Flavor of the Month: Newt!

[Admiral Yi]

I'd say that Cain doesn't come across as particularly strong on foreign policy in this question on Libya: http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/video/?bcpid=13960334001&bctid=1275195602001

Just saw this on CNN. 

[Razgovory]

So Cain craters, but Romney doesn't rise and Gingrich surges.

Has Cain truly cratered?  I thought he was going to ride it out because of the squishiness of sexual harrassment charges.

Not yet, but he's dead in the water.  He'll keep going down.  I wonder if it would have been different if the chicks had been black.  You have a black man hitting on white chicks.  That just won't play in the South.

[Eddie Teach]

Or, after going through the entire roster (except for Paul and Huntsman, obviously), Republicans will go "Oh, fuck it, I give up.  Romney it is."

Newt's skeletons are on public record, why would people supporting him now throw him over for Romney? 

[Ideologue]

Karen Santorum wrote a book about the experience: Letters to Gabriel: The True Story of Gabriel Michael Santorum.[106] In it, she writes that the couple brought the deceased infant home from the hospital and introduced the dead child to their living children as "your brother Gabriel" and slept with the body overnight before returning it to the hospital. The anecdote was also written about by Michael Sokolove in a 2005 New York Times Magazine story on Santorum.[1] Karen is also the author of a book on etiquette for children.[107]

Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks I guess.  Gross, but I suppose it's not hurting anyone?  May be a bit traumatic for the tykes, but whatever.  I wonder if they gave them a stick to poke Gabriel.

[Viking]

Ah, the latest incarnation of "ABR" - Anybody But Romney

[Razgovory]

Or, after going through the entire roster (except for Paul and Huntsman, obviously), Republicans will go "Oh, fuck it, I give up.  Romney it is."

Newt's skeletons are on public record, why would people supporting him now throw him over for Romney? 

Well, his skeletons up to the 1990's.  Remember, the guy's been doing stuff since then. For instance, he's been writing alternative history.  That's got to hurt him.

[KRonn]

I don't particularly like Newt for President, but I think he's about the smartest one there. He has so many ideas, often sweeping plans for real change that he can elaborate on so well. He is extremely articulate, and has a great grasp of ideas, facts and information.

[Josquius]

And here I expected this to be a light article on someone producing newt flavoured crisps or the like.

[alfred russel]

I think Romney has fared well in one on one polls with other candidates.

I didn't know that. Interesting, and definitely goes against the theory I was tossing out there.

[Razgovory]

I think they will end up choosing Romney at the end of the day.  Kinda like how the GOP didn't really like John McCain but chose him in the end because there was nobody better.

[Gaius Marius]

I don't particularly like Newt for President, but I think he's about the smartest one there. He has so many ideas, often sweeping plans for real change that he can elaborate on so well. He is extremely articulate, and has a great grasp of ideas, facts and information.

He is likely the most qualified candidate in the Republican field, and the most likely to actually get something done (especially if the American people decide to keep the House and Senate under split control as now. But I think he is too intelligent and liable to compromise for the majority of the Tea Party and Moral Majority wings of the party to accept.

[Eddie Teach]

Eh, Gingrich is plenty conservative. His baggage is mainly personal history and likeability.

[The Minsky Moment]

Has Cain truly cratered?

I don't think so -- cratering implies that you can't go down further and I have faith in Cain's abilities for creative self-destruction.  If Rick Perry has proven anything this campaign, it is no matter how bad things seem, they still can get worse.

[KRonn]

Has Cain truly cratered?

I don't think so -- cratering implies that you can't go down further and I have faith in Cain's abilities for creative self-destruction.  If Rick Perry has proven anything this campaign, it is no matter how bad things seem, they still can get worse.

[dps]

Eh, Gingrich is plenty conservative. His baggage is mainly personal history and likeability.

Yeah, plus the fact that when he was Speaker of the House, he was pretty badly outmanouvered politically by President Clinton.  Some people see that as evidence that he wouldn't be very effective in getting his ideas put into policy.  Personally, I don't quite agree with that--Clinton was one of the slickest politicians we've ever had, and the current Democratic leadership is nowhere near as adroit.