Citizenkh I’m not saying you won’t vote for Romney if he is the Republican candidate but will you go and knock on a thousand doors for him?

I think the majority of conservatives won’t get out there with their support.

are from everything BUT consumer-goods manufacturing – and it will stay that way until we can figure out how to make things without employing people to do it (beyond a few skilled (degreed) techs to keep automated systems running).

Promoting the fantasy that the US can, much less should, compete with the 3rd world for unskilled and marginally skilled labor manufacturing businesses does us NO service.

While I agree with you on the importance of petrochemicals, the ‘bring back the 50s’ obsession with obsolete & unprofitable business ventures is NOT something the GOP needs to cling to…

The era of a ‘middle class’ life with a high school diploma and ‘hard work’ is over, because the rest-of-the-world can now do those jobs, and can do them without demanding US-level wages.

But the only way our work-force will realize this (especially the younger generation reaching the end of their HS careers & making the decision as to what path their life will take) is if we stop pandering (eg, promises to ‘bring back’ jobs from overseas) & trade-protection, and just let it sink in ‘Those days are gone, learn a skill that can make money in TODAY’s economy (hint: B.S. degree or military service likely required), or it’s a life of burger-flipping & shelf-stocking for you’…

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I am so disappointed in you Eric

Erick advising Perry to drop out and endorse Newt is not a good idea. ABC is sitting on a story of interview with his ex-wife. ABC is sitting on it until the votes are counted from the SC primary. This does not sound good and could finish Newt. If I were Perry, I would just set tight and see what shakes out. Erick making these comments will discourage voters. Perry is very good at retail politics and has been out and about hitting some very large venues today.

HIs inability to keep it in his pants makes him unelectable as a Republican.

The GOP is supposed to be the ‘values party’, and like it or not we can’t have a man just as sleazy as BJ Billy be our Presidential candidate, and hope to win the election.

It doesn’t matter that he’s ‘Not Romney’, because he’s also ‘Not going to beat Obama’ – no matter how good of a debater he is.

I hope ABC drops the bomb BEFORE the election.

If they’d dropped it back before (or just after) Iowa, Perry would probably be back on top…

Based on more and more information on both Romney and Gingrich, I think Perry should definitely stay in after South Carolina. From what I’m seeing, both Gingrich and Romney may start to see a downward spiral. I don’t think the voting public will be too thrilled hearing that Romney effectively pays only about 15% of his income in taxes, has millions banked offshore in the Cayman Islands and may not have created those 100,000 jobs he’s cited. Who only knows what information is lurking in Gingrich’s past? Everyday seems to bring out another piece that makes him seem more and more like Mitt, but without the marital constancy.

NEWT EX-WIFE UNLOADS ON CAMERA; NETWORK DEBATES ‘ETHICS’ OF AIRING BEFORE SC PRIMARY

**Exclusive**
Wed Jan 18 2012 18:47:14 ET

Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband’s career with a single interview.

Earlier this week, she sat before ABCNEWS cameras, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

She spoke to ABCNEWS reporter Brian Ross for two hours, and her explosive revelations are set to rock the trail.

But now a “civil war” has erupted inside of the network, an insider claims, on exactly when the confession will air!

MORE

ABCNEWS suits determined it would be “unethical” to run the Marianne Gingrich interview so close to the South Carolina Primary, a curious decision, one insider argued, since the network has aggressively been reporting on other candidates.

A decision was tentatively made to air the interview next Monday, after all votes have been counted.

Gingrich canceled a press conference on Wednesday to deal with the matter.

“He believes that what he says in public and how he lives don’t have to be connected,” Marianne Gingrich, Newt’s wife of 18 years, explained to ESQUIRE last year.

Developing…

http://drudgereport.com/flash2.htm

According to a reportedly informed source.

No new information.

And by giving this interview right before the South Carolina primary she’s making herself look like someone who would make an absolutely horrific spouse.

She’ll be a walking mitigating circumstance.

regardless. He is no quitter and is the only 3-legged candidate we have. And don’t think the others don’t know that! They can blabber all they wish but in no way can they produce written proof of what they say as can Perry.

are courtesy of the $3M in negative, false, and unanswered ads against Newt,and the endorsement of Van Ders Plaats.

