Flush from his victory in South Carolina, what many of us want to know, indeed are dying to know, is — will Next Gingrich grow up?
We do all know this: He’s the best debater and close to the most brilliant mind in American politics, regardless of party. If, at the ripe old age of 68, he can finally mature emotionally to somewhere approximating his intellectual development, he could become the next president of the United States. And he might even be a great one.
Lord knows we need it. I am one of those who is easily suckered by Newt because I enjoy hearing the ideas — even seeing the workings — of an original mind. It’s a rare thing, particularly in politics.
But Newt has a big ego. And you don’t need to be Sigmund Freud to realize that means somewhere he is insecure. He wants to make sure we know he is the smartest guy in the room. And, as with any of us, that isn’t always true. There’s always someone out there who’s brighter, some Djokovic to knock Nadal and Federer off the stand.
We all have to face that, no matter how good we are. Al Gore was never able to. Newt Gingrich should learn from him. If, as Newt says, he really is such a devout religious convert, now is the time to show humility, not with the mainstream media or Barack Obama, but with the rest of us — the ones would elect him president.
He should continue to eviscerate the MSM. They are so reactionary in their essence they don’t even realize it. But he doesn’t need to trumpet the greatness of Newt. He just needs to tells us what he intends to do.
We all know he’s had a dicey private life and that he has profited from the execrable Fannie and Freddie. He should just move on, not defend himself stupidly or tell us who thinks he was more virtuous in a private relationship. Most of us don’t care and know there are two sides to practically any personal story anyway.
He also should quit the baloney about giving history lessons to larcenous execs at Fannie and Freddie. We all know that’s crock. Just move on and tell us about the future. It might even be smart to admit you did something wrong. We all have.
Everything is amazingly fluid these days, but at this juncture, Saturday night January 21, 2012, happy days are here again for Newt Gingrich. He’s been given a second chance by the voters of South Carolina.
But the dark side of that is its probably his last chance. We’re all giving Newt a second look because we know how good he can be, how… dare I use the word… possibly visionary.
But this is his last chance. He blows it this time and it’s over. And not only for him…. possibly for us as well.
What Price Gingrich?
It is indeed fascinating to watch a modern political party begin its collective march off a cliff. Utterly fascinating.
I know what you mean, man. It’s hard to fathom why the Dems would re-nominate the Chicago chiseler again.
Because he’s going to win.
in your dreams
You better hope he doesn’t.
I doubt you and your fascist…excuse me, ‘liberal’…friends would survive the Second Civil War.
When a Republican cheats, it’s ok, it’s probably the wife’s fault. When a democrat does it, is an attack to family values. Get ready for a major defeat.
Which explains why Democrats who rape Congressional pages, then turn their back while the House is delivering a reprimand get re-elected a dozen times. (Gerry Studds)
Or use their influence as a Representative to get their boyfriend made a VP of Fannie Mae and still get re-elected. (Barney Frank)
Democrats have no morals to break.
Between democratic duplicity and Republican stupidity you may be right.
I see that someone form Obama’s Office of the Director of Progressive Media and Online Response has stopped by.
“ahem” Let me explain, then. I thought someone would pick up on this, but I was mistaken. Learn your history, CW.
Newt, like a fellow named Winston, is his own worst enemy, but he may bring what we need if the times are as dire as we fear.
What is happening is not unlike something that occurred in Great Britain a few generations earlier, when a man thought to be a political has-been was resurrected to lead a fragile coalition at a perilous moment. Signs began to pop up all over London bearing the words, “What Price Churchill?” Winston Churchill would so often say “KBO,” which meant: “Keep Buggering On.”
KBO.
Agreed, mezzrow.
Thanks, Mezzrow. I’m a bit of a Churchill fan myself, but I’ve never heard the KBO story.
Spot on about Newt and maturity. He has many of the right ideas, but he needs the grace to convince the voters he’s changed and the wisdom and grace, if elected, to convince Congress and the public that these changes are needed, for he’ll surely face furious opposition from the Left.
Maybe his newfound Catholicism will help him. I certainly hope so.
He did it in 1994, why has he suddenly become incapable of doing it today? He took his argument to the people, past the president and past congress, and to the people, who then took it to the president and congress who were forced to give up power back to the people.
I say that is the reason the house hated him, why the Republicans fined him and then removed him from the Speakership. They were no longer willing to allow him to force them to relinquish power now that they finally had majority. It only took them about 8 years after that to squander the great trust the American people gave the Republican party, in no small part due to Newts work.
Maybe Callista has a little something to do with Newt’s rebirth,she may be a classier lady than we knew.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3366161/bio
I’m not a big Romney fan, but have you looked at Newt’s national negatives? If we nominate Gingrich, the Republicans lose in a landslide – it would definitely cost us the Senate and maybe even the House.
When the voting public has to square up what they know Obama will keep on getting wrong versus what Newt will get right, more will go for Gingrich than not.
He may well cost us few seats in the house we might other wise win to increase the margin, but the majority will still increase, and we’ll still get a majority in the Senate.
And in the Oval Office, we’ll have someone who’s willing to use those majorities.
Well, if anything it will put, so called, Christian conservatives in an interesting position: Do they vote for the serial adulterer and wife swapping swinger (ewww, the though of that really grosses me out), the man who left his wife stricken with cancer for a newer improved model, the man who has done more to destroy the sanctity of marriage more than anyone could, over the decent family man (whether you agree with his politics or not) that we have now?
A vote for Newt requires them to put aside everything they have said they hold dear in terms of moral and traditional values and say it doesn’t matter for the sake of winning. It says the Christian conservative movement is a farce and cares more about winning than they do what they say they stand for. There’s a word for that. It’s called hypocrisy. If you don’t think the Obama campaign plans on wrapping that around Newts neck and throwing him overboard just watch. It won’t be pretty.
