Michael Steele Scolds MSNBC Host Over Her Suggestion Conservatives Need to Rally Around Romney
With Mitt Romney winning the Iowa caucus and on track to do well in New Hampshire, conservatives should just give up and rally behind the former Massachusetts governor, MSNBC host Alex Wagner suggested at the open of today's Now with Alex Wagner.
Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele was having none of that:
ALEX WAGNER, host: Here we are, and there's a lot of, there's Mitt-mentum, as it were.
MICHAEL STEELE: Where is it?
WAGNER: I don't know, you, well, there's--
STEELE: Where is it?! Twenty-five percent does not momentum make.
[...]
WAGNER: But there is some thinking that, at some point, conservatives have to rally around this guy. We know that Politico --
STEELE: Why?! Why?
WAGNER: Because--
STEELE: Why can't conservatives just make up their own mind? Why do they have to sit and wait for you or me or Karl Rove or anybody to tell them who they should want?
We saw in this process that the base of the party said we will do this our way in our time. We're, they're in no rush to do this. They want to vet these guys. There's a serious discussion undergoing in the RNC, in the party right now.
It didn't begin in this cycle. This goes back to 2005. It goes back to the second term of the Bush administration, about the difference between foundational principles versus Big Government Republicanism.
And their concern is that Mitt Romney is just a facade for what will be a next generation of Big Government Republicanism, so you have to appreciate that in the first instance.
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Twenty-five percent does not momentum make...BINGO!
Submitted by vrwc13 on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 4:50pm.
STEELE: Where is it?! Twenty-five percent does not momentum make.
Right...from an early post...
If Santorum fails the test, all that's left is Romney or Paul. And Paul is a non-starter. If Santorum falters, we'll either need to get behind Romney or concede the White House. - NB'r BKeyser
I think you are oversimplifying the answer. It should not be either Romney (20%) or Paul (10%), but someone whom the other 70% would support.
Let's not throw it all away because our perennial 20/10%'rs run every time. Let's choose a real representative, even if they are not in yet.
The process does not say we have to pick now from the top three from Iowa. Even those from Iowa would tell you that.
We still have 49 to 56 more states to hear from and a convention.
Way to early to concede (or celebrate as some would from the Iowa results). We are in round one of 12.
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Exactly, vrwc 13
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 5:56pm.
The MSM coronated Romney as their GOP nominee weeks ago (they know that their preference for the hapless Huntsman is futile). They don't understand why 75% of Republicans disagree.
WAGNER: But there is some thinking that, at some point, conservatives have to rally around this guy. We know that Politico --
STEELE: Why?! Why?
WAGNER: Because--
STEELE: Why can't conservatives just make up their own mind? Why do they have to sit and wait for you or me or Karl Rove or anybody to tell them who they should want?
Spot on, Michael Steele! It's like awarding the Green Bay Packers the Super Bowl title after they won their first game. Or to use another sports analogy, what if the 1980 International Olympic Committee awarded the gold medal for hockey to the Soviet Union team based upon the consensus opinion that it was the best team in the world? We'd have never had the Miracle on Ice by the USA team.
Why didn't Dems rally around Hillary Clinton in 2008? In October 2007, the MSM had almost unanimously decided that Hillary Clinton was going to be the Democratic nominee in 2008. She had name recognition, organization, more $$$ in her war chest than all the other Dem candidates combined, and the excitement of potentially becoming the first female President of the United States.
And she blew it.
The irony underscoring Wagner's ridiculous comments is that her bosses and commercial sponsors -- and those at other networks and news bureaus -- DON'T WANT THIS DECIDED YET. They want the drama to build so they can continue the 24/7 theater right up until the RNC convention. They've promoted the cat-fighting between the GOP candidates, and gleefully covered the self-destruction of Herman Cain. For them, it's like Reality TV without having to pay the cast.
rihno's
Submitted by kinijane on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 4:53pm.
Why does the media like Romney so much? The rhino's picked him, not the people, yet.
