"But, this upward trend is also correlates with a simultaneous downward movement of Mitt Romney's likelihood of winning the presidency if he wins the nomination, now at 44.0, down from about 48 percent."

Excellent! Gingcreep is not only making Obama look MORE popular he is ruining the chances for Romney to defeat Obama should he win the Party Nod.

Gingrich is unelectable.

Inevitable, frankly.

"Gingrich is unelectable."

So was Truman....

Oliver Stone said he would vote for Ron Paul rather than Obama.

"So was Truman...."

Truman wasn't an total scumbag running on a "family values" type platform. Its literally impossible for a rational person to believe in Newt's platform without also believing that Newt is a total scumbag.

"Truman wasn't an total scumbag running on a "family values" type platform. Its literally impossible for a rational person to believe in Newt's platform without also believing that Newt is a total scumbag."

Seeing as you were born decades after Truman, and have no fucking clue what he ran on, what makes you open your yap and pretend you know wtf you are talking about?

Nobody remembers the primaries, so all this stuff going on won't mean jack once the real campaign starts.

Two times the Republicans tossed Reagan out, because they didn't like him or he was un-electable.

Boy were they wrong those two times.

So was Bush and Reagan.

I voted for paul in the sc primary. media outlets didn't even want to publish his name in the results. friend who are avid gingrich supporters say that he'll tap santorum as his veep.

to that i'll reply that he'll loose more independents than he's loosing right now.

And probably a lot of Republicans should Gingrich be the nominee:

Steve Schmidt, former McCain advisor:

[N]ot only are we not moving towards a coalescing of support by the Republican establishment for Newt Gingrich, we're probably moving toward the declaration of war on Newt Gingrich by the Republican establishment. And if Newt Gingrich is able to win the Florida primary, you will see a panic and a meltdown of the Republican establishment that is beyond my ability to articulate in the English language.

People will go crazy and you will have this five week period until the Super Tuesday states which is going to be as unpredictable, tumultuous as any period in modern American politics. It will be a remarkable thing to watch should that happen in Florida.

Henry Barbour, nepotistic political hack:

"I like having a Republican speaker of the House," Barbour cracked, suggesting Gingrich would be a disaster as the GOP nominee. "He puts all our down-ticket candidates at risk."

Brit Hume, Ann Coulter, George Will:

"Believe me, Republicans in Congress will be terrified to run with this man for fear that they will lose the House and the Senate," said Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume. "They will begin to try to do what they can to defeat him."

Also on Fox, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said, "with Newt Gingrich, you throw out the baby and keep the bathwater."

And on "ABC This Week" Sunday, conservative columnist George Will remarked: "All across the country this morning, people are waking up who are running for office as Republicans, from dogcatcher to Senate, and they're saying, 'Good God, Newt Gingrich might be at the top of this ticket."

Go Newt!

So who thinks that if the GOP Establishment manages to squeak out an electoral victory in the Primary with Mitt that Newt and the TP won't run 3rd Party and hand the election to Obama?

I think they would, and it could be about the only thing that could realistically split one of the 2 major parties.

btw, has Obama gotten his laughing spasms under control since Noot won SC?

Gingrich can run on the values of "If I get my wife, mistress, and your wife pregnant, consider it a gift" That should get the real conservatives out!

"Seeing as you were born decades after Truman, and have no fucking clue what he ran on, what makes you open your yap and pretend you know wtf you are talking about?"

Is any poster here more worthless and consistently bested than Lispee Old Coot?

Here's a lesson, bitchtits: Things like this are part of the historical record. People who read know all kinds of things they didn't witness firsthand.

Any more amazingly ignorant comments/questions for your intellectual superiors?

"Is any poster here more worthless and consistently bested than Lispee Old Coot?"

Certainly not by a retard like you who admitted he actually believe Cain didn't know China had nukes? You really think you should be exposing that man slit Sally?

"Here's a lesson, bitchtits: Things like this are part of the historical record. People who read know all kinds of things they didn't witness firsthand."

Really? How many retorts since you have been here involved your vast knowledge of Truman? Or any other presidential candidates platform for that matter?

"Really? How many retorts since you have been here involved your vast knowledge of Truman? Or any other presidential candidates platform for that matter?"