At this critical point in history, it is more important to vote out Obama and the other Alinskyites. We have to preserve our Constitutional Republic before we can address the many moral issues associated with marriage.
Unfortunately, it just won’t work out that way. Like I said, it ain’t gonna be pretty.
Or do conservatives who love their country vote for a inept ideologue who is hellbent on destroying everything they love and wish to pass on to their children?
By the way your arguments were old the first post, the second one just confirmed you’re a tool.
Tool? S. Carolina just voted for the ultimate Washington insider tool. I hope Newt does get the nomination but it is going to be a long, drawn out battle that only hurts the GOP. Newts win is the culmination of everything this degenerate party has stood for. I wonder if Obama will be the president who truly, finally, brings the GOP back to sanity. By thrashing it and bringing it to its knees this fall? Just watch.
“…vote for a inept ideologue who is hellbent on destroying everything they love and wish to pass on to their children?”
You mean Obama?
Not wanting your children to be saddled with a $48,000 share of debt the day they’re born is a family value, too. It also happens to be more important than judging another man by his sins.
It’s gonna be a rough eight years for you . . .
Let he who is without sin among us cast the first stone. Christian’s get that. They can support Newt.
As a Christian , I am concerned about the religious bigotry being shown by the fundamentalist Christian community against Romney due to his religious beliefs. Actually , not very Christian if you ask me.
“the man who left his wife stricken with cancer”
Care to prove that assertion? Or should I give you the details? Hey – I’ll give them to you since you seem to be ignorant of the facts and I’m feeling generous.
http://factcheck.org/2011/12/the-gingrich-divorce-myth/
Now why don’t you shuttle along – I think I hear your mommy calling you – its past your bedtime.
Unfortunately for you, most ‘conservatives’ are not fundie Christians.
Glorious Leader Obama has managed to piss off EVERYBODY…including his own party.
The majority of Americans…excuse me, ‘conservatives’….are just waiting for a chance to vote that creep from Chicago out of office, and, hopefully, into jail.
Some would label me “a Christian conservative.”
At this juncture, if I were an American, I could vote for Newt Gingrich for POTUS. I wouldn’t be voting for him to be the arbiter of family values but to kick the Alinksy/Ayer POTUS imposter out of the White House. I’d vote for Gingrich to save what’s left of the mighty bastion of democracy which was the U.S. of A. Obama has crippled the American democracy and is on his way to completely destroying it.
What the Republicans need is a no-nonsense, say-it-like-it-is, warrior, with fire in his belly, someone who really wants to win in order to return the U.S.A. to it’s democratic, Constitutional, roots.
In Canada, those of us with any brains — which would exclude a great many of our socialist knuckleheads in government and the lamestream/consensus media — are fearful of another Obama presidency. We don’t need our nearest neighbour to become a socialist outpost of failed European state-run screw ups, let alone one supported by that great champion of democracy, Hugo Chavez. We’ve come too close to becoming a socialist utopia ourselves, under successive “Liberal” (sic) governments, and are grateful that we now have a Conservative Prime Minister like Stephen Harper who is working hard to return Canada to its original, pre-Trudeaupian roots of hard work, responsibility, and accountability on the part of government for the people not against the people. Unfortunately, government for the socialist elites against the people seems to be just one of the anti-democratic hallmarks of Obama’s presidency.
God bless America.
HaHaHaHaHa. What you don’t grasp yet CW is that those of us who want our Constitutional Rebublic back are not Christians, could care less about the RR, and only care about politicians who keep their promises to US. Newt is the ONLY politician I know who put his political promises in writing and enacted every single one of them.
Oh, and BTW, his first wife divorced him. Get your facts straight.
And, BTW, Newt’s been married to his present wife since 2000. He’s also become a Catholic which probably means he regularly goes to confession. God forgives, others forgive, we forgive ourselves. I wouldn’t hold Newt to his past sins and hit him over the head with them. God knows, we’re all sinners, and, God-willing, Newt’s atoned and made some retributions for his and is moving forward, not looking backward and bemoaning his shortcomings.
We should do the same: Look forward not backward.
Like most lefty useful idiots you conflate Christian, conservative, and Republican because it fits your idiotic and offensive “American Taliban” theme. The Republican Party is a loose, right now too loose, coalition that ranges from Christian conservatives (as opposed to Christian liberals, of which there are many and they tend Democrat) through small business and trades people who tend to vote Republican out of self-interest e.g., low taxes, to larger businesses and the mortal remains of manufacturing that haven’t used government power to eliminate their competition and become Democrat crony capitalists, all the way to the more sane libertarians. The thing that distinguishes most Republicans from Democrats is that the typical Republican voter isn’t looking for a handout or a job from the government or looking to have the government put his competition out of business. Or in simpler terms; Republicans are a party of free people wanting only the opportunity to pursue their own happiness, Democrats are a party of parasites, looters, and moochers. Clear enough?
CW, what is hypocritical about believing that God has forgiven and redeemed and is changing me for the better and accepting that Newt Gingrich says that God has done the same for him? I KNOW it to be true in my life so that I can ACCEPT it to be true for Gingrich. Neither Newt nor I are perfect, but his past sins are no worse than my own just because his were played out on the evening news.
My judgement of Newt will no more be about his personal failures of religion than my judgement of Romney or Santorum will be about having seemed to have upheld theirs. We ARE all sinners…it’s just that we humans talk more and judge more about sexual sin while God sees it all the same.
