Andrea Mitchell, after Monday night’s debate:
“I talked to a top Romney adviser tonight who said, ‘Look, if Mitt Romney cannot win in Florida then we’re going to have to try to reinvent the smoke-filled room which has been democratized by all these primaries. And we’re going to have try to come with someone as an alternative to Newt Gingrich who could be Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels, someone.’ Because there is such a desperation by the so-called party elites, but that’s exactly what Gingrich is playing against…”
I’d like to take a moment to disembowel the “top Romney adviser” who went whispering to Andrea Mitchell. Andrea Mitchell is so biased that she has an entire blog devoted to getting her fired. Any real conservative would know better than to go whispering to her (unless that “top adviser” is really her husband, Alan Greenspan, in which case she’s just converting pillow talk to a “top Romney adviser” to have something interesting to say). But we’ve seen this all along with Mitt and his campaign and his supporters, so it is plausible that one would confide in an MSMer like Mitchell. They keep conservatives and conservative media at arm’s length while running for the nomination from the nominally conservative party. They even denied your humble blogger a press credential to their New Hampshire victory party, a stark contrast from the way they actively courted conservative media in 2008. I was at Hot Air at the time, and heard from the Romney campaign just about every day. Romney needs to figure out who this “top adviser” is and send them packing.
But back to the question in the headline, the answer is yes. Did I say “yes”? I meant YES.
As the Florida primary draws close, it looks less and less like that any of the remaining candidates is electable. The media and Obama are likely to rob Newt Gingrich of his advantage in the debates, leaving him with what, exactly, to run on? It will be too easy to paint either him or Romney as a shameless flip-flopper, never mind the various other narratives the media and the Democrats can play against both. Santorum has yet to demonstrate that he can build a national organization or, heck, even win his own home state. And Ron Paul manages to make Obama look reasonable on foreign policy.
This is our A team? I’m starting to think Daniels/Ryan 2012. Or Pence. Or Christie… Brokered Convention 2012!
Sarah Palin anyone?
I would love it. It would give her a sprint to the end, and the shrillness of the predictable attack could seem so off base that it would lose its power and make the Dems look insane, but she would have to do it with the party organization, and Pac and Govt money, as she’d have little time to raise cash or build an organization. And she’d have to put Mitt on as Vp to get his cash and organization, and to get the RINO vote.
She would be as much of a crap shoot as Miquetoast Mitt or Newt. She has more negative sentiment than Newt. On the other hand, she would mobilize the Tea Party and a lot of the formerly working class. I worry she would scare disillusioned Obama voters back onto the plantation.
I am still wondering why no better GOP candidates tried this year given the opportunity for an upset and the damage Obama is doing to the country. I can’t believe we don’t have a few actually qualified long term Senators or Governors who wanted to be President. Why haven’t we been grooming stars?
At some point the GOP has to get serious or get replaced.
No, Sarah has the organization and the people. SarahPAC is HUGE! And no one raises money like Palin. No one! If she were chosen as the nominee, she would raise $100m in just a very few days, and it would continue. And she would have all the volunteers she could possibly hope for. SarahPAC has been planning for the possibility for a long time.
A brokered convention might just well give us Palin and a huge game change. The Libs would go insane. They would just self-immolate. Probably would not even need any accelerant. Spontaneous combustion. Folks would think Rapture happened.
I’m starting to think that the best thing would be for Palin to run as an independent and destroy the republican party in the process.
I hope you are right. She was always my first choice. If we are going down, I want to go down with a candidate who believes in America and thinks our best days are still ahead of us.
I think that is the winning message.
I think she is the winning candidate.
On her site, she has the best campaign ads I have seen since Reagan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD9KNzgAwzI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqaE4sXZWRQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBoS1mZZRZ4
Imagine having a candidate and ads like that for a change, instead of the sad sack losers from Establishment Row we have had served to us for the last 6 elections. The only reason we won 3 of those elections is because the Democrats offered up even worse candidates.
Sarah Palin is a better candidate than the whole GOP field put together.
This is why everyone is so frustrated. Our best quarterback is on the bench. You don’t win big games that way.
lol
Daniels/Ryan? The guy who has to ask the missus if it’s ok to deploy the navy, and the guy who proposed taking granny’s medicare? They both make Mittens look like a rock-ribbed gladiator.
The reason the other guys look good is because they haven’t been vetted. You know that Bryan. Be serious.
Hey, I know the ruling elite will do anything to preserve their franchise as the guys who sit on the left side of the throne, but can you imagine, just imagine what will happen if Newt or Santorum gains and keeps momentum and the regents step in and try to manipulate the outcome? Vesuvius.
The Republican party will be finished.
Now, if they can persuade Christie or Bush III to declare, or somehow keep Newt or Rick from winning a majority of delegates before the convention, then they might be able to pull off frankensteining a totally unvetted McCain II into the drivers seat of the van they intend to drive over the cliff. But even then, they better be careful.
