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Chris Matthews: Republicans ‘Don’t Have A Thrill Up Their Leg’ For Mitt Romney

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On Sunday’s The Chris Matthews Show, Matthews humorously recalled his famous Obama quote about getting a “thrill up his leg” and said that Republicans didn’t have that same ‘thrill’ for Mitt Romney. “This week’s Associated Press poll has Romney at his highest so far: thirty percent. But you see there Herman Cain and Rick Perry still have a total 39 percent. Mike, it looks like they don’t have a thrill up their leg about this guy. They’re not excited about this guy, nobody is on the Right. But he looks like he’s creeping up to it seems inevitability.”

Gloria Borger compared the Massachusetts Governor to “the guy your parents always tried to fix you up with.” “At first you said, ‘No, no, no, no,’ but then after you dated for a while, you’re, like, ‘That guy looks pretty good.’” Borger assessed. “So, I think that’s the way Republicans are feeling.”

Matthews was disappointed by this analysis. “So it’s more about his prospects than your love affair with him?” the MSNBC host exclaimed.

“Well, probably in the case of Romney,” shrugged Borger.

“Well, this is very dull! This is dull politics!” Matthews responded.

Watch Matthew’s segment about Mitt Romney below:

And here is Matthews’s previously explaining his notorious “thrill up my leg” quote:

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  • Anonymous

    Prediction: this thread will be filled by vulgar, nasty Matthews-hating bile.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A4OJ2F7ADXSD7OMEUUEQDQDZ2Y Dustin Baker

    It’s good to see Matthews able to laugh at his own lack of journalistic integrity.

  • Anonymous

    The Presidency is not like marriage.I’d rather have a President “with good prospects” than one I’m in love with despite his flaws.

    We’ve done that already.Emotion clouded people’s judgment and look where we are now.

  • Anonymous

    Imagine if Chris Matthews had as a guest Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    i can agree with Matthews on this one. i’ll admit i’m not crazy about Romney and probably won’t vote for him during the primaries, BUT, if he gets the nod i will support him over Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Chris Matthews is a smart man….I like him

  • NDanielson

    Prediction: this thread will be filled with ten-times more vulgar Mathews-supporting nasty bile from vile, vulgar, Mathews supporting liberal clowns.

  • NDanielson

    Prediction: this thread will be filled with ten-times more vulgar Mathews-supporting nasty bile from vile, vulgar, Mathews supporting liberal clowns.

  • Anonymous

    Nope.  No “Tingle” up the leg.
    Sure was a lot of “TINKLE” down my leg after the last Republican debate

  • NDanielson

    That face would have stopped even the tingle up your leg for Barry, right wee baby D? Or caused it?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Liberals still trying to “dictate” who the Republican candidates should be. Seems to me Mitt is doing alright, even if just based on the AP poll numbers provided.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Liberals still trying to “dictate” who the Republican candidates should be. Seems to me Mitt is doing alright, even if just based on the AP poll numbers provided.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Liberals still trying to “dictate” who the Republican candidates should be. Seems to me Mitt is doing alright, even if just based on the AP poll numbers provided.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Republicans ‘Don’t Have a Thrill Up Their Leg’ For Mitt Romney’ Chris Matthews

    They are not kidding about that. Is anyone else entering…

    …Michele Bachmann’s twin sister?

  • Anonymous

    Idiot wind blowing every time your move your mouth
    Blowing down the backroads heading south
    Idiot wind blowing every time you move your teeth
    You’re an idiot babe
    It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe

  • S R Karenova

    Republicans are PHUCKED if they nominate Romney. Obama has certainly struggled to lead over the economy, but are working class voters going to come out and pick Mister WallStreet vulture capitalist no personality Romney over Obama. Gimme a break.

  • S R Karenova

    Republicans are PHUCKED if they nominate Romney. Obama has certainly struggled to lead over the economy, but are working class voters going to come out and pick Mister WallStreet vulture capitalist no personality Romney over Obama. Gimme a break.

