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If you want to see what Ron Paul supporters actually look like...

Here are pictures from a recent fundraiser that was $500 for dinner with Ron Paul and $1000 if you always wanted drinks and photos before

I paid but then did not go, so I am not pictured.

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Hello.

 

I wanted to thank you again for coming to the fundraiser for Dr. Paul at the Thoburn home on Wednesday night.  We appreciate your support and all you are doing to help lead Dr. Paul to the nomination!  Both Dr. and Mrs. Paul remarked they had a wonderful time with you.

 

You'll find some pictures from the event here:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronpaul/sets/72157628041577819/

 

The next 60 days are crucial in this campaign.

 

First, we have the end of the quarter.  As we work to show the media and the country we have a competitive campaign with a wide following, your financial support is crucial.  Please encourage your friends and family to make a donation to our campaign.  Mitt Romney gets 66% of his donations from large donations ($1,500 or more) and Rick Perry gets 77% of his in large amounts.  Only Ron Paul has deep and widespread support:   only 11% comes in large amounts but 60% in amounts of $200 or less.  So encourage your friends to support us with a donation in any amount and help keep us competitive, help us get our ads on TV and help keep Dr. Paul on the road talking with the voters of America.

 

Immediately after the end of the reporting period are the Iowa Caucuses followed by the New Hampshire Primary.  Polls out this week show Dr. Paul at or near the top in both races.  More and more Americans see exactly what you do:  Ron Paul respects the Constitution and he will restore America now!

 

Thank you for your support!

 

In liberty,

 

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Gingrich: The “smartest, most electable conservative in the race”

Gingrich: The "smartest, most electable conservative in the race"

Posted by on Nov 10th, 2011

(Charlie Smith/Time for Newt) – "Smartest guy in the room." "A genius." "Brilliant." "Fantastic to listen to." "I would love to see him debate Obama."

"But he can't win."

If you're like me, every time Newt Gingrich's name comes up, this is the kind of thing you hear. Conservatives love him. He's clearly the smartest guy on the stage and the candidate best suited to take the fight to Obama. So why does he always get ignored?

Because the liberal media and the establishment have been telling us all for a year that Newt Gingrich can't possibly win. Well, I'm here to tell you that all that's changed. Newt Gingrich is now leading Mitt Romney in Iowa.

Consider this email your permission slip to do what you've wanted to do all along: get behind Newt Gingrich and fight for the smartest, most electable conservative in the race.

Mitt Romney came up with the idea that became the template for Obamacare. Without Mitt Romney, there IS no Obamacare. Rick Perry thinks you're heartless if you don't want to give free college tuition to illegal aliens. (He actually SAID that!) And Herman Cain is a nice man, but he can't win at this point.

That leaves Newt, right where he's been all along, articulating real solutions that will allow us to take our country back, turn this economy around and make us freer, stronger, and safer as a country.

Just stop with me a second and think about something: Next Fall, there's going to be a Presidential debate between Obama and the GOP nominee. Who do you want to be in it?

Mitt Romney? The guy who has taken different positions on every single major issue?

Rick Perry, the guy who can't articulate his positions, and when he does, seems to offend conservatives every time he talks?

Herman Cain?

The answer is clear: Newt Gingrich. He will absolutely wipe the floor with Obama. He won't be cowed, he knows policy better, and he has the backbone to tell it like it is. He has the guts to say to the American people, "President Obama has failed."

As the leading pro-Newt SuperPAC, we're going to go into the states and rally the activists, and build the organization Newt needs to win this nomination and beat Obama in the Fall.

The media and the establishment don't get to pick our nominee. We do.

Will you join us?

It's time.

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Gingrich More Electable Than Any Other Candidate

November 15, 2011


http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/11/15/new_poll_shows_gingrich_more_electable.html

New Poll Shows Gingrich More Electable

A new McClatchy-Marist poll finds Newt Gingrich is the strongest Republican presidential candidate when matched head to head against President Obama.

Obama leads Gingrich by just two points, 47% to 45%. Mitt Romney is next closest, trailing Obama by 4 points, 49% to 44%. Ron Paul is the third best bet for the Republicans right now, 8 points back from Obama, 49% to 41%.

No other Republican is within single digits of the president.

