Perry’s move is huge for Gingrich
This is a potential game-changer. From the Associated Press:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry will abandon his presidential bid and endorse Newt Gingrich, two Republican officials said Thursday, a move coming just two days before the pivotal South Carolina primary as Republican front-runner Mitt Romney struggles to fend off a challenge from the former House speaker.
Not because Perry commands a huge segment of the GOP electorate at this point — if he did, he wouldn’t be dropping out — but because it means the consolidation of the Not Romneys is truly in full swing. And with Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain already long gone, Perry is in the best position to signal which Not Romney has the best chance of beating Romney. Apparently, Rick Santorum isn’t getting the nod. (Ron Paul never stood a chance of getting Perry’s support imo.)
If anyone has a chance of beating Romney now, it’s Gingrich.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Junior Samples
January 19th, 2012
12:10 pm
Please, continue to support the guy who talks about the sanctity of marriage from one side of his mouth, then requests an “open marriage” out of the other. Hope that works out for ‘ya.
getalife
January 19th, 2012
12:12 pm
You cons are morally bankrupt so the newt is perfect for you cons.
Dusty
January 19th, 2012
12:14 pm
JDW
I don’t think Democrats will ever find anyone who will make us want a Dem president after Obama leaves office. It won’t be possible.
We will be struggling with the huge debt he leaves us for many many years. He has added to that debt and wants to add even more. Now that is unforgetable and it has his name on it.
Just Saying..
January 19th, 2012
12:14 pm
Somewhere…@10:54 “I love when left wingers talk about who is and isn’t an idiot in the GOP yet they never vote GOP.”
Uhh…..maybe that’s Why they never vote..uh, you know..GOP
Joe The Plumber too.
January 19th, 2012
12:17 pm
just saying……bless your heart
BuckeyeinGas
January 19th, 2012
12:17 pm
The Republicans that were in Congress when Newt was in charge, and is still in Congress despises Newt. I wonder how that will affect the base.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
12:17 pm
@UGA 1999…”Who was running the house for the majority of Clintons term?”
I’ll take that to mean you can point to no specific achievements on behalf of the ‘Angry Little Attack Muffin’
Just Saying..
January 19th, 2012
12:19 pm
Dusty @ 12:14-
Pray real hard that Obama doesn’t put Hillary on the ticket. In that case the GOP’s next shot would be 2024.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
12:19 pm
@Dusty…”I don’t think Democrats will ever find anyone who will make us want a Dem president after Obama leaves office. It won’t be possible.”
Duhbya has already had that effect on the populace…and I don’t think it will change this time around.
getalife
January 19th, 2012
12:30 pm
perry did not stand a chance because of w and rove.
I think Americans might give the gop another chance in a decade or so.
They just can’t govern for all of the American people.
They take the lazy and corrupt route and govern for the 1 % only.
They do not even bother trying to hide this fact anymore.
Dusty
January 19th, 2012
12:35 pm
Just saying, 12:14
Maybe you are right. There had to be idiots in the GOP who helped an inexperienced non-military community organizer with shady friends from Chicago OUTDO a smart American POW with long outstanding experience in Wasington.
Those idiots in the GOP helped put Obama in Washington as a leader.
Believe me, it won’t happen again.
Joe The Plumber too.
January 19th, 2012
12:35 pm
gotnolife, the 1% like barry and me-shell? He may be the food stamp president but he’s part of the 1% you libs love to be jealous of.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
January 19th, 2012
12:36 pm
This is the result of a coordinated effort to get Romney one-on-one with a social conservative, orchestrated by the Tony Perkins and his ilk who met last weekend in Texas to ensure defeat for a moderate (Romney) in the primaries and to ensure a defeat for a conservative (Gingrich) in the general election. They got to Perry and laid down the law to him.
They want the former (and may get their way), but don’t expect the latter (but will get that result) if they do get the former.
getalife
January 19th, 2012
12:39 pm
“Weekly applications for unemployment benefits fell by 50,000, the biggest drop in more than six years, to 352,000, the Labor Department said.”