  • Hyperbolic Chalkboard

    yea, he makes fun of himself sometimes and he can be entertaining…he would be a great timeslot rival for billo

  • Hyperbolic Chalkboard

    yea, he makes fun of himself sometimes and he can be entertaining…he would be a great timeslot rival for billo

  • Anonymous

    Dictate? You surely are not that vacuous, are you?

  • Anonymous

    Hey, Gloves — why does it always have to be about you?

  • Anonymous

    Check.  Let’s get started.

  • Anonymous

    Partisan much?

  • Anonymous

    Mitt’s troubles aren’t coming from the left, but the right. Because he once used to hold reasonable and responsible positions on abortion, gay rights, guns, health care reform, taxes and climate change, conservatives just can’t trust him. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    These pages are looking more and more like a comic book. Not much serious  here anymore just trash talking spinning to lefty base.

  • Anonymous

    Mathews was once a Republician . His whole family is.But after Graduating Holy CrossMatthew was in Africa forvoluteering as a peace corp worker.Later  Matthews was a presidential speechwriter for JimmyCarter and later worked for six years as a top aide of the House of Representatives speaker Tip O’Neil. A very smart man. I do think he is a and honest person aswelln facman

  • Anonymous

    “tingle up one’s leg” …..LOL….. Ilike Matthews but I always thought that was kinda funny too. Hey,, the guy speaks the way he feels . Honestly!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Maybe you should wait until there is an actual primary vote before declaring Mitt to be in trouble. Again, the “This week’s Associated Press poll has Romney at his highest so far: thirty percent.

    So, if Mitt is in trouble on the primary side, who is NOT in trouble? This is the line of thinking that brought us McCain in 2008.

  • Anonymous

    Your name is MADCHARLES and you want us to get serious?

  • Rufus Danegro

    Hey lay off tiny eddie putz-he’s learning to be less offensive. believe me you’d rather him quoting lyrics than telling you what he really thinks! 

  • lady,lady

    hey,patsy,if you are female,chissy tingles would not go for you,,,his thrill is for the MAN!!!  get it girl?

  • Anonymous

    I was merely addressing your point that it was liberals who were causing Mitt to flounder, when the fact is that it’s hardcore social conservatives who are the problem. If, after running for president effectively since 2007, he still can’t convince much more than a quarter of them that he’s one of them, I don’t know if he’s going to ever accomplish that.

    Of course, you’re right about one thing — the only poll that counts is the one on election day, so we’ll see if he can make the sale. 

  • lady,lady

    HA HA,HA,HA, HA….yeah,msnbc go up against oreilly or the five he will still end up in the cellar with the other mouthpieces on you network….

  • lady,lady

    HA HA<haven't this much in a while…the libtards are out today….

  • lady,lady

    you really phucked up my post…is that how you control this site…

  • Anonymous

    Neither Republicans or Democrats should ever have ‘thrills up their legs’ for any candidate. The fact that we keep seeing hype for career liars, partisan ideologues, and opportunists in either one of the only two party conglomerates; reflects horribly.

  • Anonymous

    he does speak what he feels, but that does not make him fair nor honest

  • Anonymous

    GlovesDonahue ain’t from Nantucket
    So his prose can just go and…

    oh, never mind. 

  • Anonymous

    The Democrats had to wait until a bunch or primaries had been held before they were sure who was going to be the nominee in 2008.  I’m willing to wager that after about 4-5 primaries the Republicans will have it all sorted out. Democrats can suck it. Guaranteed that Santorum, Paul, Gingrich and Bachmann will all be gone by the end of March.

  • Anonymous

    They certainly will if the economy keeps going south.

  • http://twitter.com/MarkH76248 Mark H

    The two of them are without question the biggest trolls on the planet.

  • NDanielson

    exGOPman 3 hours ago
    Prediction: this thread will be filled by vulgar, nasty Matthews-hating bile.

    Blueblogger and 3 more liked this

    Clueless much?

  • Anonymous

    English would be nice in a response. It makes it so much easier to read and understand.You should have someone read this to you and take some classes in the english language.

