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Subscribe to RSSIn a new CNN poll, Gingrich is at 24%, followed by Romney 20%, Cain 17%, Perry 11%, Paul 9%.
Romney continues to lead the field in New Hampshire – up 41%-14% over Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul in a new Suffolk poll. (Gingrich ties Romney 34%-34% when Republicans were asked who would be better to debate President Obama.)
According to a new Quinnipiac University national poll released today, “Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich more than doubles his share of the Republican presidential vote to lead the presidential pack with 26 percent and in a head-to-head matchup tops former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 49 – 39 percent.”
Roll Call writes: “The failure of the deficit super committee could open a new front in the 2012 presidential contest, with the Republican nominee likely to campaign on reversing steep defense cuts scheduled to occur in 2013 as a result of a penalty trigger.”
BACHMANN: “In her new book “Core of Conviction,” presidential candidate Michele Bachmann weaves political ideology with her biography, expanding and illuminating many moments she’s talked about on the trail — and some that she hasn’t. Focused heavily on government and religion, she uses the word “faith” 43 times and “Obamacare” 51. She mentions President Obama by name 49 times while writing about former President Reagan 37,” Politico reports.
GINGRICH: “Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich touched down in New Hampshire on Monday to assume the title of surging presidential candidate — and to try to impart to it a staying power that has eluded those who have risen and stumbled before,” according to the Washington Post. “The fifth Republican contender to climb to the top of public polls this year, Gingrich took advantage of the moment to again announce his plans to reform Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and various programs for the poor. Campaign money is coming in, he said, and a staff that shrank to a dozen after an implosion in June has grown to 40. Gingrich is even allowing himself to look ahead to a general-election contest against President Obama, because, he said, “one of the reasons people support me is because they can see me debating Obama.”
PERRY: On FOX, he apologized for calling people “heartless” if they don’t believe immigrants should receive in-state tution, per NBC’s Morgan Parmet. NBC’s Carrie Dann notes, Perry seemed to struggle when asked to name two countries to which he'd zero out foreign aid. After China, he was pressed for another and said "well I don't know If Venezuela's getting any money or not" but that would be it. Asked if he would zero out aid to Pakistan, he said "I don't know, I can't say I know the answer to that question." He dodged a question about how he needs to do in Iowa. Asked "first or second in Iowa?" he responded "either way!" Beginning of the interview comprised of his reaction to the supercommittee's failure, which he again blamed squarely on Obama. "He was looking for somebody to blame" he said of Obama. "He didn't want to be in a leadership position. I think this was a contrived opportunity for him to pitch this over to Congress.”
ROMNEY: “Mitt Romney is the GOP frontrunner, but you’d never know it by the way his rivals steer clear of attacking him on stage,” Politico reports. “In interviews, campaign emails and out on the trail, the Republican candidates aren’t shy about attacking the former Massachusetts governor. They hit him for flip-flopping, for the state health care reforms he signed, his business record and everything else they can find. At the 10 debates he’s done since kicking off his candidacy, though, they’ve taken a different approach: they rarely even mention him by name, let alone touch him.”
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Well, Mr. Perry, you show an abysmal understanding of this "contrived opportunity." It was Congress, not the President, who set up the super committee.
Republicans must have supported the President's plan to blame Congress, right? 174 of them in the House voted for the law, and 28 GOP types in the Senate followed suit. I guess they wanted Obama to have a way to blame them for this failure?
In the parallel universe that the GOP lives in, everything...EVERYTHING is Obama's fault. They totally deny any responsibility for anything.
What a bunch of losers.
Yea, Bilweeler. BS comment by Newt. President Obama was very much involved in the first go around which would have given the pub's a lot more and given the deficit a much bigger relief. The pub's, however, were not going to betray their oath to The Norq (That'd be ol' Grover) in the betrayal of their oath to Americans and they said "no way".
There was no need for the president to be there the second time around to try and do the job assigned to the committee. We all knew what the out come would be just like we knew the pub's would blame the president.