Our President is a job creator and the gop have nothing to run on except the gop are job cremators.
Dusty
January 19th, 2012
12:40 pm
JDW
Bush was elected for TWO terms with very little trouble.
After three years with Obama, Bush looks like a jewel.
Even Democrats know it but won’t say it.
The national debt c/o Obama is on their shoulders too.
getalife
January 19th, 2012
12:40 pm
Check mate.
gm
January 19th, 2012
12:43 pm
Newt ex just droped another shell:
The rep party = hypocrites, no morales, no character
Obama looks like a saint to the rest of world compard to Newt and Mitt, to bad the southerners in south dont look for character and morales in a President only if he is white, if both of these people were running against Reagan or JFK both of these no characters clown would not even be allow to run.
How can America stand in front of the world with a womanizer and money tycoon? rep party has hit the low end.
Joe The Plumber too.
January 19th, 2012
12:43 pm
gotnolife cannot defend the wealth of barry and slam the 1%.
Dusty
January 19th, 2012
12:44 pm
getalife
Obama has created jobs?
Yeah, the one in the White House where we need someone to lead.
That job will soon be filled with real presidential “material”.
getalife
January 19th, 2012
12:45 pm
joe,
He wrote some books and got paid.
So?
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
January 19th, 2012
12:45 pm
getaclue, please name a single piece of legislation passed in the last 9 months that would have led to a government action that “created” jobs.
Just one.
Joe The Plumber too.
January 19th, 2012
12:45 pm
There goes gm with race crap again, right on cue. If I call barry the food stamp president, am I being racist, gm?
getalife
January 19th, 2012
12:46 pm
Dusty,
Again, you ignore the facts I just posted.
How is the weather in la la land today Dusty?
Junior Samples
January 19th, 2012
12:49 pm
Now’s your time to support Newt. Keep those contributions coming! Please, give your hard earned money to Newt 2012!
I think he can win on the open marriage platform!
Junior Samples
January 19th, 2012
12:51 pm
Tiffany’s Account = Open Marriage
Do the math
Dusty
January 19th, 2012
12:53 pm
gm
For goodness sake, you want to hold the morals banner up to us after eight years of Clinton?
I mean, that is beyond any bounds of sensibilities. PLease refrain.
Nobody is perfect. Most of us know that.
We aim for the best and use what we have.
Democrats do the same thing so stop preaching.
getalife
January 19th, 2012
12:53 pm
Kyle,
Are you going to do a post on the former Mrs. Gingrich and her open marriage claim?
Joe The Plumber too.
January 19th, 2012
12:56 pm
gotnolife proves my point about the lack of brain cells in a typical lib.In gotnolifes tiny mind the GOP is all bad because they take care of the 1% and the 1% are evil, when presented with barry and me-shell being part of the 1% gotnolife says “so”…..priceless.
getalife
January 19th, 2012
12:57 pm
joe,
You got nothing.
Do not engage me until you post facts.
Dusty
January 19th, 2012
1:01 pm
Junior Samples, 12:51
Awwww. Gingrich’s marriages were all LEGAL. Ever heard of divorce? Many have..
Shopping at Tiffany’s is also legal. Does wealth envy make you nervous?.
David Green
January 19th, 2012
1:01 pm
Endorsing the gingster’s PERVERTED lifestyle by voting for him really shows just how morally depraved the average Christian conservative voter has become.
gm
January 19th, 2012
1:03 pm
Dusty
Come on, Clinton was already President on a 2rd term I was against his action, but Newt come on when do you people say enough enough Newt.
Rep go around talking about values and morales, so how can you look at your kids and say grow up and be a immoral character like Newt.
President Obama wins hand down on family values and morlaes on both of these guys, he is not hiding money around the world, you people have lost it trying to get Obama out of office but God has expose every person you put up to destroy this President of class and values.
Lets see, who vaules are closely to most people, Newt with a open marriage or President Obama.
jconservative
January 19th, 2012
1:04 pm
“If anyone has a chance of beating Romney now, it’s Gingrich.”
