You have to love what he did. To use the unsubstantiated allegations of an ex wife to lead off a Presidential debate is really  a no-class, gotch move. I have no idea if the allegations are true, nor do I care, but Newt's comeback was priceless.

Spouses and exspouses opinions are completely irrelevant to me. Either they lie FOR their spouse or exspouse or they lie AGAINST them, depending on their current relationship, either way their opinion is the least relevant, and least objective opinion I can think of.

Paricularly in re to the CNN debate, Newt was prepared & DYING to get the "open marriage" question; in terms of baseball, it's like a minor league pitcher throwing a slow pitch over the center of the plate to Reggie Jackson in his prime. JUST the "red meat" the "SC yokels" in the audience were dying to hear.

Regardless of that, though, most folks think that Gingrich is a demagogue putz & if he's the nominee, he'll lose to Obama in a landslide.

Gingrich bashing Romney and if he grows a pair Romney hitting back. Santorum will be gone soon enough and as usual Ron Paul will continue to be ignored.

If there was another candidate still in there who could do the same thing Gingrich did in this stanza in the next one, then a carried out fight could be had. There is no one left who will be billed by the establishment as having a chance outside of Gingrich now.

Santorum will be gone soon.

The people who manage this whole staged show will see Obama win in the end and a quick win by Romney in the nomination process would not work as well to ensure the Obama puppet wins. Agreed Obama is smiling, the stringpullers just gave the Bush puppet 8 years, he knows the puppet won't change hands after just 4 years,

I might actually watch the debates now, thus far only watched one, and hope Ron Paul is ready to lay the smack down hard and heavy, with only three candidates they will have to give him more time.

Newt was suppose to win S.C. all along. He is from Georgia and a favorite with
Southern conservatives. It less clear if it will carry any weight long term. No one knows if it will carry over to Florida.

I just love the press. They say  Santorum wins RI, Romney wins NH and now Newt wins SC. First off Santorum actually won the Iowa caucus 24.6% compared to Romney 24.5% (more like a tie) and Newt 13.3%. Last I looked Iowa gets to vote in the General Election. Romney won NH 39% vs Newt 9% and SC Newt 40% to 28% Romney (early numbers).

Bottom line is this. If it don't translate to dollars to Newt it won't mean much in at the end of the day.

Romney in the election.

Obama would stack up much better against Romney in any debate.

Still, Obama is likely to win over either one of them by a comfortable margin.

have already spent nearly $5 million on advertising in Florida.  No one else has spent a measurable amount.  I guess we'll find out if you can really buy an election.  Also, it's a more moderate state than SC (just about anywhere is) so it should be more Romney-friendly anyway.

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Its just one fucking primary. Newt aint fucking electable by the gneral populashun. If the GOP wanna take the fuckign WH, then they gotta go wit Romney. But most conservuhtives cant stand the fact that Romney aint no redneck conservuhtive politican ROFL.

,more then he could have gotten in  SC





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