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Gingrich? Seriously?

We have months to go ... got to put the next guy in the rotation for a while so the media has something to do.

Seriously, is Gingrich really doing more than Cain - i.e. getting his name out there so he can raise his speaking fees ?
 
'Round and 'round we go, where she stops nobody knows...

Just like the damn circus :rolleyes:
 
TheL8Elvis said:
We have months to go ... got to put the next guy in the rotation for a while so the media has something to do.

Seriously, is Gingrich really doing more than Cain - i.e. getting his name out there so he can raise his speaking fees ?
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The entire GOP slate seems to have little else on their agenda.
 
What's with this consistent belief that Gingrich is 'fiercely intelligent', shared by all sides of the political spectrum?

I really don't see it. He also seems intensely dislikable, arrogant, smug and condescending.
 
The truth is, Gingrinch knows how the game is played, and he is not at all stupid. Most of his big mistakes have been not because he was dumb, but because he is so self centered that he cannot seem to avoid either monetary or sexual self-gratification.

But he is, in fact a good debater. He never flubs his lines like Rick Perry did (again) last night. And he is good at making smarmy insinuations without actually coming out with direct insults.

But he will never be nominated. Too many skeletons in too many closets, plus most Republicans remember painfully how he was badly outmaneuvered by Bill Clinton in the "Contract with America" deal. Still, I do have to give grudging respect to a wily politician.
 
At this point in race, Sarah Palin is beginning to look like she would be good candidate for GOP. I still think if Romney gets nomination the TEA people will push 3rd party candidate. Since this current crop is over ripe and falling off vine, I think maybe they pick Sarah.
 
Chungy said:
At this point in race, Sarah Palin is beginning to look like she would be good candidate for GOP. I still think if Romney gets nomination the TEA people will push 3rd party candidate. Since this current crop is over ripe and falling off vine, I think maybe they pick Sarah.
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Of all the people who might run on a third party ticket, I'd say Sarah is the most likely. Other candidates know that if they torpedo the GOP, they can't run for dogcatcher ever again. Sarah knows this too, but she doesn't care. As she demonstrated by resigining from her last job, she doesn't want to hold office. She wants to sell books and be on TV. She cares nothing for the nation or the GOP or really, even the Tea Party. She cares about Sarah Palin. Period.
 
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Tricky said:
Of all the people who might run on a third party ticket, I'd say Sarah is the most likely. Other candidates know that if the torpedo the GOP, they can't run for dogcatcher ever again. Sarah knows this too, but she doesn't care. As she demonstrated by resigining from her last job, she doesn't want to hold office. She wants to sell books and be on TV. She cares nothing for the nation or the GOP or really, even the Tea Party. She cares about Sarah Palin. Period.
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A third party run would be perfect for selling books, t-shirts, videos. Just like in Spaceballs; "Merchandising!"
 
Gingrich could be the one to step into the breech if Romney trips over his dick. He has been kind of sitting back while the others have popped their heads up in GOP whack-a-mole. He really needs Romney to stumble or he's not going anywhere.

Perry just put the last nail in his coffin and Cain will probably be descending to single digits shortly. Paul is pulling his usual 8% but won't go anywhere from there but will stay in the race til the end. Bachmann has been done for a month, stick a fork in her. Huntsman just can't get any traction. I don't know what he's doing but he needs to have a good showing (at least 2nd) in either Iowa or New Hampshire. His best shot would be focusing completely on New Hampshire, but that's still a long shot, so he'll be done after New Hampshire.

So in the end it really might come down to Romney and Gingrich. And at that point does Newt ramp up the anti-Mormon rhetoric and innuendo?
 
Spindrift said:
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Perry just put the last nail in his coffin and Cain will probably be descending to single digits shortly. ...
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I know this is true with those who answer that they plan to vote in the GOP primary, but has that number, the ones who plan to vote, been rising or falling? Because it is possible that a loon like Paul could take it if the ranks are spared down to just the insane.
 
BenBurch said:
I know this is true with those who answer that they plan to vote in the GOP primary, but has that number, the ones who plan to vote, been rising or falling? Because it is possible that a loon like Paul could take it if the ranks are spared down to just the insane.
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Another winning scenario for Ron Paul is the possibility that this crazy race for the GOP nomination drives a lot of GOP voters insane.
 
Gingrich is getting another look because all the Stop Romney candidates are crashing and burning. What amuses (and torments) me is that in 2008 Romney was essentially the choice of the Stop McCain faction.

It is said that the Democrats fall in love and the Republicans fall in line. A more apt comparison is that the Democrats fall in love and get married, while the Republicans have a shotgun wedding.
 
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Out of curiosity, are the delagates legally committed to specific candidates these days or can we actually see a good old fashioned floor fight at the GOP convention next summer?
 
Alferd_Packer said:
Out of curiosity, are the delagates legally committed to specific candidates these days or can we actually see a good old fashioned floor fight at the GOP convention next summer?
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I believe they are committed by party rules. Not sure if it's a law. I doubt we'll ever see a good old-fashioned floor fight given the way the primaries work now. Once someone gets ahead in the early primaries it seems that the vast majority jumps on the wagon. People like voting for a winner.
 
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So in the end it really might come down to Romney and Gingrich. And at that point does Newt ramp up the anti-Mormon rhetoric and innuendo?
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There's no way Gingrich can credibly run under a "Christian Values" banner. That's too surreal even for the current political milieu.

The nominee has to be Romney. The real question is whether some half-known religious crazy will then run on some kind of anti-Mormon, "True Christian", Bull Moose ticket. If so, the election is over, and we can hand it to Obama. If not, then we might just have ourselves a ball game.

But a year is a long time.
 
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