Posted on 01/09/2012 11:29:41 AM PST by neverdem
Lost in the weekend’s back-to-back debates in New Hampshire was this illuminating remark by Democratic strategist Donna Brazile after Saturday night’s soporific contest in Manchester: “Mitt Romney won tonight because no one touched him. And for Democrats, you know what? It was good news for us . . . because we believe that the weakest candidate is the candidate that the Republicans are not attacking. And that’s Mitt Romney.”
The remark drew guffaws from some of the other assembled party faithful and media commentators, but Brazile spoke the truth. Democrats do believe that Romney is eminently beatable, the perfect foil for President Obama, in fact.
And yesterday’s debate on “Meet the Press” amply illustrated her point.
The contest got off to a hot start as host David Gregory invited the not-Mitts to explain why Romney shouldn’t be the nominee. It was Rick Santorum who cut right to the quick, asking Romney directly why he didn’t seek re-election as governor of Massachusetts in 2006. "Why..."
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Still, no surprise there. When conservatives talk about personal freedom, they tend to define it politically and economically. But for the left, the only kind of freedom that matters is sexual freedom.
Thus George Stephanopoulos’ bizarre fixation on Saturday with the absurd non-issue of whether the states can ban contraception. Romney was right to call the question “silly” and treat it with the incredulous contempt it deserved.
But expect more of this as the campaign progresses, as the Democratic media complex desperately tries to change the subject from Obama’s failed stewardship to those nutty Christian moralizers on the right.
Will the Republicans let them get away with it? Or will they heed Brazile’s words and make sure they field their toughest candidate in November? Because this race is not to the swift, but the strong.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Complete fooey from a consistent peddler of leftist tripe. Who thinks the NY Post would publish something to help the GOP pick the most effective candidate? The Dems are salivating over the prospect of running against a Santorum, Perry or Gingrich...say what you want about him, but Romney's numbers with independents tells the tale and the leftists know it.
True enough, that's why the Tea Party movement should focus on issues about money, taxes, bailouts, economy, subprime loans at the root of the Great Recession, jobs, etc. When the lame stream media makes us fight about social issues, they think they're making the right fight on their turf, and that they make the right look like prudes. If we have to answer stupid questions, calling them silly sounds about right.
...say what you want about him, but Romney's numbers with independents tells the tale and the leftists know it.Yes, this is what happens when you attack conservative ideas and conservative candidates with negative advertising. This is why I absolutely oppose Romney whether he is "electable" or not.
As Rush said today, Romney will be the new Halliburton! How many independents knew Obama had the most liberal voting record when he was in the U.S. Senate, or that the subprime loan fiasco was at the root of the Great Recession/ The NY Post is owned by Ruppert Murdoch. It's not liberal.
That’s fine. The debate about his conservative bona fides is another matter. The idea that his ability to appeal to independents and conservative, disaffected Democrats while holding the vast majority of the Republican base isn’t really debatable to my mind. The lefty press is just spinning this to try to make electoral lemonade out of Obama’s current sour predicatment.
With all due respect, you should stop with the triangulation and conspiracy theories. The NY Post is manifestly liberal. You're mistaken to think that Rupert's business model is built on ideology, it's not, it's based on making money and he's happy to include any media entity, including a lefty newspaper, with relatively strong circulation and profitability.
The NY Post is a conservative paper. Please check your facts first.
You’re right, my bad. I was thinking of the NY Daily News. Mea culpa.
and plaster the countryside with billboard size pictures of him and the other "1%ers" with hundred dollar bills hanging out of their mouths(how many of these other nitwits are now, or have since been, on Wall Street? The 'rats will be sure to tell you),
and after the OWSers reorganize in a leaner, meaner, more malignant and menacing disruptive element, attacking Romney at every scheduled appearance and "forcing" local thug/officials to cancel appearances "for security reasons", the public will decide they aren't ready for Mitt and all the "divisiveness" after all.
and plaster the countryside with billboard size pictures of him and the other "1%ers" with hundred dollar bills hanging out of their mouths(how many of these other nitwits are now, or have since been, on Wall Street? The 'rats will be sure to tell you),
and after the OWSers reorganize in a leaner, meaner, more malignant and menacing disruptive element, attacking Romney at every scheduled appearance and "forcing" local thug/officials to cancel appearances "for security reasons", the public will decide they aren't ready for Mitt and all the "divisiveness" after all.
Here's an excerpt:
Now, for many years, credit cards and home equity loans papered over this harsh reality. But in 2008, the house of cards collapsed. We all know the story by now: mortgages sold to people who couldn't afford them, or even sometimes understand them. Banks and investors allowed to keep packaging the risk and selling it off. Huge bets – and huge bonuses – made with other people's money on the line. Regulators who were supposed to warn us about the dangers of all this, but looked the other way or didn't have the authority to look at all.It was wrong. It combined the breathtaking greed of a few with irresponsibility all across the system. And it plunged our economy and the world into a crisis from which we're still fighting to recover. It claimed the jobs and the homes and the basic security of millions of people – innocent, hardworking Americans who had met their responsibilities but were still left holding the bag. And ever since, there's been a raging debate over the best way to restore growth and prosperity, restore balance, restore fairness. Throughout the country, it's sparked protests and political movements – from the Tea Party to the people who've been occupying the streets of New York and other cities. It's left Washington in a near-constant state of gridlock. It's been the topic of heated and sometimes colorful discussion among the men and women running for president.
But, Osawatomie, this is not just another political debate. This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. Because what's at stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement. Now, in the midst of this debate, there are some who seem to be suffering from a kind of collective amnesia. After all that's happened, after the worst economic crisis, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, they want to return to the same practices that got us into this mess. In fact, they want to go back to the same policies that stacked the deck against middle-class Americans for way too many years. And their philosophy is simple: We are better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules.
This turkey is going full bore class warfare, and americanophile wants Romney holding the GOP's banner!
Rivals pound Romney for saying, 'I like being able to fire people'
The point, friend, is that if both parties embrace this kind of rhetoric, what the heck difference does it make whose banner we hold - it will mean NOTHING. If the GOP is done with capitalism, I'm done with the GOP.
Who said the GOP is done with capitalism? The GOP should be the party of free markets and main street. The RINOs and country clubbers have succeeded in letting the left portray the GOP as the crony capitalist Wall Street crowd. Meanwhile, the Wall Street bankers gave the lion's share of political donations to the rats in 2006 and 2008!
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