For me, this election is about who behaved in the most Constitutional manner while they held the reigns of government power in their hands. Gingrich, who worked with a sexually flawed POTUS to balance the budget and actually cut spending (and wanted to cut it more); Romney, who worked with a FAR FAR FAR left Massachusetts legislature and ended up with RomneyCare; Santorum, who endorsed Specter and spends more time talking about his “social conservatism” than his “fiscal conservatism”; or Ron Paul who says he wants to cut spending, but hauls Pork back to Texas hand over fist and whose foreign policy view seems to be “who cares?”?
The key question, for me, is which of these four men most believes in my individual rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and which one of them, believing in that will ACT on it? My mind is not made up now, but if I DO vote Gingrich, I won’t feel like a hypocrite for doing it — just a sinner saved by grace, who believes she’s not the only one.
Exactly this. The fact that so-called “Family Values” Christian conservative s would vote for the most morally bankrupt and depraved candidate in memory only goes to show that their faith and values are little more than than brainwashing by Fox, Limbaugh and the religious right. If you can dupe ignorant voters intothe believing that the opponent is the anti-Christ, it’s not that diffto then convince them to vote for an unrepentant serial adulterer with a long rap sheet of congressional ethics violations. These folks have no morals, just a mindless devotion to their “team”.
Ah, I LOVE being lectured on how Christians should behave by someone who probably ISN’T one.
You see, CW, there is a long tradition (dating back to St Augustine) of the degenerate sinner finding God and then going forth and leading an exemplary life. (I know….shocking that they might actually be serious about this whole repentance thang, right? How dare they go against modern society’s mores and never let him live it down after he says he regrets it.)
I’m not saying that Gingrich is doing that right now. Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. I’m sure your buddies the Obamatrons will be happy to let us know if he’s being hypocritical on that or not very, very soon.
But….I got some news for ya. That whole sorry spectacle with Marianne? Guess what? Most of the married Christian women I know seem to recall that she helped him cheat on his first wife. This whole innocent act on her part is a freakin’ joke. Toss in the fact that she married him when his career was on the upswing and was out of the picture when his career was in the toilet, and you don’t have the most sympathetic attack dog there, CW.
And the story about ditching his cancer stricken wife while she was on her hospital bed? Never happened, according to his ex and his daughters.
Try again, pal.
Christians are always willing to embrace a sinner. A contrite Newt can easily win the Christian vote over someone pushing anti-Christian policies.
When it comes to his negatives or any republicans for that mater consider how much effort the MSM has put in to try and destroy them. The negatives act as a marker of the medias capacity to damage a candidate in effect the number is manufactured. Now consider Obozo and his negatives even with the media constantly shilling and running interference and anything else they can do to promote and protect him. Obozo’s negatives come from his policies more than Time mag covers claiming “The Gingrich who stole Xmass”.
Amen, CatoRenasci. Not only would Republicans lose in a landslide, but the conservative cause could also be set back horribly.
I was telling my wife last night that, though I would never vote for Obama, if Newt is the nominee I might well vote 3rd party if the race isn’t close just so I can have a clear conscience.
Gingrich is the LEAST conservative candidate in the race and a consummate insider. How Tea Party or evangelical voters could be excited to support this man is beyond me. I feel like a lot of his support is contrarian (i.e. the GOP establishment detests him, therefore he must be just what we need). Well, I’m skeptical of the establishment too, but you know what? The establishment may be a lot of things we don’t like sometimes, but it isn’t stupid. And if the establishment is pretty darned sure that Newt would be a poor choice, we should pay attention, because they just might me right.
Look at the man’s statements and his history, and it’s clear they are right. Choose Romney. Choose Santorum. Vote for Ron Paul if you must. I don’t love any of them either, but we cannot afford a Gingrich nomination.
Stay away from Newt.
I hope you realize you have just classified yourself as a moron. You choose Obama!
You neglect to consider the importance of a good campaign. What of Obama’s history did we know before he got elected? Two things are needed. Newt needs to have changed, so that he can repudiate his past with honesty; and he needs to run a compelling campaign. He is smart enough to be able to do that. The lukewarm Romney will not generate enough passion to take it away from Obama. Newt is a risk, but I think Republicans need to take that risk. Maybe it will bomb, but I would prefer that to a lackluster fizzle. It was passion that the Republicans in SC were responding to, and rightly so.
If you are correct, then that suggests that most of the electorate do not view present circumstances as sufficiently alarming to discount personality when considering policy. If the past three years have not been sufficient to swing 3-4% of voter preference from 2008 despite a Gingrich candidacy, then the electorate is nowhere close to being ready to support the the policy changes needed to address the unsustainability of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security or support a serious overhaul of the tax system. Unfortunately, a vote for any of the current GOP candidates requires a leap of faith to think that as President they would spearhead any significant reforms and could be taken only with the certainty that Obama would surely not.
Heh ‘sufficiently alarmed’
Luke: I am not afraid !
Yoda: You will be, you _will_ be.
Gingrich might win by telling the unvarnished truth, that the US is in
for a world of hurt, best case, and the only chance of avoiding the worst
case scenario is to elect him, and let him implement an emergency economic
recovery plan.
Just for the sake of curiosity. Why would a presidential ticket cost a down the line loss of both houses of congress. The down the line vote is consistent with an uninformed and apathetic electorate…for better or worse in most individuals this cycle only one of those may be true…but in misery a person will at least look to their locale…I think the full down ticket will be absent this election and that is not to the benefit of the status quo.
Regards
Why? I don’t see that at all.
The base is not in it for Romney. They’ve had to suck it up last election-it is not happening again.
The base WILL get behind a fighter who will take it to the phony GOP “leadership” AND obama- and that isn’t Romney.
