And The Panic Continues...

[WillyT]

An open letter to Republican leaders
By Jennifer Rubin - WaPo
Posted at 10:00 AM ET, 01/22/2012

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Dear Govs. Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels, John Kasich, Bobby Jindal; Sens. Jon Kyl, Marco Rubio and Jim DeMint; and Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and Mike Pence (R-Ind.):

You’ve each declined to run for the presidency or even endorse one of the final candidates. It’s understandable that you’d decided not to run for president. It’s nasty business. You could wind up looking like Simon Legree or suffer a brain freeze on national TV. It’s punishing and harder than anything you’ve done in your lives. And endorsing? Why that requires an expenditure of political capital, some risk taking. Your guy could lose, and there where would you be?

But here’s the thing: The voters in their infinite wisdom have just given a huge boost to perhaps the only GOP candidate who could shift the spotlight from President Obama to himself, alienate virtually all independent voters, lose more than 40 states and put the House majority in jeopardy.

We’d be looking at four more years of Obama’s economic policies, four more years of strained relations with allies, several new Supreme Court justices and an unprecedented power shift to the executive branch.

It seems, gentlemen, it’s time to get off your .?.?. er .?.?. time to get off the bench and into the game. It is time to make the case for winning conservatism — a conservatism attractive to centrist voters that can be translated into a reform agenda. If conservatism becomes a movement of anti-media bashing and hyperbolic rhetoric, it will cease to be a force in American politics. And if it is led by an egomaniac whose personal advancement takes precedence over any principle, the GOP will be (correctly) mocked.

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More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/an-open-letter-to-republican-leaders/2012/01/21/gIQA9abjGQ_blog.html

We can truly hope for THAT !!!

[Ian David]

1. This is bullshit. Newt has a better chance of beating Obama than any other candidate.

This is what we should keep telling every Republican we know.

"We're really afraid Newt will win the nomination, because he has the best chance of beating Obama. This is why the Liberal Media is trying to hard to take Newt down."

Memorize that, and say it around the water cooler.

[abelenkpe]

2. +1 nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. why do they think Jindal is so great? I remember his awful speech performance of a few years ago.

[mikehiggins]

4. I am nearing panic myself

Does no one else see any comparison to Hitler's rise to power in the way this is playing out?

Can Gingrich be the "man on a white horse" who will lead the disenfranchised and disgruntled against the elites and powerful?

Yeah, I know it wasn't really that simple in the '30's BUT what does that matter? If the blind followers follow their false prophets to the barricades what good will historic accuracy do? Many southerners seem to think they didn't lose the War with the North, and just like with my people (the Irish, of course) emotional belief in perceived grievances can be much more powerful than truth.

This is scary stuff and we dismiss it at our real peril.

[surfdog]

5. I disagree with this whole thread

Claiming Gingrich is the toughest candidate to beat just seems absurd to me but not as absurd as comparing Gingrich and Hitler

we can do better guys

[WillyT]

6. Thanks Dad...