Kyle this sentence sounds like you are praying for someone to beat Romney.
Am I right?
captguitarman
January 19th, 2012
1:06 pm
This is really getting painful to watch. Another circus performance tonight on CNN? Why? Oh yeah, CNN’s ratings will improve by hosting the best reality/comedy series on TV. Obama and the Dem/Libs must be constantly pinching themselves just so they can joyfully realize again and again that this is not a dream — this is really happening.
Not only are the Pubs self-destructing, (I thought Bookman’s word for it, “dysfunctional,” was way too kind), they have been doing it regularly in front of a national TV audience since about last November when things were really looking grim for the Dems, and boy have they helped the Dems turn that around. They have a great following with millions tuning in now, not so they can vet a possible future President, but to see what the next, biggest, dumbest thing one, or more of them is going to say. And they even have a Libertarian up there with them, who has decided to be a Republican for a while. Many thought the ratings would dip with the goofiest and most scandalized players biting the dust, but despite the departures of the teaser candidate, Palin, who just couldn’t make up her mind, the scandalized Cain, the nitwit Bachmann, Whathisname From Utah, and now Perry (Palin with a Penis), the show still has legs.
And who knows what fun will happen next, so be sure to tune in folks, anything goes!! It has become clear that the point of this interminable and excruciating exercise is obviously not choose a winning Pub contender, but to win the Pub nomination . . . and that’s it. If you doubt that, just think about what “conservative” Pubs Gingrich and Perry just did to moderate Pub Romney. In effect, they both joined up with Obama, the Dems, and Occupy Wall Street and outed Romney as a low tax rate paying, 1% rich guy, and “vulture capitalist” (nitwit Perry’s exact words). And now Perry, a walking talking disaster who should have never been in this circus is out, and the damage is done to the one guy who could win in November. But, I don’t say that with as much conviction any more because of what he has suffered from his own party, and because there is no line these guys won’t cross while going after moderate Romney. Obama is going to have it all down if Romney is nominated. And if he’s not nominated, does any Pub with half a brain seriously believe that this country will elect Newt Gingrich President??? If so, what are you smoking? This whole Not Romney fiasco has not only made the Pubs look ridiculous and seriously damaged the party in a year that we could have won, but it is going to hurt this nation because we will have four more years of gridlock in Washington.
getalife
January 19th, 2012
1:07 pm
Then he spews he cheated because he was too patriotic.
Who believes this crap?
Joe The Plumber too.
January 19th, 2012
1:07 pm
gotnolife: I know you are kind of slow so I’ll break it down real simple for you, the food stamp president had taxable income of 2.6m in 2008, 5.5m in 2009 & 1.8m in 2010. Thats almost 10 million, do you think that puts him in that evil 1%?
Dusty
January 19th, 2012
1:08 pm
getalife,
Your facts are blinded by hero worship.
@@ mentioned it yesterday.
Have you been banned at Bookman’s again?
Getting unhinged will do it, even over there.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 19th, 2012
1:09 pm
..just think about what “conservative” Pubs Gingrich and Perry just did to moderate Pub Romney. In effect, they both joined up with Obama, the Dems, and Occupy Wall Street and outed Romney as a low tax rate paying, 1% rich guy, and “vulture capitalist” (nitwit Perry’s exact words)
How DARE they!!
Junior Samples
January 19th, 2012
1:10 pm
Dusty, if that’s your definition of Family Values, so be it.
I know it’s a hard pill to swallow, but he’s toast.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
January 19th, 2012
1:11 pm
gm, you’ve got a case against Newt on the morals issue, but you have nothing on Romney in that regard. Nothing suggests his personal life is anything but exemplary, and as to his “hiding money around the world” thing, that is neither immoral nor illegal, and more importantly, his money is held in a blind trust for others to handle the details and transactions.