  • lady,lady

    as you may see,if you can read,the site screwed up my post…Of course this means nothing to an illiterate like you but I do read,speak and UNDERSTAND ENGLISH…defending myself against the likes of you is admittingly stupid…you on the other hand are just plain dumb…

  • lady,lady

    hey voltberg or voltstein,find somewhere else where those like you are more acceptable….if you get my drift…

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “Well, this is very dull! This is dull politics!” Matthews responded.

    Yea, cuz it worked out so well electing the inexperienced exciting justin beiber rock star leg tingling guy….

  • Anonymous

    doche bag much?

  • Anonymous

    Oh I see someone responed for you? Dumb? I can speak very clearly. I am also glad that you admit you are stupid. Now would you like to continue to insult each other or would you like to have a civil discussion? it’s entirely up to you.

  • Anonymous

    I watch Chris all the time. Please cite when he has been unfair or dishonest.

  • Anonymous

    A legend in his own mind.

  • Anonymous

    anti semetic? Not that it matters if I am jewish or not.

  • Jacobjakeu

    Let’s see… how did that “man who gave you a thrill up your leg” work out?

    Sometimes, better marriages come from a long process of realizing “this guy looks pretty good” than from an immediate love affair that, over time, one realizes, had nothing to do with the individual or their merits.

    For president, I’d prefer the former.

  • Bradm

    why?

  • Rper

    LMAO. Chris sure knows how to yank the teabaggers chains.

  • TomT

    So of the two liberals running, Obama and Romney, you prefer Romney I take it.

  • Bware

    It is going to be hilarious to watch the teabaggers hold their noses and vote for Romney.

  • Hyperbolic Chalkboard

    “you network?” msnbc isnt my network…fyi liberals dont need a channel for their news, we use a variety of sources including fox news (explains their ratings)..compared to conservative ignorance of ONLY watching fox news

  • SayyyyyWhat

    Chrissy, old boy, you are the only person on the planet who gets a thrill up their leg over a politician. I don’t know about Republicans but, as an Independent I can assure you I do not get a thrill up my leg over a politician….especially when the pol is a male. You are weird, Chriss Tingles!

  • Bob

    It always cracks me up that rightwingers want to act as if Chris Matthew, a liberal commentator, expressing support for a candidate was somehow unseemly – but they think it’s perfectly acceptable for Sean Hannity, a rightwing commentator to advocate for candidates and organize “Stop _______ Express” tours.

  • Bob

    I suppose you could just go the GOP route and maturely claim your guy was ‘chosen by God.”

  • Bob

    Egads! How dare a commentator advocate a position during an election!
    Why, this would never happen at FOX!

  • Sj

    addmittingly ?

  • Sj

    admittingly…? sorry either way it’s not a word

  • Anonymous

    Tingles loves to yank guys chains…the original ‘San Fransisco Treat’…lol

  • MIKE

    They will hold their noses and they will vote. The question you should be asking is will the Independents, the disenfranchised blacks, and the disillusioned students come out in droves like 2008 and vote for Obama?

  • Bob

    Republicans really are afraid of women. 

  • Darladoon

    oh no!  someone made a sexual reference on television!  

  • Anonymous

    ExGOP Man is spot on
    NDanielson  proves his point unintentionally

  • Bware Of Tailgunners

    If you are nearby when I vote, I will cover my butt hole. By “teabag ” do you mean that a grown man hangs his balls above your face and slowly drops them into your mouth? Thought so, get psychiatric medication for that. Now, please STFU.

  • Are Flash Mobs White?

    Hey Bware…

    If you are nearby when I vote, I will cover my butt hole. By “teabag ”
    do you mean that a grown man hangs his balls above your face and slowly
    drops them into your mouth? Thought so, get psychiatric medication for
    that. Now, please STFU.

  • Are Flash Mobs White?

    Women are really afraid of homosexual liberals named Bob.