Steele is right, we will make up our own minds and not let the liberal media and the rhino's
tell us who to vote for. That being said, I think its time they got some kahonas and listen to
the folks out here instead of trying to keep doing things the same old way, their jobs are on
the line also.
rhinos
Submitted by cats1cowboy on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 5:39pm.
Just a friendly note. A RINO is a R epublican I n N ame O nly.
Thank you, Cats!
Submitted by texasborngranny on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 4:45pm.
Thank you, Cats!
I wonder what those that use 'rhino' think it means. ;0)
Although, lately, I've taken to refering to some as DIRCs... Democrats In Republican Costume
Remember when the media loved John McCain....?
Submitted by NeoKong on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 4:58pm.
He was "The Maverick".
Mr. Reach Across The Aisle.
The Compromiser.
The War Hero and a true American.
Then he got nominated and the next thing we know he was some out of touch Washington insider old guy with cancer. He was a war monger and a career politician and he had one foot in the grave.
Funny how no one had brought that up until after he was nominated.
The media will do the same thing to Romney. Oh yeah...now, Romney is reasonable, capable, pragmatic and centrist but wait until he gets nominated. Then he will be Mr. One Percenter out of touch Wall St. guy who has no idea what a gallon of milk costs. Mormonism will be some crazy voodoo religion where everybody has ten wives and molests their children. Mitt will be blue blood millionaire guy who poses for pictures with his clothing stuffed with money and laughs at poor people.
The point is that the media want Romney because they think he is the easiest to beat...just like McCain. They will snow plow for him now but if he ever gets nominated they will unleash the dogs of war on him.
Mr. Reach Across The Aisle....LOL
Submitted by bigdaddy on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 6:10pm.
...more like "Mr. Reacharound"...
Not to be confused with
Submitted by CO2Maker on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 12:00am.
Mr. Reacharound and Cop a Feel, who preceded Dubya.
Agreed,.. They always do
Submitted by Mark81150 on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 6:27pm.
Agreed,..
They always do this, always act as if the republican base are hopelessly stubborn, ignorant rubes if they DON'T vote for the MSM choice, but even if they get the nomination..
The press will comb through everything they can find to scare Americans about his Mormon faith. I had some Mormons try to get me to agree to join their church, but I was uncomfortable with alot of it. I wouldn't vote against a Romney for it, but this is what the MSM will do. Attempt to take the most extreme Mormon views, and atribute them to Romney,.. as they did with Palin's church... scare the nonreligious,.. annoy the faithful.. it what the MSM does.
President Hillary...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 5:00pm.
...would be the current opponent if we had used her logic and had applied to to the 2008 Demcratic Presidential Nomination.
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
I have an idea Alex
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 6:23pm.
How about you get Debbie Whatsherass Schultz on your program and grill her about the DNC move to draft Zell Miller as Demo nominee to run for Potus?
Why?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 12:02am.
Why did you continue the sentence? You should have ended it before the word "about."
BTW, you got her name wrong. It's Debbie Wasserman Test.
Actually her name is Debbie
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 2:37am.
Actually her name is Debbie Wheresmybrain Schultz.
Rally 'round Mitt!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 6:50pm.
Otherwise the Socialists (I mean "Dem's") won't know whom to trash and for how long.
Where the hell does MSLSD get
Submitted by Mrs. Vito on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 8:43pm.
Where the hell does MSLSD get these LIB bimbos Alex Wagner & Meghan McCain?? They remind me of a couple of retail shoe store clerks trying to discuss national issues. Going down on Chris Matthews to get an anchor job is sickening to the rest of us, but I guess it was good for Alex...
LIB bimbos?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 12:04am.
You mean Limbos, as in, "How low can you go?"
[sorry, duplicate message
Submitted by CO2Maker on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 12:13am.
[sorry, duplicate message removed]
Obama's Dreams Come True
Submitted by PaleHorse on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 10:16pm.
