Panicked GOP insiders land in bizarro world

Washington Times ^ | Jan 30, 2012 | By Dr. Milton R. Wolf

[Jim Robinson]

The 2012 Republican primary race has passed well beyond the rabbit hole into some extra-dimensional bizarro world where up is down, black is white and the allies of the candidate who disavowed Reaganism would have us believe that the leader of the “second stage of the Reagan Revolution” is somehow insufficiently Reaganesque.

It’s no secret that the GOP establishment backs Mitt Romney. The same folks who gave us John McCain and Bob Dole have picked their winner. When Mr. Romney is down, their panic shows. They start floating desperate ideas like late-entry candidates or a brokered convention. They also pull out the long knives for Newt Gingrich. After the former speaker’s decisive victory in South Carolina, insiders launched an all-out assault upon him. Unmasked and panicked, the GOP establishment unleashed the tactics of the left upon the right.

GOP insiders first dredged up 2-decade-old debunked partisan ethics charges that damaged Mr. Gingrich’s reputation until the Internal Revenue Service finally exonerated him. Mr. Romney couldn’t resist seeking cheap points by joining the discredited Democrats who started the whole sordid mess. Mr. Romney featured, of all people, Nancy Pelosi with her innuendo of Mr. Gingrich’s supposed wrongdoing, ironically blasting out an email slur just as Mrs. Pelosi was backing away from it. Then came something even worse: the salacious insinuation that Mr. Gingrich somehow betrayed former President Ronald Reagan.

The anti-Gingrich onslaught reached an apogee on the Drudge Report as Romney allies fed one negative story after another, amassing an impressive 10 pieces on the influential website at one point. A screaming headline claimed that Mr. Gingrich had repeatedly insulted Reagan. The unseemly issue of Mr. Gingrich’s second marriage managed to resurface. To cap it off, Ann Coulter, the surprising new head cheerleader for the moderate movement, enjoyed seeing her latest anti-Gingrich...

[Jim Robinson]

"Unfounded charges that Mr. Gingrich, a man who was once criticized for being a “Reagan Robot,” insulted the Gipper barely pass the laugh test and definitely didn’t pass the Nancy Reagan test in 1995. Video of the former first lady honoring the speaker quickly surfaced: “Barry Goldwater handed the torch to Ronnie, and in turn Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that dream alive.” Today, it is the GOP insiders who are the ones trying to extinguish the Reagan dream."

[Jim Robinson]

"Mitt Romney is Reaganesque like Michael Moore is athletic"

Zing!

[Mmogamer]

Was listening to Erik Erikson awhile ago, man he’s a real piece of work.

[Mmogamer]

And the establishment hated Reagan, too.

[Boardwalk]

Right, Reagan would never win, never, ever.

[Texas Songwriter]

Heard today that McCain called for cessation of debates....that we have heard enough.....nothing more to learn from the candidates. In otherwords, Romney is on top and the rest of us can pound sand. I have never seen this side of the republican party.....and especially from the man who lost to obama, and to the other candidate who lost to him. Why would we expect romney, who lost to McCain, to do even as well as McCain himself. Yet here we are...moving left...alway leftward.....never recalibrated to the right. Why a crying shame.

[icwhatudo]

“amassing an impressive 10 pieces on the influential website at one point.”

Drudge’s anti-Newt screed got to 14 that day. The same day he temporarily removed (again) the link to FR.

[deoetdoctrinae]

MITT ROMNEY IS REAGANESQUE LIKE TWIGGY IS STATUESQUE.

[SF_Redux]

they are just not understanding this

Treason in Government!

Admiralty on Land!!
http://www.barefootsworld.net/admiralty.html

[Citizen Tom Paine]

One wonders what a Republican is supposed to be these days, and how they differ from Democrats. I say a pox on both their houses.

[Prospero]

It's an astounding game of perception that's underway, by those folks who sell "inevitability." And that's a perception that does not have to last forever. It only has to last through the latter Primaries.

Children playing dangerous games on the beach.

[onyx]

Thanks very much, Jim!

"Mitt Romney is Reaganesque like Michael Moore is athletic"

Zing!

Whack!

[swamprebel]

http://www.talesofmitt.com/

[Ethrane]

Wow, this primary is getting schizophrenic...for every article I read lauding Newt, I see another (like the one in the same issue of the Washington Times by the editor Tyrell) that slings more mud Newt’s way.

Weird...

[RedMDer]

Click


GO NEWT!
GO FREE REPUBLIC!!!
Newt Gingrich @ The Villages in Florida Sunday January 29 2012
In 1980 we were involved in a campaign like this and it was clear that we needed a conservative that was a long way from Jimmy Carter in order to win because you had to show the difference.
And I would argue, we tried a moderate in 1996 and we couldn’t show the difference.
We tried a moderate in 2008 and we couldn’t show the difference.
If we are going to beat Obama, he’s going to have a Billion dollars and almost all of it will be used negatively because he doesn’t have any posistive record to run on.
So he’s gone from yes-we-can to why-we-couldn’t as his theme. So we need to have someone that can show a sharp distinction.
ObamaCare and RomneyCare are about this far apart (shows about one inch.) you can’t make the difference.
Where we are as Conservatives is about this far apart. Obama will not be able to hide from the difference...

[dforest]

Wow, the guy that wrote this piece is Obama’s typical white cousin.

Hard to believe a hated conservative is in the family.

The guy definitely nails the sentiment.

[tomkat]

Please feel free to use this brainstorm to your hearts' content:

Miff Romney - A Whiter Shade of FAIL _©

[ConfidentConservative]

LORD, Open the eyes of your people that they may see the truth and vote for Gingrich.

Amen

[b9]

Drudge is where I discovered FR.

2003 was a different world...

[ptsal]

....Let’s hear from John McSlime’s fat toady daughter....a piece of work... Maybe she can explain the dependable voting history of John McNasty....