2012 Political Predictions

[Townsend]

So since Inhofe backed Perry and Perry is now backing Newt is Inhofe backing Newt?

[Hoss]

So since Inhofe backed Perry and Perry is now backing Newt is Inhofe backing Newt?

"I pose a conundrum to you; a riddle if you will....."

[Conan71]

So since Inhofe backed Perry and Perry is now backing Newt is Inhofe backing Newt?

That's just too gross to picture.

[Gaspar]

That's just too gross to picture.

MUST RESIST PHOTOSHOP. . .MUST RESIST PHOTOSHOP.

[Gaspar]

Chuck Norris has officially endorsed Newt.

All of the other candidates have suddenly gone missing.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/gops-biggest-celebrity-makes-his-endorsement/

[heironymouspasparagus]

Chuck is very cool in the movies!  Always great to have a 'tongue-in-cheek' B or C grade martial arts film to watch on a Saturday night with a pitcher of whiskey sours!

Mental giant he is not.  It's a shame The Disciples of The Script just can't seem to get actual facts right....

[Townsend]

Gloves off: Romney savages Gingrich

Tampa, Florida (CNN) - Mitt Romney offered a stark warning to fellow Republicans that nominating Newt Gingrich could end in a series of surprises that could torpedo the party's hopes to re-take the White House in the fall.

Calling the former House speaker "highly erratic," Romney cautioned they could see "an October surprise a day from Newt Gingrich," if he were to become the GOP nominee.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/23/gloves-off-romney-savages-gingrich/

[Townsend]

All of Newt's Opponents Live in Fantasy Worlds

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/01/25/all-of-newt-s-opponents-live-in-fantasy-worlds.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Attention campaign followers: Newt Gingrich has a new comeback. The presidential hopeful has apparently grown quite fond of responding to something he doesn't like by accusing the person saying it of living in an alternate universe and possessing strange "fantasies." Earlier today Gingrich dismissed Nancy Pelosi's charge that the former speaker will never be president, arguing that Pelosi "lives in a San Francisco environment of very strange fantasies." Now he's lashed out at opponent Mitt Romney's self-deportation proposal for illegal immigrants calling it an "Obama-level fantasy." Of course, Mitt Romney's ideas are not based in reality, Gingrich explains, because he lives "in a world of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million-a-year income with no work."

[Townsend]

It's official:

Fidel Castro: GOP race is 'idiocy, ignorance'

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71955.html

The Republican presidential race is "the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been," former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote in an opinion piece on Wednesday.

Castro made his comments in his latest column of "reflections" on a Cuban government website, attacking the Republican candidates two days after their debate in Florida.

"The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been," he wrote, according to The Associated Press.

During the debate, Romney responded to a question of how he would react to a 3 a.m. announcement of Castro's death by referencing the Jan. 19 death of Cuban prisoner Wilman Villar.

"We just had, with Wilman Villar, his life was just lost in a hunger strike fighting for democracy," Romney said.

Castro wrote that Villar was a common criminal and not a political dissident, the AP reported.

Castro did not reference the comments that Romney and Newt Gingrich made about what they would do if he died, the AP wrote. Romney said he would "thank heavens" Castro had "returned to his maker," while Gingrich said, "I don't think Fidel's going to meet his maker. I think he's going to go to the other place."

The former Cuban president wrote he was too busy to spend any additional time evaluating the Republican field.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71955.html#ixzz1kUslH2aN

[Townsend]

CREW Requests Gingrich Investigation Records

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/01/25/crew-requests-gingrich-investigation-records.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Maybe we won't have to wait until Newt Gingrich gets the GOP nomination to find out what Nancy Pelosi knows. Pelosi has taunted that she "knows something" about Gingrich from her involvement with his ethics investigation that leads her to believe he will never become president. The House minority leader has insisted that if Gingrich becomes the Republican to challenge Obama in 2012, this information—whatever it is—will become public and surely kill his campaign. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a watchdog group, doesn't want to let things get that far before finding out. CREW has filed an FOIA request for the documents and plans to discover just what presumably juicy gossip Pelosi is withholding. 

[Townsend]

Bob Dole!


Bob Dole: Gingrich Is Dangerous for the GOP

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/01/26/bob-dole-says-newt-will-ruin-gops-chances-of-winning-presidency.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Bob Dole can't resist criticizing Newt Gingrich any longer. The former senator and vice presidential nominee wrote a statement—published by National Review—arguing that "if Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices." Dole insists that anyone who actually served with the former speaker in Congress knows this to be true and that's why they haven't endorsed him. "Gingrich had a new idea every minute and most of them were off the wall," Dole recalls, suggesting that Democrats are hoping for a Newt nomination because they know it "could result in a landslide victory for Obama and a crushing defeat from the courthouse to the White House."

Bob Dole!

[AquaMan]

CREW Requests Gingrich Investigation Records

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/01/25/crew-requests-gingrich-investigation-records.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

"That's good news for John McCain!!"

Anyone remember that phrase from 2008?

[Townsend]

I didn't watch this last debate.  For anyone who did; did Romney really mop the floor with Gingrich that bad?

[Conan71]

I didn't watch this last debate.  For anyone who did; did Romney really mop the floor with Gingrich that bad?

I saw snippets on CBS news this morning.  Newt's toupee makes a great mop!

[AquaMan]

"That's good news for John McCain!!"

Anyone remember that phrase from 2008?

Apparently not. I followed Nate Silver during that election on his 538 blog. He is great with interpreting polls and correctly weighting them. As the election progressed every time something happened in the world McCain's robot followers would flood the comments sections all over the internet with this line in hopes of sparking a flame for McCain. It got to where everyone from both sides started their comments with the phrase even when he was dismally failing.

He now is carried by the NY Times. He currently predicted before this debate that Romney is gaining momentum again and he sees a close race with Mitt prevailing. His take was Gingrich was too passive and it cost him.

Here's the link http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/