Posted on 01/22/2012 5:18:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When Newt Gingrich got humiliated three weeks ago in Iowa, he responded the way any self-respecting political scrapper would after being beaten down and bloodied.
He got up and started swinging wildly. Not just at the guy who knocked him out, but at any foe (hello media elite!) who dared come within reach.
Contrast that with Mitt Romney, a candidate so scripted and disciplined even his one-liners in TV debates sound poll-tested and focus grouped.
“I will show passion and, from time to time, perhaps a little energy — as I feel it in my heart,” Romney said on the morning after his crushing loss to Gingrich in the South Carolina primary.
“But I am a person of sobriety, capacity, steadiness. And I think that’s what you need in the White House.”
Sobriety. Capacity. Steadiness. Perhaps a little energy. Right there, in a nutshell, is Romney’s problem.
In an election year when a great many Republican voters are motivated by unbridled contempt for President Barack Obama and East Coast political elites, the former Massachusetts governor’s failure to channel that populist anger in any convincing way is becoming his biggest obstacle to the GOP nomination.
With the results in South Carolina, Americans saw the first stirrings of anti-establishment Tea Party resentment that had been largely absent in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Gingrich’s defiant comeback to CNN host John King’s Thursday night debate question about his marital infidelities is being cited — correctly — as the turning point in a state often described as the heart and soul of the Republican party.
The former House Speaker’s indignant critique of “despicable” media types was catnip for the Republican base.
It’s part of a broader “politics of grievance” strategy that Gingrich is executing — at the moment — better than his rivals....
(Excerpt) Read more at fullcomment.nationalpost.com ...
Why not? The lazy black vote served Obama pretty well.
It's that damn (Dem?) race card again.... and that, folks, can be a wily little rascal.
Hah! You beat me to it.
...they haven’t begun to see Angry White people yet. HOW ABOUT JUST “angry people”. We’re PISSED!
Fixed.
Some peoples "politics of grievance" are better than others dontcha see.
I will put my angry, American loving white man up against your angry, American hating community organizer/nation destroyer.
It won’t work again.
America is SICK TO DEATH of these idiots playing the race-card.....
If you believe nothing else, believe that !
And millions and millions just like us !
Well, it could come down to the difference between “angry white, cock-fight loving voters versus prissy cock s.....g, Marxist loving voters
The only angry whites I see are the punditocracy that could NOT shove Mitt Romney down our throats.
Fasten your seat belts, repent, and believe the Good News.
Am I angry? YES! Am I an American? YES! Why should race be in the picture? It is not...I won't drop my arms because I am white. Try another argument. I am well armed, but more than that, very, very well trained and tested. Bring it!
Stop listening to the Left.
Not everyone who enjoys a cockfight is angry, or white, but it helps.
I saw some of the interviews with some of the “white” voters and they didn’t seem “angry” to me. They were smiling and appeared happy. It sounds like someone is racial profiling again. Sorry Shelly. You need to get out more often. It appears that you’re confusing American voters with the OccuPies.
And the numbnuts white vote gave us obama.
“a person of sobriety, capacity, steadiness”
Cool!
A plow horse that doesn’t drink!
Just what we need!
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