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Ron Paul: Hopelessly Naive or Just Plain Stupid?

Ron Paul said today that he could see no possible reason to ever launch military action or initiate a war.

I'm convinced now, that Ron Paul has become a complete buffoonish nitwit, either hopelessly naive, or plain stupid. I'd like to hope it's the former, but as the days wear on and I listen to his insane anti-war rantings, I'm not so sure anymore.

How can anyone even consider this 'Feel-The-Love' Libertarian for the helm of Commander-In-Chief?

Jihadists all over the world are vowing our destuction. Ahmadinejad of Iran is vowing to wipe out "The Great Satan" and usher in the Islamic Messiah. Nukes are being sought by Al Qaeda and being developed by Jihad states. Plans for mass death and mayhem in American neighborhoods and schools have been recovered from Jihad base camps.

Ron Paul says he sees no possible reason to EVER launch military action or go to war.

The guy is on some serious LSD, or he has a hippie Love Fest hangover with his pals at moveon.org and other Left-wing Anti-war groups of mostly 60′s anti-war retreads.

No possible reason to EVER launch military action???

Hey Paulie Girl! Remember this???
 
(Picture of the WTC)
 

Or do you think some 17th Century letter of Marque and Reprisal would better deal with the global beast that is militant Islam? But then, if Jihad homicide bombers kill themselves by killing Americans then the idea of letters of marque are a bit stupid are they not?? The perps are already DEAD.

Of course some Libertarians not smoking a bong would think that Letters of Marque and Reprisal is a workable option – except they be hypocrites considering they are the loudest voices of opposition to Blackwater USA, which is essentially the posse a Letter of Reprisal would merit.

Yes, methinks Ron Paul has had too many tokes from the doobie or a major contact high from his hippie fans piled in the Ron Paul '08 VW Van considering his foray into an alternate reality where giving peace a chance defeats Jihadists hell bent on world domination.

But let's take a look at Ron Paul's latest Blame America Pacifistic sonata.

In an interview with Washingtonpost.com's PostTalk program, the Texas congressman said he could see "no reason" to justify military action if he were elected president. He compared the United States to a schoolyard bully and said the country has no reason to flex its muscles overseas.

3,000 dead Americans whose blood cries out to us disagree with you Mr. Paul. Of course you are of the Osama Bin Laden opinion that America deserved 9-11, due our presence in the Middle East and the world.

"There's nobody in this world that could possibly attack us today," he said in the interview.

That's funny. I could have sworn some raghead Jihadists destroyed a marine barracks, two US Embassies in Africa, and almost sunk a warship in the 1990′s and ended up killing 3,000 Americans on our own soil in a few minute's time one fine September morning.

"I mean, we could defend this country with a few good submarines. If anybody dared touch us we could wipe any country off of the face of the earth within hours.

Oh really? And what nation should we have wiped off the earth after 9-11? Afghanistan? Saudi Arabia? Yemen? Egypt? All four?

You bother to READ Islamic prophecy and what both Bin laden and Ahmadinejad WANT Mr. Paul?

Of course not.

Otherwise you would not be an appeasement stooge for them, playing into their foremost desires to martyr entire Muslim nations before the final great battle they promise will destroy the West.

And here we are, so intimidated and so insecure and we're acting like such bullies that we have to attack third-world nations that have no military and have no weapon."

It was amazing what their trained warrior Jihadists were able to accomplish with just a few boxcutters and some training on U.S. soil thanks to our Immigration policies.

3,000 American dead. Billions in destruction.

Wonder what the same kind of barbarians would be able to accomplish WITH substantive weapons and the willpower to use them to kill us all Mr. Paul?

Nah, your feeble mind refused to grasp reality and the concept the 9-11 reality woke us up to.

Ron Paul, you are become a disgrace. An embarrassment. Just like the hippies of old – you are high and you stink.

If we keep listening to this foreign policy idiot, we're going to need some heavy ludes to calm us down, but Ron Paul is already there on the mellow yellow submarine of psychedelic pacifism. Pass the 'shrooms and get ready to go far out man, all the way back to the 1700′s when men wore wigs and the biggest weapon was a ten pound cannonball. Yup, those days of Marque and Reprisal are sure to put a stop to Al Qaeda today. Of course there's this little problem with the fact Congress passed a law forbidding the assassination of any foreign leaders or rogues – but hey – whose counting facts? Let's wrap ourselves in the parchment of the Constitution and pretend the real world melts in it's presence.