Santorum is a single-issue-values-voters dream .. but a nightmare for those who want a candidate who can actually walk the walk on fiscal issues .. and that *includes* public-sector unions.

Mew

This gave Obamacare its 60th vote……this alone is worst than anything Newt ever did….because Newt has realised and repented of his mistakes….Santorum has not!

and the election a war? Each caucus and primary are waged individually and seen in that light, it is reasonable to treat them as an election. Semantics really…..

But he is in the loop. I cannot discount what he says.
I do not agree on this one, and either it is another of his playful jokes… —WARNING— or we diverge.
I think if he read my garbage he could figure out what I want.
I want to take out best guy to the White House rather then try to pee it away on a moderate because it makes more sense to play the odds.
We have a shot at the gold. Why flush it down the toilet.

I think everything you wrote is true. I hope I get to vote for him in Ohio and that he does n ot quit.

he must be a threat to someone.

Rick Perry is the only Limited Government candidate who has skills to govern and grow American Jobs.

Rick Perry speaks for the Constitutional American.

I have been wondering why all the pressure on Perry. He is still a threat.

(nothing further)

would be a great combination to support, send money to, and vote for.

We cannot have 4 more years of Obama to help destroy this country.

I hope many independents wake up to this fact after Obama’s thumbs down on the oil pipeline from Canada.

As to the people who would sit out the election because the Republican candidate would not be conservative enough for them, which Republican would have nixed the pipeline?

(even though Perry said he would not take VP slot)? Gingrich, like Perry, will repeal Obamacare which is acceptable to me. Whatever it is, Perry will prayerfully make the right decision for the country.

the idea that Newt has a chance to beat Obama is just funny, lets picture a campaign were the Chicago machine will run against Congress, and Newt would make the perfect leader of that said entity, shut down government would be talked about over and over again, we cannot embrace what the whole country is mad at, and then expect a win. It does not make any sense to me at all.

the Titanic is headed toward the fiscal and moral iceberg. If we don’t have a captain who will change course, what doe it matter who is at helm. Obama Romney Gingrich Santorum….only Rick Perry can change the course.

ABC has interviewed Newt Gingrich’s second wife and is likely to air the segment Thursday on “Nightline.”

Gingrich has no chance in a General Election. Newt should withdraw and endorse Rick Perry.

Independent voters won’t like it, and it will make Obama look weak.

That said, Obama could refuse.

Debating skills are however generally applicable to handling the press. Challenging the premises of questions, which is what Newt does, is not a skill limited to “debates”–its a general communication asset.

Obama runs and hides from Gingrich…refusing to debate? Obama loses by double digits if he does that because every Independent votes the other way or not at all if he runs like a coward.

I have heard many reasons to not like Newt…this is not one of them, and the fact that Rush has the delusion doesn’t make it valid…sorry.

And if Gingrich loses by a lot, will Romney do better?
The latest debate is a preview of what’s to come against Obama. Romney will be a safe, oatmeal debater who will never strike out but never hit a home run.
Gingrich will hit some home runs.
I’m certainly no big fan, but Gingrich is a better candidate all around in my opinion.

Out of power, Newt fiddled around with the only thing in town – The Establishment. It led him to sit on the couch with Nancy Pelosi, a huge mistake. Idle time is evil time and Newt is a human as are all of us. But now he’s engaged and at war where he is best and war is what we have as the Obama coup d’ etat move forward. Perry or Gingrich would draw more conservative votes than Romney would independents. Romney would underwhelm conservatives be the most likely to lose to Obama.

Perry is the man, but few out there are agreeing with me. Will that change in 72 hours? Barring a God-miracle, probably not. The only warrior left will be Gingrich and he has mastery of the spoken word and communicating relevant concepts that appeal to full spectrum conservatives.

Whether or not Newt has been Big Government in the past is not so relevant because now he has a new cause with the people’s energy to rally behind him. Despite the past, he will be that best to dismantle the DC mess and will enjoy spiting The Establishment in the process since they provide him no quarter anyway.

Such a shame to lose a resource like Perry. Erick is probably right that he should find the best time to rally the troops for Gingrich. Santorum has his support because he was the last one on the conservative roster. He’s a settle-for candidate and will threaten a loss to Obama even more that Romney, perhaps.

Your disagreement is begged, but I think Erick is barking up the right tree.

