With nothing better to do on a Friday night, I type….
Living in Orange County, CA (large Republican base), we have two major newspapers to choose from. The Orange County Register and The Los Angeles Times. The LA Times clearly has better overall journalism, though it definitely leans left.
This article in today’s Times, by David Horsey, came as a tip from one of MRC’s chatters whose call sign I missed. Thank you!
Some of the better quotes include,
Gingrich is not well-liked by many of the people he worked with in Congress. In fact, loathing may better characterize their feelings.
Now tell me, have you seen a better political cartoon than this one? SERIOUSLY!
By David Horsey / Los Angeles Times
Today, while at a business luncheon in Laguna Beach, I overheard four gentlemen involved in a lively political discussion while I too was so engaged. I heard one guy say, “You should have seen it last night! Romney was just pounding that snake Gingrich! It was beautiful!” My colleague and I smiled and continued our discussion of Gov. Romney while we enjoyed the ocean view on a spectacular day.
Horsey continues,
Ron Bonjean, a long-time aide to the Republican leadership, told CNN that folks on Capitol Hill are very nervous about Gingrich’s candidacy. “It sends a shiver down a lot of Republican spines,” Bonjean said. “You can actually feel the nervousness from Republicans around town that Gingrich could actually bring the craziness back of his speakership from the 1990s.”
The worry ranges from first-term members to veterans who served with Gingrich as he rose to power in the 1980s and ’90s. According to a report in Politico, freshman House Republicans could talk about little else on a bus ride back from their caucus retreat in Baltimore last week. They have seen the polling data indicating Gingrich is disliked by suburban women – even conservatives — and is broadly unpopular in the Northeast.
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Gingrich is proud to be a man of big ideas and bold rhetoric, and it was his intelligence and combativeness that was attractive to the 40% of Republican voters in South Carolina who cast their ballots for him. But Republican officials in Washington see his big ideas and bold talk as evidence of a boundless ego and unscrupulous character.
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Now, those old colleagues are aiming the tough language at him – “erratic, abrasive, undisciplined, unreliable, unhinged, unethical, mired in scandal, consummate D.C. insider.”[emphasis added]
“Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.” — Newt Gingrich
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INTRADE (1/27/12, 10pm, PST):
To win the Florida Primary — Romney: 91.1% / Gingrich: 6.9%
To win the Nevada Caucus — Romney: 92.7% / Gingrich: 3.6%
To be Republican 2012 Nominee — Romney: 87.5%
President Obama to be re-elected — 54.9%,
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Not that I’m a Newt fan, but seeing how most of the people on Capitol Hill are so far out of touch with what we as the GOP on the street want, I tend to lean toward the person that scares the hell out of them or causes them disdain. The GOP can’t afford another Bush! As much as I truly loved and respected W, he moved so far to the middle that even when we had a chance to make GOP strides that would have saved us from what we are suffering today. And God knows we can’t take another McCain that wraps himself in GOP while being so centrist that he panicked in his last reelection effort and ran to the right…NLT to return to the center afterward.
Average Joe and Jane GOP are sick of confused with liberals and want a leader that actually does make the people inside the beltway pee their pants!
WE ARE THE TEA PARTY AND WE’RE TIRED OF IT…FROM ALL PARTIES!!!! And NO…Ron Paul is NOt the answer…we’re not Libertarians either!