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NASHUA, NH -- The ad wars in New Hampshire are heating up, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul's campaign reserved the largest of several ad buys in the state just weeks before its primary.
The libertarian-minded congressman has reserved over $160,000 worth of airtime between Dec. 21-27, according to local station WMUR. That's good enough to run 142 spots on morning news, evening news and primetime ABC shows.
The ad Paul will run is an extended, 60-second version of his ad, "The One," which casts him as the only candidate suited to take on the environment in Washington.
It was the largest of several ad buys announced Tuesday.
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who's pinned his hopes of winning the GOP nomination on winning the New Hampshire primary, was also the beneficiary of new spending from Our Destiny PAC, the political action committee established on his behalf.
Our Destiny bought just under $100,000 in airtime to air a total of 58, 30-second spots during morning and evening news between the dates of Dec. 20 and Jan. 1. Our Destiny also ran a full-page black and white print advertisement in the New Hampshire Union Leader's front section yesterday with almost the exact same quotes as the television spot.
Huntsman, at a town hall in Nashua, dismissed the importance of Jan. 3's Iowa caucuses in favor of the Jan. 10 New Hampshire primary.
"Iowa will do their thing and I believe the results of Iowa will kind of be forgotten in a day or two," Huntsman said. "And then the people of New Hampshire can stand up and you will render a judgment. And I like our position here. We've worked this state harder than anybody else."
Huntsman sits at 2 percent nationally according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday, but enjoys slightly higher support (13 percent according to a Suffolk/7News survey) in New Hampshire. That's a noticeable rise after wallowing in low single digits for most of the summer and fall.
"This wave effect is happening," Huntsman said in Nashua. This morning's town hall marked his 127th public campaign stop in New Hampshire.
The campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who leads in most polls of GOP primary-goers in the state, doled out about $60,000 for 161, 30-second spots over the same Dec. 21-27 time frame.
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What will the GOP do if he wins ? They can only ignore him for so long ! America is now watching the GOP's every move !
Unfortunately they'll find some way to take his legs out from under him. He's running for the wrong party's nomination.
Does he run on another ticket? That's the question.
If he runs as a third party the GOP will freak out ...Say what you want ...No one wants Mitt regardless !
I feel like a high school student again, sitting at a stop sign with my friends. All of a sudden, the driver yells "Switch"* and we all scramble out and around the car and back in again in different spots.
* In case you remember this, too, by a different name, I didn't use that one because of its somewhat offensive connotations. I am just a PC girl, living in a PC world.
What will the GOP do if he wins ?
Short answer: Sh*t itself.
But it will never happen. Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachmann and Herman Cain never had a chance. Yes, I am aware of what the polls say, but the polls don't reflect the feelings of the Republican establishment. The Republican establishment will never allow Paul or the others I've named above a win. Never.
The only question is will Ron Paul launch a third party campaign? I don't know, but I doubt it. Yes, he has the campaign infrastructure in place and his fund raising base will follow him anywhere, but I don't think Ron Paul has the guts to mount a third party challenge. We will see.
AM - Chinese fire drill.
:AM - Chinese fire drill."
"Talk to" meant "Teabagger fire drill", I think.....
LoL You are correct. That's what it feels like to me.
Read my lips, Ron Paul will be on the ballot in all 50 States regardless of the outcome of the GOP primaries. He will be nominated by Americans Elect. If the GOP wants to cut off its nose to spite its face so be it...
When you have the Governor of Iowa and other top GOP politicos coming out and saying that a vote for Ron Paul is a vote against the credibility of the entire Iowa caucus then you know they are scared. What was it that Ghandi said? The truth is they don't really like "we the people." They would rather tell you who to vote for.
Ron Paul is just the latest "monkey wrench" thrown into the GOPher machine. The burning smell is the cogs and wheels in meltdown. The Keystone cops weren't even a close second to this GOPher primary season or to be more up date Comedy Central for the youngsters on the Vine.
If you think he is the "Monkey Wrench", you all ought to read this...
www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70674
It sure seems like the Republican powers that be are not happy right now....
The powers that be need to figure out that it is Ron Paul or bust this year. Paul will win Iowa and New Hampshire.
