Frank Luntz Asked About His Partisan Past on Fox News: 'I Don't Know' If I Still Consider Myself ...

[DonViejo]

Frank Luntz Asked About His Partisan Past on Fox News: ‘I Don’t Know’ If I Still Consider Myself a Republican

by Aidan McLaughlin | Nov 25th, 2018, 1:48 pm

Frank Luntz appeared on Fox News’ MediaBuzz with Howard Kurtz on Sunday, and the longtime GOP pollster said he isn’t sure if he still considers himself a Republican.

On to discuss partisan rancor and public mistrust in media, Luntz was asked by Kurtz about his work with Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, when then-House speaker Gingrich developed what critics would decry as the roadmap to political polarization. Luntz pushed back on that criticism, pointing out that his work with Gingrich did not overlap with his more distasteful political maneuvers.

“Do you regret any of the tactics of your past, and are you now moving to a different place when you talk about ‘I want to spend 2019 finding common ground’?” Kurtz asked. “That’s not Frank Luntz the partisan warrior.”

“It’s hard to be a partisan warrior when you see the damage that’s done,” Luntz said.

“Do you still consider yourself a Republican?” Kurtz asked.

“I don’t know,” Luntz replied — arguing the policies of Republicans and Democrats in inner cities don’t work. Kurtz asked if his move away from the Republican Party had anything to do with Trump, but Luntz demurred.

“I don’t like the tone and demeanor of either of them,” Luntz said.

“It sounds like you are becoming an independent without using those words,” Kurtz noted.

video
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/frank-luntz-asked-about-his-partisan-past-on-fox-news-i-dont-know-if-i-still-consider-myself-a-republican/

[Sedona]

1. LOL #walkaway

[JHan]

28. lol

[Jarqui]

2. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing

Can't take his words seriously

[WhiteTara]

13. he's a weasel in rat's clothing.

He is scum on the bottom of the pond, the gum left on the street. I'm going to tweet fry him.

[Jarqui]

14. I like your description. It is better

[WhiteTara]

18. He's another of those early enablers that loved

the adorations of the long view traitors.

[Blue_true]

20. Good! Because if you did take him at his word, you would end up the main course. nt

[JDC]

3. F him. He is soley responsible for the "Democrat Party"

And his "both sides" suggestion is pure f'ing BS.

[violetpastille]

4. What is he trying to say?

“I don’t know,” Luntz replied — arguing the policies of Republicans and Democrats in inner cities don’t work.

What to him is "inner city", what to him is "policies that work"?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Ka Boom

funny how the truth escapes the mouths of despicable persons mouths. He and Karl Rove did more to divide our Nation than anyone.

What we see today is a direct result of the Media and Politicians kowtowing to messaging of this Person.

[violetpastille]

8. He talks about two organizations as an alternative to Democratic solutions to poverty

GOODProjects and GOODPartners.

When I go to GOODProjects Twitter account it defaults to Russian.

I guess they are launching tomorrow.

So, no need for TANF, no need for SNAP. Mentor programs are the way forward apparently.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Have for years

suspected Luntz to be a Ayn Rand worshiper. He has and is a Master of getting his Spewage front and Center in the Media.

Always amazes how the Body Politic can be snowed by the likes of Luntz and Rove....

[a kennedy]

7. inner city ALWAYS MEANS OF DARKER SKIN TONE

[uponit7771]

37. +1

[pecosbob]

6. Welcome to the world you helped create, a**hole.

[Blue_true]

21. Exactly. He frothed up the crazies. Now that they are batshit, he jumped ship.

And is desperately swimming toward our ship to infect us.

[klook]

9. "Is there another party that's racist, misogynistic,

xenophobic, plutocratic, cruel, stupid, and corrupt, just without being so obvious about it?”

[JHB]

11. I don't hear a rejection, just "we weren't supposed to get Trump"

Go ahead and consider yourself a Republican, Frank. It's the party you and your pals turned it into.

If you're not comfortable with that, then cut this mealy-mouthed hem-and-haw and make a clean break.

And then go away, you myopic hack. You have poor judgement and shouldn't be anywhere near politics.

[LiberalFighter]

12. He is a pos. Equating Democrats the same Republicans does make him cleaner.

[pwb]

15. All those bad words Luntz pushed to describe us was clever for awhile

But now we are on to his mean word game and it won't work anymore. Frank you have been exposed.

