An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich
Dear Mr. Speaker:
You didn’t — and wouldn’t — ask for my advice, but here it is because even you would be better than a second Obama term in office.
Sir, you have more baggage than the underbelly of an Airbus 380. Women don’t cotton to serial adulterers: a marriage to you looks more like a high-risk adventure than a sanctuary of security. As you well know, women do vote, and have, ever since passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920.
Why was it, I wondered last night, that you were the only candidate who said the other three candidates’ wives would all make excellent first ladies. You and your admirers may have found that approach magnanimous and gracious. I found it creepy. You can’t stand Mitt but you really like his wife? If I were you, I would have confined my answer to Callista, and not implied that you’ve been sizing up the other wives on that long, hot campaign trail.
You make a lot of men nervous about your candidacy, too. There was the $300,000 penalty you paid for ethics violations when you were speaker of the House. Yeah, everyone in the debate hall cheers you when you beat up on the MSM, but we all know that the job of the next president is to save the economy, keep nuclear weapons out of Ahmadinejad’s hands, make the United States more energy independent, and, as a result, revive the private sector so that businesses will thrive and hire again.
Being feisty with Juan Williams, John King, and Ann Curry isn’t going to cut it in the Oval Office. This country has far bigger problems than the MSM.
Your problem isn’t failure to rouse an audience to applaud you. Your problem is that you say so much and say it so fast that invariably you say things that make no sense or are outright lies. And you appear to have no problem hiding the truth.
Saying you’ve been hired as an advisor by the governments’s mega-housing and mortgage agencies because of your skills as an historian is like my saying that PJM hired me as a chef. Sure, I can cook, but I was hired as an advice columnist. You were hired as an operator (an “influence peddler.”) Mitt called you on it on Saturday and Senator Santorum repeated it last night: it resonates and you’re stuck with it. You can’t run away from it — because it’s true.
That’s your biggest problem: the way you deal with your past. The New York Sun published an editorial by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. about you on Wednesday titled “William Jefferson Gingrich.” You have that same fast-on-your-feet, used car salesman answer-to-every-customer’s-reasonable-objections facile manner that Bubba does. The Sun didn’t intend that headline as a compliment.
Wriggle as much as you’d like, it won’t help. So, what will?
(1) Own up to Old Newt. Don’t pretend he’s not in the room. He’s in there. Even for voters too young (or, alas, too old) to remember him, he’s there. They’ll learn more and more about him with each passing day. Or hour.
Old Newt and Bubba morph into one: you both think you’re smarter than everyone else and that you can say anything and that people are just too darned stupid to be able to discern the truth from the lies.
(2) Holding yourself out as a creature who hasn’t made serious mistakes isn’t going to work. It won’t wash. We’re not as stupid as you think — or wish.
Senator Rick Santorum injected some good sense into last night’s debate by suggesting that the candidates and those posing questions to them stipulate that you used the skills honed in Congress in your life as a “consultant” after you left the House and that Governor Romney is a very wealthy man who became wealthy by his own hard work. That was refreshing.
(3) You, too, could be refreshing if you not only acknowledged that you’ve made mistakes, but if you got out ahead of them and listed them yourself. Yes, tell the American people what you think your top ten mistakes have been.
(4) Then apologize for them. Say you understand you’ve made errors of judgment for which you apologize to the individuals whom you hurt or whom you’ve treated unfairly, and that includes Governor Mitt Romney.
Interesting factoid for you to chew on: physicians who apologize to patients for their errors of judgment are less likely to be sued for malpractice than those doctors who cleave to what they imagine is their aura of infallibility.
(5) Tell the public what you’ve learned from your mistakes and why whatever wisdom you’ve gleaned would be useful to the country if you were president.
Many of your fans believe you provide great entertainment. Sometimes, you do. But by that measure, Dan Aykroyd and Martin Short should be president. Luckily for you, they were both born in Canada. When all is said and done, your entertainment value is irrelevant to your potential success as president.
You’re applying for a job, and the ability to do that job depends — more than any other single quality — on good judgment. You will do yourself the most good if you give Americans some reason to believe you now possess that quality so lacking in your past. Simple fact about forgiveness: no one — voters included — will forgive you unless you apologize.
Older voters are reliable voters. Anyone your age or older has made mistakes and learned from them. We all, young, middle-aged, and older Americans, deserve to know what you think your missteps were. Your present plan appears to be to deny your mistakes, other than your infidelities. This will not work, Mr. Speaker.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but post-Bill Clinton and post-Obama voters are more savvy about fast-talking pols than they were before 1992 and 2008. And the blogosphere has grown exponentially since 2008.
Americans want to know how you would turn America into a “country not in decline” as you said last night. Yes, you’re an “idea man.” So was Samuel Goldwyn, but he was a legendary Hollywood producer, not the president of the United States. Pie-in-the-sky – or up-on-the-moon — ideas aren’t the same as practical plans.
(6) Be more respectful of others, including your competition within your own party. The belittling of the MSM is going to get stale, as well. Yes, you express the “we’re mad as hell and we don’t want to take it any more” emotion sweeping the country, but remember that the first part of that phrase is “we’re mad.”
