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When will Brit Hume make it official and endorse Mitt Romney?
January 22, 2012 | Vanity

Posted on 01/22/2012 2:20:15 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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Is it payback for Newt's push back against the media?

Is it Hume's decades old association with the Beltway Establishment GOP?

I still remember the night Bill Clinton won and Bob Dole lost. We all felt the stuffings had been knocked out of us. Brit Hume was the physical, on-the-air embodiment of our feelings.

Now he is the embodiment of Fox News taking out every candidate but the chosen one, Mitt Romney.

It is difficult to find any news outlet - Printed, Online, Cable or Network that isn't controlled by and staffed with Establishment GOP supporters. And there are those Talk Radio personalities in the tank for Mitt too -- but of course they have not endorsed him, yet.

I wish they would just SAY it because it is totally INSULTING that they think we don't know.

1 posted on 01/22/2012 2:20:27 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

he damn well should

he was pathetic tonight with that congressional poll

can i take it you are now with us hon?

i hope so and i thought your boy bowed out very very graciuosly...my wife teared up a bit


2 posted on 01/22/2012 2:24:38 AM PST by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Brit and his like are rich know it alls who have never associated with real people.. there were 3 candidates who spoke to the average person in this campaign,, Cain, Perry and Gingrich.. I really don’t know who this Romney guy is.. he and his people tried to convince me with 40 damn robo phone calls in the last two weeks(most smearing Gingrich) but it didn’t work it just pissed me off


3 posted on 01/22/2012 2:28:32 AM PST by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: wardaddy

If by “my boy” you are talking about the Gov. of Texas, you need to clean up your act. There were no “tears” only sad regret that he didn’t “catch fire” (though I was pleased to hear Gingrich echo much of Perry’s platform in his victory speech last night).

Rick Perry gave Newt the lifeline he needed with the evangelical vote in SC. Rick Perry also worked to get everyone onto the VA ballot but that was torpedoed by VA (whose governor endorsed Romney to help him with the SC vote).


4 posted on 01/22/2012 2:32:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I quit watching faux news about 3 years ago. But after Thursdays debate I wandered by there and saw Hume being interviewed.
I always thought he was one of the bright spots on that network. Calm, dispassionate, reasoning.
This night I thought he was a methhead the way he was supporting Romney. His fast speech and body language was like nothing I’d ever seen from him.
Not just the RNC but the media is scared to death of Newt, I think. They are seeing the end of a era and they are panicking. Thank the internet.


5 posted on 01/22/2012 2:32:44 AM PST by TwoSwords (Romney is Crassus. Newt is Parthian.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

After Perry’s withdrawal, his team worked hard for Gingrich
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120122after_perrys_withdrawal_his_team_worked_hard_for_gingrich/srvc=home&position=recent


6 posted on 01/22/2012 2:39:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The only thing the Romney love fest on Fox has done for me is make me shut off the TV. (It was that or hurl.)


7 posted on 01/22/2012 2:39:23 AM PST by greatvikingone
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perry is all class and his heartfelt endorsement and the timing of the endorsement was huge to the cause and not to be forgotten..


8 posted on 01/22/2012 2:44:35 AM PST by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Why can’t a commentator, who isn’t a reporter, give an opinion that isn’t happiness and joy?

It seems like every other post about Gingrich is that ‘the establishment’ is against him. Isn’t that what Hume is saying? Who is more establishment than those trying to curry favor with their party?

Who should be giving these kinds of opinions, only fans of the politicians they’re reporting on?

Whenever someone on MSNBC says something nice about Obama we are all over them. Are we only mad that we don’t also have cheerleaders, or are we looking for people who will tell the truth?

When we, who aren’t involved in Washington, say the establishment are against Gingrich, I guess we’re ‘speaking truth to power.’ When someone who actually reports on and knows the folks involved in Washington says it, he’s a hater.

Huh?


9 posted on 01/22/2012 2:44:38 AM PST by Darkwolf377 ( It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.--C.S. Lewis)
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P.S. Whatever my disagreements with you, CW, I wanted to repeat once again that you are a class act. You took a lot of heat for supporting Gov. Perry yet you provided a ton of info on him and positive support for him, as opposed to the tearing-down of other candidates.