We’re awake now.
But you are doing a good job of being outrageous in the Tattler, Bryan.
I see the Newtitarian Party is here too.
Newt Is The Only One That Can Save Us!
Sounds like the Ronulans.
I’m alway flattered when puppy dogs follow me around.
Jim Baker and Dwight must be lurking somewhere nearby.
The elites need to be careful playing this game. They are mucking around with a chaotic system and expecting predictable results. Remember that Perry only suspended his campaign and is now actively working with Newt and his campaign. Stranger things have happened. Cheers -
Let’s face facts … If Newt is ahead going into the convention and the Republican RINO elites go behind the curtain (“brokered convention”) they had better accomplish two things:
1. Nominate a clear, undisputed, Tea Party worthy Conservative and
2. Beat Obama
If they fail on either point, the Republican Party is for all intents and purchases dead.
And I do mean dead. Forever.
And deservedly so!
Word is getting out that Mitt Romney is a complete fraud, and even he knows it. That’s why he stammered and stuttered his way through the debate.
Portrait of a RINO – his reasons for perpetrating Romneycare were truly reprehensible – and not for the reasons you might think
Mitt Romney is corrupt – his campaign launders money and buys endorsements
Why Barack Obama could easily defeat Mitt Romney – Even Mr. Teleprompter could make him look ridiculous in a debate
How much did Mitt Romney pay you? An open email to Ann Coulter – Mitt corrupts everybody, it seems.
Mitt corrupts everybody, it seems.
C’mon, let’s have it. How did he corrupt you?
And is it true that who Mitt wishes to corrupt, he first drives mad?
I should have said that he corrupts everybody that he has dealings with.
Our blog is not prominent enough to show up on his radar screen, and even if it were, we would not accept any money or other recompense to endorse him.
As far as making people mad, you should have heard Ann Coulter on Fox last night. She grinned and giggled inappropriately, and she screeched like a rabid chihuahua.
I’m a small businessman and rabid free market advocate and I’ve got to say that a guy like Mitt Romney making 20+ million a year for decades is a sign and symptom of a seriously corrupt economic system.
The WSJ did an analysis of Bain’s track record while Mitt was CEO with the conclusion that:
This is a classic Pareto Distribution commonly referred to as the 80/20 rule where, for example, 80% of gains are obtained by 20% of the effort.
What is less commonly known is that Pareto distributions occur randomly. Active management will produce greater results(with competent management) or worse results (with incompetent).
Bain’s results are indistinguishable from a random distribution. Leading to the conclusion that Mitt was a mediocre director of Bain, not some wunderkind.
Even worse, true to a random distribution, 80% of Bain’s result came from one deal… with Staples. All of Mitt’s claim’s ultimately hinge on that one deal, which was nothing more than good fortune on his part.
To be blunt. Staples made Mitt. Mitt did not make Staples.
He did not create the concept of Staples or start the company, which itself is only a subset of the superstore concept that became prevalent in the late 80s and early 90s. He invested in it at the right time. And good for him. But if he had not, someone else would have.
There is something seriously wrong with an economy that rewards someone like Mitt with tens of millions of dollars of income for years on end for what was essentially one lucky investment of other people’s money.
Mitt, in fact, did not ever start any business or directly create any jobs.
The WSJ did an analysis of Bain’s track record while Mitt was CEO with the conclusion that:
This is a classic Pareto Distribution commonly referred to as the 80/20 rule where, for example, 80% of gains are obtained by 20% of the effort.
What is less commonly known is that Pareto distributions occur randomly. Active management will produce greater results(with competent management) or worse results (with incompetent).
Bain’s results are indistinguishable from a random distribution. Leading to the conclusion that Mitt was a mediocre director of Bain, not some wunderkind.
Even worse, true to a random distribution, 80% of Bain’s result came from one deal… with Staples. All of Mitt’s claim’s ultimately hinge on that one deal, which was nothing more than good fortune on his part.
To be blunt. Staples made Mitt. Mitt did not make Staples.
He did not create the concept of Staples or start the company, which itself is only a subset of the superstore concept that became prevalent in the late 80s and early 90s. He invested in it at the right time. And good for him. But if he had not, someone else would have.
There is something seriously wrong with an economy that rewards someone like Mitt with tens of millions of dollars of income for years on end for what was essentially one lucky investment of other people’s money.
Mitt, in fact, did not ever start any business or directly create any jobs.
Thanks for adding some thought-provoking points to the discussion.
the article doesn’t say that Staples constituted 80% of Bain’s profits. Where did you get that data point?
For all those of you who are cheering for Newt here is a dose of realityh.
Newt is not a Conservative.
A real conservative would never have attacked Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposal as “right wing social engineering.”
A real conservative would not engage in Occupy Wall Street like attacks on Mitt Rommney.
A real conservative would never have made a global warming commericial with Pelosi.