King George III was mad, too, and partly because of that, the American colonies rebelled against him and started their own country. There’s a little history you might want to bear in mind as you go forward.
–Belladonna Rogers
You should never be called a journalist. You’re a hack. You don’t have any facts in your story right.Your research skills need serious work or are you just too lazy to do the heavy lifting?
Gingrich has admitted his 15 year old mistakes MANY TIMES. He has said he sought forgiveness and redemption from God MANY TIMES.
The public is PO’d at the liberal media and appreciated his scolding of them w cheers, applause and standing ovations. So no they are NOT tired of it. They are tired of the media!
Why doesn’t your advice to Romney include the top 10 mistakes he’s made? Bias much?
Your insinuation that Gingrich was ogling the other candidates wives by saying they would make fine 1st Ladies is revolting.
If you can’t write something objectively than you are part of the lamestream media. This is one of the most pathetic and dishonest things I’ve ever read. It’s also self righteous.
Dear wodiej,
Ms. Rogers is not a journalist. She is a columnist/commentator. She is paid to write her opinions. There is a difference.
Ms. Rogers is not only not a journalist, her opinions dwell on the irrelevant. Past lives, baggage, wives, and marital relationships have no bearing on ability to lead the country. Besides, the presidency isn’t a popularity contest, although, among the likes of Ms. Rogers, it still seems to be. Her comments split by gender, raising the question of whether Ms. Rogers speaks as a woman or an American.
Mary Contrary – I must beg to differ with your characterization of the column and Ms. Rogers. The column dwells mostly with issues of governance despite the first paragraph. Indeed, Ms. Rogers leaves hanging the most important question of all: “You make a lot of men nervous about your candidacy, too. There was the $300,000 penalty you paid for ethics violations when you were speaker of the House. Yeah, everyone in the debate hall cheers you when you beat up on the MSM, but we all know that the job of the next president is to save the economy, keep nuclear weapons out of Ahmadinejad’s hands, make the United States more energy independent, and, as a result, revive the private sector so that businesses will thrive and hire again.” By her having left it hanging, one implication is that Ms. Rogers has her doubt about whether Newt is up to the job, and frankly so do I. Nor do Ms. Rogers’ comments split by gender. They are for the most part expressions of doubt about Newt. So, I would say, your criticisms of Ms. Rogers are off the mark (as are wodiej’s).
Mary,you’re not only contrary,you’re out of it. Only a leftist, mired in PC proprieties, would attack her for what you call gender splitting. There are differences between men and women. Uttering this thought got Lawrence Summers fired by the likes of you from his post as president of Harvard. Fortunately Belladonna Rogers writes for a realistic web site that doesn’t penalize her for making observations about men and women. They’re different. Get over it or stay in your alternative PC universe with other PC leftists. You sound like people who say a person can’t write as a Catholic and as an American. This charge was leveled at JFK. Ms. Rogers can write as a woman and an American,except in PC circles where your ideas rule. Here at PJM she can be both. That’s why readers like this web site. “Voices of a free America” is its motto and it lives up to it with every blog, including Ms. Rogers’.
It amazes me that, when choosing someone for high office, that people are so quick to throw out character under the auspice that it somehow no longer matters. Contemporary to that throwing out is a need to rationalize a decision.
Character matters in everything we do. You wouldn’t leave your petty automobile at the quick oil change place if you knew it was staffed by theives or cheats. You wouldn’t leave your money with someone of poor character. You wouldn’t trust the safety of your child with someone of low character.
Character mattered a great deal in times past to those of an earlier generation. You know, generations that had the character to not saddle their posterity with obscene debts prior to their birth. Generations who burried tens of thousands of their young men securing liberty. Perhaps it is the current generation, running out of the moral capitol purchased by those before them, that should truly reflect on the wisdom of such thinking.
She says right in this very article that PJM hired her as an Advice Columnist’ Jeez, the the uneducated trolls are out in force today.
No kidding brau…fb must be quiet today. A Newt or Mitt debate critique appears to be equal to an angry fb poke.
Who hasn’t watched these debates and somewhere along the way said to themselves (“No don’t say that! Say it like this you big dummy…!”)? Especially Rick!!!
Besides having very questionable theological understanding, it’s not GOD to whom Gingrich needs to seek forgiveness and redemption. It’s all the wives and families members and friends and constituents and associates he needs to seek forgiveness from and redemption (including both his current ex-wife from the deceased wife and the current wife from the current ex-wife.) I’m cynical enough to wonder how sincere and efficacious a person is when he supplicates only God, in a convenient private setting. He keeps repeating himself, so how has he allowed God to change him? “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Gingrich has some pretty rotten fruit.
Romney is no angel. He was caught lying through his teeth on the last debate. He said he didn’t approve an ad which, when played back, was a lie. He also said he has no control over it…another lie. He claims no control over anything he does. I guess he is like Little Lord Fauntleroy where everyone else does all his dirty work. He would be just like Obama…a committee to decide everything. All you Romney fans are trying to hand us another Obama because the last one you elected is too flawed to win again.
