What about Gingrich?
So, dear readers, Newt Gingrich has finally announced formally that he’s running for president. Newt built his political career from my home state, Georgia. I even reside in the district Newt represented during his final stint in D.C.
Prominent Georgia politicians have already lined up behind him. Newly elected Governor Nathan Deal has signed on, along with former Governor Sonny Perdue and longtime-beloved Georgian Zell Miller.
You can bet your bottom dollar that Newt is holding more political IOUs than three politicians could possibly use in one lifetime. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Newt’s parade of Georgia “supporters” ends up including every small-town Junior League and Garden Club president, from Atlanta to Valdosta to the Alabama line. Heck, Newt probably has little old ladies from the Daughters of the Confederacy in his political back pocket already.
Well, whoop-dee-doo. Praise the Lord and pass the hat.
What about Newt? Not for me.
Now, please don’t misunderstand me, dear readers. If Newt Gingrich were to win the Republican nomination for president, I would enthusiastically support him — with my pen, my laptop, my phone, and my vote. Newt Gingrich, as president, would run circles around the guy the Democrats are stuck with. Newt could use just half his brain and still best the adolescent affirmative-action president. But in the primary, with a field of other fine candidates, Newt is nearly last on my list of contenders.
And I’ve got my reasons. Lots of ‘em.
I’ll start with the reason everyone with a working set of eyes and ears already knows about, from its sordid beginning to its begging-for-respectability-regained end — that big, fat Scarlet A that sits upon Newt’s puffed-up chest wherever he goes a hobnobbing for votes. At the moment, I imagine that Newt Gingrich is having to trade his political IOUs at 3-to-1 value, just to make up for the big-A factor.
Newt recently converted to Catholicism — my own faith — but voting for a man has nothing whatsoever to do with forgiveness. As far as I’m concerned, Newt’s penance for his lifetime of debauchery is between himself and his confessor. And, frankly, I don’t want to know a thing about it.
For Democrats, of course, a lack of sexual self-control seems to be a bonus qualification for high office. But Republicans, thankfully, still appear to have a grain of common sense when it comes to understanding that private character failings can’t help but affect public-office performance.
Frankly, I’ve always considered known infidelity to be a deal-breaker for candidates I’m considering. I think that adultery and politics make forbidden bedfellows.
But it’s not because I give a flying flip what my candidates do in the privacy of their bedrooms. I don’t care and, again, I don’t want to know, either.
Adultery, however, is not the victimless crime that libertines suppose it is. The big, fat political no-no — LYING – is the kissing cousin of adultery, no matter who is shacking up with whom. It is impossible to imagine the adulterer who hasn’t told a basketful of bold-faced lies to his spouse, or even his children, to cover up his foul deeds. Adulterers I’ve known, in order to cover their tracks, often lie to their friends, their extended families, their colleagues, and on and on. And I submit that it is far more difficult and conscience-challenging to lie to one’s closest partners and confidants — and one’s own children, for crying out loud! – than it is to lie to a vast public constituency of strangers.
Lying under oath, as President Bill Clinton did, was truly an impeachable offense. Clinton’s impeachment trial, however, was a circus. Gingrich, then speaker of the House, should have known he didn’t have the votes before he launched the thing. And Newt should have known the Clintons well enough to know they would fight like hell — that Bill would never resign the way Nixon did.
But perhaps Newt’s political instincts were dulled from overexertion in D.C. hotel rooms — and the stress of keeping his own lies straight.
Now that Trump is gone the MSM needs someone to kick around. Look there goes Newt!
The Republicans need cannon fodder to send into the gaping maw of the MSM.
Oh, so that’s all it is. Here then, this one should totally convince you: All criticism of Barack Obama is racist.
This is how the media keeps the commoners in check of their beloved Obama. We know damn well the many arguments against Obama are not racist at all. Look at who Barrack hanged out with. Does Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernerdean Dorn ring a bell. Obama has said you can’t blame me for them. Sure we can’t. We know this scumbag in the white house is already destroying our country. We know he is a closet Muslim.
Barack Obama “hanged” out with? Past tense of hang is hung.
“Does” Jeremian Wright, Bill Ayers, etc.,…. This question requires “do” not “does.”
English grammar is in a terrible state when even supposedly intelligent, educated people don’t know how to use proper grammar.
Get a life.
And yet, pictures are hung, but people are hanged, by the neck until dead. Or were, in simpler times. I simply cannot tolerate the fact that someone going by the moniker “Teacher” failed to point out the exception.
This is about the flaws of Obama, not about about English-language ‘experts’ showing off how smart they think they are.
Hey TEACHER;
Be nise to your co-wurkurs. They be union and all. Ya know whut I’m sayin?
David probably has a collage decree; and everything.
An ya never knouw. He might be one of Obama’s cazars wroting wit a suedonimn.
