Hell Freezes Over: Rich Lowry Says 'Eleanor [Clift] Has Hit It On The Head'
For conservatives, hell may have frozen over on Sunday.
Rich Lowry, the editor of the National Review, said on PBS's McLaughlin Group referring to the perilously liberal Newsweek columnist named Clift, "Eleanor has hit it on the head" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
ELEANOR CLIFT, NEWSWEEK: I don't know that Republican primary voters are going to hold it against him that he got rich and that he learned how to work the capitalist system. Maybe they don't know about all of this, but I don't think this is going to be disqualifying. What Newt Gingrich has that Mitt Romney doesn't have is passion. And passion is what wins primaries. And Romney is running in a race where people really don't want to vote him.
And Newt is Newt. He's grandiose, he’s mercurial, he could self-implode a week from now, but he's been pretty disciplined since the Tiffany episode and the cruise, and he has been very shrewd in how he is presenting himself. So he could at least be the foil against Romney, and for the first time in this campaign, Romney is looking a little bit less inevitable.
RICH LOWRY, NATIONAL REVIEW: Eleanor has hit it on the head.
CLIFT: Thank you.
LOWRY: If people believe he is a combative true blue conservative it will trump all this Newt Inc. stuff.
Of course, Clift for a change was 100 percent right.
But you didn't have to tell her that on national television, did you Rich?
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Even a broken clock . . .
Submitted by sciborg3k on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 6:57pm.
. . . is going to be right some of the time.
What's to disagree with
Submitted by CT on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 6:49pm.
What's to disagree with here???
This is quite a change...
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 7:29pm.
Usually, after she talks, the conservative on the panel says in response the equivalent of "she must have been hit on the head to come up with such a crazy statement."
Actually, I think Eleanor hit herself on the head...
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 8:05pm.
...which cleaned out the cobwebs just long enough for her to have a brief moment of clarity.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
It happens once in a while
Submitted by povertypimpin on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 9:43pm.
Merely a random act of astute political analysis by Eleanor.
denying the messiah before the rooster crows twice
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 10:17pm.
Later next year when it looks inevitable that obama will lose a lot of talking heads will jump off of his sinking ship to save themselves and their careers.
A broken clock. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 10:34pm.
. . . is right twice a day. . .
Rich Lowry: Beltway type with the conventional wisdom.
Submitted by big.league.slider on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 2:13am.
Rich Lowry is the typical beltway type that can't see beyond the conventional wisdom. Like the rest of the media, Lowry thinks Romney is the inevitable GOP nominee because only a "moderate" candidate can beat Obama.
Romney couldn't beat McCain in 2008, and he won't beat Newt in 2012. The RINO Romney has never polled above 25%. When the GOP field narrows down to 2 or 3 candidates, the other 75% of GOP primary votes will not go to Romney. They will go to Newt. Romney should quit now before he wastes millions in a futile primary campaign.
Lowry is no conservative. He is simply a media hack that takes whatever position he thinks will make him seem prescient. If this was 1980, Lowry would be supporting GHW Bush or Anderson.
There Is Life After Obama and Eleanor is Preparing For It.
Submitted by Avitar on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 3:05am.
Pushing to get Romney the nomination will only move the needle if the Democrats are still in charge next year.For the first time since the '20's the Republicans could take all. They will do so in a time of extreme change in the media business. Being a third rate media echo will get you nothing.