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GOP Strategist: Republican Establishment Fears Down-Ballot Disaster If Newt Wins Nomination
Breitbart News ^ | January 23, 2012 | Wynton Hall

Posted on 01/23/2012 10:47:02 AM PST by redstateone

On the heels of Newt Gingrich’s trouncing of Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primary, Republican Party brass are privately expressing deep concerns that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s high unfavorable rating in national polls could prove catastrophic to the so-called “down ballot”–the House and Senate races under the presidential race–and may even threaten the Republican Party’s control of the House of Representatives...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gds; newt2012; newtgingrich; obama; pds; romney; steveschmidt; waronsarah
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To: redstateone

“I’m a fiscal conservative, and a social libertarian.”

“No you’re not. You’re just a cheap, chickens%$# Democrat.”


41 posted on 01/23/2012 11:13:26 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: redstateone

Steve Schmidt

That’s all that needs to be said. He is not a strategist - all he has done is fail in life.

He and Nicolle Wallace were the two who were throwing Palin under the bus while they worked for mcstain.

Steve probably aint happy that Palin is indirectly helping Newt.


42 posted on 01/23/2012 11:14:14 AM PST by AdamBomb
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To: Psalm 144

“It would be much much more bitter in a bankrupt, post-United States America.”

One reason the ‘conservative’ radio talk people have lost a lot of credibility is they barely touch on that very point. The consequences we face by failing to reverse course sharply - and soon - are unimaginable.

Hopefully Rush, Sean, etc. will read your post and make it clear to so many who don’t see what’s coming.


43 posted on 01/23/2012 11:14:18 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Real women don't kill their children.)
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To: jessduntno

I am hating the GOP establisment more with each passing hour! They really don’t get it do they?


44 posted on 01/23/2012 11:14:31 AM PST by KansasGirl (NO ROMNEY! NOT NOW! NOT EVER! GO NEWT!)
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To: redstateone; All
Weeellll, y'know, it could be true. Newt might be an electoral disaster.

But the Republicans who are both solid conservatives and (apparently) free of warts chose not to run. If Barbour, Daniels, DeMint, Ryan, Jindal had run, I'd likely be supporting one of them instead of Newt.

But they all wimped out, so I have to go with the most conservative candidate who is left, "likable" or not.

45 posted on 01/23/2012 11:14:53 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Liberalism: Ideas so good, they have to be mandatory!!)
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To: redstateone

Talk about pushing Granny’s wheelchair over the cliff !!!


46 posted on 01/23/2012 11:14:53 AM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: kgrif_Salinas; All

actually this reminds me of Charlie Crist establishment endorsements.

The establishment went so far as to endorse crist during the primary. Rubio worked and beat him.

Now we have crist’s buddy running for the nomination...along with all the better candidates.

The establishment has been not doing well.


47 posted on 01/23/2012 11:17:21 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: redstateone
Speaking for the Republican Brass:

GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, who previously served as Sen. John McCain’s senior campaign strategist, told MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow that if Mr. Gingrich wins next week’s Florida GOP primary, there will be “a panic and a meltdown of the Republican establishment that is beyond my ability to articulate in the English language. People will go crazy.”

FUSM

48 posted on 01/23/2012 11:18:06 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: devildognc

That would be the same Steve Schmidt who routinely offered vicious and unfounded opinions about Sarah Palin’s mental state to the media in 2009, currently promotes gay marriage, and argues that conservatism is “exhausted”. He ought to be a Democrat consultant, and probably will become one once he’s convinced they’’ll pay more.


49 posted on 01/23/2012 11:18:06 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

“Limbaugh is talking about this now...”

Yes, and he is spinning it in such a way as to make it seem that this is the moderates genuine and legitimate concern, and we need to understand and respect it.

Limbaugh has become almost unlistenable. Except to monitor him for purposes of knowing what the establishment wants us to think.


50 posted on 01/23/2012 11:18:28 AM PST by ngat
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To: redstateone

This is the same mentality that believed we’d be in a cold war with the Soviet Union for all eternity.

Spineless asshats. Conservatism wins elections. It’s just that simple. It also heals nations, but this is something they lose almost as soon as they get to DC.

Every year that passes makes the things Reagan and Thatcher achieved seem more amazing and improbable.


51 posted on 01/23/2012 11:18:39 AM PST by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: redstateone

These are the same people that gave us Hastert and his gay friends, cry baby Boehner and Lamar Smith, ‘champion’ of the open and free web.


52 posted on 01/23/2012 11:19:00 AM PST by ari-freedom (If SOPA passes, we will lose our Free Republic.)
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To: cotton1706

Agreed on all points.


53 posted on 01/23/2012 11:19:13 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Preparation ZOT, for prompt relief from annoying romnoids.)
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To: redstateone

They should be more concerned about down ballot problems if we have another mushy moderate like McCain.

Suppress the base or Suppress part of the moderate constituency. I bet a fired up conservative base will drag a percentage of moderates and independents with our excitement. The “undecideds” really just want to say they voted for the winner. The are worthless mentally, but useful if we can get them to vote with us.


54 posted on 01/23/2012 11:20:50 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: redstateone

Republican Party brass.... can KMA.

Wow, I think I have the beginning of a poem. ;>)


55 posted on 01/23/2012 11:22:45 AM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~..... GO NEWT GO.....!)
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To: Thane_Banquo
They're actually afraid Newt might win. That's what the elitists are afraid of. The possibility of having a conservative in the White House with a Tea Party GOP Senate and House scares the living hell out of the Ruling Class

Newt has a record, and it isn’t conservative. You can bury your head in the sand and pretend that he is a conservative.
56 posted on 01/23/2012 11:23:03 AM PST by ThinkingBuddha
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To: sodpoodle

It’s a little different to have a book writer say it and a Senator running for the presidency say it.

I agree with her because one does not do that and come out a winner.
One has other people do it, like the leftist do. Turnabout is fair play
and I don’t agree they would be stooping to their level. I’m tired of that thinking.

We’re fighting for our very existence and we need to fight fire with fire.


57 posted on 01/23/2012 11:23:45 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (NOT VOTING gets 0bamao re-elected. Lets Newter the RINOS, then the Blank.)
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To: PapaBear3625

—Putting a wuss on the ballot can cost you as well, if Republican voters are so disgusted that they are unmotivated to show up.—

Exactly. I’ve gone on record that if Mitt is the candidate, I’m not voting.


58 posted on 01/23/2012 11:23:55 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: redstateone

Another RINO stampede.

The “Republican Establishment” is one of the key players in the destruction of this country.


59 posted on 01/23/2012 11:23:55 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Thane_Banquo
They're actually afraid Newt might win. That's what the elitists are afraid of. The possibility of having a conservative in the White House with a Tea Party GOP Senate and House scares the living hell out of the Ruling Class.

Exactly correct!

TS

60 posted on 01/23/2012 11:24:36 AM PST by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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