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It’s Time: Let’s Get Behind Gingrich

By: Josh LeGuern (Diary)  |  January 4th, 2012 at 04:11 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Ok. We’ve seen the results in Iowa. Perry is gracefully returning to Texas, Bachmann should follow suit. Santorum may pick up some momentum in other states, but let’s get real: When people start looking at Santorum’s record as Erick has outlined here, nice speeches are going to matter less and less the candidates records are going to come into focus more and more. 

For all the supposedly goofy things Speaker Gingrich has said, it’s his accomplishment of things that he’s done that’s most impressive. He has, effectively, won a national election before in a landslide by running on a series of conservative legislative proposals, and he put all of them up for a vote, winning many of them, the most important being the capital gains tax cuts, meaningful spending cuts, and welfare reform. And if his record were not impressive enough his policy proposals are what conservatives have been asking for: a transition to a flat tax, a complete cut of capital gains taxes, further reforms to welfare and other entitlement programs and best of all, a complete repeal of the legislation that Mitt Romney piloted in Massachusetts: ObamaCare.

As much as many of you liked Perry, it’s time to throw in the towel. Let’s not repeat 2008, let’s get behind Newt. He may not be perfect, but there’s plenty to enthusiastically get behind.  And best of all we can beat Romney with him.

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  • barleycorn

    I like Rick Perry but he isn’t a capable candidate. He should withdraw.

    Bachmann is gone and Huntsman likely will be after NH unless he does extremely well.

    Time to get this down to Newt, Romney, and Santorum, so the conservative vote is not fractured 5 ways.

  • http://www.timothy-bladel.com/ center77

    or he has been. Newt in my mind has zero chance of beating Obama and since that is the case, I cannot support him.

    We need a governor, and that is the best thing we can do to beat Obama because in the end that will help us talk people into voting for us. America likes governors.

    But Newt is now last on my list, he only beat out Bachmann before, and he would not even be more electable than Santorum.

  • trelane

    I said that unlike Bachmann, Perry did the graceful thing and bowed out to allow the best Anti-Romney to win. Now the situation has reversed.

    Another surprising revelation last night: Mitt is actually the second choice of many Perry supporters! Yeah I was amazed too. Sounds like a redux of Palinites taking their ball and going home.

    • avagreen

      LOL!

    • jakeofalltrades

      We want to beat Obama more than anything, Santorum will be laughed out of the general election along with Newt McDolerich. Romney wins in head-to-head polling with Obama.

      • snowshooze

        The polls do not take reality into account.
        Romney Vs. Obama will never happen.
        The other tickets will pull some off Romney.
        No matter who the Nominee is, we can’t afford a big defection.
        With Romney, I think we will get one.

  • Common_Cents

    restart some ascent.

    It is a miracle that gingrich came in 4th after the full attacks by many sides.

    I saw analysis if you stripped out the Ron Paul independents, Gingrich would have tied Paul at 14% in third in IA. This tells me Pauls support is much weaker and will reveal itself in SC for sure.

    Gingrich is aligning w/ Santorum to take down Romney. I think Santorum might actually be the aggressor against Romney.

    Gingrich has a decent staff in NH to stay in the game. Gingrich has solid staff in SC and a growing one in FL.

    • barleycorn

      Because they show he has a functioning brain and actually understands what the issues are.

  • reggie182

    If I posted what I really think of Perry right now I’d probably be banned. Suffice it to say, Romney is thrilled that his perpetually floundering and incompetent campaign is apparently going to continue.

    One question though, why did Perry say he’d have to reassess things last night? When there is a chance you’ll stay in the race, you say that you remain in it with confidence from the podium. Didn’t he prepare for a fifth place contingency? Does he prepare for anything?

    His campaign has become a sad joke. His supporters are only making it sadder and helping to nominate Mitt Romney. Please stop it!

  • conservativemusician

    Let’s see how it goes in SC first. Perry’s not out of it yet. If Perry falls flat in SC, I’m leaning toward Newt at that point because he has more experience than Santorum. However, in reading through the other blog sites this morning, many are upset at Iowans for their foolish votes and that they would not have had the chance to cast their votes for Perry if he had dropped out (I count myself in that group as well). I’m very glad that Perry is staying in the race. Things can change on a dime in politics, so anything can happen, as was evidenced with Santorum’s great showing last night.

    Romney may be happy now that Perry is staying in because he thinks it will split the conservative vote, but this may be temporary because the vetting on him will now begin in earnest. Newt is especially ticked off about all the negative attacks he received from Romney. Also, Perry is continuing to run lots of ads in SC, which will help. The debates this weekend will be important as always and I really hope Romney will get his butt handed to him by all the remaining candidates.

    BTW, what does it tell you about Romney that he wants to split the conservative vote? Aren’t we supposed to nominate true conservatives on our side? Come on America…we can do better than Romney.

    A Perry money bomb is in order.

    Perry 2012.