Frank Luntz Admits Republican Overreach With The Clintons Will Bite Them Once Again

[riversedge]

As you know, the Repugs are going after for saying one thing to the Benghazi Hearing panal and supposed contradictions that FBI Compey laid out. It never ends.



Frank Luntz Admits Republican Overreach With The Clinton's Will Bite Them Once Again

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/frank-luntz-admits-republican-overreach
By Heather

7/08/16 4:00pm


Following yesterday's debacle with the House Oversight Committee wasting yet more money on one of their partisan witch hunts, we were all wondering what the reaction over on Fox would be. Would they ignore it, or circle the wagons?

They circled the wagons for the most part of course, and the news cycle with the recent police shootings along with the madness in Dallas last night crowded out a good deal of the coverage they would have gotten once the networks cut away from the four or five hours of commercial-free air time they gave them.

I did find one tidbit of their coverage interesting though, and that was GOP pollster and Fox regular Frank Luntz's response when asked about the hearing on this Thursday's Your World with Neil Cavuto. After the obligatory hammering on Clinton about whether or not voters can trust her and pretending she's never taken any responsibility for or apologized for the situation with the email server, he told guest host Maria Bartiromo this:

LUNTZ: And number two, it's to be seen as trying to make partisan points off of something like this, will actually shield her. I watched this when her husband was being impeached by House Republicans and his popularity actually went up and it went up because they thought that he was being punished by Republicans rather than being held accountable for his behavior.

Even Luntz knows that Republicans are going to take this gift they were given and shoot themselves in the foot once again, because they always overreach. It's what they do......................

[BobbyDrake]

1. Erm...

"this gift that they were given?" How do you mean?

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Interesting quote coming

from the Fellow who coins the Rethug talking points statements. And he focus group these statements in order to make sure the Verbiage has maximum effect.

[Jitter65]

3. Just like the extra-marital affairs of Bill's GOP hunters turned up after they went for impeachment

the e-mail and private servers belonging to GOP folks who probably have shared very sensitive information with paramours and have probably really been hacked will take them all down.

Wait until they uncover some infidelities of the most vehement Hillary trolls in Congress.

[Hortensis]

4. I'm hoping they do double down on this huge mistake

by "referring" a request that the FBI investigate Hillary's testimony under oath to Congress for perjury. Yet another Comey statement before the House and nation that investigation proved Hillary told the truth would be excellent.

Many media reported Chaffetz was going to follow through on his promise before the nation, but I don't see confirmation that a referral was actually sent. Fingers crossed as I'm afraid that others, among them Luntz perhaps, may have convinced them that they already hold the record for stupidity.

(Btw, some of the ever-hopeful hatemongers on another forum took Comey's explanation that a referral would be needed as practically "begging" the House to let him go after her there. )