Fine Old Cannibals...

[4est_4est_Gump]

She drives me crazy, who, who
I don't know why, who, who
She drives me crazy and I can't help myself...

We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent.

We will look back on this week and realize that something changed. I have given numerous interviews wherein I espoused the benefits of thorough vetting during aggressive contested primary elections, but this week’s tactics aren’t what I meant. Those who claim allegiance to Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment should stop and think about where we are today. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, the fathers of the modern conservative movement, would be ashamed of us in this primary. Let me make clear that I have no problem with the routine rough and tumble of a heated campaign. As I said at the first Tea Party convention two years ago, I am in favor of contested primaries and healthy, pointed debate. They help focus candidates and the electorate. I have fought in tough and heated contested primaries myself. But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before – heck, I lived it before – but not in a GOP primary race.

I am sadly too familiar with these tactics because they were used against the GOP ticket in 2008. The left seeks to single someone out and destroy his or her record and reputation and family using the media as a channel to dump handpicked and half-baked campaign opposition research on the public. The difference in 2008 was that I was largely unknown to the American public, so they had no way of differentiating between the lies and the truth. All of it came at them at once as “facts” about me. But Newt Gingrich is known to us – both the good and the bad.

...

But this whole thing isn’t really about Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney. It is about the GOP establishment vs. the Tea Party grassroots and independent Americans who are sick of the politics of personal destruction used now by both parties’ operatives with a complicit media egging it on. In fact, the establishment has been just as dismissive of Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Newt is an imperfect vessel for Tea Party support, but in South Carolina the Tea Party chose to get behind him instead of the old guard’s choice. In response, the GOP establishment voices denounced South Carolinian voters with the same vitriol we usually see from the left when they spew hatred at everyday Americans “bitterly clinging” to their faith and their Second Amendment rights. The Tea Party was once again told to sit down and shut up and listen to the “wisdom” of their betters. We were reminded of the litany of Tea Party endorsed candidates in 2010 who didn’t win. Well, here’s a little newsflash to the establishment: without the Tea Party there would have been no historic 2010 victory at all.

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All my love, all my kissin'
You don't know what you've been missin', oh boy,

It's palin to see,

OH! BOY!

(((LIPSTICK)))


[voice=Elvis][tone=THE KING!]
Misogyny trap. We can't hold back!
Because we hate you too much baybee... [/voice]

Feelings, nothing more than feelings... [/tone]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

As I said in my speech in Iowa last September, the challenge of this election is not simply to replace President Obama. The real challenge is who and what we will replace him with. It’s not enough to just change up the uniform. If we don’t change the team and the game plan, we won’t save our country. We truly need sudden and relentless reform in Washington to defend our republic, though it’s becoming clearer that the old guard wants anything but that. That is why we should all be concerned by the tactics employed by the establishment this week. We will not save our country by becoming like the left. And I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama. I didn’t see it in 2008. Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted. Oddly, they’re now using every available microscope and endoscope – along with rewriting history – in attempts to character assassinate anyone challenging their chosen one in their own party’s primary. So, one must ask, who are they really running against?

Sarah Palin

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Yep. I been thinkin as much. The RINOS is tossing off their masks.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yep. I been thinkin as much. The RINOS is tossing off their masks.

They would rather have Obama and the Democrats win than to be associated with Libertarian-type thinkers...

If they cannot have their big government, then nobody can have it!

That's why I keep saying I'm voting for Obama.

A lesson to be learned...

 

[CandiCame]

I totally thought this thread said "cannibas" which I assumed was "cannibus" typoed. Sorry to bother you. Carry on.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I totally thought this thread said "cannibas" which I assumed was "cannibus" typoed. Sorry to bother you. Carry on.

We usually do.



Is that Carrie as in pig's blood?

 

[Radiohead]

We usually do.



Is that Carrie as in pig's blood?

Carrie on.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Carrie Nation.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Another hatchet job!



Bull Moose ticket or bust???

 

[Wat_Tyler]

There's a fat man in the back seat, with the blues:

http://autorestoration101.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/president-tafts-pierce-arrow-custom.jpg


I heard him moan . . . .

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

They would rather have Obama and the Democrats win than to be associated with Libertarian-type thinkers...

If they cannot have their big government, then nobody can have it!

That's why I keep saying I'm voting for Obama.

A lesson to be learned...

I'm gonna sit the 2012 dance out, I think.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There's a fat man in the back seat, with the blues:

http://autorestoration101.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/president-tafts-pierce-arrow-custom.jpg


I heard him moan . . . .

This ain't Jericho!

I'm gonna sit the 2012 dance out, I think.

I will not sit it out anymore than I will let the old farts pick my candidate for me!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

This ain't Jericho!



I will not sit it out anymore than I will let the old farts pick my candidate for me!

Americans wanna spend some time in chains, and my silly lil vote aint gonna change their appetite.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

This ain't Jericho!