Kindof how our faces seem to melt with the heavy drugs Ron Paul must be freebasing.

Someone wake up Ronnie there – before some Jihadist hands him a hooka next and he smokes some more appeasement propaganda.

http://swordattheready.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/ron-paul-is-hopelessly-naive-or-just-plain-stupid/

 

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A Few More Ron Paul Observations:

Characterizing Ron Paul's supporters:

Paul's strong views and the integrity of his political record [29] have won him supporters from many different camps, and reporters often dismiss his followers as a mix of geeks, weirdos] and conspiracy theorists.

As Matt Labash wrote in the Weekly Standard: "For me, the Ron Paul Revolution is like a cozy winter fire. From a distance, the crackling flames of individual liberty and free-thinking libertarianism take the chill off sterile two-party politics. But get too near the searing embers, and they will cause blistering, profuse sweating, and all-around general discomfort."

While there's plenty of journalistic snark on this issue, similar questions about Paul's mixed group of supporters have come from within. The New York Times profile quoted a revealing 2007 email message in which the organizer of a Ron Paul meetup group in Pasadena, Calif., asked for advice from Paul's campaign headquarters:

"We're in a difficult position of working on a campaign that draws supporters from laterally opposing points of view, and we have the added bonus of attracting every wacko fringe group in the country. And in a Ron Paul Meetup many people will consider each other 'wackos' for their beliefs whether that is simply because they're liberal, conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis, evangelical Christian, etc. ... We absolutely must focus on Ron's message only and put aside all other agendas, which anyone can save for the next 'Star Trek' convention or whatever."

Scandals and controversy:

In 1992, several issues of Ron Paul's newsletter published racist remarks attributed to him, including the lines: "Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal;" and "If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."

During the 1996 elections, these remarks were brought forward and Paul stood by them, saying they weren't racist. But in 2001, he told Texas Monthly that he had not written those phrases but had been advised to take responsibility for the comments anyway—an explanation that Texas Monthly's Sam Gwynne found largely credible.

 http://www.propublica.org/article/our-guide-to-the-best-coverage-of-ron-paul-and-his-record/single

 
 

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Re: Why Ron Paul will win the Iowa Caucuses

I could actually see this happening,  which would be good news for Romney....Probably just what the Romney Camp wants.   Paul has no chance of winning the Republican nomination, and I hope for the good of the Nation, as well as the Republican Party, that he will throw the towel in soon, and support Newt Gingrich, the only true conservative (with the exception of Herman Cain)  that has a chance of success against the communists in November.
 


 
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:43 AM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

Why Ron Paul will win the Iowa Caucuses
Des Moines : IA : USA | Nov 18, 2011 at 1:50 AM PST
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OPINION AND COMMENTARY
By Darren Richardson
Special to The Punditty Project


Nov. 18, 2011

The participatory enthusiasm of Rep. Ron Paul's online fans is widely known, and it has carried over on several occasions to real flesh-and-blood straw poll victories in the North, South, East and West. In roughly six weeks, it will pay off with a victory in the Iowa Caucuses.

The writing has been on the wall for some time now, at least for those who have been open-minded enough to read it. Beginning with the Ames Straw Poll in mid-August, when Paul finished a close second to the first GOP "Flavor of the Month," Rep. Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota, it didn't take a visionary to see that Paul's base was going to hold while other candidates would see their support rise and fall like some worthless stock propped up by bailout funds.

Because Paul is the genuine article and not another just blow-with-the wind politician, he has held his own in the polls and is now gaining ground. The Paul campaign's organizational prowess and the deep convictions of his hard-working supporters, along with an astoundingly weak field of Republican presidential contenders, will lift the Texas congressman to a first-place finish in Iowa when the Hawkeye State kicks off the nation's voting season on Jan. 3, 2012.