Huh? If you have evidence that he was a cheating scumbag in his personal life while runing on a platform that includes "family values" type rhetoric, by all means, let me know. That's the only way your criticism of me is at all valid. If you can't do that, then just shut the fuck up, you fat old retard.

"That's the only way your criticism of me is at all valid."

Huh? Pointing out some clown talking out of his ass is criticism?

If you can't do that, then just shut the fuck up, you fat old retard.

LMAO... I'm going to use that next time I make a bad shot. Usually I say middle age golf swing. But fat, old retarded swing sounds much better. Acronym is Taylor Made as well... F-O-R

Oh baby, now the democrats are getting scared, cause if gingrich becomes the nominee obama will surely be toast.

Not a chance of getting reelected.

Got to make it look like obama is doing better but reality he won't be.

"Rising Gingrich Popularity Driving Voters to Support Obama"

And the thought of choosing between the two enough to drive anyone with two brain cells to drink.

The slime ball media knows Obama is going to lose. That's why they are trying to get Romney nominated. They might possibly be able to live with Romney as long as he stops donating so much money to the mormon church.

#20 | Posted by mysterytoy

Boy, you are one paranoid bozoid.

PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER WAS AHEAD OF CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR RONALD WILSON REAGAN BY +30 POINTS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL POLLS. DON'T FALL FOR THIS BULL#$&! AMERICA!!!!!! THEY WANT YOU VOTING FOR MASSACHUSETTS LIBERAL MITT ROMNEY

#22 | POSTED BY JOSEYANDTHEPUSSYCATS

All caps?

Cruise control for cool, is that.

So instead of a Vulture capitalist set on fulfilling Mormon prophecy while turning America into a land of serfs and heir owners you'd rather see the serial adulterer ethically challenged ex-lobbyist who's a tool for the radical Christian right?

Well, aren't you special.

Be Well.

"PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER WAS AHEAD OF CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR RONALD WILSON REAGAN BY +30 POINTS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL POLLS"

Ah, that old tactic: lie.

"PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER WAS AHEAD OF CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR RONALD WILSON REAGAN BY +30 POINTS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL POLLS"

Ah, that old tactic: lie.
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#24 | Posted by Danforth at 2012-01-25 02:00 AM

That old tactic? Dancing Dan's anal retentive two step? Exactly where is the lie in that post, which for some reason Drudge's prodigal child decided to call out? Then call said poster a liar, when it is obvious one did their homework and who looks like a chump?

......Romney is the only Repub nominee left who could have upset Obama......

.....the other three all lose the undecided/centrist vote.......

Add to the list of unelectable Obama, and he is unelectable. The political hacks are trying real hard to make him seem electable, but they are ignoring independents and democrats that bolted from the radical left wing democratic party. There is a very deep dislike for Obama among the voters he needs most, independents. This is still a wide open race and most likely will not be decided until super Tuesday, but that is okay imagine being stuck with an albatross like Obama for a candidate. I do not like Newt, but I would certainly vote for him rather than see Obama continue to destroy this country. I am one of many.

There are deep divisions on the right. Several books could be written as to why and how they occurred but from their immediate point of view no matter, they have an election to win.

The party establishment takes the cautious approach and selects Romney thinking that he can be sold as a moderate to middle America.

The base, including the TPers, takes one look at him and sees a very weak candidate that they don't like, one whose past consists of things like health care reform that are anathema to them. It doesn't matter whether they are right or wrong about that, that is what they believe having been bombarded about it by the right's propaganda machine for years now. Like it or not Romney's Mormonism is anathema to a large section of the base too, again the result of the right's use of anything available, in this case religion, to get and keep Bush in office.

Middle America takes one look at him and sees nothing but a political opportunist only interested in getting a shot at the presidency and with a past and present consisting of extremely dubious business and financial practices.

On top of all that he's a flip-flopper, looks like a Ken doll and has all the charisma of Dick Cheney on a bad day.

So along comes the charismatic but shallow Gingrich who like Trump, Bachmann, Cain and Perry before him would be regarded as a joke candidate in a party that had any credibility whatsoever. S. Carolina did not see the joke however, Florida might follow suit.

