Posted on 01/22/2012 1:17:40 PM PST by piytar
They just don't get it. Who? The establishment GOP. Barbour, Christy, Coulter, et al.
We are sick of spineless "leaders." We are sick of the left dominated media. We are sick of the "go along to get along" establishment GOP.
We've been castigated, marginalized, taxed, and beaten down for years.
Now comes Newt. For all his past flaws, he clearly hears our roar. We have a fighter, a real leader. And we could care less about the ankle biters.
Hear this, establishment types: Newt has awoken a sleeping giant. As history shows, this particular giant is an unstoppable force. So get on board or get run over. Frankly, I don't care which you choose.
That’s the way I see it. Newt could be great, Newt could be not so good, but Romney would be a disaster.
It is more then conservatism. It is about jobs. There are two job killers in America besides regs, fees and taxes. It is the religion of free trade and environmentalism. People who practice these two ideologies do not stop to see what are the results before they plow on. Corporate America (1 percent) spin that they create jobs. Well what type of jobs? Replacing good paying manufacturing jobs with cheap overseas Chinese workers (after US corporations trained them) and now replacing IT American workers with Chinese and Indian workers (after corporate America trains them) reducing them down to service jobs that pay less and then subject them all to creative destruction as M&A, offshoring, downsizing and etc forces workers to change jobs every five years. All this machination increased the income of the few on top while the middle class barely kept up with inflation or worse must hold three jobs to make ends meet. Now the depression (caused by Fed gov liberal mortgage policies and Wall Street bank schemes) just implode the economy and killed 11 million jobs before Obama even had a chance to add his kills in with Obamacare, EPA regs and etc.
America is pissed at environmentalists, pissed at corporate America, pissed at Wall Street, pissed at illegal immigration, pissed at the media, and waiting for the first politician to have a pair of balls to say so.
Newt does pause and see if free trade and Wall Street capitalism is working or not. He doesn’t like everything he sees and like any common sense American raises questions about it. He is definitely against the job killing environmentalists. Now he is questioning the Fed Reserve (who serves bankers on Wall Street and not the American people). Newt gets it that is why he will win. Americans want a mean leader because they are in a mean mood. Obama and Dems haven’t figure it out yet. The one percent hasn’t figure it out yet (but I think some do and have made arrangement to leave just in case the SHTF).
The only caveat is Newt is a politician. They all say one thing when running and do one thing when in office. (This applies even to Ron Paul). Been around too long to know better. Of all our choices Newt is the closest that fit my bill.
Come on princess,
the Tea Party is dead.
Just ask Nancy Pelosi.
my greatest fear is that he will have nowhere near enough money to compete, in the large important states, with Romney's huge bank account. I've liked Newt since his Reagan days and still do, but there are a lot of people who don't share my enthusiasm. Perhaps, if he keeps up a forceful, yet positive approach, he can change more minds. He has to re-convert many people who lost faith in him.
How much? Impossible to measure, but Mr. Robinson’s house is the premiere conservative site of the Internet. Many pundits such as Rush and Hanity clearly lurk here or have staffers lurk here.
If I had to hazard a guess, I think Jim’s endorsement was worth 5 points. Seriously.
That’s a LOT of power. Thankfully FReeper Nation appears not to have let that corrupt us. Witness the Freepathons when Mr. Robinson could easily cash in on the traffic here.
Let’s not let it go to our heads, but let’s realize Free Republic really is that powerful.
The GOP establishment and the lame-stream media have been harping about the “fact” that a hardline Conservative like Newt cannot win the election due to the need for appeasing the independent voters. If the liberals and independents make up @ 60% but only have roughly 20-22% of their base (the amount that usually votes in a general election) show up at the polls, while the Conservatives manage to hype up their 40% base and get 40-45% of them to vote, it will be a landslide win for Newt and the Conservatives.
