CNN: This GOP voter 'can't make up her mind.' [snark]

[CurtEastPoint]

Jen Jones, 46, is the manager of a popular barbeque restaurant in Charleston -- Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q, which specializes in spare ribs, beef brisket, mac-n-cheese and Primary Bingo.
She came up with the game, where each server has a sheet of paper with names of candidates, networks, politicians and menu items and are encouraged to strike up conversations with customers in order to get them to mention one of the names.
Jones is a self-described "political junkie" and former Glenn Beck fan -- "I don't know about him now ... " -- who now identifies herself as a fiscal conservative. Her husband runs a local Cracker Barrel restaurant and is as undecided as she is.
But as engaged in the political process as she is -- "I've watched every debate and know all the candidates" -- she is stumped when it comes to who she will vote for Saturday. She said she'll make up her mind after watching the debate Thursday night.
"It's really bothering me," she said while passing around muffins made from scratch. "I have always known who I was going to vote for until now. I can't make up my mind."
Still, her analysis of the remaining GOP field is not pretty:
Mitt Romney: "He's a Ken doll."
Ron Paul: "Lunatic. Wacko. Crazy."
Newt Gingrich: "He's smart, but man, is he mean."
Rick Santorum: "I like him, but I really don't know a lot about him."
So, when pressured, who would she vote for? "I guess, if I had to, it would probably be Gingrich. Newt is the smartest guy on the stage, but he is just so negative. He went on that temper tantrum after Iowa, with all those ads. I just didn't like that."

[FarLeftFist]

1. Nothing about her voting for Obama? Why does their hatred make them so blind?

[gateley]

2. I wouldn't vote for a Republican regardless of my disillusionment with Dem candidates, she may feel

the same about Democrats. Plus, she's talking about the primary, not the general.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. I agree. I could not vote for any Republican, and that door swings both ways.

Most of us (on both sides of the aisle) will not vote for the other party.....which is why those independent voters are so important. Many of them will vote for any candidate who they feel are the best choice. (I suppose so would I, but a Republican just cannot be the best choice, ever.)

[gateley]

9. I used to consider myself an Independent (but always voted Dem)

but that was before there was such a divide. There were some reasonable Republicans back in the day, but I still couldn't bring myself to vote for one when it came right down to it.

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Interestingly, Newt was the one who made a decision for me.

When he became Speaker, they were all so arrogant and that was when they started to be so unreasonable---and that was when I started to pull a straight party ticket. And it only continues to get worse. And here we are almost full circle, with Newt back in the spotlight......I can't believe it is happening!

[gateley]

11. I know! Surreal! nt

[JoePhilly]

3. He's a Kenyan Socialist Atheist Muslim who wants gay OBGYNs from France to perform Abortions on ...

unwilling Christian women ... of course THAT only happens after he takes everyone's guns, and makes your kids sing show tunes and study the Koran ... while simultaneously using his death panels to kill granny, before he send you to his Commie Nazi FEMA work camps.

Every one in SC knows about this!!

[Snotcicles]

7. They just don't know why. But they do know not hating Obama will get them thrown out of the club. nt

[redqueen]

4. What exactly does "fiscal conservative" mean now?

Is it someone who starts unfunded wars and passes monstrous giveaways to, say, the pharmaceutical and insurance industries?

Is it someone who empties the treasury to benefit their cronies?

Someone who slashes regulatory agencies so that companies can cause incalculable losses with, say, oil spills and the like?

Can anyone explain it?

Cause at this point, the term has become pretty much nonsensical to me.

[surrealAmerican]

6. When you hear that from a restaurant manager ...

... it means they want to keep paying the lowest wages possible, even though if everybody else does the same, they will have fewer customers.

[NC_Nurse]

5. Amazingly, each of the four Repubs they interviewed said Newt was the intelligent one. yikes.

A testament to the intelligence of the Average South Carolina Repub voter....

As Krugman says, Newt is a stupid person's idea of smart. (not an exact quote). He is apparently a great bullshitter. A natural politican.