attacked, were two steps from a klan rally. (I wonder how many in South Carolina are happy.) Santorum tried a northern version of a southern strategy in Iowa. (Look at the applause he received from the crowd.) Gingrich tried it in South Carolina. I suspect that Gingrich will benefit more from it than Santorum.
I hope that my state will show some decency that we are known to have but am not holding my breath.
gm
January 23rd, 2012
10:24 am
Thank God for Florida, he will not win there, because there are not a bunch of hypocrites bible thumping red necks there. He will win Georgia because you have the same breed of conservertive hypocrites, they hate the President who has family values. morales because of his skin color.
He will not win out west or up north, the south beside Florida, continue to be a joke because of these hypocrite white conservative christians who have no morales or values when it comes to white candidates but yet claim they love Jessus, and point the family at other people faith.