While providing live debate coverage for TIRNation.com, former presidential candidate Herman Cain stopped by to joke around with Tony Katz and Craig Robinson.
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Rick Perry endorses Newt Gingrich
Governor Rick Perry announced his suspension of his presidential campaign. In North Charleston, South Carolina, Perry stated:
I ran for President because I love America….This mission is greater than any one man….What’s broken in America is not our people, it’s our politcs….What we need in Washington is a place that is humbler….
The cause of Conservatism is not in one individual…I know we can’t lose track of the ultimate objective….to defeat President Obama…we need bold, conservative leadership….the mission is greater than the man.
There is no viable path forward for me in the campaign….I am endorsing Newt Gingrich….we have had our differences, and Newt is not perfect, but who amongst us is. But there is forgiveness for those who seek God…it is a central tenant of my Christian faith.
As a Texan, I have never shied away from a fight….I know that I gave fully to a cause that is worth of this country…(my wife, Anita) has been an incredible patriot…with a good wife, with three loving children and a loving God, things are going to be good no matter what I do.
Perry Out, Florida Now Matters More Than Ever
Texas Governor Rick Perry has announced that he is leaving the GOP presidential race on the eve of the second debate in Charleston, South Carolina. The latest CNN/TIME poll had Perry in last place, with 6% of the vote. Perry endorsed former Speaker Newt Gingrich
This development makes Florida more important than ever. Conventional wisdom held that if front-runner Gov. Mitt Romney won South Carolina, he would be on his way to “running the table” and virtually assuring himself the nomination. If he lost, the race would focus on Florida to bring clarity. With Perry out, so close to the primary, it doesn’t give enough time for voters to resettle. Tonight’s debate with four instead of five will create a new dynamic, just like the five man debate did in Myrtle Beach.
Unless we witness a blow-out by Romney in South Carolina, all eyes will shift to Florida where once again they may hold the fate of the election.
Palin for Gingrich? At least in South Carolina
We’ve heard the rumblings before from former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin that she liked what she heard in debates from former Speaker Newt Gingrich. But Tuesday she joined in with her husband Todd by endorsing Gingrich….if only in South Carolina.
If “going rogue” is the baseline from which Palin pushes endorsements, then it all makes sense. Gingrich has had an erratic campaign, and has an erratic campaign style. His early campaign missteps (including cruises, a ill-worded attack on Rep. Paul Ryan and losing his staff) were wiped away by consistent debate performances. Once Gingrich had established himself as the “zinger” candidate, and his poll numbers rose, he moved into substance and the numbers got even bigger.
That gave way just weeks before the Iowa Caucus, where a barrage of unanswered negative ads against Gingrich by Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul pushed him into a humbling fourth place finish. He shed the positive, “nice guy” approach, and went mean. Mean, in this case, meaning a blinding rage. His attack on Romney’s time at Bain Capital ended up being an attack on capitalism. The backfire was immediate, and even Gingrich admitted that his approach wasn’t a good idea. According to Craig Robinson of TIRNation.com, the film, “When Mitt Came To Town,” made by the Gingrich Super-PAC Winning the Future, “…could have been directed by Michael Moore.”
For all of that, Gingrich’s poll numbers did not suffer in South Carolina or Florida, holding at over 20% in both states. But that was before the debate in Myrtle Beach, SC, where Gingrich engaged his best performance yet. His answers on national defense and jobs were met with furious applause, and a standing ovation (to which, I have found no one who has ever seen one before in a debate.)
Palin has seen the ups and downs of a campaign, and seems to have an affinity for people who speak their minds, at nearly all times. When Palin gave her endorsement, she stated:
If I had to vote in South Carolina, in order to keep things going, I’d vote for Newt…I want to see this thing continue because iron sharpens iron, steel sharpens steel
Is that actually an endorsement, or is it something else? Why would Palin want to keep things going? Is it, as she puts it, to help the candidates make each other stronger? Is Palin using Newt as her chance to better vet the candidates in Florida? Conventional wisdom states that if Romney wins in SC, he will run the table to the GOP nomination. However, if he loses, the Florida contest on January 31st becomes pivotal, along with the two debates before the primary.
