Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Déjà Vu

We MUST get away from appearing to be primarily for serving the 1% !

Romney and Gingrich both have their good and bad points.

Romney must be told, we want a Conservative, he has to be that way all the time, if he wants to have the amount of needed support in order to win !

Ron Paul US Treasury Secretary !

Beware Obama will use the message-momentum of the left-wing-liberal-moderate-part of the OWS-99-% type-groups, in order to paint any-all GOP candidates as the tyrannical-usurping-cheating-swindling-corrupt-criminal 1-% !

We must help-inform Romney on how to "easily-effectively" neutralize-avoid-this potentially-highly-effective Obama-OWS-99%-1% political-economic-social strategy !

Talk about auditing the Federal Reserve Banking system, dropping all of Obamanation's anti-American Federal lawsuits against pro-American states that have passed anti-illegal-alien-immigration, voter-ID, related bills-laws !

AZ, AL, SC, GA, TX, UT, IN, PA !

We MUST get away from appearing to be primarily for serving the 1% !

Talk about auditing the Federal Reserve Banking system, dropping all of Obamanation's anti-American Federal lawsuits against pro-American states that have passed anti-illegal-alien-immigration, voter-ID, related bills-laws !

AZ, AL, SC, GA, TX, UT, IN, PA !

We MUST get away from appearing to be primarily for serving the 1% !

“Newt took note”??? What the heck is that supposed to mean? Newt Gingrich was 21 YEARS OLD AT THAT TIME!!!

Give me a f - - - ing break!

Steyn says - After a fiery assault by Rick Santorum on Romney’s support for an individual mandate in health care, Mitt sneered back at Rick that “it wasn’t worth getting angry over.” Which may be a foretaste of the energy he would bring to any attempted course correction in Washington.

The individual mandate didn't come out of a liberal think tank. It came out of a conservative institution called The Heritage Society as an alternative to Hillarycare.

The only real parallel between 1964 and now is that the GOP RINOS continue to 'ride' the leftist Mainsream media and to 'tar' any genuine conservative candidates in the GOP as 'wild-eyed', 'dangerous' 'fanatics' . The RINOS (who are the 'conservative wing' of the Democratic party) do the DNC'S 'dirty work' for it, and attempt to discredit the conservative candidate long before the general election.

These types of analagous pieces are interesting but ultimately flawed usually. In the case of 1964 so much more was going on that isnt mentioned. First of all JFK was gunned down in Dallas in Nov. 63 exactly one year before the election- and LBJ took on the mantle of JFK immediately and rode that horse as valiantly as he could. In reality LBJ and JFK were mortal enemies- but in the case of post assassination politics LBJ was JFK. Also the economy was good and JFK's tax cuts worked. The fact is JFK was an icon and defeating Johnson would be about as easy as robbing Fort Knox. The fact also is Vietnam had only just begun, the new era of politically active SDS types was in its infancy and the country was looking up literally (NASA and the...

..space program) and figuratively (post assasination idealization of the Great Society and elimination of poverty and all other to come reduction or elimination of social ills) The turbulence of the late 60's was still relatively far away. So to say these times are analogous is a real stretch. You could easily say this time is a combination of 1964 in the internicine war in the republican party and 1980 in the publics fear and loathing of the present economic and foreign policy crisis'. Its 2012 and the era of constitutional republican democracy is very very imperiled.

HISTORY LESSON

George Romney, Mitt Romney's father and former Gov. of Michigan, was one of Nelson Rockefeller's closest allies in the intra-party, Goldwater Vs Rockefeller, civil war.

When Goldwater won the nomination, Nelson Rockefeller REFUSED TO ENDORSE HIM IN THE GENERAL, as did George Romney, Mitt Romney's father and Rockefeller henchman.

FAST FORWARD TO REAGAN IN 76

The establishment swooped in to oppose Reagan, Goldwater's conservative successor, and after a tough fight for the nomination the establishments candidate, Gerald Ford prevailed, and Reagan promptly endorsed Ford and implored his people to vote for Ford at the convention.

4 YEARS LATER

The establishment pulls out all the stops again in an effort to beat Reagan ...

... first drafting Howard Baker, the man who literally handed Nixon over to the liberal mob, then settling on George Bush the elder, the ultimate establishmentarian who had often antagonized conservatives and clearly viewed them with contempt.

When Reagan won the nomination, he was forced by the establishment to place Bush on the ticket, a man who had spent the entire primary season mocking Reagan and his supporters, calling us crazies and calling Reagan's economic plans, Supply Side, "Voodoo Economics", otherwise Reagan was told he would not get the enthusiastic support of the establishment.

So Reagan put Bush the elder on the ticket, and what did he get from MITT ROMNEY in return?

Mitt denounced Reagan and supported the democrat!!

SO DON'T TELL CONSERVATIVES TO SUPPORT MITT ROMNEY

Hell no!

I will NEVER vote for this man.

NEVER

The issue in 1964 was that after Nelson Rockefeller lost the nomination to Barry Goldwater, he refused to campaign for the nominee. He took his toys (and his bruised ego) and went back to wherever Rockefellers dwelt and nursed his wounds. The GOP splintered, LBJ had his girl-with-daisy TV ad, and Goldwater lost the election. Another commercial for Anacin or something talked about "24M people wake up each day with a headache." That's how many people woke up the day after the 1964 election, having cast their vote for Goldwater. LBJ was a failure, from the start. Lesson learned by some, but not by Democrats. They still think more government is the answer.

