Yesterday I gave you Rick Santorum’s CPAC speech. Today is Newt Gingrich’s turn. If Santorum Rocked the place, Gingrich Tore it up. He got the crowd cheering by the end of his 20 minutes. CPAC was one of the organizations that Gingrich actually helped to found, as one of the few conservatives in Washington D.C. There are a lot of folks who are counting Newt out once again. I am not one of them. While I will concede that he has been hurt from Florida on, one of the things Mitt and or Santorum needed to do to put him away was to have this thing won by Super Tuesday, which sees a huge amount of delegates being awarded in States which are in the Gingrich Wheelhouse. That is not going to happen. The momentum from this primary has shifted back and forth and back again. We may yet get our conservative candidate. Gingrich is my choice, but I would also feel comfortable voting for Santorum.
Special note to the Paulbats. Under no circumstances would I ever vote for your man. While the Libertarians may share fiscal conservatism with us, there ends the relationship. His views on foreign policy have crossed the boundaries from loopy to idiocy to downright dangerous a long time ago. On those issues, he is as loony a Liberal as there is, and his agenda would result in the deaths of Billions. So stop with the, “Ron Paul is the only true conservative,” nonsense already. He is an old hippie who took an economics class. His followers are young hippies with a slightly more annoying repartee than the originals.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Tags: CPAC, Newt Gingrich
Given the choice of three, I’d still go with Newt but would feel much better voting for Santorum than Romney.
My reasoning is as follows:
Teaching the establishment a lesson as to who’s in charge. Sounds petty and selfish, and maybe it is, but nevertheless it needs done. Their selection of Romney as the best candidate to support in 2012 represents the last straw. 2010 gave the voters a paradigm shift. Rather than embracing the Tea Party, or at the very least reaching out to make inroads, the party rebuffed the movement as a “fad,” and decided to stay the course as a party constantly on defense.
Both Santorum and Gingrich seem to have a grasp on exactly how screwed we are as country. Romney, OTOH, seems to live in a world where things just need “a little tweaking.” While I fear things about both candidates (Santorum’s proclivity for nation-building, and using the office as a bully pulpit for religious issues, and Gingrich’s tendency to go Big Government when he thinks he knows better than everyone else in particular), it pales in comparison to my fear that Romney will govern as “compromiser,” sullying the GOP beyond recognition as a party beholden to the progressive agenda and serving as merely a check on it.
I would love another option, I really would.
But we must play the hand that we’re dealt.
Also, I believe that Newt will be much more malleable as a leader than Santorum. His ego can be used to our advantage. Santorum – not at all. If he wants to do something, he’s going to do it, dammit, whether we like it or not.
@ Bumr50:
I know how you feel about another candidate, and it really is too bad we all took a pass on Perry. More to the point, I spoke to the ghost of Ronald Reagan last night, and he assured me that he is not running this year. Moreover, he is questioning as to whether he could even serve, having been President for a full two terms while alive. I believe that it is time that all of us on the political right move on from that paradigm. The perfect candidate who matches perfectly with the political philosophy of each and every one of us individually is simply not going to happen.
And Mitt wins CPAC. Go fucking figure.
@ John Difool:
The fix was in.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Coulter probably got to vote early and often.
@ John Difool:
@ Flyovercountry:
It’s uncanny!! He needs a boost and BAM!!
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“We’re only going to count the Romney votes.” – Maine GOP
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They probably had to cut off the caucus to save face and not have Ron Paul come out a winner.
Being the establishment pick REALLY gives you the path of least resistance.
5,000 people voted, and “Romney Wins Maine”?????????????
@ Bumr50:
Yep and on another site it says he only won by about 160 votes out of 5000. That’s why they want to stop counting.
@ Bumr50:
McCain took to the Senate floor to actually mock the
Tea Party. Of course that was after he was safely
reelected.
It is past time for McCain to retire.
I agree 1000% about Paul. If you listen to Paul talk about foreign policy and how and when our military should be used, I’d swear I was listening to Dennis Kucinich, and you don’t get anymore nuttier or dangerous than that libturd imbecile.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
I saw Paul and Kucinich side by side on MSNBC one afternoon and Paul made Kucinich look like the sane one.