I am conservative, but I would never vote for Newt ever. He has been married three times and he divorced his first wife while she was in the hospital. He is a scumbag. Newt may be smart and right about the direction of this country, but he will do what do what the Republican Machine of Washington wants him to do. He will never tell the truth on the many issues he cares about. He is a politician after all, and why should I vote for him when he will lie to my face with a sincere look in his eye. America does not need someone like Newt. We need someone like Donald Trump with Chutzpah to stand up for this country and do what is in the best interests of this great republic of ours. Just my opinion.
Just imagine David, if republicans would rally around the front runner at the present time, Mitt Romney, and support him to the hilt until the 2012 election, we might be able to rid ourselves of the scourge of Obama.
Want squeaky clean, you’ve got him. But that’s not good enought for the spoiler crowd, now it’s Pawlenty and Mitch Daniels. There’s a pair to draw to and with the support of the propaganda media one or the other will probably end up with four aces.
One strike and the leftists and rightist spoilers call Romney out and then begin the crucifiction the cultist. What they should do is evaluate the entirety of his credentials against those of his opposition and get off the religious bigotry kick. Just as John Kennedy was not defined by the Catholic Church, Romney should not be defined by his Mormon faith.
Romneycare, for those who know what the U.S. Constritution is did not violate it. Romneycare was the will of the people in Masachussetts, not a one size fits all program for the nation, shoved down the throats of the people by a Marxist tyrant roaming at will to buy votes from Senators, representatives of themselves, rather than their constituents.
Such would never happen in a Romney Administration, you can take that to the bank. The Mormon is a principled man and deserves fair consideration for what he brings to the process of electing the next president.
I thought this was about Newt, not Mitt.
But, I guess True Believers must spout their Faith In Mitt wherever they can… it’s their only hope!
This is such a great list. I will have to ponder some of these–I have some of our own that we do as well as some of those on your list we already do.
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Can’t Gingrich just say his “wandering eye” was tribute to some of the Democrats greatest Presidents – Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Clinton?
I see the man regularly at church. I don’t like his eyes. They go from unctuous to shifty then back to sweet in a flash. When the eyes lie is not a good sign.
I don’t give hoot about Newt.
But I agree that some of his ideas are worth considering. Not all but some.
Yeah, that is where Conservative Americans need to go…judging people by the look in their eyes. Maybe if you were one of the most recognizable politicians in the country who was just trying to go to church and had to worry about prying eyes everywhere you went, you might have a bit of a wary look as well.
Ask yourself a question, if it came down to it, wold you vote for Obama over Gingrich? Or would you play the three year old card, like so many did when they didn’t like McCain?
Well, given what Newt said on Sunday about Paul Ryan, I doubt he’ll stand much of a chance anywhere now. Maybe it’s better that way. Perhaps it’s time for some new blood and some new ideas. But, whoever the Republican candidate is going to be, that person is going to be assaulted constantly by the main stream media. Remember, the main stream media can’t admit that the socialist they helped put in office in 2008 was a dismal failure, so they are going to double down and attack the Republicans with everything they have. So, whoever the Republican nominee is, I hope that person deals with the main stream media by coming after them. Go on the offensive and call them on their bias. Why not? The main stream media certainly isn’t going to give them any breaks, so they really have nothing to lose. This will also show that the candidate has some backbone and won’t give in. We have to go on th offensive in 2012 because the Democrats can’t do the one thing they should be doing: Admit that they were wrong and get another candidate.
You’re absolutely right about the MSM going after the Republican candidate with particular ferocity leading up to 2012.
If it’s any consolation, that kind of thing has been happening up here in Canada for decades re the Conservative Party (and its antecedents). However, the vicious, personal attacks on our Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his party, especially by our state broadcaster, the CBC (which gets $1 BILLION/year from the government), which occurred during our recent election, didn’t work. People have begun to catch on to the machinations of the biased, lefty MSM, and, it seems the electorate is taking the media’s lies with some scepticism: just two weeks ago, the Conservatives won a whopping, majority mandate.
Let’s hope, in 2012, that the American electorate’s in the same frame of mind.
You are right on target about the MSM. I remain very pessimistic about the chances of the GOP taking the presidency in 2012, because Obozo has a big ace up his sleeve: the race card. Any challenge to Obama will be called “racism” and any opponent will be deemed “racist”. To be called a racist in MC PC America is the equivalent of being called a pedophile, or a witch/heretic in the middle ages: the PC media will burn you at the stake. Bill Clinton was called racist in 2008, and recently, Trump was called racist for his challenges to Obama. The problem is the repubs comprise the stupid party. They will sell out their base to reach across the aisle and appear “bipartisan” or not mean spirited. They will fold and grovel when called “racist”.They will take off the gloves to fight each other, but not democrats.
In 2008, the MSM called the GOP convention a “Nuremberg rally”, while the democrat convention was a multiculti paradise of tolerance. It was cringe-inducing to watch McCain do nothing to challenge Obama to avoid being called racist, yet get called racist anyway for referring to Obummer as “that one” in a debate.
Perhaps it’s time for the Republicans to take off the kid gloves.
