I hate it when I like what someone I don’t like says something I like, but Newt Gingrich did so today:
Republican presidential candidate New Gingrich said Friday that “it’s silly” to characterize the GOP race as a two-person affair, arguing that the contest remains “still a very, very wide open race.”
“There have been no votes taken by the American people. Newspaper reporters and TV reporters are not the American people,” Gingrich said on Fox News. “The fact is it is more convenient to narrow it down, it makes it easier to cover but it’s not factually correct.”
The former Speaker of the House argued that so-called second-tier candidates could still surge to the forefront.
If this poll is any indication, Floridians seem to be proving Newt’s point:
Herman Cain pulled off a shocking upset victory in Florida’s Presidency 5 Straw Poll on Saturday. The Georgia businessman won more votes than the Republican primary’s frontrunners — Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — combined.
The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO captured 37 percent of the vote, while Perry took 15 percent and Romney took 14 percent.
Cain’s surprise win threatened to upend the popular notion that Perry had become almost untouchable just weeks after announcing his presidential bid. It also underscored Perry’s recent struggles on the campaign trail, including two weak debate performances and a barrage of attacks from other candidates over his positions on Social Security and immigration.
If it’s too early to jump to conclusions, then I guess there’s no reason why I can’t continue to support Gary Johnson, who is covered in detail in a GQ piece suggestively titled “Is This the Sanest Man Running for President?” Hey, anyone who Stephen Green has a drunken total man-crush on can’t be all bad.
I’m just glad it ain’t over.
Or that it isn’t over, as the country club RINOs would say.
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4 responses to “If it isn’t over, ain’t it too early?”
I could like Cain.
Nobody is my first choice right now but he’s far from last.
I can see Cain ticking off all the right people.
We need someone with some balls to roll back all the crap our current God-President has done, especially his out of control regulatory agencies.
I wonder something.
I know it’s hard to fire gov’t workers, but what happens if you abolish a cabinet department?
In other words, you can’t fire the career bureaucrats in the Dept of Ed, but what happens if you abolish the Dept of Ed? Could we have the Supreme Court tell the President how to do his job? And if they do, does he tell them to go screw?
That could be very interesting.
I could see Cain and maybe Johnson getting rid of the Depts of Ed and Energy, splitting up Homeland Security and getting rid of the TSA.
I doubt Perry or Newt would do that and I’m absolutely certain Mitt would just try to “improve” all the freedom-stealing crap and bureaucratic over-reach.
But… if the dept of ed and energy were abolished and homeland security and tsa… all those people would be UNEMPLOYED!!
JOBS GONE!! Oh my! Disaster.
Now, add all the jobs at various other agencies that would be GONE if the war on drugs were undeclared.
Nobody… not Cain, Palin, Johnson, Superman… could handle the unemployment rate if government jobs were reduced that much. No matter how much I’d like to see them try.
The more I hear about Johnson the more I like him. You should do a more explicit piece on him to help get him more attention. I may mention him too. My dad, who generally follows news and conservative politics pretty closely, had never heard of him.
Getting rid of a department probably wouldn’t increase unemployment that much… Departments don’t have hundreds of thousands of employees, do they? (DO THEY??) First time unemployment claims have been around 400K for a long time now, but overall rates have been fairly flat too, suggesting that 400K+ people are getting hired every week too. Adding tens of thousands of former federal workers wouldn’t impact that too much, right? And some of the economic gains of eliminating departments might be long term (like education), but others might be more immediately visible.
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