A falsehood is not a lie unless it is told with the intent to deceive. Once, I was asked whether or not I had attended a meeting on a particular subject. The meeting had been held many months before. I had no memory of the meeting, so I said that I hadn’t attended. Subsequently, the taped minutes of the meeting clearly indicated that I had been present and had taken part. I heard my voice, but only a hazy memory of the meeting surfaced. Did I lie? No. I simply apologized for not remembering.
Nice try. If this guy’s memory is too short to remember a recent smear on his opponent then he has no business in the White House.
Dear Sami,
Ms. Rogers is a liberal or a liberal puppet. Anyone who makes free with the truth as much as she has can only be seen as pushing the Liberal agenda. She walks like a Liberal, talks like a Liberal. TaDa. She’s a Liberal!
Open Letter to Ms. Rogers:
I don’t give a damn about Newts personal interpersonal issues. And neither did the women of South Carolina. Second, Newt has promised to eliminate the Czars in his first day in office. On day two he’ll eliminate ObamaCare. On day three he’s going to lower the sea level. Oh, wait the last one was Obamas boast. I want these promised kept. Mittens hasn’t promised any such thing. Santorium doesn’t have the balls to do so.
We know who the left fears by their attacks. And we know who the left is by their attacks.
Ms. Rogers, get out of the way or get run over.
Court is adjourned.
I am REALLY SICK & TIRED of the establishment playing along with liberals to make sure a conservative DOES NOT GET ELECTED.
After the last 3 days of 24/7 every angle, full blown, constant onslaught against Gingrich, my eyes are WIDE OPEN. Make no mistake. This was a concerted effort. The establishment did it to Reagan, then Palin, and now they’re after Newt. Stupid Romney can’t figure out that WE JUST DON’T WANT HIM! So now he’s trying to BUY his way into the presidency.
More than ever, I KNOW my vote will go to Gingrich.
Newt vs. Obama is not even close to Reagan vs. Carter. First, Reagan had great skills at making the general electorate comfortable with him. Newt has no such skill. Quite the opposite. He has greater skill at making people uncomfortable with him. Second, Carter and his handlers were not vicious “kick ‘em in the crotch” Chicago machine thugs and Marxists as are the Obama ilk. God help us if we nominate Newt. The Obama jackals will get no negative feedback (probably much positive feedback)from most of the electorate as they rip Newt to shreds. The average voter won’t buy into such tactics against Romney. In fact, such tactics may backfire. Let Romney take out Obama so that the real work can begin in the trenches. Nominate Newt and Obama wins. We can bring the influence of conservatism to Washington in ways other than directly thru the presidency only if we win the congress and the presidency, and that will be our challenge and obligation. Sadly, Ronnie is dead.
You’re new around here aren’t you? If you were a regular instead of a ‘bot’ doing drive-by-commenting you would be familiar enough with Ms. Rogers previous columns to know she is about as conservative as you can get.
Maybe someday you’ll be mature enough to understand that the criticism from your closest friends is the most valuable and should be taken the most seriously.
TheHat – Newt is hardly a conservative, and Belladonna Rogers is hardly a ‘liberal’ (in the contemporaneous sense of the word). Of course, it is hard to label Newt as being anything, because he’s taken so many positions that any label would do. Don’t get me wrong. When Newt laces into the LSM I lap it up just like everyone does, and I don’t fault him all that much for his marital escapades. (How he and his first wife were married would be the subject of an interesting movie, and his second wife was the one who effectively terminated the marriage in 1987.) Where I fault him is that he is just as much, if not more so, a flip-flopper than Romney, and I do not think he can stay focused enough to be President of the US (although in a Newt vs. Barry O contest, my vote’s with Newt). What Ms. Rogers has done is to lay out problems she sees in a Newt candidacy. To label her a ‘liberal’ for having done so is basically an unwarranted ad hominem attack on her. (Would you label Ann Coulter a ‘liberal’ for backing Romney?) I have been following Ms. Rogers’ columns for some while, I can attest, she is no ‘liberal.’
Newt has taken so many positions that any label will work? Where does that leave Romney? Romney takes the prize for flip-flopping!
(Would you label Ann Coulter a ‘liberal’ for backing Romney?)It’s difficult to say what Coulter is anymore. Actually I would just like to know how much she was paid off to give up all her conservative integrity to back him. You can add her to the list of Nikki Haley, Charlie Bass, Peter Bragdon, Kellie Ayotte – along with others who Romney paid off with campaign donations of over 1.3 million to get their support. Or what about the phony Utah companies who donated a million $ apiece to Romney’s Super Pacs and then all dissolved leaving no trace. Romney is so corrupt, a liar, and will do anything and say anything to win this election and Obama is going to destroy him. I will take Newt any day!
Rick Perry?! What are you doing on PJM?!
You’ll have to ride your horse a little north to find Rick!
We should be so lucky as to have Rick back. He was robbed by the Romney leftists.
Put a sock in your hat. If you took one second to Google Ms. Rogers you’d know in an instant she she is no liberal or anyone’s puppet. She’s as independent-minded as they come. Court is not adjourned because you say it is. You’re guilty of being nothing but a troll. Case closed and court is now adjourned. Don’t let the courthouse door hit you on your way out and don’t come back, y’all.