The C/conservatives here in Canada have been routinely demonized, just like the Republicans. This election, the Conservatives actually made some really effective attack ads about Michael Ignatieff, our very own Harvard guy—leader of the Liberal (Democratic) Party—who was sent in a few years ago to be crowned Prime Minister. The lefties were astounded, shocked, and offended that the right was using their own tactics. It was a joy to see their pointy little heads explode!
There were other factors involved (we have FOUR left-wing parties), but the attack ads hit a raw, lefty nerve and the electorate was ready to hear the negative message: it really wounded Michael Ignatieff. (His party fell to third place from being “the natural governing party” of Canada for decades. Schadenfreude!)
The Republicans—well, anyone who knows the truth—have got so much against Obama, it’s about time they “let it all hang out”. As you point out, the Republicans are already being called racists, so what do they have to lose? I’d try attacks and attack ads.
I predicted a while back that the mbm will foresake all pretense and endorse Spike in 2012. They will do that because there may be a few hundred voters in a battleground state too dumb to get the message without making it absolutely formal.
Newt; the poster-boy for disloyalty is trying to shake that bad image and become the poster-boy for groveling apologists.
“I fear he will become Obama’s new VP – I can hear his acceptance speech:
Hope and Change have arrived as I promised, no more politics as usual, as I promised, Now,two old enemies, two opposing party leaders are as one – MLK’s dream, black and white, liberal and conservative are divided no more. America is one! America is unified! Unless….you folks out there allow that divisive tea party to get your vote.
Later in the news…The state departmment reports that Newt Gingrich has been assigned to resolve the Libyan crisis. The ex-Georgia representative left the Capital this moring armed with an enterouge of Chicago Imans,a Koran and a thousand copies of his latest book – “Loyalty for Dummmies”
You are correct, no voting for Newt, he should drop out now.
Now if we can just get Romney to drop out…
So now we have the penultimate schemer Gingrich doing the Lefts work for them in a desperate and well-calculated gamble to make himself once again relevant. Gingrich’s latest television interview with Gregory along with his Pelosi AGW agitprop commercial (sorry, I mean “debate”) is textbook RINO behaviour. His actions are calculated to make him one of the Lefts “reasonable” conservatives. By his spouting of Leftist chatechisms about glo-bull warming and must-never-really-cut-the-federal-budget he is trying to become the second Mitch Daniels that the Leftist MSM and fellow RINOs will treat as a “serious” contender, not at all like those awful right-wing fanatics Palin, Bachman, Cain, etc.
If Gingrich seriously thinks that by playing the good RINO he will gain anything he is seriously mistaken. Real conservatives will see him as the corrupt, calculating RINO he is and the Left will try to use him as another RINO wedge to split apart the conservative faithful but, alas, it will not work. This is not 1996 and the MSM Leftover media, while still a powerful force, has now relegated itself to a contemptable political status akin to being MSM Jerry Springers. Yes, thay are guaranteed an audience just for the sheer entertainmernt value of the manufactured and ginned-up drama, but they are also regarded as untrustworthy, corrupt and utterly partisan.
Gingrich is a smart guy, much too smart not to understand that his dive into the RINO end of the pool will drown him in conservative contempt and disgust. Gingrichs sorry attempt to thread the Leftist media needle and become the least threatening (to the Left) Republican candidate is laughable on its face and I believe it will relegate him – finally – to the dustbin of history once and for all.
Which means he is dead in the GOP and bright enough to know that. Mr Gingrich might abdicate his “R” for a “D,” gaining power he’ll never get in the GOP.
The first clue to his crossover? Watch for his latest book to come out – “Loyalty for Dummies”
The dust bin ED? No way!! The CFR has too much invested in him. With that stigma he may as well have been born of alien parents too.
Excellent argument, and no disagreement from me. The choice, as always, will be between flawed individuals. If Newt is the nominee, I’ll choose him over the incumbent in a heartbeat. I’d much prefer other candidates still in the race, or still to declare.
Any Republican will nominate better judges. That alone is reason enough to hold your nose and pull the lever for bad over worse.
My ideal candidate, (that would be me), isn’t running and has no chance if he were.
Right on, Kyle-Anne! Maybe worse than the images of Newt in hotel rooms with mistresses is the picture of him with Al Sharpton, on some bogus education mission or something. It’s truly revolting. My ticket for 2012 is Herman Cain-Allen West. A black friend tells me America is not ready for that. I say that the same 95% white audience that erupts into paroxysms of happiness at Herman Cain’s tea party appearances would be doing cartwheels of joy. I would (if I could do a cartwheel).
Perhaps your Black friend is thinking of his community when he says that America isn’t ready for Cain/Herman (I prefer either, with a Palin/Bachman) but I suspect that much of the rest of conservative America wants that rarity -an honest capable person, and color or sex to replace these untrustworthy roboton candidates in the GOP doesn’t matter. (The left can always be trusted to be solidly leftist.) 5-10% of that Black community would do the trick. The bait? Dignity not victimological slavery to the omnipotent state.