Another look at Paul's base

Throughout the 2011 portion of Campaign 2012, there has been a tendency among well-established political reporters and commentators to qualify all the good news for Paul by framing his success in reductionist terms. "He's got some dedicated supporters, but he can never rise above his base." Some supposedly wise pundits have repeated variations of this line over the past several months as if to cue readers and listeners not to take Paul too seriously. Many of these same pundits were absolutely certain that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would be the nominee and practically arranged his coronation the same day he announced his candidacy, based on their oh-so-certain prognosticative powers.

But there is another side to Paul's numbers that the know-it-alls fail to mention. Namely, his base does not shrink, it grows. As the other Republican wannabes crumble under the weight of their own inadequacies and contradictions, Paul is emerging as a pillar of strength and conviction. Paul's base is the kind of base that will gladly accept challenges like convincing at least three other people to vote for Paul, or making sure all Paul supporters have a ride to the polls, or working phone banks and e-mail lists for hours on end to give their man an edge. This is the kind of enthusiasm that breeds winners.


Paul -- a true populist

Paul is a true populist, something this nation hasn't seen since the inspired campaign of Bobby Kennedy in 1968, and an entire generation of political observers is either too jaded or too bought-off to frankly assess the Paul campaign for what it is -- a phenomenon that will shake the roots of the Republican Party to its very core, a jolt that could possibly lead to the most significant voting re-alignment since the 1968 election saw the South go Republican.

The Republican Party establishment is not pleased with Paul's ascent. But the people who give the party their votes are extremely pleased, and they are sharing the good news with all who will listen and helping them register as Republicans so as to help Dr. Paul's cause in the primaries. Like it or not, the Republican Party is facing a long-overdue uprising in its ranks, one that will cause some historical shifts not only in 2012 but over the next few election cycles as well. We are seeing nothing less than the Liberty-loving wing of the GOP -- and the electorate as a whole -- say "Enough is enough!" when it comes to domestic and foreign policies that are harming rather than helping the national interests of the United States.

A recent Bloomberg poll finds Paul and the fading Cain in a virtual tie in Iowa, and a large part of Paul's success there in recent weeks is due to a flurry of ads that his enthusiastic supporters make possible with their steady stream of donations. Look for Paul to take advantage of his Iowa win with by scheduling a "money bomb" weekend before the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 10, where he will likely finish a strong second to New Englander Mitt Romney.


The Gary Johnson factor

Ironically, the GOP's decision to stack the deck against former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson's candidacy by excluding him from most debates based on spurious reasoning and suspect rules is helping Paul with the very Republican voters who party heavies feared would support Johnson. And with Johnson now hinting that he might seek the Libertarian nomination, Paul-leaning Republicans will definitely take a closer look at Johnson and possibly defect from the GOP if Paul does not win the Republican nod. All in all, it's looking like the cry of "Ron Paul or nothing at all" may be one that carries the day for Republicans in 2012.

A recent Public Policy Polling found that Paul is the only Republican candidate that leads Obama among independents, holding a 48-39 edge. This is significant for one very important reason, and you can be sure it will be mentioned by the Paul faithful during the caucusing in Iowa: It indicates that all of the other Republican candidates would start the race fighting an uphill battle against Obama, whereas Paul would already lead in this crucial demographic.


SOURCES:

2012 Primary Schedule, 2012presidentialelectionnews.com

Obama leads nationally, Nov. 15, 2011, publicpollingpolicy.com

Ron Paul continues Iowa surge, www.ronpaul2012.com

Gary Johnson says he might run as a Libertarian after all, talkingpointsmemo, Nov. 16, 2011


http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10902896-why-ron-paul-will-win-the-iowa-caucuses

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Re: Newt Gingrich: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Candidate

The hits just keep on coming, and Newt keeps on marching right along!  Say hello to your next President!
 


 
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:42 AM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

Newt Gingrich: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Candidate
Newt Gingrich won't be president. He represents the worst in every other GOP candidate.
E.D. Kain, Contributor

11/16/2011 @ 4:09PM |5,819 views
Mitt Romney must be getting dizzy. The number of Republican primary candidates whose suns have risen above him only to crash and burn later just keeps growing and growing. Each time one sun rises, a slew of new information and new scandals arrive just in time to sink it.

Donald Trump, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain – and now Newt Gingrich, in spite of early-campaign foibles, have all risen to bask in their fifteen minutes of infamy. (Perhaps, indeed, this is Jon Huntsman's strategy. If the moderate from Utah can just wait long enough, surely it will be his turn.)

