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The new media narrative: the Tea Party is dead; compromise is the new black; Americans want the return of the weak-tea GOP status quo.

Let the Democrat/establishment GOP push for Mitch Daniels begin!

Because hell, who, if not the Democrats, has our best interests at heart when it comes to picking a “serious” “adult” opponent to run against Barack Obama…?

46 Replies to “The new media narrative: the Tea Party is dead; compromise is the new black; Americans want the return of the weak-tea GOP status quo.”

  1. Ernst Schreiber says:

    This has been the topic du jour on Rush. I gotta say, for a guy who wants to bring people together, he’s sure going about it in a strange way.

  2. McGehee says:

    …for a guy…

    Who, Rush? What’s strange about it?

  3. McGehee says:

    Right now Rush is quoting from a speech Reagan gave at a CPAC event before the 1980 campaign.

  4. Abe Froman says:

    I was unaware that Barack Obama was a serious adult.

  5. proudvastrightwingconspirator says:

    Listening to Juan Williams talk about the Tea Party is about as useful as listening to Obama talk about job creation.

    Neither one has the first clue what he’s talking about.

  6. Blake says:

    Let the pragmatism begin!!

  7. Entropy says:

    Because hell, who, if not the Democrats, has our best interests at heart when it comes to picking a “serious” “adult” opponent to run against Barack Obama…?

    CP-USA?

    Pakistani ISI?

    No, don’t tell me… I’ll guess right eventually.

    AARP?

  8. dicentra says:

    In other news, Allen West is telling TEA Partiers to give up on Obamacare repeal.

    They say we shouldn’t ask for purity in our candidates, but for the sake of Pete!

    If the individual members of the TEA Party can pass “purity tests,” WHY CAN’T OUR EFFING REPRESENTATIVES????!?!?!11

  9. Pablo says:

    Because hell, who, if not the Democrats, has our best interests at heart when it comes to picking a “serious” “adult” opponent to run against Barack Obama…?

    Jihadis?

  10. McGehee says:

    If the individual members of the TEA Party can pass “purity tests,” WHY CAN’T OUR EFFING REPRESENTATIVES????!?!?!11

    Why not indeed.

    As for how to win elections, I have a suggestion.

  11. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I meant Mitch Daniels. As in, for a guy who wants to bring fiscal and social conservatives together so they can win over uncommitted “moderates,” telling social conservatives to “shut up, you’re scaring the moderates!” is a funny way to go about it.

  12. motionview says:

    It really sounded to me today like Rush is getting ready to go OUTLAW.

  13. McGehee says:

    I meant Mitch Daniels.

    I suspected as much, but the only name named in your comment was Rush’s so I had to ask.

  14. Matt says:

    I’m not a fan of “purity tests” but clearly, if the repeal/undermining/destruction of Obamacare is not high on a candidates list of things to do if he wins, well then I’m less inclined to support the candidate.

    That being said, I like Allen West alot and I’m baffled by the remark. I hope it was misquoted, taken out of context or its something he can explain.

  15. newrouter says:

    the boner of the house speaks:

    House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) will mark out a firm Republican position regarding the debt ceiling in his speech this evening at the Economic Club of New York (7 p.m., watch live here). He will insist that while allowing the country to default would be “irresponsible,” voting to raise the debt limit without spending cuts and reforms would be far worse in terms of the economic consequences.

    Most significantly, the speaker will demand that any increase to the debt limit be offset by spending cuts of a greater amount. “Without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt limit increase,” Boehner plans to say, according to excerpts obtained by National Review Online. “And the cuts should be greater than the accompanying increase in debt authority the president is given. We should be talking about cuts of trillions, not just billions.”

    link

  16. geoffb says:

    Why listen and take seriously as truthful the statements of anyone on the left about any possible Republican candidate for any office but especially for the presidency? Everything said by them should be looked at as propaganda and dis/mis-information designed only to get Democrats more power and control. The media can evolve to different strategies just as other enemies can. They won’t necessarily rerun the same plays as they did in 2008.

    Evaluate Republicans/conservatives based on what they have actually said, not spun quotes or misquotes, and what they have done either in office or as private citizens. Basing opinions on what the MSM is putting out is to buy into their game. They have millions to focus group, poll and test out every ploy known to every intelligence outfit ever but especially the ones that the left had and have still.

    Now has Daniels said some things that could be used against him. Yes. Since when though is it a good thing to say to a Republican candidate, “Watch what you say as it might be taken out of context or mis-construed or just flat out lied about to use against you.” “Better be careful boy, those words can hurt you.”

    Show me the money policies, ideas, plans, and actions done. Rhetoric, fiery rhetoric is good but actions are what count.

    Now while you flay me alive I’m out to re-stain the wheelchair ramp while the weather holds.

  17. Abe Froman says:

    I meant Mitch Daniels. As in, for a guy who wants to bring fiscal and social conservatives together so they can win over uncommitted “moderates,” telling social conservatives to “shut up, you’re scaring the moderates!” is a funny way to go about it.

    The problem isn’t them scaring moderates so much as that their douchey Godbaggery makes for a muddled message about intrusive government.

