Feb 21st, 2012
Dick Morris has no legitimate way to counter the recent wave of positive economic data that benefits the President. His solution? Crazy talk.
via Media Matters
Showing posts with label gop panic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gop panic. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Mitt Romney's Empathy Problem, cont...
Feb 3rd, 2012
by F. Grey Parker
The fallout from Wednesday's gaffe continues to mount... particularly on the right.
As I noted shortly after this blew up, Romney seemed not only detached from the common citizen but also from his own party.
A growing chorus of conservative voices is afraid that Romney's pronouncements about "the very poor" are a sign that he's exactly the kind of "Massachusetts Liberal" Newt has been portraying for weeks.
Some of them are also saying, flat out, that Mitt's just an idiot.
by F. Grey Parker
As I noted shortly after this blew up, Romney seemed not only detached from the common citizen but also from his own party.
A growing chorus of conservative voices is afraid that Romney's pronouncements about "the very poor" are a sign that he's exactly the kind of "Massachusetts Liberal" Newt has been portraying for weeks.
Some of them are also saying, flat out, that Mitt's just an idiot.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Newt Watch - The GOP Establishment Goes For The Kill
Jan 26th, 2012
We are witnessing a whole new level of enmity from the powers that be in the GOP.
Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen write:
"Newt Gingrich better hope voters who lapped up his delicious hits on the “elite media” and liberals don’t read the Drudge Report this morning.
Or the National Review. Or the American Spectator. Or Ann Coulter.
If they do, Gingrich comes off looking like a dangerous, anti-Reagan, Clintonian fraud.
We are witnessing a whole new level of enmity from the powers that be in the GOP.
Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen write:
"Newt Gingrich better hope voters who lapped up his delicious hits on the “elite media” and liberals don’t read the Drudge Report this morning.
Or the National Review. Or the American Spectator. Or Ann Coulter.
If they do, Gingrich comes off looking like a dangerous, anti-Reagan, Clintonian fraud.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Newt Watch - The Establishment Panics
Jan 23rd, 2012
Jennifer Rubin literally begs for someone, anyone, to intervene and stop Newt's rise. In an "open letter" to the GOP leadership, she whines:
"It is time to make the case for winning conservatism — a conservatism attractive to centrist voters that can be translated into a reform agenda. If conservatism becomes a movement of anti-media bashing and hyperbolic rhetoric, it will cease to be a force in American politics. And if it is led by an egomaniac whose personal advancement takes precedence over any principle, the GOP will be (correctly) mocked."
As used to Rubin's consistently obtuse pronouncements as I am, this is still quite rich. If "conservatism becomes" a hollow charade? The mantle of "conservatism" was hijacked long ago and the GOP has been wholly reduced to unprincipled and egomaniacal absurdity for some time.
Jennifer Rubin literally begs for someone, anyone, to intervene and stop Newt's rise. In an "open letter" to the GOP leadership, she whines:
"It is time to make the case for winning conservatism — a conservatism attractive to centrist voters that can be translated into a reform agenda. If conservatism becomes a movement of anti-media bashing and hyperbolic rhetoric, it will cease to be a force in American politics. And if it is led by an egomaniac whose personal advancement takes precedence over any principle, the GOP will be (correctly) mocked."
As used to Rubin's consistently obtuse pronouncements as I am, this is still quite rich. If "conservatism becomes" a hollow charade? The mantle of "conservatism" was hijacked long ago and the GOP has been wholly reduced to unprincipled and egomaniacal absurdity for some time.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
GOP Panic, cont...
Dec 27th, 2011
If you haven't read Bill Kristol's latest, do yourself a favor and keep it that way. Titling it "A Time For Choosing," Mr. Kristol lectures the early primary and caucus voter:
"Ignore the proclamations of the pundits, the sophistries of the strategists, and the calculations of the handicappers. Ignore the ads, the robocalls, and the polls. Be skeptical of those who would seek, whether from national stage or local perch, cavalierly or presumptively to instruct you how to mark your ballot. That ballot is yours alone to cast."
Got that, average GOP voter? Ignore whatever you've learned about the worst slate of candidates for your party's nomination in living memory.
Here's his real message, however, and it's not for the electorate:
"And it is a moment, as you prepare to cast your vote, for others to reflect on whether they don’t owe it to their country to step forward. As this is no time for voters to choose fecklessly, it is no time for leaders to duck responsibility. Those who have stood aside—and who now may have concluded, as they may not have when they announced their original decision, that the current field is lacking—will surely hear the words of Thomas Paine echoing down the centuries: “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” Now is not a time for leaders to engage in clever calculations of the odds of success, or to succumb to concerns about how they will look if they enter the fray and fall short. Now is a time to come to the aid of our country."
It's depressingly entertaining witnessing Kristol convolute himself in such a manner. In only a few short and overly florid paragraphs, he moves from 'don't listen to the pundits' to 'for the love of God, somebody who can win, please listen to me and get into the race before it's too late.'
If he's this panicked now, one can only imagine what he'll be writing by Summer.
If you haven't read Bill Kristol's latest, do yourself a favor and keep it that way. Titling it "A Time For Choosing," Mr. Kristol lectures the early primary and caucus voter:
"Ignore the proclamations of the pundits, the sophistries of the strategists, and the calculations of the handicappers. Ignore the ads, the robocalls, and the polls. Be skeptical of those who would seek, whether from national stage or local perch, cavalierly or presumptively to instruct you how to mark your ballot. That ballot is yours alone to cast."
Got that, average GOP voter? Ignore whatever you've learned about the worst slate of candidates for your party's nomination in living memory.
Here's his real message, however, and it's not for the electorate:
"And it is a moment, as you prepare to cast your vote, for others to reflect on whether they don’t owe it to their country to step forward. As this is no time for voters to choose fecklessly, it is no time for leaders to duck responsibility. Those who have stood aside—and who now may have concluded, as they may not have when they announced their original decision, that the current field is lacking—will surely hear the words of Thomas Paine echoing down the centuries: “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” Now is not a time for leaders to engage in clever calculations of the odds of success, or to succumb to concerns about how they will look if they enter the fray and fall short. Now is a time to come to the aid of our country."
It's depressingly entertaining witnessing Kristol convolute himself in such a manner. In only a few short and overly florid paragraphs, he moves from 'don't listen to the pundits' to 'for the love of God, somebody who can win, please listen to me and get into the race before it's too late.'
If he's this panicked now, one can only imagine what he'll be writing by Summer.
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