But as Michael Brendan Dougherty notes, Newt Gingrich is the worst possible candidate for conservatives looking to replace Mitt Romney as front-runner. Too angry, too petulant, too prone to react at small perceived slights, Gingrich is hardly even the conservative that many Republicans think he is, let alone the intellectual.

But he is a lot of other things.


The Elitist.

If you don't like Romney because he's an elitist, Newt is no better. On top of the Tiffany's kerfuffle early on in Newt's campaign, now we learn that the candidate has made millions from pseudo-private mortgage giant, Freddie Mac.

And I'm a little surprised the Tiffany's issue hasn't come back up in more places. Here's a man with over half a million dollars owed to a jewelry store! So much for middle America.


The Crony Capitalist.

One reason Texas governor Rick Perry fell from the spotlight – aside from his dopey debate performances – were revelations that the career politician had made big bucks off of trading political favors for campaign contributions.

But Newt started consulting for Freddie Mac five months after his ouster from congress. It's going to be hard to wash charges of lobbying and cronyism off of this one.


The Cheater.

Compare Newt's three marriages to the Obama's happy marriage. As Dougherty notes, "Newt Gingrich cheated on his first wife with the woman who would become his second, and then cheated on her with the woman who became his third wife. He was leading the impeachment of Clinton, while diddling his Congressional aide. And now he makes little documentaries about God. In these films he wears tailored suits, not sackcloth and ashes."

Obama beats him on family values hands down, and even the most partisan Republican is going to see through two affairs and three marriages pretty quickly. If Herman Cain's sun set over a few allegations of sexual abuse, how can Newt hope to take the moralist's stance in the upcoming election?


The Loudmouth.

Linda Killian calls Gingrich "the grandfather of negativity, partisan attack and governmental gridlock." Gingrich is often described as an ideas guy, but he's mostly just loud and blustering.

If Michelle Bachmann is too screetchy for the general electorate, why should they go for Gingrich whose oft-repeated "secular-socialist administration line" hardly jibes with his own moderate right-of-center past. And his relationship with the press is hardly going to help him. Every time he "gets a question he doesn't like," writes Dougherty, "he starts whining petulantly. He practically faints as if his corset has been pulled too tight."


The Chameleon.

Many conservatives express dismay over Romney's flip-flops, but Gingrich is just as bad. After slamming Paul Ryan's budget plan as too extreme, calling it "right-wing social engineering" Gingrich fled into full retreat mode when it became clear he'd taken an unpopular political stance.

On numerous past issues, Gingrich has taken a far more moderate stance than he does today. Dougherty lists several:
When it all comes down, Gingrich is every bit as disingenuous as Rick Santorum, every bit as likely to flip as Romney, and every bit as popular as Jon Huntsman.

Add to that a healthy dose of double chins and nowhere near the popular following that has carried Ron Paul this far, and you get a candidate who represents the worst qualities of all the other candidates. Newt Gingrich is beyond mediocre, he's downright awful.

He's the perfect candidate, in other words, if you're a Democrat.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/16/newt-gingrich-represents-the-worst-qualities-of-the-gop-primary-field/

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Why Ron Paul will win the Iowa Caucuses


Why Ron Paul will win the Iowa Caucuses
Des Moines : IA : USA | Nov 18, 2011 at 1:50 AM PST
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OPINION AND COMMENTARY
By Darren Richardson
Special to The Punditty Project


Nov. 18, 2011

The participatory enthusiasm of Rep. Ron Paul's online fans is widely known, and it has carried over on several occasions to real flesh-and-blood straw poll victories in the North, South, East and West. In roughly six weeks, it will pay off with a victory in the Iowa Caucuses.

The writing has been on the wall for some time now, at least for those who have been open-minded enough to read it. Beginning with the Ames Straw Poll in mid-August, when Paul finished a close second to the first GOP "Flavor of the Month," Rep. Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota, it didn't take a visionary to see that Paul's base was going to hold while other candidates would see their support rise and fall like some worthless stock propped up by bailout funds.

