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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getalife
January 19th, 2012
1:30 pm
“Fortunately for them, Obama has his own obstacles to overcome.”
What obstacles?
Mad Max
January 19th, 2012
1:36 pm
Welcome – your boy Obama gets away with it all the time and I don’t see you knit picking him for his. Facts also seem to elude the left, talking points and opinions are not facts.
Just Saying..
January 19th, 2012
1:38 pm
Dusty @ 12:40 “Bush was elected for TWO terms with very little trouble.”
Go back and take a look. Reverse one state (Florida), and W loses both elections. W won, but I wouldn’t think …”with very little trouble.” accurately reflects the contest. And btw, in a direct election, not the Electoral College, more people voted for Gore than for Bush.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
1:49 pm
After seeing the comments from the former Ms. Gingrich I think Newt needs two nicknames… ‘Angry Little Attack Muffin’ for use during normal political discourse and ‘Fluff Daddy Love Muffin’ for use after hours.
hatorade drinkers
January 19th, 2012
1:53 pm
who cares?
David Green
January 19th, 2012
1:54 pm
Dusty wrote: I have established my own moral values and not by political party rules. I am a Christian.
________________
Dusty your choice to endorse newt’s immoral lifestyle by voting to place him in the highest office in the land not only calls your own morality into question but demonstrates that your own claim to being a Christian to be absolutely FALSE. Indeed your actions and that of your fellow conservative Christians demonstrate that Christianity itself is a Fraud and a Frace that has no place within one’s personal life much less the public/political sphere.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
January 19th, 2012
1:59 pm
David Green, maybe lifestyle issues are not as important to deciding who is President for many people as you think they should be.
Personally, I don’t care what they do in their lifestyle. I just want them to govern the country as a small-government fiscal conservative.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
2:01 pm
Ok, I am back….great sushi lunch! mmmm
David Green
January 19th, 2012
2:02 pm
Kyle it would be wise for conservative christians to drop the family values mantra and their endless pursuit of forcing their own moral values through force of law upon the American People until their own actions and lifestyles match up with what they preach.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
2:04 pm
David….do you feel our founding fathers were pushing their morals down our throats? If you take morals away from a person or country, what do you have left?
jconservative
January 19th, 2012
2:05 pm
Kyle Wingfield at 1:25 pm
Thanks for the response.
I cannot plead innocent to not having a horse in the race. But my horse really has no name. My horse is “anyone who can defeat Obama”.
And at this point I have a problem. I do not want the presidential campaign to be a one issue campaign with the Republican nominee as the one issue. If it is Gingrich, he will be the issue. And there is a possibility that Santorum could be the issue if he is the nominee.. That leaves Romney by default.
And “by default” is a lousy way to select a candidate.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
2:09 pm
Have you guys seen Newt’s ex wife…I would have wanted an “open marriage” too…..YUCK!
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
January 19th, 2012
2:12 pm
Newt balanced the budget. How about your klown princ Obozo?
Obstacle.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
2:12 pm
“For me….and many others, the economy is better under Obama than it was when the nation was BUSHwhacked!!”
Because you get double the welfare money?
Streetracer
January 19th, 2012
2:13 pm
Tiberius @1:59
AMEN And as an aside for those who don’t know, Clinton was impeached for the felony of perjury, not for his affairs.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
2:13 pm
“How many husbands have used this line on their wives?”
Clinton and Edwards come to mind.
Don't Tread
January 19th, 2012
2:15 pm
I suspect that Romney will probably win SC…didn’t they just toss a governor for “hiking the Appalachian Trail”?
Streetracer
January 19th, 2012
2:16 pm
LBB @ 2:12:
How could Obama balance the Budget? There hasn’t been one for a couple years.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 19th, 2012
2:17 pm
Mad Max: “Welcome – your boy Obama gets away with it all the time and I don’t see you knit picking him for his. Facts also seem to elude the left, talking points and opinions are not facts.”
