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FREEDOMWORKS PRESIDENT WANTS NEW GOP CANDIDATE: TEA PARTY HASN‘T ’COALESCED’ AROUND GINGRICH

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Jan 252012
 

On Tuesday’s episode of “Real News From The Blaze,” special guest Matt Kibbe, president of the conservative organization FreedomWorks, along with the panel, discussed why Newt Gingrich is not the Tea Party candidate for 2012.

Blaze host S.E. Cupp shared her observation that the Tea Party wants a small government outsider and thus could never be satisfied with Gingrich, a “big government Republican.”

“But where are they going to go?” asks Kibbe, suggesting that panel members are holding the Tea Party and its ideal candidate “to standard no one can be held to.”

“I don’t think the Tea Party has coalesced around Newt Gingrich,” Kibbe said, speculating that there could even be a brokered convention with an outside candidate being chosen to run.

“I would love to find someone outside of the current field,” he added.

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When asked who might shine as an ideal presidential candidate with core Tea Party values, Kibbe offered Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio and Tim Scott but ceded that they’re all “too green” to run for president. Kibbe did agree that Jeb Bush could also be a good choice, underscoring a National Review post out Tuesday suggesting that the “charismatic governor” could “save the Republican party.”

From Artur Davis at NRO who posits that there is a “feasibility around the idea” of a Jeb Bush run that before “seemed unthinkable.” He writes:

To be sure, the Jeb scenario will need more instability in order to flourish. The likeliest path involves Gingrich’s momentum carrying him through Florida; the February races in Arizona and Michigan dividing between Romney and Gingrich; Romney rebounding in March in moderate-leaning midwestern states such as Illinois and Wisconsin; Gingrich winning easily in the Deep South on Super Tuesday and Texas in early April, with Romney proving equally strong in New York and the rest of the Atlantic coastline, while states like Ohio and Indiana fail to resolve the split.

Imagine that California’s ultimate showdown leaves Gingrich with the slightest of edges, but with Romney remaining viable and in possession of a broader geographic base, far more internal support from GOP leadership, and a substantial chunk of delegates. To stop Gingrich, Romney might have no practical choice but to offer to throw his support to Bush, whose popularity would also implode Gingrich’s slim plurality.

Not one bit of it is implausible.

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  • C-Ann-C

    First of all, I disagree with choice of Tim Scott as a candidate; not because he is “green” but because he voted in FAVOR of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act)!  He’s a Flip-Flopper, just like Romney! And as far as Romney is concerned, FreedomWorks hasn’t lived in a state next to MA when Romney was Governor! I did!  I knew people in MA who was under the Romeny-Care and they did NOT like that one little bit! Believe me, I came from a northern state who live next to MA while Romney was Gov and we always had the local news channels reporting on what was going on with Romney!  He’s a flip-flopper, he lost to an ’08 election because the people in MA knew him! So, he’s not going to get it.  The BEST possibility for a win-win situation is Newt….the people of SC made their voice, without the help of a Tea Party.  Who cares about the Tea Party?  They are not always right all the time….they were for Ron Paul more than anything, and look at his votes in the SC Primary.  Doesn’t that say something?  Plus I watched the After Primary comments from the FoxNews channel panelists and one of them said that Gingrich has the stamina to beat Obama in a debate, and Obama HAS to do at least 3 debates for the Presidential Primary, else his re-election will be null and void, and that was the stipulation from the panel discussion.  They all agreed that Gingrich has the best win in a debate against Obama and that will be our best hope against Obama.  I was first for Michelle Bachmann, but all you people somehow didn’t want her in because you didn’t believe in her. I did.  But now its too late for that, so all I could do was vote for the candidate with the best possibilty of beating Obama.  Newt was my choice, and he won the Primary here.  Get on with it, people, get off the “open marriage” kick, and by the way, that offensive cartoon is WRONG.  There are reports of his ex-wife that she very UNSTABLE.  A woman scorned will say just about anything! 

  • Janetspencer69

    I agree that neither Newt nor Romney match the principles of the tea party movement. Many in SC that say they are tea party, voted for Newt and comprised their principles. This is still a primary. Maybe there will be a brokered convention. I don’t want another great debater for my new president, We already have a greater debater now and look what a mess this country is in. By looking at how a candidate has previously voted, their speeches, books and how they campaign, is a good judgment of a person’s character. I still hope there might be someone else to enter this race. It is better to get everything out in the open now in the primary rather than in the general election. At this point, I am not willing to throw in the towel and not stick by my principles. I will fight for and defend the Constitution. Another important goal for 2012 is to replace some of the senate and house with true conservatives that will defend and follow the CONSTITUTION.

  • C-Ann-C

    I do agree with your principles, Janet.  That is an important aspect to determine in this election and we should all agree that if a candidate holds up to our principles and issues, we should consider that candidate.  There was such a candidate at the beginning of the GOP campaign, before the Iowa caucus, but she bowed out after it because of low ratings and votes, That was Michelle Bachmann, of course, who’s been to SC at least 3 times before the Iowa votes.  She instilled every principle I believed in but I guess that wasn’t enough for the SC people to believe in, and when Sarah Palin commented on the Fox News that Michelle should step down, I lost all hope for Sarah and in fact, I despised her for doing that.  Sarah may have well lost the election against Obama for us with that comment.  Michelle wasn’t supported enough, funded enough, yet she worked tirelessly coverying every county in Iowa, had 5 telephone-townhalls (I listened to every one of them on my phone), ran her own bus and campaign entirely out of donations, but ran out of those funds that caused her to bow out after Iowa.  That is the crying shame of it all.  People will be sorry for what we have left to choose from this field, but we have to make a choice.  I hope Romney is not the nominee, of course; and Santorum is showing weakness out there; I do not like Ron Paul’s foregin policy; and Newt has had his past come back to him, but he is still hanging in there and has the stamina to put up a good fight.  I know it might bite me at the end, but what is left out there is an all or nothing fight to beat Obama, and isn’t that the entire crux of the whole thing?  If someone does come into the race that shows us they are better than Newt, then ok, I’ll change my mind, but that person better be stepping up to the plate fast, for it’s getting a little late in the game to WOW the people’s principles!

   

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