Tomorrow is the decisive Florida primary. It is also another turning point in the race: tomorrow, it becomes mathematically impossible for a late entrant into the race to earn the 1,144 delegates necessary to win the GOP nomination. Frontloading HQ does the heavy lifting with a handy chart and a post entitled, “I’ll See Your White Knight and Raise You a Filing Deadline: Why It’s Too Late For Entry Into the Republican Nomination Race”.
The money quote:
If the list is constrained more simply to the states where filing deadlines have not passed, the total delegates open to a late entrant drops to 1157. After Tuesday, when Kentucky’s (and Indiana’s petition — see footnote 17 above) deadlines pass that total will drop below 1144 to 1066.
After tomorrow, a candidate can only get on the ballot in enough states to get 1,066 delegates. A late entrant to the race has always been an extreme longshot, but now it is mathematically impossible. Sorry, George Will, Bill Kristol, et al.
But what about a brokered convention? Could someone jump in and deny Mitt Romney the ability to get to 1,144? Theoretically, yes. But here’s what Frontloading HQ has to say about that scenario:
But here’s the thing: Who is that candidate? Let me rephrase that. Who is the candidate who can not only successfully enter the race late, but who can also marshal the organization necessary to cobble together enough delegates to take the nomination or throw enough of a monkeywrench into the process and still maintain support in the party to win the nomination at the convention? Let’s think about this for a moment. There are people in this race now actively seeking the nomination (and who have been running for president for quite some time) who cannot get on the ballots in some states. And we are expecting someone to come in and immediately be able to beat these deadlines, organize write-in efforts and uncommitted slates of delegates to get within shouting distance of 1144 or a lower total held by the frontrunner.
After tomorrow, we can finally put to rest the wild fantasies of a White Knight run by the likes of Jindal, Jeb, Christie, or Ryan. Sorry, dreamers.
January 30th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
The field was set months ago and there is only 1 candidate in it who belongs there. Malcontents can resign themselves to vote for Romney in November, vote for an irrelevant 3rd Party, or sit it out.
But the polls say Mitt can win, and only about 5% of the Republican Party will refuse to vote for him, and that’s a lower total than anyone else in the field has.
January 30th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
True Matt. But there’s still time for someone to make sure Romney doesn’t beat Obama:
Trump now “seriously” exploring third party bid:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/donald-trump-staff-reaching-out-to-financers-campaign-managers-to-explore-third-party-bid/
January 30th, 2012 at 3:26 pm
Choose ye this day: Crazy Conservatism (with no candidate) vs. Commonsense Conservatism (with Mitt.) One wins (maybe); one loses (fer sure).
January 30th, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Any Palinistas want to start placing wagers as to when she’ll enter the race?
January 30th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
#2
Trump has to know that running third party will hand Obama another 4 years!
January 30th, 2012 at 3:33 pm
#3 I’d say the chances that Trump, like Palin, is a big self-promoter endlessly working to keep himself in the news are pretty good. Palin kept teasing and teasing and teasing, until time ran out. Trump has been clear: Anybody But Obama. Right now, Mitt is looking good for the nom and the only one who can beat Obama.
Trump can’t really endorse Mitt (another endless tease) because Fox is his big media opportunity and endorsing Mitt would kill him with Fox.
Trump is all about Trump; Palin is all about Palin. Two peas in a pod. They will do whatever it takes to keep themselves in the public eye.
January 30th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Give us 27 more hours to finish the job down here.
Give em hell Mitt!
January 30th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
This is probably right but it’s a shame. Still, at least we’ve dodged the Newtocolypse.
January 30th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Who does trump “reach out to” for campaign funds? He is a self-proclaimed multi – BILLIONAIRE ferchristsake, like Newt’s casino guy, the Koch Bros., and Soros. Billionaires don’t ask people to fund their campaigns, they GET ASKED to fund other people’s campaigns…
Unless…oh, wait. I see. Trump’s not really a billionaire, any more than he’s a real candidate. He is using the electoral process to draw attention (and maybe even some money!) to himself. What a beautiful way to show you are a capitalist, not a commie.