Hi Mary! Well, we live in the same town and write for the same sites…yet, I have to connect with you on an open comments forum! How sad is that?
You have proven once again with this comment that great minds indeed think alike. And you’ve no idea how many of my readers email me every day with the two guys you’ve mentioned here — Cain/West — as their ideal ticket.
Anyone with two grains of common sense knows that Obama pulled off a political jujitsu of monstrous proportion to be elected president with a resume the size of a postage stamp. He held a press and even supposedly conservative pundits enthralled with nothing more than his skin color, teleprompted rhetoric and bunch of dream-scheme promises that weren’t worth the teleprompter upon which they were written.
But truly, the reverse jujitsu of the century would be to see Obama/Biden go up against two of the most widely experienced, successful, bedrock Americans — one from the business world, the other from the military — both with more melanin and genuine black experience than Obama could muster in 4 lifetimes. Cain/West would make mincemeat of Obama/Biden and not only that. The Cain/West ticket would give black voters the first real choice they’ve had — ever in American history.
Heck, I would pay big bucks just to see the debates. I would pay even more to see the complete unraveling of every liberal I know.
Well, we’ll see. The Republican guard is already putting out the word that only a mealy-mouthed, established pol, governor-type can beat Obama.
I humbly disagree.
Call me, Mary!
Fondly,
KA
Keep fighting the good fight Kyle-Anne and Mary! I think we’re finally getting somewhere. Love reading both of you. Thank you/hvala:)
Hey, Kyle Anne and Mary and JK…in Kyle Anne’s last essay here at PJM…there was somebody in the comments, I can’t quite remember now …first put forth the Cain/West ticket!
LOL.
Anyway, it would be fun to watch.
Not only would I love to see how Pelosi/Reid/Frank etc. handle this…but, watching the media do their dirty work would be a fascinating show of shows.
I can’t do a cartwheel either, but I could sure jump up and down over a Cain/West ticket. I believe there is NO chance for a white person to beat Obama.
I would vote for the Herman Cane/Allyn West ticket myself. This is a great choice for our country. At least these men actually tell you what they really believe on the issues that matter most to them. They both have balls unlike our current CEO in the White House. If Trump ran, I would have voted for him too. America wants a leader who has a I don’t give a crap what the rest of the world thinks of us attitude. When we have leaders who will not stand up for the people then this is the government we get. We are so afraid of offending people since we may hurt there feelings. Sometimes this is what a Warrior leader does. They are happy with the decision they have made and have no regrets about their decisions. Teacher thank you for pointing out my grammer mistakes.
He hasa poor people skills and is a bit of a flake.
Did you write this article before Sunday and then just decide to go ahead with it? It’s incredibly dated in light of what that tiresome egomaniac had to say about “right-wing social engineering” and the trashing of Paul Ryan. He didn’t have much of a chance to begin with but since his own special Black Sunday he’s burnt toast.
Yes, Kathryn, I wrote this early last week, BEFORE Newt’s Sunday shot to both his political feet.
I didn’t hold it back. Editors make those decisions.
You have mistaken me for someone with clout. The only clout I have is with my own kids and husband. Now, that clout is quite considerable and I make it a habit never to “hold back.”
Fondly,
KA
I can vouch for Kyle-Anne on the lag time aspect; my occasional contributions to PJM as an article writer take between two and eight days from when I write them to eventual publication here. (It was quicker when I was doing election coverage last fall, but those posts were geared more toward breaking news.)
As for Newt, I used to be a big fan of his until I actually read some of his books and found out he seems to have a federal solution for everything. Part of the problem we have is that the federal government is too big and too overarching into our lives. This fits right in with Newt’s initial assessment of Paul Ryan’s budget plans.
Now, there may be a chance I vote for Newt in the primary if the field is winnowed down between him and certain other candidates not named Herman Cain by the time Maryland gets their say (as of this writing our primary is April 10, 2012) but over the summer I’m going to study candidates on the issues to decide who I should throw my support behind. On an initial basis I think Cain is a good addition to the race.
And addressing Kyle-Anne’s concern: while adultery in and of itself isn’t a fatal factor for me, there is the intangible of the lack of a moral compass to consider. If you can’t trust a man’s solemn vow, what can you trust?
Kyle Anne, I agree, as usual…with most everything you write here.
There is something about loyalty, honor, integrity, that should emanate from the pores of the man or woman running for high office. Any man that would slap the face of his family, disgrace them, dishonor them…not a fall from grace, but with serial impunity….would just as easily cheat his business partners, his friends, his supporters and his country…under the right set of temptations.
To my mind, it is NOT “just about sex”. It is about being compromised. As a father, as a husband, as a leader…and if that leader is of the entire free world, being compromised is not just ugly…it’s potentially dangerous to others.
Frankly, comparing how Clinton ran the country AFTER the Republicans took the House…to how this current group is spitting on the Constitution and giving the back of their hand to Middle America…is night and day in contrast.
