Comments on: The results of the South Carolina Primary will not be as expected https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/19/the-results-of-the-south-carolina-primary-will-not-be-as-expected/ Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/19/the-results-of-the-south-carolina-primary-will-not-be-as-expected/#comment-19687 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:59:48 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2044#comment-19687 Dangnabbit.

Well, greg laden (& etcetera) it looks like you were right & I got it wrong :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16669714

Gingrich has won South Carolina easily over Romney with santorum third.

]]> By: etcetera https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/19/the-results-of-the-south-carolina-primary-will-not-be-as-expected/#comment-19686 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:26:54 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2044#comment-19686 This won’t hurt Gingrich in the slightest. His “indiscretions”, shall we say, have been well known and this latest revelation is just more of the same. The problem is that the fundies simply won’t accept the most electable candidate and the Repubs have inextricably tied their fortunes to evangelicals that they can’t cut them loose when they turn into liabilities.

]]> By: Lou Jost https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/19/the-results-of-the-south-carolina-primary-will-not-be-as-expected/#comment-19685 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:40:09 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2044#comment-19685 I think that second-wife interview will have a huge effect on Gingrich. How can anybody stomach the hypocrisy of Newt railing on Clinton’s affair with an intern while having his own affair with an intern at the same time? And claiming to represent family values and the sacredness of marriage, while at the same time demanding his second wife let him sleep around!! No, I think this stretches even Republicans’ capacity to accept double-think.

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/19/the-results-of-the-south-carolina-primary-will-not-be-as-expected/#comment-19684 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:09:07 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2044#comment-19684 So we may have a situation where santorum surges again as Perry departs from the rear with Gingrich still behind and Mittens might have climaxed prematurely as his polls are going down already?

]]> By: Francisco Bacopa https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/19/the-results-of-the-south-carolina-primary-will-not-be-as-expected/#comment-19683 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:18:15 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2044#comment-19683 My dream ticket would be Elizabeth Warren and Alan Grayson as alternative Democrats.

But it is nice to see that the Repubs are going to slug it out and push into high weirdness. Obama will seem normal and safe by comparison.

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/19/the-results-of-the-south-carolina-primary-will-not-be-as-expected/#comment-19682 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:50:07 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2044#comment-19682 Newt Gingrich winning Sth carolina? Really? In a conservative state after that interview with his second wife?

I think Santorum & Gingrich will just be taking votes off each other vying for the same religious “right” block while Ron Paul keeps plugging away without real hope and Romney romps it home. I’d be very surprised if Mittens doesn’t win this round – and shortly or eventually depending on the futile persistence of the others the Repub 2012 nomination.

Course I could be wrong. Guess we’ll soon see.

]]> By: Mriana https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/19/the-results-of-the-south-carolina-primary-will-not-be-as-expected/#comment-19681 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:35:50 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2044#comment-19681 I dread any of them running for president, but I guess there is has to be someone to run against Obama or who ever the Dems agree on having run for their candidate. Of course, if Bernie Sanders threw his hat in the ring, I’d do a Miss Piggy on the Dems… “Um… Goodbye!”

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