Good for the current President to have family values you think are important. However, “class” is something I do not associate with the current Disaster-in-Chief. His associations with Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright and others from the mobocracy from Chicago are not those someone of class would have, and his wife’s inviting a rapper to the WH who called for the assassination of a former President is pretty classless itself.
getalife
January 19th, 2012
1:11 pm
Dusty,
You ignore the facts and that is a fact.
I did not get banned and I am not unhinged.
Just posting the facts you ignore.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 19th, 2012
1:14 pm
You know what, in one sense it doesn’t matter who gets the nod. All of these people have shown that they are willing to kow-tow to the primal urges of the jawslacker base through bald-faced lying.
Newt Romney, I mean Mitt, has beein going around spewing the lie that Obama “apologized for America”.
How to explain this bald-faced lying by a major politician?
The reason is that facts are no friends to Republicans, so lying is the only way. And plus it’s clear that with a broken, misguided mainstream media, they think they can get away with it. And they may be right.
gm
January 19th, 2012
1:21 pm
Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!
Mitt maybe the worst: How can you go around telling middle class Americans I feel your pain and have over 300 million in your account, there is not a sane person in the world would believe that.
Once again Rev wright is not or was running for President, we can go all day of the invites of the past adminstrations to the white house, Mitt is like Donald Trump running for President no body wants a tycoon as the President of the United States, admit it, you people are down in the hole looking for character””
scrappy
January 19th, 2012
1:22 pm
“JDW….Dude, you are comical. Who was running the house for the majority of Clintons term? Which branch of government is most responsible for the financial stability of the country? Keep up the good work.”
Then by your logic, this whole economic problem is really the fault of the GOP house. Thanks for clarifying.
Dusty
January 19th, 2012
1:22 pm
gm.
I have established my own moral values and not by political party rules. I am a Christian.
Christians are directed to love one another i.e. everybody.
We are not blind to imperfections. We all have them.
In politics, we hope for the best and we choose whom we think is most capable to run our country.
At this moment, I think Gingrich is the most capable to be our leader. He is not perfect. Neither are you and I.
——-
Later…..enjoyed the discussion. (Most of it.)
Just Saying..
January 19th, 2012
1:22 pm
Dusty @ 12:35 – I think we may agree on a couple of points:
-Without the economic wreckage of W’s policies, Obama is not the President.
-As a VN vet, it does feel strange that from 1992 til now, every veteran who served in a combat theatre ( H. W. Bush, Dole, Gore, Kerry, McCain) lost their run for the Presidency.
As for 2012, the GOP still needs a candidate who represents the Party well – and imo, neither Gingrich nor Romney is that candidate. Interesting that the GOP has selected Daniels to deliver the State of the Union rebuttal. I do think Romney has a chance of beating Obama-Biden. But Obama-Clinton? No chance at all.
The GOP is still winning the Presidency of the South. And maybe the Presidency of the West. But 270 in the Electoral College? That’s where the Presidency of the US is actually won. The GOP needs a candidate who can do that.
scrappy
January 19th, 2012
1:24 pm
““The biggest idiot not-romney is endorsing the big idiot not-romney. Its the making of a not-romney idiot juggernaut!”
I love when left wingers talk about who is and isn’t an idiot in the GOP yet they never vote GOP.”
um…Hello? why would we vote for idiots?
Kyle Wingfield
January 19th, 2012
1:25 pm
Nope, jconservative. I have spent this whole primary calling it like I see it, not rooting for one outcome or another. I think each of the remaining Republicans has obstacles to a) winning the nomination and b) beating Obama. Fortunately for them, Obama has his own obstacles to overcome.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
January 19th, 2012
1:28 pm
So according to you, gm, to be able to “feel the pain” of poor people you have to be poor yourself?
Just how does that equate to the current Disaster-in-Chief, who attended private schools nearly his entire life and earned about $10 million over the past 3 years, not even counting his wife’s salary before becoming First Lady?
Make the case, gm. Please.
Kyle Wingfield
January 19th, 2012
1:29 pm
Scrappy: Without commenting on the logic of one branch being more important than another, the extension of that logic would hold the Democrats, who held Congress from Jan 2007 to Jan 2011, responsible. Right?