"But if you had said to me three weeks ago, Mitt Romney would get fewer votes than John McCain and it looks like he’ll be 2 million fewer, I would have been dumbfounded."
Newt Gingrich quote from: Newt Gingrich 'Dumbfounded' By Obama's 'Extraordinary Victory' Over Mitt Romney by Elyse Siegel, Huffington Post, Nov. 12, 2012
Quote by Gov. Bobby Jindal from“We cannot be, we must not be, the party that simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys.” [Jindal] was just as blunt on how the GOP should speak to voters, criticizing his party for offending and speaking down to much of the electorate.
“It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments — enough of that,” Jindal said. “It’s not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can’t be tolerated within our party. We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters."
"Reality is not simple Politico interview with Gov. Bobby Jindal", via Right Hand Thief blog, Nov. 13, 2012
Newt Gingrich Dumbfounded (not that surprising)About Obama's Election Win
GOP #FAIL : No wonder Newt Gingrich is dumbfounded since he and his fellow Republicans have now failed in their #1 priority which since day 1 of Obama's Presidency was to make him a one term president.
As disclosed in April 2012 The Republicans did in fact plan since day 1 to oust Obama
Secret Meeting to Take Down Obama exposed
1 minute snippet taken from the 12 minute msnbc video of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell's program which aired Wednesday 4-25-2012. O'Donnell is speaking about an excerpt from the book 'DO NOT ASK WHAT GOOD WE DO' author Robert Draper
The Real GOP Priority? Deny Obama A Second Term
The Republicans having lost the election are now busy trying to figure out why they lost. Some merely complain that too many American's as Bill O'Reilly proclaims they just want "free thing" and Obama promised them even more "free things".Other Republicans complain that the white males in America are now a minority and that they have to find ways to reach out or to dupe these non-white males that the Republicans better represent their ideals and values.
But as Latino American actor John Leguizamo points out even when Republicans are talking about reaching out to Latinos they sound patronizing and in effect racist. While Republican Grover Norquist appeals to his new political theory that President Obama won basically because he indulged in name calling calling Mitt Romney a "poopy Head". So this is the Poopy Head political theory.
But if it were just about name calling then shouldn't the GOP and Romney have won since for four years they haven't stopped calling Obama names for instance Glenn Beck almost exhausted all of the names he could call Obama on national TV such as Beck called Obama a socialist, a communist, a collectivist, a new Hitler or a Stalin or Mao Tze Tung possibly the anti-Christ or the precursor to the anti-Christ and as being a secret Islamic Jihadists; a Manchurian candidate for Kenya ; that Obama was a racist angry black man who hates all white people ;as a guy who pals around with domestic terrorists and is in fact a champion for the terrorists and who is not legally an American citizen and that he was involved with Chicago gangsters , a drug addict , a pimp so on.
Emmy-winning actor John Leguizamo stopped by HuffPost Live to share his thoughts on the presidential election and how Latinos have shaped the political landscape. In an interview with host Alicia Menendez, he was critical of the conservative shuffle to explain their loss of the Latino vote, and how they intend to court it in the future. “I feel like they’re even talking down when they’re trying to reach out,” he said.
“They’re still doing us a favor. I know Bill O’Reilly feels like America’s changed and is no longer in the control of white power. But it never really has been. It’s been a false power. I mean, this country was founded by Latin people. We have been here all along. Some of us are from different parts of Latin America, but Mexicans have always been here. And the Spaniards discovered the country. You just have to understand that we’ve been here.”
Newt Gingrich after the Republicans lost the election offers up supposedly sage advice about what they should learn for the Obama campaign. This is rich coming from one of the leading promoters of "The Birther Conspiracy" and was a powerful voice against building a mosque near the 9/11 ground zero location in New York because he tried to suggest Obama was a secret Islamic Jihadists who sympathized with the Muslim terrorists and would eventually incorporate the medieval style Sharia Islamic law across the USA. Gingrich said in 2010 that no more mosques should be built in America until the Saudi Arabian government allowed churches to be built in their country.
So Gingrich proposed following the bad policies of Saudi Arabia and therefore setting the Saudis up as America's model for democracy and religious tolerance.
So Gingrich's disputes with Obama were not just over a difference in policies but that in his view Obama was out to destroy America and transform it into a socialist Islamic Fascist state.As Gingrich proclaimed in September of this year that Obama is not a real president and is contemptuous of most Americans.
Like NFL refs, President Obama 'not real' President Sept. 26, 2012
And so now we have what the kinder gentler wise sage like Gingrich who is dumbfounded that all the mud-slinging by him and other Republicans did not affect the outcome of the election. And what galls these GOP clowns is that after spending hundreds of millions to rig the election to engage in voter suppression across the USA still Obama won. In the meantime they have the effrontery to claim they are the real Americans who believe in democracy and the Constitution and the rule of law and yet they threw all of that along with common decency overboard throughout Obama's first term and during this election.
