[I still care]

I usually don't post from blogs, but I love this quote. “The base is revolting because they swept the GOP back into relevance in Washington just under two years ago and they have been thanked with contempt ever since.”

That is exactly what is going on, and it is infuriating.

[NoGrayZone]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Red State pulling for mittens?

[thesearethetimes...]

BookMark

[Da Coyote]

It means that more and more of us realize that RINOmney is a vapid dork.

Simple, isn’t it?

[Clintonfatigued]

Clearly the South Carolina voters didn’t like the liberal media trying to manipulate them and use their power to defeat a conservative candidate they don’t like.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Anybody should be able to beat Mr. Obama. Just as well that it be the most conservative individual we can get.

Mr. Obama stands reasonably accused of sacrificing American lives with Fast and Furious to shoe-horn a Gun Control issue into the ‘12 election cycle. And Mr. Obama is going to win the moral issue voters this cycle? Shirley, you jest.

Speaker Gingrich will confront Mr. Obama about his stonewalling the Fast and Furious subpoenas, AG Holder lying to Congress, and an Asst. US Attorney taking the fifth.

When the moderator breaks in to stop Speaker Gingrich from confronting Mr. Obama, Newt will cut the poor liberal flack off at the knees (metaphorically speaking). At that point Mr. Obama may very well start crying, and I want to see that. We could probably build a new veterans hospital from the proceeds if we put it on pay-per-view!!

Fast and Furious, Europe’s welfare economies going up in flames before our very eyes, Solyndra, the Muslim Brotherhood winning the Egyptian parliament, the Keystone pipeline, the NLRB in SC, Obama is a target rich environment for any candidate who can cut through the MSM/Obama campaign template. I’m betting that moral issue voters are going Republican this cycle. Can Newt win? Heck yes, in a landslide!

[surfer]

I don’t get the whole SC thing...isn’t that where Lindsey Graham keeps getting elected?

[COBOL2Java]

If you read a lot of the Republican commentary coming out of Washington even before the polls closed, suddenly South Carolina is irrelevant and the hick rubes of the Palmetto state are just petulant children.

Sounds familiar!

"Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It's clear that the anger controls the child and not the other way around. It's the job of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way. Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week....Parenting and governing don't have to be dirty words: the nation can't be run by an angry two-year-old."
-- ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings in his daily ABC Radio commentary, November 14, 1994, after Newt led the Republicans to control of the house for the first time in 50 years

[hinckley buzzard]

The media is trashing SC as if they are the only ones who were moved by the debates and the issues last week. They should remember that the whole country watched and listened. The "regional" attack on SC voters will be exploded by later results. Btw, I assume it will be awhile now before we see any national "Gingrich vs Obama" polling results.

That outdated one with the 28% favorable will have to do for some time.

[hinckley buzzard]

The media is trashing SC as if they are the only ones who were moved by the debates and the issues last week. They should remember that the whole country watched and listened. The "regional" attack on SC voters will be exploded by later results. Btw, I assume it will be awhile now before we see any national "Gingrich vs Obama" polling results.

That outdated one with the 28% favorable will have to do for some time.

[muawiyah]

Well, whatever. A far simpler explanation is that over his 5 years of campaigning Mitt has become less and less interesting to more and more people..

He has a rather "flat", maybe even sociopathic personality. There's a "coldness" about him.

Sure, that's a step up from the President's narcissism but it's not enough to edge past Newt's ability to speak out.

[Bobalu]

The base is revolting

LOL.. I sense a political cartoon in there... picture a talking head seated next to Rove, he says "The republican base is revolting" and Rove says "They certainly are!"

[ConservativeInPA]

No candidate has won the GOP nomination for President without winning South Carolina ... But every one of those candidates who won had also won either Iowa or New Hampshire.

Let me give a couple of other meaningless bits of logic ... No Democratic candidate has won the GOP nomination ... or, Ford sells more F-150's than Chevy, Toyota, and Dodge combined.

Let me cast my rune sticks and I'll tell you who will win.

GO NEWT!!!

[BobL]

“The base is revolting because they swept the GOP back into relevance in Washington just under two years ago and they have been thanked with contempt ever since. “

Agree - he NAILED IT. We will BRING THIS PARTY TO ITS KNEES, even if we have to do it with a somewhat-flawed candidate. The Establishment gave us their ‘perfect’ candidate in 2008, NOW IT’S OUR TURN!!!

