Can any of the big GOP backers on this form tell me why no one likes Santorum?
I ask as a serious question. To me Newt and Romney look beyond atrocious candidates, both destine to be smashed by Obama. I know the conservatives don't like a guy who follows the constitution, and has libertarian positions, like Ron Paul, so he's out of the question...So why are none of you backing Santorum??
He seems the only one left who has the conservative "family values", and does not carry the endless baggage of a Romeny or Gingrich. He's good at debates, makes good speeches, ext.
I just don't get why the conservative base is not jumping all over this guy, and instead going for two complete clowns that have no shot vs Obama. Anyone want to enlighten me?

Going to soon make my declaration for citizenry in the Isle of the Man, the way things are going!

I still don't think the SC result means much.
When the forces that be line up behind a guy (as they are with Romney), I think he will still be the chosen one. When they go to FL, the MEGA GOP machine will FLOOD the air ways to panic all the seniors down there, and Mitt will win pretty handily, no doubt. Barring, of course that he does not CONTINUE to melt down. WOW, has there EVER been a worse group of CLOWNS running in the GOP field? Ron Paul should get out NOW, and declare 3rd party, just to get away from the idiocy of these remaining 3!

Obama is a TOTAL SHOE IN come November.
The fact that someone like Obama, who has pretty much been a complete disaster over 3 1/2 years, will win EASY, should tell you all you need to know of the GOP field!
WOW; is this country going to hell FAST!

Noot Wins!!!! Oh please let him be the rebuttlicken nominee...tee hee hee.

916Li, thank for the language police correction. The message stands. Republicans per Krauthammer are going over the cliff. Happy landing humpty dumpty:}

"Thanks Chuck, I could not said it any better.".......Coming up with sentences like that one, I would definitely agree with you--there is no way you could have said it any better:)

The following from Charles Krauthammer, "The Republican Suicide March", January 20, 2012.
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"The Republicans serve as the protectors and enablers of the plutocrats, the exploiters who have profited while America suffers. They put party over nation, fat-cat donors over people, political power over everything."
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Thanks Chuck, I could not said it any better.

There are plenty of things to talk about Wisbaglady. Richy Rich Mitt's habit of running good companies into the ground just to squeeze the money out of them. How about Noot's plan to give the minority kids a work ethic by making them clean school toilets, or his "liberal" lifestyle? Take your pick.

Uh, Wisbaglady, the story is about the Republican Primary not the incumbent President. So why not talk up the boys instead of talk down the President?

wislady, you are a piece of work.
;-)

NEWT!!!!

Why is Walker campaigning outside the state? Is he running for president or for governor in those other states too? Just wondering.

In the words of the great Rick Perry, "oops"

Duh walter. It's acceptable on the state level when the state is (R), but NEVER ok on the federal level when that fed is a (D). How do you not understand how hypocrisy works??

Bogus statement???? You are denying that service men have died in helicopter crashes this week? Incredible.

Pathetic NON response from someone who is supposed to be the Commander in Chief. No excuses for his lack of failure in acknowledging those troops.

Except when he does acknowledge troops, he can't even pronounce the word correctly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlkK65y_-...

wislady,
Why shouldn't President Obama campaign? Do you find fault with it simply because you disagree with his policies? If that's the case, Republicans should not be allowed to campaign either because I disagree with their policies. That doesn't make me sound like I'm jacked up in the head or anything, now does it?

Another bogus statement from WISLADY about the servicemen that recently died. I agree with WALTER and would add that it is possible that your brain's filtering mechanism may be breaking down. This may result in the disturbing comments that you continue to exhibit in the forum. Are you also having memory and excessive anxiety?

WalterReuther

Quit defending the empty suit....he could have said those words quicker than the comedy act he did the other night.

wislady,
I'm sure the President has been briefed and acknowledged the death of those service people. Do you want him to have a press conference everytime something happens somewhere in the world? And in case you weren't aware, the members of Congress represent the people of the states that they are from. They could be out encouraging their constituents to file these lawsuits. Hell, they could take it upon themselves to file lawsuits right now. Have they done it? Nope. Will they? Only if they want to be looked at as conspiracy theorizing kooks like Orly Taitz and her merry band of crazies and racists who you seem intent to cast your lot in with.

Btw,

Has the Campaigner in Chief even acknowledged the death of the service members of the two recent helicopter crashes in Afghanistan? Especially since 6 of them killed were Hawaii based.....his "home" state.

It is before a court, it is not up to Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, or anyone in Congress.