They are not real patriots they appeal to patriotism to win votes while denying average Americans the Right To Vote especially if they are black or Latino or anyone who wants to vote Democrat and not republican.It is because of these phony patriots that due to their calls for deregulation that the US economy has been broken and in need of emergency care from the moment Obama won in 2008. Their attitude is that they don't personally care as long as they and their friends prosper and even make huge profits while gutting the nation leaving despair in their wake.
Mitt Romney was in many ways the perfect candidate to reflect their motives of Greed and Selfishness and their mean spirited attitudes towards those left bruised and in pain by their desire for bigger and bigger profits at any cost.
In the aftermath of Barack Obama's victory over Mitt Romney in the presidential election, Newt Gingrich said it's time for the Republican party "to stop, take a deep breath and learn."Gingrich reflected on the outcome of the contest during an appearance on NBC's "Today" on Monday.The former House Speaker, who made a failed bid for the GOP presidential nomination earlier this year, said, "The president won an extraordinary victory. And the fact is we owe him the respect of trying to understand what they did and how they did it."
He added, "But if you had said to me three weeks ago, Mitt Romney would get fewer votes than John McCain and it looks like he’ll be 2 million fewer, I would have been dumbfounded."In a Politico op-ed published online on Monday, Gingrich wrote, "For the conservative movement and the Republican Party to succeed in the future ( and while they are not identical the two are inextricably bound together) we will have to learn the lessons of 2012."
He explained, "An intellectually honest and courageous Republican Party has nothing to fear from the current situation."Asked about what he wrote on NBC's "Today," Gingrich said, "The great thing about elections is they belong to the American people." He added, "I was wrong last week, as was virtually every major Republican analyst. And so, you have to stop and say to yourself, if I was that far off, what do I need to learn to better understand America."
Meanwhile Republican Grover Norquist offered up his own theory about why Obama won and that it had nothing to do with policies.
Norquist argues Mitt Romney lost because President Obama called Romney a "Poopy Head" and other names. So what would he suggest that Romney should have attacked Obama more on his personal character .
So is he saying that the Republicans were afraid to go too negative on Obama that's a laugh. The GOP Norquist forgets has been calling Obama names and claiming Obama was a liar who had a secret agenda to undermine America and its values.
Limbaugh and others vowed from the moment of Obama's inauguration that their main agenda was to do all they could to make Obama a one term president and to block anything he tried to do. This turned into a hate fest with the founding of the faux populist grass roots protest movement called The Tea Party .
The Tea Party in 2010 stormed the Town Hall meeting across the country to prepare for the mid-term election to put Tea Party know nothings into government .
That movement was mixed in with the Birthers and calling Obama a usurper and not a real American and therefore not the real president of the United States. They called Obama a socialist, a communist, a fascist, a NAZI , a collectivist the new Hitler or Stalin while the GOP media stars such as Glenn Beck and Limbugh, O'Reilly ,Michael Savage , Michele Malkin, Laura Ingraham, Pam Geller, Sean Hannity and Fox News Channel promulgated all of this nonsense to their audience on a daily basis .
This merely proved that Republicans and their angry bigoted base had few if any policies to offer besides defeating President Obama.
Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans For Tax Reform, has a new theory about why President Barack Obama won -- he portrayed Mitt Romney as a "poopy head.""The president was committed; elected on the basis that he was not Romney and Romney was a poopy head and you should vote against Romney and he won by two points," Norquist said on CBS' "This Morning" Monday.
"But he didn't make the case that we should have higher taxes and higher spending, he kind of sounded like the opposite."Host Norah O'Donnell pushed back. "Well, I'm not sure that's what the president called Mitt Romney, Grover," she said.
"That's not the debate that was had ... he said very clearly throughout the debate that the wealthiest Americans should pay more and he won eight of the nine battleground states and Republicans failed to reclaim the White House or the Senate."
"What about the exit polls that show a broad support for raising taxes on the wealthiest americans. Are you wrong?" she asked.Norquist pointed to negative advertising against former GOP nominee Mitt Romney."Well, again, you saw those ads that suggested Romney gave people cancer in Ohio for months and months unanswered. You can trash an individual and get people to vote against him," he said. He then touted Republican governors who won elections pledging to phase out state income taxes. O'Donnell replied that those were state issues.
The ad Norquist is referring to -- a spot by pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA, tying a Bain Capital-controlled steel mill's closure to a lack of health care for an employee's wife, who eventually died from cancer -- aired mistakenly, according to Priorities USA. The ad was sharply criticized for being inaccurate.Other Republicans have struggled to explain Obama's win.
Karl Rove echoed Norquist recently, saying that the negative ads succeeded in "suppressing the vote."When asked if any members of Congress who have signed Americans for Tax Reform's pledge not to raise taxes would accept new revenue, Norquist said, "The pledge is to the American People not to me.""So they don't need my permission to vote," he said. "They made a commitment to the people in their states."
And so it goes, GORD.
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