  • Anonymous

    Every show.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Gosh, I would hope so. Matthews is despised bipartisanly.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Certainly for the primaries. That actually should tell Republican voters something. I love the articles that claim the Obama campaign is ‘dreading’ facing Mitt. It reminds me of the Uncle Remus story: Oh please, please don’t throw me in that briar patch.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I have to grant his honesty, but I wouldn’t equate that with unfairness. Matthews is fueled by ADD emotions and frequently says things he would not say if he had time to think, the things that have fed the Legend of Tweety Bird – and many of those things are unfair. 

  • Anonymous

    He has the worst ratings on MSNBC (well, outside of Protest We Much Al). He’s damn lucky to have a show at all. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I realize there’s a lot of people that hit “Like” on this, but the facts are otherwise.

    Very soon into the process, Nate Silver was the first to note that Hillary no longer had a mathematical chance of gaining the lead in puise delegates, only super delegates. I think that was as early as February, but it could have been just into March. Even Team Hillary failed to get that math for a while, but then they did and that caused them to change the discussion to – get this – “electability”: precisely the thing that is fueling the Romney argument within the GOP. Obama didn’t actually need to parlay with Hillary in June, because the DNC rules give the majority winner of puise delegates control over all rulings on credentials, including super delegate credentials – & you may recall that Hillary’s apparent comeback depended materially on her ‘wins’ in Florida and Michigan, which Obama could have chosen to kick out entirely given those states jumped the gun – but he did parlay because dissing her, he feared, would cause a needless rift with her supporters between then and November. By NOT dissing her (and presumably making the deal with her that got her room to command State, or probably even the VP position if she really wanted then, and to allow Bill back into the discussion), that rift healed very quickly; all in all, a great bit of diplomacy on the part of Obama.

    But your point about how long the actual ballot bullets will fly in the GOP primaries could well prove right. The sort of process you would bet on is certainly the preferred GOP approach, as past history has shown, at least since 1964. It really depends on whether Perry makes a strong enough comeback to allow him to stick around, because Ron Paul’s supporter simply do not give up. If the combination of Paul plus Perry exceeds 50% past the falling away of the fringe candidates you list (I note you don’t list Cain, which is shrewd: he may stay in the mix simply due to Tea Party support, which has proven very stubborn against even overwhelming odds, per 2010 in Nevada and Delaware in particular, so maybe this should be Paul + Perry + Cain, not necessarily in that order, adding up to over 50%.), then the GOP could indeed be looking at an open convention and some sort of revisiting of the Cow Palace in 1964.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I agree with BOTH the comment and the reply – except for this.

    One thing neither Obama nor anyone in the US can stop is the euro zone countries going under, or rather the euro itself, since Germany at least would be able to carry on. Krugman says that is currently inevitable: that is, unless the countries give the power to the ECB to re-inflate the euro by printing euros like there’s no tomorrow to defeat deflation in all the members except Germany, the euro could go down in a matter of weeks from now, a few months at most.

    So, let’s assume, as Krugman does, the euro members go farn and the euro falls apart. That will panic world markets on a scale like what happened in September 2008.

    On the face of it, this would seem to help Romney, because the US economy would get far worse. But the reason for that would in fact be, and would also be seen as, different than if the US economy got worse on its own. The only precedent we have that even comes close to a world economic collapse of this magnitude is the Great Depression, which was not a one day phenomenon, but that one day in Ocotber 1929 extending over several years. That gave us FDR. But the only precedent we have for the SECOND shock is 1937, after FDR capitulated to Wall Street and the Republicans in Congress to raise taxes (I know; just writing that seems so weird now.) and cut the deficit. Yet, when FDR again went to election in 1940, he won again, as he had in 1936. 

    This is the formula Obama is trying to capture with the Jobs Jobs Jobs speeches, and the repeated insistence of the Dem leadership in the Senate to stick with the Jobs bill. OWS feeds this as well. That is, things got better under FDR after 1932, to some extent, as they have under Obama; then they got WORSE under FDR in 1937, when he went with GOP policies, so – he reversed himself. And he won in 1940. 

