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Schmidt: GOP Establishment Will Have A Meltdown If Newt Wins Florida
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Posted on 01/21/2012 8:01:49 PM PST by VinL
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To: tcrlaf
I still can’t figure out why the GOP Establishment is afraid of Newt Gingrich. He IS the GOP Establishment for God’s sake.
Like he doesn’t know how to play ball with the GOP Establishment? Give me a break.
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:14:16 PM PST
by
huckfillary
(qual tyo ta)
To: delacoert; JustaDumbBlonde
... and in a coverstion with a dumb blonde no less.
To: VinL
Rebellion is here!!
We should rebuild the grassroots conservative movement. From the Reagan Revolution of 1980 through the Contract with America in 1994, it was this movement from outside Washington that carried us to the first center-right majority governing coalition in more than 60 years. The problem has not been with conservatism or with our voters. The problem has been with Republican leaders who forgot who elected them and what values their supporters expected to see implemented in Washington.
Newt Gingrich, 11-13-2006
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:15:50 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html)
To: VinL
Melt away!
There really is no choice here. Either the GOP has got to be totally transformed and renewed, or it has got to be replaced. We have no more time for a “Me too!” party whose deepest desire is to split the pork with the Democrats, no matter how far to the left they go.
Transform, or melt and vanish! Either the RINOs and the Operatives need to go, or the party needs to go.
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:15:50 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:15:55 PM PST
by
Utah Binger
(Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
To: SatinDoll
Maybe he has high negatives now, but now makes no difference once Newt is on the campaign trail against BO. That will be a game changer.
To: JustaDumbBlonde
This is why TEA has to silently support Newt. We have to keep these RATS dumbfounded and in denial about their very near future death and demise. Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:16:13 PM PST
by
txhurl
(WELL, Santorum? Still in it for yourself?)
To: Jim Robinson
Jim, in with you on the Establishment Rebellion. Pledging my contribution this quarter- just waiting, so I can double down when Newt beats the statists in Fla.
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:16:22 PM PST
by
VinL
(It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
To: grey_whiskers
I hope he picks Ryan as VP. He needs to be in the White House sometime down the line.
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:16:30 PM PST
by
Ceebass
To: Vendome
True, 100% name ID and a high dislike percentage - but that dislike level was manufactured by a lot of abusive media (the myth about telling his wife he wanted a divorce on her deathbed, etc. - which became legend and then was printed without regard for the truth) and Democratic attacks. And it is not immutable. I think the change the Newt managed in SC was indicative of the fact that people are able to listen to him and can be won by his forceful presentation. This is the entire point of Newt - he can chew up and spit out Obama in any Presidential debates, assuming he gets the nomination. If he loses the nomination to Romney, then consult with Newt on the morning of November 7th to hear “I told you so”. Otherwise address him as President-Elect.
That is the uncomfortable part of Newt - you have to have the courage to give him the nomination in order for him to self-rehabilitate. And he can do that best by doing what he does best - and that would be achieved in debating Obama. People would see the contrast and come to the same conclusion that SC voters did (e.g., the ex-wife allegations thing is not so weighty when you see that he is is forceful and powerful as a speaker, debater and leader.)
To: Jim Robinson
You've been having a good way with words lately Boss, keep it up!!
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:16:51 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
To: VinL
Establishment Republicans is just another term for liberal. If I were a fly on the wall in the voting booth while Karl Rove is in there I can pretty much guarantee that turd voted for Obama in 2008 and would probably vote for him again.
To: delacoert
Wonders never cease, my FRiend.
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:17:39 PM PST
by
JustaDumbBlonde
(Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
To: VinL
The "GOP Establishment" tried to stop Reagan too--for all the good it did them. They should just go back to their country clubs, pour a single malt and let the people decide.
To: VinL
Snip: Newt Gingrich has a 100% name ID, has a 60% national unfavorable number and its a number so high that with the 100% name ID its impossible to come back from.
Horse Hocky! The Left and the Established Ruling Class GOP is running scared and trying to say and do anything to keep hold of the power that they have.
Go Newt!
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:18:18 PM PST
by
RedMDer
(Forward With Confidence!)
To: al baby
Al baby, you worry too much.
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:20:02 PM PST
by
itsahoot
(You are no longer a person, you are now a Unit when you need health care.)
To: VinL
Newt Gingrich has a 100% name ID, has a 60% national unfavorable number and its a number so high that with the 100% name ID its impossible to come back from. That sounds like establishment thinking, too.
The same establishment that said secretly to go easy on Obama, and don't attack him personally.
-PJ
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:20:10 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
To: All
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:21:36 PM PST
by
RedMDer
(Forward With Confidence!)
To: al baby
I'm less worried about that now than I was last week.
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:22:25 PM PST
by
Tribune7
(GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
To: VinL
Schmidt: GOP Establishment Will Have A Meltdown If Newt Wins FloridaMr. Schmidt is EXACTLY right! The inside the beltway b*stards LIKE their playhouse just as it is and will do ANYTHING to protect it!
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:22:36 PM PST
by
Bigun
("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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