Humbly submitted to red-blooded patriots of America…

-NotPropagandized

I wonder if ABC has a crew rushing up to Alaska to get Palin’s reaction after Newt’s ex-wife spills the beans? This will end badly for everyone – except Rick Perry.

They’re tolerating the stay at home crowd as well in the name of poker faces. This would get him banned after the primary for sure though.

in a whole new light in this election season. I see them as all being mini Michael Mann’s, complete with their bogus hockey stick charts to prove that their scientific data has proven that Global Warming is real and threatening. That was until it wasn’t, via East Anglia.

The same will happen with the punditocracy, in their attempts to persuade the voters to honor and accept their opinions. I’ll be curious to hear what they have to say when we will unfortunately be watching the styrofoam columns being taken out of storage, and re-erected in preparation for Obama’s second inauguration.

Funny, just listening to Donna Brazille once again talking about Newt Gindrich.

Erick just lives in a different world than the rest of us. In his world, the entire country has been paying as much attention to this election cycle as he has. In his world, everyone has gotten educated and made up their minds that Perry is not their candidate. In such a world, Perry should drop out.

In our world, most Americans don’t decide who to vote for in a field this split until a week or two before the election. The primary season has just started.

In Erick’s world, a trailing candidate after 2/51 contests cannot possibly make up the difference in the remaining 49.

I am glad I do not live in that world.

I’m extremely disappointed in Erick’s mischaracterization that Perry has lost “two elections” and that Perry should drop out. There is no reason for any candiate to drop out before Super Tuesday. I mean 2 states have voiced their opinion, there are still 48 more that would like a say in who our nominee is.

We are sick and tired of the establishment telling us to sit down and shut up while they shove “their” nominee down our throat.

Enough is Enough!
Go Perry 2012!

He may, he may not. Not my call and I don’t particularly care, except I don’t want him to endorse Romney and I dont think he will. You definitely have good points and I’m sure Perry is considering all this as well. He’s a smart man.

I know what you mean about loyalty. This has been a “Be sure you’re right then go ahead” thing for me, and I won’t leave Perry unless he drops out. It’s Bern so disheartening to see people who had previously supported Perry (and I’m not talking about Erick) and have defected in the past 48 hours. I’m there to the end, wherever that may be. Nothing can persuade me to do otherwise.

Erick’s duty is to maximize the influence, readership, and profitability of Redstate. Redstate is his client, and as far as that goes, he is doing a fantastic job – no sarcasm.

Gov. Perry can not win. Period. He has already lost. To stay in will just embarrass him further. He needs to end his campaign, endorse Newt Gingrich, and then get back to governing Texas. Leaving the presidential race will not be the end of Rick Perry’s political life. There is still work to be done.

I hope spends it buying kleenex for newt to wipe his tears with…

That last line is the historical kiss of death.

“I can’t believe Nixon won, I don’t know a soul that voted for him!” Now, if I’m not mistaken – she was a liberal Manhattan dweller who only hung out with elitists.
The point was that if you live an insular life surrounded by only those who think and feel exactly like you, then you don’t get the full picture.
Sound familiar?

One hand holds aid to get you running, the other a knife to stab you in the back when you take off.

All excellent points LPat. I have been proud of Erick for being brave and recognizing the more conservative candidate on these here pages this primary season. Now what happened?

Is this like what happens a few months after Tea Party Republicans join the House of Representatives?

It’s called trying to be a kingmaker, when you are nothing but a butler in the Royal Mansion.

Why Perry? If his numbers are so bad, why would Newt even WANT an endorsement from him?

Perry needs to stay in to AT LEAST get a message out of conservative, states’ rights views.

So disappointed in the pundits.

I shudder to think if Ronaldus Magnus hadn’t been blessed with a photographic memory and charisma, what this nation could have been deprived of.

Reagan was much more than debates, his life was the very ideal of conservatism….from his family, to serving God and his country.

For me, Perry isn’t about flashiness but about getting the job done.

I pray that he stays in. As crazy as this campaign season has been, you never know what will come up next.

It just does NOT make sense to quit now. What if Newt had quit?

What if Perry sees that this country is worth going back to Texas and facing all of those old opponents, if he should lose the nomination?