January 30th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Rush and Hannity believe we owe Gingrich something for 1994 and closing down govt’. They think we owe him something for not standing by him while he was going through his ethics investigation. It’s time to push back and tell them that WE DON’T OWE NEWT GINGRICH ANYTHING EXCEPT OUR BACKS and walk away. He was a toxic figure then and today he is no different. Now he’s saying that he stopped Reagan from raising taxes. Can you believe that sh**?
January 30th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Well they don’t need to get in and ‘win’, they could get in late and win enough delegates to force a convention floor fight.
So this date isn’t as certain as it seems.
January 30th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Mitt posted a picture on his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/#!/mittromney) which shows at least 3000, maybe more, people at his rally this morning!
January 30th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
#2 & #9 I have two words for you that guarantees that Trump will NEVER run for POTUS: “Financial Disclosure.” I cannot fathom any scenario in which Trump will release his financial disclosure forms with the federal election commission, much less his tax returns. He is grandstanding for attention, pure and simple. Mitt is “the guy”, as Trump would say, and Mitt will be the next President.
January 30th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
The only thing keeping talk radio from drooling over Noot is for him to collapse and be rejected by their listeners.
Until that time, the party is going to continue trending toward certain doom.
I said it, in South Carolina’s John King CNN debate, that Obama had won re-election that night. And THIS is precisely the reason. I knew he had won SC decisively in that debate, and he would stay in for weeks, if not months, emboldened further, and propped up by the crooks on talk radio.
Obama’s a shoe-in. It’s only a matter of keeping the House and winning the Senate. I give Obama 60% chance of being re-elected, and the only reason it’s not 100% is because the economy has a chance of getting worse, or gas prices could continue to go up beyond acceptable levels.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
12
There are probably 400 visible people in that picture. But still! WOW!
January 30th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Matt Coulter,
You’re such a killjoy. Who says the white knight speculation has to stop? Like any of those proposals were serious, anyway. Now those poor pundits will have nothing to write about! Matt, you’re an insensitive jerk.
4
Palin could announce that she’s running in October and the country will swoon and give her a soaring victory!!!!!!!!!
January 30th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
#12 Sweet picture Go Mitt!!!
January 30th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
Romney picks up endorsement of Memphis Tea Party…sorry adding to the thread. I’m happy to hear about that.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
#14 While you may be more intelligent than I am, I just have a gut feeling you are wrong! My intuition tells me Romney wins the election, cuts, caps and balances the budget, and then only serves 4 years due to the health of his wife. He will leave office with people having mixed feelings about him and history will paint him as the man that saved the United States of America. That is what my crystal ball tells me.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Hannity interviewing Gingrich and he’s allowing Gingrich to attack Romney haha. He had Romney on earlier and all he could do was ask Romney to stop. What a fool.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Even if a “better” GOP candidate was interested in running, a brokered convention would wipe out whatever electoral advantage they had in short order (the obvious exception being if a complete non-starter were on their way to the nomination like Newt Gingrich)
It would be an ugly slugfest until nearly September, and no way could a candidate raise enough money in 4-5 weeks to compete with Obama.
Mitt is the best case scenario, and I still think people are GREATLY underestimating his strength as a general election candidate. Mitt will put a solid conservative on the ticket as an olive branch, and it will be a strong ticket that I believe will beat Obama in November.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Hannity allowing Gingrich to attack!!! Do you see the hypocrisy here? Come on people. People power against money power. Is this not class warfare?
January 30th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
We won’t sit in the back of the bus!
January 30th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
You are the 1%!!!
January 30th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Mitt will read all the data, meet all of the prospective VP’s and will find a good fit that will compliment Romney weaknesses. There will be no hail mary ‘Palin’. There will be two srong people on the ticket and the voters will be satisfied with the selection. People have underestimated Romney, and just when they are counting him out he rises again.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
I don’t think Newt will stick around until Super Tuesday, losing every primary in Feb. by ever widening margins.