I am a big Romney fan and I think the writer is right on, but I’ll vote for Newt over Obama anyday.
I really don’t believe Newt would win a general election against Obama. He might be more favorable of a candidate than Romney for many Republicans but one who loses an election is useless no matter how much they reflect “true conservative” values. Democrats won’t vote for Newt no matter how bad things get under Obama. Same with Independents. He will get a few “anybody but Obama” independents but that’s about it. So with Republicans having roughly 35% of the electorate, Democrats having roughly 34% and Independents having roughly 25% (and the rest among “other” groups), it looks to me like Obama wins by 10 points no matter what happens during the campaign. I believe that is the very best Newt could do if everything went perfectly. If anything goes badly during the campaign, Newt loses by even more. Newts best case is a 10 point loss.
At some point our nation has to have this showdown. A conservative who can actually explain conservative ideas versus a socialist/marxist hack. It just as well be now, this year. We haven’t had this moment since 1980. If Obama wins again then we have our answer, move to Canada.
Well, we’d have to find a conservative first, rather than a guy who supported the individual mandate, global warming (doing an ad with Nancy Pelosi) and a lot of other nutty lefty ideas. (Sure he supposedly recanted, but so did Romney.)
And one that didn’t you know, boost himself in SC by attacking Romney for being a capitalist!
I mean, seriously, you want a guy that will attack Obama for being a soclialist/marxist, but you pick a guy that attacked Romney for being a capitalist?
I realize that he has tapped into the anger that a lot of Republicans feel about Obama and the media, but that’s not going to sell to anyone but those that listen to talk radio.
explain conservative like – “right wing social engineering”
Newt’s many years of juggling wives and mistresses has made him an expert at talking out of both sides of his mouth. Like most good debaters he is skilled at arguing both sides of every argument. Definitely NOT what we need in Washington if the goal is to take steer the ship around in the “right” direction.
all sides partake in social engineering. Libertarian philosophy only works when the churches do the social engineering. otherwise the cultural melting pot stops and bulkanization begins. And a divided house cannot stand.
“If Obama wins again then we have our answer, move to Canada.”
You’ll be pleasantly surprised by their cost-effective excellent single payer heath care system, and by an economy that isn’t suffering like ours, as they had the sense to have good regulations holding their banking system in check. So go for it!
Canadians who rely on their national health care system wait months to be told that what they have isn’t serious enough to deserve treatment. However, if what you mean is that the relatively wealthy can get relatively cheap private health care because all the proles are stuck with the national health system — then yes, your observation is correct.
Except the fiscal right/left take is more like 40/20, and Gingrich can credibly claim he’ll change business as usual, where Romney can’t.
How, exactly? He attacked Romney for being an evil capitalist who dared to fire people.
He attacked Ryan’s fairly modest plan as “right wing social engineering”
He got on a couch with Nancy Pelosi on global warming, the supposed solution of which is “cap & trade”
Gingrich is as much of a “progressive” as Obama, probably more so, idolizing Teddy Rooservelt. He has “BIG” ideas, but all involve big government.
I’ve already explained your errors on some of these points in replying to your posts on other threads this evening. As for Ryan’s plan–Romney won’t try to go nearly that far, so where’s the improvement in cleaving to him?
Romney thinks government run healthcare is a great idea.
Tom,
As for Romney, he is at least as bad as Gingrich. He believes in anthropogenic global warming, ethanol subsidies and government run health care. You have to be out of touch with science, economics and reality to believe any of those things are valid.
The choice of candidates is apallingly poor if you believe in the founder’s intentions and free markets. In 1900 when we had a small federal government that spent 3.8% of GDP we had the most powerful economy the world had ever seen and had the ability to absorb and employ a 1/2 million immigrants a year in the worlds most state of the art industries. Look at what is left us now. It is disgusting what government has done to our ingenuity and entrepreunerialism.
If we want to recover, we need a restoration of liberty and free markets. Romney ain’t up to the job.
I agree. Newt is an undisciplined progressive who sells himself as a conservative. He is from the Roosevelt, Nixon, Bush side of the Republican party. He is a big government do gooder, he just doesn’t like what Obama is doing with big government.
He admires Woodrow Wilson. You can’t be a conservative and have anything good to say about Woodrow Wilson. The man was a racist progressive bent upon usurping state and personal liberty so that he could impose his utopian vision of the world on a free people. Wilson was complete scum if you believe in the founders vision. Gingrich want’s to hump his leg.
He is a reckless guy who will sow the seeds of his and our destruction.
I wish it wasn’t true.
Even if everything you say is true, you need to show Romney is better. Everything I’ve said about Romney is true.
I have the feeling that it is too late. This ship of state is sailing full steam to an iceberg and Newt as Captain will have no power to stop it. Fed Govt spends 4 trillion. It collects in taxes 2 trillion. It borrows the other 2 trillion. That pattern cannot be reversed or even slowed. So when debt goes from 15 trillion to 35 trillion in 2022 the nation will find itself in the same Dustbin of History that swallowed the USSR. It is not written in stone that there must be 50 stars on Old Glory.
Newt has the potential to eviscerate Obama in the debates and campaign. He will expose Obama as a sham. Some Dems would come on side. Others would stay home. I think Newt is the ONLY Republican who has a chance against Obama. Romney is far too insipid.
You make the right point: while firing up the base is important, it’s <b?NOT ENOUGH TO WIN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
We’ll never win the 35% or so Democrats. To win we need to convince the 25%+/- in the middle to vote Republican.
In order to do that, we not only have to convince them that the situation is bad – people know that already – but we have to convince them our candidate can do a better job.
