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Newt Stomps Romney to Win South CarolinaPosted on Jan 21, 2012
What a week for Mitt Romney. He’s gone from obvious nominee to the man who just can’t catch a break. First a recount snatched his win in Iowa, then Newt Gingrich debated his way to an upset in South Carolina (this despite a sex scandal that might have condemned a more conventional candidacy). There won’t be a recount in South Carolina: With the final votes tallied, Gingrich embarrassed Romney with a double-digit victory. Following what we thought were back-to-back wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, Romney was well ahead in the polls going into the first contest in the South. But the stars aligned for Gingrich, who benefited from factors in and out of his control. For one thing, Romney’s coronation procession was derailed by the news that he did not actually win the Iowa caucuses, but instead took second place behind Rick Santorum. Before his nomination was perceived as inevitable, Romney was expected to have problems in South Carolina; a conservative-Christian state with high unemployment is not the ideal hunting ground for a Mormon equity fund manager. Gingrich and his super PACs helped the turnaround by pressing a populist attack against Romney. And then there were the debates. Exit polls showed that half of voters were influenced by the debates, which gave Gingrich an opportunity to turn scandal into a crowd-pleasing attack on the mainstream and/or liberal media. Simultaneously, Romney was put on the defensive regarding his tax returns. So it’s been an eventful night for Newt and for the Republican Party, which now has three winning candidates in three primary-process elections. —PZS Advertisement Previous item: Scores Killed as Islamic Group Launches Attacks in Nigeria Next item: Islamists Dominate Egyptian Elections New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
By A Bird in the Hand, January 23 at 2:21 pm Link to this comment
Outraged: You are the joke…And from your comment you know nothing about Ron Paul..You wouldn’t last 5 seconds in a debate with him either…I would like to see that though..
Report thisBy BrooklynDame, January 23 at 12:26 pm Link to this comment
I stopped reading after I saw this part of the headline, “Newt Stomps Romney…”.
I guess I became too filled with joy to take note that the article refers to the S.C.
primaries, and not to the arse-kicking many of us imagine is in Newt’s future if he
insists on bashing everyone from minorities, gays, immigrants, the poor, women,
etc…
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/
Report thisBy Oceanna, January 23 at 7:36 am Link to this comment
“He took the nation from 2 wars
to 4, maybe 6 depending on ones threshold of death and destruction”
Let’s see. The Drone attacks were increased exponentially in a short matter of
time in Pakistan. I’m sure the collateral damage consisting of people having
their limbs blown off and losing loved ones view the loose attacks on villages,
weddings, etc. as an act of war as any normal American would. That makes
three.
Let’s not forget the Drone incursions into Yemen and the Sudan. Ditto for
civilian attacks and casualties, and the people’s reasonable conclusion that war
was being waged against them and their country. I mean, how would
Americans feel if some foreign nation assumed the right to kill one of its own
citizens and those it deemed suspect with repeated aerial attacks that are
bloodless for them, but spill the blood of their their neighbors, relatives, and
their own if they survive? That makes five.
I need to add that there are boots on the ground in the Sudan now, but even
though the troops are highly armed and combat-ready, the administration
insists they’re not there for combat. Go figure.
Of course, there was the recent “humanitarian intervention” in Libya, where its
entire infrastructure was brought down like Iraq’s, and a secular government
was replaced with a Sharia one. That makes six.
If another country froze US assets and put an embargo on its exports, surely we
would be aghast and see it as warfare as we would if they also covertly tried to
topple our president, whether duly elected or not. When you factor in sanctions
and the overthrows of government, one can barely keep track.
Somehow war is not war in this country as long as the loss of our own American
lives are kept to a minimum, while the death caused in other countries is
irrelevant to the point of being meaningless.
How long can we keep up this trajectory that Obama recently described as
Report thisbeing the “sole, indispensable power in the world”? How long can the national
conscience and awareness of logical consequences be suppressed?
By blogdog, January 22 at 5:59 pm Link to this comment
who knows? Tarpley is calling for Paul to show his bone-fides by bringing
articles of impeachment against Obomber… http://tarpley.net/
we also have this…
Ga. judge orders president to appear at hearing
January 20, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/www-boston-com-obomber-summone
ATLANTA—A judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in
Atlanta for a hearing on a complaint that says Obama isn’t a natural-born
citizen and can’t be president.