Michael Steele is speaking again? This guy was the best thing that ever happened to Obama. The RNC should lock him in a basement somewhere. He's truly got the gift of gaffe.
Actualy, Obama's dream is
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 10:27pm.
Useful drones such as yourself. Maybe you can explain how Obama's transformation is going to make America better?
What does Obama have to do
Submitted by PaleHorse on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 10:29pm.
What does Obama have to do with the moron that is Steele? Am I missing something or was Steele not a walking disaster? He did get run out on the rails right by his own team or am I forgetting recent history?
My friends...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 2:32am.
This isn't my election, but allow me to offer some friendly advice...
DON'T LET THE MEDIA CHOOSE YOUR CANDIDATE! Remember John McCain!
I still remember when he suspended his 2008 election campaign. That has got to be the single-most bone-headed move any candidate has made in U.S. Election history.
I was so frustrated watching this [ahem] run his campaign. It's almost as if he did not want to win the election! (I originally used a pejorative there, but I take it back, because as a war vet who went through hell during Vietnam, he does deserve some measure of respect, on the other hand, the way he ran that campaign was -- the only word I can think of is 'crazy')
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Good Advice, Mr. Canuck
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 1:21pm.
I think, however, you need to change your screen name. Because "dumb" is just plain wrong. We are struggling to not get McRomney....but the big money establishment is behind him. We shall see if the Tea Party can beat them back (again) this time around.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Conservatives
Submitted by dan iroticiv on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 11:18am.
And their principals are going to get us another 4 years of Obama. Go ahead nominate a Santorum, Paul, Perry or Gingrich, none are electable. The far right of this party is going to guarantee we have a European far left government for years to come. Romney is not perfect, but like it or not he is mainstream and will beat Obama. You want another 4 years of Obama, then another 8 years of who Hillary Clinton go ahead keep voting or pushing for these un-electable candidates. Get it through your heads, they can not, they can not win a general election. Keep beating up Romney, and he will enter the general election beat up and wounded from his own party. The corrupt media and Obama will repeat those same insults with quotations marks from the republican party. As it stands right now, Obama is going to be almost impossible to beat. Unemployment numbers (real or not) will continue to tick down, the media is going to do all they can to get him re-elected. We need the most electable candidate. Compromise for once or suffer 12 more years of left wing european government that will reshape this country for the 21st century. Go ahead push for Santorum, Gingrich, Paul or Perry and you can take your conservativism and read about in our history books.
on the contrary...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 1:05pm.
If we nominate Romney or any other moderate, we just continue our slide to the left.
Romney is Obama lite. He could just as easily run as a democrat.
If it takes another cycle of lefty control to bring this country to its senses, then thats what it takes.
No comprimise, no RINO, no continually drawing the line futher left until we find our selves left of center. Enough is enough.
edit - Part II: the 'Attack"
Watch Gingrich expand on this in the debates. I can hear it now: "Mitt, you ran against Ted Kennedy for the Senate. Along the way to losing, you said you were better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy. You said that, like Ted Kennedy, you were fervently pro-choice. Like Ted Kennedy, you said you were never for Ronald Reagan — and added that in the Reagan years you weren't a Republican, but an independent. After you got elected governor while announcing you were a progressive, you worked with Ted Kennedy to pass RomneyCare — which then became the model for ObamaCare. And like Ted Kennedy, your health plan funded abortions."
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
I don't think that this
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 1:26pm.
I don't think that this country can be brought to it's senses once it's been brought to it's knees.
on our knees...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 1:36pm.
...is sometimes the best place to be to come to our senses.
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
BS
Submitted by Agnostic on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 1:14pm.
Conservatives And their principals - Do you think Ronald Reagan could be elected today?
'Compromise for once' - We have DC running on Keynesian Economics, increased taxes on the wealthy, 2 year unemployment benefits, increased federal pay, etc..., there has been plenty of compromising.
I am not enamored with any of the candidates but it is definitely not because any of them are too Conservative in their politics that they can't win.