Posted on 01/22/2012 8:35:24 AM PST by Mustang Driver
Republicans have such good candidates this year, I do not know who to pick. But liberal Republicans like David Brooks provide a guide. Whoever they dump on most must be the best candidate. Remember, four years ago they steered us toward John McCain. And 32 years ago, what they said about Ronald Reagan…
But I am jumping ahead of myself. David Brooks went on PBS and dissed Newt Gingrich. From the Daily Caller:
“I think, at the end of the day, it is,” Brooks said. “The guy has, I think, a 27 percent national approval rating. He’s just unelectable. And when you talk to people down there, they disagree. And maybe I’m just an elite pundit out of touch, but I can read numbers. And if the vast majority of the country doesn’t like somebody, and they form a very negative opinion about somebody, it’s very unlikely that person is going to be elected president. So I still think, at the end of the day, that he probably will win in South Carolina. I think it’s hard to see Gingrich running the table.”
We shall see on that “Gingrich running the table.”
I do not know anyone who would say that, but I am not saying it cannot happen.
What I do know is that on June 16, 1980, Time magazine reported this:
Reagan gets a sunny welcome from an old opponent
While President Carter confronted Ted Kennedy at the White House, a much more amiable encounter reunited the two most eminent figures in the G.O.P. They had never been friends, and as recently as last March, Gerald Ford had described Ronald Reagan as “unelectable.”
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.dailymail.com ...
Enough with the Jedi mind tricks, Mr. Brooks.
Or am I thinking of another fathead, metrosexual, brain-dead, elitist, beltway media snob?
What is PBS? Is that one of those British versions of a television channel?
One thing for sure, people enthusiastic about voting in the GOP Primaries do not like the Big Media or B.H. Obama much.
It’s nice to see these reminders from the past.
When Reagan ran in 1980, he was considered un-electable by many.
Jimmy Carter hoped that Reagan would become the Republican nominee in 1980, thinking that Reagan would be the weakest opponent for Jimmy.
And how did that 1980 election turn out, Jimmy?????????
So the lesson is, do not listen to elites who are telling us that this or that candidate can’t win the general election.
I dont think either Romney or Gingrich is “unelectable.” Thats a liberal meme that should not be repeated on FR. Either one could bean Hussein Obama IF they run the right kind of campaign. Dont be John “Captain Queeg” McCain and refuse to fight Obama. Call him out as a big spending socialist. Hammer the unemployment numbers and the debt Obama has racked up. Dont let the liberals frame the debate about Bain Capital or open marriages. Gingrich seems to have more fire in his gut, but maybe Romney is saving his fire for the general when he goes after Obama. Pick either one; I dont care. The only thing that matters is winning in 2012 and sending Obama and Chewbacca back to Kenya.
This falls under the category of Never take advice from your enemy.
Unelectable? Just an argument from someone trying to steer the election to their liking.
Of course the GOP establishment does the same. They say that Paul is unelectable because his support has a ceiling. Did you hear them apply the same argument to Mitt when it is so obvious??
Hence, the ones who fail to get a majority of delegates at their parties convention are the only ones qualified to carry that title.
For someone with a big enough ego, “unelectable” simply means “I don’t support him.”
In 2008, Romney got 31% in Florida (McCain won with 36%). If Romney matches that and Paul gets say 4% (he got 3% in 2008), that leaves 65% to split between Newt and Rick.
did they ever say it about the magic negro?
He won the TEA party,Evangelicals, Independents, those concerned with the economy, Women 38 to 29, those whose issue was electability and beating Obama, and the undecided.
He won on the question of who has had the right experience to get USA back on the right track(49 to 31), and the one best able to beat Obama.
Which group did Newt not win? People with incomes over $200,000 and those with Post College Graduate Degrees. In other words the Elites.
The elite's are trying to convince us that Newt is not electable, just like they did with Reagan. If we ignore them, he's more electable than their boy mittens, because there are more of us than there are of them.
I don’t think I’ve yet seen a pundit say they want Newt to be the nominee, but he’s unelectable so they’re supporting someone else. Nor have I seen a pundit say they would prefer another candidate be the nominee, but are supporting Mitt Romney because he’s the most electable. Whether or not the pundits think a candidate is “electable” or not seems to be in lockstep with which candidate they personally want to be the nominee every time.
I seem to remember the Democrat establishment saying Obama was unelectable pretty much until he became that party’s nominee. Would that her WERE truly unelectable.
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