It’s one of many such lawsuits that have been filed across the country, so far
without success. A Georgia resident made the complaint, which is intended to
keep Obama’s name off the state’s ballot in the March presidential primary.
An Obama campaign aide says any attempt to involve the president personally
will fail and such complaints around the country have no merit.
The hearing is set for Thursday before an administrative judge. Deputy Chief
Judge Michael Malihi on Friday denied a motion by the president’s lawyer to
quash a subpoena that requires Obama to show up.
[...]
Report thisBy balkas, January 22 at 5:44 pm Link to this comment
lets not forget that among nazis there were also liberals,
Report thisprogressives, libertarians, lefties, free marketeers, intelligentsia,
priests and not just among Republicans, Democrats, ‘Independents’
of usa.
and some of those liberals [or is it progressives?] actually tried to kill
hitler and since no progressive or liberal ever tried to do that to bush
or obama, proves that cherman liberals were much more liberal, etc.,
than the american liberals.
i got this observation from my wife and she only reads examiner and
watches murder shows. thanks
By balkas, January 22 at 5:29 pm Link to this comment
how about waterboarding for paul, romney,
Report thisgingrich, obama? wouldn’t we get the truth or at
least hear from them what we want to hear?
By blogdog, January 22 at 4:22 pm Link to this comment
for crying out loud, who votes for Republicrats period? who doesn’t expect straw man conflation? who doesn’t expect ad hominem invective? what does one expect from boiling frogs?
fine, keep parsing the scripted minutia spewing forth from the Mighty Whirlitzer - still getting Betrayus vs Obomber - anyone making odds: bomb Iran before or after November 2012?
Report thisBy bpawk, January 22 at 4:16 pm Link to this comment
Why all this rage back and forth between dems and repubs - it’s splitting hairs to see the difference between the two what with Obama’s continuation of the corporate welfare bailouts, same people hired from Wall Street to run the show, continuing wars, continuing tax breaks for the wealthy, eroding civil rights (ask Chris Hedges) etc.
Report thisYou need a new party - you need a ralph nader type. The only problem is: Americans don’t identify with their own economic interests: both of the ‘parties’ are for the elites and not for you otherwise you wouldn’t be splitting hairs. The rich don’t care about the average American and want you to be quiet: a docile populace is best for them - so people continue blogging without actually doing anything then sheepishly go into the booth and vote for one of the evils… To paraphrase Einstein: the definition of insanity is to repeat the same thing over and over again and expect different results - you vote for the same people over and over again and expect different results. Wake up.
By Outraged, January 22 at 4:04 pm Link to this comment
Newt Gingrich as chucky, it’s perfect! lol.
http://democratsforprogress.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=12505
Re: blogdog
If we had McCain there’d be nothing left to argue about! If you like right-wingers, come to WI… We have a doozy. Yep, there’s nothing like freezing your ass off protesting and fighting these criminals. And every time you turn around they’ve already destroyed something else, not to mention how they “judge shop” and install crooks across the board. Using your logic we might as well just blow ourselves the hell up, it’d be easier! Stupid.
Yeah…. let’s just “give away the store”, but, hey… then we can protest! Stupid.
Re: Paul_GA
I’m voting for the best candidate in the race, President Obama. I happen to enjoy sanity and I’m not big on stupidity, either.
Report thisBy Austin Hoffman, January 22 at 3:45 pm Link to this comment
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heck ya!! GO NEWT!!! ....i just realized how big of a BOSS Newt is…. and i quote:
Report this“Andrew Jackson had a pretty clear cut idea about America’s enemies…KILL THEM”
LOL…come on, he sounds like the ex—cali governator/terminator .. I LOVE IT!
video:
http://www.peeje.com/newt-gingrich-americans-want-paychecks-212/
By blogdog, January 22 at 3:12 pm Link to this comment
RE: ...worry about Obama????? BOODY HELL!!!!! He took the nation from 2 wars
to 4, maybe 6 depending on ones threshold of death and destruction, before it’s called
war - none declared by Congress of course - all executive decree - undone overnight if
so decided - executive assassination might follow; but, no guts, no glory - JFK took one
for the nation
if we had McCain, we’d have a robust Anti-War Movement across the nation, in the
MIC’s faces and holding up the horrors of the wars to the media 24/7 - instead we got a
big ‘Occupy’ campout - stressing over banksters, who certainly are behind it all, but the
connection is barely well made during Occupy’s 15 minutes, all the while being co-
opted by Left Cover foundation-funded operatives, so as not to undermine the
campaign of the Oligarchy’s Left Cover Placater in Chief: Caesar Obomber
as for consigliere politico - anyone see Bolton as any more psychotic than
Emanuel, who, BTW is widely speculated to be Mossad?