It’s ironic that a calander designed to prolong the primary race was met with such an incompentent field of twits that this will be the shortest and most lopsided non-incumbent primary of the modern era.
Newt frickin’ Gingrich in second place is all anyone needs to know about the retardness of this years’ class.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Later this year, Hannity’s going to be shut out from the Republican nominee and, subsequently, the President of the United States.
I’ll live.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Mark PA,
You’re feeling awfully sarcastic today.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
#20: Change the station to Medved. He’s rational. Write letters to all of Hannity’s, Rush’s and Fox’s sponsors.
Mr. K.G., a long Rush listener until recently, turned Rush off in favor of Glenn Beck, yelling at Rush: “You’re full of sh*t.”
Oh no. Medved is playing that screechy witch Palin defending Newt. But he is condemning Palin.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
sarahpalin You decided not to get on the bus. Sarah lost for VP, quit the Governor of Alaska, and decided not to run for president. You are irrelevant except to FOX news.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:24 pm
#27. That is where you are wrong! Unlike me, Romney does not carry grudges.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:26 pm
MassCon,
I would have given Obama a 60% of winning last week, but not because of South Carolina. Nobody will remember or care about South Carolina in 9 months. I was giving him that chance because of a slowly improving economy, and the fact that voters still desperately want to love him.
But now that he’s declared war on the Catholic Church (which inexplicably gave him 54% last time), that’s a much shakier proposition. Even a lot of liberal Catholics are feeling angry and betrayed now.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:26 pm
#23:
Sarah Palin’s already in the back of the bus. That’s why she’s throwing a hissy fit. But she believes endorsing Newt will get her a seat in the front of the bus? Seriously?
January 30th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
33. Todd heading to Florida to campaign with Newt.
interesting…
January 30th, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Newt’s just declared that he won’t participate in any debates, in a general election, moderated by anyone in the media. Classic. Which gives Obama a perfect excuse to hand us the first debate-less general election in memory. That Newt Gingrich is a willy one.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Fun article about Sarah and Newt.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
34 – Sarah is becoming more and more irrelevant and Todd is a non-starter. Newt needs to start getting some serious Republicans to endorse him. Oh that’s right no one wants to. Maybe they can go get Tom Foley there in FL to endorse him.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
24. And worked hard for it.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
We are in trouble if the first dude, who has done nothing, except to be married to Sarah, changes any votes for Gingrich. LOL This is desperate.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Crap, I tried posting a link, and it appears lost in the ether. It’s Jonathan Tobin in Commentary magazine about Newt and Sarah.
Try again:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/01/29/palin-stalin-alinsky-gingrich-romney/
January 30th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I am glad Palin didn’t run she would have lost as she just can’t deal with the media attacks at all and comes off as not being too bright many times with her answers.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
33 I think she will be unable to resist some kind of civil rights metaphor. Something similar to Rick Perry’s complaint that gays could serve in the military but kids couldn’t pray in school. If she makes an explicit reference to the civil rights movement, she’s finished. Somehow she will make the Florida results about her.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Trump WILL run! I think he is going for the uber socially liberal, fiscal hawk space. That would equally undercut Obama and Romney?Newt?Santorum? Anyway, it should be a fun three-way this Fall.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Romney will be the nominee and out of the people who ran he definately has the best chance to beat Obama.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
32
I didn’t give Obama 60% because of SC, I did it because SC kept Noot in this race longer than he needs to be, and he’s destroying our nominee out of anger, and not for his own benefit. He’s on a mission to destroy our nominee at all costs.
It’s working.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
#39
It’s also pathetic. For all of them.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
35 – Let’s not forget that today on the Neil Cavuto show Gingrich claims that he fought Reagan against raising taxes. Now he’s even better than Reagan.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
MEM,
Leave it to the impenetrable genius of Newt to declare null the one advantage he was supposed to bring Republicans in the general election. The one advatage he has been banging like a drum the past month.