Then you haven’t been paying attention, as I am no huge supporter of Obama and make no secret of it on these pages (and if you’ll notice from my moniker alluding to OWS, that also should clue you in to the fact that I am sicked and tired of the Democratic game just as much as the GOP game).
But whatever problems I have with Obama or his party, I find them vastly superior to these mutants from the mutant idiot farm that is the Republican party.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
2:18 pm
Streetracer….there is ALWAYS a budget. However Obama has yet to show us what his plans are to balance the budget.
gm
January 19th, 2012
2:19 pm
UGA 1999
Have you guys seen Newt’s ex wife…
You are a class act, represent everything that is wrong with Georgia
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
2:20 pm
gm…..you are right I AM A CLASS act….You didnt answer my question clown…have you seen her?
K4
January 19th, 2012
2:24 pm
Newt met his first wife while he was in High School and she was his teacher. He left her oin her sick bed for another woman, then left that woman for another 23-years his junior after asking for an open marriage. Yet he signs a pledge to protect marriage. This buffoon will collapse under the weight of his own hypocrisy. Americans will NEVER vote a lying, deceitful lech like this loser into the highest office in this land. You can bash Obama all you want, but he will NEVER lose to Newt.
clyde
January 19th, 2012
2:29 pm
Newt’s campaign gets another chance at life.Too bad. All that’s needed is someone who can blink his eyes to beat Obama and I’m not sure either Newt or Romney can do same.I am sure that Paul and Santorum can’t do it.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
2:37 pm
K4….WOW you sounds scared!….It is ok, you should be.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
2:37 pm
K4….”lying, deceitful lech”…..Can you please tell us all who Barry Soetoro is?
Also, what is a “lech”?
Jackson Baer
January 19th, 2012
2:38 pm
Ron Paul is the only one who stands for anything. He leaves the campaign trail to vote against the debt ceiling because he cares more about principle than a few damn votes. I’m thankful for his honesty and consistency, agree with him or not. He’s got my vote even though I disagree with a few of his stances. At least I know he won’t go back on his word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=262l6tbHSlU
http://www.whatthehellbook.com/2012/01/17/to-hell-with-peace/
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
2:40 pm
“represent everything that is wrong with Georgia”
That award goes to Cynthia McKinney and Jimmy Carter.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
2:41 pm
“Americans will NEVER vote a lying, deceitful lech ”
WRONG! They voted for Clinton twice and Obama once.
Try again.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
2:45 pm
‘Dusty your choice to endorse newt’s immoral lifestyle by voting to place him in the highest office in the land not only calls your own morality into question but demonstrates that your own claim to being a Christian to be absolutely FALSE. ”
There is nothing in the Bible that claims that anyone has to vote for any particular person.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
2:46 pm
” Christians demonstrate that Christianity itself is a Fraud”
???????????????
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
January 19th, 2012
2:47 pm
would going to say that the record numbers of folks on food stamps were an obstacle to Obozo, but the moocher class is his base, fer cryin’ out loud.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
2:56 pm
“would going to say that the record numbers of folks on food stamps were an obstacle to Obozo, but the moocher class is his base, fer cryin’ out loud.”
According to HDB, a food stamp recipient, they’re all happy to be on the government teet.
Streetracer
January 19th, 2012
2:58 pm
UGA @ 2:18
I guess that technically you are right. But for the last couple years there has been no “Official” budget, just continuing resolutions to keep funding government. Seems to me to be a little different.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
3:07 pm
Streetracer….this is why we needed the “Cut, Cap and Balance” approach.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
3:12 pm
Newts ex wife has GOT to be one of the ugliest women I have ever seen!