- at days end, I return to a the prognostication, sensibly outlined by Webster Tarpley:
Betrayus vs Obomber
analysis:
APRIL 25, 2011
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/04/25/did-obama-s-election-kill-the-antiwar-movement/
A Movement Abandoned by Democrats
Did Obama’s Election Kill the Antiwar Movement?
by UNIVERSITY Of MICHIGAN NEWS SERVICE
Ann Arbor
Since 2003, the antiwar movement in the United States has had much to protest with
Americans fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya, but the movement-which has
dropped off sharply the past two years-may be more anti-Republican than antiwar,
says a University of Michigan researcher.
A new study by U-M’s Michael Heaney and colleague Fabio Rojas of Indiana University
shows that the antiwar movement in the United States demobilized as Democrats, who
had been motivated to participate by anti-Republican sentiments, withdrew from
antiwar protests when the Democratic Party achieved electoral success, first with
Congress in 2006 and then with the presidency in 2008.
“As president, Obama has maintained the occupation of Iraq and escalated the war in
Afghanistan,” said Heaney, U-M assistant professor of organizational studies and
political science. “The antiwar movement should have been furious at Obama’s
‘betrayal’ and reinvigorated its protest activity.
“Instead, attendance at antiwar rallies declined precipitously and financial resources
available to the movement have dissipated. The election of Obama appeared to be a
demobilizing force on the antiwar movement, even in the face of his pro-war
decisions.”
[...]
Report thisBy Beltwaylaid, January 22 at 2:51 pm Link to this comment
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Th’ Pubs have some tough choices….
Will it be the venom spewing, morphing, snake belly territory, creeping, adulterous tow headed amphibian candidate?
Or will it be the elite, Ivy League, natty, French-speaking, sopping with money sponged from middle class former job holders fleece washing tool candidate?
Or will it be the holy rolling, birth your rape child, God-n-Guns, forever war-with-Muslims, insane sanatorium candidate?
My, what a perplexing conundrum they face….
Report thisBy joegod, January 22 at 2:23 pm Link to this comment
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I think it’s well past time we start throwing around ideas for new systems, if
Report thiswe can’t get corruption out of our current ones (which appears to be the
case.)
By EmileZ, January 22 at 2:06 pm Link to this comment
Obama=shit
http://billmoyers.com/
Obama=shit
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_on_his_lawsuit_against_the_president_20120120/
Obama=shit
Report thisBy Paul_GA, January 22 at 2:02 pm Link to this comment
So, Outraged, who are YOU voting for come November, if I may be so bold?
Report thisBy Outraged, January 22 at 1:55 pm Link to this comment
Re: mrfreeze
Your comment:“The fact that people actually show up to vote for Republicans of this caliber says a lot about their lack of brains. As for voting for Gingrich: they must love the smell of “monkey-crack!”
LOL….. no kidding! Have you ever seen such a mish-mash of utter creeps on one stage. There’s more reliable contenders in the dark alleys on the shady side of town.
Report thisBy Oceanna, January 22 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment
Fear greatly, people! No doubt, Gigrich could be the next president.
Stop moaning and groaning about Obama’s incrementalism, which you
apparently don’t have the intelligence to understand.
Instead of a cautious African American, we could have a dangerous reactionary
like Gingrich in office. Don’t you whiners see the potential for the destruction
your smart-ass attitudes could wreak on yourselves and the country?
Unless you guys snap to your senses, we could have a senile Ron Paul who has
no realistic grasp of foreign policy or a serial adulterer and liar like Gingrich as
our next prez. Or god forbid, a right wing evangelical like Santoroum who will
replace the dome of the White House with a steeple!
You have no appreciation for political chess and calculas, numbskulls!!
BTW, I’m doing a characterization of an Obamabot. Of course, one of the less
Report thisvitriolic kinds, which is becoming harder to find as their denial sets in more
deeply.
By mrfreeze, January 22 at 12:56 pm Link to this comment
blogdog - First point: This thread is about “monkey-butt-whore-monger Gingrich,” not President Obama.