I have a feeling the GOP leadership is none to happy right now with the way things are going. If Dr. Paul wins Iowa and has a strong showing in New Hampshire and South Carolina, we may see the first brokered convention in a long while.
Been saying this for a while;
Ron Paul in Iowa
Mitt is the only Mormon with perfect hair running for President after he wins NH
SC is still up for grabs as Newton falls back to earth...
If Mitt wins in SC, he could roll to the nomination, or the uber-conservative base might be inspired to "draft" someone to be the ultimate anti-Romney...
Jeb? Rested and ready?
1. Still too much "Bush Fatigue" for both Democrats and Republicans.
2. If you think Newton is having fun explaining Fannie you're going to enjoy Jeb explaining Lehman Brothers.
Dangerfield, you thinking a brokered convention, or someone being drafted if Mitt doesn't win on the first ballot?
I am thinking that Romney will be the nominee...
Dated the field...Married Mitt...:-)
The problem for the Republicans is that Mitt is perceived to be "Obama-lite" by many in the party and many thoughtful and well reasoned dissenting letters in response to Ramesh Ponnuru's endorsement of Mitt in NRO clearly articulate that perception...
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Romney's the One
From the Dec. 19, 2011, issue of NR
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/284700/romney-s-one-ramesh-ponnuru
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Liberals see Romney as far more conservative than Conservatives do, so I think liberals have a hard time understanding the reticence of the Republicans in getting behind Romney as their standard-bearer...
h/t Andrew Sullivan for this "quote of the day" from Erik Son of Erik
"The Republican Party has gone insane. For the better part of the last three years the Republican Party has exercised itself into a frenzy over the need to repeal Obamacare. For the two years leading up to November of 2010, mostly middle aged working white people took to the streets in sizes rivaling a NASCAR race to protest the socialization of the American health care system. The individual mandate and TARP draw the ire of scores of primary voters. And our two front runners for President? They both support an individual mandate and they both supported TARP," - Erick Erickson, RedState.
Why not just quote Erickson directly?
Why not just quote Erickson directly?
Because I first saw the quote on Andrew Sullivan's site and there is an internet tradition that you should give a h/t (hat tip) to the place you first encountered a quote.
Just trying to be polite.
jeb bush is an idiot !!! he is just like george and george. over half of their families are hispanic. jebro would never, never enforce federal immigration laws. too passive. we need an ass kicker like newt. newt is no. 1.
The GOP will never allow Ron Paul to win! Look at the attack on Gingrich as your reference point.
"The ad Paul will run is an extended, 60-second version of his ad, "The One," which casts him as the only candidate suited to take on the environment in Washington."
Given that Ron Paul wants to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, wouldn't it be more accurate to cast himself as the candidate who wants to take on "the environment" in all 50 states? In which case I'm hoping the environment wins.....
P.S. - Can you just imagine the grief Barack Obama would get around here if he was running ads calling himself "The One"?
Republicans painted themselves into this corner. Without giving a thought to whether the Tea Party was competent and fit to serve the American people, they rushed head over heels to vote these video-game slobs into office, and to seat them among civilized legislators in the House of Representatives. They talk and act like teenage hoodlums. They don't give a rat's ass for the stature and glory and high tradition of American politics. It's no surprise that we've wound up in the toilet. Republicans have no one to blame for this but themselves.
Ron Paul will take Iowa first then NH, he can afford to spend the most money on ads because he has a very strong and wide base of supporters. The supporters he has are informed and determined and they will stop at nothing to spread the ideas of civil liberty and sound money.
Let freedom ring!
Ron Paul 2012.
Republican's need to remember the old saying ( watch what you wish for you might just get it ). They want deficit reduction, come January 1 2013 they will get $6.2 trillion worth of cuts. $1 trillion dollars they agreed on just to raise the debt. ceiling. The $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts the super committee couldn't agree on ($600 billion in defense cuts and $600 billion in non-discretionary spending cuts ) and the $4 trillion in Bush tax cuts that expire on that same day. That all totals to $6.2 trillion and President Obama doesn't have to do anything to get them. Obama played the Republican's like a real pro and they didn't even see it coming.
no one really wants the Willard 'Mittens' Romney
all he can do is reelect Puppet President Obama