Streetracer
January 19th, 2012
3:27 pm
UGA – “Cut Cap and Balance” may be a start, but I would prefer a “Cut, Cut, Cut” approach. BTW I work for a State regulatory agency, and I strongly believe that my staff provides service to the citizens in excess of the little they are paid (I’m pretty sure all of them could make 20 – 30% more in industry or Fed government doing essentially what they do now). However, I could point out folks that aren’t worth the oxygen they consume.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
3:29 pm
“However, I could point out folks that aren’t worth the oxygen they consume.”
Michael Moore.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
3:31 pm
Streetracer…..Nearly every business (especially the government) has waste.
Jefferson
January 19th, 2012
3:33 pm
Newt was kidding on the better or worse part eh ?
K4
January 19th, 2012
3:34 pm
I find it very telling how conservatives like UGA 1999 are so ready to throw out their values for someone like Newt Gingrich. Typical conservative…
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
January 19th, 2012
3:36 pm
K4, why do you think social values mean anything when choosing a President?
How do social values and good governance intertwine at all?
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
3:37 pm
K4…Did I say I was throwing out my values? I just asked you who Barry Soetoro is?
HDB
January 19th, 2012
3:39 pm
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
2:12 pm
“For me….and many others, the economy is better under Obama than it was when the nation was BUSHwhacked!!”
Because you get double the welfare money?
Nope….NO WELFARE….I have a JOB!! It is EASIER for me to find employment when Democrats are in the WH….and I LOSE jobs when Republicans are in the WH!! Seems as the economy has a habit of CONTRACTING when Republicans are in control…and EXPANDING when Democrats are in power (and I’m an IT professional……)!!
You have to realize that everyone’s experience differs…but everyone’s REALITY is their truth!! Marginalizing someone else’s experience does nothing more than belittle YOU!!
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
3:40 pm
Obama has lost 2MILLION jobs during his term. How can you say it is easier to find work when a Democrat is in office? That is a BS comment.
HDB
January 19th, 2012
3:41 pm
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
2:56 pm
“would going to say that the record numbers of folks on food stamps were an obstacle to Obozo, but the moocher class is his base, fer cryin’ out loud.”
Question: when did this calamity START?? Answer: When the nation was BUSHwhacked!! The economic collapse STARTED under BUSH….and he should shoulder the preponderance of the blame!! Obama INHERITED this…….and you all know it!!
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
3:45 pm
HDB….your are correct the economic collapse partially started under Bush. But Obama has done NOTHING but make it worse. That you Obama, Pelosi, Reed, Dodd and Franks!
He has lost 2 Million jobs since his inaguration.
God, I hope he tried to blame bush in a debate. That will be the final dagger!
HDB
January 19th, 2012
3:46 pm
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
3:40 pm
“Obama has lost 2MILLION jobs during his term. How can you say it is easier to find work when a Democrat is in office?”
It’s NOT BS….when it happened to me!! For periods of upwards of TWO YEARS, when Republicans are in the White House, I couldn’t find a job; when the Democrat got into the White House, I was able to find employment within 90 DAYS!! That’s EIGHT TIMES LONGER to find a job when Republicans are in the White House!!
Employment is gaining now….check the BLS statistics……and lest you forget — under Bush, this nation LOST jobs…….
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
3:49 pm
HDB….NO WHERE NEAR AS MANY AS OBAMA HAS LOST. Look at the unemployments rates during Bush’s terms and now for Obama. Even under Bush they were never at 8%.
So you think that Obama and Democrats are SOLEY responsible for you getting a job? You really think it mattered to them that much that YOU
got a job?
HDB
January 19th, 2012
3:49 pm
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
3:45 pm
HDB….your are correct the economic collapse partially started under Bush.
Not partially….TOTALLY!! Start with 9/11 and NO TAX INCREASE to fund two wars….but borrowing from the Chinese; continue with a contracting economy, bank collapse, housing market decline, persistent offshoring of the manufacturing base…bank bailouts………
I know of many people who LOST jobs during the Bush Years…but are recovering now in the Obama Years (I, for one!); are you discounting their experiences???