They are afraid of US.
I want a list of the “GOP Establishment” members that are saying this stuff.
I keep hearing all the media saying it. What GOP Politicians are saying this?
Santorum was probably always leading in Iowa. Romney was probably never leading in SC. As the elections neared, the BS polls were forced to correct themselves.
But with “unfavorable rating in national polls”, that kind of garbage can go on forever.
Is it any surprise they attack Gingrich like this?
Of course not!
By the way, who appointed the GOP establishment to select the "People's" President?
Their logic is horsecrap. We have a majority now in the house because of the tea party. The tea party supports newt by a vast majority. Newt as the candidate will bring us an even bigger majority in the house and a majority in the senate. Mitt will not, in fact, we will likely lose seats if Mitt is the candidate.
They are afraid of US.
You mean we would have a down-ballot disaster like the time we did when we nominated McCain and Steve Schmidt ran the campaign?
“I’m a fiscal conservative, and a social libertarian.”
“No you’re not. You’re just a cheap, chickens%$# Democrat.”
Steve Schmidt
That’s all that needs to be said. He is not a strategist - all he has done is fail in life.
He and Nicolle Wallace were the two who were throwing Palin under the bus while they worked for mcstain.
Steve probably aint happy that Palin is indirectly helping Newt.
But the Republicans who are both solid conservatives and (apparently) free of warts chose not to run. If Barbour, Daniels, DeMint, Ryan, Jindal had run, I'd likely be supporting one of them instead of Newt.
But they all wimped out, so I have to go with the most conservative candidate who is left, "likable" or not.
Talk about pushing Granny’s wheelchair over the cliff !!!
GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, who previously served as Sen. John McCain’s senior campaign strategist, told MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow that if Mr. Gingrich wins next week’s Florida GOP primary, there will be “a panic and a meltdown of the Republican establishment that is beyond my ability to articulate in the English language. People will go crazy.”
FUSM
This is the same mentality that believed we’d be in a cold war with the Soviet Union for all eternity.
Spineless asshats. Conservatism wins elections. It’s just that simple. It also heals nations, but this is something they lose almost as soon as they get to DC.
Every year that passes makes the things Reagan and Thatcher achieved seem more amazing and improbable.
These are the same people that gave us Hastert and his gay friends, cry baby Boehner and Lamar Smith, ‘champion’ of the open and free web.
They should be more concerned about down ballot problems if we have another mushy moderate like McCain.
Suppress the base or Suppress part of the moderate constituency. I bet a fired up conservative base will drag a percentage of moderates and independents with our excitement. The “undecideds” really just want to say they voted for the winner. The are worthless mentally, but useful if we can get them to vote with us.
Republican Party brass.... can KMA.
Wow, I think I have the beginning of a poem. ;>)
Another RINO stampede.
The “Republican Establishment” is one of the key players in the destruction of this country.
The down ballot disaster these consultants fear is CONSERVATIVES WINNIG, and firing their RINO arses. It’s all about the establishment playing gluteus-protectus - and those consultants fear losing the power they have.
“GOP Strategist: Republican Establishment Fears Down-Ballot Disaster If Newt Wins Nomination”
Great strategizing by the party boy.
So let’s run Ford/Dole/Bush/McCain/Romney, right? That’ll solve all the problems.
Actually, when Republicans have listened to “GOP strategists” it has been a disaster. When they’ve found out what the strategists recommend and then do the opposite, like in 2010, there are incredible conservative gains.
What the republican establishment fears, is prison time.
The thing the Republican elite keep overlooking is that unless Mittens does something drastic to persuade me otherwise, this conservate (and I assume many others) will vote the Constitution Party candidate before I vote for another McCain. The way I see it, conservatives in our country are better served by registering a vote for conservative principles. Another vote for the status quo and the Republican elites will keep putting forth RINOs.