Posted on 01/27/2012 3:18:48 PM PST by Timber Rattler
>> “Get off the sidelines Palin.” <<
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This crap is exactly why she’s on the side. There is no way she could have raised enough dough to fight the RNC mob.
RE: Cannibals in GOP Establishment Employ Tactics of the Left
Anybody with half a brain can see their boy Romney is a leftist, so what would you expect?
Go Tea Party..Go Sarah...GO Newt
Give me a break. Mitt makes it an issue by claiming his Bain Capital work makes him the best candidate for president because he knows how the real economy works. The activity at Bain must be vetted now. How do you expect that to happen or do you want to walk into an October Surprise over Bain's vulture capitalism (and ties to $100m in Medicare fraud) because Newt, the leading anti-Romney, left it alone because capitalism is a sacred cow and Romney's word is good?
Further, did you miss the ABC News piece posted here earlier today that Mitt's "blind trusts" dealing with Swiss and Cayman Island accounts aren't really blind because they're run by his great good friend and personal lawyer, something that will violate federal law should he take office?
Criticism of Romey's claimed chief bona fides for is not "class warfare" except to Romney defenders and those thin skinned about whether ethics should be applied to capitalist pursuits.
It appears Rush thought he might be losing HIS base.
It also appears Palin just dumped on McCain. Finally!
Amen..BUMP!
The problem is that yesterday was important, today was not, Rush did what he had to do yesterday to stop Newt, now he is back to being our buddy.
Yesterday was a day of shame and coming out for conservative pretenders, people who used to be thought of as members of the conservative movement.
Rush, Drudge, Tyrell, and others will never be trusted again by conservatives as they go the way of David Frum and Ann Coulter.
We have learned that beyond the establishment battle lines that we knew of, there was a deeper layer among us, a fire wall, Rush Limbaugh and Drudge had to expose themselves to keep Newt from taking Florida, which probably would have broken the Romney campaign.
Already today, now that the debate is over, the rescuing body blow already delivered, Rush is pretending to be back among us, as though yesterday and the previous weeks and months, and the five years of supporting Romney, never happened.
****You know I think the reason the establishment GOP hates Newt is because if elected he will make them earn their pay. :>)****
That has to be the reason the Pubbies in the House threw him under the bus in 1998 - he made them work every day on real reforms - not letting them just ‘pork’ around and they resisted and resented it. They love being in the minority - less responsibility.
New slogan WORK NOT PORK !!!!!
She’s not prohibited from doing anything, but run herself if she’s on the air. She’s paid to give her opinion and commentary, but she won’t endorse because she respects Reagan’s 11th commandment. That used to be the norm for politicians, to not take sides in the primary.
Didn’t Sarah just write that newt is an ‘imperfect vessel for the Tea Party’?
Whether she thought it would be a good thing or a bad thing for Newt, hard to tell in the end.
If she did see this coming, she should have gone ahead and endorsed Newt in order to get ahead of it, not talked about how she would vote for Newt in SC simply to "keep it going."
I realize she's hoping that by "keeping it going," Mittens will be exposed somehow. As she wrote:
Now, I respect Governor Romney and his success. But there are serious concerns about his record and whether as a politician he consistently applied conservative principles and how this impacts the agenda moving forward. The questions need answers now. That is why this primary should not be rushed to an end. We need to vet this.
But the practical question is HOW to get these answers and/or how to get anyone to care.
The fact is that Romney has been running for years, and has gone through the process just like all the other candidates, including those who got bounced, and HE'S STILL STANDING.
That's the reality we're facing.
Yes, more time will lead to more scrutiny, and that may -- finally -- do the trick. But, as seen with Gingrich, not necessarily.
There are many who have decided they are okay with any and everything that Gingrich has stumbled over over the last decades -- and, in my view, few people who have reached that conclusion will change their mind. Even if they become re-disenchanted with Gingrich, they will hold their nose and vote for him.
The reality, however, is that there is a similar contingent that supports Romney! They know the same types of things about him that Gingrich supporters know about Gingrich -- and they are okay with it. They are willing to overlook these things, for whatever reason, and, again, in my view, very few who have reached that conclusion will change their mind.
And the state of debate is such that any and all vetting that is done of the candidates -- regardless of which one -- is SIMPLY and IMMEDIATELY DISMISSED by anyone supporting that candidate. It's all immediately branded as "lies," a conspiracy, a power play, the other side "trying to tell us who to vote for" -- and on and on. Yes, this happens in the camp of EVERY candidate at this point. This means that even legitimate, factually accurate knocks on a candidate get dismissed and ignored. This applies to Romney the same as everyone else.
See the impasse here?
It's truly hard to see a path forward that vets Romney in such a way as to dislodge his support from those who have already decided to overlook certain things. For Pete's sake, conservatives have been trying for years now to make something stick to him.
If Palin or anyone else can figure out how to further vet Romney in a way that works -- all the way to God's ears!
I know I’ll never vote for Romney.
The only chance to stop the short circuit of the primary process is a win for Newt in FL. If you're seriously for Santorum, he won't have any opportunity to make his case should Newt fail if FL goes Romney.
The next month is naturally Romney-friendly with almost no debates, Mormon-heavy Nevada and Mitt's birth state of Michigan, where his dad was governor, deciding delegates.
A FL win for Romney will deflate the potential competitiveness of March 6th's Super Tuesday.
If you plan to donate, now is the time. Keep this process alive!
That’s absurd. What a ridiculous post. Everyone’s wrong sometime, but Rush is the greatest friend conservatism has or will ever have in the media.
Rush has been one of the greatest forces for conservatism, but when push comes to shove, we learn that he is a Romney type man.
These last few years many of us are starting to realize why conservatism keeps having so many near misses, so many almosts, decade after decade, after decade, after decade, after decade, after decade.
It isn’t just near misses, we have all seen when one of our sure victories suddenly dies a mysterious death, and we are left scratching our heads about how it died when we controlled everything.
A little o/t, but, boy, do I love football analogies! Thanks.
Two words...Clear Channel.
***Rush is pretending to be back among us****
Dead man walking;)
Free at last!!!!!!!!!.
You must not have listened to him today...Rush ripped a few new ...
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