Posted on 05/17/2011 5:36:48 AM PDT by libstripper
The Republican Presidential campaign is off to a slow start, but judging by the last week not slow enough. First Mitt Romney defends his ObamaCare prototype in Massachusetts, and now Newt Gingrich has decided to run against House Republicans on Medicare. They must be loving this at the White House
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I think they may be expecting a real system collapse, and they may be trying to distance themselves from the reins of power so that they will escape blame. Certainly the extablishment types are not acting out of any sense of principle.
This simply confirms that the Establishment Republicans would be happy if 0bamacare remains the ‘law of the land’. They are more comfortable ‘working around the edges’ of legislation than actually leading.
And don’t, for one minute, forget that there are Progressives in the GOP who work to ensure that a ‘creeping progressive agenda’ continues its onslaught of American Values.
Which is why they fear/hate Sarah.
Gingrich to House GOP: Drop Dead
Conservative voters to Gingrich, regarding his aspirations on becoming President: Right back at ya, slick!
I’m having a hard time following the rationale of some of the commenters here. On the one hand, a lot of FREEPers tell us the WSJ is the GOP establishment along with the NRO and so on. Others say the House of Representatives is the GOP establishment. And of course many say that Newt represents the GOP establishment.
So I’m having a hard time seeing how this incident with Newt and the WSJ and the House slamming him is part of some coordinated effort by “the establishment” to keep Obama Care.
Bill Bennett was practically begging Newt to retract his statements this morning.
Newt, you showed your true colors.
Go home NEWT~~!!!!!!!!
Wall Street likes Obamacare. It would relieve companies of the current burden of providing healthcare for their employees. Presumably company officers think Obamacare will result in increased profits & salaries high enough to enable them to buy decent private healthcare for themselves & their families - as the rich do in the UK. I think they should consider that once Obamacare is in place, eventually research will dry up, doctors will drop out & there won’t be decent healthcare left to buy.
Boy howdy I'll tell 'ya! It's a crying shame more people don't realize that fact. It's right there in front of their noses, but most seem content to be willfully ignorant. Paul Ryan is a prime example. He was one of the authors of the single largest entitlement program since the (not so)Great Society (Medicare Part D). Now, he's supposed to be the great savior of our economic woes (that he helped create). The whole thing just gushes hypocrisy from every available orifice......
-——The GOP establishment desperately wants Obama to get a second term.-——
I think I am not in total disagreement. Perhaps that makes me establishment. That is not a conservative or RINO thought but a very long term look at reality.
I have always thought that the reason W at the last minute declared an election changing crisis was to insure Obama won and was forced to deal with impossible problems. The inability to solve the problems would be a national memory forever. The problems are not yet resolved and are in fact exacerbated.
If you think in terms of more than one election cycle and see the certain chaos that is ahead, who should own it?
For Republicans to have a president take on insolvable problems is undesirable. A better course in spite of the resulting economic deterioration might be to let the Democrat kill himself.
If I were Huckabee, I would think running for president is a losing proposition and winning is not worth the effort.
Back to the middle ages...
I heard the first half of the Bennett interview... Bill really let him have it.
Bennett: “Ryan is in the middle of the fight of his life, and you shot him from behind”.
Newt: silence.....
For a second there, I thought Newt might start crying.
I think they may be expecting a real system collapse, and they may be trying to distance themselves from the reins of power so that they will escape blame. Certainly the extablishment types are not acting out of any sense of principle.
I have a different theory...I think the Establshiment Republicans are more interetsted in making sure the Tea Party doesn't take over the GOP. They feel that if they can fend off the Tea Party movement in the next 4-8 years, then the Democrats will let them play in the DC sandbox once in a while.
This has likely destroyed Newt's ambition to be president. What is it you want?
I would think they would be delighted at the reactions to Newt's faux pas but they seem to be defending Newt. I don't get it. I have a feeling many of them don't either.
Hey, folks, THINK before you react.
Quickest Presidential campaign in history...less than a week...just committed political S*U*I*C*I*D*E
Oh yea, that's gonna work....NOT He's done before he even got started.
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