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RUSH: Yesterday Mitt Romney referred to as Newt as “zany,” to talk radio as “zany,” certain elements of the media as “zany.” So we have here a montage of the Drive-By Media reacting to this.<\/p>\n
WILLIE GEIST: (music) Mitt Romney calling Newt Gingrich, quote, “zany;” a word that has not been used non-ironically since 1958.<\/p>\n
MIKA BREZINSKI: (silly music) What decade is “zany” from?<\/p>\n
JOAN WALSH: I thought it was a silly word. It just shows Mitt is sort of stuck in the \u201950s. “Zany,” what does that mean?<\/p>\n
DAVID RODHAM GERGEN: An odd line of attack. I think he ought to throw it away. He called Gingrich “zany.” That\u2019s very unusual.<\/p>\n
MARTIN BASHIR: “Zany,” what does he mean by that? And that doesn\u2019t sound too good to me from Romney\u2019s perspective, attacking Gingrich.<\/p>\n
CHRIS MATTHEWS: (screaming) When a candidate refers to his opponent as “zany” you know he\u2019s in trouble!<\/p>\n
WOLF BLITZER: A barrage of criticism, of Newt Gingrich, including suggesting he\u2019s been “zany” — “zany,” his word, Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n
GINGRICH: (bad audio) My response is I think a Brain Science Initiative is a way to help human beings. I\u2019ll let him decide if it\u2019s zany. I understand what all the consultants are doing; that\u2019s fine. They should run their campaign the way they want to; I\u2019m gonna run my campaign the way I want to — and my campaign is gonna focus on positive ideas and positive solutions; and I\u2019m, frankly, taking the gamble that the America care about actually solving our country\u2019s problems, not just watching politicians beat each other up.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, so Newt didn\u2019t want to go there and describe or define “zany.” He\u2019s gonna take the high road and stop all this beating up of Romney and self-immolation. This stuff is not helpful. They got Rudy Giuliani in on this. He was on Fox News Fox & Friends this morning, and the cohostette, Margaret Carlson. No. No, no, no. Margaret Carlson? No. What\u2019s her name? Gretchen Carlson! Gretchen Carlson said, “What\u2019s missing in your comments about Mitt Romney?”<\/p>\n
GIULIANI: First of all, right now getting so darn negative. I was really offended by his comment that, uh, Newt Gingrich is “zany.” That isn\u2019t kind of language that should be coming from a candidate. I think this could be hurting him! This is after all a Republican primary. They don\u2019t want to see a Republican savaging another Republican. And it\u2019s not just Mitt. Mitt\u2019s got, uh, governor Sununu out there, uh, basically saying that Newt just doesn\u2019t have the right ideas, that somehow Newt is… He\u2019s trying to create the impression that he\u2019s crazy, “zany.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: That Sununu thing, that\u2019s another thing. Sununu gave us David Souter. Assured us he\u2019s a rock solid conservative. He turned out to be very liberal on the court. So here we go next, this is Mitt attacking Newt for being too rich.<\/p>\n
ROMNEY: I think Speaker Gingrich has lived in the Washington for the last 30 years. He went to Washington to do good, and he stayed to do well. He\u2019s a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany\u2019s, you\u2019re not a middle class American.<\/p>\n
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SCHMIDT: I think there\u2019s a lot of panic in the establishment about his prospects. I mean one of the things, Rachel, is there are 31 House freshmen in districts that President Obama won in 2008, and the notion that Newt Gingrich could be at the top of the ticket I think is petrifying to them. You look at the dissatisfaction over the economy, over the president\u2019s handling of the economy, this is an election that Republicans should be able to win, but people are deeply worried that we may be about to put someone into the nominating convention who is, you know, deeply flawed.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right, Steve Schmidt, this guy ran McCain\u2019s campaign and he basically just said what I have been attempting to say in recent months, that the establishment are not convinced Obama can be beat. But they think that Romney will at least help \u2019em hold the House and maybe win the Senate, which is what they want. That\u2019s where their sights are set. The RNC, the GOP, the inside-the-Beltway ruling class, whatever you want to call \u2019em, political class, they want the Senate back. Here this guy just said it, Schmidt just said, Newt\u2019s the nominee, oh, my God, we\u2019re gonna lose everything, Newt\u2019s hated. Newt is perceived as a conservative. <\/p>\n
Newt is perceived as a conservative, and they think everybody hates conservatives, only nutcases are conservatives. “Oh, no. Here we are, we gotta chance to win the Senate. Oh, no.” Only Romney can do that, in their mind. That\u2019s what they think. Don\u2019t doubt me on this. He just said it. He just said it. (interruption) I know. Obama won against the same kind of guy they want to nominate now. This is the whole point. These guys keep nominating losers. They keep nominating people who are destined to lose, using the same worn out formula that these guys are gonna go get independents and moderates. I know. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been trying to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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