Hold onto your hats and fasten your seat belts — the Republican race for the presidency is in for an ugly and very bumpy ride!
Although Rick Santorum and Ron Paul remain in the race, the contest between on again/off again front runner Mitt Romney and his bad boy nemesis Newt Gingrich is heating up and getting nasty.
8 days before the crucial Florida primary, all 4 men met in a debate last night that was filled with pot shots and personal attacks. At stake is not only Florida’s 50 convention delegates (the most to date), but also a sense of momentum in arguably the most tumultuous Republican nomination battle of modern times.
Gingrich’s huge win in South Carolina last Saturday has caused Romney to rethink his tactics in hopes of reinvigorating his lagging campaign. So Romney wasted no time last night in utilizing rapid-fire attacks to say Gingrich was hired by mortgage giant Freddie Mac as “a historian” and for advocating health care policies while being paid by health care companies.
“You’ve been walking around this state saying things that are untrue,” an irate Gingrich replied, saying he had advocated policy positions as a concerned citizen, not because of consulting contracts. That isn’t lobbying, he said.
“You can call it whatever you like,” Romney shot back. “I call it influence peddling. It is not right.”
Both men are battling for the very soul of the Republican party. Although one of them may end up with the nomination, the Grand Old Party may never be the same!
<span>DJ:"Both men are battling for the very soul of the Republican party". </span><span></span><span>Uh-huh. Which tells you all you need to know about the current state of the *Soul* of today's Republican party. </span><span></span><span>I've been thinking: The main reason </span><span>NONE of the so-called "A-listers" opted to throw their hat in the ring this time is simple. None of them_NOT Jeb Bush, NOT Chris Christie, NONE of them_are in Pres. Obama's league and they d*mn well KNOW IT.</span><span></span><span>They saw what Sen. Obama did to the "Clinton Machine" which by nearly all account, INCLUDING the Repubs, had been considered to be the most formidable politcal "Machine" of our time. They know they're no match for Pres. Obama. </span><span></span><span>Add to that: GOP "A-listers" know they would have to pass the muster with their party's VERY own toxic and lunatic *BASE* (rank-and-file Repub voters) BEGINNING with meeting THREE main criteria: </span><span></span><span></span><span>1. HATING the "OTHERS" comes quite natural to you. And…. </span><span></span><span>2. at the top of your HATE-list is the "Marxist/Socialist/Communist/Nazi/Affirmative-Action/Food-Stamp/BLACK/Kenyan/Muslim/AntiChrist" in the White House. And…. </span><span></span><span>3. You can't wait to "curb-stomp that BLACK monster/bloody him up/take him down/turn… Read more »