In order to do that, we have to get people to listen to our candidate without tuning him out, and to take him seriously.
The ONLY reason Sarah Palin didn’t run despite the enthusiasm she sparks in the base that dwarfs the enthusiasm for Newt, Santorum and Romney put together, is that she knew that she could not get the larger electorate to listen to her and take her seriously!
Newt has higher negatives that Palin among independents and women. He will be general election poison, no matter what his positions are (and he has as bad a history as Romney) and no matter how much he fires up the base by attacking the media.
People want a POSITIVE vision of the future, and a candidate who is positive.
It’s not easy, because Obama does so much that’s bad and has to be undone, but it is the only path to victory!
There’s just one tiny little flaw in Newt Gingrich’s ascendancy to power.
Newt Gingrich.
If he can get over that one little thing, he’s got it made.
This. Nailed.
Bingo. Newt is morally repulsive
Repulsive is a strong word considering the ten pounds of crap in a five pound bag that constitutes DC and for that matter large segments of American society . We’re not electing a spiritual guru but a president. If Newt’s improprieties are more important to you than the nihilist hate-America policies of Obama, than by all means sit home and pout in self righteous land on election day. By doing so you will have forfeited your right to complain when Obama drives the bus off the cliff.
I get the feeling that in our current political system the cream does not rise to the top.
Me three.
Good post. I agree. http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2012/01/can-newt-be-nominee-and-then-prevail.html
I disagree with your collegee’s opinion however. http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2012/01/mitt-lost-south-carolina-over-mormonism.html
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T’would be nice indeed if Newt’s maturity level catchs up. But my guess is it’s too much of a stretch to hope for.
Still Newt has shaken things up for the time being.
You know, if the best Newt could do was credibly (actually), drag Romney to the right, I could live with that.
I just can’t believe it.
Anyone but Obama/Romney 2012.
People keep saying he’s brilliant, but never actually say why, exactly. Other than promoting himself, he doesn’t seem to have accomplished much of anything.
Has he produced a book similar in quality to what Victor Davis Hanson has? Uh, no.
Do try to keep up.
http://www.amazon.com/Newt-Gingrich/e/B000AQ2P4S/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1327200568&sr=1-1
Hey Jerry, the office in question is Commander in Chief not Court Scribe. What does it matter if he’s written a stunning commentary?
Conventional wisdom didn’t predict what happened (Contract with America) in 1994 either. State-controlled media will go all-in for Obama.
Damn, we might get a twofer this year, Obama and the state-controlled media blown out.
I’m feeling it.
If you want to actually balance the budget, and actually ram it through congress, I actually think a big chunk of “immaturity” is needed. A balanced, mature, relaxed approach will not work. It has to be done and it’s not gonna be pretty. It will take a warrior and warriors always gets bad grades on the diplomacy scorecard.
And he certainly understands how congress works (having been speaker). Have we ever had a speaker elected president before?
James K. Polk.
I don’t expect Newt to change in any fundamental way, most folks don’t. But there is a war going on – and I’m not talking about Afghanistan – that Romney has taken the wrong side on. “Who loves you” is the question I’d put to him. There is a reason that folks like Palin and Perry endorsed Gingrich over Romney. Romney didn’t made any friends with his early attacks on the other candidates, and his distain for the tea party movement is a big negative for a significant portion of the Republican Party. Add to that his reliance on calculation and set piece battles together with a disinclination to fight and no discernible core political beliefs beyond faith in his own competence, and his campaign was a disaster waiting to happen. At least Newt is clever enough to bend to the political winds. How it will all play out, I don’t know. Maybe Mitt will learn and change. But I suspect that that is no more likely than Newt becoming a mature statesman.
We need a horserace, not a coronation. If Mittens the inevitable sews this up fast, it gets dull, no coverage of the GOP candidate. Also, Mitt playing prevent defense does nothing to get our base mobilized.
I worry that Newt will self destruct, he has before. But, SC should charge up the Mitt camp to go back on offense, to have good answers for his taxes, Bain Capitol, etc. Both of them need to start running against Nobama NOW.
The base needs to be energized, as we were coming into 2010. Milktoast Mitt mulling mild modifications to Obamacare will not fire up the base. There may be a Mitt that is a campaigner, that is a fighter, but I have not seen it yet.
I can accept Newt’s personal life but I have doubt’s about a majority of the US being accepting of that and voting for him.
Which part of America can’t accept Newt’s personal life?
The 93% who are divorced, the child of a divorce, married to a divorced person or who have a child who is divorced…or the other 7%.
Good point, proreason. I would like to add another: While everyone is focusing on how Obama’s machine will have a field day with Newt’s negatives, they just may not appreciate to what extent Obama is red meat for Newt. The latter will not take Obama down with some proverbial silver bullet, it will be with a full load of cannister, point blank.
The amazing, and terrifying development, in this election is that most of our problems have deep roots, they go back two generations, but the decisions on the choice of candidate are being made in the last 24 hours, often the day of the vote. The deciding factor is a single debate, or perhaps an ad. It would indicate that some large fraction of the voters are not sold on anyone. Are the candidates that poor, or the voters that wishy washy, incapable to studied decisions. If this is true, then it follows that no poll has any veracity, unless it is made on election day. We continue to learn that prior polls were dead wrong. I judge that our nation is in dire trouble and we have no trust in any leader. This is not a survivable position. After South Carolina, it is clear that the Republicans are deeply divided. At some near date, they must pick one candidate, or President Obama, with a billion dollar campaign chest, will have a second term.
“Are the candidates that poor, or the voters that wishy washy, incapable to studied decisions.” Or:
Are the candidates so right? Each is expousing separate visions of what the alternative is to what we currently have, that has made the case so muddied? If that is the case; gut, visceral reactions to an empty ballot are to be expected.
expoused = espoused.