A real conservative would not have violated the 11th Commandment.
Newt Gingrich is not a conservative. He is an opportunist who is out for himself and not the conservative movement, the Republican Party or the Nation.
Too many Newtonians and Paulists are refighting the 2008 election, an election that was not winnable. The Democrats lost in 2004 because they chose to refight battles of 2000 in the 2004. If conservative follow this strategy this year Obama gets 4 more years to destroy the country.
You want to know who would be the strongest Republican candidate in 2012? That would be John McCain. You want to know why? Becaue the electorate wants a do over for 2008. There are millions of people who voted for Obama who wish they voted for McCain and would do so given an opportunity.
It really doesn’t matter who the Republicans nominate this year. Well except we know that neither Gingrich or Paul could win.
Wow.
All I can figure is you’ve got some new and unscheduled recreational pharma.
That’s for sure.
Either that, or he’s drunk on his own ego.
“Well except we know that neither Gingrich or Paul could win.”
Who’s “we”? The other voices in his head?
I agree that RP doesn’t have a realistic chance, but Newt certainly does.
As a man who has favored a brokered convention, I’m just going to remind folks of this new fact on the ground–if Newt comes close to a nomination because he in part serves up sizzling red meat and takes his sharp and trusty adamantine claws and disembowls media-types at the drop of a hat, and then the nominee ends up being someone who doesn’t and that most have never heard of and/or starts seeming bland, then Castle RNC better batten down the hatches as the peasants march upon it with torches. I’m not saying this would be my personal emotion, just that I think it would be a fairly widely held one.
I recall Mitch Daniels, when the Democrat legislators of his state fled earlier last year, say it “was all part of the process”. I’m not going to argue about the man’s qualifications–I’m just going to say that if a non-bruising fighter comes out of a brokered convention and the other choice could have been Newt, then from a practical political perspective, it very well might be the death knell of the Republican Party, because it should not forget that it is sorta on double secret probation and I honestly and truly think enough people are not going to bother electing folks whose want to just manage the drift so as to cause problems.
I’m all for a brokered convention. But people need to understand there is a threat of disaster if there is one. The choice made will depend, at the end of the day, on instinct and judgment, for there will be no time to get proof and no chance for a do-ever.
If someone is chosen, he has got to be a fighter.
do-over, not do-ever.
there are only five prominent fighter politicians in the Republican party, Gingrich, Christie, Perry, Bachman, and Scott Walker. Walker has never been considered a candidate, has never expressed an interest, and doesn’t have much experience. Perry and Bachman have dropped out. Christie might accept a draft, but even if he did, the base would be mad as hornets.
That leaves the clean fingernail guys like Mitch, Ryan and Bob McDonnel. Maybe there are a few others, but none of them are really vetted, and there would be more surprises with any of them than with a jack in the box like Newt. One of them could be Pope Paul and the marxists would still just make shit up about him.
This fantasy of a brokered convention may make sense to the 100 or so elites who think they are the aristocracy, but if they try it, they are in for the surprise of their lifetimes.
there are only five prominent fighter politicians in the Republican party…
And they are Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, and Gingrich. Only the latter is running. Most of the names on your list still elicit the “who?” reaction from most voters, so by definition they’re not “prominent.”
I would like to throw Allen West into the mix!!!
I listed the politicians who either dropped out or who the elites would consider as a nominee.
Palin is a fighter, but the elites wouldn’t select her in a trillion years. Same for West.
But to be complete, I should have mentioned them and probably some others as well.
I am still mystified at the terror that Newt Gingrich strikes into the bowels of the Republican establishment. He’s a politician, y’know?
Here’s the thing about a brokered convention – who they gonna call, someone who was too meek to get into the race on their own? If you turned the decision over to me personally, at this point in time I might just choose Newt, in spite of his slimy amphibian background, in spite of the fact that when he even entered this race I thought it absurd, that he was well past his expiration date already, for all the reasons you could name.
Start by looking who House Republicans replaced him with- a pork happy, crony capitalist from Illinois.
The establishments dreamteam was Romney/Jeb Bush. All of a sudden jeb backing off endorsing his buddy Romney?
Nothing to fear here, Santorum will drop out soon and throw his support to Newt. Santorum is a fine conservative with a lot of future potential and is just now seeking television face time and exposure. He realizes that Newt would be a far better standard bearer than Romney.
Interesting. On the other hand, maybe the Tea Party folks are sort of the functional equivalent of the ’70s “Rainbow” coalition that took over the democratic party, only here from the right or center, rather than the democratic left? In other words, country club republicans are being terrorized in their limos by “radical chic” urban cowboys driving pickups with rifles in the rear window racks. Somehow I don’t see the Tea Party types getting excited about handing out free needles and condoms under Romney care.
– time to retire.
I’m OK with Newt. he is the most conservative of the bunch. if the republican elite don’t like Newt that shoud be viewed as good.