But when Clinton was painted into a corner of having to silence Lewinsky with Vernon Jordan/Revlon assistance…and the “issue” became one of sexual harassment…offering favors for silence…it became not only undignified…it made the Presidency cheaper somehow. The OFFICE became something less.
The spectacle surrounding the impeachment hearings had the flavor of payback for the incessant attacks on Republicans, which cannot be seriously denied. There was an underlying rage against the unfairness and a desire to spotlight the warts of Democrats in the open, where the media could not cover them as they did with many Democrats and every Kennedy….some of the latter with more atrocious misdeeds than others.
We tend to now vote “celebrity” more than substance. The very traits that make one “attractive” to the myopic “lens” of TV…thick skin, soundbite glibness, camera and closeup/central casting features, ….appeal to the narcissist who will be served…not the servant who will sacrifice for the greater good.
We are currently being led by radical leftists whose only internal debate is how FAST to tear down the system, how MUCH to hate Middle America, how LITTLE to love this land of ours, how OFTEN to apologize for her past, how GREAT a taxation to place on the “upper half”, how FAR they can separate us by race and class, how HARD they should stomp on the Constitution, and how IRONICALLY they can fool us into believing they are doing none of the above…while scoffing at us and calling us names behind our backs…and more and more frequently…in our faces.
Newt is a smart guy, but he has no loyalty except to himself. He is better than what we have, but not nearly what we deserve.
Sorry, no “rebound” flings with someone who is not abusive…just because he shines by comparison. We ought to be holding out for much better.
And, for once…in quite a while…for someone who fits the job description as it ought to be written. Smart, loyal, honorable, honest, decent, articulate, …and for whom this land of ours is a treasure to be safeguarded, not pirated for their own vainglory and that of their cronies.
Mr. C.F., honey, I could not have written that better myself.
As you might imagine, those are words very rarely uttered by me. I do hold a rather high opinion of my word-smithing abilities — whether that opinion is truly warranted or not.
In short, we modern Americans killed civics and replaced it with a shabby counterfeit: politics.
We killed off the original American evaluating paradigm of character ethics (i.e., honesty, integrity, humility, unselfishness, etc.) and replaced it with a very dangerous counterfeit: the cult of personality “ethics.”
We are now reaping all the rotten fruit of those idiotic preferences.
We are quickly becoming a Ninny Nation, where the majority is good for nothing and the minority of traditional Americans is becoming outnumbered.
This does not bode well for our future, but one president elected in a real landslide, who possesses genuine leadership skills, bedrock American principles and the integrity to back them up, can indeed turn this Titanic around and get our ship of state headed back on the path to true and lasting prosperity.
That’s my 2 cents on the matter, anyhow.
Fondly,
KA
cfbleachers
Seems to me that between you and Kyle-Anne Shriver a perfect description of Mitt Romney has been presented to the readers here.
But as we all know, there’s still Tim Pawlenty and Mitch Daniels, right?
Have to stop the cultist don’t we?
CGW, Kyle Anne can speak for herself (wonderfully), so I won’t presume to answer for her. She and I are very much kindred spirits, but I admire her way too much to arrogate to myself any privilege to speak for her.
As for me….a friend who leans slightly left of center asked me about Romney…and his LDS connection being a potential concern to independents.
I told her that I would take an LDS administration to replace this LSD administration in a heartbeat.
The left tries to carve out the herd using race, gender, religion, class…and it is a tactic that is as sure as the sunrise.
As for Romney himself, I’m just ok with his candidacy. ObamaCare is a giant redistribution scheme with so many waivers, it looks like Cubs’ lineup history.
RomneyCare is an albatross around his neck, how can he seriously debate what an awful idea this is, an abuse of power, an invasion of individual freedom, and a leftist boondoggle…effectively? I’m afraid it can’t be done.
Romney has all the tools but has a monkey wrench gumming up the works.
He may win the nomination and he may appeal to the center, which is VITAL for anyone looking to defeat Obama….neither side wins without them…he’s viable, but vulnerable. Could he even carry his home state?
He would have to tack to the right in the primary…because Massachusetts would not allow him to reside their naturally. And then back to the center for the general election. That’s quite a bit of shifting.
Cain and West don’t have to move much at all. They will get asked a billion questions about “their people”, trying to paint them as Uncle Tom’s and denigrate their candidacies…but they will not have to shift along the left-right spectrum as does Romney.
Again, I would vote for a deranged dingo over the Communist Party in drag that currently run this country….but, if they get Romney backpedaling …he could collapse at the end of the race.
cfbleachers
Thank you sir for a thoughtful and rational response to my comment. I’ts going to be an interesting year going forward. My hopes are that religious bigotry is not a part of the equation in nominating the republican candidate in 2012 and that the folks who want to rid the nation of Obama will not let the left-wing media, Fox News and bloggers who indirectly or directly benefit from the ongoing bashing of Mitt Romney prevail as they did in promoting John McCain in 2008.