Spoken like a true liberal thinker. Your opinion is all that matters so you think you can close court on it. It doesn’t work that way.
OMG … Been a busy day and I needed a laugh. Belladonna a liberal… whew. That IS a good one. Sure wish I’d read this first thing in the morning, I would’ve be chuckling all day. Wow, thanks… I needed a knee slapper.
Yeah, that’s what they said about Coulter. Now look. Guess anyone can be bought with the right incentives.
Oh goodie … a smear campaign. Fun stuff. Imply everything dark and nasty about a person’s character and prove nothing. The Libs are great at this … and now we’re going to play too?
Lets start by generating some unfounded innuendo about Anne Coulter … and then tar Belladona with the same brush. Wow … cool, hip, and smart. Wow … how clever.
Look bucko, if you have facts, details and specifics, bring them out into the open: Tell us: bought off with what, how, when? Oh … and tell us how you know it to be so. Spare us the attacks on Belladonna’s character. She’s entitled to an opinion … and knowing/supporting this is one of the things that makes us different form the other side.
And if you have no details, if you can’t prover your “claims” then just crawl off to that other side … their tactics suit better. Go hang around some other corner.
The guy who is explaining and apologizing is losing. That’s one of the purposes of negative advertising. It puts doubt into the minds of the voters and makes the opponent explain away any perceived position/fault/inconsistency.
There are NO ANGELS running for President.
I really don’t care about Newt’s former wives and his philandering. And this ought to be a resume enhancer to those Democrats who said of Bill Clinton, “Its just sex”. So what’s with the Marxist Media bringing up Newt’s wives and divorces? Its because the base is religious and the media wants good ratings.
What I want in a President is someone who can lead us out of the morass that is a federal government utterly out of control. And who is the only Speaker in modern time to lead us to a balanced budget? That would be Speaker Ginrich. And he did not resign over ethics violations. He resigned because they lost the House to the Democrats.
A great big Amen. My thoughts exactly. Newt’s previous “transgressions” should be a resume enhancer at least in the eyes of the dems.
I disagree about belittling the media as if what they peddle is not important; it IS important for its lack of context, basic reasoning skills, reverse racism that ignores actual racism while pulling fake racism out of a hat.
TV journalists alone are so askew in what they peddle that many of them should simply be fired, starting with Soledad O’Brien, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Roland Martin and Al Sharpton. It is not a case of them simply being wrong or having an alternate opinion but being stupid, ignorant and propagandists with an agenda that is easily rebutted. The problem is that they don’t put themselves in situations where they can be called out on air by being questioned. They debate in small segments and filibuster the short TV time away when challenged just like Obama does.
You put Soledad O’Brien or Roland Martin on the hot seat in an hour long interview and I would expose them for the frauds and liars they are.
How does doing that help elect a new President?
UNLEASH GINGRICH IN 2012!”
from: “Mitt and Newt in Florida”
at: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289406/mitt-and-newt-florida-neal-b-freeman
“What I can tell you today is what this election is going to be about. The 2012 Florida primary will be an old-fashioned family feud pitting conservatives against Republicans. It’s a feud with deep, 1964-vintage roots, but it’s not about old grudges misremembered or long-forgotten. Next Tuesday’s vote will be a referendum on what happened here and elsewhere around the nation in 2010.”
“In that bountiful year, you’ll fondly recall, disgruntled conservatives leapt from the soft shoulders, grabbed the wheel of the party’s wandering bus, and whipped it hard right. The party people were at first outraged — you’ve just cost us the services of Mike Castle, for God’s sake! — before developing a sober (and ephemeral) gratitude for the infusion of conservative energy. Almost immediately following Election Day, however, the systematic restoration of party prerogative began. Messrs. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, who had seemed to be tea-party when tea-party was cool, banked their revolutionary fires; Karl Rove, for a time doubted and (even more painfully) ignored, was reinstated to his architectural role; and the party people quickly selected their candidate for 2012. To avoid any intramural frottage, in fact, they helpfully declared their candidate “inevitable” before a single delegate had been won. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your Inevitable GOP Candidate: a formerly pro-choice, anti-gun, pro-amnesty, pro-individual-mandate, one-term governor of Massachusetts who has stashed part of his unimaginably large paper-shuffling profits — the part that he didn’t stash with Goldman Sachs — in a bank in the Cayman Islands. Who, I ask you, could possibly be more inevitable than he?”
Don’t even think of unleashing Newt. He’s a loose cannon and the choice of angry people everywhere. We can’t just vote our anger. Wehave to vote for the good of the country, not so we’ll wake up November 7 with Obama sailing to victory. Newt Unleashed will give us Obama Unleashed. Four years of Obama Unleashed. End of the USA for sure.
From you lips (page) to God’s ears. You said it all.
In 2004, observing the crackup of the Howard Dean campaign, Rush Limbaugh observed:
“Anger doesn’t win elections.”
Evidently he and his fans forgot that as soon as Bush Derangement Syndrome from liberals was replaced by Obama Derangement Syndrome from conservatives.
He was right the first time.