"on stage at the Apollo the other night"...wasn't that one of the 3 high pricey events for campaigning? He "sang" 6 words....with a teleprompter.

wislady,
That is called loons grasping at straws. Don't you think if this was legitimate, the establishment Republican party would be all over it? Why do you think it gets no news coverage? Because people that actually matter won't touch it. Where's John Boehner on this? Where's Eric Cantor on this? Where's Mitch McConnell on this? If this was something worth pursuing, wouldn't the party leadership pursue it? The birther thing is dead. The general public opinion of the people still banging that drum is that they are hard core racists. Do you wanna know how worried President Obama is about this lawsuit filed by a "resident of Georgia"? He's soooo worried that he was on stage at the Apollo the other night singing an Al Green song.....to Al freakin' Green! Our President doesn't seem like a man very worried about losing his job.

Someone might have to take off a day from the campaign trail...or maybe he can campaign along the way if he takes the Darth Vader bus.

Judge Orders Obama To Appear In Court

A judge in Georgia has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court for a hearing on a complaint challenging Mr. Obama’s eligibility to hold the office.

http://www.kwtx.com/news/headlines/Judge...

I comment on why I favor Newt, but I doubt he will beat the Republican establishment candidate. Newt is a long shot. In the end, it depends on money, and Mitt gets the Republican money, just as Obama got the Democrats money instead of Hillary in 08.

I am sure that we have all had a professor
like Newt at one time or another.
Was it as good for you
as it was for me?
;-)

Yes Sara, who is the best candidate to get Harry Reid to move on these bills passes by the House? Who knows where the bathrooms are?
Who can light a fire under congress?

Unions represent 13% of America's work force according to the Bureau of Labor statistics in Wisconsin.

If you want a good laugh, come over and I'll show you my union pension. starting in 1975. It pays my cable bill. HAAAAA. The joke is on me.

Jobs for all Americans, not just the insiders.

For over two decades, Gingrich has taught at the United States Air Force's Air University, where he is the longest-serving teacher of the Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course.[84] In addition, he is an honorary Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at the National Defense University and teaches officers from all of the defense services.[85][86] Gingrich informally advised Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on strategic issues, on issues including the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Now, who is better qualified to be commander-in-chief? Mitt?

The nation's unemployment rate has gone down by .6% since August. Overall unemployment continues to trend downward. 200,000 private sector jobs were created nationwide in December (too bad all we did was lose jobs here in WI). Anybody that thought that Bush's mess could get cleaned up over night doesn't know their rear end from their elbow. Our President has been working and that work is starting to pay off.
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You want stats? Here ya go:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.n...
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One question for ya, gpaw. Are "union jobs", as you call them (whatever that means), not American jobs?

Are you sure that wasn't
Hot Air University?

Holy mackerel!
Holy carp!
Birthers?
Really?
Stupid and crazy
is a powerful combination.

Obama said he would focus on jobs on day one, unfortunately he was talking union jobs. Everyone else your out of luck. Had he focused on American jobs on day one, I would be on Obama's team.

Did you know Newt taught the last 20 years at Air University? I didn't.

I'm not sure Newt would be the smartest man in the room. I've no doubt that he always believes he is the smartest man in the room. In fact, over the years he has directly compared himself to:
Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Henry Clay
Charles De Gaulle
William Wallace
Pericles
The Duke of Wellington
a Viking
Thomas Edison
Vince Lombardi
The Wright Brothers
Moses
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If you believe the hot gasses coming out of Newt's pie hole, how could you not support the guy? According to Gingrich's self made mythology, he's the greatest man in the history of the world. In fact, he once said:
“I first talked about saving civilizaton in August Of 1958.”
My God! 1958? Why haven't we been listening?!
He also said:
“I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet, and I'm doing it."
He unleashed that bombshell back in 1985! How did we not realize that Newt has been shifting the planet for so long?

I believe Newton is a stronger candidate than Willard as the media will roast Mitt over the Cayman Islands issues, millionaire/almost a billionaire, class warfare, born with a silver spoon as Bush was. Obama will be the champion of the working man/women.

I read Newts bio, and he has the most experience to be commander-in-chief. He will be the smartest man in the room.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingri...

I also supported James Richard Perry, (JR from Austin Texas) that didn't work out, so what do I know?

SB1

You obviously didn't read my comment. The documents are available online....

I don't know what happened in the limo, I wasn't there, and I don't care.

I do know Newt has paid for his sins back in 1998 when resigned over the Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal. Who would have thought when Clinton waved his finger at the nation and said he never had sex with Monica, that Newt, Bob Barr, Bob Livingston, and a few others would all go down as hypocrites and leave office.