All the frenzied activity promoting Tim Pawlenty and Mitch Daniels speak loudly and clearly about how the game is played to ensure that insider politicians always seem to come out on top and the nation pays the price as it surely has with Obama.
Regards to you
Gingrich perpetually puts himself in situations with Nancy Pelosi, or Al Sharpton, or his messy divorces, or endorsing someone like Dede Scozzafava, because like Bill Clinton, he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and can talk his way out of any sticky situation.
Which he might be able to. If he were a Democrat, and had the big media covering his back the way they did for Clinton. As a Republican, his gaffes and mis-steps would become the defining events of the campaign, and something for the media to obsess on, in order to take the focus away from Obama’s failure’s in office.
That’s one reason why his campaign isn’t going anywhere. Reason 2 is that despite what Newt thinks, he’s not fooling the Republican base with his explanations of why he did the ad with Nancy, or hung out with Al, or how he left his first two wives, or endorsed Dede, or in the latest chapter, threw Paul Ryan and his budget plan under the bus. In fact, the vehemence of the GOP base in going after Gingrich on this latest faux pas was magnified by his past actions.
Newt’s lost the benefit of the doubt among the base, so he can’t just apologize for trashing Ryan’s plan and expect people to treat it as a one-off error. The mistake allowed people who’ve had problems with Gingrich’s other actions to channel all their anger into this latest screw-up, and no amount of apologies is going to get 80-90 percent of those Republican voters back.
This is pretty sad. If this is our field we are doomed.
We need somebody like Allen West:
1. Courage
2. Leadership
3. Moral-clarity
Nick,
As I recite below, Herman Cain has the experience and character that one can admire. He is the real deal, an authentic American with a serious brain and a great way of connecting with people. I would urge you to think about supporting him. He and Mr West have a lot more in common than just the color of their skin. They each have a magnetism that is compelling.
It is easy to say he can’t win. Well, I heard the same thing said about Carter, Reagan, and Obama and they all became president.
Gingrich is a fraud. Cain is the real deal.
Personally I love Cain. He needs to focus his message and be specific about foreign policy. He would get my vote in a heartbeat.
“The money flowed — most of it from American taxpayers.
And, in the end, as usual, the little guys paid while the fat cats played.”
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Why is it that we constantly get reminded of who really pays the taxes in this country – the rich? Then when it is convenient we get reminded of who gets ripped off when the rich come to play and rip off the taxpayer. Seems to me the rich are simply ripping off each other if they really do pay most of the taxes. Which is it?
As for the screwing of Russia – Newt had no hand in the rape of the old USSR/Russia yet you made him and this the central issue of your distaste for Newt. I suspect your dislike goes deeper than you’ve let on and for reasons you’ll likely not disclose. Not saying its personal – just privately held views. Perhaps you secretly disliked seeing Clinton impeached?
About Newt and the rest of the field – which is what this article is really about I suppose – he’s not my favorite candidate – in fact I’m not enamored by any of the current crop but thats par for the course for me. I was sorry to see Trump drop out – he seemed singularly capable of steering the dialog into areas otherwise left alone – like whistling past the graveyard – he made Obama give up something he clearly didn’t wish to give up for various reasons – none of which made any sense to me. But to an arsehole like Obama – which he certainly is – it was a BFH (Big Effing Hammer) that he could beat over the heads of republicans when it suited him and the occasion arose. Since Trump is no longer a threat – most of the rest of the declared and near-declared field of republicans are a bumbling milquetoast and won’t be bringing up the things that need to be said. Bill Ayers – Rev. Wright – the selling of a Senate seat etc. It’s a long laundry list and the current field won’t touch any of it for fear of being branded racists. The only one with some semblance of fire is Herman Cain and he won’t get much past Iowa IMO. Mainly because so few have ever heard of him. I like his views – and I’d love to see/hear the progressives pin the label of racist on Cain. The perennial runner – Ron Paul (why does he remind me of Forest Gump? Cause he’s always running?) – leaves me numb.
Newt may have had an affair while he was persecuting/prosecuting Clinton but remember – Clinton wasn’t being persecuted/prosecuted for the affair. He lied under oath to a Grand Jury. To the best of my recollection Newt has never done that.
Newt Gingrich’s self-immolation over the past 2 days have been irreparable; therefore, I believe he’s toast given he has the Conservative Republican–Tea Party–base against him. Newt did not factor the Tea Party in his awful triangulations. We need a true Conservative Republican on the ballot, but Newt is not that person. He has changed & been corrupted, ironically, being in Washington DC for so long since the 1970′s. His arrogance has done him in.
Kyle Anne nails it. A few echoing points.
Newt’s recent meltdown re the Ryan Budget proposal and his idiocy about rightwing enginering instantly disqualify him as a serious candidate. A few months ago he really angered me with his blatant embrace of ethanol subsidies. How such a supposedly smart guy can find that boondoggle in anyway appealing is beyond me. It was obviously a calculated move, and given the facts surrounding ethanol, one that is damaging to the country. He doesn’t care it ingratiates him with Iowa farmers.
