Hmm, Gingich Cancels NC Stop...

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robchristensen:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's campaign swing to North Carolina on Wednesday has been cancelled, his campaign has confirmed.

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Probably nothing..




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An NC Role in the Primaries?

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A nice change.

Under The Dome:

The May 8th North Carolina Republican primary depends on the Newt Gingrich factor.
If the former House speaker remains in the race, then Mitt Romney is leading among North Carolina Republicans. But if Gingrich drops out of the race, conservatives rally around Rick Santorum.

That is according to a new survey by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic leaning firm based in Raleigh.

It should come as no surprise, though, that without Newt dividing the vote of the majority of conservatives who are not weak conservative Romney supporters, Santorum comes out ahead.  But it is just as likely that if Santorum were to drop out, Newt would pick up NC.

It is just nice that NC may play a role in the primary process. 

Newt Gets the Issue of the Obama Administration's Assault on Religion Right....

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Facts:

• The Obama administration is compelling the Church to act against its will.
• Women have access to contraception.
• No one is proposing to deny women access to contraception.
• Government (the powerful) is compelling others to act against their will.  In response those others (the powerless) say "no".  The left concludes that saying "no" is a form of control greater than government coercion.
• One should no longer expect the left to come to a woman's aid in cases of rape, as the left clearly now believes  that when a woman says "no" she is attempting to exert control over another.
• The media is lying for the administration by framing the debate falsely.

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Newt Comments on Obama's Support for Infanticide...

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Obama's infanticide finally makes it to national TeeVee four years late.



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Newt on Anti Catholic Bigotry During New Hampshire Debate...

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Newt was absolutely correct here and hits a theme I have returned to numerous times, the intentional displacement of religion by governance:



Given the current debate over the contraception mandate and the fact that such a mandate would force religious institutions out of the services they provide if they are to stay true to their beliefs, Newt was spot on.

However, Illegal Insurrection draws further conclusions of possible collusion between media and liberal governance. Just why did Stephanopoulos bizarrely ask about contraception month ago? Romney was clearly baffled by the question, as it seemed at the time to be entirely hypothetical.





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Minnesota Also Called for Santorum...

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Two out of three states for the night have gone for Santorum over Romey.  That makes two big wins for Santorum.  Especially so for Minnesota which went for Romney by 19  over McCain in 08. Consider also that Romney is well behind Ron Paul on Minnesota.


In the case of Missouri, Newt was not one of the choices.  This proves that Newt's votes will go Santorum rather than Romney when he is not included on the ballot.

Bad, bad night for Romney.

Interesting night.




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Some Santorum Polls...

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Via PPP, in Missouri Santorum has 45% to Romney's 32% and Paul's 19%. With Newt not on the ballot in Missouri the anti Mitt vote is less divided and we get a glimpse of Romney's soft conservative weakness. Romney seems to gain little from Newt when Newt is absent from the race.

Newt is, however, in contention in Minnesota. But there too Santorum leads but only with 33%, followed by Romney with 24%, Gingrich at 21% and Paul at 20%.

In Colorado Romney leads with 37%, Santorum with 27%, Gingrich 21%, and Paul 13%.

Then, of course, there is excitement or momentum to consider:














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Old Advert, Current Charge...

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So, it's a Rick  Perry advert.  I like it and either Santorum or Newt could have run it...





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Santorum and Newt Lead in the Mid West...

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TheStateColumn:

Two Public Polling Policy polls of voters in Ohio and Missouri show Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich leading rivals Mitt Romney, and Ron Paul in the two mid-western states.

In Missouri, Mr. Gingrich is not on the primary ballot. Mr. Santorum finished with 45 percent of the votes among Missouri voters, with Mr. Romney trailing at 34 percent and Mr. Paul finishing third at 13 percent.

Mr. Gingrich leads the way in Ohio, finishing with 26 percent of the votes, followed by Mr. Romney at 25 percent, Mr. Santorum with 22 percent and 11 percent for Mr. Paul.

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In addition to leading in popularity, Mr. Santorum also has the highest favorability rating in Missouri and Ohio. According to the poll, 63 percent of voters in Missouri have a favorable view of Mr. Santorum while 59 percent of voters polled in Ohio have a favorable view of him.

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Not All Wins are the Same...

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Legal Insurrection:

Romney’s strategy of carpet bombing rather than inspiring may result in the nomination, but at a heavy financial price which will leave him weakened in a general election. A strategy which depends on outspending rivals several times over in each state is a self-destructive path...

Admittedly Newt, himself, was not particularly inspiring in Florida. Perhaps Romney's attacks threw him off message but if so, it was Newt's choice to step away from message and reply on Romney's terms.

Bad choice, Newt.




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New Momentum for Newt in Florida with Men ... and Latinos?

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It may be that Santorum bruised Romney on the RomneyCare attack, but more likely Romney went too dirty for too long on Newt.

Romney 36%
Newt 31%

NewsMax:

Towery noted that his poll showed a surge for Romney on Wednesday, with him leading Gingrich by 8 points. The InsiderAdvantage poll was among the first to show Romney's resurgence after his dismal showing in the S. Carolina primary.

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"The trend is favoring Gingrich," Towery said, noting that while Romney's lead was still outside the margin of error of 3.8 percent, "It's not by much."

And most interestingly:

As for Florida's important Latino vote, InsiderAdvantage has Gingrich beating Romney by a large margin, leading 42 percent to 29 percent.

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Establishment Vs. The Tea Party...