John Boehner led a coup against Newt back in 1997. I think the Republican establishment hates Newt more than the Democrats.

I'm not sure it matters who South Carolina chooses. It doesn't seem to be a state that shares the establishment Republican party's views on policy. In fact, during the debate when a candidate suggested the idea of cutting spending, the audience actually booed him.

wislady,
He was cleared of almost all of the ethics charges, but the fact remains that his own party finds him incredibly hard to work with and pushed for his ouster at the time. Gingrich continues to be looked at as a detriment to his own party by many Republicans.

It seems that "eligibility issue" just won't go away.

http://askmarion.wordpress.com/2012/01/1...

gpaw,
Yes, many drug users/dealers have a criminal history, but this Sinclair person's criminal history has extensive convictions for crimes directly related to LYING. I'd be careful putting your confidence in someone like him. You have to ask yourself, would you believe this man if he was making the same claim against a politician that you actually supported? I don't think you would.

SB1
Ethics Investigation
In 1999, after a 3 ½ year investigation, the Internal Revenue Service (under President Bill Clinton) concluded that Gingrich did not violate any tax laws, leading renowned CNN Investigative Reporter Brooks Jackson to remark on air “it turns out [Gingrich] was right and those who accused him of tax fraud were wrong.”

Eighty four politically motivated ethics charges were filed against Newt when he was Speaker of the House regarding the use of tax exempt funds for a college course he taught titled “Renewing American Civilization.” Eighty-three of the eighty-four charges were found to be without merit and dropped. The remaining charge had to do with contradictory documents prepared by Newt’s lawyer supplied during the course of the investigation. Newt took responsibility for the error and agreed to reimburse the committee the cost of the investigation into that discrepancy. In 1999, after a 3 ½ year investigation, the Internal Revenue Service (under President Bill Clinton, nonetheless) concluded that Gingrich did not violate any tax laws, leading renowned CNN Investigative Reporter Brooks Jackson to remark on air “it turns out [Gingrich] was right and those who accused him of tax fraud were wrong.”

http://www.newt.org/answers#Ethics

Here is the link to the Ethics Transcript....

http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/...

I believe the video because it is so amateurish and if a political dirty trick would have been done much more professionally.

Who in their right mind would step-out to be hammered.

Most drug dealers/users have a criminal past.

People don't use crack cocaine don't stop at once. They struggle a long time.

The lie detector test results are suspicious as no matter if Larry is telling the truth, team Obama will brand him a liar.

As I said, no one in their right mind would come out as Sinclair did. If I was Larry, I would hide somewhere in Alaska.

Obama was never vetted. He now needs a drug test.
Let's keep it on the issues. I am more concerned about jobs for my grand-kid.

I don't care about Newt's marriages of 15 years ago, and I don't care about Obamas drug problems.

I'de rather the presidential campaign be about jobs and the future, but if democrats want to use Newts infidelities from 1998, then Obama's boy friend and crack cocaine from 1999 is fair game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceFVpJ-G...

It will not matter (other then Paul) -Obama is a one term President!....period!

mouse again and male egos. Why don't you ask Clinton, or Dodd or Weiner or Edwards or Rangle or Kerry or Gore or any Kennedy still alive, etc, etc, etc.......

fear&rhetoric:
Ron Paul really should have never run in the GOP field. I HOPE that his strategy was simply to use the GOP debates, ext; to get some free press, to then launch his independent run at it. It's BEYOND a mockery what Faux and the GOP establishment have done to the guy. You turn on faux right now, and I kid you not, they are saying that it's now a "3 person race" now that Perry withdrew...I guess that would have merit if the 4th person was polling like 1-2%. However; Paul is polling HIGHER then the their 3rd man (Santorum)! HAHA.
It's become so transparent how Faux is the mouth piece of the GOP establishment. Dick Morris, Karl Rove..All these guys do is come NON STOP onto shows like Hannity, O'Reiley to promote their agenda straight out of GOP headquarters.
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You are pretty much right on that the Republicans are cooked no matter who wins now. Romney would have no shot (as I have detailed in many other blog postings)..Gingrich would fare better just because he's a great con man. Can make great speeches and sound bites, much the way Bill Clinton could (and has the SAME baggage Clinton had to boot!). If it was Gingrich, you'd at least have some debates that were fun to watch. However; I still can't see it not being Romney. When the power brokers line up their mega bankroll and influence behind someone, that person usually will win. WOW, is this guy bad though. Talk about IMPLOSION when he's been trying to sit on a padded lead.

