In the last Morning Jolt of the week . . . The Last Debate for a Month? Do You Promise? Keep reading this post . . .
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The Grand Finale Florida Debate?
Today’s Morning Jolt offers a look at a stirring defense of work and what we seem to be losing in America today, a question of whether it’s worse for Newt Gingrich to lie to the public or to himself in discussing why Freddie Mac hired him; and a wrap-up of a debate that makes one wonder if we really need any more debates this primary season. A Debate So Bad, We Missed Stephanopoulos’ Contraception Questions Keep reading this post . . .
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Only a Few Letters Separate ‘Debate’ From ‘Debacle’
So says The Politico The surging Newt Gingrich has mastered debates — and disguise. The debate part is clear: The former Speaker of the House comes to play and owns the stage with an uncanny capacity to connect with the grievances of conservative voters. The disguise part is clear, too. Gingrich has used his debate skills — and
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Surging Gingrich Is A Master Of Disguise Or Something
A win for Gingrich in South Carolina is unlikely to settle the debate among social conservatives about which candidate to rally behind for the Republican presidential nomination, conservative leaders say.
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Conservatives Remain Split
CNN opened the debate last night with a question to Newt about his x-wife’s claim he asked for an open marriage which he said is false. He ripped into the debate moderator and the media in general with this homerun. Many are saying he won the debate in the first five minutes.
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Video: Gingrich Rips Media
Gingrich defiantly attacks CNN and the moderator for beginning the debate with a question about his ex-wife, receives another standing ovation.
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Gingrich defiantly gambles at debate, pays off when ABC interview with ex-wife falls flat
Photoshop: Reader Jimmy D. Phew . So, it turns out: Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucus. Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife, Marianne, is getting her revenge . Live by scorched-earth. Die by scorched-earth, eh, Newt? And Rick Perry is reportedly set to drop out today — removing another body from another GOP debate tonight in South Carolina and freeing up more time for more liberal media bashing, potential Romney gaffes, Ron Paul foreign policy screeds. Looks like he is set to follow RedState founder Erick Erickson’s advice and endorse Newt: While closer to Perry than Romney on some points, Perry campaigned on reducing the size and scope of Washington, privatizing social security, and fixing entitlements. Endorsing Santorum may leave Perry in good stead with his fellow evangelicals, but it would fly in the face of the limited government principles he outlines both on the campaign trail and in his national bestseller Fed Up! Then there is the man who wrote the introduction to Fed Up!, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. I’m willing to bet that among activists in Texas, Newt Gingrich is more popular than Romney. His message has been rather consistent to Perry’s, including a man on a mission to gut Washington, D.C. While Gingrich lacks Perry’s limited government bona fides, he is the only other candidate in the race emphasizing that business as usual in Washington is not acceptable if the nation we love is going to survive – as Gingrich wrote in his introduction: “Devolving power out of Washington is critical to our long-term survival.” And that’s the truth. But Erickson wrote the truth back in 2009, when he expressed deep-seated grass-roots conservative discontent and distrust of Newt: Newt endorsing Scozzafava aligns him with Markos Moulitsas who declared Dede the most liberal candidate in the race. That aligns Newt with ACORN, which has twice endorsed Dede. That aligns Newt with Planned Parenthood and NARAL, active supporters of Dede. That aligns Newt with the SEIU, the AFL-CIO, and a host of other left wing interest groups including the gay marriage lobby. Today Newt Gingrich stands athwart history and pees on the legacy of 1994, where it is no longer about principles, ideas, ideals, and integrity, but the raw acquisition of power for the sake of power. He aligns with a candidate to the left of the Democrat. The GOP will not take back power until it repents of its sins that caused it to lose power. And chief among those sins was the abandonment of principle for the sake of power . But when a political party stands for nothing, it fails to stand. At least we can thank Newt today for declaring himself out of the 2012 race. Or, should he stay in, conservatives at least no longer have to feel under any obligation to stick with him, since he makes clear in NY-23 as he did in MD-01 that he feels under no obligation to stick with conservatives. Here is the awful GOP conundrum. We have a liberal Northeastern Republican front-runner, Mitt Romney, who can’t articulate conservative principles. And we have a Beltway insider with massive moral baggage, Newt Gingrich, who believes he’s above living conservative principles. Via Hot Air: [Ex-wife Marianne Gingrich] kind of guessed it, of course. Women usually do. But did she know the woman was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed? She called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. “‘I can’t handle a Jaguar right now.’ He said that many times. ‘All I want is a Chevrolet.’” He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused. He’d just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he’d given a speech full of high sentiments about compassion and family values. The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, “How do you give that speech and do what you’re doing?” “It doesn’t matter what I do,” he answered. “People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.” Noseplugs, anyone? *** Perry post-mortem: I see that Team Perry is already blaming “fringe” pundits for exercising inordinate influence on voters. Newsflash: Perry did himself in. All by himself. *** Should be quite a Final Four debate tonight. Will the Non-Romneys focus more on each other? Or the lib CNN moderators? More SuperPAC-a-palooza whining? Submit your debate questions here . *** Update 11am Eastern Rick Perry announces suspension of his campaign. Throws endorsement, as expected, to Newt Gingrich. Absolves him for not being “perfect” and preaches redemption ahead of Marianne Gingrich “open marriage” interview with ABC News. Perry: Newt is a “visionary” who can “transform our country.” How about less transformation and more restoration? Perry’s last words: “I have just begun to fight” for conservatism. Good to know. And now…Rick Perry can now make Washington more inconsequential in Americans’ lives — by making it more inconsequential in his. *** Flashback video via Drudge Report: Perry slams marital cheaters. “If you cheat on your wife, you’ll cheat on your business partner:”
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GOP 2012: Perry dropping out; Newt’s scorched-earth karma; and a Final Four debate; Update: Perry endorses “visionary” Newt
Before the Fox News/Wall Street Journal Republican presidential debate on Monday, there was concern among its producers on how to handle questioning of Mitt Romney . Bret Baier , anchor of Fox News’ “Special Report,” intended to ask Romney about the endorsement he received earlier in the day from Jon Huntsman . “Governor Huntsman endorsed you today, but in New Hampshire seven days ago he called you a perfectly lubricated weather vane on the important issues of the day. He said you’ve been on three sides of every issue. And just last week he charged that it’s hard to find your core,” Baier recited the question before the debate to his boss, Michael Clemente , according to the New York Times. Clemente approve the question but wanted Baier to “leave out the ‘three sides’ part.” It was “too much.” Baier did ask the question during the debate and the “three sides part” was in fact left out. In another instance, Juan Williams , who also moderated the debate, asked Romney a question about his stance on immigration. It was a question that had initially been nixed by higher-ups for sounding too politically charged. And while prepping for the debate Gerald F. Seib , Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal asked, “Does anyone have the feeling like we’re ganging up on Romney?” Williams replied, “no.”
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Fox News’ careful approach to Romney
This was an interesting moment at the debate in Myrtle Beach. Newt hit that one out of the park. At Los Angeles Times , ” Gingrich defends calling Obama ‘the food stamp president’ .”
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Newt Gingrich Schools Juan Williams on ‘Food Stamp President’
