I heard Mark’s Friday Podcast as well. Funny though, Mark’s defense reminded me of Marc Antony’s sly use of reverse psychology against Brutus at Caesar’s funeral.
Remember this?
“ANTONY
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest—
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men—
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.”
I will not vote for Romney. I will leave it blank and vote for conservatives in Congress.
If the GOP nominates him I will register as an independent and they will no longer receive my monetary support.
I’m sorry guys there is no way as a Born Again Christian I could vote for Romney I will not betray my Jesus by voting for him.
Romney is DESPICABLE!!
Everyone get behind Newt now please
it’s vital the libs are gonna have a field day with Mitten’s religion please listen to this program
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=11912110027800
Mark has had an unwavering loyalty to our military, which is truly endearing. His loyalty to Pres. Reagan has been unwavering, on the airwaves, and one can assume he is sincere.
What to do. . . what to do. . . ?
We’re not out of the primary yet.
Romney, like McCain, hits his own party harder than he will Obama
Levin has been the most even-handed in all of this, so when he raises a flag about Romney, I am interested in his reasoning
“Why Mark so forcefully chose to come to Drudge’s defense is unknown.”
I think they are personal friends.
Romney is a charlatan in the mold of Obama.
We -- the voting public --are playing by the rules and quietly expecting that our candidates are doing the same. And Mitt Romney is playing us for fools.
I offer in evidence Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, and Matt Drudge.
First, Michael Savage. I have been a frequent listener due to the fact that he's on drive time in my market. He's entertaining sometimes, but I don't follow his politics. But I digress.
For a solid year Michael Savage had shown nothing but disdain for Romney, occasionally mentioning the dinner he had with Romney and going on a sociable tangent (social for Savage) calling Romney a "nice man," but someone Savage could not support. The hook.
Then what happens?
Newt Gingrich surges in Iowa by December 4, 2011. December 12, 2011 Michael Savage announces on his radio show that he will personally pay Newt Gingrich $1 million dollars to leave the race.
Drudge headlines the Savage story. (When was the last time you saw a Michael Savage rant headline Drudge? Yeah. I didn't think so.)
Romney smears Gingrich in Iowa with wall-to-wall negative campaign adds. Does the "conservative media" take Romney to task? Nope. Romney torpedoes Gingrich's lead in Iowa.
But Gingrich comes back with a spectacular win in South Carolina. Some claim the Romney camp was caught flat-footed, expecting that they had so thoroughly damaged Gingrich in the early running he would no longer be a serious contender. That conveniently-timed Marianne Gingrich interview could have simply come from sloppy egoists at ABC. But there was that siren at Drudge. The only thing that saved Gingrich was Gingrich himself.
That was January 21, 2011.
January 23, 2011. Ann Coulter makes an ass out of herself on the O'Reilly Factor. She DEFENDS John King and ATTACKS Newt Gingrich! Gee Ann. I guess we all have the right to be an ass sometimes, but why?
Comes now Florida. Gingrich, coming off a spectacular win in South Carolina is suddenly back in contention in the state where Romney planned to put him, finally, in the dust.
And we all know what happened with Matt Drudge. He ran opinion as if it were news. He ran stories that were lies. And he ran with them very quickly.
It is stunning, really, to see this ethical collapse of people who profit from us by calling themselves the "conservative" media. If Savage's big mouth and ego are any indication, the Romney campaign has been working them for a least a year.
Ever notice how Romney just doesn't speak for himself? That should tell you something, Michael, Ann, Matt.
And I would be LESS disgusted - but still disgusted - with Romney if at least he were consistent in his attacks. Does anyone believe that Romney would go after Obama anywhere near as viciously as he has attacked Gingrich, both politically and personally? Would there be Romney ads attacking Obama’s admitted cocaine use? Or his radical ties? Or his lies to the electorate?
Of course not. Romney has, and will, run as fast as the can to the microphones to declare that there is nothing to any challenges to Obama’s eligibility for office as well. It's more likely that Romney would actually endorse Obama during the general election, whether or not Romney is the nominee, than for Romney to attack Obama as he has Gingrich. (Yes, endorse. After all, didn't McCain say before the election that we had “nothing to fear” from an Obama presidency?) And if any PAC attacked Obama in such a way, Romney would denounce the PAC as well.
The message is clear: the Republican establishment disdains the conservatives in its own party more than it opposes Obama’s policies. Gingrich is not perfect, but look at how low Obama has set the bar.