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...

[houeto]

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

Just did. Thanks for the permission.

[tentmaker]

Maybe... point is, he’s unlikely to see the light and endorse Gingrich to save the country and his party from Romney.

[caww]

I’ve been listening to CNN when I have to see what’s happening...not much difference now than Fox. And Beck’s TV is just too crazy for my taste.

The only way we’re going to survive the media now are boots on the ground. Call, talk and persuade.....and do it alot!

[tet68]

From the article...

“...but in truth, if you connect the dots between the ideals of the Reagan Revolution, Mr. Gingrich’s Republican Revolution and the Tea Party movement, you get a straight line.”

That’s pretty much how I see it.

[houeto]

Santorum is more like Romney than he is like Gingrich.

So you think he'll endorse FUMR?

[4Runner]

Drudge just posted a most unflattering photo of Gingrich on the front page. This is all so incredibly underhanded and deliberate. Because they know so many women will vote for a candidate based solely upon appearances. That’s the way women are wired, no matter how much they protest to the contrary. It’s what gave America Obama. The female vote. Oooh they thought he was sooooooo cute. Like they think Romney is very presidential looking. It’s all they really care about. Women don’t vote issues or philosophy. They vote appearance.

[tentmaker]

Yup. Screw the Republican party. They have stood in opposition to that line at every point.

[show]

First order of business... Newt asks England to return the Bust of Churchill back to the White House as a gesture of solidarity to our long standing ally, England.

President Bush accepts a bust of Sir Winston Churchill from ambassador of England, Sir Christopher Meyer July 16, 2001. "He was a man of great courage. He knew what he believed. And he really kind of went after it in a way that seemed like a Texan to me," said the President explaining why he would like the likeness of an Englishman placed inside the Oval Offfice. "He charged ahead, and the world is better for it.".

[houeto]

If and when he does yield hopefully it will be when it matters the greatest he does so..meanwhile Ron Paul continues to cover Romneys flank.

I seen a big split in here caww, over whether he will break for Newt or Mitt. I know where my prayers lie. Other than that, I'm not so sure.

[tomkat]

You're most welcome !

Swipe / Print / Disseminate !

[Billthedrill]

Romney is now in a position where he must win in Florida because this slime storm really was his best shot. If he wins it will be because of it and if he loses it will be despite it, but the slime storm now takes on its own status as a campaign issue. That doesn't argue well for Mittens because of all of the candidates Gingrich will use it.

Yeah, bizarro world. It's turned into a very strange place indeed, where Drudge reveals himself as no better than any other power-mad establishment journalist and Coulter has become as pathetic and irrelevant as Kathleen Parker. And that the rallying point for the Tea Party turns out to be one beat-up old Navy vet in a wheelchair who won't give up.

Eagles up.

[tomkat]

Pass it around, ma’am .. after FL, it’s still a long haul to the convention !

[houeto]

Women don’t vote issues or philosophy. They vote appearance.

FRiend, on this forum, you had better be wearing FULL BODY ARMOR!

[chickenlips]

I just saw on Red State he is endorsing Romney. Then the strangest thing happened, his bookmark disappeared from my browser!

[Boardwalk]

Romney HAS to win Florida. Newt just has to finish close if not FIRST! GO NEWT! Come on FL!!

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!!

Thank you very much!!

We are the resistance!!

Go, tea party!!

Sarah now on Hannity nailing the GOP-e and their lies!! Newt up next!!

[show]

God Bless Jim Robinson for standing for the Republic.

Jim Robinson has influence and that the elites ignore that Free Republic will continue to trash Romney FOREVER, is on them.

They know they are screwed because Romney will continue to be bashed equally with Zero forever because they are both Libs.

The RINO establishment doesn’t have the Tea Party or Free Republic which is why Romney will lose forever.

[piasa]

The female vote. Oooh they thought he was sooooooo cute. Like they think Romney is very presidential looking. It’s all they really care about. Women don’t vote issues or philosophy. They vote appearance.

Didn't Newt get the female vote in Carolina?

[SuziQ]

And the establishment hated Reagan, too.

They certainly did!

[Bigun]

Jim I don’t know how the insiders could land in Bizaro world cause they never left the place if you ask me!