Apologies.
Nice comeback there for a gap toothed redneck hillbilly. Y’all ain’t so dumb after all.
I am one of those who is easily suckered by Newt because I enjoy hearing the ideas — even seeing the workings — of an original mind. It’s a rare thing, particularly in politics. But Newt has a big ego. And you don’t need to be Sigmund Freud to realize that means somewhere he is insecure.
Roger, take a deep breath, wouldja?
Big ego? Required for the job.
Insecure? Don’t go projecting yourself on the candidate, much less engaging in pop psychology without a license.
Accentuate the positive.
Give yourself permission.
I’m old enough to recall when Governor Reagan was considered a risky choice because of his perceived lack of intelligence, his flirtation with the Democratic party, his second marriage, and his coming from California. Oh, yes, and because he was an actor (and we all know what big egos they have).
I’m not saying Newt is the Gipper. Just that history shoes that none of these difficulties is insurmountable. Everybody chill, there’s a long way to go yet, and Obama’s numbers are getting worse and worse.
I appears that Newt is doing alright by following the precise strategy of ignoring advice from the likes of Roger L. Simon.
Hmm… I just watched Gingrich’s and it sounded as if he had just read this article.
Big ego? Pot, meet kettle!
Why do you assume that anybody who has the confidence to run for president and to be forthright and outspoken in debates and public appearances automatically has to be compensating for insecurity? Maybe he has a message that he believes in, and he is sticking to it because he thinks it’s right. Maybe it isn’t all about him.
Mitt Romney, on the other hand, has a sense of entitlement and believes that he somehow deserves to be president just because he is wealthy and well-connected and has name recognition. Problem is, the ONLY thing he believes in is his own sense of entitlement.
Romney resembles a cold fish. Gingrich is like a smart chameleon. Which one could beat the incumbent feminised male? None of this warms my socks.
A Newt in the night of the iguana.
Oh please. Anyone who can’t see the usual Obama pattern — interfere early in elections to pick the biggest loser as your opponent, is a fool.
Let’s review: disqualified his mentor from the ballot, with BS legal challenges for qualifying signatures. Unsealed the divorce records (with a BS lawsuit) of Ryan to face … Alan Keyes.
Newt Gingrich was aided by truly MASSIVE Democratic turnout to vote for him. Newt Gingrich is Alan Keyes. Can you imagine any swing voters (we call these people … women) voting for that guy? Fat. White. [And yes, being White IS a negative for most swing White female voters, unless you're a hunk or a fox or a guy like Scott Brown.] In favor of Open Marriage. A serial cheater. Yes many of these allegations are probably not true, but low information voters who get their news from the View and watch Oprah are the ones who decide elections.
The thing people in the Republican Party don’t like about Mitt Romney — he’s aloof, he’s not passionate, he’s rich, he’s part of the elite, is what makes him most electable. Newt, Santorum, Paul, any of those guys, turn women OFF. Like a sweaty, nerdy fat guy in a bar trying to pick up chicks. Mitt Romney is more Reaganesque, the unflappable and “not mean” guy who is tall and good looking. Do these things matter? Ask Scott Brown.
Yeah Newt will bait CNN … and then sit down and have dinner with them. Yeah Newt baits liberals. Who then mock him like Letterman, showing him having sex with a vending machine. The only thing they have against Romney is being … boring.
Obama and the media will go all out, attack-mode, to get women to vote for Mr. Dreamboat again. Who by the way, yes is Black. And yes again that matters. Ask all the women who bought and read “the Help” and then went out and saw the movie, and made Oprah a billionaire.
Newt Gingrich could not get on the ballot in Virginia! He’s the epitome of self-destruction. You want THAT guy? He’s not even conservative!
Look I get why people don’t like Romney — he’s rich, detached, not passionate, and been part of the elite. So what? Being President is just like being a manager of a ball club. After a few years, get someone else. I don’t have to love the guy to see he’s a lot better than Obama. Which is what the choice boils down to. I don’t have to fall in love, just in line.
To win the election against Obama requires a guy who can Scott Brown-it, be that hunky “moderate” with positions and validation from the elite so as to not scare off White Middle class women and make the argument that Obama has to go. Yeah that’s not total victory, and that was never in the cards. The Obamas hold the media, law, entertainment, Silicon Valley, and every major city. Plus most of the Secretary of States recording votes. If you don’t think felons, dead people, and illegal aliens won’t be voting 100 times, you have not paid attention. That means the Republican has to attract lots and lots of White professional women. Maybe not most, but enough. Blacks and Hispanics always have and always will vote Dem. White men and White blue collar women vote 70% Republican. The victory margin or defeat is found among White Professional women. Period. Yes elections are like picking up women in bar or coffeehouse. Yes that sucks. So does much of life. Deal. Or live the Republican fantasy of Howard Dean, in reverse.
WTF?
Is there an English translation available?
Yes. Translation:
Women are too stupid to know who to vote for. Unless the candidate has sex appeal.
Ahem. That would be some women. Others (like myself & other women who have posted in here in support of Newt’s candidacy & those out there who have cast their votes for him in these opening contests), not so much.
Exceptions noted! Thank you for your reason.
I should have modified ‘women’ with an adjective – ‘some women’. I.E. Some women. I hope no one (all women included) votes for a hairdo or best body etc.
