Alan Grayson: GOP Race Will Do 'Lasting Damage' To Party

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Alan Grayson: GOP Race Will Do 'Lasting Damage' To Party

Firebrand ex-Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL), running to reclaim his seat in 2012, told TPM that Mitt Romney’s fans shouldn’t get too excited about his Tuesday win. The real issue was Gingrich’s lousy campaign.

“I think that in the end the Not-Romney vote was unwilling to coalesce around Newt Gingrich,” Grayson said. “His flaws, politically and personally, become more obvious as it went on and it’s a personal rejection of him. There’s tremendous reservation about Romney, the majority are not happy with the choices left.”

Either way, he said, the GOP is leaving Florida worse than it arrived.

“I think there has been lasting damage,” he said. “I think that when Newt Gingrich parades around the country saying Mitt Romney is a liar and Mitt Romney parades around country saying Newt Gingrich is a liar, the conclusion most people draw is they’re both liars.”

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“Newt’s negatives are astronomical — they’re approaching his name recognition at this point — and Romney’s are also very high. I doubt we’ll see them go down,” he said. “Mitt romney has been exposed, like a character out of Orphan Annie, Daddy Warbucks, as an enormously wealthy person out of touch with ordinary Americans who simply wants to be president, as far as we can tell, because he wants to be President.”

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[Cognitive_Resonance]

1. Most Republican voters at this point realize their Party is really messed-up, but they're incapable

of understanding why. It's disturbing and delightful at the same time.

[Johonny]

2. lasting damage?

This is the party. The fact people are going out and voting for these people tells you all you need to about the Republican party. How damaged is it? Hard to say since they took back the house in 2010. For some reason Americans are ever slow to realize the Republican party is hopelessly not representing actual Americans, unless corporation ARE people and international corporation ARE Americans. If the last 30 years haven't destroyed the Republican party is a pointless contest between terrible candidates really going to hurt the party. People that vote Republican seem to have an amazing short sighted memory. Basically some time this summer FOX news and other sources will talk about how incredibly unified the Republican party is and was throughout the whole nomination contest and the people that vote Republican will nod their heads and go yip that's how I remember it. If you're still voting Republican now, you've somehow bought into whatever Mitt, Newt, Paul and the circus is selling. These guys don't suck any worse than Bush, Delay and the rest of the greedy rich idiots they had last decade.

[lpbk2713]

3. I thought they were done for in 2008.

But the MSM resurrected them.

If they did it once they will do it again.

I really hate to contradict Grason but that's how I see it.

[bigmonkey]

4. Grayson may be correct about the damage to the party.

He isn't addressing the image of the party in the MSM specifically. Their image could be polished shiny by the MSM, while simultaneously this infighting could be causing damage to the party itself.

[Quantess]

5. These are the poster boys of today's GOP.

Not attractive!