Having said that, Newt is the man to watch here. He has years of practice at politics and would make Machiavelli a proud man. He is quite the schemer and has a delivery that is a smooth as butter. An unscrupled, used car salesman in a league all his own.
Happy Thanksgiving to all! My long weekend starts at 4pm CST. ;-)
I heard the other day that Romney and Perry both said several times that Americans are lazy".
It's caught on tape too.
We can play it over and over and over again...
Now why would he say that about Americans?
Obviously what Perry said (really anything Perry says) is chicken crap. However, I would say that the president has been smart to give the Do Nothing Teapublicans a long rope to hang themselves with by showing themselves to be the uncompromising obstructionists they are, yet and again.
Had Teapublicans accepted the "grand bargain" by the president way back, we not only would still have our good credit rating, congress would not have to keep revisiting this issue. The only thing I can figure is Teapublicans will not raise taxes so they can; 1) appease their brainwashed base, and 2) prevent economic improvement. This is all Teapublicans have as "strategery" to hold on to any seats in 2012.
The GOP/TP simply is not capable of anything anymore, whether fiscally, or foreign policy, or socially in regard to every aspect of democracy -- They need to be pushed into the margins for probably 20 years so our nation can heal.
My hope is President Obama will be reelected, and he will gain seats and therefore support in congress to do the heavy lifting we need during a lame duck period. I believe the Dems will get the financial house back in order with deficit reductions that won't damage the fragile recovery. And they sure as heck will do more to create jobs.
Obama/Biden - 2012!
Add the Grinch who advocates stealing childhood from children. Suggesting that poor schools should have one master janitor, not all the unionized janitors that a school may employ.
Then, put the 9-11 year olds to work doing the work of janitors cleaning the school. Pay them a modest salary for their work. Working 9 year olds.....WOW!
According to the Grinch......Child labor laws are stupid!
The same should hold true for members of Congress. Let them vacuum the chambers, clean the toilets -- it should be part of their salary.
Ok it was an extreme idea, but as a kid I cleaned and washed chalkboards and swept floors in my school. I didn't get paid it was part of teaching me to care for my surroundings, taking some responsibility and how to clean things. It did not hurt me and I was 10. I did this until I finished high school. We all took turns so it wasn't a daily thing or punishment, just part of the education process. Cut Newt some slack, at least this isn't as stupid as Obama Care and appointing hundreds of Czars to bloat the government!
How much does the "master janitor" make?
sounds like a good job, just sit back and watch the CHILDREN work.
Oh, and don't worry about all those chemicals, they'll get used to it
Mike -- many of us also cleaned erasers and wiped the boards, swept the floor. But that is not the work of a janitor. Who orders supplies, washes and polished floors, wipes the walls, cleans up after kids get sick or miss the toilet -- indeed who cleans the toilets? Who moves the school piano and heavy furniture? The reason Mr. Gingrich offends me is because he looks and acts like a person who hasn't cleaned a toilet in his life, and yet he wants to use this as "character building" for the poor.
Character building applies to everyone.
"Character building applies to everyone."
kate, it's too late for the Grinch!...He is what he is!
Good point. Those poor slobs need some character building. Let the children clean up after themselves after school with a task master to crack the whip...and maybe bugger one or two of them. Meanwhile, the wealthy have their children in private schools that are kept spic and span by a janitorial service. How typical of an out of touch, very wealthy man.
Wealthy? Oh yeah, Gingrich was paid 1.8 million by Freddie Mac - ostensibly to drive it to bankruptcy.
Once you get past the ugliness of "child labor laws are stupid" (did the great 'historian' for get the laws stopped children from being worked inhuman hours in mines, etc) then there's the illogic. Presumably there'd be several hundred children in a school and we probably wouldn't need quite that many to do the cleaning. So would we use cronyism to choose the child janitors and would the "favored" be the ones who got to, or those who had to? Would we cease using caustic cleansers and disenfectants to protect children from their effects? Probably not, that would be gov't interference. Bumper sticker mentality is catchy, but leaves out logic and sensibility and sensitivity and humanity.