The Reagan victory of 1980 wasn’t brought about by enraged conservatives accusing President Jimmy Carter of wanting to destroy the country or being a stooge of the U.S.S.R. It was brought about by optimistic, hopeful conservatives who believed they could offer a positive direction for the nation.
Rage may get your adrenal glands going.
But it’s going to turn off the majority of voters who are not outraged at any alleged attempt by Obama to wreck the country.
Unlike the GOP base, the rest of the electorate doesn’t hate Obama or think he’s out to wreck the country. Polls confirm that they regard him as a basically decent man who–like Carter–just hasn’t been successful at reviving the economy. And they’re looking around to see if some other person could succeed at reviving the economy where Obama has failed.
Which is Romney’s message, not Gingrich’s message, or the GOP base’s view.
Romney is closer to the political center of gravity of the country than Gingrich is.
Sorry. Not enough difference. She’s paid to write so I would expect her “opinions” to be based in fact not hype.
When it comes to Newt, all I can say is, “Of all the words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, it might have been.”
He had it all. He had the experience, the resume, and the best debating skills out there. And he threw it all away because of ego and libido. I think Newt will just fade away, like MacArthur did, never to die, just to be on Fox News for the rest of his days. Sad, really.
between belladonna and ann coulter, I’m reconciled to romney. I’d hoped for Perry- what’s not to love? our state is very-well run. half the country is voting with their feet- headed to perry’s bailiwick. I was hoping they’d vote with their vote, and Perry would get a bigger domain. As it is, I’ll vote ABO.
Gingrich, seriously, ya’ll. You’ve seen this before. He’s a low-country, southern poor white hustler. Edwards, Clinton, ??who are the televangelists? found with hookers?? same thing. You keep thinking he threw away a promise. The guy never had a promise- he had his own skin and brains getting out of whatever little poor, backwards farm-town he was on. He’s never had it so good. Fine women who smell of soap and have soft skin? His back doesn’t hurt, his skin isn’t rough, and he can read a book by a good light in an air-conditioned house. That’s better than the whole, entire first part of his life. Including grad school. That was: wife, two kids who had perpetually runny noses, creaky old wooden house, probably not in good repair, low grad assistant pay, a town that’s half slum by design, and his school intersects with a wealthy section of town- so wealthy and established that the fortunes and houses were there before the American Revolution. These were the people who had slaves to lose in the Civil War. Fortunes. Big ones. And he’s in the slummy, no-count part.
Now? They let him in the front door.
And the thing is: these guys really do love America. And they really do understand it. I’m okay with whatever wild personal junk they’ve got in their closet. They’re from the people who made America’s frontier American, instead of French, Indian, or Spanish. They’ve been considered low-rent trash since at least Jackson. He was gossiped about as a bigamist. I think we all like Jackson today, right? We like Bowie and Crockett? We like Daniel Boone, right?
That’s the part of America he’s from- the crazy frontier guys. For that matter- Dick Cheney.
He has scratched, and clawed his way up the ladder. I don’t know how high the ladder goes. Nobody ever gave him anything. Of course he’s not polished like Romney. Of course he’s grabbing at any pretty, shiny thing. Big deal. We’ve already seen that.
And, guys- he’s a historian. He really, truly does love America that much, that he’d learn everything he could.
Well said, Ari
Just for the record, I don’t like Jackson. Some of his actions were admirable, true, but I count him as among the worst of American presidents, and hate the fact I have to be reminded of him every time I see a $20 bill. I reckon the worst five as Johnson, Obama, Carter, Van Buren and Jackson with Johnson being the worst. Obama’s shooting for Johnson’s place but he’s not there yet (IMO).
Michael Lewise, Mr Moneyball, Liar’s Poker, and so on, is from those giant, well-kept family houses that have been there forever. Go read him on Katrina, and complacently documenting his family’s top of the food chain status, and how they all marry each other, and tolerate interlopers. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is pretty much that same kind of backwater big fortune with appetites sort of background.
That Newt isn’t trying to burn the place down, and isn’t trying to buy a mansion on the trolley-line, like Anne Rice, and the guy who owned the mine in Irian Jaya- speaks so well of his character. He’s not revolutionary, and he’s not trying kow-tow or be bought by the hereditary upper-class twits.
Belladonna, great “Hints from History” tip for the Newt. And the rest of us.
My advice to Newt would be to first be aware that people like Belladonna hate you with a blind fury, so you have to go over their heads. You have never toed the line in the way that the Republican Ruling Class and their sychophants demand, and trying to start now won’t do any good.
Second, ask the question of the public of why you are currently leading in national polls by 9% and yet behind in Florida, a state that reflects the nation. Point out that the exact same thing happened in Iowa…so the answer is that you have an opponent that can’t debate you on policy and your vision for the country, so he uses hims millions to smear you on television.
Third, point out the simple indisputable truths:
- you were the acknowledged leader of the second Reagan Revolution, and an acknowledged foot soldier in the first one. Romney failed in Massachusetts to unseat Ted Kennedy by repudiating Reagan. Later, in 2002, he won the governorship of Massachusetts by calling himself a progressive. Then he implemented Obamacare in Massachusetts.