    This suggests that if things get TOO terrible, that is, TOO MUCH more terrible than they are now, Mitt’s advantage actually gets negated. What the GOP want is things to get just a BIT worse, enough to make their case against Obama – not a full-blown depression; because a full-blown world-wide depression then works ironically to the advantage of Obama. 

    Again: the GOP want Obama to fail a BIT, but not too much. They’ve succeeded so far – but what’s happening in Europe is beyond their control and may negate their plan.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Point taken, but they actually don’t need to; the Obama margin in 2008 was huge, well beyond that the loss of a few percentage points of blacks and students can account for. Note that Democratic party registration continues to be above Republican party registration, as it was in 2007. It’s all about GOTV you have, and if the Obama GOTV campaign works, he still wins by several millions. And in order for the independents to have a real effect, they’ve got to believe in Romney, which is pretty tough – because they don’t have that hatred for Obama that fuels the right: they STILL really like Obama, as a person. That’s worth a lot – that is, enough to stop them from going overwhelmingly for Romney. 

    Then there’s the risk factor with Romney. Holding your nose for someone is somewhat short of enthusiasm, and that will show up in the GOTV for the Republican party. 

    Finally, there’s the big factor no one raises at this point, which is about the polls. Again, Nate Silver wrote quite a bit on this in 2008. Polls almost all work off landlines, not cell phones. In 2008 Silver theorized a 2% factor in favor of the Dems back in 2006 which polls failed to pick up, and used that theory to explain why Rove was so wrong in his forecast for 2006. Silver theorized that factor would double between 2006 and 2008, and then suggested Obama support might be as much as +4% against what polls were showing, but likely at least 2%; in the end, professional pollsters and academics followed that up and agreed that the Dems had a cell phone advantage of between 2 to 4% in 2008, which showed up in the actual exit polling and also the votes. Extending this to 2010 meant nothing, because the sort of folks who are cell phone only generally do not vote in mid-terms, so the factor was negated. Extending this to 2012, tho, and making it even bigger to account for the number of Americans now landlineless due to foreclosure or bankruptcy or having to move, that could be in the range of anywhere from 6 to 8% in favor of Dems. 

    What’s going to be interesting is watching the gap between polls that factor in the cell-only uncertainty and those that don’t. If the polls that don’t forecast a close vote coming into election day, Obama will win somewhat easily. If the polls that don’t forecast any sort of lead for Obama coming into election day, Obama will win every bit as easily as FDR did in 1940. If the polls that don’t forecast a slight lead for the GOP candidate coming into election day, we may find ourselves back in the hands of the Supreme Court.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Flash mobs certainly can be neggreen.

    Also, hard as it for some to believe, millions of Americans have engaged in the sort of tea-bagging you describe, including a great many Republicans. You should check out the sex preferences survey done last year that was covered by a series of articles in SLATE over last winter. I would not have expected that such a high percentage of women actually quite voluntarily engage either in that or in anal penetration sex, mostly both. It appears both preferences have entered the main stream of acceptable interpersonal private conduct.

  • Anonymous

    Can you be more specific? Quote something?

  • TruDat

    Typical liberal tactic as Matthews tries to project his infamously nonsensical statement about his love of Obama onto Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    “the things that have fed the Legend of Tweety Bird” ?????

    Sorry, that when over my head.
    Is Tweety Bird some political coin phrase I am unaware of?
    Are you making fun of his speech?

  • Anonymous

    I can’t stand to watch anything on M.S.N.B.C.which is the Obama and the Democratic parties propaganda network.Chris(humpty/dumpty head)Matthews is just like the rest vile,hateful,emotionally and mentally disturbed.CHRIS CHANGE YOUR PANTIES.

  • Free bee

    AS the FUKISHIMA world depop op goes into its
    9th month of Globalist media cover-up ———
    WHEN is Chris Matthews going to even begin to
    deal with our finishing off, 4 decades of Globalist
    RED China TREASON and EUGENICS OP.?

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