Posted on 01/26/2012 9:11:01 AM PST by Nachum
The entire GOP establishment has unleashed on Newt Gingrich this week, and it looks like it is slowing his momentum in the polls. Almost all of the anti-Newt Gingrich material hitting the media is coming from conservative institutions: National Review, The New York Sun, and the Washington Times. Just look at the Drudge Report from last night and early this morning.:(Snip for graphic) The number one news source for many populist and conservative readers, looks like an anti-Gingrich pinboard. There are twelve anti-Gingrich links leading the site, with video of Gingrich trashing Reagan,
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“Is it time for a new party yet? Newt has warts and all but this is ridicules.”
Yes.
Nothing on this Earth will get me to cast a vote for Romney.
Do you realize Romney would ONLY be a placeholder for 4 years until the next Marxist takes power?? It will only delay the inevitable. We might as well let the left collapse our Republic. Then we can truly fight and rebuild it on a strict Constitutional foundation.
Well after the GOP kills Newt, if they kill Newt, they are going to have to kill Paul too. I’ve said more then a few times that Newt and Paul are natural allies in this battle with the GOPE. Paul is going to be a bit harder to smear then Newt, since Paul does not have as many warts. So the GOPE might want to rethink their game plan about Newt with Paul waiting in the wings. Or put another way if the GOPE does not like Newt (on issues) they are going to hate Paul.
Not to mention the denials of drug addiction to prescription drugs and doctor shopping.
I like Rush, listen to him daily. Have his books/videos, been to a Rush to Excellence Tour concert, been an on air caller to the show twice (with Rush as host). A paragon of virtue, he's not. “Just a guy on the radio”
Pretty much the way I am too. And I agree about the pot issue too. I believe it should be legalized for adult use or medical use. Mostly for medical use.
He’s been reading each attack almost verbatim.....for 30 straight minutes...
Soros (or someone) must've opened up a can of whoop-ass shortly after the SC primary; the nominally conservative punditocracy are stepping all over their own dicks in the last 48 hours to make sure that the plan to shove Mitt Romney up the electorate's ass is followed without further delay.
No wonder all the money and effort given to the GOP in the last 20 years has gone for naught.
Mr. niteowl77
Title contradicts first sentence.
Then what’s the problem?
If Gingrich can’t survive this, how in the world will he prevail over what the Rats are going to throw at him?
If you don't vote for what you want you are never going to get what you want.
Out of the last sixteen elections, arguably there were only two candidates, Goldwater and Reagan, not in line with the Republican establishment. The poobahs are nervous and are anxious to hang onto their power.
It probably scares them that Gingrich succeeded in 1994 at doing what they had failed at for 40 years, that is, actually winning Congress. It was a lot more comfortable not having the responsibility, I guess.
Will the GOP fight as hard against Obama and the DNC...as they are apparently doing against their fellow Pubbie's during these Primary Campaign's?
When ALL of the pundits refused to touch the birth certificate issue, I KNEW they were all phonies. Money is the name of the game. Not principle. I know longer listen or watch (Hannity, E-go-Reilly, etc).
I look at it this way:
It’s obvious there is a large contingent of conservative Republicans who NEVER in a million years would have wanted Newt Gingrich to become president.
Yet, when he ran for president, they kept their powder dry, preferring to let his campaign run its course (which EVERYONE, including most here on FR, thought would be further and further down the toilet) rather than unleash what they knew and what they thought of him.
Of course, once Gingrich became an actual contender, that changed everything from their point-of-view. It then became time, if you’re opposed to Gingrich and have kept quiet, to speak up. Yet they still didn’t attack.
However, once Gingrich won South Carolina and went into his “moonbase” phase, those who have opposed Gingrich all along seemed to figure, okay, it’s now or never. And they launched.
There was nothing “quick” about it. In fact, these opponents of Gingrich demonstrated remarkable restraint, deciding to keep quiet about their concerns unless or until dynamics of the race forced them (from their point of view) to do otherwise.
It’s not like this dirt on Newt was created yesterday. It’s been around forever, and to be honest, from a political point of view, Newt is damn lucky it wasn’t thrown at him earlier.
And, anyone who knows anything about Newt, knows there is much more to come.
It is what it is.
Rush is for Romney. He got the call last night to pile on Gingrich.
—And I agree about the pot issue too. —
I see the pot issue through the lens of this G K Chesterton quote:
“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.”
Better yet what’s Romney going to do when the media turns on him after getting rid of Newt? You know it’s coming. As soon as Romney gets the nomination the media will suddenly “discover” Bain etc. and turn on him in preference of their real hero Osamabama.
Rush was reading Bob Dole’s account of his history with Newt. I am not sure that Rush was attacking or just going with the current news cycle. It leaves him an out if he has to support Newt later.
By the way, I thought Bob Dole was a terrible candidate for president. Everyone knew he was going to lose. They ran with him anyway.
What a salient analysis. NOT>
Today in particular, he is afraid to support Newt, the Idealist as he calls him, because he fears ostracism by the Republican establishment. That's my take on it. Rush is chicken. My how the years have changed Rush. Just like Coulter and the rest, he is more interested in protecting his bank account and cocktail party invitations than standing up for Newt and what he knows is right. It is sickening listening to Rush hum and haw and vacillate today as Newt twists in the Establishment wind. I hope Newt demolishes them all tonight. I'm not betting on it, just hoping.
I will have to admit that the so-called government shutdown of late '95 was handled much better, PR-wise, by the Dems than the GOP. This didn't help Dole at all, but it was never clear, at least to me, what he was proposing to differentiate himself from Clinton, anyway.
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