[Yossarian]

A bit long, but I think Rush nails it - and also wisely brings up things Newt should be concerned about.

[Old Sarge]

Several websites and news broadcasts here in FLA are portraying Rush as being anti-Newt and pro-Willard. What’s up with this?

[bboop]

I skimmed it, but Rush is right. I also think conservatives are especially fried about McCain being jammed down our throats last time — out of the blue, thank you — and then the Republican Establishment hog-tying Sarah so she couldn’t be Sarah.

This time it’s not happening!

[bboop]

I skimmed it, but Rush is right. I also think conservatives are especially fried about McCain being jammed down our throats last time — out of the blue, thank you — and then the Republican Establishment hog-tying Sarah so she couldn’t be Sarah.

This time it’s not happening!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The "GOP Establishment" and Mitt Romney are DEMOCRAT MOLES. Dig them out. They don't care between Romney and Obama.

[PowderMonkey]

"Terribly sorry, old boy, but your associate membership does not entitle you to golfing privileges at this country club.

[43north]

I just love the smell of RINO’s melting in the morning...

[MestaMachine]

The GOP ‘establishment’ is just beginning to realize that they are on the losing end of a Conservative coup. WE are not their base. All their base are belong to US and we are setting up the bomb.

[Nervous Tick]

the American conservative middle class are the ones playing by the rules. They are the ones that obey the law to the best of their ability. They raise their kids. They try to shield their kids from cultural rot and depravity. They try to keep them off drugs. They try to get them into college. They follow as best they can all the rules and they're laughed at and made fun of and they are impugned everywhere they look.

RUSH LIMBAUGH GETS IT!

[olezip]

It really isn't complicated. But the resentment for the base that the Republican establishment has is obvious, and of course the Republican establishment knows that. They know that the Tea Party is not embraced, that the Republican establishment's trying to marginalize the Tea Party.

The solution is simple. The Republican establishment just has to switch places with the Tea Party. Let the leaders of the Tea Party take over the reins of the Republican establishment. Then we will see very positive results for all of us and, better still, for the entire country!

Surely the Republican establishment will better see what is going on if they have to rebuild their base. For now, they should resign in disgrace and let the genuine leaders of the people take over. The Republican establishment knows that they are not leading, so they should get out of the way!

[olezip]

It really isn't complicated. But the resentment for the base that the Republican establishment has is obvious, and of course the Republican establishment knows that. They know that the Tea Party is not embraced, that the Republican establishment's trying to marginalize the Tea Party.

The solution is simple. The Republican establishment just has to switch places with the Tea Party. Let the leaders of the Tea Party take over the reins of the Republican establishment. Then we will see very positive results for all of us and, better still, for the entire country!

Surely the Republican establishment will better see what is going on if they have to rebuild their base. For now, they should resign in disgrace and let the genuine leaders of the people take over. The Republican establishment knows that they are not leading, so they should get out of the way!

[RightResponse]

Now would be a great time for the TeaParty to start laying down their demands for whom they they will support from here on out!

They HAVE to be more organized than the Republican Party and lets get some planks promised out to the people trying to straighten this crap out, not just trying to make friends...

[LibFreeUSA]

Everybody go out and buy a case of Zantac (and for the mentally nimble - buy another one of Prozac), because we’ve just taken off on a political roller coaster ride unlike anything most have experienced in their lifetime. This is going to cause some nerve racking upset stomachs as we ride into these primaries.

[uncbob]

Problem is it is the conservative GOP versus the RINO GOP and Democrats

Sadly we are in the minority

I ain’t optimistic

[muawiyah]

Heard most of it this afternoon.

I don't think Rush did quite enough to target the campaign professionals ~ they know Romney will pay more for more of them than will Newt.

Times are tough. They have few outside employment options. If this were 1933 I'd advise them to form a union and do a sit down strike.

See how that works.

(cynical giggles).