Second, since it is something you’re fixating about, I’ve tried to make this point clear before and I guess I’ll have to say it again:
Since when has there been a president who walked into office and turned-off the “war switch?” Yes, yes, you would represent President Obama as an evil guy for overseeing the empire, but, unfortunately, those were the cards he was dealt after years of America’s stupidity. My point was only that far too little time is being spent looking at what the Republicans have to offer in terms of candidates…..(By the way Gingrich wants Mr. I’m-a-f**king-sociopath John Bolton as my Secretary of State)...and you worry about Obama?????
Report thisBy blogdog, January 22 at 11:46 am Link to this comment
RE: ...President Obama is being vilified (especially by the uber-
liberals/progressives) for all sorts of betrayals (some real, many
imagined)...
no need for that - record speaks for itself: war, war and more war… endless
war… e.g.
Why Is President Obama Sending 12,000 U.S. Troops to Libya?
By Cynthia McKinney; January 14th, 2012 - Dissident Voice
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/01/why-is-president-obama-sen...
It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media
publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops
stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya.
For those of you who have not followed closely the situation in Libya, the
resistance to the rule of the National Transitional Council is strong. The
National Transitional Council (NTC) cast of characters has about as much
support on the ground as did Mahmoud Abbas before the United Nations
request for Palestinian statehood or Afghanistan’s regal-looking but politically
impotent Hamid Karzai or for that matter, George W Bush after eight years.
The NTC not only has to contend with a vibrant, well-financed, grassroots-
supported resistance, but the various militias of the NTC are now also fighting
each other. I believe this “sociocide” of Libyan society, as we previously
witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan before it, is part of a carefully crafted plan of
destabilization that ultimately serves U.S. imperial interests and those of a
Zionist state and its US agents who are bent on Greater Israel’s suzerainty over
huge swaths of Arabic-speaking populations. Pakistan is also on the list for
neutering in Muslim and world affairs, saddled with its own unpopular civilian
leadership that finds itself in the hip pocket of the United States for survival,
often getting sat upon by its fiscal guarantor.
The “Arab Spring” has sprung and the indelible fingerprints of malignant
foreign financed operations must be erased if the people are to have a chance
to truly govern themselves. Unfortunately, these foreign-inspired organizations
are present and operating in just about every country in the world. The threat is
ever-present like sleeping cells – all that is needed is that the right word to
“activate” be given. Both Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez can write tomes on
the impact of the National Endowment for Democracy in the political life of
their countries.
[...]
Report thisBy Marietjie Luyt, January 22 at 9:25 am Link to this comment
I had one quick look at a clip of Gingrich during the “presidential debate” on TV and marvelled at all the bluster. How can anybody vote for him?
Report thisBy mrfreeze, January 22 at 9:22 am Link to this comment
Outraged - The real question relates to the intelligence of the American people.
Let’s put this in perspective: Certainly, President Obama is being vilified (especially by the uber-liberals/progressives) for all sorts of betrayals (some real, many imagined), but in the end his betrayals are nothing compared to the absolute intellectual, social, cultural and political depravity of the creeps running on the Republican side. The fact that people actually show up to vote for Republicans of this caliber says a lot about their lack of brains. As for voting for Gingrich: they must love the smell of “monkey-crack!”
Report thisBy balkas, January 22 at 8:00 am Link to this comment
what can we do, woe is me, people love glamor,
Report thisglitz, glib, and show-don’t-tell business!
By Outraged, January 22 at 7:45 am Link to this comment
Every last Republican candidate is a joke.
Romney reminds you of an android with malware, who’s hardrive is apparently empty.
Gingrich is the epitome of a fat cat asshole.
Santorum is like “gramma’s good boy” with a stack of porn under his mattress.
Paul is a misfit leprechaun.
You’ll know money can buy anything if one of these
Report thisidiots win.
By DBM, January 22 at 4:40 am Link to this comment
“[Republicans have]...three winning candidates in three primary-process elections.”
Perhaps ... but not a “winner” among them. Has there ever been a presidential field which LESS impresses the voters? (and I include Obama in that - he’s done nothing to distinguish himself from the Republican field and would fit right in in their primaries without changing a single policy position)
Report thisBy Paul_GA, January 22 at 4:16 am Link to this comment
As I see it, theway, this country is mostly half-nuts, anyway. Why else would it continue calling itself “the land of the free” when it’s actually a fat, bloated, drunk-on-blood empire in decline? Why else would folks vote for more of the same from two “parties” (actually, two wings of one imperialist party) which are as alike as Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber?