Newt’s playing 5 dimensional chess while the rest of us laugh at him.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
MassCon,
Nah. The voters who will largely decide the race in November aren’t paying much attention to politics right now, and they couldn’t care less what Newt thinks. In fact, they’d probably consider getting slammed by Newt to be a badge of honor.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
#45: MassCon: And the true Republican establishment, Palin, Rush, Levin, Fox, Ingraham, Michael Reagan have joined with him.
I agree: It’s a nightmare that’s going to get Obama re-elected. I’ve said it all along. The Limbaugh/Fox crowd, fighting for ABR but with no viable alternative are playing with fire. And now they support Newt, the world’s worst?
How’s this supposed to work?
January 30th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
#43 What makes you think that? Are you Trump’s brother from another mother or what?
January 30th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
MWS,
Obama’s campaign and various PACS would just spend 600 million dollars savaging Gingrich, while the candidate himself stays above the fray, and Newt would be abandoned by donors who’ll prefer to try to salvage a few Senate and House seats. It is astonishing to me that Newtonians don’t realize this. John McCain had no money in ’08 not because big donors were sour on Republicans but because he looked like an unlikely prospect in a general election, given the Bush legacy and the collapsing economy. Gingrich would be abandoned from day 1 and, if he did indeed follow through on his threat to boycott media hosted debates, he’d have no opportunity to recover any ground whatsoever. It’d be a re-aligning election as Obama and Democrats spent their time courting voters Gingrich had driven out of the GOP.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
How did Obama attack Catholocism?
January 30th, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Can anyone have a superPAC? What if a superPAC aired a negative ad against a private citizen? Is that allowed? (I don’t why not). What if Alan Colmes superPAC aired a negative ad against Hannity?
January 30th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Oh, just found it. I doubt most Catholics really have a problem with birth control. Only the nutjob fringe.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Miami Herald poll
Romney 47
Gingrich 27
Santorum 12
Paul 9
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/01/latest-latest-poll-romney-in-a-landslide-.html
If Romney wins by 20, does it effectively shut down the race? It seems to me Gingrich continues to be very viable with a 10 point loss in Florida but if it’s 20, his case going forward is much harder to justify.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
If there’s ONE way to characterize the Fox and Talk circus, it’s that they are habitual contrarians.
These clowns and misfits did whatever they could to upend every single GOP frontrunner since the 70s. It’s what they do EVERY. SINGLE. FOUR. YEARS.
I promise, I GUARANTEE, in 2016/2020, they will do so again.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:55 pm
56
That poll was already posted here today. That’s the Suffolk poll.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/01/newt-says-mitt-hostile-to-religious-liberty-112839.html
“You want a war on the Catholic Church by Obama? Guess what: Romney refused to allow Catholic hospitals to have conscience in their dealing with certain circumstances,” Gingrich said, referring to the handling of abortion in universal health care laws.
He went on, speaking to a CNN reporter as a pack of press surrounded him: “Romney cut off kosher food to elderly Jews on Medicare. Both of them have the same lack of concern for religious liberty.”
Gingrich escalated the attack in his remarks in an airplane hangar, saying Americans deserve a “government that respects our religions.”
“I’m a little bit tired of being lectured about respecting every … religion on the planet, I would like him to respect our religion,” he said. A campaign spokesman confirmed Gingrich was referring to Romney.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Newt sure is lucky to have Todd Palin campaigning with him. That is just awesome.
35. Holy crap. What a moron.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:58 pm
59
Now THAT is the mark of desperation. WOW!
January 30th, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Religion card!
It had to come out at some point!
I am donating to the Romney campaign ASAP. I will not stand for this.
January 30th, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Metro,
It’s not about contraception, it about conscience. It’s about whether the government has the right to compel people to offer goods and services that violate their conscience. It’s an attack on every Catholic school, hospital, and charity in this country, and threatens their continued existence.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
G,
I was remarking to a friend after mass yesterday that I actually trust Mitt to reverse Obama’s Anti-Conscience Claus, as he is a devoted member of what was once an oppressed minority.