Because Paul is the genuine article and not another just blow-with-the wind politician, he has held his own in the polls and is now gaining ground. The Paul campaign's organizational prowess and the deep convictions of his hard-working supporters, along with an astoundingly weak field of Republican presidential contenders, will lift the Texas congressman to a first-place finish in Iowa when the Hawkeye State kicks off the nation's voting season on Jan. 3, 2012.


Another look at Paul's base

Throughout the 2011 portion of Campaign 2012, there has been a tendency among well-established political reporters and commentators to qualify all the good news for Paul by framing his success in reductionist terms. "He's got some dedicated supporters, but he can never rise above his base." Some supposedly wise pundits have repeated variations of this line over the past several months as if to cue readers and listeners not to take Paul too seriously. Many of these same pundits were absolutely certain that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would be the nominee and practically arranged his coronation the same day he announced his candidacy, based on their oh-so-certain prognosticative powers.

But there is another side to Paul's numbers that the know-it-alls fail to mention. Namely, his base does not shrink, it grows. As the other Republican wannabes crumble under the weight of their own inadequacies and contradictions, Paul is emerging as a pillar of strength and conviction. Paul's base is the kind of base that will gladly accept challenges like convincing at least three other people to vote for Paul, or making sure all Paul supporters have a ride to the polls, or working phone banks and e-mail lists for hours on end to give their man an edge. This is the kind of enthusiasm that breeds winners.


Paul -- a true populist

Paul is a true populist, something this nation hasn't seen since the inspired campaign of Bobby Kennedy in 1968, and an entire generation of political observers is either too jaded or too bought-off to frankly assess the Paul campaign for what it is -- a phenomenon that will shake the roots of the Republican Party to its very core, a jolt that could possibly lead to the most significant voting re-alignment since the 1968 election saw the South go Republican.

The Republican Party establishment is not pleased with Paul's ascent. But the people who give the party their votes are extremely pleased, and they are sharing the good news with all who will listen and helping them register as Republicans so as to help Dr. Paul's cause in the primaries. Like it or not, the Republican Party is facing a long-overdue uprising in its ranks, one that will cause some historical shifts not only in 2012 but over the next few election cycles as well. We are seeing nothing less than the Liberty-loving wing of the GOP -- and the electorate as a whole -- say "Enough is enough!" when it comes to domestic and foreign policies that are harming rather than helping the national interests of the United States.

A recent Bloomberg poll finds Paul and the fading Cain in a virtual tie in Iowa, and a large part of Paul's success there in recent weeks is due to a flurry of ads that his enthusiastic supporters make possible with their steady stream of donations. Look for Paul to take advantage of his Iowa win with by scheduling a "money bomb" weekend before the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 10, where he will likely finish a strong second to New Englander Mitt Romney.


The Gary Johnson factor

Ironically, the GOP's decision to stack the deck against former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson's candidacy by excluding him from most debates based on spurious reasoning and suspect rules is helping Paul with the very Republican voters who party heavies feared would support Johnson. And with Johnson now hinting that he might seek the Libertarian nomination, Paul-leaning Republicans will definitely take a closer look at Johnson and possibly defect from the GOP if Paul does not win the Republican nod. All in all, it's looking like the cry of "Ron Paul or nothing at all" may be one that carries the day for Republicans in 2012.

A recent Public Policy Polling found that Paul is the only Republican candidate that leads Obama among independents, holding a 48-39 edge. This is significant for one very important reason, and you can be sure it will be mentioned by the Paul faithful during the caucusing in Iowa: It indicates that all of the other Republican candidates would start the race fighting an uphill battle against Obama, whereas Paul would already lead in this crucial demographic.


SOURCES:

2012 Primary Schedule, 2012presidentialelectionnews.com

Obama leads nationally, Nov. 15, 2011, publicpollingpolicy.com

Ron Paul continues Iowa surge, www.ronpaul2012.com

Gary Johnson says he might run as a Libertarian after all, talkingpointsmemo, Nov. 16, 2011


http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10902896-why-ron-paul-will-win-the-iowa-caucuses

Newt Gingrich: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Candidate


Newt Gingrich: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Candidate
Newt Gingrich won't be president. He represents the worst in every other GOP candidate.
E.D. Kain, Contributor

11/16/2011 @ 4:09PM |5,819 views
Mitt Romney must be getting dizzy. The number of Republican primary candidates whose suns have risen above him only to crash and burn later just keeps growing and growing. Each time one sun rises, a slew of new information and new scandals arrive just in time to sink it.