Romney has not agreed to those debates. His strategist, Stuart Stevens, said there are simply too many debates:
There are too many of these…We have to bring some order to it. We haven’t accepted Florida…It’s kind of like a cruise that’s gone on too long
Based on Palin’s South Carolina endorsement, it seems that she has not had enough debates. If her devoted fan base listens, and votes for Newt, the race will continue, and expect to see Romney campaigning hard in Florida.
Gov. Nikki Haley continues strong Romney support
Tony Katz, host of The Tony Katz Radio Show, caught up with Governor Nikki Haley at the GOP debate in Myrtle Beach, SC, and asked about her support for Gov. Mitt Romney. Get more debate coverage at TIRNation.com.
Post Debate Analysis from Myrtle Beach
Tony Katz, host of The Tony Katz Radio Show, is live in South Carolina covering the debates and primary with TIRNation.com. After the debate in Myrtle Beach, Tony spoke with Craig Robinson of The Iowa Republican.com about who won, who lost and what the debate means for the GOP nomination.
Huntsman Out of the Race; endorses Romney
As reported by ABC News, former Utah Governor and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination. Just days before the First in the South GOP primary and two lead-up debates, sources say Huntsman, who placed third in the New Hampshire primary, said that he was ““proud of the race that he ran” but “did not want to stand in the way” of rival Mitt Romney.”
According to an aide:
He (Huntsman) has been discussing with his family after they woke up after a successful evening in New Hampshire. They felt good about their performance in New Hampshire, but he and his family had a discussion and this is the decision they came to,” the aide said. “At the end of the day he decided he did not want to hurt the best chance of beating Barack Obama and that’s Mitt Romney. By continuing into South Carolina and Florida, that’s what he would have been doing.
The timing of Huntsman’s withdrawal and subsequent endorsement was seen as a shock in South Carolina, where The State newspaper of Columbia announced their endorsement of Huntsman on the same day:
Mr. Huntsman is a true conservative, with a record and platform of bold economic reform straight out of the free-market bible, but he’s a realist, whose goal is likewise to get things done,” the paper wrote. “Under his leadership, Utah led the nation in job creation, and the Pew Center on the States ranked it the best-managed state in the nation.
Many have disagreed about Huntsman being a “true Conservative.” The New York Times referred to Huntsman as, “…in essence, the answer to a call for a pragmatic centrist who could reach out to Democrats that no one in the Republican Party ever made.” HotAir.com editor Ed Morrissey disagreed, stating:
Jon Huntsman wasn’t a “pragmatic centrist who could reach out to Democrats.” He governed in Utah as a conservative in a state controlled by the GOP, but talked like a centrist who despised conservatives. Huntsman’s expensive and embarrassing flop really isn’t much more complicated than that.
Will Huntsman’s decision to leave the race have any effect on the field? Extremely doubtful. In the latest American Research Group poll in South Carolina, (January 11-12) Huntsman was polling at 1%. His followers (so as they are) and their migration (if any) won’t have any effect on the rest of the field. Even the endorsement is something that is not a shock, and won’t make many reconsider their current choice if they were not already for frontrunner Gov. Mitt Romney.
The plus for the remaining candidates is that there is one less person who can throw mud at them on the debate stage. While a Huntsman endorsement could have been good for a Gingrich, Santorum or Perry, not having it doesn’t change their tactics.
Tony Katz will be broadcasting live from South Carolina everyday leading up to, and including, the First In The South primary. To get even more coverage, click here or visit http://allpatriotsmedia.com/carolina
It’s not Ron Paul, the Problem is Ron Paul supporters
The latest article from Tony Katz. It originally appeared on TownHall.com:
Much of what people find objectionable about presidential candidate Ron Paul isn’t his policies or principles; it’s his followers.