I believe it would be child labor for free.
As many journalist are suggesting, the Teapublican Party wants to go back to the Gilded Age--they just need to own up to it, come right out and say it, "we want a plutocracy!"
I was going to say "leader of the pack" is right, they are all just a bunch of dogs, and then I realized this would be an insult to dogs.
Newt is rising to the top, because he is plain spoken and frank about the issues
and his solutions. Newt is the realist in the race.He is not bashing other Republican candidates, but going after Obama and the expansive government policies of the Democratic philosophy. He says what people want to hear and unlike Romney he says it with a passion that is genuine.
I'm not so sure how genuine he is. You said it best, "he says what people want to hear". He deliverse it with a sense of great sincerity.
GingGrinch is rising to the top because he is the biggest turd ever squeezed out of Washington. There is nothing "genuine" or any integrity what so ever about this man. The reason his spinning seems more believable is because he is a pathological liar who believes his own lies.
Ah, there's the trigger. Gingrich says he has campaign money a' flowing. Given the holiday, we'll probably start to see the GOP's "Operation Destroy Newt" start in the middle of next week.
And don't forget to buy a book or DVD, so Newt and Calista can go to Tiffany's or on a holiday cruise.
Isn't this the same Newt Gingrich who left his wife dying in the hospital from cancer for his mistress? How could anyone vote for this man??
Why aren't the Republicans begging for Sandusky to run. With their love of morally corrupt politicians, you would think that guy would meet the all the qualifications of a perfect candidate.
This bozo was run out of Washington by his own party ! Because he was against everything the Conservative Republican stood for ..now he is once again bending over... grabbing his ankles ..hoping they like it !
Newt, the pathological liar and serial adulterer!
Now, he's found Jesus!....he's all better!
Tea people GOP republicans method of operation, blame the Democrats for what the tea people GOP republicans are doing themselves. It's the Democrats fault Newt had three wives and lies constantly, it's the Democrats fault Romney flip flops on ever issue, it's the Democrats fault Cain doesn't have a clue, it's the Democrats fault they say no to everything and filibuster every jobs bill and anything that would help the country. It's time the American people woke up to see the tea people GOP republicans don't have a clue about how to govern.
It is pathetic that during a time of war and economic collapse, the GOP has as its singular focus the undermining of our president. Do we really want one of them to be the President of the United States and the leader of the free world? No way!
Bob
Amen Brother.
The only way Obama wins re-election is if he annexes Mexico and grants Mexicans temporary citizenship to vote for him. Otherwise he is 1 and done.
No mention of Ron Paul's platform. However, there is a synopsis of Bachmann's seemingly at random.
"Nutty Newt" is the latest GOP Clown leading the GOP/RNC "Carnival Of Clowns." He is now leading the GOP Circus by riding the lead GOP Elephant. The Circus Music playing very loudly in "Nutty Newt's" empty mind. The "Gross Odd People" (GOP) is having another circus act tonight. This is not a debate America! This is a GOP "Super Spewer" contest representing the most Cognitively Disabled of their "Zombie" followers. The GOP Circus Tents will be set up, and the Koch Brothers had better be paying the bills for this spewing of "Crazy Conservative Crap." (CCC) Now "Nutty Newt's Doctors are looking for him. Again!! His doctors are very concerned about his neurotic behaviors, pathalogical lying, and his on going issues with being bi-polar. People living around "Nutty Newt's" Mental Hospital reported seeing a "Romulian Bird Of Prey." Again! These GOP "Conedy Of Clowns" will be wasting TV time, and oxygen in the room. Again!!
After reading the comments here it is clear to me that most of the posters really have nothing to add to the conversation other than whatever pablum msnbc has served up to them. For example rather than discussing the idea of having children take care of their own schools the posters merely attack Newt...not the idea. In fact, I have seen schools in other countries where this happens...and the schools are well cared for and the students seem to have pride in their efforts. This is Newt thinking outside of the box and I find it refreshing.