What will be repeated is McCain/Romney giving the electiom to Mr.O. , but the next generatrion will learn what Communism is and start thinking of how to throw off the dictator . This , however takes time and a lot of suffering . Most of the time , as we learn from history , millions of innocents perish in the process .

If American and Republican voters want to lose this election to the Obamacommies 2012, keep focusing on President Reagan. As admirable as President Reagan was, he is history and we cannot win an election by focing on the past. Many American voters ages 18-42 are not even aware of who Ronald Reagan was and if we want to win an election 2012, the GOP, the candidates [ultimately nominee], the Tea Party, the conservatives, and the talking heads on radio and TV who nobody should listen to anyway, all should be crafting plans, policy and rhetoric to reach voters age 18-80. This dwelling on the past is a pathetic attempt to identify with a great president...forget about it and identify with our current issues and speak to our time.

Snore. We hear this every time from the people too young to have known who Ronald Reagan really was and what an awful threat was posed by the Soviet Empire.

I sure ought to know, went to highschool with Cuban expatriots 62-64, drafted in 66; hired a young Czech expatriot in the early 80s, business during the Reagan years was terrific, been voting Republican since 68...and you want to tell me I don't know....

The attacks on Newt are not all coming from the 'establishment' - some are just coming from people who are for Obama and want to stir things up. Some are coming from people who have old grudges, like his ex-wife. This is not a conspiracy but typical divide and conquer politics. Problem is, Newt isn't the enemy. But neither are Romney, Santorum or Paul the enemy. The enemies are Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the left.

Focus, people - focus.

Dancing Bear Wrote: 2 hours ago (2:30 AM)
There is no victory with Romney. Just more of the following:

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Even if everything you wrote is true, and it's mostly speculation on your part - Romney is still way, way better than Obama - because Obama is not FOR America - he is a dangerous man who will literally bring about WWIII if he is allowed to continue. The destruction he's already wrought is massive.

Look, the meme for the 2012 Campaign will be written by Obama and the Leftist Media. It will be called Class Warfare and Racism.

As soon as Romney steps on stage, he's the actual embodiement of all the things The Liberals despise: he's wealthy, and got the way by using other people's money, not by inventing a product and winning a market; he *looks* like Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street"; he's effeminate and lispy, a wuss.

Gingrich is a white-haired grandfather, self educated and self-made, a rebel all his life. He can win against Obama and the Class Warfare machine.

Romney has no chance at all.

Romney is not my choice, but I'm smart enough to recognize that we must first get the fox out of the chickencoop before we can start to clean up the chickencoop. Obama is the worst thing that has ever happened to America, and his presidency MUST end soon or we are toast as a country. Getting Obama OUT should be the number one goal of all Americans, regardless of who is the opponent.

Both Mitt and Newt, along with Santorum and Paul, should be hammering home Obama's miserable failures as a president EACH AND EVERY DAY, in every interview, and every speech. Keep the focus always on Democrats, their rotten policies, leadership abdication, etc.....

There is no victory with Romney. Just more of the following:

--Liberal policies by any other name.

--Obamacare, because Mitt believes in it (read his Massachusetts plan) and thinks we should not get "mad" about it (see debate from Thursday). Come on, do you really think he is going to make changes, or will he just enrich his crony friends by keeping heavy regulations and letting them implement them?

--Higher levels of govt. spending, fear of drastic cuts which are necessary to even have a prayer of solvency.

--Continued use of affirmative action programs and attacks on people who try to do away with affirmative action (Remember when Bush's solicitor general argued FOR affirmative action in college admissions?

--More corruption, etc.

DEAR FLORIDA

You need to punish Mitt Romney and the establishment and their attack dogs in the faux conservative media for the most despicable display of filth in the history of GOP politics, BLOODY THURSDAY, the day the full force of the establishment decided to CARPET BOMB Newt Gingrich with one filthy smear after another, and the mission was crystal clear ... incinerate Newt Gingrich.

You know who recognized BLOODY THURSDAY for what it was?

The one person who lived it, SARAH PALIN, and she aptly called it ...

"A COORDINATED EFFORT TO CRUCIFY NEWT GINGRICH"

In the name of all that is decent, please do not reward Mitt Romney and his surrogates for this behavior.

Punish them for it.

VOTE NEWT

Write on Dobermite.

I could not agree more.

There was a time when Town Hall seemed to have more integrity than many other media outlets. They are as lame now as mainstream media. So, what to do? Just stay home when Mitt is elected. Not worth having Obama in different clothes. Just not worth it.

Honestly, I despise Mitt Romney to the point where I might even contribute to Obama to prevent another RINO from being elected and giving conservatism even a WORSE name (if that is possible) so Hillary wins the next election.

Any of the others I could at least live with. Even Rick Santorum. But Romney is a two-faced, hypocritical, cowardly politico raised to the 10th power. And I wish he would do his own dirty work and own up to it. Now I know - Obama in 2012 if Romney is the nominee. No other choice.

This is commonly called "Taking Counsel Of Your Fears". - being so afraid of what might happen that you are afraid to take chances- and lose anyway.
The problem with this type of thinking applied to governmental policy is that they NEVER get around to actually reversing or fighting bad policy- because that are afraid they might lose. Which means that the side that believes in its own policies advance those. In the current political climate that has meant Liberal Policies get advanced- Conservative ones DON'T.

And that kind of thinking has paralyzed the Republican party before and after Reagan took office.