I’m quite certain in a battle between the freedom of religion and the power of the state, Mitt would side with the angels.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
This is getting out of hand:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/01/newt-says-mitt-hostile-to-religious-liberty-112839.html
January 30th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Someone needs to call Newt out for his disgusting character attacks. They are completely inappropriate, especially in a primary.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
59.
This information is from http://www.whyromney.com
“Many false charges are circulating against Mitt Romney on the abortion issue. The following is one more example. Read our special feature, Prolife Principles, for thorough information explaining why critcs are wrong.
Also on abortion, they claim Romney forced private hospitals to provide rape victims “morning after” pills. The truth is, Romney vetoed the legislation(3). The legislature overrode Romney’s veto(3), after which Romney tried to make an exemption for private hospitals by citing a conscience clause in state law which protects private hospitals.(4)
There was one clear obstacle to Romney’s preferred exemption: the legislature has authority to supersede previous laws with new laws, and the clear intent of the legislature was for this bill to supersede any contradictory statutes or provisions rather than to work in harmony with the older statute. Thus, if Romney were to challenge the intended effect of the law, he would have had to argue disingenuously in court that the older provision and the new provision could be reconciled when that was likely not true. It is perhaps not surprising that Romney felt bound by the new law and it was in this context that Romney told the Department of Public Health they had to enforce the intent of the law even though he disagreed with it.”
Newt Gingrich is a manic liar… he seems not to be able to help himself.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
66 – Haven’t you heard? He’s a true conservative so says Hannity and Rush so he gets a pass to say his bullsh** with no questions.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Noot needs to be silenced, by almost any means possible, as quickly as possible.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
#58 Mass Con,
Thanks. I didn’t realize that.
In other news, Newt is being sued for his theme music. This is another example of his campaign’s ineptitiude. Don’t they know that most musicians are left-leaning and they will not allow the use of their work to promote a Republican? Don’t they know they need to get permission in advance? I’m not running a campaign and even I know that.
Romney’s team had to ask Kid Rock for permission to use his work and Rock very publically agreed to its use. He got a bit of flack on his website from some of his Obama-supporting fans for allowing it too.
Obama has one of the best campaign operations we’ve ever seen. He managed to take down the Clinton team which was previously thought to be the best. Are Republicans really going to send in Gingrich and his merry band of screw-ups to do battle with the best polical team ever?
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/01/latest-latest-poll-romney-in-a-landslide-.html
January 30th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Sorry. Wrong link.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/01/30/newt-gingrich-sued-for-using-eye-tiger-at-political-events/
January 30th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Watching libs and conservatives go at it in Canada on C-Span while waiting for the Romney rally. This is great watching these libs and conservatives go at it. Politics is definitely a sport.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
63. Please read 67, you simply must stop believing the lies about Mitt Romney, for your own peace of mind.
Mitt vetoed the legislation and was over ridden.
Mitt Romney did not make Massachusetts liberal. Most of the attacks on Romney amount to blaming him for making Massachusetts liberal. It is ridiculous.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
The fact that Fox and talk, and Sarah Failing continue to trumpet Crookrich makes me VERY angry.
If after tomorrow, he’s still their candidate, I’m going on a rampage to do everything I can to cause them problems.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:16 pm
The ironic thing about Mitt’s failure to support kosher meals: One instance where government pork spending would actually be cheaper.
Only Mitt could find a way to make government pork spending save the government money.
How about that guy!
January 30th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
24 hours left to out-organize and out-hustle the Newt wack pac down here.
Give em hell Mitt!
January 30th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Mass Con
When your team wins, don’t complain about the weather or the umpires.
In other words, nothing quiets a politician like a resounding loss. Newt’s ability to spin every indiscretion and personal failing notwithstanding, I think the gig is up with him, and voters are going to just move on without him, whether he takes the hint or not, and whether you get wrapped around the axle or not.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
It is absolutely enraging to hear people on Fox and talk radio repeat Newt’s arguments about Romney trashing him as if they were facts. And then Laura Ingram yesterday, on ABC, saying that Mitt is butchering Newt and not saying a word about the disgusting character attacks that Newt has been engaged in for the last few weeks.
