Latest Gingrich ad calls Romney ‘Soros approved’
Whoa, Newtie is going scorched-earth. That’s the GOP-equivalent of calling Mitt the favored candidate of a child molesting puppy-eating Satanist.
Tom Toles, “Children’s Table.”
Lesser-known facts about Republican Presidential Candidates
Newt Gingrich:
- When applying for a job and made to fill in a box marked “weaknesses,” usually writes “Cannot see through walls”
- Is actually two less conservative men, one standing on the other’s shoulders, wearing a long jacket
- Was sent by Dre to piss the world off, was too successful, hence Eminem
- Likes his buffets like he likes his marriages: Open
- First name is short for “Newton’s Third Law of Thermodynamics”
Mitt Romney:
- Is so rich that he owns two copies of The Incredible Hulk #181, featuring the first full appearance of Wolverine. One copy is kept in pristine condition in a bag, the other he openly reads at comic conventions with jam on his hands
- Doesn’t even like Wolverine that much anyway
- As a child, came across a corporation in a field that had fallen out of a tree and injured its supply chain; he took it home and nursed it back to health before tearfully releasing it back into the free market
- Once helped the homeless by installing a warming mug of delicious, hearty soup at eye-level behind a bulletproof window in his home
- First name is short for “Mitt Romney is Better Than You”
Rick Santorum:
- Thinks about gay men more often than all of Madonna’s backing dancers, past and present, combined
- Believes that tying a tie on the Sabbath is ungodly; does not take off his neckwear upon going to bed on a Saturday
- Gave his wife the pet-name “wombguardian”
- Favourite method of eating a hotdog is to lick off all the condiments in a slow and deliberate manner while moaning softly and holding back tears
- First name is short for “Ricardo”
Ron Paul
- When watching someone play Super Mario 3, usually roots for the Goombas
- Wakes up the morning after a full moon with flesh under his fingernails, ballet gear on the floor of his bedroom and no memory of the previous night
- Can hypnotise the simple-minded
- Is able to use initiative to work independently but also able to collaborate in team-based projects
- References available upon request
The monthlong feud with Newt Gingrich has identified clear vulnerabilities for Mr. Romney on issues like his wealth, his work for Bain Capital, a private equity firm, the taxes he pays and his positions on immigration, Medicare and health care.
It also has cost Mr. Romney — at least for now — the generally likable image that he has nurtured for years. In polls during the last several weeks, the number of people who view him favorably has plunged, especially among independent voters who will likely decide the general election later this year.
In a Washington Post/ABC News poll last week, 49 percent of the respondents nationwide held an unfavorable view of Mr. Romney, while only 31 percent had a favorable one. That is a reversal from last September, when more people held a favorable view of Mr. Romney than an unfavorable one.
Independents, in particular, now have a less favorable opinion of Mr. Romney, with favorable opinions dropping from a high in the mid-40s in late November to a low of 23 percent last week, according to the Post/ABC News poll.
Romney’s Fight to Win Comes at a Cost, Polls Show
I’d send Newt Gingrich “thank you” flowers but he’d just forward them to his current mistress.
In the end, [Gingrich] lost every major demographic group and every region of Florida but the conservative and less-populated panhandle. Mr. Gingrich’s victory in South Carolina, where his race-baiting and media-bashing found a more receptive audience, can now be seen as an aberration in comparison to a far more diverse state.
But Florida cost Mr. Romney some standing as well. He was relentlessly negative in the final days of the campaign, frustrating many voters who wanted to hear an upbeat message. Exit polls showed that he tacked further to the right on issues such as immigration than most Floridians, and his claim that he would get millions of illegal immigrants to “self-deport” may have cost him the endorsement of Jeb Bush, as well as the backing of many other moderate Republicans and independents.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll from last week showed that nearly half the nation now holds an unfavorable view of Mr. Romney, much higher than last year.