The voter group that beat McCain was all people under 30 years old who bought the esoteric hope and change crap and voted nearly 70% for Obama. McCain was just another old white guy. They could see his cancerous looking cheek and it scared them. I say we take away the right to vote from anyone under 26 years old. That way nobody, who can still get his parents to buy his insurance and who doesn’t have a fully developed frontal lobe, can vote. Add that group to your dingaling crowd full of professional white women. Now our candidate suddenly becomes a younger and buff Ron Paul who understands their ideological nature, knows we should not have wars, and wears a suit that fits. Most people in this country pay very little attention and deserve the outcomes they get.
Jim has achieved the previously unheard of accomplishment of writing 150 words without a single one making a lick of sense.
I personally think Santorum is the dreamboat. But perhaps I am in the minority of women in that regard.
He may be nice looking, but his petulance is off-putting. Also, he’s too far to the right on the social issues.
The reason people don’t like Romney is not because “he’s rich, detached, not passionate, and been part of the elite” and repeating it over and over will not make it true. The reason people don’t like Romney is because he has had more positions than leopards have spots but most consistently he’s been a liberal. lets be real clear he was for abortion, national health care mandates, and others before he was against them reminiscent of John Kerry. He says what ever is politically expedient at the time and then denies he ever said the opposite despite video of him making the statement as 08 calling for obamneycare mandates.
Some people don’t like the term rino but it pretty much sums up Romney and that’s why people don’t like him not because “he’s rich, detached, not passionate, and been part of the elite”.
My goodness whiskey, I am surprised you would support the more feminine Romney over the clumsy but more masculine Gingrich. Romney is Casper Milquetoast. Gingrich is a dirty street fighter. Perhaps we need someone who will go back on agreements with the likes of Harry Reid rather than someone who will move to the center and compromise.
In every election in the television age the more virile candidate won. This is not to say that the winner was truly virile, just that he was more so than his opponent. Ike vs. Stevenson, JFK vs. Nixon, LBJ vs. Goldwater, Nixon vs. an aged Humphrey who had been effectively castrated as LBJ’s Veep, Nixon vs. McGovern, Carter vs. a weakened Ford, Reagan vs. Carter and then Mondale, Bush 41 vs. Dukakis, Clinton vs. Bush 41 and Dole, Bush 43 vs. Gore and then Kerry, and Obama vs. McCain.
Romney may be a good man but I have yet to find a single person, even among those Mormons whom I know, who is genuinely ENTHUSIASTIC about him. To borrow a joke from Mort Sahl from the 1960′s, if Romney came down from Mt. Sinai he would have brought the Ten Suggestions.
Can anyone imagine Romney giving Juan Williams or John King the kind of answers Newt did?
Newt is flawed, has much in the way of questionable character, and has a ton of negatives. But he is capable of fighting, and that is something Romney has yet to demonstrate.
In perhaps the most important election in decades we are cursed with a bunch of horrible candidates. I am certainly not enthusiastic about Newt. But at least he can fight and at least he has tried to explain what is wrong with the current administration in a forceful way.
Yes, his attack on Bain was a horrible thing and showed very immature judgment. But Romney is totally incapable of acknowledging that he ever made a mistake. Unless and until Romney comes out against Romney-care — that’s right, Romney-care, not just Obama-care, I will not see him as worthy of the nomination. And just repeating over and over again, “He’s the only one who can appeal to the moderate middle,” will not make him electable. Besides, when has a moderate Republican beaten a strong Democrat?
Newt is highly flawed. But he is the fighter we need. Romney comes across as a man explaining things to a Board of Directors and not as a fighter. So I am really surprised that of all people, whiskey would favor the less masculine candidate.
If Romney did come out against Romney care, why would you believe him?
All Romney has to say is “If a bill repealing ObamaCare reaches my desk I will sign it.” I would be satisfied with that.
Romney versus Newt is a tough call. Romney on paper is more electable, no doubt. But the guy could not muster the moral courage to defend his individual right to make a pile of money by buying, breaking up and selling failing companies when Newt attacked him. Weirdly, I think Newt could mount a better defense to his own attack than Romney did. He is one of those guys who can win any debate no matter what side he takes.
Romney cannot win the general unless he can confidently stand up a say, “Yes, I made a boat load of money and here is why I am proud of it…” There’s a strong argument that people vote for moral self-confidence and assertativeness more than anything else in a politician. It’s what they trust. Mittens better stand up a show it soon.
Also, batman, I would argue that it is not virility that people are responding to, it is the PROJECTION of moral self-confidence & assertativeness is what gets people elected. Ironically considering their respective pasts, Newt is better than Mitt at projecting morally superiority.
I agree with you David. It is hard to find a single word to express the intangible factor I was trying to identify. I chose to use the term virility because it encompassed strength, appeal, masculine energy, and the ability to fight when necessary. But I agree it is a hard thing to define.
Newt and Romney are both highly flawed in different ways. What I was trying to express was that a laid back passive and conciliatory approach was not going to prevail against Obama in November or against the Senate Democrats even if Romney were to win. In this particular election I think a bare knuckle fighter who can challenge the premise of the left rather than try to apologize to them is what is needed. In some battles you need an Eisenhower or a Bradley and in some battles you need a Patton or an Ariel Sharon.
In what way is the ability to yell at the media and call them on their BS a qualification for the Presidency?
Chris, it is not a qualification per se. But being a fighter is the only way I can imagine winning the 2012 election. The incumbent has the air waves in his favor, the print media in his favor, those asking questions in the debates in his favor, the levers of power over the economy in his favor. Only someone who can puncture the premises of the MSM and the left in a clear and forceful way has any chance of prevailing.
Dudley Do-right or Casper Milquetoast will never win this election. Not this time.
You make a lot of sense and chances are good you will get your way and we will get Romney as a candidate.
There’s just a couple of things you forgot to mention.