  18. Makewi says:

    When talking about the social cons it’s important to focus on the douchey Godbaggy aspects like their square insistence that 14 year old hotties aren’t old enough to get laid and scraped without daddy finding out.

    Also, you should have to pay for it. Oppressor!

  19. Abe Froman says:

    Keep your vacuum out of my hot teenage daughter, you damn dirty apes! It has a douchey Godbag subtext, but it’s rooted in fuck you! Ergo, it’s full of win.

  20. McGehee says:

    From the sound of the echoes in this chamber I’m wondering if either side of this rift is ready to win an election. Wake me in 2016.

  21. Makewi says:

    I’m just waiting for the MSM to tell me who the acceptable candidate is so that I can get back to keeping my mouth shut.

  22. Garym says:

    From the sound of the echoes in this chamber I’m wondering if either side of this rift is ready to win an election. Wake me in 2016.

    Yup!!

  23. newrouter says:

    “Wake me in 2016.”

    not me: fight all these mfers everyday til we defeat them.

  24. newrouter says:

    yea and mitchy daniels sucks buckeye dick.

  25. newrouter says:

    and the buckeye dick is hughhewitt’s

  26. Abe Froman says:

    Wouldn’t that be hoosier cock?

  27. newrouter says:

    “Wouldn’t that be hoosier cock?”

    nah throws out cross border grenade. anyway hughhewitt boners thusly”

    So the Times not only misrepresents the very strong network Romney has in place, it glides over the early efforts of the other contenders and, crucially, how the new technology allows late comers to recover some of the ground lost quickly.

    Most of the MSM is reluctant to crown Romney the front-runner though he clearly is. Most of the MSM and some GOP activists supporting marginal candidates are eager for a long, drawn out and nasty intra-party battle that exposes and deepens divisions and keeps the attention off of the president’s many failures while the president mentions bin Laden three times daily as a cure for all his political woes.

    link

  28. Jeff G. says:

    See? By not simply anointing Romney, we’re doing damage to the Republic. We need to get out of the way and let the big boys do big boy things.

    Some of us take the representative democracy thing far too literally, it seems.

  29. Abe Froman says:

    The idea that anyone is clearly the front-runner, let alone Mittens, is so effing stupid that it should disqualify Hewitt from opining publicly about anything. If ever there was an army with no generals, we’re it.

  30. newrouter says:

    hey there are books to sell dontcha know:)

  31. Garym says:

    I already know who I will support if she runs, but its rediculous that so many on our side want to annoint a nominee instead of going through the process.
    What are they afraid of?

  32. newrouter says:

    hughhewitt used to tout the jenrube when i listened. over at her old stompin’ grounds petey the wehner is singing the the praises of the bushie mitchey:

    There’s no question that if Daniels decides to run for president he would be viewed as quite formidable. And with good reason: he’s an individual of impressive intellectual and political skills. My hunch is that he’d do well. I hope we get to find out.

    link

    these folks “thoughts” are more of indication of what bobdole they want so to lose “gracefully” to the crease man. eff ’em.

  33. Makewi says:

    If we’re going to play to lose, then we might as well nominate someone like Ted Nugent and at least have some fun.

  34. newrouter says:

    “nominate someone like Ted Nugent and at least have some fun.”

    nominating a black guy to run against the 2nd black precedent is fun. everything else is bobdole stuff.

  35. newrouter says:

    the communist’s problem is that we have smarter minorities. ax sheila jackson lee?

  36. McGehee says:

    not me: fight all these mfers everyday til we defeat them.</I

    There you people go finding divisive common ground. Don’t you realize that if everybody comes together to support one of those teabaggrr candidates, nobody will vote for him?

  37. I Callahan says:

    I’m not ready to throw the towel in yet:

    Link

    If the establishment doesn’t see the writing on the wall, then they deserve whatever losses befall them.

  38. Bob Reed says:

    Mittenz?!?

    WHY WON’T YOU ALL WISE UP! RON PAUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(eleventy)

    TIN FOIL HATS FOR EVERYONE!11!1!

  39. JD says:

    Bob’s comment brought out a Paultqrd comment. I blame Bob.

  40. geoffb says:

    Entire text of CPAC speech up at pub.

  41. McGehee says:

    Speaking of the Pub, I fear its registration process will need to be tightened somehow. There are a couple of new spammers over there, and the two I reported to Jeff yesterday are still shown on the authors’ list.

    Like I told Jeff, if anybody’s going to make money off ProteinWisdom.com, it should be him, not these spammers.

  42. LTC John says:

    Daniels/Huntsman 2012 – smell the pragmatism!

    I’m going for Cain right now – piss on teh narrative builders.

  43. McGehee says:

    And the spammers have been ejected from the Pub. Hooray for bouncers!

  44. Jeff G. says:

    I had to figure out how to get in, then I bounced them.

    On the plus side, though, my penis is now happily enlarged!

  45. Squid says:

    Portobello bruise?

  46. SDN says:

    McGehee, by 2016 we’ll be voting with lead ballots (assuming the EPA doesn’t try to ban lead).

    I’m not sure I’m going to donate to any candidate this election; I’ve got better uses for my money when nothing is going to be done until the crash anyway.

    Jeff still gets his cut, though.

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