So ezoner Gingrich will clock Obama in debates? No matter how much you hate him the man iis a brilliant orator and will certainly hold his own against a man who has NO moral values and very little support among his colleagues.
That being said I certainly want to see Gngrich be the nominee. He will tell all of you zombies that his indiscretions and asking wife number 2 for an open marriage with wife number 3, were because he was working so hard for the nation! And you will believe him! One thing I can tell you, NONE of these condidates is turing out southern evangelicals in huge numbers, and without them, the GOP has NO chance in this next election. Santorum was the only chance repubs had, and they are running from him.
Again use the teleprompter argument against Obama all you like, but every president has had one. Obama was extraordinary in the debates in 2008, not that he had to be, and will be again in 2012.that doesnt mean he will talk me into voting for him, but to dismiss him as a debater is not a very good assumption. Ron Paul is picking apart all of these clowns and the republicans are sprinting from him. If RP runs as an independant, he has a GREAT chance of not only showing up well, but winning. If anything the Ron Paul factor hurts repubs, badly.

Neither one beleives in a womans right....... but both believe it's a right to have multiple women. What's with the Republican male ego?

Romney has been campaigning for 5 years. Newt's been in and out for decades. If this is the best and brightest the Republican'ts can come up with, they are the massive joke they deserve to be.

It's at once hilarious and sad that the Republican party, the so-called 'party of values', can present nobody better than Newt or Romney as candidates. This party is a mere shadow of the Republican party of past generations.

It really is sad that these two are the cream of the crop in the Republican Party. I was seriously considering Romney in the 2008 election but now the more I look into his background, I cannot vote for him. He is the ultimate corporatist; he has said publicly that corporations ARE PEOPLE. Being CEO of Bain Capital he played a huge part in the pilfering of companies and off shoring of jobs, which is a large part of why the economy is where it is. On top of that how he uses tax shelters to get out of paying taxes. It may be legal but it certainly isn’t moral, so much for paying his fare share. In addition he wants to cut capital gains tax to 0. That is how he and hedgefund managers claim their income, as capital gains. It's bad enough that they are only paying 15%, he wants to pay nothing. “Is it possible that a candidate worth close to a quarter of a billion dollars, who refuses to release his tax returns and who reportedly has millions stashed away in the Cayman Islands, is having trouble connecting with the common man?” Martin Bashir

As always, Mr. Stewart with a spot on bit regarding Newt

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-ja...

This is getting so confusing. I don't know if I should vote for Larry, Darryl, or their brother Darryl.
http://youtu.be/TN6UAzYY8qg

Newt was Herman before Herman was Herman. 3rd wife?? Left the first two WHEN they were sick?? This is an incredibly immoral individual. The fact that it happened 10-20 years ago is the only reason he is still in the race. Or he would be Herman Cain. Funny that someone like this could even make it as far as he has, yet his party won't afford equal rights to two humans who love each other, because they may be the same sex. Shameful.

This is the kind of dishonesty we can expect from newt the bug:
GINGRICH: "Under Jimmy Carter, we had the wrong laws, the wrong regulations, the wrong leadership, and we killed jobs. We had inflation. We went to 10.8 percent unemployment. Under Ronald Reagan, we had the right job — the right laws, the right regulators, the right leadership. We created 16 million new jobs."

THE FACTS: Under Carter's presidency unemployment never topped 7.8 percent. The unemployment rate did reach 10.8 percent, but not until November 1982, nearly two years into Reagan's first term.

All four of the remaining Republicans don't stand a chance against Obama. Republicans better have something up their sleeve if they want to beat Obama. Newt and Mitt can't do it.

Romney is done. It will be a blast to watch Obama debate Gingrich. -- Obama cant read fast enough to handle Gingrich and will look stupid in a debate. Gingrich wont handle general appearances well, but will clock Obama in debates. Will be fun to watch.

If this is the best the GOP has I can see why they have to use big corporate money to try to buy the elections. I would vote for a tin can first. Oh and before all you righties call me an evil union lover--these elections will be the first time I vote for Dem's. (I'm a Grandmother--I don't live in a basement)won't be the last---recall wanker-oops--walker.

These two remind me of Feduptaxpayer (Romney) vs. Wisladyloser (Gingrich)
A real 2ist Century comedy.

If these two end up the only options it would be great as they are both idiots and don't have a chance in heck lol what a joke. If the GOP want to win they need to find someone worthy Which IMO is not going to happen.....