Scarborough: GOP 'Base Is Revolting' Against Romney
Conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said on Sunday that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's thumping of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in South Carolina Saturday showed that the Republican base was "revolting" against the party establishment.
During a round table discussion on NBC's Meet the Press, Chuck Todd explained that Gingrich's win was "about Mitt Romney."
"He hasn't made the sale to conservatives," Todd observed. "And losing in South Carolina, he can't dismiss it. This is the heart and soul of the conservative movement, the folks that show up at telephones, that knock on the doors -- and he doesn't have their support."
"There's no doubt about it," Scarborough agreed. "The party base is revolting, but they are revolting against the Washington Republican establishment anointing Mitt Romney."
"Just like Herman Cain was not about Herman Cain. It was a rejection of Mitt Romney. Rick Perry, a rejection of Mitt Romney. Michele Bachmann, a rejection of Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich wave one, a rejection of Mitt Romney. Now we have Newt Gingrich wave two, a rejection of Mitt Romney."
Scarborough continued: "Mitt Romney could attack Newt for not being a conservative because Newt is not a conservative. Google it! We [Republicans] ran him out of Congress in 1998 because he sold us out on taxes, he sold us out on spending, he went to the floor and he sided with Democrats on his last speech, calling us the perfectionists caucus. He called us jihadists. He's not a conservative, he's an opportunist. But here is the problem: So is Mitt Romney."
..the laughably low ratings of Morning Joe is a revolt against Joe Scarborough.
Somebody should point that out to Joe.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
. . . who, like Gingrich, was run out of Congress in disgrace and scandal? These assholes should just go away after they shut the hell up.
..what Newt & Scarborough have in common (besides being highly obnoxious right wingers) is their "female problems."
Scarborough = dead female intern guy while Newt = the serial wife abandonment guy.
But if I were to point how how nearly every right wing politician (and right wing radio host for that matter) has misogyny issues, I would just be stating the obvious.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
Only a problem, apparently, if you're charged in her death...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I'm not so sure that Mitt is the anointed one. I've gotten the feeling that the PTBs never really wanted him - he was rich enough that he didn't have to cower and genuflect before them in order to play ball. He could buy his own ball. That said, I think they'd prefer him now because he IS the only one with the increasingly remote possibility of beating Obama, so naturally the neocons swarmed him into acceptability - for the duration.
Given that Newt isn't even on the VA or MO ballots, it strikes me as a near statistical impossibility for him to win the nomination - not to mention all the extra baggage and general disinterest in the position he brings with him. Smart money doesn't throw good money after bad. Newt, Ricky, and drronpaul are mere distractions so the MSM can gin up "controversies" to bloviate about 24/7 until the convention. Those tampons don't sell themselves.
I don't believe he will win, but I disagree that it is a near statistical impossibility. Polling out of Flordia shows Newt with a sizable 8 point lead after his performance in SC, and if he happened to win that, it's winner take all and it completely cancels out one of the two states he is not on the ballot. More so, there are plenty of sizable states across the south where Newt can run up sizable wins, such as Texas and Georgia. He also would be competitive in populated states such as Ohio/Pennsylvania/Indiana which would be vital for him to win. While most states may be proportional this time around, plenty of states are similar to South Carolina, where it's effectively winner take most, and Newt was able to pick up 23 of 25 delegates with his 12 point win.
If Newt doesn't collapse (which he very well may), or if Romney continues to self destruct, Newt does have a meaningful path to getting the nomination, it's not really a near statistical impossibility. And one must remember the majority of the party does have this hate of Romney, which does give some benefit to Newt.
....IS revolting! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!
The GOP base deserves the revolting field of candidates it has attracted!
Yes, the republican base is revolting - the shill gets one right. Revolting. Despicable, and appalling.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
And psychotic.
They definitely are nuts.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
Scarborough: GOP base is revolting
I agree.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Yeah and their candidates stink on ice
I guess the race will be between Newton Gingrich and Ron Paul now then. We'll see who the corporate interests tell us to support.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"There's no question that the Republican base is revolting" boom-BOOM-tssss!
and rewrites history. newty was censored and humiliated the Party Of Greed but to joe it was a tax issue. opportunist? project much, joe?
'Men do not go to the gallows and put their heads in a noose if they can avoid it.' - Mark Twain
Moron "Jerk-Off Joe" says Newt was calling Republicans "Jihadists". Huh" As I recall Newt was telling Repuliscum to call Democrats, Traitors, Jihadists, Socialists, Communists, Nice rewrite of history Joe, go back to honing your bone, shitheel.
"...the Republican base IS revolting!" And, so are you Joe.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Frankly, he could have just stopped at the "GOP Base Is Revolting" and been completely accurate.
I'm surprised the Republican base isn't revolting against the TSA charade at airports, the loss of our Bill of Rights, NDAA, and everything else we've been seeing happen. I'm surprised more of us aren't in a state of revolt over this shit.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I think the reason they aren't, is because the republican base is full of frightened, near-sighted hypocrites.
