So the whole point of this is

anyone but Newt, but isn't the rise of Newt the result of anybody but Mitt.

and

If conservatism becomes a movement of anti-media bashing and hyperbolic rhetoric, If?



/and there where would you be? who edited this

They will shout "Save us!", and I will whisper "no."

The next few weeks are going to be awesome. Go Newt!

This picture makes more logical sense than that piece of begging for a savior.

We'd be looking at four more years of Obama's economic policies, four more years of strained relations with allies, several new Supreme Court justices and an unprecedented power shift to the executive branch.

Take "Obama" out of that sentence and ask someone to name the person you're describing. Who are they likely to name?

spongeboob: If conservatism becomes a movement of anti-media bashing and hyperbolic rhetoric, If?

Came here to say this. You're about 4 years too late lady. Now-a-days anti-media bashing and hyperbolic rhetoric is all the conservatives have left.

I don't know what Republicans are biatching about... They've gotten exactly what they've asked for. Shameless and willfully ignorant plutocrats, hypocrites and ideologues.

"strained relations with allies" = Israel... and whom else?

RINO

I_Am_Weasel: We'd be looking at four more years of Obama's economic policies, four more years of strained relations with allies, several new Supreme Court justices and an unprecedented power shift to the executive branch.

Take "Obama" out of that sentence and ask someone to name the person you're describing. Who are they likely to name?

Carrot Top?

2wolves: "strained relations with allies" = Israel... and whom else?

Seriously, that's where I stopped. One of the reasons I voted for Obama was because he promised to improve relations abroad and, to a very large degree, has. Some Republicans still complain about him kowtowing to other countries & showing weakness for his "apology tour". What's this wingnut talking about?

Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no."

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I_Am_Weasel: We'd be looking at four more years of Obama's economic policies, four more years of strained relations with allies, several new Supreme Court justices and an unprecedented power shift to the executive branch.

Take "Obama" out of that sentence and ask someone to name the person you're describing. Who are they likely to name?

Carrot Top?

That would be an absurdly frightening scenario.

someonelse: Maybe your party shouldn't have made its entire mission about pandering to idiots, Jennifer.

Well, there was that mission of making Obama a one term president. That seemed way more important than actually helping this country in any way.

2wolves: "strained relations with allies" = Israel... and whom else?

My first thought was Pakistan.
Isn't that one of the Talking Points of the Conservatives that we shouldn't have went into their country without their permission to get bin Laden, or is that just RON PAUL?

I_Am_Weasel: Take "Obama" out of that sentence and ask someone to name the person you're describing. Who are they likely to name?

spongeboob: So the whole point of this is

anyone but Newt, but isn't the rise of Newt the result of anybody but Mitt.

and

If conservatism becomes a movement of anti-media bashing and hyperbolic rhetoric, If?



/and there where would you be? who edited this

And if this letter is recommending anyone but Newt and anyone but Mitt is also in effect, then that leaves RON PAUL!

Horrible execution on the article, but just goes to show that there is such a thing as a moderate Republican, no matter how much mainstream Republicans don't want to admit it.

\seriously, moderate Republicans need their own party at this point, because they're just being ignored....

FriarReb98: Horrible execution on the article, but just goes to show that there is such a thing as a moderate Republican, no matter how much mainstream Republicans don't want to admit it.

\seriously, moderate Republicans need their own party at this point, because they're just being ignored....

Moderate Republicans aren't merely ignored, they're vilified by the GOP leadership and pundits. Moderates are apostates, they're traitors to the cause. the GOP leadership considers moderate viewpoints to be evidence of weakness and believe that a moderate viewpoint means you lack dedication to the team. you aren't a 'real Republican' if you're a moderate and think you can compromise to achieve common goals.

They've spent 2 years whipping up racist right wing anti-establishment extremism.

Now Republicans want a establishment moderate?

LOL

But there's just one problem: Newt has a +34 unfavorable rating with the American public. The latest PPP poll shows that 60% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Gingrich, compared to only 26% who like him. Ouch. Mitt Romney's, meanwhile, is only +18 unfavorable.

The President, meanwhile, has only a +10 job disapproval. In a national matchup, President Obama beats Gingrich by 7 points, but only beats Romney by 5. What does all of this mean? Watch for the long knives from the GOP establishment to come out against Mr. Gingrich over the next week. They know that Mitt Romney for all his 1% vulture capital warts, is the only one with a prayer of taking the White House in 2012. And then watch in response as the Tea Party base spits fury at the Republican Party. It's helpful in these situations to remember that Democrats aren't the only Party with a serious "base" problem. If anything, the Republicans have it worse right now.

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When the premise of your article is "Save Us From Ourselves" and these are the people you are forced to appeal to:

Dear Govs. Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels, John Kasich, Bobby Jindal; Sens. Jon Kyl, Marco Rubio and Jim DeMint; and Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and Mike Pence (R-Ind.):

Then you are already in deep trouble.

Mentat: When the premise of your article is "Save Us From Ourselves" and these are the people you are forced to appeal to:

Dear Govs. Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels, John Kasich, Bobby Jindal; Sens. Jon Kyl, Marco Rubio and Jim DeMint; and Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and Mike Pence (R-Ind.):

Then you are already in deep trouble.

Yes, please Jim DeMint, please run. Pleasepleaseplease.

To be fair, I think that what this says is the same thing that the party realized in 96: who wants to fall on their sword?

At this point, it's about extracting cash to PACs and trying to keep folk's spirits up, despite the fact that no one of real substance wants to take on Obama. Instead, you've got a circus sideshow act. You've got Mittens, who just wants the office, Newt, who doesn't want the office, but wants the buffett that will be offered once he steps off the podium, and you've got RON PAUL! who runs, because, f*ck all, that's what he does.

You don't like the choices? Guess what? The grace under which that Bob Dole took the daunting task of taking on Clinton, was a credit to the man. This? This is a sideshow because no one really wants to get in the ring. Not really. And they won't until Obama is ushered out of office--I'm sorry, I don't put a lot of hope in the GOP getting the White House this time around, even with Mittens, because the man will drive as many folks from the field as he brings out. Newt will bring out more folks to vote Democratic just to KEEP him FROM office.

The sane choices? The leadership has them either tucked away and not tainted with the stench of the Crazy Train, or has exiled them in an attempt to let the Crazy Train try to elect one of their own, and once they fail, the leadership can then tell the STFU and get to the back of the bus...

I think it is time to come to terms with the fact that the Republican party as it has been known is coming to an end.

So...democracy bad?

spongeboob:

My first thought was Pakistan.


Like Egypt they take our bribes. Not an actually ally.

Code_Archeologist: I think it is time to come to terms with the fact that the Republican party as it has been known is coming to an end.

We've been saying that since 2006. It hasn't happened yet.

Mentat: When the premise of your article is "Save Us From Ourselves" and these are the people you are forced to appeal to:

Dear Govs. Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels, John Kasich, Bobby Jindal; Sens. Jon Kyl, Marco Rubio and Jim DeMint; and Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and Mike Pence (R-Ind.):

Then you are already in deep trouble.

With that list of addressees I was expecting the content to be, "Shut up and stop being stupid or you're going to cost us".

When the content ended up being, "One of you needs to save us" I laughed out loud. Kasich alone has already cost the GOP a win in Ohio.

Sorry letter writer.

Those people you listed have to kowtow to the crazy that has been cultivated and courted for the past 30 years by the GOP.

You reap what you sow.

"save us" from the religious wrong