Posted on 01/26/2012 4:29:56 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Link only: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-26/-stop-newt-republicans-confront-base-unwilling-to-take-orders.html
Link to article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-26/-stop-newt-republicans-confront-base-unwilling-to-take-orders.html
Stop-Romney Republicans confront establishment unwilling to listen.
fixed.
These people are crazy. If Mr. Newt gets the nomination are they going to vote for Obummer ?I don’t think so.This reminds me of the Nixonian “silent majority” election.I think the majority of people already know they are voting for ANYONE other than Obummer.
Yes.
I think it's stupid to style a political disagreement based on various interpretations of the FACTS of Mr. Gingrich's political and policy career as "Stop-Newt Republicans Confront Base Unwilling to Take Orders."
The victim mentality inherent in even thinking that, by voicing their opposition to a candidate for whatever reason, people are trying to give one "orders" is just embarrassing.
Fight to persuade people to your point of view.
Don't sit around whining and complaining about how victimized you are by the fact that other people are doing the same.
I’m sick of the line the Mittens is more electable because of independents. Exit polls in SC said that Newt won independents 31% to 25% over Romney.
It’s not that those opposed to Newt are unwilling to listen. It’s that they are opposed to Newt and they have their reasons.
So what.
Are those opposed to Romney “unwilling to listen”? No. They are opposed to Romney and they have their reasons.
Turning a political disagreement into a psychodrama, where the main act is to analyse the state of mind of those who oppose one’s candidates, as opposed to engaging the facts that underlie that opposition, is not helpful.
And arguing that “if only people really listened to what I’m saying, they’d agree with me” is embarrassing. The fact is that people DO listen and they STILL reach varied conclusions.
Not directed at you specifically.
Dammitttttt!
DAmmittallllll!!!
WE done given you Ford/Dole/Bush 1a/McCain!!!!!!!!
This time its MITTENS!!!! Ya hear me??? Mittens MITTENS MITTENS!!!!!!!!!
Now shut up and take it for the team!! (OUR tem, not yours.)
Not me. Even though Paul is my last choice ( still above Romney), I will vote third party before I will support Romney.
If we are going to have a gun grabbing, pro abortion, pro global warming, socialist with no spine or integrity, let him be a Democrat. I refuse to support a scum bag liberal like Romney.
My disdain for him is palpable. Disgusting individual.
Bottom line. No one else is capturing the mood of conservatives as eloquently as Newt. Romney simply doesn't have the conservative credentials no matter how much he claims otherwise. The GOP "leadership" are inept, tone deaf and WEAK from a conservative point of view. Any organization that can't (refuses) to illustrate a stark contrast to a very weak Obama by backing a conservative that its base wants and to whom independents will gravitate towards, isn't worthy of our support as conservatives.
The fact that the rise of Reagan was an anomaly with the GOP speaks volumes about their "leadership's" strategic goals and their tactics to reach them.
They haven`t figured out the base is willing to take a risk to win, rather than lose gracefully. I`m convinced the estabs have already conceded the Presidential race to Obama and have reduced their objectives to holding onto the House and maybe have an outside chance of winning the Senate, thus their attempt to charm the mushy “middle” by pushing Romney.
The stupid GOP elite need to have a revelation on why we are not falling into line. Then they need to care about our position and join our side. If they do not it is over for the GOP.
The difference I see is threefold: Newt's liberal tendencies (global warming, single-payer) are just as often offset by conservative positions. Second, Newt can be pulled rightward---we've seen that. Call it expediency, call it him being a politician. Romney CANNOT. He is a liberal, pure and simple. Third, Newt will attack Obama and Romney won't. This is the only way we win this election, because the election is a referendum on Obama, not Newt.
To me, case closed. Elect Newt, and turn up the fire to keep him on course.
I must confess I've always had issues with someone telling me what to do. Or how to vote.
As much as it pains me to say this, I'd almost rather lose with someone who will push back and strongly challenge Obama's socialism and the media, than win with a watered down RINO version of Obama's socialism that will allow himself to be pushed around by the media and the left.
Newt is not one of them.
Standing up for principle invites a certain amount of pain. The alternative Romney is a form of cut opiate offered up by the GOP. Painless, effortless, addictive and just as destructive as what the left pushes but at a slower rate.
It’s a decent article. While reading it I kept being reminded of Trent Lott’s comment of incoming Tea Party congress-critters last January - “We’ll just have to co-opt them”. It showed the elites disregard and disrespect for the base. That’s all we’ve been getting from the establishment - the back of their hand. And now they are STUNNED that we won’t bend over and do as we are told.
It’s called reaping the whirlwind suckers!
I’m sick of the line the Mittens is more electable because of independents. Exit polls in SC said that Newt won independents 31% to 25% over Romney........................................... That’s because there were more Republican leaning Independents than Democrat ones in GA. IMO, Independents are Republicans or Democrats that don’t want a party label.
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