Donald Trump, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain – and now Newt Gingrich, in spite of early-campaign foibles, have all risen to bask in their fifteen minutes of infamy. (Perhaps, indeed, this is Jon Huntsman's strategy. If the moderate from Utah can just wait long enough, surely it will be his turn.)

But as Michael Brendan Dougherty notes, Newt Gingrich is the worst possible candidate for conservatives looking to replace Mitt Romney as front-runner. Too angry, too petulant, too prone to react at small perceived slights, Gingrich is hardly even the conservative that many Republicans think he is, let alone the intellectual.

But he is a lot of other things.


The Elitist.

If you don't like Romney because he's an elitist, Newt is no better. On top of the Tiffany's kerfuffle early on in Newt's campaign, now we learn that the candidate has made millions from pseudo-private mortgage giant, Freddie Mac.

And I'm a little surprised the Tiffany's issue hasn't come back up in more places. Here's a man with over half a million dollars owed to a jewelry store! So much for middle America.


The Crony Capitalist.

One reason Texas governor Rick Perry fell from the spotlight – aside from his dopey debate performances – were revelations that the career politician had made big bucks off of trading political favors for campaign contributions.

But Newt started consulting for Freddie Mac five months after his ouster from congress. It's going to be hard to wash charges of lobbying and cronyism off of this one.


The Cheater.

Compare Newt's three marriages to the Obama's happy marriage. As Dougherty notes, "Newt Gingrich cheated on his first wife with the woman who would become his second, and then cheated on her with the woman who became his third wife. He was leading the impeachment of Clinton, while diddling his Congressional aide. And now he makes little documentaries about God. In these films he wears tailored suits, not sackcloth and ashes."

Obama beats him on family values hands down, and even the most partisan Republican is going to see through two affairs and three marriages pretty quickly. If Herman Cain's sun set over a few allegations of sexual abuse, how can Newt hope to take the moralist's stance in the upcoming election?


The Loudmouth.

Linda Killian calls Gingrich "the grandfather of negativity, partisan attack and governmental gridlock." Gingrich is often described as an ideas guy, but he's mostly just loud and blustering.

If Michelle Bachmann is too screetchy for the general electorate, why should they go for Gingrich whose oft-repeated "secular-socialist administration line" hardly jibes with his own moderate right-of-center past. And his relationship with the press is hardly going to help him. Every time he "gets a question he doesn't like," writes Dougherty, "he starts whining petulantly. He practically faints as if his corset has been pulled too tight."


The Chameleon.

Many conservatives express dismay over Romney's flip-flops, but Gingrich is just as bad. After slamming Paul Ryan's budget plan as too extreme, calling it "right-wing social engineering" Gingrich fled into full retreat mode when it became clear he'd taken an unpopular political stance.

On numerous past issues, Gingrich has taken a far more moderate stance than he does today. Dougherty lists several:
When it all comes down, Gingrich is every bit as disingenuous as Rick Santorum, every bit as likely to flip as Romney, and every bit as popular as Jon Huntsman.

Add to that a healthy dose of double chins and nowhere near the popular following that has carried Ron Paul this far, and you get a candidate who represents the worst qualities of all the other candidates. Newt Gingrich is beyond mediocre, he's downright awful.

He's the perfect candidate, in other words, if you're a Democrat.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/16/newt-gingrich-represents-the-worst-qualities-of-the-gop-primary-field/

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Re: **JP** Why "No" to Imran Khan....

Assalamu Alaikum
Barry Saheb is right
Ruling a country is no joke.
Imran has to prove that he has the support of intellectuals, oraganised parties (at least some of the parties, even though small), he has to show consistency.
 
He does not need to budge to prove his credentials to the US. There are so many others who are doing so more effectively  
If people showed respect to him, then it was due to the earlier statements and speeches. Now he is off tracking, most likely to please some foreign powers.
 
He also has to show his strength of character and state clearly about his mistakes with Sita White, he must apologise especially now that Jemima is looking after the child resulting from the the relationship between Sita and Imran.
 
