…that is a pretty sweet operation. But it doesn’t endear you to genuine conservatives.

That is the kind of leadership that can win the White House in a hostile democrat controlled environment. This behind the scenes manuevering, paranoia, and use of subcontractors reminds me of another Republican who won the White House. And we even have protests in the street and wars across the globe to drag down the democrats popularity.

Yes sir, I am thinking of Richard Nixon.

This Romney guy reminds me SO much of President Nixon.
Plumbers anyone?

…that a focus be trained on the pundits. This is also the lede article @ Politico, and a concerted effort is needed to expose proclivities.

The “companion piece” is also highly-critical…
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/11/17/is-jen-rubin-using-andrew-ferguson-to-sneak-an-anti-perry-sneer-in/
…and the combo is unnerving, because the WPo-owners can watch the circular firing-squad while harboring plausible deniability.

That Romney is using this mechanism is, as were the anti-McGovern games of 1972, a less-than-effective way to achieve self-promotion.

There are plenty of reasons not to like Romney; this isn’t one of them.. This is how the game is played. You can cry and whine and rail against the game, but you aren’t going to be able to change it.

It’s sort of like how polls always show that American say they don’t like negative ads, yet negative ads continue to have a major impact on election outcomes.

Mildly entertaining comments on a probing post. I’ve suspected that Romney plays the game with a no holds barred, bend everyone to his will, force others to compromise with him style politics. As you say, there is something politically deft about his craft. But I still have a problem with it.

Who started the politico down the Cain story line? We’ve not identified anonymous yet. In many cases the word gets out. Secrets are hard to keep under wraps when people are poking around. But people are not poking in Roger Simon’s backyard, not that he knows who tipped his rag off (he probably is maintaining plausible deniability, and certainly is tight lipped) but those around him do… find them and we have our source.

Why does it matter? Because this is the game within the game – and who ever in the Republican primary that is closest with the media should be identified as willing to use and be used by this complex. I know PR is the media vehicle of chose in politics, but using them to do our bidding is dangerous. It demonstrates a quid-pro-quo of influence and indebtedness. I think it sticks a bit.

I’d suggest that any candidate who is that cozy with the media should be DQ’d. Essentially Romney is feeding that hand that bit him. In 2008 the media picked McCain as their darling and danced with him til they kicked him to the curb.

It is a lack of judgement and shortsighted to trust them! We can’t have that in our guy/girl. Trust me – they would be happy to act instrumentally to pick our nominee by flinging dirt on the other more conservative candidates – but they will turn on Romney.

“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.”

“To the last, I will grapple with thee… from Hell’s heart, I stab at thee! For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!”

Newt not only leads in the polls, but he is the first major Republican candidate for President, after Paul and Huntsman, to come out for breaking up the Big Banks. http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/newt-gingrich-lets-bust-up-big-banks.html/

This is great news! Finally true conservatives haves a major Presidential contender who will fight against the Crony Capitalist corruption that has infected the GOP Establishment, Romney, Cain, along with Obama and almost all the Democrats. And not a moment too soon. There are multiple mega-scandals brewing around the corruption on Wall Street:

• The Nancy Pelosi VISA IPO scam, where she neutered the credit card bill in favor of her own sweetheart IPO.
• The GM bankfruptcy/ bailout scam where bondholders and non union employees where shafted in favor of the unions.
• But the biggest is the Jon Corzine and the MFGlobal theft. This is from Trader Ann Barnhardt via Zerohedge, and the Belmont Club:

“I have learned over the last week that MF Global is almost certainly the mere tip of the iceberg. There is massive industry-wide exposure to European sovereign junk debt. While other firms may not be as heavily leveraged as Corzine had MFG leveraged, and it is now thought that MFG’s leverage may have been in excess of 100:1, they are still suicidally leveraged and will likely stand massive, unmeetable collateral calls in the coming days and weeks as Europe inevitably collapses. I now suspect that the reason the Chicago Mercantile Exchange did not immediately step in to backstop the MFG implosion was because they knew and know that if they backstopped MFG, they would then be expected to backstop all of the other firms in the system when the failures began to cascade – and there simply isn’t that much money in the entire system. In short, the problem is a SYSTEMIC problem, not merely isolated to one firm. ”

Here we have systemic corruption of the markets that could destroy the economy , and the GOP Establishment wants to bury their collective heads in the sand. Again.