And yes, perhaps if the Republicans in the House had gone toe-to-toe with Obama, starting in the 2010 Lame Duck session, and through these budget exercises, we might have deferred a bit more to them...maybe. But we got to see their formula for victory in 2008 and it got us in the mess that we’re in.

[Gumdrop]

Here’s my 2 cents worth:

In 2008 I supported romney in the MN caucus. I thought he was a good man, an experienced man in business and in governing. I jknew he had a reputation of vacillating/flip flopping on issues that I considered as important to me, but I overlooked them as he was running for office in left of liberal Massachusetts. I figured that as a Mormon, Romney was likely really a pro-lifer asn was trying to deflect that issue in the liberal and “moderate” GOP areas.

Now we come to 2012 and he’s running again. I noticed that over and over again we were told that Mitt Romney was the only one who could actually defeat Obama because he was more moderate; and also we really should think of him as a conservative to moderate man. In the meanwhile our field of candidates were comprised of Mitt plus Ron Paul, a libertarian, and a whole bunch of conservatives with a lot of similarities in their issues and platforms.

As the campaign progressed, I notice one-by-one the GOP conservatives are being eliminated either by the main stream media floating all sorts of rumors and charges that cannot be verified; or by splitting the vote up so much that Mitt Romney seems to be sailing across calm seas.

During the past 6 months I was eagerly watching the frontrunners. Secretly I was hoping that Mitt would somehow show some enthusiasm for defeating Obama - not just for his own sake but the sake of our beloved USA. It has been a rare spark of energy that Mitt has been able to muster when he’s speaking up against Obama’s policies on energy, nat’; security, the budget process, the illegal immigration mess, etc. You name it, Obama has botched it.

Now we come to this past week, and the Annointed One has tabled the Keystone Oil Pipe line from Alberta to Houston purely to satify his enviro lobby. The Obamamonster cares not for our energy, for our middle class which is suffering, or for the central part of the country whoch would have benefitted highly with these jobs!!!!!! And who raised the subject matter? I believe it was Newt, not Romney.Newt was also the one who raised the question of Obama’s admin causing Catholic Charities to have to close their Adoption Services because of the new regulations. They also have refused to allow a conscience clause to proceed regarding alortion and birth control drugs.

Now I ask you - has Romney, supposedly a faithful Mormon, raised these questions at all, or has he only responded after Newt or Rick raised them?

The answer to Newt’s success in SC yesterday was that he is willing to take all these issues to Obama regardless of whether the debate moderator asks these questions or not. Romney’s biggest problem is that he comes across as always the patrician gentleman; never with a warrior’s heart. In fact, he seems even less willing to fight for his beliefs than George W. Bush was. One thing I will not be able to tolerate in a GOP candidate is a willingness to be treated as a doormat by the MSM! NEVER AGAIN!!!

So, this is why I would have a difficult time voting for Mitt if he is the nominee. I would feel like I did in 2008 - like it was a hopeless case.

[BobL]

“They want a conservative fighter because most conservatives look back at Ford, Reagan, Bush, Dole, Bush, and McCain and see only the ones taking a conservative path against the Democrats actually winning.”

This is also a CRITICAL point:

Ford - RINO (loses)
Reagan - Conservative (wins, twice)
Bush (1988) - Conservative (No New Taxes), wins
Bush (1992) - RINO (gave us higher taxes after all), loses
Dole - RINO, never trusted by the base, loses
Bush (2000) - Conservative (while running), no so much after - wins
Bush (2004) - Conservative enough (while running), RINO after - wins
McCain - RINO, all the way - loses

So, how did the RINOs do and how did the Conservatives do?

And we’re STILL supposed to believe that we need Romney because he’s “electable”. This isn’t very hard to figure out...

[paul51]

What it means

The revolution is at hand

[eyedigress]

The “hick rubes” of SC are a great deal of retirees and a big chunk of that is military. South Carolina is a huge tell into the way the South is going to go. No candidate wins without the South.

[Resettozero]

Now you understand where we Upstate South Carolinians are coming from.

[Liberty Wins]

“Mr. Breen, I paid for this microphone!”

[rwoodward]

We are dealing with another variable unfamiar with past elections. It’s called a SuperPac! We will see if we the people can withstand the massive brainwashing techniques funded by billions of dollars of SuperPacs. We have an unconventional war on our hands. South Carolina was a good win against the media mind control. Let’s keep it rolling!