Newt is a progressive just like Teddy Roosevelt and John McCain. He is not a conservative. He believes that there is a big role for Washington. He is a stranger to the intentions of the Founders. When you get your arms around that fact, it is easy to see how he could be such a heretic last Sunday.
Couple that with his demonsrtably lecherous character and blatant hypocracy during the Clinton impeachment trial and I have trouble finding any reason why I would support this odious clown. He deserves a powerful rebuke. He needs to end his campaign.
I am supporting a candidate from Georgia. His name is Herman Cain and he is 100 times the person Gingrich is.
I cannot understand the basis of criticism being leveled at Gingrich. He lied about his adulterous relationships because that was the correct response. “Coming clean” is the dirty thing to do. It hurts far deeper, affects many more people, and destroys so much more than well-formulated lies. Lying keeps adultery in the “secret and forbidden realm” rather than making it a cultural practice to be accepted as “normal” behavior. Think of unabashed adulterers as bulls and cows in heat, constantly dripping snot from their noses as they engage their partners in public forums. Unfortunately, the adulterer’s lies are designed to protect the “perp” more than they are meant to protect the innocent. Nonetheless, lying has its positive side. It implies a recognition of better standards than one is able to muster for himself.
the ability to stick his foot in his mouth on so many simple conservative principles/topics is the cause of the skepticism
I have this picture in my head of Gingrich trying to ambulate with one foot in his mouth and the other foot shoved up his rear end. You are correct! Until Gingrich passes into male menopause, he is unfit for high office. Then perhaps he will be able to concentrate his intelligence on serious problems without distraction.
So following Satan in sexual sin if okay,or not as bad, as long as it’s followed by a lie? Maybe I have it backwards but I hear you saying effectively that the God who told Pilate that He came to bring the truth that it might set us free, needs to back to theology school – is that it?
I absolutely agree with your principled approach. I referred only to a situation that had already occurred. Gingrich had already been unfaithful. The question was what to do after the fact, not before it. Does one take the rest of his world with him to destruction or does he spare them and leave himself time to contemplate the hormonal craziness of his behavior. “Coming clean” is best conceptualized by the decision not to repeat loutish behavior. In this strange world we have concocted for ourselves, it far more intelligent and kind to take one’s sins to the grave. The consequences of someone’s poor behavior does not have to be spread about creation like jam on a slice of bread, unless one makes his living from it, like a journalist.
no newt zone
es como segundo culo ..no nesacito ..no quiero
ROTFL
the sooner the RINO’s self destruct the better.
it is as if the republicans want to lose. time for a new party or complete purge.
I’ve always considered Newt Gingrich the Republican Bill Clinton. If he becomes the Republican nominee, I’ll vote for him only because the current president is so god-awful, but it will be with nose firmly pinched between thumb and forefinger.
Well, he is not my favorite, but recognize that by openly confess any misbehavior he is setting himself free of any possible black mail.
Seriously, I am convinced that black mailing flawed people (think of Arnold the Governator now) the left gets to impose its agenda (or at least destroy the republican agenda). I know for sure that’s an old tactic of the Cuban commies: many big fishes go to Cuba for just sex tourism, the dictatorship left them alone and, as long as the big fishes favors the regime, no photo or scandal will ever see the light.
It’s bad we have to deal with human politicians, but they are all we have, so either they vet themselves giving rise to whatever scandal might be, or better forget about being in politics.
That said, I very much prefer one of the Palin/West/Cain/Bachmann set.
Newt: Any of various small, slimy, semi-aquatic salamanders of the genus Triturus.
Newt Gingrich: Any of various small, slimy, semi-humanoid dregs of the genus-species Politicianus Prefabricarus.
Barack Obama: See Newt Gingrich.
i still think it is good to have Newt in the primary to help steer the debate towards solutions to problems
he can also articulate quite clearly the importance of freedom and liberties and what those mean for the future of our country-would i vote for him -probably not but his voice at this stage of the game is needed and necessary
I conclude that the American tax payer is treated like a mushroom; perpetually kept in the dark and covered with guano. It may be reasonable to conclude that Washington D.C. is one huge cesspool of booze, and women, all funded by some storekeeper in Indiana. A codicil might be the $3000/night escapade in New York whereby the boss of the IMF felt he is not required to pay, and simply raped a woman. It all depends on what is meant by the word,”is”, but we little people are not bright enough to comprehend the cosmos. Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton may have been the two most intelligent opposition leaders since Tom Jefferson went against John Adams. The latter formed our nation, the former destroyed each other’s reputation, with a great amount of self help.
I listen to Newt. He is very intelligent. But he does reflect the pandemic weakness in America: zero self control, which is mandatory for leadership. We have lots of brilliant people in the government, but very few real leaders. If one shows up he/she will stick out like a sore thumb. The next election will be decided by who loses it.
even though anything is better then the obuma, newt is not a good candidate by any stretch.
we need honest as well as smart.