[Blue_true]

22. The problem for him.

He used those words to make rabid the minds of those that he wanted to activate to attack democrats. He questioned out patriotism, our understanding of the economy, our belief that people have a true right to self determination as long as they are not attacking the rest of society, he called us weak for caring for the less fortunate.

Not the rabid people that he made that way have welcomed in Nazis and KKK and are now openly showing the hatred that was always just below the surface.

Maybe Luntz is trully sorry, it would be good to see him stop weasel words and do a full mea culpa then sincerely work with us to make things right. Until then he is like the character in the movie where some nuts took over Alcatrez and aimed missiles at San Fran. He led the crazies to where they are, now as he lays bleeding he asks "What have I done?"

[Garrett78]

16. Show me an anti-Trump Republican & I'll show you a person in denial about the monster they created.

The ones who still worship at the altar of Saint Ronnie can't seem to accept their complicity. They simply want to go back to using a dog whistle instead of a bullhorn. Because that'll make everything okay again and assuage their guilt.

And by "monster," I mean the Republican Party base (as well as all the so-called "independents" with their bothsidesism). Trump is merely a symptom. Once Trump is gone, the monster will remain. As Obama said, the GOP has been "feeding the base all kinds of crazy for years." The monster must be fed, which is why Republicans hoping to get re-elected don't speak out against Trump except in rare cases. Eventually we'll see the rise of Trump 2.0, a more intelligent and politically-savvy and charismatic demagogue. We best be ready.

[Blue_true]

23. Bingo. You nailed it in every sentence. nt

[UTUSN]

17. This a-hole saddled us with the "demoCRAT party" vs "DemocratIC" meme during contract-ON-America

[Blue_true]

19. Another partisan republican calling for common ground.

Just like Kasich. When things were frothing up toward where they are now, Luntz and Kasich were perfectly happy republicans, they actually pushed the nonsense. I will believe Luntz when he go back through all the damage that he has done and say that he was wrong for doing the things that he did, that those things were bad for the country.

Kasich? Before you buy his bullshit, he worked to shutdown unions in Ohio. He pushed and signed legistlation that severely restricted a woman's right to chose what she does to her body. In a special election and the governor's race, Kasich backed the very same candidate that Trump full throatedly endorsed, against TWO democrats that Kadich now says are the type of people that he would like to work with.

"No Labels", "Common Ground", "Bipartisan Caucus". People it is all BULLSHIT!!!!! It amounts to republicans that at one time played footsie with but now have lost their party to the crazies trying to coop and take over our party.

[SoCalDem]

24. Well, isn't that special?

Republicans have been building their monsters for decades and now he's/they're running amok, they claim the Schultz defense..

[wiggs]

25. Atwater, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Rove, Luntz, Trump. nt

[sharedvalues]

26. HE WENT ON FOX

he’s a Republican.
Or a conservative propagandist trying to distance himself from the worst of the GOP.
Don’t let him flee that. Luntz built this GOP mess.

[kimbutgar]

27. Luntz is the reason this country is so F'ed up!

I have no respect for him and hope he dies a painful death for what he has done to destroy our country with his stupid canned talking points.

[bearsfootball516]

29. Didn't he also get "climate change" going?

[elleng]

30. Folks, this is exactly the situation we/Dems should take advantage of,

welcome him (and others similarly situated) to a better place, and NOT disparage; otherwise HELPLESS is the word of the era.

[Raven123]

31. Like rats abandoning a ship, GOP wants to abandon Trump. Too late. You own him.

[SHRED]

32. He doesn't like what he helped create?

[LuvLoogie]

33. As he snakes into both-sides-ism, Frank Luntz conflates the RW bigotry he nourished

with the opposition to that bigotry and its financiers.

[stopbush]

34. Fuck. Frank. Luntz.

[C_U_L8R]

35. Luntz is part of the disease.

He masterminded a lot of this dishonest rightwing shit.

[Generic Brad]

36. Duplicitous Bastard must be crushing the Republican label in his focus groups

He will forever be a duplicitous bastard to me.

[ConnorMarc]

38. I can't stand these hypocrites like Luntz.

And that's putting it as mildly and nicely as possible.