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I could read the link! (http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topic/show?id=3355873%3ATopic%3...)

There is a debate in TX on 24 May.  Newt, Rick and Ron have confirmed their attendance.

There will be a 60 day "virtual convention" leading up to 1 Sept.  All of the candidates WILL speak from the same podium!

Our worst hope is to nominate another moderate.  Romney's only tactic has been to suppress the turn out, dramatically.  If we cannot get our vote out for the primary, how can we consider getting it out for the general election?  The current "establishment" track is literally a recipe for disaster!

We will face an effort like we have never seen bent on suppressing the "Tea Party" vote, AS SOON AS we stop beating on each other!  Romney has demonstrated the effectiveness of that tactic.  The other side may be missing fund raising targets, but those targets are wildly ambitious to begin with.  They will have a war chest the likes we cannot hope to match.  We must stop, look, and think.  We cannot win a pitched battle.  We have to adopt an asymmetric strategy.

The asymmetric strategy involves firing up your base, and pinning down your opponent.  By giving Obama multiple targets, and large crowds, we put him on the defensive.  They cannot focus on one guy!  Newt has drawn the fire of the White House, and is the only candidate to do so with an issue thus far.  Speaker Gingrich has done that twice! His $2.50 a gallon plan WILL work, and moreover, we need it to work to get out of this debt.  He continues to fight the lefts "War on Women" by properly framing the debate in terms of Religious Liberty!  We have effectively pinned down the opposition so far, because we have multiple targets.

Next we need to fire up the base.  Last year conservatives showed up on the west lawn of the Capitol by the hundreds of thousands.  One would think that that momentum was a positive thing.  Yet turnout has been dismal this year!  The only states where turnout exceeded 2008 were SC and GA.  We are killing our goose!  Obama is ahead in Virginia!  Newt has been the only one this cycle that has shown any ability to rally the base.  Even with his low delegate count, Newt is drawing huge crowds.  Clearly, Newt is the strongest candidate!

Now for the back story!

I am sure you have heard about the Virginia Ballot fiasco.  The "consultant" Newt hired in Richmond, VA turned in 1500 lines signed by the same person.  Newt put forth the effort, but was hit by a lame participant.  That is all the evidence that will be gathered while Newt is a candidate.  In the mix, the former Speaker hired the fraudster.  Newt has better things than be all litigious just now!

Then there is the ownership of Clear Channel Radio.  Clear Channel holds the syndication of several shows, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and others, not the least of which is WMAL (630 AM, DC).  Bain Capital owns Clear Channel!  Sean Hannity provided the most publicity of Newt's "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" campaign that was launched from a couch with Nancy Pelosi on it.  Is it any surprise that NO talk radio stars came out for Newt?  Republicans don't bite the hand that feeds them.

Add to that the active engagement of Roger Ailes and Brit Hume at Fox.  Between the two of them, they are quashing any positive treatment of Newt.  This includes giving Newt the hardest questions from the likes of Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.  Even Governor Sarah Palin was only allowed to report on who she voted for!  Any one who watches critically will see that.  They will also see that Newt is complete command of each interview he does.  No other candidate can face that pressure, and the heat will only turn up if one emerges!  They don't have as far to go with Newt!

So...

What is gained by Newt staying in the race?  Well, the target expansion mentioned above, for one.  Newt, Rick and Romney are far enough apart that the White House cannot target one without advancing another.  We have the benefit of fire AND maneuver now.  The democrats are clearly apoplectic over the prospects of a Gingrich nomination.  As a candidate, you can imagine a Newt - Obama debate.  As President, Gingrich's command of history, and the inner workings of government, will relegate the Democrats to the space between the back bench and the wall.  In any election case, the Democrats cannot attack Mitt while Newt is there to take advantage!

The Democrat Attack Machine is immobilized!  Thank You Newt!

As for us, we need to make the establishment aware that we are onto their game, and that it puts the entire election at risk.  Those that did not show up to vote in the primary will not show up to vote!  We are giving up the "not a dimes worth of difference argument".  Romney was the ONLY Republican to advocate FOR RobamneyCare in 2009, and Obama used that to beat us over the head and shoulders.  The problem with the "dimes worth" argument is that it tends to kill our base!  That is the ONLY risk we could take that would lose this election!

We have two weeks to breathe some measure of sanity into this incongruous debacle.   If we elect a proven motivator in August, we can eliminate the saturation bombing we will surely face!  Take heed!  Or prepare to take defeat!