The Lahore jalsa was quite impressive but not enough to bring Imran to power. Imran has some following but this following has to increase very significantly before Imran can count on winning some  seats in the NA. And if he is to be really successful then these seats have to be won by aligning with like minded parties, not through lotas. 
 
It seems that all the political leaders are spoild by the lotas and by the flowery language of the yes men who are there to become rich overnight. And Imran was no exception; he is also spoiled by the same cunning people.
 
 
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:51 AM, UN Barry <unbarry@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
assalam o alaikum.
 
It seems that Imran Khan is captured by the people of vested interests. He started his political career as a 'Muslim Hero" then suddenly he becomes "liberal". It seems that he is not clear about what he want to b? Then how can he lead us?
 
Secondly, his party is joining by the old, cunning and bad reputed politicians of Q-League, their presence have raised some doubts in our minds regarding the party policy and the ruling policy of our country under these ministers.
 
Imran needs to review his vision and mission seriously because ruling the country is not a joke......
 
 
 
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Re: Odd defenses of Newt's corporate-welfare lobbying

Geesh, the attacks are getting more and more desperate! 
 
No big deal!  It was expected!   Our next President Gingrich has some mighty big shoulders!  Thankfully, he is exactly what America needs right now!
 
Newt 2012
 


 
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:57 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

Murray Sabrin
If this doesn't sink Newt, then GOP voters have a death wish. Newt is a big government supporter, because that's where the big bucks are for individuals who want to live off the public ...

Odd defenses of Newt's corporate-welfare lobbying
by Timothy P. Carney Senior Political Columnist

Newt Gingrich leveraged his connections in Congress and his reputation as a firebrand conservative into wealth by selling these connections and reputations to big businesses seeking to get rich off of big government. My column today touches on three such cases -- ethanol subsidies, housing subsidies, and expanding Medicare to include drug subsidies.

Almost none of the critical emails, tweets, or comments today have defended the policies themselves (and there are some non-liberal defenses of these policies). The critiques of my column have mostly taken two forms:

1) Quit picking on a conservative! We all need to stand together!

2) Newt's work as a consultant for subsidy-sucklers was just free enterprise. Don't knock it.


Quit picking on a conservative:

Here's one representative comment: "Mr. Carney is making the Perfect the enemy of the good. I challenge him to name the perfect conservative candidate! This looks like a circular firing squad!"

My colleague Dave Freddoso wrote about this line of argument in his column this week:
Our commentary section's conservative lean apparently gives some conservative readers the impression that we're here primarily to help somebody get elected. That we should be overlooking problems in the GOP field for the greater good.
Dave picks that apart better than I can, but let me just say that I do not think conservative journalists should be "team players," and I think conservatism is harmed when anyone on the Right sacrifices principles for personalities.


Newt's just a businessman

This argument actually upsets me more. Here's a representative comment: "Well, Well, Well, are we to believe that the Speaker did not have a right to earn a living?"

I got much of the same response when I criticized Wal-Mart for lobbying for price-controls on debit-card purchases. It's an odd argument for a free-market type to make. If you believe it's wrong for government to take from taxpayers and give to ADM, Pfizer, and Wells Fargo, why is it fine for a lobbyist -- or whatever Gingrich wants us to call him -- to help pass the law allowing government to take from taxpayers and give to these special interests?

Among some capitalist-minded folks, there's an add amorality to profit -- any legal profit is morally acceptable profit. But that mindset undermines the argument for capitalism in the first place.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/odd-defenses-newts-corporate-welfare-lobbying


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Re: BREAKING => Obama’s SEIU Brown Shirts Are Attempting To Co-Opt The Occupy Movement For their March Against The Republican Congress!

travis ocw is news because somebody wants it to be.the left. they failed to keep the fringe element out watch how they disavow.

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Brace yourselves D.C. the chaos that paralyzed lower Manhattan yesterday Appears??????  to be coming your way. The 'SEIU' Obama Thugs are setting their sights on The Republican Congress. WARNING!! 'Anonymous Occupy' Is Being Co-Opted By Obama's Brown Shirts, The 'SEIU' ~ The Service Employee International Union. International????????? Coming next month: "SEIU's Occupy Republican Congress" to [...]

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