“More people are on food stamps today because of Barack Obama.. The Democrats have failed in the public schools with the African Americans, they abort their babies. They’ve done nothing to lift them out of poverty and you know what? I hear all the time that the Democrats have these great intentions, but their policies fail. Maybe we have good intentions too, but our policies haven’t been tried. How about we just accept that we both have the right intentions for everybody to rise out of poverty? Newt talked about that before, and that maybe we should try our policies that put people back to work and not give them a handout, tell them to live in public housing, shut up, collect their check and vote for Democrat. I don’t accept that. I don’t buy this race baiting.”
I don’t even have words to address this. Al Sharpton has been elevated to BAMF status.
It just eats the Republican Party alive, not being able to sucker more people of color into voting against their own interests the way the GOP has suckered so many white people into doing so by voting Republican. — Ryking
Negative ads were so prevalent in the final week before the Florida primary that they accounted for 92 percent of all campaign commercials that ran…
The tone and content of the commercials were almost as lopsided. Of all the spots that ran in Florida for the last week, 68 percent were attacks on Mr. Gingrich, Kantar Media found. Only 9 percent were favorable toward him.
Ads assailing Mr. Romney accounted for 23 percent of the political commercials that were broadcast. Yet less than 0.1 percent were pro-Romney, Kantar found. That sliver of a figure was because of one ad the Romney campaign broadcast in Spanish, which featured Mr. Romney’s son praising his father’s leadership abilities.
Mitt Romney held a sizable lead among early voters in Florida’s high-stakes, winner-take-all primary on Tuesday. The polls opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday, but at least 632,000 voters cast their ballots early. Gingrich was trailing by at least 60,000 votes before the polls even opened, according to analysis by early voting surveys. “This election isn’t going to be pretty for Newt Gingrich,” according to political consultant Randy Nielson, who said Gingrich could be trailing by as many as 75,000 votes already. Nielson said Gingrich is losing in every region except north Florida, but he did not have enough of a lead there to make up the difference. Gingrich remained defiant Tuesday morning, appearing on Fox and Friends saying that Romney is throwing “wild punches” in a “desperate bid” to win the presidency.
If Mr. Gingrich follows through with his pledge to stay in the race until the Republican National Convention in Tampa, he could pick up delegates in several states throughout the winter and spring. Several states pushed their contests back, including New York and Texas, which hold theirs in April, and California, which votes in June. This means hundreds of delegates will still technically be up for grabs.
Given all that, there is no immediate incentive for a candidate to withdraw at this point — and it was not entirely far-fetched for Mr. Gingrich, even on the eve of an expected loss, to be announcing plans for the nominating convention. Addressing a modest crowd of voters here, Mr. Gingrich said he had asked Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, who dropped out of the race and endorsed him two weeks ago, to help him develop “the strongest possible Republican platform plank for the summer.”
But such a protracted campaign will take money, and the continued patience and wherewithal of his own backers. Mr. Romney and his proxies are all but certain to increase pressure on Mr. Gingrich…
Amid a bruising primary campaign, Republicans remain unimpressed with their party’s presidential field. In fact, more Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters say the GOP field is only fair or poor (52%) than did so in early January (44%)…
More than half of all registered voters (55%) say Obama understands the problems of average Americans very or fairly well. About four-in-ten (41%) say he understands people’s problems not too well or not at all well.
Only about four-in-ten voters (39%) give Romney high marks for understanding the problems of average Americans; about the same percentage (36%) says Gingrich does very or fairly well in understanding people’s problems.
An internal Newt Gingrich campaign memo obtained by the Daily Caller claims “this race is just getting started.”
The memo stresses that Mitt Romney currently has just 33 of the 1144 delegates needed (Gingrich has 25 of 1144).
In addition, more than 20% of the available delegates (467) will be awarded on Super Tuesday March 6, 2012, and the memo notes that, one of the Super Tuesday states is Georgia, with 76 delegates at stake. To put that in perspective, “even if Romney wins Florida on Tuesday, he will only have 83 total delegates; Newt’s home state could effectively cancel out his entire delegate count to date.”
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