Oh well, it ain’t over till it’s over, as Yogi Berra would say. There’s still hope ...
Report thisBy THX 1133, January 22 at 2:47 am Link to this comment
Newt! What a conundrum for the religious right. He’s
Report thisbroken every covenant so highly valued by the very
people he needs in order to succeed.
Being a hypocrite of the highest order, he should fit
in splendidly with republicans, but the religious
right will have major problems with Mitt and Newt
both.
They do a fantastic job of boxing themselves in with
their asinine “family values” crap.
What makes it crap is their hypocrisy.
I’m laughing my butt off watching the drama; oh how
we need the drama.
Good luck with that ya’all…
By theway, January 21 at 11:49 pm Link to this comment
I find it hard to believe that Americans would chose any (with the exception of Mr Paul) of the Republican candidates for presidency. Sadly, the same applies to ex-hopeful Mr Obama who totally disappointed his ex-admireres.
Report thisCan anyone of sound and rational mind with empathetic heart stand up and become a candidate?
By blogdog, January 21 at 11:38 pm Link to this comment
good ol’ suthun boy should do good in Dixie - curiously…
Gingrich Fails To Qualify In Home State Primary
http://jonathanturley.org/2011/12/24/gingrich-fails-to-qualify-in-home-state-primary/
Published 1, December 24, 2011
Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
A Wednesday breakfast attended by the cream of Virginia’s Republican Party
apparently won’t substitute for the required 10,000 signatures needed to
qualify for this year’s Virginia Presidential Primary. Gingrich had assured the
assembled dignitaries, including Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, that he had
12 to 14 thousand signatures granting him a ticket along with Mitt Romney and
Ron Paul to the sweepstakes. Apparently, he doesn’t.
The lapse is a bit curious since Gingrich and his wife Callista are long-time
McLean, Virginia residents, and are active in all things Northern Virginia
including both politics and the community band. Callista plays the French Horn.
No word on Newt’s musical talent. (I think he plays the gong.)
[...]
expect the clown car to keep on rolling; the laughs to keep on tumbling… til the Ring Master cracks his whip and the Big Cat emerges to steal the show… Generalissimo Petraeus - after which we’re faced with the inevitable… war or more war
Betrayus vs Obomber
Report thisBy rumblingspire, January 21 at 9:24 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
“If I should go astray and say “I lost my way” nobody would know me
But if I don’t believe I can and still say “Hear my plan”
Somebody would follow just because it’s free “
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FDblM4XVXY&feature=fvst
Report thisSteppenwolf - Hippo Stomp
By Alan, January 21 at 8:20 pm Link to this comment
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That which is clear is this,
Report thisthere’s still plenty of klan nazis in the Carolinas.
If they suppress the vote, and steal the election, their hitlerian mobster
will take over.
Can you imagine an American polity so f’n stupid as not to be
at all informed by history?
Pack your bags, I’m packing mine.
By Outraged, January 21 at 8:07 pm Link to this comment
Hilarious.
Axelrod had a good tweet regarding Romney:
“Nate, you’re good with math. If you and a SuperPac spend 4.7m, and get zero delegates, how much did you spend per delegate?”
Oooh…ouch. DailyKos has collected some of the funnier tweets sent throughout the night….lol.
Report thisBy Shorebreak, January 21 at 7:51 pm Link to this comment
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A round of Dr. Pepper and pork rinds for everyone! I wouldn’t have expected a Mormon from Massachusetts to garner even 15 percent of any kind of vote in a Confederate battle flag flying state like South Carolina.
Report thisBy Ian, January 21 at 6:47 pm Link to this comment
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I love how SC exit polling show that nearly 50% of
Report thisself-identified evangelical Christians voted for this
reprobate. The same group that leads the charge
against marriage equality supports the serial
philanderer whose ethical failings are too many to
list. Such hypocrisy from an American public quickly
becoming too tiresome to bear.
By EmileZ, January 21 at 6:41 pm Link to this comment
I love that photo.
He looks like such a good little boy.
Report thisBy A Bird in the Hand, January 21 at 5:49 pm Link to this comment
Newt = Super PAC Attack..
Should a foreign country, in this case Israel, be allowed to buy a significant influence through the media in American democratic elections? Should candidates be allowed to accept donations – even indirectly, from foreign interest PACs or agents thereof, thus creating a serious conflict of interest, and threat to national security?
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