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Posted on 01/27/2012 7:27:18 PM PST by Steelfish
The GOP Empire Strikes Back At Gingrich
By Dan Balz January 27
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The revenge of the Republican establishment is a sight to behold. From one corner to another, those who have tangled with Newt Gingrich, who feel aggrieved toward Newt Gingrich or who fear Newt Gingrich have amassed to stop him. They know how much harder it will be to do so if the former House speaker wins Florida on Tuesday.
The quintessential example of establishment angst came Thursday from Bob Dole, the former Senate majority leader and 1996 Republican presidential nominee. Hours before Thursday’s GOP debate, he released a letter — circulated by Mitt Romney’s campaign — attacking Gingrich and pleading with Republican voters not to make him the party’s nominee. There is much rich history behind that letter.
Dole is just one voice in a chorus of critics who have spoken out. Gingrich’s victory in South Carolina just a week ago sent a shudder through the ranks of elected officials and others who make up the establishment and the conservative elite. Fear of Newt has displaced lack of love for Romney as the dominant emotion among these Republicans.
In recent days, the group has included former House majority leader Tom Delay (R-Tex.) and the caustic Ann Coulter. A trio of House members shadow Gingrich’s events. Others who are prominent in the conservative movement have joined ex-colleagues of Gingrich to sound the alarms.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The establishment message that Gingrich is a threat to the party is not new, but the intensity with which it is being delivered is. That he might become the nominee has touched off near panic in the ranks ahead of Tuesday’s vote. Party establishments, to the degree they exist, have only limited power to direct the course of events. But to the extent that they have power, they are exercising it with a vengeance.
Over the target, ergo co-ordinated and all-inclusive flack.
Very very interesting that DeLay considers Newt a threat. That puts him in the Bush/Rove/Hutchison camp for me. Statist, in other words.
I put the poison pills back on the shelf when Newt won SC.
This thing has the potential for more twists and turns than a gunny sack full of blue racers...
The GOP establishment and the Democrat Party are both rooted in and controlled by the same deep pockets. To make it worse - the GOP establishment knows well and good that no real Conservative is going to win without them (or so they are selling in the media).
The GOP establishment and the Democrat Party are both rooted in and controlled by the same deep pockets. To make it worse - the GOP establishment knows well and good that no real Conservative is going to win without them (or so they are selling in the media).
ote:America has been reduced to a sweet memory for a lack of high standards. I must say it again. High standards come from Almighty God, and were the foundation of this nation. Without God there can be no America
That is why the elites want abortion legal;ironically ,my observation is that poor people are more likely to accept the unwed mother and child as still a human person,but the “higher” social groups don’t want the bloodlines soiled or confused.The glaring double standard was always the king or prince or wealthy landowner and son “vigorously” siring plenty of bastards but WOE to any than touched THEIR womenfolk!
America has a ruling class whose first loyalty is to themselves not the Constitution.
“If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices,” Dole wrote. “Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway.”
Well, Bob and your spineless gop-e hand-wringers, in case you haven't noticed, it's Zero's way or the highway.
I can't wait to drive down Newt's highway. GO NEWT!
I would too.
Here is a link to the Tom DeLay interview. Not nearly the trashing that everybody is making it out to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeD3qHR2C4U
The conservative rebellion in the house was greatly influenced, in my opinion, by the necessity house republicans felt to be a contrast with the Clintonian antics, not to join in with them, which would have been a betrayal of the higher ethical conduct platform they had won control of the house on four short years before.
How fitting that, now, they dare try to subvert what they perceive to be "the People's" will by launching a well-coordinated debate-day attack on Gingrich, complete with an on-site "flash mob" for Romney.
The problem is they never have encountered the power of a people who are beginning to understand their rights, and who, with the First President, George Washington, recognize the dangers of Party, when that Party fails to protect the Constitution and liberty.
‘The peasants are revolting’
as someone said the other day, ‘when was the last time that we have heard from Dole?.. he could have been speaking out against Obama these past 3 years, but he waits until now to go after Newt.
You are nearly hitting the nail on the head. Here is what I see signs of in talking to quite a few people who are quite Conservative:
IF Romney gets the appointment as the nominee - Fiscal conservatives will stay home in droves - and Social conservatives are learning more about his “pro-choice” positions - thus limiting their influence as well..
IF Newt gets the nomination, Social conservatives will stay home in droves, and even some fiscal conservatives will dodge the polls.
IF Santorum gets the nod - people will sleep through election day...
Ron Paul - Some of the independent voters and quite a few Libertarians will vote for him - but a large portion of Republicans won’t bother.
And NONE of these candidates are going to help candidates “down-ticket” - where we absolutely HAVE to gain seats - especially in the Senate.
What the Conservatives and remaining GOP (not the “establishment” chunk) at all levels desperately need is a truly inspirational candidate who can energize the base - and motivate the voters to get out in force to take this nation back. Absolutely NONE of the the remaining “GOP” have that potential or ability. I seriously doubt the ability for ANY of them to even offer a serious challenge to Obama who SHOULD be one of the EASIEST candidates in the last century to beat (he make Jimmy Carter look like a fair president). Yet the best any polls today show is a “close” race, and many show Obama as beating any of the GOP hopefuls.
How did we get to this sad point? I will give you a hint (and many Freepers are guilty as sin) - compromise - year after year, election after election - we have tried the “anybody but ___________” attitude... and we have watched the whole political landscape shift Leftward. The hole that has been dug is a mighty deep one - and one that is growing dangerously close to insurmountable.
'Your excellence, the peasants are revolting. Just so ya know'.
'Yes, they are, my good men, ugly people. How's that George P doin?'
'Very well once we launch him, your Excellency. With your permission, of course'.
We need to take notes and make an enemies list.
I just pray the Tea Party people can pull this out and get Newt in.
I am well aware of the idiosyncrasies of the “ruling class”.
But they are a small segment of American society. Of course many of us “think” they are members of that class. For some reason I have never separated America into classes. I judge and accept or reject ALL people on the merits of demerits of their own character. Don’t you?
The real “ruling class” of the world separate themselves from the rest of us in many ways, preferring to remain overt though powerful.
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