Comments on Advance Indiana™: Gingrich Upsets Romney In South Carolina

I agree with Paul. Romney got 39% of the vote in a...

2012-01-22T20:57:07.161-05:00

I agree with Paul. Romney got 39% of the vote in a state where he's campaigned essentially since 2002 and where he owns a home. It also was an open primary where Democrats and Independents can request a Republican ballot. It was by most considerations his friendliest state outside Utah and probably Nevada and Idaho (large Mormon populations).

In the other two he got barely more than a quarter of the vote, which is where he's spent most of his time in the national polls. There is a very considerable anti-Romney element in the Republican Party.

As far as Gingrich's "open marriage" request, even I call bullshit on that. That's sour grapes from a scorned woman. I sincerely doubt he asked her for an "open marriage" and the media was simply trying to smear him.

We'll probably see the Gingrich ethics investi...

2012-01-22T09:24:26.969-05:00

We'll probably see the Gingrich ethics investigation rise to the top of the news this week or next.

I am sure the smearmongers are hard at work choreographing and rehearsing their dance.

I think Gingrich's support among tea party fol...

2012-01-22T07:07:41.659-05:00

I think Gingrich's support among tea party folks may have as much to do with their desire to stop Romney rather than supporting Gingrich. It became clear that if your goal was to beat Romney in yesterday's primary, only Gingrich was the candidate who had a realistic chance of beating Romney.

Are the 2012 elections discrediting the Tea Party,...

2012-01-22T05:21:59.681-05:00

Are the 2012 elections discrediting the Tea Party, exposing it as the Jerry Falwell wing of the Republican Party? In his piece on the South Carolina Primary, posted Friday at the occidental dissent website, Hunter Wallace writes what we should be doing today:

"We've been through 'the Cain Train', Rickroller Perry, Nuke Santorum, and Newt Gingrich who wanted an 'open marriage' with his second wife. The idea that these people are motivated by 'family values' and 'defense of marriage' after sticking with Cain through his fourth mistress should provoke howls of laughter should Newt win in South Carolina tomorrow."

I'll be the contrarian. While Gingrich doesn&#...

2012-01-22T05:04:29.632-05:00

I'll be the contrarian. While Gingrich doesn't have an organization, he doesn't have a hard ceiling on his support like Romney does. Romney has the organization but he has a huge problem that offsets that. Two-thirds of Republicans utterly despise him. That's not something you can simply change by being organized. At the end of the day you have to at least have the capability of getting a signficant majority of Republican support and Romney doesn't appear capable.