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I am still looking for my own words to describe the events of late last week, but I am currently still locked in shrill mode.

Fortunately, Professor Jacobson is not:

There was a backlash on Thursday and Friday among talk radio hosts and a variety of people who were in a first hand position to observe Newt’s interaction with Reagan, culminating in Sarah Palin’s Facebook post on Friday afternoon denouncing the neo-Stalinist attempt to rewrite history.

That the attack on Newt’s Reagan bona fides came from someone who openly ran against Reaganism and against the conservative agenda in 1994 was an irony lost only on the pro-Romney Republican establishment and media.

Romney’s attacks on Newt’s late 1990s ethics charge also were distinctly from the left, echoing the talking points of anti-conservative Democrats like Nancy Pelosi. It took people like Byron York and Mark Levin to expose the truth that the charges were part of a Democratic Party vendetta, and that substantively Newt did nothing wrong and was vindicated.

But mostly, the Republican establishment and conservative media who howled...

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Establishment Conservative Romeny and His Big Media Allies Possibly Collude to Silence Newt...

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Fox News:

The pro-Newt Gingrich PAC "Winning Our Future" claims that "at least six" stations in Florida have -- as of Thursday -- been telling the group they need more documentation to run their ads.

"Stations all across Florida started to pull spots asking for fact checking," said Gregg Phillips, managing director of Winning Our Future, who accused the outlets of being "lazy" and suggested they were part of a coordinated effort across Florida to derail Newt Gingrich.

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Huckabee Lies About His Own Intent in an Attempt to Damage Newt...

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Via the good work of Legal Insurrection:

Mike Huckabee claims that Newt is using a clip from Huckabee in 2008 out of context because Huckabee was not referring to Mitt Romney, but in fact Huckabee obviously was referring to Romney.

Huckabee's accusation:

Former GOP presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee “would love for” Newt Gingrich to pull a political campaign ad that features a comment he made during the 2008 campaign that appears to slam Mitt Romney for being “dishonest.”

“I know Newt Gingrich at the end of the ad says I approved this message, well let me just say, I didn’t approve that message,” Huckabee said in an interview Friday on Fox News.

The former governor of Arkansas said his words were “taken out of context” and were also ” deceptive” because he was not referring to Romney, one of his 2008 primary rivals.

As Jacobson shows with Huckbee's own words, the deception is Huckabee's. Huckabee is a liar:




Huckabee is a shill for establishment conservatives attempting to protect ObamaCare and the power and influence they derive from it. They want Romney because he fundamentally supports ObamaCare and considers it something we "should not get angry about".

Huckabee should be embarrassed and apologize.




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Romney, Card Carrying Member of the Conservative Establishment, Has Joined the Mainstream Media's False Newt Narrative...

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The History, the reality:



Rogue conservative establishment elitist, Mitt Romney, fully joins the Mainstream Media and Democrats in a false narrative to sully Newt's campaign:


Shame on Romney.
We don't want your ObamaCare.




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Our Rogue Conservative Establishment Want You to Forget ...

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How else can anyone read the push for Romney amid the leftest styled Stalin-esque  character assassination of Newt.

Remember...






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Sarah Palin Knows Palinization When She Sees it --- Even When Coming From the Right....

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Sara Palin on FaceBook:

We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent.

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What we saw with this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stalin-esque re-writing of history. It was Alinsky tactics at their worst.

But this whole thing isn’t really about Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney. It is about the GOP establishment vs. the Tea Party grassroots and independent Americans who are sick of the politics of personal destruction used now by both parties’ operatives with a complicit media egging it on.

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It is a Sad Day -- I am Linking Kos Over Anything From Our Rogue Conservative Establishment...

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Kos --- The Jed Report:

Today, National Review stepped it up a notch and actually claims Newt Gingrich "repeatedly insulted" Ronald Reagan.

The thing that makes these attacks so absurd is that they are being made on behalf of Mitt Romney, who wasn't a Republican when Ronald Reagan was president and specifically said in his 1994 U.S. Senate campaign that he was not seeking public office to support either Reagan or George H.W. Bush. Romney ended up getting trounced by 17 points.

Newt Gingrich, meanwhile, was busy leading Republicans to their first victory in forty years in the House. And the following year, Nancy Reagan credited him with taking up the mantle of conservatism, saying Barry Goldwater had passed it to Ronald Reagan, and that Ronald Reagan had passed it to Newt Gingrich.

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The Palinization of Newt is an Ugly Thing....

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iOwnTheWorld:

Update--
Linked by EBL.  Thanks.




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Mark Levin On Our Rogue Conservative Establishment...

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I was there, I saw it, I lived it. Don't lie to me about Newt:

“I’m going to tell you something. Newt Gingrich was the former Republican Speaker of the House, the first Republican Speaker of the House in almost half a century, and he was fighting the Democrats and to win the House of Representatives before most of the people writing on the Internet about him and trashing him and going with talking points from other campaigns were old enough to wipe themselves,” Levin said. “[W]e can certainly criticize Newt Gingrich, but do not count me among those who are going to destroy the man. I saw that attempt already by the hard-left Democrats led by [Michigan Rep.] David Bonior.” …

“I’m supposed to sit here, read all this crap on the Internet, listen to purported Reaganites and others tell me that he didn’t do these things?” Levin said. “I was there. I lived it. I saw it. Or let me put it this way — Newt Gingrich, if he does nothing else, did more for the conservative movement and to stop the liberal Democrats in the House of Representatives than virtually everybody today who’s criticizing him.”

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