“… I am not supporting Newt. I am not going to vote Newt. I will not support him in any way. .. He is not a nice human being. … He de-humanizes anybody who gets in his way. … The Republicans I talk to say he cannot win the nomination at any cost. He will destroy our party. He will elect Barack Obama. … There are a lot of people with a lot of money saying, ‘How do we open this back up?’ .. ‘How do we broker a convention. … We have to have another bite at the apple.” – Joe Scarborough
The Republican establishment has seen what their base is about to do and they’re in a panic and rightly so. The tipping point coming when Donald Trump reentered the fray with his Apprentice Debate, the optics and audio of which boiled down the Republican farce we’ve been watching all year.
This segment is delicious… really, watch it. At one point at then end of the opening segment of “Morning Joe,” Scarborough even served up that Republicans are talking about how to “broker a convention.” The Hill has a further report along the same lines, though it’s not just the “kingmakers” in a meltdown over the very real possibility of Newt Gingrich winning the nomination. It’s everybody in the entire conservative echelon.
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If you didn’t see the opening segment of “Morning Joe” today the above video will inform you. It was explosive and goes with what uber insider Mark Halperin is also hearing. From The Hill:
…Coburn, a member of the House GOP class of 1994 that tried to overthrow Gingrich as Speaker, said on “Fox News Sunday,” “I’m not inclined to be a supporter of Newt Gingrich’s, having served under him for four years and experienced personally his leadership. … I found it lacking, oftentimes.”
In the 2008 GOP primary, Coburn backed Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).
New York Rep. Pete King (R) last week told Capital, a New York publication, that Gingrich was “condescending … dismissive,” with a “superiority complex,” when he served with him in the lower chamber.
King added that “the problem was, over a period of time, he couldn’t stay focused. He was undisciplined. Too often, he made it about himself.”
Meanwhile, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has said Romney is “not conservative” and labeled him a “flip-flopper.”
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) in April told The Hill, “He’s a guy of 1,000 ideas, and the attention span of a 1-year-old. His discipline and his attention to any individual thing is not his strong suit.”
Mitt Romney doesn’t escape the barrage either, but Republicans are finally waking up that the Republican nomination circus will not only produce a candidate that will lose to Pres. Obama, but inspire independent challengers as well.
The question remains, with the momentum Newt Gingrich has today, how do Republicans stop him?
Only a flood of negative ads against Newt in Iowa, but especially South Carolina, will get it done. But someone better pull that trigger fast.
Calling Karl Rove.
OH THANK YOU JEEBUS!!!!! First Cain…then NEWT!!!!!!!!!!! Oh don’t stop it HURTS SO GOOD!!!!
Everyone should take the time to watch the video in my piece above.
Scarborough served with Gingrich and has been tearing him up for the last couple of weeks, but today it went to a whole ‘nothing level.
Just. Wow.
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This Silly Ol Lying Obamazoid should be deleted because he/she/it is NEVER on topic.
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Ouch.
And probably well earned too.
Somewhere I heard that Joe Scarborough is the “Tokyo Rose” of the Democratic Party. After this mornings rant I am starting to believe it. I was shocked when Joe revealed on air that members of congress email him regarding their disdain for Gingrich. I would be worried about ever trusting him. Joe has been taking it to Newt since his rise in the polls but you are right TM this morning was lethal. Joe said that he served with Newt but he doesn’t know him personally. How does that happen? Joe and Newt are very similar and have quite a bit “in common”. Maybe that is why Joe hates him. Example: Joe states Newt demonizes his opponents and says nasty things about them… I wonder what each of the Republican candidates whom Joe has demonized over the last few months as they moved to the front, would have to say. Joe is a piece of work.
Joe will vote for Obama just like he did last time and cast his vote for job security.
I guess I am the only one who would like to see Obama vs. Gingrich in a debate. More exciting that Obama vs. Romney. I just don’t think it will happen. I still think Romney will be the nominee. He has plenty of money to take out Newt and it will be good practice for him. He will need to finally get dirty and scuffed up to prepare to go against Obama and the media.
As someone who actually had Gingrich as their rep, you’re wasting your breath defending him. He’s not worth it.
Sasha,
Joe Scarborough was a Republican. So if he is a fifth columnist he is doing that dirty work on the GOP.
Joe Scarborough was a Republican. So if he is a fifth columnist he is doing that dirty work on the GOP.
Interesting. Makes sense in a way, however it appears to me that Joe is about as popular with the Republicans as Newt. He would have a very, very small army working with him, but I guess it is possible.
When you are a dirty agent you usually put your own self-interests first and nobody can really trust you. Joe could be both a Tokyo Rose and a Fifth Columnist.
Defending Newt.
Never.
I simply think that he and Joe are just alike. I wouldn’t trust either one of them.
As I have said before, I think it will be Romney.
I think the Republican Convention in Tampa, Florida is going to be interesting. Its going to be the Tea Party vs the establishment, and its going to get ugly. They will hand Obama another term if Gingrich wins the nomination.
You are so right FMI. If the establishment snatches the nomination from Hillary.., oops I mean Newt it will be explosive. Newt is no Hillary and he will not go quietly. I can’t wait!
“The question remains, with the momentum Newt Gingrich has today, how do Republicans stop him?
Only a flood of negative ads against Newt in Iowa, but especially South Carolina, will get it done. ”
Meh, maybe not Taylor. The natives are restless, and especially in the Dixie primaries blowback could be an issue. The sons and daughters of the Confederacy could rally round Newt if Mr Magic Underpants gets too frisky. Newt could play the matyr card in the land of cotton quite well.
I know I sound like a skipping record on this point, but Newt’s negatives are baked in like no other candidate we have seen in a generation. I don’t know if a typical oppo data dump on Newt will work. The base may vote for him precisely because he pisses off the establishment; because he is so irredeemable dirty. The more the establishment dumps on Newt, the more his polls might soar.
Taylor, you are right about one thing, they have to get this oppo out and blasting before Santa and his elves short-circuit the political calendar. There are only nineteen shopping days left before the jolly old elf drops down the chimney. That is only two weeks and change. I’ll be hitting the panic button sometime next week– making a list, checking it twice, planning the dishes I will cook,etc, etc, etc. I’m sure much of the US will be suffering the same tunnel vison too. By the time the public re-engages in politics, Romney’s campaign may have taken on significant amounts of water. I know Mitt has built his campaign for the long haul, but that might not matter. If he gets on the wrong side of the power curve after January, it may not matter how much energy he puts in the nomination effort. Marathon Mitt might just set himself up for the death of a thousand cuts.
“Republicans are finally waking up that the Republican nomination circus will not only produce a candidate that will lose to Pres. Obama, but inspire independent challengers as well.”
A little slow on the uptake are they not? Why the hell did it take the rise of Newt for them to finally figure it out? They should have gotten the message sometime after Perry’s second self-immolation. Hell the claxons should have been blasting when Bachmann became the queen of the prom all the way back at the Iowa State Fair.
A few thoughts on the Republican nomination processes as it has play out so far:
http://wiskeytangofoxtrotoscar.blogspot.com/2011/12/is-this-any-way-to-run-major-party.html