Newt’s staying in the race helps Romney.
Newt is the Ross Perot of this election.
As a former member of the good ol boy’s club of the US Congress I’m sure he does not find this as repellant as do true conservatives. He is probably already writing the book that will make him more millions in his comfortable retirement after the election
No, actually you've been played (or the GOP-e thought they could play the base).
Romney is the Ross "get under the hood" Perot - lipstick on a Massachusetts Moderate -- that was supposed to appeal to the base.
The base isn't buying it.
Then there is Rick Santorum, the guy who endorsed the "non-government" GOP-e pick (who's pulling in millions from Wall Street and K-Street) because Rick is a team player.
Really? As I understand it, it was because he wasn't a member of the "good ol' boys club" of the GOP/Congress ("Ruling Class," to use Codevilla's term) that the GOP conspired to bounce him. IIRC, Romney claims that they wanted to replace him with someone "more conservative"; what they replaced him with was Hastert (who, BTW, figures prominently in Schweizer's Throw Them All Out as making money hand over fist in Congressional "insider trading") who managed promptly to lose the GOP majority and who I don't recall as being very effective in any way. Some conservative.
On a related note, I find utterly ludicrous Romney's charge that Newt was "lobbying" for Fannie/Freddie: Dems hate Newt and establishment GOPers hate him possibly even more. Precisely what influence would he have been able to peddle with people whose response would have been "Get that SOB out of my office!"? Surely, lobbyists have to have a friendly relationship with those they're lobbying. OTOH, it's more than plausible that anyone would hire Newt for his brains, i.e., as a consultant.
Sanctimonious should take one for the conservative team and drop out.
Bet you werent calling for RS to get out when he was polling in single digits. He wont stand a chance against Obama.
” Newt is the Ross Perot of this election. “ -—
The Perot sceanario played out alright just as you say—back in the dark ages, when we were all civilized but stupid. However, it is like yesterday when all that happened and we have learned too much since then to sit on the sofa and belch out the same old air balls of “aint it awful”.
If we draw our political pistol this time we have to be prepared to use the dang thing.
This is to say that we are on our way to a political resistance “movement” this time, and it includes in our sites, the GOP-Establishment.
This divisiveness has, by the grace of God, formed a kind of solidarity among conservatives who are for different candidates with different approaches and agendas, but together we are still a force that is starting to flex its limbs to oust a Marxist and the toothless RINO Establishment who refuse month after month, year after year to resist his dismantling of our nation.
We are not going to comply and cooperate like puppets on the string’s end.
If you want to stay dutifully “in line”, to guard the old process and swallow the same old bait, spew the same tired thesis, and fall into the same old circular pattern of avoiding a solution, then you are part of the problem.
Let’s instead see if we can approach the Alamo line in the sand, so to speak, and dare to make a damn stand against the GOP-E together, and do our math.
If we can’t whip them, how in the &@!! do we intend to whip the Marxists?
We may not finish the job this cycle, but we have a chance to, and at least we shall have dared to muster.