Limbaugh is talking about this now. He said they don’t feel they can beat Obama so all they care about is controlling the money in the Senate. WE THE PEOPLE ARE SICK OF SUCH WUSSES WHO WILL NOT STAND UP AGAINST A RADICAL IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND WE KNOW WUSSES CANNOT BEAT OBAMA. EITHER GET WITH THE PROGRAM OR GET OUT OF THE WAY! WE THE PEOPLE ARE COMING!!!!
Pulling out alllllll the stops...they want a RHINO, not a Bull...and Newt has a few scores to settle and they don’t want him in their china shop. Heh heh heh ... watching these corrupt bastards scurry is priceless.
“GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, who previously served as Sen. John McCain’s senior campaign strategist”
Tell me all I need to know.
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.
There really is a risk. What gets you the presidency can ruin the outcome in the congressional races. That said, you can also be too smart by half.
Maybe if the republicans in congress started exercising their conservative muscle, they’d have a better chance.
These were the same people that said last year that their primary goal in 2012 was winning a senate majority and increasing their house majority—NOT winning the presidency.
I’m sure someone can dig up the memo, but they made it pretty clear they were willing to leave Obama in office another 4 years to achieve those goals. That’s why they were pushing Romney. Not because they thought he had the best chance of winning, but because they thought the GOP would do better in senate and house races with Romney at the top of the ticket—even if he lost.
The only threat the Republican members of the House of Representatives actually see is that their gravy train will end once Newt Gingrich is President.
Note the following:
When Speaker Gingrich allowed Representative John R. Kasich of Ohio, the budget committee chairman, to try to rally House Republicans around a conservative blueprint for more than $100 billion in new savings, the moderates refused to back it.
It was the so-called moderates who pushed Gingrich out of Congress. He left because too many Republicans refused to stop eating off the body of Uncle Sam.
Oh yeah, and many of those Republicans are still in Congress. They are part of the ongoing problem of business as usual in Washignton, D.C. Under a Republican president, they added over $3 trillion to the federal deficit, shunned conservative policy in favor of Beltway influence-peddling, and so damaged the GOP brand that we lost the majority Gingrich had worked years to forge.
Do you really think any of us should give a damn that Newt’s fabulous colleagues think his reemergence would be a disaster for Republicans? No.
The elections of 2010 were NOT a merit promotion; the Republicans were the only alternative in town!
Down Ballot will be ALL TEA PARTY VICTORIES!
THAT is what they fear!
Got news for them. I am much more inclined to sit out the next election with Romney at the top of the ticket than Newt. I will likely show up either way, but a vote for Romney would be just a “no” vote for Obama, where a vote for Newt would be a vote FOR Newt.
All Gingrich has to do is get people to the polls. I think there will be huge turnout if Gingrich is nominated.
-PJ
This article doesn't have anything to do with this cycle being "Romney's turn", does it?
What about the down-ballot effect of choosing Romney?
Republicans could end up being so bored or disgusted by his milquetoast campaign that they wouldn’t show up anyway.
And, to repeat, IF MITT IS THE NOMINEE, THE ELECTION IS LOST ANYWAY.
So .... Let’s take our chances with the Truth, and trust that this time, without Bog Media having a free hand to spew their propaganda - what happened in 2008 - this time America will see what a fraud and fake Obama is.
Total BS. Look at the very high turnout in South Caroline in very bad weather with tornado warnings. With these high enthusiastic Conservative turnouts it will help the downstream candidates. GO LEROY GO!
And well they should fear. None of the Sen. or Reps. have represented the people or the Constitution as they swore to do. They should ALL be kicked out!!
This is nonsense. What the republican establishment fears is downballot victories for conservatives! In the 1980 election, liberals were mowed down across the country. Republicans gained 12! seats in the senate and something like 30 in the house. McConnell and Boehner are worried they’ll be swept out of their cushy leadership positions.
A truly conservative house and senate, combined with a conservative president can really shake up the government.
Both the democratic and republican establishments want a moderate to win the republican nomination so there will be a close election and the gravy train can keep flowing to both sides.
A massive blowout in a conservative direction ruins everything they’ve been trying to put back in place since Reagan’s landlides upset their apple cart.
The GOP ran supposedly the “most electable” candidate in 2008 with John McCain who would “appeal” to moderates and independents. (The way the MSM fawned over McCain one would think he was the “most electable” ever). The GOP lost a net 8 senate seats and net 21 house seats.