- On your watch, you cut taxes, balanced the budget, implemented welfare reform and blocked Hillarycare. You know how it is done and will do it again
- Your opponents are playing small ball, hoping that the economy will continue to get worse and praying that they can beat obama by default. You have a vision for the country that goes well beyond the economy, since the disaster we are living through is a function of the Statism that the backers of Romney have tacitly supported for decades. They are either incapable of or unwilling to proudly proclaim the vision of America that is the consistent underpinning of America success. They talk about how they will tinker at the edges. You talk about an overthrow of obama’s alinsky agenda, but more than that, also an overthrow of their Republican masters who allowed obama to grab control of the country because they were busy feathering their own nests instead of doing the people’s work
Fourth, continue to acknowledge your faults, but remind the country as you have been doing that you built your career creating the foundations for job growth, not by laying people off to make a fortune; that you have made enemies because you haven’t toed the line demanded by the Republican Statists; and that your marital history isn’t one that you are proud of, but which you have asked forgiveness for from God.
Obviously you’re a ‘bot’ leaving a drive-by comment. Otherwise you would have seen the companion column “An Open Letter to Mitt Romney”
Read the companion piece.
If you can’t see that Belladonna is pro-Romney, you can’t read with comprehension.
I wrote the anon comment, btw.
Beautiful, brilliant AND you can cook?
What you say about Gingrich is obviously true. Newt thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, and if one could put walls around the universe, that “room” couldn’t contain his bloated ego.
We have a malignant narcissist in the White House, who rarely listens to his own generals, certainly not his most recent Chief of Staff, doesn’t listen to the governors of border states, his own blue ribbon committees on fixing the economy, certainly not the voters, the framers of the Constitution, the Supreme Court or anyone who doesn’t meekly bow down at his Greek-columned altar.
These types of men will throw anyone and anything under the bus, from their own white grandmothers, to the free market, to lifelong “dear friends” and “mentors”, if it suits their desperate needs to constantly throw logs on an out of control blazing ego.
And, they often make wild, sometimes bizarre pronouncements about how they are going to “lower the seas” or “transform America” or would love to build a Jurassic Park or colonize the moon in eight years. It’s like listening to a 6 year old talk about being “the gweatest superman in the history of the whole wide world!”
Goethe said “dream no small dreams” and to an extent that’s true. There is a line between fantasy and reality, however. Having six year olds draping a pillowcase as a cape around their shoulders and jumping off the roof because they are dreaming of beings Superman, results in a trip to the emergency room, where the X-ray is not superhuman vision, it’s a machine to detect broken bones.
Newt, unlike Mitt…is not a compromiser by nature. In fact, he is the polar opposite. Disagree with him and he will make it a petty and personal vendetta, he will smear you, slander you, …whether you are Ronald Reagan taking on the Soviet Union or Mitt Romney making money at Bain Capital.
And, Newt will slalom the slippery slopes of global warming hoaxes, amnesty, the healthcare mandate, Fannie and Freddie’s public relations cover up, and assaults on the free market…petty envies and class warfare like a rotund Jean Claude Killy. In fact, if he had to Killy the free market to feed his gargantuan ego, he would not hesitate.
The propaganda machine has never had to face down a man who has no fear of them, however. And…if ever there was an enemy of truth that needed a beat down, it is those co-conspirators in our polluted and toxic information stream.
Newt being Newt…he takes no backward steps from enemies, real or imagined. The visceral and cathartic nature of watching those beat downs cannot be overstated. I see his weaknesses and don’t back down from vocally pointing them out…but I could kiss him square on his jowly jaw every time he lays into one of these professional liars and distortionists.
Alas, it’s a limited engagement booking. In the general election, THAT game would be so severely rigged against him, it won’t carry the day for him.
Worse, Newt will pivot and slalom in any direction…left, right or center. Some say that is “smart politics”. I strongly disagree.
His assault on the free market and cheap pandering to the petty envy crowd is beneath contempt for someone who needs to lead the charge against the ongoing attempted overthrow of captialism by the Marxists.
Newt is a man who really, in the final analysis, doesn’t give a damn about whether the Marxists win or the capitalists win, he just wants to sit on the throne and be fed grapes at the Bacchanalian feast to his ego.
His unworkable and often bizarre grandiosity is NOT what we need, in the dire and near paralyzing economic threat we are facing. We need not a schemer, but a systematic, wonkish, detail oriented, SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE. A steward to steer the ship out of the Marxist storm, not for his own vainglory, but because his countrymen need it, his country needs it, the world needs it.
Newt is erratic, unstable, distracted, and his polarizing smug and pedantic nature is off-putting to his own staff, those who work with him…and most certainly…swing voters.
There is much to enjoy in the adventure of a Gingrich candidacy. Wild and crazy ideas, beat downs of the propaganda machine, snappy debate performances. If Newt were a movie, he would be Mission Impossible. Lots of gadgets and gimmickry, hanging off the ledge on a skyscraper, shooting poisoned darts at the bad guys. And, for those willing to suspend disbelief, it’s great escapism.
