Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 1 January 2012

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

January 1st, 2012

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): 2012 GOP presidential candidates Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum; Matt Strawn, Iowa GOP chairman.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

THIS WEEK (ABC): 2012 GOP presidential candidates Bachmann and Paul; Gov. Terry Branstad, R-Iowa.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Ron Paul; Branstad; Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

[Happy Rain]

Newt is a personal friend of Rush's. He and I both would choose Newt over Mitt.

But he and Levin talk about the REAL conservatives in the race—Perry Bachman and Santorum as preferable because they don't have as "progressive" a record.

[rodguy911]

If Romney got the nomination you can bet the DNC has ads showing why Romneycare is worse than Obamacare. MA hated Romney when he decided not to run again. Happy New Year

Of course, that is the Dem strategy, i.e., to focus on the Rep candidate and not on Obama and his record and policies Exactly, and I think that's what the rats want. It's one thing to have a candidate who has nothing at all to run on but its another to take his biggest screwup,obamacare, and neuter it as Romney would do.

[Diogenesis]

BagCamAddict: "Holy cow, David Gregory was an ass!"

THAT is absolutely, damn unfair .. to Equi africanus asinus,
which have FAR more honesty and integrity than David Gregory.

[kabar]

How much of that is a function of an overwhelmingly controlled Democrat state legislature versus a Rep Governor?

Currently, the MA state legislature is composed of the following: The House has 128 Democrats and 32 Republicans. The Senate has 36 Democrats, 4 Republicans.

[FreeReign]

Wow. How weak is the GOP field? So far, Palin, Trump, Romney, Bachmann, Perry, Cain, and Gingrich have managed to rise to the top of the lists, only to sink. Now Paul and Santorum are nearing the top.

Conservatives are being manipulated, by the push polls and by the trashing media.

I agree it's not a very good field. That said, the media and the polls push our candidates and then they trash them. Santorum, the new flavor of the month, will be found to be no better than the long list of candidates who preceded him. By that time the process will be complete. We will have three or four trashed candidates splitting the anti Mitt vote, and Mitt with his 30%, will take the nomination.

[rodguy911]

Yeah but you know he is. At Tampa he will still be saying "I never endorsed anyone"....The guy is probably being pushed and pulled in every direction there is by thousands until the only thing sane left to do is...

go out and sell some iced tea!!

[Diogenesis]

Why dont you REMEMBER WHO THREW Election 2008?

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The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 pts. days prior to September 18th, 2008.
So the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

Romney for Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[bray]

Some would say that being a participant earns you the right to criticize while being a spectator doesn’t.

Being in a campaign which has national implications I can tell you we have plenty of Tea Partiers who are willing to criticize but not actively do anything. They are big on meetings and short on actions. I find it very troubling.

Hiding behind the not the right candidate for me is just an excuse to stay out of the fight.

Happy New Year

[rodguy911]

You gotta remember a lot of what Rush does is preemptive strikes on the DBM and the hard left.

If he is presenting damaging stuff about one of our candidates its primarily so it will lose its punch when the drivebys try it later.Then he can say "asked and answered" to their desperate moves to take our guy down while proping up the Kenyan.

[llandres]

Despite DG sputtering and interrupting, Rick really has BHO’s number on favoring jihadist Islamic foreign policy. RS knows this subject well. Of course, so does Newt who’s voiced the same opinion.

[rodguy911]

Yep. The 2012 election has to be a referendum on Obama and his policies and record. Do we want four more years of the same? Can we survive four more years of the same?

Great stuff here! If we just remember to ask are we better off and do we want 4 more years we win they lose. A few weeks ago it was tried on DNC Dave and he folded like a cheap suit.

[bray]

I talked about the Weak Candidates yesterday:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2827090/posts

[rodguy911]

Great thread bray.

If we just stick to basics as Rush has stated so many times and many seem to forget,any one of our candidates, weak, strong or whatever the DBM description,would make an infinitely better potus than who or what we have now!!

To forget that is to forget the basics of elections.

[Alas Babylon!]

And same to you, Dear Lady snugs!

It’s GREAT to hear from you! How are you and yours?

[Happy Rain]

Rush isn't endorsing anyone—he and Levin simply tell us what they want in a Republican nominee but never tell us to vote for so and so before the primary process is finished—to do THAT would be an endorsement.

“The Rush Limbaugh Show” 12/13/2011:

“This stuff with Newt and Romney going back and forth is not necessarily all bad because we're getting educated here. (interruption) No Snerdly, it's not all bad. We got BACHMAN, SANTORUM, PERRY out there. We got some GENUINE LEGITIMATE CONSERVATIVES out there!”

I didn't read any endorsements,did you?

;)

[llandres]

I believe as you do, that the choice is that stark. That’s why we MUST stop eating our own, coalesce and all VOTE - against BHO.

[BagCamAddict]

Couldn't agree more.

Wow. I don't know how you guys do it who watch all these Sunday shows on a regular basis. I want to vomit every time I watch one of these shows. David Gregory today, with Santorum, apparently forgot he was on television, because he was literally arguing his PERSONAL opinions with Santorum. It was pathetic. But I do give Santorum major credit for keeping his cool and not stooping to Gregory's level.

These hosts are out of control with their bias and opinions.

[bray]

Snuglies, how your been; more importantly how has your bread pudding been?

Happy New Year

[altura]

Well, he gushed for 3 weeks over Cain also and hasn’t mentioned him since.

[rodguy911]

Radio messages can vary from day to day. Don't take one or two isolated comments out of context. Rush is on every side of every candidate here except Paul which he realizes is a moonbat and Hunting man who barely exists.

I think Rush and I have something in common, anyone but zero!!!