Is Newtmentum cooling off?
A CNN/Time/ORC International Poll also indicates that while Gingrich surged following his 12-point victory in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, his momentum appears to be quickly cooling off.
According to the poll, 36% of people likely to vote in Tuesday’s Republican primary in the Sunshine State say they are backing Romney as the party’s nominee, with 34% supporting Gingrich. The former Massachusetts governor’s two point margin over the former House speaker is well within the survey’s sampling error.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is at 11% and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is at 9%, with 7% unsure. The poll’s Wednesday release comes one day before a CNN-Republican Party of Florida presidential debate at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. The showdown is the last time the candidates will face off on the same stage before Tuesday’s winner-take-all primary, where 50 delegates are up for grabs.
Wanna guess what’s going to happen in the Florida primary? I called South Carolina for Gingrich while Newt was still holding John King’s beating heart aloft in Charleston, but I won’t hazard a guess about Florida right now. But you could win an iPad if you guess right.
“while Newt was still holding John King’s beating heart aloft ”
LOL!
This is one Florida vote that’s going to Newt. I haven’t liked Mitt from the start. I don’t trust him and so far nothing he’s said or done has managed to change my mind.
Maybe The Newtonian Implosion is going to need a different tag line…a Reagan Republican seems to be not quite what it appears at first blush. Or so says yet another “lieing jackel”, who happened to be there at the time.
Gingrich scorned Reagan’s speeches, which moved a party and then a nation, because “the president of the United States cannot discipline himself to use the correct language.” In Afghanistan, Reagan’s policy was marked by “impotence [and] incompetence.” Thus Gingrich concluded as he surveyed five years of Reagan in power that “we have been losing the struggle with the Soviet empire.” Reagan did not know what he was doing, and “it is precisely at the vision and strategy levels that the Soviet empire today is superior to the free world.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289159/gingrich-and-reagan-elliott-abrams?pg=1
Gingrich slamming Reagan…at a time when the Party and the country needed a team player to pull on the same end of the rope?
The Club for Growth, Phil Klein (not a Romney fan), Allahpundit, Guy Benson…join the chorus…along with Marco Rubio TWICE…saying that we may not need a “Saul Alinsky Republican” slamming the free market at a time when the assault by the small c communists in in full battle gear.
Apparently, the “historian” has a history of trashing his own side.
Repeatedly.
From the left.
How shocking!!
A member of the republican ruling class knocking Newt.
Will wonders never cease.
They sure know how to circle the wagon when they get worried about their places at the left-hand of the king, don’t they. I wonder if it has anything to do with feeding at the gubamint trough, which is how they all make their fortunes.
Too bad they don’t know how to put forward good candidates who have the balls to take the fight to obama.
Do you have a substantive reply to cfbleachers? Because I don’t see it here.
I no longer have a dog in the fight, other than to find someone who will (1) beat Obama & save the nation, (2) have an effective recovery plan, & (3) protect our defense structure & project power against our enemies in a manner befitting our national security needs.
I’m not thrilled with any of the candidates, but I’m disgusted with Obama. I’m willing to support whomever the nominee will be, but it looks as if Romney is going to be the guy, for several reasons. Gingrich is a bright fellow & provides some entertaining & even inspiring moments, but he’s simply too intellectually undisciplined & doesn’t show the leadership to bring the party factions together, much less provide a clear national vision.
At this level (about 30-40%) two percent difference is NOT statistically significant.
Tie Score…
Well this is about as official as it gets. The Weekly Standard proclaims that Newt is the Tea Party candidate.:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/tea-party-voters-vault-gingrich-national-lead_618423.html?nopager=1
Of course, they wouldn’t say it if they weren’t convinced that serfs for Newt are a negative for him.
So I guess that means that it’s official that the Republican Ruling Class is now formally aligned with the Marxists in opposition to the Tea Party serfs.
Now the jackals even have decrepit old Reaganites crawling out of their rest homes to claim that Newt was insulting to Reagan. If only they had one one-millionth of the hatred toward obama as they do for Newt, all would be well.
We’ll see how that hatred works out for the jackals.
What? NO mention of the Rassmussen, Insider Advantage or PPP polls in Florida that have Gingrich up with healthy gaps beyond the margin of error? Those same polls taken over almost the exact same dates? I don’t think I can participate in the PJ Ipad contest, but if I could it would be:
Gingrich 38
Romney 32
Santorum 16
Paul 14