10-20-2012, 06:53 PM
You didn't think the Dems would attack Romney? What rock do you live under?
Look, RgrF, the only people who really want Romney are the inner circle and hard core members of the Republican party. He hasn't been picking up votes in the polls when other contenders fade (Bachman, Perry, Cain) which says to me that at this point he's garnered all the support he's going to get (ie 20-25%) and the other 75% are looking for an alternative.
Regardless of who wins the Rep nomination, the Repubs and many independents will rally around that person, because, if nothing else, conservatives and many independents want to oust Obama. It's 2008 all over again. McCain was not the first choice of many conservatives, but that's who the Rep party gave us. I just don't think the machine can do that again without a fight.
BTW, Say what you will about Newt. We all know about the baggage he carries (much of it personal). He's still the only candidate on the Republican side that speaks his mind and is willing to "take the heat" when his ideas clash with the party line. You may disagree with his ideology, but you have to respect his brain, candor and experience.
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?2...sg-1272036
"You're calling Mitt Romney a liar?"
"Well, you seem shocked by it!" said Gingrich. "This is a man whose staff created the PAC, his millionaire friends fund the PAC, he pretends he has nothing to do with the PAC - it's baloney. He's not telling the American people the truth.
"It's just like this pretense that he's a conservative. Here's a Massachusetts moderate who has tax-paid abortions in 'Romneycare,' puts Planned Parenthood in 'Romneycare,' raises hundreds of millions of dollars of taxes on businesses, appoints liberal judges to appease Democrats, and wants the rest of us to believe somehow he's magically a conservative.
"I just think he ought to be honest with the American people and try to win as the real Mitt Romney, not try to invent a poll-driven, consultant-guided version that goes around with talking points, and I think he ought to be candid. I don't think he's being candid and that will be a major issue. From here on out from the rest of this campaign, the country has to decide: Do you really want a Massachusetts moderate who won't level with you to run against Barack Obama who, frankly, will just tear him apart? He will not survive against the Obama machine."
Yet, when pressed by CBS News' chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer on whether he could support Romney if the "Massachusetts moderate" became the Republican nominee, Gingrich replied, "Sure. I would support a Republican candidate against Barack Obama because I think Barack Obama is tearing the country apart.
"But, let's be clear," added Gingrich. "Which part of what I just said to you is false? Why is it that if I'm candid in person and I wanted to be honest in person, that's shocking? If [Romney's] PAC buys millions of dollars in ads to say things that are false, that's somehow the way Washington plays the game. Isn't that exactly what's sick about this country right now? Isn't that what the American people are tired of?"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500202_162-5...ontentBody