At least he bought Pierce-Arrows . . . just like Doyle did for Hickey.


Granted, it was 20 years earlier.


The Tommy gun hadn't come along yet.


And Studebaker was still building Conestoga wagons . . . go figure.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Americans wanna spend some time in chains, and my silly lil vote aint gonna change their appetite.

Two generations of government education have produced a willingness to trade the vagaries of liberty with the illusion of security.

At least he bought Pierce-Arrows . . . just like Doyle did for Hickey.


Granted, it was 20 years earlier.


The Tommy gun hadn't come along yet.


And Studebaker was still building Conestoga wagons . . . go figure.

My grandfather had a Studebaker President.

Then he went for the 442 Olds...

Go granny GO!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Two generations of government education have produced a willingness to trade the vagaries of liberty with the illusion of security.





My grandfather had a Studebaker President.

Then he went for the 442 Olds...

Go granny GO!

To me it seems obvious there aint no security unless your name is Chelsea Clinton, who stumbles from one brief gig to the next. A month ago she worked for NBC, now she's in the Ukraine curing heterosexuality.

No, I think most Americans know that the portals to prosperity and security are screened by the TSA, and few pass thru. Chains are chic.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Two generations of government education have produced a willingness to trade the vagaries of liberty with the illusion of security.





My grandfather had a Studebaker President.

Then he went for the 442 Olds...

Go granny GO!

Studebaker had some strange bedfellows along the way.


Had a '67 Cutlass once . . . factory 4-speed and a bitchin' small block . . .


and the French built flathead Fords into the 1990's . . . who knew?

 

[MeeMie]

They would rather have Obama and the Democrats win than to be associated with Libertarian-type thinkers...

If they cannot have their big government, then nobody can have it!

That's why I keep saying I'm voting for Obama.

A lesson to be learned...

That doesn't make any sense at all.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That doesn't make any sense at all.

The post or the antics of the establishment Republicans?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

That doesn't make any sense at all.

It makes all the sense in the world.

When wuz the last time you seen a one-legged Miss America? They got plenny of contestants and they pre-pick them all.

Read a quote the other day, CHANGING RULERS IS THE MOST FUN FOOLS EVER HAVE.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

To me it seems obvious there aint no security unless your name is Chelsea Clinton, who stumbles from one brief gig to the next. A month ago she worked for NBC, now she's in the Ukraine curing heterosexuality.

No, I think most Americans know that the portals to prosperity and security are screened by the TSA, and few pass thru. Chains are chic.

I always tell Malia and Sasha, look, you guys, I don't worry about you. I mean, I worry the way parents worry, but they’re on a path that is going to be successful, even if the country as a whole is not successful.”
President Barack Obama, November 2011

Studebaker had some strange bedfellows along the way.


Had a '67 Cutlass once . . . factory 4-speed and a bitchin' small block . . .


and the French built flathead Fords into the 1990's . . . who knew?

She got her daddy's car...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Echo and the Bunnymen...

GOP voters are sending a clarion call to the party establishment, but it seems GOP leaders are not getting the message. The statement being sent to the GOP elite isn't about Newt, and it goes beyond even Romney. It is about a deep dissatisfaction that has been building for years within the Republican rank and file.

With the proclamations of Bob Dole and others against Newt Gingrich recently, it is clear the GOP establishment fears a Gingrich nomination. In truth, however, it is the GOP establishment's own ineffectual leadership that led to the recent surge of the former Speaker of the House.

The prevailing wisdom in Washington and the media is that Newt's re-birth in South Carolina is due to his fiery debate performances, which is true, but what happened in the polls goes far beyond clear articulation of conservative principles and debate prowess. Yes, the Republican voters want a fighter, someone who will take on President Obama, but Newt's boldness and passion resonated so well with the disaffected party base, they were willing to overlook his huge political and personal shortcomings. There is a larger lesson here.

Joeseph M. Koenig

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/its_not_about_newt.html#ixzz1kl5n9Pub

Unfortunately, the GOP elite's failure to understand exactly why Gingrich did so well portends the sad prospect that Republican leadership isn't going to improve anytime soon. In election after election, and on issue after issue, the Republican base has felt increasingly frustrated and disappointed by their party's leadership, who have consistently underperformed, buckled under media and opposition pressure, and squandered any mandate provided them by the American people.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Romneys campaign is managed by Charlie Crists people; that oughta speak volumes about where Mitt is headed. I mean, back in 1990 we called Crist CHAIN-GANG CHARLIE and the papers hated him; in 2010 Crist was doing Owebama man-hugs, sucking dicks, and going Independent. And the papers loved him.

Every real RINO longs to be down on his knees (but not to pray).

 

[ChinaBandit]

I wish Pat Buchanan was 10 years younger.

 

[Saint Peter]

I am going to teach you mother fuckers a lesson!


I am going to vote for Obama!


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