Comments on: Newtomania http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2011/12/07/newtomania/ A First Things Blog Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:25:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Clifford http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2011/12/07/newtomania/comment-page-1/#comment-15744 Clifford Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:41:53 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=4772#comment-15744 Pawlenty left because of Perry who in a few weeks imploded by runing a horrid campaign. Newt botched the start but then stayed in and had a chance to be reconsidered. I think the way the media dynamic is running there will be a rather powerful consensus on the voting members of the GOP who they rather have against BO and will so any draft a candidate option will not be possible. The dynamic of electoral momentum that the media hypes caries over in voter attitudes which requies that a winner have his voters movtivated and showing up at the polls in the primaries etc.

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