According to an Insider/Advantage poll:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney apparently has reversed a surge by Newt Gingrich to retake the momentum in the Florida primary…The poll shows that Republicans most likely to vote in the state’s closed primary now favor Romney over Gingrich by 40 to 32 percent. Rep. Ron Paul has 9 percent, while former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum has 8 percent.
According to Rush Limbaugh, Newt is the victim of “coordinated attacks,” which have clearly done serious damage.
Ann Coulter, on her own, has spent the last month castigating Newt as the anti-Christ, while propping Romney up as the lone savior of America and conservatism.
Likewise, Glenn Beck has spent the last several weeks disparaging Newt as a “progressive” (according to Beck, if one does not agree with Ron Paul’s strict prescriptions for domestic libertarianism, then they are a progressive).
Respected foreign policy expert Elliot Abrams wrote a scathing piece about Newt for National Review, accusing the Presidential candidate of “misleading” the public on his relationship with Reagan. (Check out this PJ post for a rebuttal to Abrams account).
Why should “coordinated” attacks be unfair? Isn’t the essence of politics getting others to “coordinate” on your behalf?
“while propping Romney up as the lone savior of America and conservatism.”
Oh…I see.
In that case, do you think they’ll offer us good terms, or should we expect the Democrats to demand unconditional surrender?
Ahhhh, the circular firing squad has triangulated?
I know that the Newtalinsky’s have thrown ACE under the bus (one guy actually fantasizing about ACE being run over and giggling like a schoolgirl), but ACE today said something extremely on point.
He said he doesn’t buy into this fabulist Myth of some grand “establishment” gathering to deprive Gingrich of voters. Some people don’t like the guy. That includes almost everyone who has ever worked with him, apparently.
The Stupid Party couldn’t coordinate a bake sale, so I’m not sure I’m buying anything other than a backlash against a polarizing guy who is extremely unpopular in some segments of his own Party and most of the rest of the country as well.
However, Jonah Goldberg unleashed a “spew alert” crack against Promney…to paraphrase…”a guy who was sent to Earth to report back how we all live”…it’s hysterically funny. Promney’s connection with humans is so clinical, I’m surprised his head doesn’t move like Starman’s. Promney picked up a gold disc and left all his silver spheres in his other empty suit.
Fill the clown car up with gas tonight, Maudie…the circular firing squad circus has another show in town.
It’s almost like there’s a pattern in the last five years somewhere.
Guiliani, Fred Thompson, McCain, Huckabe, Perry, Cain, Gingrich. These guys get a little lead on the 25% man and bam, out of the blue, tons of people who nobody thinks are the Establishment come out of the woodworks with both barrels blazing at the guy who got the little lead.
It’s not coordinated or anything like that, of course. It just coincidentally happens on cue, and the people say the same thing, even to the point of the things changing day by day, almost as if it’s a script.
But it’s just a big coincidence that only happens to RoveRomney’s opponents.
And then a bunch of RoveRomney haters come out of the woodwords and say mean things about the little angel.
It’s all so unfair to the conservative bastion who wants to lead our country.
We should call him Honest Mitt so that people don’t get confused about who the candidate who is working so hard for them really is.
The Right’s version of JournoList?
So it would appear. Let’s call it the romnolist.