Now it is the GOP grassroots base vs. the GOP establishment. OH HOW SWEET IT IS!

[RBInMaine]

There is a wonderful civil war taking place inside the GOP, and how it will end is unknown right now. The Grinch is again on the rise. His big mistake in Iowa was that he didn't go bigtime negative on Romney. Tried to take the high road. He won't make that mistake in FL. NEWT IS GREAT AT PUKING OUT THE KIND OF ROTTEN RED MEAT THAT THE GOP HARDCORE BASE LIVES TO EAT UP. He is a master of it. If the hardcore GOP base sees that Santorum and Grampy Paul have no chance and consolidate around the Grinch, and if the Grinch can raise enough money and put together enough of an organization to be competitive in FL, then he has not only a shot of winning FL but also of winning the entire nomination. Even if he makes it close in FL, it continues to hurt Mittens. So what does this do? Oh it is just so wonderful. It may force Mittens to IMMEDIATELY release his tax records which are full of corporate rich boy goodies for everyone to hammer him on RIGHT NOW. (You see he wants to sew up the nomination before releasing them because of all the shitty info. they contain which will damage him.) Also, this makes Mittens go further to the right making him look like even more of flipper since Newt's main narrative is that HE is the real conservative and Mittens is really a Massachusetts moderate. The establishment is scared as hell of Newt so look for their SuperPacs to go scorched Earth in FL against Newt. The core GOP does not like Mittens. They see him as a phony and a product of the northeastern Harvard elite. The corporate establishment loves him though. So we are going to have a HUGE fight between the establishment and the grassroots TeaNuts. Many are saying the establishment will prevail as it always does. Not so fast. Mittens dropped 30 points in a week in SC with far superior organization and money. He thought he had it all wrapped up. Florida is going to be FUN to watch. Again, if Newt can capitalize on his momentum and put together enough money and enough of a groundgame there, it is going to become very, very interesting. I don't dare to predict who will win FL right now.

[Tx4obama]

1. I think the GOP screwed up when they let the TeaParty get out of hand and didn't stomp them out

It pretty much started with Sarah Palin and her hate speech at the 2008 GOP convention.
The GOP embraced the extremists and thought it was wonderful in 2010 when they won a bunch of House seats.
Boehner can't control the radicals that won those seats - tough shit - that's his problem now
So, they will just have to live with it.
They made their bed now they will have to lie in it

[pampango]

2. Newt Gingrich continues with "populist vs. establishment"; offer to Palin

Newt Gingrich Says He’d Ask Sarah Palin to Take a ‘Major Role’ in His Administration

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/newt-gingrich-says-hed-ask-sarah-palin-to-take-a-major-role-in-his-administration/

A day after winning a partial endorsement from Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich said today he would ask the former governor of Alaska to play a “major role” in his administration should he make it to the White House.

“Certainly, she’s one of the people I’d call on for advice,” Gingrich said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I would ask her to consider taking a major role in the next administration if I’m president, but nothing has been discussed of any kind. And it wouldn’t be appropriate to discuss it at this time.”

“I’m just delighted that she and Todd have been both of them so supportive of my candidacy. And they recognize that, you know, I’m a Tea Party Reform conservative. I’m not part of the Washington establishment,” the former speaker said. “And I think that’s the signal that her endorsement last night really sends.”

Though Palin didn’t officially endorse Gingrich, she said on Fox News Tuesday that she would vote for him if she were a South Carolinian.

[madrchsod]

3. never underestimate the newt....

he will make the presidential race very close.