You can agree or disagree with his views on the economy (abolish the Fed), foreign policy (non-interventionism), or trade (open it up). And you may or may not be bothered by the racist and anti-Semitic columns that appeared in the early ‘90s in newsletters that bear his name. Dr. Paul claims not to have read the objectionable articles, and not to have held racist or anti-Semitic views, telling the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that anti-Semitism would be “a betrayal of my own intellectual heritage.”
Ron Paul’s worst liability is his followers, who are increasingly hostile to all those who don’t believe Dr. Paul has the cure to what ails America. They come from various political persuasions, age groups and socio-economic classes. But what they seem to have in common, and what sets them apart from other candidates’ followers, is their propensity for nastiness, condescension and self-righteousness.
Take, for example, a Paul supporter who called into CSPAN to denounce Iowa radio host Simon Conway as a “Jewish Zionist” who is “pushing for another war for Israel:”
Or Paul’s more high-profile supporter, 9/11 “truther” Alex Jones, who projects his own “truther” attitudes onto Paul, even though Paul himself doesn’t think that 9/11 was an inside job. In a recent thread on Jones’ site, PrisonPlanet.com, Paul supporters debate whether or not Paul has let the truthers down, and the shrewd calculation from Paul to avoid talking about it until he gets into the White House: (emphasis mine)
LickDaCat Reply:
January 2nd, 2012 at 10:41 amRon Paul cannot speak out on such issues at this time. He has stated in the past that government investigations are a hoax. He will no doubt allow a real investigation into 9/11 and release the evidence which the government is hiding which is all we ask.
Ron Paul will bring the treasonous criminals to justice.
Eduard Reply:
January 2nd, 2012 at 10:52 amRon Paul has NOT betrayed the 9-11 Truth movement. He simply stated that he has not had the time to look at it and there are many other issues on his plate he needs to focus on……like campaigning and voting against tyrannical legislation (NDAA, etc.)
prisoner number six says:Ron Paul has not displayed cowardice in regard to what he believes
really happened on 9/11. He has plainly stated that he has enough on his plate
trying to win the contest in Iowa. The strategy of his opponents has been and continues
to be to portray RP as a loon. Taking their bait and dragging in the “911 conspiracy theories” would be to fall into a trap. There are too many zombie voters that would need to be awakened and educated on this issue before they would understand reality…RP is showing good tactical judgement in letting the “events of 9/11″ subject stay on the back burner for now.
And, most recently, Paul supporters have created an attack ad against presidential candidate and former Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman for being, well, the former Ambassador to China, for speaking fluent Mandarin and, according to Leon Wolf at RedState.com, for adopting “…a little Chinese girl who was abandoned in a market.”
It should be noted that, in the case of the above video, it was posted to YouTube by the a group called NHLiberty4Paul. They have only posted this one video, and it is possible that the video was planted to make Paul look bad.
Most Americans don’t object to fluency in Chinese or the adoption of unwanted children. However, the overwhelming nastiness displayed by Ron Paul’s supporters is alienating to many voters. The video may not be from a Paul supporter, but it fits a ever growing set of facts to which people would not doubt it comes from a supporter. The more vitriolic and irrational the Paul supporter becomes, the more independent voters will look in another direction.
That is Ron Paul’s biggest problem.
TKRS – 1-12-12 – Jedediah Bila talks Santorum, Romney and South Carolina
Enjoy The Show!
Tony is joined by author and commentator Jedediah Bila. They break down Mitt’s time at Bain, the latest polls on South Carolina and Florida and whether Rick Santorum can get victory in SC. Then, Tony uses numbers to prove the importance of new media.
Stop worrying about what The Left says about The Right in the Presidential Race
Tony Katz, host of The Tony Katz Radio Show, had strong words for people on the right who are worried about the 2012 GOP Primary race, thinking that we are not being “nice enough” to each other.
What the hell are you doing worrying about what they are going to say? They are lying, notorious bastards and thieves. Why do you give a damn what the hard core leftist progressive has to say about you? They hate you. They want to destroy you. For what reason are you giving yourself an opportunity to be worried about what they say?
