Carville to GOP: You have a disaster on your hands

Have no idea who is going to win the South Carolina primary but at this stage in the race, it doesn't matter as Obama and his people have their opposition research people in a slap happy mood.  Many who have done ops research in the past would be doing an Irish jig at the thoughts of who the Republicans were about to nominate in the coming months -- a northeastern liberal who ran as a liberal Republican in 2002 to win the Massachusetts Governor's race or former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:

The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday (1/21/97) to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing. 

Then he carried on an six year affair with a Congressional aide before finally leaving the House in 1998 and  getting a divorce in 1999 all during Monicagate when he was talking about President Clinton's lack of morals.  How ironic as Gingrich was one who filed an ethics complaint against the Democrat Jim Wright of Texas who had to resign as Speaker in 1989.

Carville to GOP: You have a disaster on your hands
By James Carville, CNN Contributor
updated 2:41 PM EST, Sat January 21, 2012 

Editor's note: James Carville is a Democratic strategist who serves as a political contributor for CNN, appearing frequently on CNN's "The Situation Room" as well as other programs on all CNN networks. Carville remains active in Democratic politics and is a party fundraiser. 

(CNN) -- Memo to Republican Establishment: 

I would send this memo to each of you individually, but I'm not sure exactly who you are. I've been told that you exist and that people like my colleagues Bill Bennett, Karl Rove, and Bill Kristol are charter members of it. 

I am assuming you are out there and I assume there are more than three of you. At any rate, I thought I'd take a moment to catch up with you and make some observations on how things are going for your party.

Let me break it to you gently -- you've got a first-class disaster on your hands. I know you boys thought this thing would work out and you would be able to whip the Republicans in line to fall in behind Mitt (I assume you are all males but if there is a female in the establishment, I apologize.) 

Not going too good, is it fellows? 

It's been a terrible time to be a Republican. There have been many moments during this process that have caused me great joy. Certainly the events of Thursday, ending with the CNN debate, and even the Fox debate Monday night, have helped ease the pain of my beloved Tigers' and Saints' recent defeats. 

I mean, most people thought it was kind of a watermark when your Tea Party gang booed the golden rule. You know, I've spent some time in Philly and they have always thought they were pretty radical because they actually booed Santa Claus and Willie Mays. Philly, I've got news for you -- you ain't got nothing on South Carolina Republicans. They just aren't buying any of that do-unto-others garbage. 

I actually thought my favorite moment of this delightful process was when one of your eight front-runners, Herm Cain, (as Sarah Palin calls him) actually ran an ad with his campaign manager endorsing him. (Rove, why didn't you think of that in 2000? Imagine the headline: "Rove endorses Bush.") 

The climax of that delicious ad is when he actually takes a drag on a cigarette. But my favorite thing about Herm's campaign manager is that he is the only person in the history of the world that was actually barred from political consulting. Let me tell you, I've been in this business for quite a while and I've never known of anyone other than Mark Block to be suspended from practicing this profession. 

At any rate, let's talk a minute about Mitt. He was your guy -- he was methodical, meticulous, married once. He has completely blown himself up over an issue that everyone knew was coming. Have you had a chance to look at John McCain's research operation on Mitt? Wow. And let me assure you, that thing has been supplemented, expanded, and annotated. God only knows about the Obama people -- they've got a billion dollars! And how about my friends over at American Bridge (the Democrat-leaning political action committee)? Clearly Mitt is merely in the beginning of this tax-return, financial-disclosure, Cayman Island (and God only knows what else) fiasco. 

Your new front-runner is one of your old front runners, Newt Gingrich. I would like to take a moment to revel: I cannot personally tell you how pleased I am to see old Newt rise to the top after listening to all of your nauseating, sickening lectures on the evils of government and the importance of family values. 

Now, you guys have to deal with a $1.6 million Freddie Mac consultant (who says he wasn't a lobbyist) who has been married three times. Hope you, at least, enjoy the Super Bowl. It could be your last hurrah for a while. 

PS -- As my former boss once said, I feel your pain. That's why I didn't mention Rick Perry.

Rasmussen: 6% of GOP Voters Ready to Vote Third Party If Their Favorite Isn't The Nominee

6% of GOP Voters Ready to Vote Third Party If Their Favorite Isn't The Nominee 


That is the latest from a Rasmussen poll and that probably is underestimated.  I think the number will be larger if Mitt Romney is the nominee.  Republicans didn't like him in 2008 so why would they like him now.  This is one Republican who will not vote for him.  I will vote 3rd party before I ever vote for the establishment Romney after what him and his backers, the establishment Republicans, have done to other candidates including Huntsman who hasn't been able to gain much traction.  It is Romney all the time in the debates moderated by mostly the liberal media.  It keeps rehashing the same old crap.


