Goldie Taylor On Gingrich’s Run: ‘The Question Is, Will Newt Implode Before Or After The Nomination?’

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by Frances Martel | 5:04 pm, January 21st, 2012

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With the 2012 primaries in South Carolina extremely close to their conclusion, many are expecting Newt Gingrich to pull out a win in this key state. On MSNBC tonight, Martin Bashir hosted coverage for the hours before the election returns came in, and with guests Goldie Taylor and Grace Wyler, explored the chances that this could mean the nomination for Gingrich. While the panel agreed this would be a good night for Gingrich, whether he could keep up a positive image in the face of so much controversy appeared to be the bigger issue.

Bashir noted that Romney was still winning the female vote in South Carolina polls, asking Taylor whether she believed this was indicative of the Marianne Gingrich interview causing injury to Gingrich’s campaign. “I don’t know that it was an injury that wasn’t already there,” Taylor noted, explaining that “Republican women who weren’t going to vote for Newt Gingrich already know he had been a thrice married man.” For her, the more problematic issue was Gov. Nikki Haley‘s endorsement of Romney– “she’d going to be primaried for it.”

Bashir then turned to Wyler, and embedded reporter for Business Insider, asking the reverse– whether the “open marriage” issue actually helped the candidate. She noted that voters seemed to find that he responded appropriately and “the timing of the interview was bitter,” and felt sympathy. “It’s all about sex and money,” Bashir joked, turning to the money part of this equation with Romney and his tax returns. Taylor predicted that she could see Florida voters caring about his taxes because “they’re going to say, ‘was he paying his fair share?’ and that’s a real issue” for older voters. He does have a serious machine in Florida, but Taylor didn’t think that was as much of an asset as assumed, given that the same was in some ways true in South Carolina, where Gingrich didn’t really have much of an organization until recently.

Wyler predicted that she could see a Gingrich win “if he can hold it together” into the general election, and Taylor mostly agreed, adding that “primaries are not coronations” and the question as to Gingrich’s implosion was more of a “when” than an “if.”

The segment via MSNBC below:

2012 elections, Goldie Taylor, Martin Bashir, Mitt Romney, msnbc, newt gingrich, Republicans, South Carolina

Anonymous

Congratulations to the voters of South Carolina for helping re-elect President Obama
12voltman1

YES HE WILL.
12voltman1

Could anyone belive Callista as First lady. She really would be the third lady.
Anonymous

I want to see Newt Gingrichs Wedding Certificate!
SNAPTIE ” Hope To Nope 2012 “

Martin Bash-Here Pushes Race & Hate daily. Opens his show today with the Republican candidates In front of the Confederate Flag. “Rebel Yell.” Oh those racist Republicans. http://www.mrctv.org/videos/msnbcs-bashir-superimposes-republican-candidates-front-confederate-flag
Anonymous

“Goldie Taylor On Gingrich’s Run: ‘The Question Is, Will Newt Implode Before Or After The Nomination?’”

Wow, Goldie, that’s an original thought. Absolutely no one has come up with that one before today.
Duke Chesnut

Goldie ‘Wormtongue’ Taylor and Martin Bashir, 2 wonderful unBIASed spokejerks for the news at MSNBC. I wonder where Bashir got that stars and bars flag for the backdrop? Google Immages?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

More like wishful thinking. Circling the wagons around Obama (solely because he is Black) is hard work.
WiddleBabyDanielson

cue the music
http://kaystreet.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/newt-gingrich-and-callista-gingrich.jpg
Anonymous

The Republicans have been pushing a hard-right view of the world for at least a decade now through radio and TV. This has been done entirely to stir up the base because they know that, demographically, the Republicans are losing ground. What we’re seeing now is that they’ve been so successful that they’re hurting themselves. The hardcore base–the people who attend the debates, etc–are so ideological that they are totally blind to the fact that the rest of the nation won’t go along with them. The idea that Gingrich (a guy who took money from Fannie, proposed the original “Obamacare”, attacked Clinton for Lewinsky while cheating on his own wife, and was pushed out by his own party over ethics violations) is really a viable candidate is a joke, but the base loves him because he’ll say things like Obama has a “Kenyan mindset.”

You’re right, Mr.PC. A Gingrich victory is an Obama win.
Anonymous

I believe the much bigger picture will be what happens to the Republicon Party after they get their butts shellacked in Nov.They created this tea bagger extremist shell which is hollow and I suspect will be the part of the party that implodes after the election,when the corporate Republicons throttle it as the blame game.This ,to me,will be the more interesting implosion,since you could bet in Vegas when Newt’s going to explode.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

All Newt needs to do is nominate Michele Bachman as his running mate,

and it’s 2008 all over again.

A silver fox who has been a Washington insider most of his adult life and has never lost a pissing contest, and a brainless ideolog in a skirt
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

A silver fox who has never lost a pissing contest.

Sounds like a winning formula.

Delete “McCain” insert “Gingrich”
Anonymous

Wow. Leftists giving oh so helpful advice to the Republican party on MSNBC. They are whistling past the graveyard on this one.

The good news is that one year from now someone else will be living in the White House.
Anonymous

Jeebus Effing Christ. Does Goldie Taylor pay you people a dollar every time you mention her on this site? This is approaching self-parody.
Anonymous

If Mediaite coverage was a true indicator of media prominence, Thom Hartmann would have a significantly larger audience than Rush Limbaugh, Chris Hayes would trump Bill O’Reilly as the king of cable news, and Goldie Taylor (whom I’ve never read about anywhere but on this site, and I’m a pretty big political junkie) would be one of the most celebrated commentators in the country. Does anyone else find it odd that a media analysis site often ignores the movers and shakers to exhaustively report on the statements of minor left-wing personalities? I understand the writing staff here is more or less uniformly liberal, but it still doesn’t explain their extensive promotion of individuals that most people, even liberals, could care less about.
http://twitter.com/Ironleaves Dave English

I think the question is, can the media hold it together as Newt crushes the opposition? My bet is even more of the media will be seeking psychological help as Newt scores big wins.
Anonymous

Huh? Question is will Newt hold it together when the barrage really begins?
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

What is she talking about?? Newt implodes weekly!!
Anonymous

The consensus is, Liberals are scared to death Newt will get the nomination and Obimbo will be forced to debate him. There’ll be so many teleprompters around Obimbo you’ll be lucky to get a glimpse of him.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NPUP22FNTPVCXRUMWJEURGQGD4 JonasP

Honestly is that is best you can do, the teleprompter?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NPUP22FNTPVCXRUMWJEURGQGD4 JonasP

He won one primary in the most redneck and backwards Southern state, and you act like it’s a wrap
Charles Ulysses Feney

He’ll go with Sarah “Jungle Fever” Palin again.

With Calista as “First Stepford Wife” Lady!
Anonymous

I was trying to apply a probability. I think I’ve come close, don’t you?
Holistic

Goldie and Martin a pair of irrelevants in the news media.
Anonymous

Yet here you are commenting on an article about them. Guffaw.
Anonymous

We saw him JUST fine over here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvwEjxDtwWs

Guffaw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

Do you think it really matters who the Republicans nominate?

It doesn’t.

They could nominate Ghandi and the media would still call him a racist and cast every negative meme they can create and hang it around his neck.