Personally, I think that if Perry’s message doesn’t resonate, it’s because this nation is truly beyond saving. Maybe folks really do want a bigger government to take care of them. They need to be reminded that a government powerful enough to give people what they think they want is powerful enough to take it all away. That’s what Gov. Perry is fighting!

The others simply aren’t! I guess they think that as long as power is in their hands, we’re okay. That’s what the other side believes, too.

Perry simply wants that power to go back to the people, I believe.

If Perry gives up on fighting for this country, what message does that really send? If Perry felt Newt would have been acceptable, he would have never even run for President.

and a client with more than de minimis support is still in the running

There is zero chance that Rick Santorum can win Pennsylvania and, therefore, no chance to win a general. Newt “The Lobbyist” Gingrich will be finished off by the wife.

Only Mitt Romney or Rick Perry can win the general and only Rick Perry can change the course of our country.

that Santorum is going nowhere. But perception unfortunately is reality. Polling of likely Republican primary voters show large support for Santorum and small support for Rick Perry. Wish they’re weren’t so many stupid voters out there who are influenced by the polls, but there are. And that’s not going to change save an unexpected bombshell.

And next thing you know, Erick will be labeled as not being a “true conservative.”

Everyone knows Paul’s in it for himself and will not consider wise counsel. Perry’s being asked to consider dropping out *because* Perry is a truly decent man and will consider the suggestion. The fact that Perry is being asked to consider dropping out is a high compliment to the Governor. Eric doesn’t waste his time with people who won’t listen.

The Governor had his chance. The Vulture Capitalism thing was his last chance and it has not moved him out of single digits in the polls. And this is not Iowa or New Hampshire, this is South Carolina.

He has every right to stay in the race till the convention, but to what end. He is not going to be President of the United States. Time to move on.

Rick Perry to the end. I am very proud to have been part of this. dr. bob and I went to Charleston and then to Iowa and it has been all good. Rick Perry and Anita Perry are decent people who could have saved us.

I am thinking seriously of moving to Texas.

I too have thought that Perry could be a Reagan (not win in ’76 but come back in ’80 and knock it out of the park) but here’s the problem. We don’t have four years, this country is done if Obama gets another four years.

This is America’s time to get behind the real conservative in this race who isn’t in it for self gain but for love of country.

This is Perry’s time to shine and win it!

could be made about Rick Santorum. If anyone should get out, it is him, he is not a fiscal conservative — Erick himself has expounded on that fact and he lost his last election by 18 points…. plus he not nearly as likeable IMHO as Governor Perry. Besides, Newt, being Newt can implode as fast as he rises… go back and look at his record as speaker and look at the fact it was Rick Santorum who participated in the coupe against him……… the only tried and proven guy in the race is Governor Perry and all of a sudden everyone wants him out!!!!! Does everyone want to see this country fail, it sure seems that way from here,

Really? You have another thing coming if you think that the Tea Party will be defeated just because Perry might not win the nomination. It is more of a reflection of the American Idol style of picking a candidate rather than a Tea Party defeat.

I can guarantee you one thing, if Newt or Mittens wins the Presidency and fails to repeal ObamaCare as their first act it will be the end of the GOP party in its current form (paraphrased from Limbaugh the other day).

Rick Santorum 2006 border security legislation exactly mirrored Perry s policy, and he hypocritically attacked it in an early debate. There s your staunch conservative who sided with said Bush in supporting Specter over Toomey in PA. Santorum made a bundle doing the hi stroll on K street once his constituents had enough of him. That s why the establishment likes him. He s a team player who sold out conservatives, using social issues like the Schiavo case as a smoke screen while he flew around on Walmarts private jet to big ticket fundraisers.

“Show me where Perry is for open borders…..”

Were you watching the debate where he said that if you don’t support American taxpayer money going to fund illegal aliens’ college educattions, “you don’t have a heart”?

If you support giving illegal aliens incentives, you’re for open borders.

His state of Texas is inviting Demographic change that will make it Democrat in 15 years. Then Republicans will never win elections nationally. And Rick Perry invited these changes.

is one of the funniest words ever. Also, agree with your sentiments, avagreen.

The myth that Perry is for open borders and subsidizes illegals, was started by so called “conservatives”. One of those being Michelle Malkin, who has some sort of childish grudge against Perry.

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