Newt has taken us into the gutter, and the media is letting him pour his sewage all over Mitt without comment. It is mind boggling.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:22 pm
I saw CNN defending Mitt last night by telling Newt that it makes no sense to call an opponent a liar, but not say what the lie was. I thought it was a rpetty good piece.
If the more robust polls are correct, Newt is speaking to himself out there, and not convincing accidental listeners that he’s on to something.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:22 pm
74 – I’m already there. They’re not going to stop. They’re not going to give Romney his props. Romney keeps their false narrative of them against the establishment. It’s as I’ve said before. When we came into this cycle Rush and Hannity and all of their ilk had in their minds that Romney was going to be their “establishment” sacrificial lamb. The problem is the people who lined up to run were very lazy and disorganized. On top of that they’re realizing how formidable Romney is. These candidates thought that they could just jump in and jump on the Rush, evangelical, and whatever wave was there after 2010. These people are shady and sneaky and they’re close to MSM levels in their blatant hypocrisy at this point. I hope that they keep this up because it will be harder for them to gain their credibility back as “conservatives”. It’s a weeding process and it’s wonderful and telling.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
77
It’s never over until Gingrich is out of the race. The drive-by crook media is intentionally propping him up by dedicating several TV and radio interviews to him per day, and following those interviews up with defending him.
So long as he has a mouthpiece, he’s helping Obama. I will not stand for it.
It won’t matter when he loses tomorrow, it won’t matter when he continues to lose. He is their candidate, and they will do whatever it takes to carry his water.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:25 pm
78
It’s disgusting. They must be stopped.
Mitt needs to use his prime-time speech tomorrow to compare whiny, blaming Gingrich with whiny, blaming Obama. That will seal the deal.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:31 pm
82.
Disagree a victory speech is a time to be magnanimous. Mitt will do so.
If Newt is whiny so be it.
Give em hell Mitt!
January 30th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
I hate Newt Gingrich. When he’s out of politics forever, it will be a beautiful day in America.
As for anyone who still supports him after all his religion baiting, lies, supporting OBAMACARE, I have NO respect for you. NONE. I wish ill upon any who still support this loser.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Mitt live in The Villages:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/cvplive/cvpstream4
January 30th, 2012 at 5:41 pm
I’m excited to announce my full and enthusiastic support for Newt!!
I’m planning to sell my truck and send Newt the proceeds. My retirement accounts will be liquidated and sent to Winning Our Future, I’m proud to add!!
January 30th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
85
Huge crowd! WOOHOO!
http://360.io/3zMapv
January 30th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Newt exposed as a liar … again:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/01/30/romney-kosher-food-nursing-homes/#more-782342
January 30th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Wait, this can’t be the day before a primary, there hasn’t been a Duroy Mudock desperation piece yet.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:45 pm
If I were Romney, I would be calling Ron Paul, organizing a secret partnership to take Noot out of the race by slaughtering him with a constant barrage of negative ads in every upcoming state.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
89
LOL!
January 30th, 2012 at 5:47 pm
Massachusetts Conservative Says:
January 30th, 2012 at 5:45 pm
If I were Romney, I would be calling Ron Paul, organizing a secret partnership to take Noot out of the race by slaughtering him with a constant barrage of negative ads in every upcoming state.
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No need to call Paul, he hates Newt and doesn’t need to be encouraged. I think if somehow Newt got the nomination, Paul would go third party. If its Romney, he won’t.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Ann has really smoothed out her stump speech. She seems much more confident and less nervous.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Ann Romney to Mitt: “I have only one question for you, if you manage to make it through this process, will you be able to fix it? And he said: YES.”
Don’t know how you can look at that family and not see them as true Conservatives in every way.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:54 pm
What the below exposes is that any complaint, from Newt about Romney’s claims being disingenuous, is not any more egregious than his own claims.
In essence, Newt is a whiny hypocrite.
