Posted on 02/03/2012 4:23:43 PM PST by greyfoxx39
Over at Hot Air, Wolf Howling penned a comment that perfectly sums up my feelings about the Florida primary.
I’ve spent the last few weeks watching Romney run the most intellectually dishonest campaign against Gingrich that I could imagine. Romney isn’t making the case that he has a better conservative pedigree, nor that his vision for America is superior or more conservative than Gingrich’s. He spent 17 million doing nothing but trying to delegitimize and demonize Gingrich with gross distortions of history. I haven’t seen anything like this since what the left did to Sarah Palin. And the last time anything like this occurred in the Republican Party, it was the cannibalization of Goldwater in 1964.
For the past two decades in which I have been politically informed and active, I have always believed that the single starkest difference between the left and the right was intellectual honesty. We on the right had it while those on the left dealt mostly in demagoguery and demonization. We on the right were ever willing to debate the facts, those on the left were ever willing to cherry pick the facts, distort the facts, and then use the race card or its many variants to end debate. To use the words of Bookworm Room: “Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.” That illusion is now shattered.
At this point, I wouldn’t vote for Romney for dog catcher even if he was running in a three way race against Lenin and Marx. I will support Republican candidates for Congress and the Senate. But I could not, at this point, vote for any man as scurrilous and underhanded as Romney for President.
Romney’s approach is like the communists left use. What does that tell us?
If this wasn't so long I would make it my new tagline.
Me too!
And I haven't considered anyone scurrilous and underhanded like this since 0bama.
I think you’re being very unfair to Willard! His campaign wasn’t completely negative. He run one positive ad in Florida...
in Spanish.
I didn't know that.
If you look at the map of who won what county it becomes obvious that Mitt will lose thirty of the thirty-three counties he won to Obama. He won the liberal counties while Newt won all of the conservative counties.
But the GOP is not going to abide by their OWN rules in Fla. They will still award the delegates to Mitt
“Are you saying that Gingrich did not sit on a bench to promote global warming with Nancy Pelosi? Are you saying that Gingrich did not accept George Soros’ money for that ad? Are you saying that Gingrich was not the first Speaker of the House to be reprimanded (by a 395-28 vote!)? Are you saying that Gingrich was not paid $1.6 million for consulting by Freddie Mac [snicker, snicker]?”
Folks, all I can say is we are being had. That includes the Santorum campaign if you want to call it that. Rick can afford to run anti-Newt adds but can’t afford to get on the ballot in some states. That just does not make any sense unless you are now in it to be a spoiler. The RINOs are playing us Conservatives like a fiddle.
Romney es tanto un gilipollas en español como él está en Inglés.
So is that final, or does Newt still have lawyers down there working to fix things? Does he have any hope?
“GOP - Know this. You are finished.”
That’s a fact.
Joe Gar has too many dumps on Newt to post them.
“Folks, all I can say is we are being had. “
Yes!
There is nothing Romney can say that 0bummer can’t reply - “So did you.”
We are being had. The GOP-e is giving 0bummer a second term. There is no other logical reason for what we are seeing. Mittens is here to scuttle our chances. There is zero difference between the libs and the pubs. None. This is theater.
Then we can all send it to all the news channels we have email addresses for, ;~)
Don't just sit and take it. FIGHT BACK. One night Bret Baier misspoke. Emailed him in middle of show and he corrected himself in the last segment.....Your brief, factual emails DO work.
Did you get that off Romney’s web site?
FM and FM released the contracts between Gingrich Group and Gingrich - prohibited from lobbing. His relationship with them is exactly what he said it was. Oh, this payment was over a ten year period, you know that period when Romney was laying off people and shutting down companies.
Gingrich was investigate and every charge but one was dismissed, that one was dismissed by the IRS.
George Soros is funding Paul.
Come one, stop cutting and pasting from Romney’s web site, you are embarrassing.
Don’t be one of the 94%, use your brain.
IT’s in the lawyers hands. Michael Steele was president when the rule passed and he said yesterday that the vote must be divided. Fl state GO PEe received a letter dated in the past couple of months from the current president of the national GOP saying that if the voted before April 1 the vote must be divided....IOW APRIL FOOLS Mitt!
A good product needs no salesmen...no missionaries. The truth is self evident...it sells itself.
Mormonism is sold hard because it is without substance.
Mitt is without substance...he is selling hard.
No doubt about it Romney is Obamas Plan “B”..
NOT voting for him could indeed be Plan “C”..
Romney is for sure a synthetic Juan McLaim..
Palin as VeeP for Juan was good cover.. brilliant really..
Still republicans havn’t figured out this tactic..
Romney is a liberal republican from Massachusetts..
I thinks its many republican women thats delusional..
-OR- Romney would laughed off the stage..
Newt had better “git smart” and target this group.. or hes toast..
Mitt is without substance...he is selling hard.
Excellent!
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