Romney again shows his contempt for voters and the country saying we only get motivated by "really outrageous things that are accusatory and attacking President Obama," and he'd rather lose than do that. Romney forgets it was Gingrich's attack on the elite media-not Obama- that caused the biggest excitement (posted below).
2/28/12, "Romney, Acknowledging Mistakes, Says He Won’t Say ‘Outrageous’ Things to Win," ABC News, The Note
"Mitt Romney vowed that he would not “light his hair on fire” just to rally the conservative base, even if it means not winning the GOP nomination.
“You know it’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments,” said Romney. “We’ve seen throughout the campaign that if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are accusatory and attacking President Obama that you’re going to jump up in the polls. You know, I’m not willing to light my hair on fire
- to try and get support. I am who I am.”"
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Romney, the biggest jump in the polls was after Gingrich bashed the elite media-not Obama. The reasons why we cheered follow:
1/20/12, "Newt Gingrich’s lambasting of John King follows a popular line among Republicans," Washington Post, Paul Farhi
"The CNN host stepped on a land mine named Newt Gingrich when he opened Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate by asking him about his second ex-wife’s allegation that he suggested she accept his affair as part of their marriage.
Gingrich’s now-famous response practically blew back King’s hair. “I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office,” he said to thunderous applause during the forum in Charleston, S.C. “And I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.”
To even more enthusiastic applause, the former House speaker added, “I am tired of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans.”
Gingrich’s shoot-the-messenger answer may be one of the most memorable moments of the campaign and a potential boost for his candidacy against front-runner Mitt Romney."...
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The reason for those cheers was that for decades ordinary Americans have done almost everything right, have been the backbone of America, but are ridiculed around the clock everywhere we look. Whether it's in movies, tv shows, the NY Times, whatever it is, we are ridiculed. For once someone spoke up for us-that was the reason for the cheers. Romney is more of the same for us, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge we exist, in effect plainly says he'd rather lose than speak directly to us. He flips us off today with the lie that all we want to hear is Obama bashing and he refuses to do it.
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Rush Limbaugh: Conservatives have played by the rules yet are laughed at everywhere they look. "Nobody fights back for 'em."
1/23/12, "The GOP Establishment in Abject Panic: They Don't Understand Their Own Base," Rush Limbaugh, transcript
"I've been doing this show for 23 years, and one of my themes from the beginning, from 1988, has been that the American conservative middle class are the ones playing by the rules. They are the ones that obey the law to the best of their ability. They raise their kids. They try to shield their kids from cultural rot and depravity. They try to keep them off drugs. They try to get them into college. They follow as best they can all the rules and they're laughed at and made fun of and they are impugned everywhere they look. They go to the movies, they're mocked and made fun of. They turn on the radio, listen to music, they're laughed at, mocked, and made fun of. They turn on television, watch an average television show, they are laughed at, mocked and made fun of. They open the newspaper, same thing. They've had it. They've been dealing with this for over 20 years, and nobody's fought back for 'em. Not one person ever has fought back for 'em."...
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1/21/12, "Newt Gingrich Wins. What It Means." Erick Erickson, RedState.com
"Newt Gingrich’s rise has a lot to do with Newt Gingrich’s debate performance. But it has just as much to do with a party base in revolt against its thought and party leaders in Washington, DC. The base is revolting because they swept the GOP back into relevance in Washington just under two years ago and they have been thanked with contempt ever since.
Adding insult to injury, the party and thought leaders now try to foist on the base a milquetoast moderate from Massachusetts."...
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Crowds realized McCain didn't want to win, here he's trying to break it to them that Obama will be just fine as president. Politico headline and narrative miss this entirely, to them it's just Republican nut cases. To me they acted like anyone would who was kept in a cage and fed crumbs. They were beginning to grasp that George Bush wasn't done with them. His final act was to hand them over to George Soros.
10/10/2008, "McCain: Obama not an Arab, crowd boos," Politico, John Martin
"Each time he tried to cool the crowd, he was rewarded with a round of boos.
"I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States," McCain told a supporter at a town hall meeting in Minnesota who said he was “scared” of the prospect of an Obama presidency and of
- who the Democrat would appoint to the Supreme Court."
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