...did I just hear screaming? Fellas, don’t scream like that. It's tough to get the bloody mist off the screen.
Posted on 01/24/2012 10:35:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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This is why I think Sarah Palin hasn’t endorsed anyone officially. I think she is waiting for Romney to fail and she will then step up to the plate and suck the air out of all the others campaigns and that goes for Newts. The media coverage would be all on her and conservatives would flock to her. She did say a few months back on Greta that this upcoming campaign would be the most ‘unconventional campaign’ that people have ever seen.
They may be right.
Don’t give up, Andrea. There’s still hope.
You call ‘em bluebloods, I call ‘em “Elites” or “the ruling class” but yep, same thing.
They see “their” party slipping away if a true conservative gets elected and brings much of the Tea Party support with him/her. Their insistence that we have a nominee like Romney is just the electoral form of “blockbusting”, convincing folks to support the liberal/moderate Republican candidate out of fear that much worse lies ahead if they don’t.
This tactic might have worked in the old days, but the times, they’ve done changed!
If Newt and Santorum were to team up, would that eliminate the possibility of a brokered convention?
Great news if this results in the establishment throwing Romney under a bus. I doubt there is much of a desire, though, among the base for another Bush Presidency or for Mitch Daniels but neither would as big a train wreck as Romney if either was elected.
I can’t answer that. If the party brass and Wall Street want a candidate of their own, they have the money and media contacts to make a good run at it. That’s not saying they will pull it off, only that they have the ability to muddy the waters and make trouble for any candidate not meeting with their approval.
Hmmmmm. I kind of like that.
Some possible alternatives: GOPE or GOP-E but in any case we would just call them Goppies or Gopys.
For sure we need some easily communicated term for the elite GOPers. RINO has worked quite well for the real Lib Republicans but that doesn't quite fit here. We need to give our very own elites their own nickname.
FR is big enough that we could start something here or pick up something started elsewhere and create our own vocabulary - a task, BTW, that the Dems are really good at.
Look, I’m no Andrea Mitchell fan but I believe what she is saying and so should everyone else. There is no denying she is plugged into the crowd of elites she’s talking about.
If she says they told her this I believe her.
For the sake of argument, let's say that the party brass manages to get Jeb Bush nominated at a brokered convention.
The bass turd elitists need to go join the ‘rats,
it’s where they really belong.
if it keeps being used, it will readily be understood as to what it means.
Those of the establishment GOP definitely fit the bill for the elitist mentality.
Romney cannot even steal FL and they will be hard pressed to keep Newt under 40 here. They will not really try to scuttle Newt because that would not be prudent. Oh NEVER MIND this is the GOP I forgot.
I’d vote for the Bush (against 0bama),
and work to get TP congressmen elected
who won’t go along with Bush because he’s the “party leader”.
They don’t get it. It’s not just Romney personally, it’s the whole GOP elite establishment. We the people are sick of their BS.
Look at the Tea Party......it was created as a firewall against the political elite, that doesn’t just “include” Republicans, it means ESPECIALLY Republicans.
The GOP WILL BE FORCED to be the conservative party or they will be euthenized.
They bring in another RINO to try to beat Newt, he’s just going to get beat worse than Mitt because it is too obvious what is going on. It doesn’t matter even if they pick someone that the base would usually approve of, BECAUSE the establishment picked him, he will be marked as “contollable” by the the fact that “they” picked him.
And Jeb Bush? I wouldn’t vote for another Bush if you friggin’ PAID ME!
Thank you for your honesty. I too would swallow my anger and vote for Bush. I’d work to get Tea Party people elected, but I’d take Bush to Obama.
My guess is it would piss off enough of them that the nominee would lose in a landslide.
In effect what they would be doing is saying the primary voters were too stupid to pick the nominee. Gut luck getting them to the polls in Nov with that plan.
Your points are well taken. The issue is just how unpalatable another four years of Obama would be.
...did I just hear screaming? Fellas, don’t scream like that. It's tough to get the bloody mist off the screen.
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