Posted on 01/29/2012 5:22:24 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
January 29th, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum; David Axelrod, political adviser to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Reince Priebus, RNC chairman; Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC head; Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Donald Trump; Reps. Allen West and Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Gingrich; House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla.; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; former Commerce Secretary Carlos Guttierez.
Amazing Fox News just had a bumper and in the lower left corner showed a Jan. 5th poll with Romney having a lead over Newt. Idiots.
Or Massachusetts. Newt had an interesting remark that the amount of healthcare being dispensed in Massachusetts has decreased, and 1/4th of those seeking a treatment are unable to obtain it. Maybe a doctor shortage, or refusal on the part of the insurance bureaucracy to pay. That, plus the fine is cheaper than insurance, so lots of people are opting for the fine.
If you listened to Paul Ryan, Newt may as well pack his bags and ride off into the sunset.
If Rick would do what Perry did, Newt and his numbers beat Romney’s. He would be the most selfless politician of all times, we are seeing what everybody is made of in this primary.
It is good for America and for the party to go through this civil war.
Pray for America
All you lovers of The Great One, take note. He defended Drudge yesterday and said for everyone to stop blaming Drudge.
Drudge has done great things but he’s gone political lately and it’s all against Newt. Someone counted 14 anti-Newt stories on Drudge a couple of days ago.
I think he's hanging in there waiting until Newt and Myth destroy each other as the surviving conservative candidate.
BUT!...He could use a lot of money and a little fine tuning in his presentation.
“Valid reasons:
1) He has no chance of winning”
How do you know? You sound just like the people that said there was no way the TEA PArty could influence much less help Republicans in the 2010 mid terms.
“2) He has no experience in national politics.”
Surely you’re not that obtuse. So pray tell what was he doing if not working in “national politics” as a Congressman and Senator all those years in D.C.?
You realize that Ronald Reagan...by your measure had no experience in “national politics” either.
I’ll vote for someone like Santorum before I’ll support someone who was for global warming before he was against it...supported an individual mandate..before he was against it...and has been chummy with Nancy Pelosi...before he decided that was a bad thing too.
And no I’m not talking about Romney. The only thing Newt has going for him is that he’s not afraid to tell the MSM talking heads at these debates where they can stick their stupid questions.
You’re in the tank for Newt...fine we get that...but he’s not Moses leading the Conservatives back to the promised land.
He’s just as much of a finger int he wind “republican” as Mitt is.
Term limits are NOT the answer. Just look at California. Voters enacted term limits there 20 years ago. The result? The institutions have no memory so issues that were discussed must start over, bad ideas get recycled. The pawn and proxy politicians come and go while bureaucrats and lobbyists stay forever and do “the real work.”
They asked it over and over, but she was obviously hoping that if she kept talking over them, they would quit asking. They didn't, much to their credit.
IMO, Pam Bondi is a rookie (i.e., unpolished) at poli-speak obfuscation, and this interview displayed that for all to see. Romney's people need to shut her up -- she just compounded her first Freudian slip from Greta's show.
So, my inquisitive mind is wondering:
1. Was Bondi's Friday bombshell a planned thing? It was timed to be after the last FL debate but before the vote, so it's too late for Newt to back Romney into a corner publicly to confront him for clarification. What ARE Mitt's future plans, exactly? Apparently he would "encourage" individual states to implement RomneyCare under the guise of "States Rights." In my own world, what kind of federal funding would Texas lose when Perry tells a President Romney to stick it in his ear?
2. Or, more likely, was it simply a case of an over-enthusiastic Bimbo Bondi inadvertently letting it slip that Romney has no intention of getting rid of ObamaCare -- he just wants to tweak it -- and she has grandiose images of being named our new National HealthCare Czar.
Either way, the end result would be the same.
The issue I see with Santorum is he should be able to talk circles around Newt and Mitt, and Obama, and all at the same time. Instead, Newt is better at explaining, contrasting, and selling conservative solutions to the masses, well Rick is seemingly only selling himself as the true conservative candidate.
Did she have anything to say about Newt? Perhaps that he was polarizing and unelectable?
Hillary and Geithner announce plans to jump ship. Well, as someone once said, “Trotskyism is a petty bourgeois deviation.” They probably heard their cues, which sounded much the same.
THE WASHRAG!
She lying a mile-a-minute, but having trouble getting the words right...it sounds like she's talking with food in her mouth.
As far as his fiscal Conservatism...he spells it out very clearly in his voting record.
Santorum has consistently supported broad-based tax cuts and opposed tax increases either by sponsoring key legislation or by casting votes on relevant bills. Some high profile votes include:
Voted NO on the Clinton tax hike in 1993
Voted YES on the capital gains tax cut in 1997
Voted NO on a cigarette tax hike in 1998
Voted YES on repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax in 1999
Voted YES on the 2001 Bush tax cuts
Voted YES to repeal the Death Tax in 2002
Voted YES to the 2003 Bush tax cuts
Voted YES to extend the Bush tax cuts in 2006
In the 1990s, when he was only a freshman Senator, he was a leading author on the bill that completely overhauled the country’s welfare system. He also voted for the Freedom to Farm Act in 1996 that started the process of ending direct farm subsidies. When Congress decided that it couldn’t live up to that promise, it voted to re-establish the subsidies in 2002 with the Farm Security Act, a bill that Santorum rightly opposed. He also voted for a balanced budget amendment and a line-item veto in 1995.
More recently, when he was out of Congress, Santorum opposed TARP , the stimulus , the auto bailout, and the Fannie-Freddie bailout.
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=902
Sounds like he’s spelled out his beliefs pretty good to those that pay attention.
Not a popular sentiment around here (hoping that Santorum is still standing) because I was sent to Free Republic hell and virtually burned at the stake for suggesting that it was wrong for freepers to gang up and send calls and e-mails to Santorum asking him to drop out.
Santorum chances may be slim to none, but I still don’t understand this rush to judgment after only 3 states.
It’s conceivable that we might need Santorum before it’s over with. He’s got several stances that I don’t like and I’m not for Rick S. but he has the right to run.
That being said, I have a feeling he will drop out soon.
I didn’t hear him but did read on FR that Levin (and IIRC Rush) were defending Drudge. I used to go to the Drudge site all the time - haven’t been there in a couple of years.
I think as we saw with the leaked memo about Michelle Bachmann when she was still running...the media decides who gets asked the questions and who gets to answer and gets to stand in the spotlight.
They don’t want Santorum to because they know he’d expose newt and Mitt as the faux conservatives they really are.
“Santorum chances may be slim to none, but I still don’t understand this rush to judgment after only 3 states.”
Because the “powers that be”...want this wrapped now. Nevermind what the people want.
Shorter primary season hides the flaws of the candidate the establishment GOP wants to be “our guy”.
Shorter primary season benefits the MSM and Obama in that it allows them a long bloody dismantling of the GOP candidate with every salacious lie they can create from now until November.
I don’t remember exactly what she said, but the tone was that it is indeed a battle between the RINOs and the TEA party.
I don’t think she’s endorsing anyone, but Mittens won’t be getting any TEA support.
Brit Hume really does hate Newt. He simply cannot bear to hear the man’s name. It’s obvious with the sad, dour look on his face.
Where’s the humor and balance we used to count on with Brit.
I know his son’s suicide has left him lonely and embittered but maybe he should recuse himself from political discussions given his personal bias.
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