As for us, i think only if and when we are all aware of what is going on, we will be able to change things. It is up to the rest of us that are aware to get that awareness up to critical mass. The media will not do it for us.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Scarbs, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7xeX1YbiE8
And Gingrich is just revolting period.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
. . . was sell a few more books and boost his speaking fees.
He should easily be able to surpass Romney's pittance of $374,000.
Must be so disappointing to make so little for such hard work....
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
Especially when the GOP race resembles this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Scarborough makes a good point. One of the first things you learn when making an exit is not to piss in the out basket. It'll come back to bite you in the ass. Newt has done this numerous times and he has few friends in the Republican party. That's what you get when the only loyalty you have is to yourself.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
The base seems to want a President Newt and a Third Lady Callista.
that Newt was to become president, Callista would not be so much First Mate to the Captain of the Ship of State so much as third mate on a tramp steamer.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
The Republican base is revolting. I've found them to be revolting for a long time now. They're some of the most revolting people I know.
I was going to say this is utter bullshit and Scarborough just pulled it out his ass but I will just say that i disagree. These people are not revolting against anything. 75% DO NOT LIKE ROMNEY. When he gets anything more than 25% it is because a couple % think they should vote for him but still do not like him. Romney cannot get more than 25% to like him. he is an obvious phony and he is not likable. But they are not revolting. Revolting? Phewt....
Mittens is indistinguishable from Wall Street, not DC. He has Wall St stink all over him and he can't run fast enough to unstink.
'Men do not go to the gallows and put their heads in a noose if they can avoid it.' - Mark Twain
I find the Newt much more disgusting than Romney. Fat little toad, Funny that he was only in this for the money and even took a vacation because he was not committed and then his staff quit on him. I can only hope that SC with all it's rascists and other assorted fools and that has the head fool Demint as a Senator is not representative of the US. Why is it that the first three states are Iowa, NH, and, SC and are given so much importance ? None of which seem like an average US state and in total only equal 1.3 percent of the votes for the Republican nomination.
Rejecting Romney is not revolting against the Washington establishment.
Where I say all Reslugs are Revolting.
This is the first time I've agreed with "Jerk-Off Joe". The Republican base is REVOLTING. OK this is as close as it will ever be. Having said that, what a circle jerk this show was. Joe and Chuck "The Choad" Todd going
"Pinga y Pinga". What a laugh riot. These guys are to journalism what Sarah Palin is to intelligence.
of it from the left and the so-called liberal media. dipshits like scarborough dare not mention limbaugh or limbaugh will mention him and thousands of dittohead teabaggers will attack him and his bosses.
limbaugh defended cain until he gave up and cain immediately dropped, then he skewered newt and rick for their vulture capitalism, they went down, and then gingrich surged when he defended newts philandering like he did cain's sexual assault accusers.
team limbaugh, on 1000 think tank-coordinated radio stations have the biggest LIKE and HATE buttons on the planet and the left hasn't figure it out yet.
when he defended newts philandering like he ATTACKED cain's sexual assault accusers.
We figured it out a long time ago.
We just don't have the billions of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ like the committed Koch and Devos fascists' do, in order to fight on an even field.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
Morning Joe on MTP - way to try and find bottom nbc. Joe's yelling over Katty Kay should illustrate why he should never set foot on that sound stage again but it won't.
Morning Joe is setting up a drafting of Jeb Bush at The Repubican convention http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/21/repu...... pehaps that is why the clown car is in town.... None of these candidates are for real.... Jeb Bush will get the nod without going through the foodfight,,,,, Scarborough owes Jeb, an intern dies in his office under suspicious circumstances, essentially Joe is cleared by a coroner with less than a clean record himself and the story goes on...with a Jeb Bush appointee possibly involved in the coverup..... http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klaus.... If it walks like a duck...........just sayin'
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The GOP base is extremely revolting.
I have to agree. The GOP base IS revolting.
Mitt, their other candidates are even worse, but I guess that's what they like about them.
They stink on ice!
The "GOP base IS revolting". Almost as despicable as the candidates in this overdone primary process (and we are only 3 contest into it).
...Try (the GOP) FALLING APART !
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDN9y2vTdUs
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
That to me says a lot. When a high-profile senator from an important early primary state endorses "none of the above." Of course, the answer is he doesn't want any of those jackwads dragging him down with them. Gov. Haley is probably wishing she had done the same thing.
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
you're right, the Gooper base IS REVOLTING.
Gawd I love the easy ones!
"The peasants are revolting."
"Yeah, they stink on ice!"
-Mel Brooks
The press needs these stories to keep the process interesting. Remember PUMA four years ago? Sure Romney will hit some rough patches, but he will overwhelm the other candidates with his money and organization, the GOP will unite behind him in their Obama hatred, and it will be a very tough election. The pundits as usual are blathering idiocies out of their collective anuses.
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