22 February 2012
The Debate
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: Presidential Election 2012 .
The big debate in Arizona tonight was very important. I was pleased to see the general consensus afterward that Mitt Romney won that debate. I had to shake my head and smile while listening to the CNN panel discuss the debate. Ari Fleischer who is the conservative on the panel confirms my opinion that the conservatives are the most manipulative against Romney. He said that Santorum missed his chance tonight to attack Romney and this is what he should have said. He then went on to totally tear down Mitt.
Fleischer , acting as a surrogate for Santorum, spoke of Romney flipflopping, and many other sound bites that are being used to create distaste toward Mitt. Shame on Ari and congratulations to Mitt Romney for a great debate.
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Sticky Buns Says:
22 February 2012 at 10:57 pm.
Prettyboy Mitt totally lost this debate. He stuttered. The MSM is just kissing his butt.
B.BallBen Says:
22 February 2012 at 11:11 pm.
Joy, you are not the only one who thinks the big accusation of Mitt being the establishment candidate is a lie. I grabbed a paragraph from an commentary by Ann Coulter. It is below.
“The chestnut about Mitt Romney being pushed on unsuspecting conservatives by “the Establishment” is the exact opposite of the truth. The Establishment, by any sensible definition, is virulently opposed to Romney — and for completely contradictory reasons.”
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-02-22.html
Mitt tore it up against Santorum tonight. By the way Sticky Buns, you are a piece of work and don’t have a clue.
B.BallBen Says:
22 February 2012 at 11:16 pm.
I couldn’t resist getting some more from Coulter’s article. Below is a few paragraphs. Completely supports what we have been saying here.
Meanwhile, many of the pillars of the conservative establishment also implacably oppose Romney. Fox News is neutral, but its second-highest-rated host, Sean Hannity, is anti-Romney — though endorsing no one — as is prominent Fox News contributor Sarah Palin — who has also offered herself up as a possible presidential nominee at a contested convention. (Wouldn’t a former candidate for vice president on a major party’s ticket be part of the Establishment?)
The No. 1 conservative talk-radio host in America, Rush Limbaugh, is critical of Romney, and another top conservative talk-radio host, Mark Levin, is adamantly against Romney — though both Limbaugh and Levin supported Romney as the conservative alternative to John McCain in 2008, and Romney has only gotten better since then.
Purely to hurt Romney, the Iowa Republican Party fiddled with the vote tally to take Romney’s victory away from him and give it to Rick Santorum — even though the “official count” was missing eight precincts. Isn’t the party apparatus of a state considered part of the Establishment?
I’m not sure what part of the Establishment supports Romney. Is it Romney supporter Christine O’Donnell, erstwhile tea party candidate for the U.S. Senate from Delaware? Am I the face of the Establishment? (If so, the country is going to be just fine.)
I would think that the pristine example of the Republican Establishment is Weekly Standard editor and Fox News contributor Bill Kristol. But he wants anybody but Romney, even proposing that we choose someone not running by means of a contested convention.
Joy Bischoff Says:
22 February 2012 at 11:28 pm.
B.B., thanks so much for this grab. What a great commentary. It is so great to find someone this prominent that sees the situation like we do, just like you said. She wants to know what the problem is with the Establishment. I seriously believe the answer to that is that they have learned that Mitt Romney can’t be controlled and they want a puppet. I thought I would post a little more from Ann:
But then a large minority of those same conservatives are completely convinced that Romney is an Establishment candidate simply because they have heard that repeated so often.
As we say to dunderhead liberals: What we’re looking for here is facts, not chants or epithets.
Meanwhile, Romney cheerfully campaigns on, the biggest outsider and most conservative candidate we’ve run for president since Reagan, while being denounced by the Establishment as “too Establishment.”
Pickles Says:
23 February 2012 at 11:26 am.
I didn’t use to like Ann Coulter very much but after reading that article I love her. She is courageous to speak out against the establishment and call it like it is.
It is making me nuts to see how much Fox news and most of the conservatives are defending Rick Santorum after he got squashed in the debates last night. What is with them? I am watching them do the dirty work against Mitt for free that the other candidates now don’t have to pay for or get their hands dirty for. I just don’t get how people are so blind to all this.
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