The standard that has to be met, at the very least, by the 2012 Republican Presidential Nominees is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs
Otherwise, whom is kidding whom.
The US got itself, and others, in very deep trouble thanks to Mortgage backed securities. So, until this is dealt with correctly, I will employ “trust but verify” to see what words are coming from the candidates.
I don’t believe the Stupid Party is stupid enough to nominate Newt, a fatter, shorter, paler version of the guy currently in the WH. Oh, he is smart too.
I’m surprised Newt decided to run anyway. Who did he think his constuency was?
Anybody on the blogs knows that he is hated by active conservatives, probably moreso than any other candidate who is or could run other than McLame.
He had to know the media would be out to get him even more than their other victims because of the impeachment of their first saint.
Did he actually think he could get enough votes to get the nomination, and then the presidency. If so, he isn’t just vain and immoral, he’s crazy.
Even so, I wish he had kept his mouth shut for a while because I was looking forward to him hammering Spike. I should have known, but didn’t realize, he would take just as much glee hammering his allies. What a fool.
maybe the dems are funding him
Republican party did not keep their “contract with America” and Newt is part of the problem, not the solution.
The American people don’t want one of these fake-o politicians, especially not angry flight eye of Newt.
Cain will be a good candidate as he is not a politician, people want
hope and change (and I mean that in a good way).
Thje4 republicans have 2 people running for president that would not be an improvement over obama.One is Newt and the other is Mitt, if either of these two men are nominated they will destroy the republican party!
If Newt were to become the nominee, I would NOT vote for him. That would just be tremendously stupid! The political class gives us something truly execrable in Obama, and we are so repelled, we grasp desperately for anything else… and get the Republican version of him. I do not choose between crap-sandwich and crap-sandwich-lite. Mmmmmm… tastes great, less filling.
We must stop supporting the machinations of those who seek to rule us. Nothing will change if we settle for the lesser of two evils. A master is a master. Meet the new Boss… same as the old Boss. The president is supposed to be the greatest of Servants, not the greatest of Masters. Look for him who has a “servant’s heart”, not a self-serving heart.
I remember in the last campaign, McCain was painted as “erratic” and “out of touch”… all code for old. That fully describes Gingrich. The guy is getting truly loony is his dotage. He can’t seem to remember which position he took just last week. He is just out there getting some limelight, like an attention junkie jonesing for his fix.
I am glad he’s out. Good riddance to such self-serving rubbish.
We need more negative articles about Newt.
The guy that told Newt to “get out now before he made more of a fool of himself” had the best advice Newt could ever get for his candidacy.
And Newt’s response is what you can expect from somebody that’s NOT IN TOUCH WITH REALITY!
Newt is like a McCain on a steriod. (Yes single steriod. About as stimulating as a single cup of watered down coffee.)
Newt has enough intelligence, not enough wisdom and far to much narcissism.
Mitt seems to be a honorable man, a good father and husband, and good at business man. Yet I wont vote for him in the primaries. It seems to me he has no fire in the belly, almost as if he is a pleasant technocrat who believes he’s the man to solve the problem but has no strong ties to conservative/libertarian philosophies.
Given my druthers I’d vote for Cain, West, Pailin… anyone with fire in the belly, certainty of belief, common sense and an up-beat attitude. Now if Mitt is the nominee I will vote for him. Hell, if Newt is the nominee I’d vote for him. I’d vote for a syphilitic camel before I’d vote the One, but I am hoping for a better choice than the camel.
between Newt, Mitt and a syphilitic camel the best choice is the syphilitic camel
Why Newt is running? I believe it’s to get his lecture fees up. Before Sunday he had no chance anyway…now it’s less than that.
His campaign will just end earlier than he planned. I used to be impressed by him, but now his many faults outweigh the good.
Kyle Anne is right again, but I already see trouble for the GOP next fall…the handwriting is already on the wall, imo. The GOP big money, old power structure will coalesce around Romney. ..And he will look presidential and act presidential,…. and he will lose.
I thought the House did impeach Clinton. He had the votes.
It’s interesting that as soon as the media finished hyping Donald Trump as the greatest thing since indoor flush toilets, a new media darling was trotted out and paraded before the dwindling American populace who still watch television, yes, it happens to be that worn out phony new age occult philanderer from the 1990’s Newt “world order” Gingrich.
Newt “world order” is really like a frumpy old pair of pants that didn’t even fit you back in the 1990’s so you donated them to charity hoping to never see them again. But now you wake up to find those same outdated and dilapidated pants plastered everywhere in the news suggesting the deranged prospect that you would (for some unknown reason) try to actually wear them in 2012.
The fact that any media even pays attention to this has-been marxist loser is further evidence of the globalist controlled media. The powers that be are presenting an endless parade of marxist Rothschild losers before the eyes of the American public.
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