Cannot disagree, there is a fight for control of the republican party. If the tea party people win the party will revert to what it should be small government, fiscal sanity, if not we will be left with tweedlee or tweedldum when we vote. Right now those running the party are more interested in winning congress than the white house because that is where the money is. They are freaking out to think that a cnservative might be the candidate becasue they think they will lose the congress. These are also the bozo's that think you should not say anything negative about Obama, sure worked well for McCain last time around.

Actually there needs too be a realignment split democrats into liberal and conservative same for the republican party. In my opinion both parties are not offering their base what they want. Unless we get someone in that will chop the spending, and yes it means we will have some tough times, we are going down the same road as Greece. We already have 47 to 48 per cent of the population paying no federal income tax. We cannot sustain this and not end up bankrupt, there will be nobody left to pay the bill. The wealthy can simply pick up and move to another country then we have no tax base. (remember the top 10% of wage earners pay about 75% of the income taxes) This spend, spend, spend attitude has to stop or we will suffer as a result.

Gingrich Surge Helps Obama

This is what the MSM wants you to believe because the elites are terrified of Gingrich.

......Romney is the only Repub nominee left who could have upset Obama......

.....the other three all lose the undecided/centrist vote.......

#26 | Posted by skizziks

The libs all chant;

god is great
god is good
yay............obamer

Beating Obama in the election is a given, even if the republicns run Mickey Mouse. This is the same election we had in 1980, a Carter did an awful job, just like Obama, and the voters threw him out. The pollsters had Carter winning up to the last week, trying to convince voters that he was the best choice. Funny how history repeats itself.

One thing for sure Jimmy Carter will have his wish, he will not carry the "worst president ever" to the grave, Obama will be bestowed with that "honor". And just like Carter 20 years later it becomes very, very apparent what a screw up Obama was. The middle east problems can be laid at Carters feet, the giveaway of the Panama Canal, and we can go on and on. Same will be true of Obama, the devestating effects of his presidency will be even more apparent 15-20 years down the road.
It is history repeating itself.

Oliver Stone said he would vote for Ron Paul rather than Obama.

sadly for both of them, he'll never ever get the opportunity.

You need only check the local Real Estate offices - find how many houses are 1) Bank Owned, 2) In Foreclosure, 3) Being Sold at Auction, 4) REO, 5) Abandoned! Tells the story of the last 5 - 6 years, and how much worse the last 2 - 3 have been! 'Re-elect me - I'll set you free!'

With this as the lead story, after the Republican candidate is selected, plus the Under Employment of 7 - 9% of the working population, what narative is there left for Obama to use?

Oil and Nat Gas development? Expansion on PRIVATE land, reduction by DOE / EPA on PUBLIC land / off-shore (approx 7 approvals - normal average 20 - 25 in the same time frame)! New rules / regulations restricting (some currently waived - until after election(?)) the ability to drill baby, drill!

Impossible to build a SEVEN MILE pipe line from Canada to the United States to reduce our dependence on foreign oil from unfriendly places, but 'a pipe line can STILL be built from South Dakota to Texas', by-passing PUBLIC lands w/o interference from the FEDS! JEEZ! Now who's not that bright?

dog, the un-employment numbers are cooked books. For the real kicker on the employment situation here in the USA, chech the EMPLOYMENT numbers. There are far less people working now than there was in 2000

They just don't get it, their problem is themselves and their inability to deal with the disparate and irreconcilable elements that they allowed allowed to coalesce inside their party. But instead of addressing that all they can do is parrot the steady stream of negativity and hatred towards Obama and the Dems pumped at them nonstop by their media. Their arguments are juvenile, the sort of thing that goes around high school.

The only conclusion that makes any sense(to them, if no one else) is that the Republicans made a strategic decision to oppose and obstruct everything that Obama might try to do. The American public as a whole will make their own decision about this and that might go either way so corrupt has our electoral system become.

I prefer to think that the American public is not stupid, again as a whole, not the loony subset of it represented by most of the rightnuts who post here. They can figure who caused the mess and who is trying to do something about it, however inadequately at times, and who isn't.

Operation ChaosToo:
all democrats (in states with open primary laws) should vote for Gingrich.

**** Newt Gingrich a.k.a. Loot Stinkrich $$$

"Gingrich is unelectable."

So was Truman....

#4 | Posted by jestgettinalong

Noot is no Truman.