MMC
12-15-2011, 09:24 AM
It’s Iowa minus 32 days, and barring yet another resurrection (or event of similar improbability), it’s Mitt Romney vs. Newt Gingrich. In a match race, here's the score card.
Romney has managed to weather the debates unscathed. However, the brittleness he showed when confronted with the kind of informed follow-up questions that Bret Baier tossed his way (http://video.foxnews.com/v/1301527875001/) Tuesday on Fox’s “Special Report” — the kind of scrutiny one doesn’t get in multiplayer debates — suggests that Romney may become increasingly vulnerable as the field narrows.
Enter Gingrich, the current vessel for anti-Romney forces — and likely the final one. Gingrich’s obvious weakness is a history of flip-flops, zigzags and mind changes even more extensive than Romney’s — on climate change, the health-care mandate, cap-and-trade, Libya, the Ryan Medicare plan, etc.
Two ideologically problematic finalists: One is a man of center-right temperament who has of late adopted a conservative agenda. The other is a man more conservative by nature but possessed of an unbounded need for grand display that has already led him to unconservative places even he is at a loss to explain, and that as president would leave him in constant search of the out-of-box experience — the confoundedly brilliant Nixon-to-China flipperoo regarding his fancy of the day, be it health care, taxes, energy, foreign policy, whatever.
The second, more obvious, Gingrich vulnerability is electability. Given his considerable service to the movement, many conservatives seem quite prepared to overlook his baggage, ideological and otherwise. This is understandable. But the independents and disaffected Democrats upon whom the general election will hinge will not be so forgiving.
Obama’s approval rating among independents is a catastrophically low 30 percent. This is a constituency disappointed in Obama but also deeply offended by the corrupt culture of the Washington insider — a distaste in no way attenuated by fond memories of the 1994 Contract with America.
This is a weak Republican field with two significantly flawed front-runners contesting an immensely important election. If Obama wins, he will take the country to a place from which it will not be able to return (which is precisely his own objective for a second term).
Every conservative has thus to ask himself two questions: Who is more likely to prevent that second term? And who, if elected, is less likely to unpleasantly surprise?.....snip~
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Staff-Bio/Images/charles-krauthammer-114x80.png
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-vs-newt/2011/12/01/gIQAtSfOIO_story.html
Krauthammer's assessment.....agree/disagree? Also this past weekend The Krauthammer went after Gingrich for his remarks over the weekend. Attacking Gingrich who went on a attack of Capitalism.
Obama is down to a 30% approval rating with Independants. Yet is is apparently clear that despite the weak individuals that are running for the GOP. That All Republicans must come out and support whoever that candidate is. Which does truly suck! It should not be something that Republicans have to do. But we have no choice in this matter.
Obama talked about transforming this country. But he never did say into what. Now, we know. He is systematically Europeanizing our Country with European Ideology and Socialistic endeavors. The Demos sold out so for them its all about those entitlements and bringing those specialty laws into play with their socialistic passions.
Romney has managed to weather the debates unscathed. However, the brittleness he showed when confronted with the kind of informed follow-up questions that Bret Baier tossed his way (http://video.foxnews.com/v/1301527875001/) Tuesday on Fox’s “Special Report” — the kind of scrutiny one doesn’t get in multiplayer debates — suggests that Romney may become increasingly vulnerable as the field narrows.
Enter Gingrich, the current vessel for anti-Romney forces — and likely the final one. Gingrich’s obvious weakness is a history of flip-flops, zigzags and mind changes even more extensive than Romney’s — on climate change, the health-care mandate, cap-and-trade, Libya, the Ryan Medicare plan, etc.
Two ideologically problematic finalists: One is a man of center-right temperament who has of late adopted a conservative agenda. The other is a man more conservative by nature but possessed of an unbounded need for grand display that has already led him to unconservative places even he is at a loss to explain, and that as president would leave him in constant search of the out-of-box experience — the confoundedly brilliant Nixon-to-China flipperoo regarding his fancy of the day, be it health care, taxes, energy, foreign policy, whatever.
The second, more obvious, Gingrich vulnerability is electability. Given his considerable service to the movement, many conservatives seem quite prepared to overlook his baggage, ideological and otherwise. This is understandable. But the independents and disaffected Democrats upon whom the general election will hinge will not be so forgiving.
Obama’s approval rating among independents is a catastrophically low 30 percent. This is a constituency disappointed in Obama but also deeply offended by the corrupt culture of the Washington insider — a distaste in no way attenuated by fond memories of the 1994 Contract with America.
This is a weak Republican field with two significantly flawed front-runners contesting an immensely important election. If Obama wins, he will take the country to a place from which it will not be able to return (which is precisely his own objective for a second term).
Every conservative has thus to ask himself two questions: Who is more likely to prevent that second term? And who, if elected, is less likely to unpleasantly surprise?.....snip~
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Staff-Bio/Images/charles-krauthammer-114x80.png
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-vs-newt/2011/12/01/gIQAtSfOIO_story.html
Krauthammer's assessment.....agree/disagree? Also this past weekend The Krauthammer went after Gingrich for his remarks over the weekend. Attacking Gingrich who went on a attack of Capitalism.
Obama is down to a 30% approval rating with Independants. Yet is is apparently clear that despite the weak individuals that are running for the GOP. That All Republicans must come out and support whoever that candidate is. Which does truly suck! It should not be something that Republicans have to do. But we have no choice in this matter.
Obama talked about transforming this country. But he never did say into what. Now, we know. He is systematically Europeanizing our Country with European Ideology and Socialistic endeavors. The Demos sold out so for them its all about those entitlements and bringing those specialty laws into play with their socialistic passions.