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Gingrich has gotten a huge boost since Cain imploded and is up 37-23 in the latest Gallup tracking poll. It’s crunch time for Romney. The race will soon freeze over the Christmas break and the Iowa caucus is on Jan3. If Newt can win that and come a strong second in NH he will have a lot of momentum going into SC and Florida where he is already polling well. After that it will be a long hard slog and it’s not clear whether Newt can raise the money and organization to pull through but ideally Romney doesn’t want to find out.
He would like to knock back Newt right around now and needs to spend a big chunk of his war chest on negative ads. There are two major lines of attacks: Newt is too erratic and has too much baggage. And second, attack Newt from the right on issue where he has strayed from conservative orthodoxy. There are lots of Republicans who don’t like Newt including some hardcore conservatives; it would really help Romney to get some of them to attack him openly. It would also help Romney if Perry got some traction especially with religious voters. It’s probably too late for Perry to become a serious contender again but he has the money to become a spoiler siphonong off some evangelical votes from Newt in Iowa and muddying the result.
And the “ideas” keep coming.
Palestinians are an “invented” people:
You people, whose parents and grand parents and countless generations who have lived in the region: you’re just Arabs. Go to Arabia where you belong, or one of these other “many places.”
You Christians who have lived there for countless generations as well? What? There are Palestinian Christians*? Who knew? But who cares, since Palestinians are an “invented” people. And you’re just Arabs anyway. Go away.
(*Palestinian Christians are about 9.8% of the non-Jewish Arab population in the Palestinian territories, according to the CIA Factbook in the Wiki article linked above.)
I too have had a chance to go may places. I grew up not far from an airport!
I wonder if that’s a subtle jab at the Dome on the Rock.
Does anyone else think his wife looks eerily similar to McCain’s wife?
I hadn’t, but now that you mention it, is there a factory somewhere churning them out? Cindy McCain. Callista Gingrich
Callista particularly has a real Stepford look to her. Cindy looks more like a dominatrix.
In view of recent events, I needed a reminder why it’s just as well that I remain a Republican. Thank you for providing it.
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Can’t sleep, it will eat me!
Callista reminds me of the Martian hit woman who tries to kill Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks. Same plastic hair, same plastic expression.
GGAAAAAHHHH! Warn me when you’re going to be posting scary stuff like that! Christmas on a cracker! (And to think, Ann Coulter once had the nards to say that the Repubs have “all the pretty girls.” Hoo-boy. :rolleyes:)
Yeah, Callista looks like she’s about to bite Martin Short’s face off.
Callista Gingrich in that picture looks like a cross between Christie Brinkley and Hillary Clinton.
Callista Gingrich’s hair freaks me out. It’s like snap-on hair.
I have been reading a bit about the debate and clearly Romney did not have a good night. Why on earth did he attack Gingrich about the Palestinian quote. It was indeed inflammatory rubbish which no serious candidate would say but it was also exactly the kind of thing which conservatives lap up. Romney needs to attack Gingrich from the right, the way he attacked Perry on immigration.
And he obviously shouldn’t have offered that silly 10,000 bet to Perry. What kind of person bets 10,000? And why is he attacking Perry anyway? Perry is his best hope for siphoning off conservative votes from Gingrich.
I kinda liked the idea of the betting bit, but he should’ve saved it for some actual factual disagreement and then pressed it harder. The debates could use a little more “put-up or shut-up”, but on some topic that they could’ve actually built a bet around. So far as I could tell (it wasn’t super clear), Romney wanted to bet on Perry’s ability to prove what Romney meant by changing some of the wordings in his book, which is way too subjective, there’s no way anyone could arbitrate that objectively.
I don’t think the 10k thing is that big a deal. Its no big secret he’s rich, and it would look kinda weak for a millionaire to be offering to bet 50 bucks.
He was responding to an attack from Perry. Its not like he could just say “yea your right, I’m a flip-flopper”.
That pic of Callista nearly made me poop.
When you wanted to poop, or wanted NOT to poop?
Callista’s eyes make me long for the serenity of Bachmann’s eyes.
Everyone knows he is rich but he doesn’t have to go out of his way to remind everyone that he can afford to throw away money frivolously. Many politicians are rich and could afford to bet 10,000 but wouldn’t do so in a public debate. Aside from the amount of money, evangelicals often disapprove of gambling and while they aren’t Mitt’s primary constituency, he doesn’t need to gratuitously drive them away either. The whole thing just seemed clumsy and gimmicky. He should just have defended himself directly and moved on.
Evangelicals don’t approve of gambling.
Mormons, really don’t approve of gambling.
Care to 'splain that one Willard?