Establishment Republican is just a nicer way of saying liberal..for Chris Christie to have the nerve to go on TV and call Newt an embarrassment..its Christie who is the REAL embarrassment..because at the end, yeah yeah Christie went after the teacher’s union good for him, but he sounds more liberal then someone who believes in Republican principals. I expect the kind of name calling from the left, but when its coming from the right it makes me SO mad. The elitists in the GOP want Romney, they have been pushing him since 2008. Now you know what Sarah Palin had to deal with, these scumbags who are attracted to Romney trashed her for THREE + years..same crap, new year, some things never change
***We are sick of spineless “leaders.” We are sick of the left dominated media. We are sick of the “go along to get along” establishment GOP.***
I’m thinking that Newt feels that way too and wonder when he decided to jump into the arena. It’s clear he was successful with his consulting firm, books and speaking gigs - but something stirred his soul. What did it and when?
We know that Romney has wanted to be POTUS for decades and even now has no compelling message from the heart - but IMHO Newt is clearly on a rampage of rescue.
Newt will never garner enough independent vote to win a general election. Sure, he’s had a couple of good retorts in debates, but Obama is never going to sit down and do 3 hour Lincoln Douglas debates. Santorum is also correct in believing that you never know when Newts IED of a mouth is going to go off. I’ll take defeating Obama over some guy who claims to be a conservative and sits on a couch with Pelosi.
Um, the zot-a-tron still got some juice? (Sorry if it’s out of line to ask.)
And watch Zippy do the backstroke.
The only Republican that can win is the one that can defeat the media first.
Romney is running a McCain and will lose.
The only Republican that can win is the one that can defeat the media first.
Romney is running a McCain and will lose.
The only Republican that can win is the one that can defeat the media first.
Romney is running a McCain and will lose.
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Every political consultant I’ve talked to follows or has people follow this site. They’re quiet about it - can’t acknowledge that the unwashed matter - but Free Republic has an impact. Ditto Kos and Dummies, but we have more being self-funded and therefor unbeholden to anyone but us.
Maybe the 5 points was an overstatement, but we do matter.
So again, ?????
I am also reminded of a comment made by Admiral Sir John Fisher back in the early 1900s when he was asked about a gunnery director of dubious morals and low standing.
"I don't care if he drinks, gambles and womanizes; he hits the target."
Newt wasn't by first, second, or even third choice -- and I still think wistfully about Santorum -- but if he keeps on rocking the lamestream media back on their collective leftist clymers, he'll do.
The country’s in a foul mood. Anger and fear abound.
What the pundits are missing is not only the depth of the anger, but also the fact that much of it is directed at the media. They are astounded and mystified by what they are witnessing.
Independents, the apolitical ones who admittedly elected Obama, feel duped by the media. There’s anger there because their friends know who they voted for, and it’s become a bit embarrassing. Conservatives of course, are angry because the media always shills for Dem candidates.
Anyone who works in the private sector is angry, and more importantly, afraid. They have been maligned and threatened by this administration with every utterance by Obama, every appointment, every edict, and every bureacracy they come into contact with. They know war is being waged on them.
Women will always ditch the pretty boy for the street-fighting gunslinger when they perceive that chaos looms. Yesterday in SC we saw this happen. This is a paradigm change, and is one of the reasons why predictions by those who don’t see this may be off 180 degrees.
Coulter, Hume, Dick Morris and others want Obama out of the White House, but because they still believe in the media’s power to persuade, they believe Romney is the safest, surest way to go. They’re wrong because the media has lost its credibility.
On this point, we have a history to observe. During the 2010 elections independents came our way even though the media propped up Dem candidates in each and every local, state, and congressional election. The left was bludgeoned in spite of this fact. The pundits don’t get this, which should have been the lesson of the 2010 election.
There’s a whole new dynamic now because the media is not being listened to. The Marianne Gingrich sting is a case in point. It didn’t work because people now consider the source.
I would even venture to say that the people may want precisely the candidate whom the media doesn’t want. Fool me once..... This is the new world we’re in, and those in the media cocoon just don’t see it.
The “forest for the trees” analogy comes to mind, perhaps it’s an occupational hazard. Hopefully they’ll come around when Newt gets the nomination.
One thing’s for certain: there is no Kwisatz Haderach here.
I believe that either Gingrich or Romney could beat 0bama in the general election. Personally, I will not be voting for a cult member. Sure, Gingrich has some warts . There is no such thing as a perfect candidate. I held my nose and voted for Mclame. I will happily pull the lever for Newt.
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