Posted on 01/21/2012 8:01:49 PM PST by VinL
Schmidt: "Not only are we not moving toward a coalescing of support with the establishment of Newt Gingrich, we're probably moving toward a declaration of war on Newt Gingrich by the Republican establishment. And if Newt Gingrich is able to win the Florida primary, you will see a panic and a meltdown of the Republican establishment that is beyond my ability to articulate in the English language. People will go crazy,"
And you will have this five week period until the Super Tuesday states that will be just as unpredictable, tumultuous as any period in modern American politics. It will be a remarkable thing to watch, should that happen in Florida."
Maddow: "Is there a component of that which is building a firewall around Mitt Romney, protecting him? We saw the establishment try to do that and Romney helping, saying “You can’t talk any smack about Bain. Bain is what I want to run on, it has to be positive, don’t undercut that at all.” Which to me, was like a flashing red neon arrow, “here’s my glass jaw, please don’t hit it.” Is there a way to protect Mitt Romney other than, I think, this wrong approach, Ithey’ve taken with Bain."
Schmidt: "I think everybody in the establishment Republican circles in Washington D.C. is fixated on the numbers we talked about earlier. Newt Gingrich has a 100% name ID, has a 60% national unfavorable number and it’s a number so high that with the 100% name ID it’s impossible to come back from. You’re not electable in a general election, in a 2012 presidential election if your unfavorable numbers are that high. Particularly against a president, that while vulnerable...
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Right! He cancelled ppearances on the morning shows = woo-hoo! Why bother with those silly shows when he can better use his time at Mass?
God bless him and his Callista! GO NEWT! Enjoy Lord’s Day and thank Him for His many blessings and seek His blessings and protection for a safe and successful run for the presidency!
Yeah, which is why he just blew the doors off Mitt's limousine in South Carolina. *rolls eyes*
Class of 2000. I might have known.
In a year in which the Voters hate anyone in office, wouldn’t it be nice to be the non-officeholder? Or, better yet, the guy the media hates? Republican establishment? Karl Rove (he’s lookin’ real nervous, isn’t he?)?
Karl is a POS just like the rest of the College Republicans; Ralph Reed, Grover “always wanted to be an Arab Moslem” Norgquist, et all.
Hilary Clinton used to have terrible negatives too, right, but she rehabilitated herself. People already took a second look at Newt in the primary twice. To think that the current national polls on him are a static number that cannot change as he gets a chance to reinvent himself on the national stage is just silly. Kerry was ahead of Bush since Kerry got the nomination and was still ahead by 7 points 4 months before the 2004 election, before he lost decisively.
I like Maddow’s comments on Mitt’s glass jaw being his record at Bain Capital. 30% of the vote in SC viewed Mitt’s Bain experience as a negative and almost all of those voted against him. We need to keep pointing out the sleazy stuff he did at Bain, e.g. borrowing money on companies, transferring it to Bain, and then watching those companies go bankrupt while Bain kept all the borrowed money under a different corporate “umbrella,” and the creditors could not lay claim to it.
Like Mark Levin said, Mitt Romney is more of a corporatist than a capitalist. Those attacks should be refined and explained better but must continue. He cannot be allowed to run as a businessman who claims he can fix the economy just like he “fixed up” companies. That account is a ridiculous fictional fabrication of what he actually did at Bain, which was little more than a big money Wall Street shell game.
Obama did the same thing Mitt does.
He’d yap and yap and yap and never answer a question.
Let’s tell the establishment IT’S NEWT’S TURN!
In the early ‘90s Newt reportedly described himself as an “insider revolutionary.” IMO he hasn’t changed a bit. The idea that we can put a true outsider into Washington and expect them to know enough about how Washington works to take it apart and change it might be a pipe dream. It is far better to have a man on the inside who knows the system and who is committed to taking the system down from the inside.
Funny, I said to my wife at that moment, "The robot doesn't have an answer and his circuits got shorted".
Thaks STARWISE. They won’t melt down, but it will take them some time to adjust.
>>Romney is more of a corporatist than a capitalist. Those —>attacks should be refined and explained better but must continue. He cannot be allowed to run as a businessman who claims he can fix the economy just like he “fixed up” companies. That account is a ridiculous fictional fabrication of what he actually did at Bain, which was little more than a big money Wall Street shell game.
I agree with you. Great points.
Revenge is a dish best served with TEA!
Ryan would be better staying where he is. How about Rick Perry as the VP?
Me too.
Romney represents the wing of the GOP that’s driven our country to the edge. We wouldn’t have an Obama presidency were it not for them dragging us left all these years.
Blood Clawt
The GOP “establishment” ass clowns like Juan Boehner, are NOT going to CUT this bloated fed gub mint.
Reagan was hated by establishment Republicans, and of course by all Democrats, from the beginning. He was that generation's Sarah Palin (if she had stayed in).
The establishment Republicans sent in GWH Bush as both a CIA Handler (He was formerly the head of the CIA) and to keep Reagan in check.
I remember him as one of the most visible VP's in my memory, GWH was.
The Establishment forced Reagan to take him.
If Gingrich wins the presidency, look for Tokyo Rove to do everything in his power to sabatoge that presidency.
Rove is heinous.
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