@ RIX:
I think McCain benefits from lots of retirees in the GOP makeup of his state.
Not being ‘ageist’ here, but let’s face it, older folks are less likely to get their news from new media, and McCain’s the darling of network news shows as the ‘face of the GOP in the Senate.’
I suspect the same thing is evidenced in Romney’s big FL win.
FOC- There’s some kind of bleed-through of audio in the video. If you listen you can hear someone else talking in the background.
@ Bumr50:
That’s a fact. The media props up McCain as a
“powerful Republican”
They only thought that he was Satan when he was
running against Barack Hussein.
Now he is their favorite Repoublican again, because
he bashes Republicans.
@ John Difool:
They arrived on different mother ships.
Later Taters.
At this point I’m not even sure why we even bother with primaries. Lets just run the second-to-the-last loser every election. The party elites have already decided that Mitt is the anointed one and our voice and opinion doesn’t matter.
Cronyism at the state level is keeping other contenders off of the ballots. I’ve yet to run across a die-hard Mitt supporter on any of the blog forums I frequent. Even Hot Air which is notorious for it’s Rinoism, centrist and center-left contingent isn’t all that crazy about Mittens.
There is already talk about Jeb Bush overseeing a brokered convention which will only be a dog and pony show to further ensure Mitt is the one.
From here on out whenever the Bush’ are involved I expect Rinoism to win the day.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
I know, and it’s pretty much on every copy that I’ve found so far. I don’t know what to do about it.
@ Bumr50:
Actually the problem here in Arizona is Democraps voting FOR McSlime!
How do you beat someone that a few of your people are willing to vote for and most of the other side loves?
Flyovercountry wrote:
Here’s a good copy (I listened to all 33 minutes) from newt.org posted on youtube if you feel like changing it-
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Thanks, I’ve fixed it.
@ Bumr50:
@ RIX:
@ AZOlddog:
it isn’t just retirees or GOP retirees or Dem voters in AZ who continue to re-elect McCain. There is a rather large population of veterans and active military here who also consistently vote for McCain. Not that they or anyone else in the state has much choice. The Dems never run anyone against him. The GOP never helps any candidate in the primary – why should they? The GOP establishment loves McCain.
For the record, I voted against McCain in the primaries and haven’t voted for him in the general election for many years. I can’t stand the arrogant old bastard. When he mocked the Tea Party AND The Hobbits simultaneously last year (iirc) I moved from not being able to stand him to actively despising the old bastard. I wish he’d retire…someplace else.
Oh, during the ’08 campaign, I was still a member of the GOP in good standing so his campaign kept sending me letters begging for money. I sent every single one of them back and wrote in huge black sharpie marker messages like “NO MONEY FOR YOU! RETIRE ALREADY! SOMEPLACE ELSE!” it was my little protest. when he ran for senate, i received no begging letters. ‘course by then the old bastard had scads of cash.
well, i’m going to go shopping for the ingredients to make Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip Cookies.
For statehood day!
Or Valentines.
Or paying the bribe to my coworker with the sweet tooth who covered a meeting for those of us who were out of the office on business.
and pizza. i should make (semi-home-made) pizza too.
The Daily Mail digest
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@ 1 Bumr50: good points. what is amusing is all the people desperate to declare Romney the candidate.
@ darkwords:
The old monster with a heart of gold story.
@ John Difool:
lol here is another monster.
The idiocy of Samuel Jackson.
darkwords wrote:
Well, it’s a good thing blacks can’t be racist otherwise Fatty McBicycle might do a post on that.
darkwords wrote:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and Vito Corleone wanted Michael to stay out of the family business.
Kirly wrote:
I thought He was a “Maverick”??
Looks like the establishment is non-partisan.
Gingrich actually sounded pretty good at CPAC—and he looked more Presidential and less like Poppin’ Fresh in a grey Beatle wig.
I’m still not sure I trust him, but in the race between not-sure-I-trust-Gingrich and damn-sure-I-don’t-trust-Romney, Gingrich wins by a mile. Here’s hoping that Gingrich turns out to be the Tortoise to Romney’s Hair.