Posted on 01/24/2012 10:35:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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I’ll probably get flamed for this...but I’d rather take 2012 and fight and get rid of these “establishment” jerks and get more House and Senate seats.
If, like 2010, we can take another 900 seats from Dems across the board (fed, state, local) they will be so depleted it won’t matter what Obama can do in a second term.
He already had to talk conservative, as the SOTU just showed, to pretend to be someone that wants to make things fair and have accountability. Of course, we all know it’s a lie on par with Clinton saying “the era of big government is over”.
So to hell with Jeb and Mitch and NJ Chris and his mistress Coulter, etc. I think this battle is more about the conservative movement gaining ground in the grass roots in 2010, 12, then 14 and 16.
Romney isn’t the man to do that. And, for the life of me, I don’t understand how anyone can claim he’s a conservative with a straight face.
I’ll gamble on Newt. He should pick Allen West for VP.
Let me make something clear to “pretentious and faux” intellectual elites...Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels or someone are not choices.
Jeb is a manager. Done, with his brother GW.
Mitch? Just feckless and a coward.
Someone? You eggig kidding me? Someone is your desperate response? LOLOLL In fact....ROTFLMAO.
You need a 1970’s calculator for any semblance of intellect.
Tards.
We are electing who we want.
Chumps.
Please pass me some eggs and onions for my caviar.....
It is not their party anymore. I can understand them desperately trying to cling onto power, but its over. Time for them to appreciate a more limited constitutional government, smaller taxes even if it means less power for them individually. They can’t expect revolutions in Libya and Egypt, protests in the ‘occupy’ movement, but not in the GOP. TEA Party is taking over the GOP. Better get used to it.
“The fact is that the GOP elite would rather lose than have a true conservative win.”
Nothing and no one will be permitted that threatens the flow of big federal pension money into the market to keep the “market” up, and government contractors, such as govt. health “insurance”-”banking” in the same said thus rigged “market.”
Excellent post from you.
It’s true: the current GOP elite have a tacit agreement with the Dems so that both ‘sides’ can grow rich in peace.
It’s straight out of Belloc’s ‘The Servile State’. The baton of rulership gets passed around every so often, but the main thing is that the pork gets delivered.
Principled candidates and the Tea-Party movement are a direct threat to this self-serving status quo.
Smart thinking. They did in 1965 though want very much to elect John V. Lindsay in NYC and did! Actually, I guess, the establishment Republican can take a victory or a defeat; one's a seven-letter word; the other a six-letter word. It's the little Republican primary voters who are constantly fooled.
I don't think it's over at all. The establishment, like Scotland Yard, always gets its man.
The American people may not understand the word “servile,” but they are against it. The trouble is they are so uninformed that they continue to vote for candidates committed to keeping them “servile”.
I presume then that you are not joining Mitch Daniels in IN, if you lived there, in voting once again for the tired old true liberal Mr. Lugar.
He looked weak and desperate with his attacks on Newt...like there is blood in the water and the sharks are circling. He made himself look bad.
I agree about blood in the water and weakness.
However, I think the worst was his new “self-deportation” immigration plan. That is beyond stupid.
I missed that one...went to bed about half way through...
Mittens did himself in...
Not true. Newt was formally reprimanded for one ethics charge in 1997 and paid a $300,000 fine. The Republicans lost five seats in the House in the 1998 off-year Congressional elections, and Newt stepped down as Speaker of the House in part because of that debacle.
Ethics Committee Drops Last of 84 Charges Against Gingrich
Gingrich is paying $300,000 for the costs of an ethics committee investigation after admitting last year he made inaccurate statements during a lengthy probe into Democratic allegations that he misused tax-exempt donations. Gingrich denied the charges but submitted to a reprimand by the House.
An eye-opener.
” ... he made inaccurate statements during a lengthy probe into Democratic allegations that he misused tax-exempt donations.”
In other words, he lied to the House Ethics Committee. His excuse (Newt always has an excuse.) was “I didn’t mean to do it.” Reminds me of what our daughter used to say when she was 6 or 7 years ago. But she grew up, and learned to take responsibility for her actions. Newt hasn’t.
Stop drinking the Kool-aid and read the York article. The IRS cleared him of what he said was a mistake. READ IT.
I am well aware of the subsequent IRS ruling. Please read what Newt said at the close of the ethics hearings:
“In my name and over my signature, inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the committee, but I did not intend to mislead the committee.”
[”And, furthermore, the dog ate my homework.”]
Goodbye.
I read the York article. Nothing in it contradicts anything I wrote in my earlier posts. Newt agreed to the reprimand by the House and paid a $300,000 “fine.” The House never rescinded the reprimand, and Newt never pushed for an official “exoneration,” although he subsequently used that term to describe the resolution of the charges.
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