Steady (Hugh Hewitt's daily Brown Nosing of Romney)

National Review Online - Corner ^ | January 16, 2012 | Hugh Hewitt

[C19fan]

Mitt lost the Bigfoot vote, and perhaps the felons-who-are-voting vote, but batted away the Bain and super-PAC attacks with ease and delivered some superb general-election answers. Newt regained ground — and then gave it back. Meanwhile, Rick Santorum made steady progress — after the felons stuff, which just doesn’t make any sense to me at all. (In eleven years with a nationally syndicated talk show, I don’t recall the subject ever coming up, so it simply cannot be salient in any meaningful way.)

[C19fan]

Just wanted to give Freepers an opportunity to flame Romney's biggest cool aid drinker Hugh Hewitt.

[MulberryDraw]

Romney sided with Santorum against Newt’s plan for Social Security which is similar to the one successfully implemented in Chile. Romney and Santorum are just status quo on SS at a time when we need a real change.

[Hawthorn]

>> an opportunity to flame Romney’s biggest cool aid drinker <<

I doubt seriously that Hewitt minds. He would probably even thank you, if he had a chance. When you post stuff like this, you simply drive traffic to his site and increase his ad revenues. Like it or hate it, that’s just the way things work in the modern Internet world.

[C19fan]

You know if Romney wins he will call together an “expert” panel filled with academics then they will come with a plan to perhaps raise the SS retirement age and increase FICA taxes perhaps by eliminating the wage cap on FICA taxes and/or imposing FICA on non-wage income; Obama already pushed the camel’s nose by imposing Medicare tax on non-wage income as part of ObamaCare.

[TexasFreeper2009]

while it is true that Romney is status quo, that's not why he agreed with Santorum. He agreed with Santorum to help prop Santorum up so that he can continue to help split the conservative vote.

Romney has to play this just perfectly to win. He needs both a strong Santorum and a strong Gingrich in the race to thread the needle, and so far ... he is succeeding because the Santorum supporters can't see that they are being manipulated.

[Rational Thought]

I guess that's one way to look at it.

What I heard is Santorum likes the idea, after we get our fiscal house in order. Gingrich said the idea would spur economic growth, glossing over how he would enable such a plan without adding to the debt.

So, who actually sounds “status quo” here?

[Terry Mross]

Before it’s over Rush and Hannity will be supporting Romney, too.

[onedoug]

Hewitt wrote a book a few years back called, ¨A Mormon In The White House¨, so he´s hawking it big time.

[Terry Mross]

If I’m wrong it’s going to screw up my conspiracy theory. Then again, I can always say “Rush is speaking out against Romney to make us think it’s all legit.” See how all this can really screw up one’s mind?

[bossmechanic]

Hugh Hewitt is a Rush wannabe without the intellectual patience or multidimensional curiosity. Kinda like a mediocre divorce attouney. Guess he’s not argueing SCOTUS cases these days. Reminds me of Dr. Phil going into a commercial break.

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

...Romney's biggest cool aid drinker Hugh Hewitt.

Excuse me but that would be Michael Medved.