“But Romney’s decision was not, as Gingrich claims, a choice to “eliminate kosher food for elderly Jewish residents under Medicare.” First of all, it was a choice made by the nursing homes themselves, not the Massachusetts government. Second, it was never actually going to prevent kosher residents from accessing kosher food. And third, Romney’s decision wouldn’t have cut anything – he simply vetoed additional funds, keeping funding at the status quo during a budget crisis year. Which means Gingrich’s comments have little basis in reality.”
January 30th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Loved Ann’s speech. Both Connie Macks were good as well.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:56 pm
Romney gives a cake to reporter on plane:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1678179/mitt-romneys-flight-across-florida-cake-on-plane.jhtml
This guy has REAL INTEGRITY. The US of A will be so lucky to have this man in the White House.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Who doesn’t love Ann? She is such a class actI would be proud to have her as our 1st lady!!
January 30th, 2012 at 6:02 pm
Mitt Romney’s singing…trying to pull a Hermanator here?
January 30th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Mitt sang to Nikki Haley on her birthday too.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Good speech. Liked Romney singing. Has a better voice than Obama.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Romney really needs to get a more substantive stump speech. He’s running on motherhood and apple pie- which is fine, sometimes. Rubio did it to enormous effect. But Rubio had a super compelling personal story which made it seem more profound. If you’re a old, white-bread plutocrat, you can’t say “I Love America” like 20 times in a speech without seeming a little cloying. On another note, that’s the first Romney speech I’ve seen in a week which didn’t even acknowledge Gingrich.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:11 pm
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These live events are all rallies. He wants to fire up his supporters emotionally in these events.
Nothing gets someone to work hard like pure emotion.
It’s a calculated decision by the campaign, and it’s worked to great effect.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:20 pm
MEM,
I agree, and would add that Marco has that boy-next-door charisma. The lad you hope your daughter brings home.
Mitt doesn’t have the personal charm to pull off a substance free campaign.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:22 pm
MassCon,
That’s a good point. And you don’t want a night-before rally sounding like a Senate sub-committee on traffic lights, but he needs some meat with the sauce.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
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Perhaps a graze-over of his major campaign promises would suffice. Agreed.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Wow, it is enlightening, reading the ooze from this fever swamp. You willardbots must be fans of the Fairness Doctrine, huh?
Blowtorch your political enemies, and seek to silence them in the media to boot? You folks would be more at home with the Left, wouldn’t you? Or maybe North Korea?
Perhaps you hadn’t noticed, but Willard’s blowtorch and your own is what’s going to destroy him, now or in November. He’s a loser, and this is much of the reason why.
Suggest you willardbots remove the bayonet from your teeth, and breathe. Your boy was never going to be able to win anything but a long primary process, no matter who and what and why and when. He’s a weak, progressive, lying robot from Planet Hairdo, but yours and his blowtorches are only compounding his electoral problems.
Piece of advice, you should both knock it off, as you’re only hurting yourselves.
January 30th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
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Your constant overuse of the words “willarbots” “fever swamp” and “blowtorch” make you look really stupid, I hope you’re aware.
But more importantly, the content of what you write does.
January 30th, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Dude, you proclaimed you were going to stop reading my posts.
Crapweasel Willard’s lying must be rubbing off on on the fever swamp denizens, apparently.
Oh, and you need to relax and breathe… seriously.
January 30th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Oh again, no matter what happens tomorrow, Willard will never be president. And you’re already seeing that, I’d hope. This ain’t like all those other elections. Not this time. There ain’t gonna be no hold your nose and vote for the chump, or if there is, it’ll be a nose holding vote for Axe’s boy.
You see, 4 years of progressive crapweasel is a lot better than 8, and we get Kasich/Walker or equal in ’16 to clean up the mess. This is what you willardbots are bringing onto yourselves, fyi.
January 30th, 2012 at 7:39 pm
LOL, MassCon: In a post above you wrote
and I read it Cockroach. Somehow I like my reading even better; it explains so much on so many levels.
January 30th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
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HA!