The electorate are angry. There are 26 million UNEMPLOYED and none of the insiders, and that includes the Fascist pigs who make up the current Regime, as well as Democrats who voted to bankrupt everybody with ObamaKKKare, have any ideas what to do about the situation.

All of those unemployed "independents", "democrats", "leftwingtards", "blacks", "occupy....", "union members" are probably NOT going to vote for more of the same from Obama and his running dog lackeys!

They have two choices ~ vote for the Republicans or stay home.

Then there are the families supporting those folks and keeping them in beans after their unemployment, should they have even had that, ran out. It is inconceivable that people with an unemployed adult in the home are going to vote for the Democrats.

It's HOOVER TIME, only this time, he's not the target ~ but the concept is the same.

South Carolina was a portent. Those folks are so economically disadvantaged to start with that they probably don't feel the effects of the Great Obama Recession, but they certainly understand it's better to have a guy as President who is willing to defend himself than to have another pansy. When you're down and out it really hurts to see a President bow to an Arab dictator.

[Colofornian]

From the transcript: George Will had a fascinating statistic over the weekend. Mitt Romney -- Mr. Electability, according to the Republican establishment; Mr. The Only Guy That Can Give Us the Senate -- is 9-and-16 in his election career. He's won nine and lost 16. He's nine out of 25. That, they tell us, is Mr. Electability -- and they're sitting around, the base is, and they're saying, "We don't care about this traditional stuff that you care about that's kept you in second place all these years."

And that's 9-16 that Romney is in largely GOP votes! (And THREE states that went Romney -- one-third of those -- were heavily Mormon...Utah, Wyoming, and Nevada...25% of GOP voters in '08 in Nevada were LDS! Take those away, and Romney is 6-16!)

Try putting Romney out there in the gen election & he'd get smothered & blown out of the water!

[Presbyterian Reporter]

The Republican Establishment has been bashing Conservatives from the get-go.

The Republican Establishment does not like Palin,Bachmann, Cain, or Perry. Instead of building up good conservative candidates, the Establishment aids and abets the media in tearing them down.

The Republican Establishment would much rather be like European Conservative Parties that are nothing more Liberal Lite Parties.

Good for Newt. It will be interesting to see how other conservative pundits analyze the situation.

[Jack Hydrazine]

GOP = Republican Socialist Party.

[mo]

What “they “-...the DC Establishment/RinoCracy does NOT want is a Gingrich Presidency to have the power to do what Gingrich SAYS he will do...dismantle DC.

Which means DC HAS to have a Democrat Senate if a Gingrich Presidency occurs.

Statistically DC/RinoCracy sees a looming disaster as a Republican Senate is all but assured this fall....

[Pilsner]

The support among the Republican base for Newt is late coming, and reluctant, but it is based on the very hard fact that, for all his flaws, Newt seems to be the best choice left. Most of us agree that reelection Obama would be euthanasia for the American Dream. But the GOP Establishment doesn't understand that many view the election of Romney as hospice care for the American Dream. I'm not at all confident that Newt can cure what ails America, but he will try. And he does have a record of (1994) of pulling off big wins that the GOP Establishment never thought would happen.

There is a school of thought, among lawyers, that when preparing for a jury trial, one should begin with closing arguments. That sound backwards, but by writing the closing argument you must make to win the case, you clarify the questions you must ask, and evidence you must introduce -- or exclude -- at trial, so everything that occurs in the trial (if things go well) will insure that you get to deliver the winning closing argument you have already written.

In 1992, 1996 and 2008, the GOP nominated guys who seemed to start preparing for their campaign by writing their concession speech, and then doing what it took to make sure that they got to deliver it. I see Romney as continuing that tradition.

[Deb]

He's full of crap that all they want is control of the money. They want to win and just think American dumbkoffs will respond better to a "moderate". That's ridiculous, but its an honest difference of strategy.

Rush is really damaging us with this "establishment vs conservative" crap. We have to keep everyone together or we really are doomed.