As we have said before, the RNC Chair and his people who set up all these debates should be resigning now for turning the GOP primary into a circus.  While he is at it, he can take Rove, the Koch Brothers, and heads of Tea Party Express and Tea Party Nation with him.  When you look at 2010, you see the handwriting on the wall that Crossroads, Koch Brothers, Roger Ailes, National Tea Party people and others worked to give us bad candidates in the primary and rumors of fraud in places like South Carolina and Wisconsin seem to the logical conclusion after what we witnessed in Iowa.  What are the bad candidates and some elected officials like Hailey in South Carolina doing?  Endorsing Mitt Romney of course.  During the SC primary for Governor it was rumored that fraud was alive and well in South Carolina and frankly I believe it -- no other way to explain Hailey's election because she is not conservative when it counts but had an I Owe You to give Romney.  


This primary has made me ask many times why I am a Republican.  Never asked that before, but watching the GOP Primary unfold with all the liberal debate moderators has me wondering why I call myself a Republican.  The fix was in for this primary from Day One and some of us didn't realize it until it was too late. We should have guessed that Bush 41 and that crowd was up to something on Romney who is no conservative started polling well or should say his usual 25%.  Maybe this is what our Party needs -- the Country sure doesn't but I am tired of big government people running as Republicans.  I am also am tired of Republican leadership in the Congress especially the Senate.


Time for a lot of us to start concentrating on Congressional races as much as the Presidential as the GOP Primary looks to be going according to the establishment plans.  Have to give it to them for having so many debates with liberal moderators to make Romney look good and the rest of the candidates look bad.  Now Republicans need to hit the RNC in the pocketbook and quit donating to them.  


Do have one question that no one seems to know the answer:  Why does Ron Paul not go after Romney when he has the chance?

Rick Perry Presidential Push Quietly Gains Steam

We will let the article speak for itself but we cannot think of a better candidate to run for President of the United States than Governor Rick Perry of Texas.  He checks all the blocks I have when supporting someone for President.  He has a backbone and not afraid to stand up to Obama and this Administration as the Country has been witnessing.  He understands State's Rights and would do a great job of returning State's Rights to the States as President.  


We sincerely hope that Governor Rick Perry will throw his hat in the race -- he can count on this Sooner and others from the Sooner State supporting him 100%.  After all the Aggies and the Sooners are both share the color 'red' not orange. 


Governor Perry will be headlining the Southern Republican Leadership Conference again and if his speech is anything like last year, it will get more standing ovations and a chance for him to showcase what it would be like for him to be in the Presidential race.  


May 17, 2011

Rick Perry Presidential Push Quietly Gains Steam

By Erin McPike and Scott Conroy

As many grass-roots Republicans remain in search of a conservative candidate with the pizazz to go toe-to-toe against President Obama, a man from deep in the heart of Texas who was tea party before the tea party was cool appears to be giving the presidential race some thought.

Gov. Rick Perry has insisted on multiple occasions that he has no interest in the presidency, but RCP has learned that political associates have begun to nose around quietly on Perry's behalf.

A Texas pol who is close to Perry has been telling a few key strategists that the nation's longest-serving governor sees a vacuum and is waiting to be summoned into the race. This source believes that could happen by late summer. Without fellow Southerners Haley Barbour or Mike Huckabee in the race -- and with Newt Gingrich's early troubles raising further doubts about the current lineup -- there could be a glaring niche for Perry to fill.

According to another well-connected Republican, at least one Perry confidant has been very quietly making inquiries about the political terrain in the nation's first voting state of Iowa. A third Perry associate, RCP has learned, has been heralding a small contingent of Iowans with the time-tested line that is often used by would-be candidates who are leaving their options open: "Keep your powder dry."

Perry's aides have long made it clear that the tough-talking Texan, who succeeded George W. Bush in Austin in 2000, would not seriously entertain the idea of mounting a White House run before the state's legislative session finishes at the end of this month. That date is now less than two weeks away, and the 2012 presidential field remains fluid.

The Perry chatter has been so discreet that nearly a dozen early-state GOP operatives and consultants contacted by RCP hadn't heard a word about it. But they are unfazed that the buzz exists.

Mark McKinnon, a Republican strategist and Bush administration veteran, said, "I'm not aware of Perry making calls, although it wouldn't surprise me."

Perry would hardly be the first prominent Republican to raise presidential expectations, however unobtrusively, only to later back away -- and his associates remain adamant, in public at least, that nothing has changed.

"The Governor has not called anyone about running for POTUS. I'd like to know of one person who says they received such a call," Dave Carney, a Perry political strategist who now works for Gingrich's presidential effort, said in an email. "He is calling raising funds for the Republican Governors Association, of which he currently serves as chair."

Excerpt:  Read More at Real Clear Politics