‘Gingrich Wins The GOP Debate In The First Five Minutes’
That’s the headline that’s on this YouTube clip of Newt Gingrich’s thorough defenestration of CNN’s John King:
Yes, Newt has heap big baggage, which would very likely make him too toxic to undecideds. But why can’t all GOP presidential nominees respond to setup questions like he does?
Update: Big Journalism’s Joel Pollak adds, “Brent Bozell may have said it best: ‘Someone get the license number of the truck that just ran John King over.’”
Bryan Preston, blogging from South Carolina adds, “Newt Gingrich was not my preferred candidate, and still isn’t. But in these debates he has proven that Republicans love a fighter. We are tired of a biased media belittling us and denigrating, even undermining, us. We are tired of an ignorant media inflating nonsense and avoiding asking the other side the tough questions Republicans deal with every day. Like a Civil War general once accused of letting his personal problems get in the way of doing his duty, we may not be able to spare Newt Gingrich. He isn’t perfect, far from it. But he fights.”
– other one, Johnny?
I don’t know who is most likely to beat Obama in the general, but Gingrich would far and away be the most fun to watch debate him.
Report: John King has been found face down in an alley with a broken Louisville slugger next to him.
Speaking of baggage, this bit about ex-wife Marianne is but one element of the arsenal of goods Newt has given the media that they had planned to save for use on him once he gains nomination. And it, apparently, is the only one yet Drudge found out about so far that he used to force the media’s hand in getting it out there now instead of later. A common but overlooked tactic of the media is their sin of omission, i.e. why they air dirty laundry when they do. ABC has been conducting interviews with Marianne for years, at least as far back as 2007, and one can only wonder what she must have thought about all those interviews she sat down for, and specifically as to when, if ever, ABC planned to air them.
Yeah, Newt will fight, but who or what’s he fighting for? Always the former, and always Newt. His response, when asked about anything especially his record, is evasive, non-responses, not germane to his record nor the issue, setting up straw men unrelated to the issue, creating a new issue of his choosing, that he sets up and knocks down, just as 0bama does. We get talk of installing mirrors on the moon, to reflect light onto highways on earth and expose criminals, forced child labor janitor jobs for schoolchildren,
http://www.businessinsider.com/newt-gingrich-crazy-ideas-2011-12#nasa-should-install-a-mirror-system-in-space-to-light-highways-and-expose-criminals-1
1.6 million worth of, as he himself calls it, “historian” analysis for Fannie Mae [read- lobbying], calling for the “individual mandate” [read- government forcing you to buy the insurance they choose], and this he’s on record as advocating for now twenty years. Sitting down with Nancy Pelosi to lobby for Cap and Trade “legislation” that passed in the HR in 2007, that republicans in the House were fighting, and that democrat majority senate would not touch. Endorsing Dede Scozzafava against Hoffman (who herself went on to endorse the democrat got the house seat after Hoffman defeated her in the repub primary).
His response to questions regarding his record is 1) it never happened 2) How dare you! 3) I did nothing wrong 4) you, shut up!
He won’t fight for anything I consider to be a conservative principle, and don’t talk to me about welfare “reform”, there’s more of it now than ever! “Balanced Budget”? The government spends too much regardless, and
Gingrichs’ balanced budget’s were paid for by Clinton’s tax increases. Clinton out-foxed him on both, and Clinton claims credit for them both too, when it suits him.
There’s way more out there that ABC and others plan to hold back to use against Gingrich once he’s secured the nomination. Pelosi has even said so, intimated it herself.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/197173-pelosi-plans-to-reveal-information-about-gingrich-when-the-time-is-right
‘Ol Bill Clinton likes him too. I wonder why?
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/28/will-bill-clintons-praise-help-newt-gingrich-win-the-nomination/
I want to know now, not later, as in September, when the whole thing would start crashing and burning. For us as well as nominee Newt Gingrich.
Sorry, but Newt is not the “anti-Mitt” candidate, Rick Santorum is. Newt’s a ticking time bomb. Far worse than anything in Romney’s record. I will vote for and support Romney as nominee, can’t say the same for Newt. Newt will fight, but for Newt’s political future and Newt alone. Look before you leap.
Newt is a one-trick pony, and the trick won’t work in the general. Too bad, he was my second choice after Santorum.
But Romney has now lost the tarnkappe of inevitability, and never had the common touch ultimately so important with voters. He’s left with the claim that operating a successful business is the same as running a successful government, a doubtful premise at best.
That’s a metaphorical alley and a metaphorical bat.
Can’t have too much clarity lest someone claim that I am promoting violence!