But finally Newt has come out against this traitorous plundering and pillaging of the markets by our politicians and their cronies, and now we have a real contender who could clean up this stinking mess.

Too bad he couldn’t have put that on his Romneycare bill. If anything is attributable to him, its that.

Even Jonathan Gruberwho advised Romney and (he who must not be named residing in whitehouse) says Romney’s full of it when trying to point out differences between the two plans.
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“…..they’re the same [expletive] bill. He just can’t have his cake and eat it too. Basically, you know, it’s the same bill. He can try to draw distinctions and stuff, but he’s just lying. The only big difference is he didn’t have to pay for his. Because the federal government paid for it. ”
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You defend it — you own it. And it is attributable to you.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/17/romneycare-architect-of-course-its-the-same-as-obamacare/

If Rubin’s writings are “what the Romney camp wants everyone to think at that given moment” then Redstate is the same thing for the given moment’s not-Romney.

Hence we can only draw one conclusion from seeing two front page articles articles on Rubin’s story. The Newt camp is worried about Rubin’s story. Perry supporters can rejoice, the fall of Newt is at hand.

Candidate after candidate fails and it seems none of it shifts to Romney. I’m beginning to wonder if he is over-bought on Intrade. I still hope all Republicans can remember that every one of the declared candidates is part of a bench for some elected office.

In all seriousness, is the Republican party really going to nominate Newt Gingrich for the presidency? Seriously, Newt Gingrich! It defies belief considering his myriad of ethical problems. Unfortunately, we are the party who chose O’Donnell and Angle and some on this site have even gone for Radkte so I guess anything’s possible.

Are we really going to nominate a 68 year old man who was thrown out of the Speakership because of poor leadership? Are we really going to nominate a man who has penchant for setting himself on fire and burning to a crisp those around him? Are we really going to nominate a man who claimed he was paid $1.6 million dollars to be a historian to Fannie and Freddie? A historian?

Newt Gingrich may throw out a lot of good ideas during the debates, but who cares? He’s got no campaign to speak of and his campaign is in debt. There is no way he can set up an operation quickly enough to combat what Obama has. After all, this is supposed to be about winning, right?

Newt Gingrich is a man who will say anything to anyone and there is plenty of videotape to prove it, or is the video of him saying one thing about Libya one day and then the exact opposite a week later a dirty trick by the media? Sorry folks, this is beginning to look embarrassing.

And no doubt it was Romney people that latched onto the McCain campaign that were leaking the phony damaging stories about Sarah Palin, viewing her as a potential rival for 2012. You know, the “Palin thinks Africa is a country” and “Palin is a wardrobe diva” stories that the state-run media were all too happy to spread.

sethellis will reject it and bash RedState and anyone not named Mitt regardless of fact.

Make no mistake about it. GOP establishment is trying to foist Willard Romney on us, just the latest in a long line of squishy moderates who will have his butt handed to him by the REAL Democrat.

After that happens, I wonder how the GOP will handle the open rebellion it rightfully brought on itself. Maybe they’ll just go the way of the Whigs. At least I can hope.

But I will be saddened by what will become of our beloved nation.

Is that the story here? Is that a crime that a blogger favors one GOP candidate over another? Do you think this site, RedState, has a bias towards any particular candidate?

Rubin’s article is dead on about Gingrich, his entire career has been throwing ridiculous ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks, to say nothing about his sleazy dealings or messy personal life.

I’m sure Rubin has her favorite candidate, but this is coming from a site that hosted Rick Perry’s Presidential announcement at their RedState gathering while being introduced by the head editor, Erick Erickson.

I have to apologize because I now see that the wording of my post could come off as insinuating something underhanded. I was not trying to infer that these posts were organized in any way. I was not trying to say that someone here is being given marching orders. Only that Redstate is the best barometer for anti-Romney sentiment. That so many here are interested in the story shows that Redstate posters see the story as a major vulnerability for Newt. I think it is significant that two Redstate contributers independently found the need to post about this.

The takeaway I am trying to convey is that many here are already fretting about Gingrich’s chances, and that he may already be starting to fade. Thus clearing the way for a possible Perry comeback.