Unfortunately, when that movie ends…reality begins again. And that’s simply not a place where Gingrich’s mind resides. He’s the wrong guy at the wrong time, too easily willing to throw the free market under the bus and play to class, ethnic and racial warfare for his own vainglory. He’s an enormous mistake for what we need. Unfortunately, everyone else currently running…is worse.
“We have a malignant narcissist in the White House, who rarely listens to his own generals”
I differ, I don’t think the Malignant in the WH is able to do all that evil alone. He DOES listen to his generals, and the point is WHO is his choice for a general.
I think also it’s fair to say no POTUS can do it all alone, he has at some point to choose his generals and advisors. So the question is who would Mitt choose? Who would Newt choose?
It’s clear that many commenters have not read the companion column ‘An Open Letter to Mitt Romney’.
I’m guessing that the Romneybots and the Paulbots and the Obamabots are using Google searches to do ‘Drive-By Commenting’
My what a bunch of rubbish this article is.
Didn’t think I would read in pj media a shill for the msm. Sounds like the writer is afraid that large numbers of the people would wake up, if they had an unbiased media. That is actually very important. For a lot of things.
As for your shrill harping about Newt’s past …. good grief, isn’t that old news? Is there anyone who does not know Newt?
He simply has the advantage of people knowing his flaws in advance. Unlike others who get elected and then, afterwards we get to find out the real ones.
We know what to expect from Newt. We know where he stands and what his policies are. This is a man, flawed he may be, that we know. Better a bird in hand ……
You didn’t bother to read the companion column, “Open Letter to Mitt Romney”, did you? You probably didn’t even know it existed. Your a ‘bot’ doing drive-by-commenting, aren’t you?
So you think Newt is lilly-white flawless? What About MItt? Reasonable people will admit that both have their flaws.
Amen to that. All of a sudden the msm has turned into hypocrites when it comes to all subjects love/sex/etc They praise shows with extreme sexual content, want to teach all kind of sex topics in schools and then act outraged at Newt’s marital woes??? Give me a break!
One thing I know is that a man (or woman ) who will cheat on their wife or husband will cheat anybody else in the world. But I also know that one who repents to God and makes Jesus Christ Lord and Master of their life is a changed person. Personally I have a hard time believing any political person. They all lie and will say what they think will get them elected. But I guess if the general public holds no one morally responsible how can you expect their officials to be moral??
The general public is in no position to render judgement. It is after all the general public that voted Obama into office which more than proves its ignorance.
I can agree with the author in some of her points; however, please get some of your facts straight. Web search the ethics complaints and the non-fine that Newt paid. Look at the IRS findings and the video CNN did concerning Newt not being found guilty of the charges. You can start by looking on “You Tube” and go on from there.
Lastly, why haven’t any of the media or bloggers commented on the ex-wife’s part of the interview about her saying that Newt was/is and eithical man? Just asking. Why do you all show so much hate for the man? Are you all that perfect youselves – I’m not!
So.. I guess the question that begs to be ask to Ms. Rogers: If Newt prostrates himself in front of his family, friends, ex-wives, children, refuses to put forth crazy ideas, owns up to his past mistakes in live press conference and list’s them, as you say in top ten order, apologizes to his contenders wives for even considering them First Lady material, then turns to the camera and asks for America to forgive him and closes in prayer…would you, in all your compassionate emotional conservatism vote for him?
I didn’t think so – why not just say you don’t like the guy-period.
You’re new around here aren’t you? You didn’t see the companion column, “Open Letter to MItt Romney”, did you?
Open letter to ALL Conservative incumbents:
Please attack Doh!bama and attack the issues at hand!
Stop attacking and smearing each other!
This is NOT a ‘regular’ election as ‘usual’!
Our country is in deep caca!
We are at a tipping point. Greece has Germany. What does the USA have? F*cking CHINA? OH GREAT!
WHO is going to put the breaks on? WHO is going to have enough balls to attack the dirtbag in office with his scuzzball cronies? WHO is going to be more transparent than this dullard who has brick-walled his entire past?
I will vote for a bonobo monkey making decisions with a dart-board at this point!
Got the memo? GET THE MARXISTS LOONS outta there!
Kthanx!
Love,
Delia
@ At The Rubicom,
I have read the ‘companion column’. I for one do not think Newt is flawless, in any shade. Nor is anyone else.
Now some women may object to a man being divorced. Never, really the best of the best.
But I do know one thing; they would all object a whole lot more to any man whose beliefs followed a man that had 37 wives …. and no divorce.
cfbleachers nailed the situation down expertly. Newt is the man we KNOW will do the job. Not another one who promises that he will.
And in the over-all view of things, I think the people have had enough of broken promises. Don’t you think so too?
You said this column is rubbish and accused the author of being a shill for the MSM. I on the other hand think it’s an honest assessment of Newts vulnerabilities. I happen to be a Newt Fan. Sometimes when he speaks he stirs things in me that haven’t stirred since Ronaldus Magnus. Still, I think Ms Rogers is spot on in terms of his vulnerabilities.
Newt,
What are your top 10 priorities?
What are you going to cut out of the gov’t beast to start controlling the deficit?
We want specifics!
Quit attacking Romney and start attacking Obama. Time to start steering the debates to the real issues facing America.