10 posted on 01/22/2012 2:46:29 AM PST by Darkwolf377 ( It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.--C.S. Lewis)
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Hume dumps on Gingrich everytime he’s on camera.. be nice if just one Fox News commentator wasn’t in the tank for Romney.. Gingrich is treated by Fox News like any Republican is on MSNBC and it’s getting old really fast


11 posted on 01/22/2012 2:50:01 AM PST by Lib-Lickers 2
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good lord lady....i was being kind to you and genuinely conciliatory about Perry dropping out....and my wife was touched by it all

i know u adored Perry

sorry for bugging you....dont worry...wont happen again

geez....were u born in Texas


12 posted on 01/22/2012 2:52:50 AM PST by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Fox News always bragged about being fair and balanced......that’s BS!
fox has been in the tank for Romney since this race began. Windbags such as Krauthammer, Hume, Williams et al are just that .....windbags. Fox not worth watching.


13 posted on 01/22/2012 3:14:22 AM PST by kenmcg (How)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; dixiechick2000; ntnychik; onyx
RicK Perry and Newt Gingrich are Americans to be proud of.

Brit Hume's behavior is cowardly.

Here's one account of his son's death on Free Republic: There are over 100 reasons to support President Bush and oppose the Clintons' return to power...

There is something there vis-a-vis Gingrich and Paxon that has not been delineated.

The Republic faces an existential threat with a rabid traitor in the White House.

Yet we have the same tens of thousands of shrieking fairies and carping harpies of the media in a swarming buzz for the Romnoid.

As though their very jobs, egos, homes depended upon it.

There once was a nation born of a struggle where its founders put their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor on the line.

The likes of the Humes and Cavutos would know nothing of that.


14 posted on 01/22/2012 3:19:58 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Group Juan “ Deer in the Headlights” Williams right along with Hume.


15 posted on 01/22/2012 3:29:18 AM PST by Renegade
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I must say I love Britt, but WAS appalled at his negativity about Newt....

I made my first donation to newt last night


16 posted on 01/22/2012 3:32:33 AM PST by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
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To: TwoSwords

“They are seeing the end of a era and they are panicking.”

They’re seeing the end of their gravy train.

Newt Gingrich says he will change how Washington works. One of those things is devolving power from the nation’s capital, away from Federal responsibility and back to the States. Gov.Perry will be deeply involved with that project.

Of those not devolving to the States, we can expect to see a lot of Federal departments disappearing altogether or being considerably downsized and folded into another department.

Shrinking the size of the Federal government and reducing its outrageous expense is something Gingrich has spoken about for years.

I truly hope we have the chance to see this happen. The last four years with Obama in the White House have been like a wide-awake nightmare.


17 posted on 01/22/2012 3:41:11 AM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

His duty doesn’t smell and it comes out in pretty pink packages. Hume, STFU you POS!


18 posted on 01/22/2012 3:48:05 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: The Wizard

I just listened to Newt Gingrich’s entire acceptance speech.

I think it was Brit Hume who said it was about 10 minutes too long (could have been some other Fox “star”).

What bothered Hume?... Maybe all that good stuff Newt said in the last half about the 10th Amendment and Rick Perry and the governors and returning power to the states......and energy independence and.....

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/video-newt-gingrich-goes-elites-south-carolina-win-051611835.html


19 posted on 01/22/2012 3:49:43 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Unfortunately, Hume is correct. On the numbers, Newt is at present very near unelectable, while Romney polls well in a general election.

Moreover, Newt has a well-earned reputation as a brilliant but undisciplined and at times erratic egomaniac. There are former GOP House members who still seethe over Newt's reckless conduct as Speaker. Even now, if one pays attention, Newt's grandiosity surfaces from times to time.

Nevertheless, Newt is in contention because Romney -- despite fine personal qualities and great business success -- has proved unable to close the sale with the GOP base. Romney at times seems as politically clueless as a first time candidate running for city council in a small town in Mississippi.

Establishment candidates with a record of personal success are often like that. They act as if they think that with more money than the other guys and a superior product -- themselves -- success in an election is certain, just as their friends and hangers on insist.

20 posted on 01/22/2012 3:49:43 AM PST by Rockingham
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