And come back down to earth. Colonies on the moon – com-on Newt we can hardly afford to gas up the space station let alone get our astronauts up there.
To TheHat….
Does Ms. Rogers seem like a “Liberal” here?…
“Luckily for you, the president doesn’t have to be loved. He or she has to be able to do the job. That’s where Obama has failed the country. He’s not up to the job. You are.
That’s your best argument for voting for you. Not that you’re lovable or that you’re a regular guy (you know you’re not), but that you have what it takes to get us out of this economic morass and leftist la-la land the incumbent has foisted upon us.”
That was taken from her Advice to Mitt Romney commentary. My suggestions to a handful of my fellow conservatives that are on some other planet… It’s OK to point out problems/issues with the Republican candidates. We (the sober among us) are not treating our potential candidates like deities. Like the Liberal did with Obama. They are imperfect men with flaws and more importantly, work for us. Being critical and demanding is alright.
Belladonna, I like your pieces, but this is not an open letter of advice to Speaker Gingrich. It is a take down. And a recycled one at that. Actually it is not even a take down. It’s a pile on. How much do you weigh, I wonder. I have issues with Newt, too, but if he ends up being our selected candidate, I will gladly back him. He has his faults, but what is lacking here is any recognition of his accomplishments.
An advice column, which this is, is not the same as a column whose purpose is to weigh the advantages versus the disadvantages of any particular candidate. “What is lacking here is any recognition of his accomplishments,” you say. But that isn’t the point of this column.
Gingrich choked, twisted arms and knee-capped his GOP associates while dragging them screaming, kicking and crying to fulfill the Contract With America. In retaliation, his party aligned with the liberal scumbags to remove Newt from his speakership, to castigate, fumigate and otherwise destroy the man.
It is very clear that the GOP establishment wants nothing to do with him ever again. It’s a shame that we, the voters, are too inclined accept words over actions. Indeed, many of us, the author of this article included, have adopted the word over actions mentality and are supporting an anti-gun, anti-life, anti-individual liberty failed Democrat politician to lead the progressive GOP establishment to its defeat.
Boehner & McConnell worked with Reid and Pelosi to pass the debt ceiling bill last August that gave Obama a $3 trillion increase in the debt ceiling and pretended to pay for it with $500 billion reduction in defense spending.
Just imagine what Romney, Boehner and McConnell can do once the Tea Party folks are in the rear view mirror.
OK, so under the pretense of offering “advice” to each candidate you write 2 columns.
One is advice. The other is a take down.
What has happened to PJM, they don’t even try to pretend they’re conservative anymore, they’re merely Republican.
Mark Levin weighs in on the smear job on Gingrich:
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=116130
UNLEASH GINGRICH IN 2012!
When I read about Newt calling Romney the most dishonest candidate in history, to paraphrase I gave up hope for the election. If Gingrich is nominated it will only by such destruction it will ruin his present opponents and doom the party. We will might even lose the house.
Maybe Gingrich reasons that this is his last shot at power so if he destroys his party its no biggie. After all the only thing that matters is him. Maybe he can go back to the public trough. Maybe a think tank together with McCain.
OFF TOPIC BUT IMPORTANT
Obama’s Iran-Like Hostage Crisis
With the blessing of the Moslem Brotherhood, who Obama has been butt kissing for years, Sam LaHood and the other Americans trapped in Egypt are HOSTAGES not unlike what happened in 1979 Iran. Instead of quickly resolving the situation and letting them return home Egypt’s Islamist military junta has sent a delegation to Washington to negotiate the terms of their release with the Obama administration. The junta got Obama by the balls. This is an election year and the junta knows that Obama doesn’t want a full scale crisis like Carter had in 1979 as it could mean the end of his presidency. The junta is looking for concessions and will get them. What a joke. If Obama caves in, as he’s likely to, more of this kind of extortion will follow as it will set a precedent for the rest of the year up till Election Day.
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Newt will not seek to destroy his party. He has too much love of America and American pride. Instead he will seek to build up America.
And as he has got nothing against making a profit, he doesn’t mind Americans being prosperous.
It is the looney left and their hatred of profit and prosperity that does much of the destroying. They want everyone to be equal in having nothing.
Newt had 85 ethics charges filed against him. 84 were dropped. The last one he paid a fine of 300 grand It was for a history course that he wrote, that was being taught in schools. The charge was that the course was political rathes than educational, so ,he should have been payed by political funds. After he paid, the IRS ruled in his favor. Like the ethics charges against Sarah Palin, there was no validity tothem. It was just a way for Newts enemies to smear his name. For Romney to repeat those lies, shows his character.http://www.therightscoop.com/1999-cnn-report-on-newt-gingrichs-exoneration-by-the-irs-over-ethics-charges/
As far as Newts baggage, he was molested by a 23 year old teacher, when he was 16. She waited until he was of legal age and then became pregnant, and they married. Now as a man, most of us would say Newt knew what he was doing, and enjoyed himself. As a grandfather, I can see how naive a 16year old is, how Horney, full of desire, and unable to see danger or consequences. That established a practice of sexual behavior, socially accepted as normal, that is destructive , and hard to change.