You failed to acknowledge why all the DBM are just salivating at having Romney as their candidate.Did you think it was because they all are reformed and have suddenly seen the light? Maybe they had an epiphany and saw the errors of their ways and now want to diss the Dear Leader.Is that what you thought?
No?
Neither do I.
To begin with Romney may not be as pure as the snow you define him to be.
His father was born in Mexico which right away rings off a dozen or so alarm bells about that pesky old Constitution stating that you have to be a NBC(Natural Born Citizen) to be eligible to run. That Didn’t bother Zero. Think the rats will bring it up for Romney? Wanna take that bet?
Then there is that little thing called Romneycare where he laid the groundwork for another little bit of mischief called obmacare, the nationalization of 1/6 of our economy. Looks like we won’t be able to bring that one up as an issue will we?
Then we have Bain Capital. Much of the time Romney was with Bain they were little more than hi-tech looters.
Their MO in many cases, before money got tight and their game became more apparent, was to buy a troubled company, invest some capital, and then loot what cash they could to the max. After removing what cash they could they then paid out dividends.(Romney called it assuring that his investors got a great return so they could help other corps.,BS!)
Once they had looted the company, fired as many as “necessary” and gutted assets they simply sat back and watched as many struggled under the debt load and several years later they folded. Never hurt Bain at all.They always looked good like a great investment. But they left a trail of dead corps all over the place.
Some may call that capitalism but I don’t.
That’s not to mention all the Mormon BS that will inevitably haunt him or the money in the Caymans or who knows what else Axelrod has in a secret Astroturf computer hidden in the bowels of Chicago.
Yeah Mitt is Reganesque all right,just not my recollection of Ronald Reagan.
Meanwhile, everyone on both sides had done their level best to destroy Newt who does have at least one baggage car full of stuff and is likely to make other errors as time goes by.
He’s still my pick.He has guts, stands up and calls a spade a spade when the time comes.I’ll take Newt any ol’ time.
Anybody in this crowd have any red blood cells? Apparently not.
1. By assuming Gingrich will be the candidate you assume too much. It ain’t over ’til it’s over.
2. This is a wonderful thing for Republicans because it demonstrates to the Republican establishment that there’s a large contingent that won’t eat their dogfood, and they will have to be taken into account from now on. In the free market of ideas, their product sucks. They’ll be forced to improve it.
3. It’s also a wonderful thing because it prolongs the nominating process. We deserve better than to have a moderate Democrat posing as a Republican (Romney) shoved down our throats.
4. It will expose more voters to ideas they may not have heard of before.
5. It will embolden the whole field as they see that nerve and courage are rewarded. Our nation is in trouble, and our next election can’t be business as usual. If we lose this one, we lose most of our personal freedom and condemn our children to be indentured servants. No thanks.
6 I’d recommend everyone read Daniel Greenfield’s excellent post from today, So You Want a Revolution. He explains why moderation will no longer serve. You guys have been moderate for decades, and where are we now? There’s a Communist in the White House, and we’re screwed.
Emphases, mine:
It’s time to take a stand.
Well said. I just wish my tv was 2 way – that way Karl Rove could hear me as I laugh at his assertions of this or that candidate not being electable. Like he did with much gusto when he savaged Christine O’Donnell’s chances for the Senate. He’d have heard me booing that particular time. Rove et al – its over for them. Allowing such dumb assed people to hand pick our candidates is just wrong and is not how the Founding Fathers set things up.
So Maybe Rupert Murdoch will be the newest King Maker after all? Hard to deal with 24/7 bashing by Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. You can ask Mitt Romney for verification.
I think Newt would be a good President. He has much going for him in the way of experience, know how and has already been there. He knows who is who and how to adjust and react.
Besides, better a repentant sinner, than a friendly of the enemy.
Romney=Obama
The political achievements of Romney and Obama are identical
Romneycare=Obamacare
Romney raised taxes=Obama wants to raise taxes
Romney increased spending=Obama really increased spending
Romney is a 1 term Governor=Obama will be a 1 term President
Gingrich on the other hand, took over congress, balanced the budget, reformed welfare, and cut taxes, they are exact opposites.
“Actions speak louder than words”
Gingrich’s actions are conservative, Romney’s are not, he is a conservative of convenience and cannot be trusted.
No. Mitt is not Obama. It’s far worse. Mitt is this cycles Bob Dole. It’s Mitt’s turnto be the nominee. After all, he’s the “safe” candidate.
And as we all know, the candidate who runs ‘because I’m Me!’ always wins…..
Romney did not raise taxes, he raise fees (seems like splitting hairs but it is not). And despite increasing spending, he did balance the MA state budget during his tenure. He also vetoed ~800 items from the state legislature.
The question isn’t whether Newt will grow up.
The question is whether the main stream media will grow smart enough to realize that cheerleading for Obama isn’t doing their job. The foundation of our government is among other things based on a free, independent, honest press.
What we have today is a press that’s as corrupt as the President of the United States.
As they said in the old musiccal, “something’s gotta give”. Tonight Obamunists all over America blinked. The question is, “are they too comfortably in bed with Saul Alinsky to ever wake up.
NEWT NEWT NEWT NEWT!
I’ve been backing NEWT from the getgo!
Nice to see him use some pawns to take down a few rooks.
Newt has flaws like ANYone. Newt has also learned quite
a few lessons and he is hard to fluster.
I don’t give a crap about his past because he’s been honest enough to admit it and to also say he has moved on.
I’d be hard-pressed to believe that Newt would suddenly start having young girls in the white-house being given the ol’ Clinton Cigar treatment and later the ol’ Blue dress treatment.
Believe me, Clinton set an all time low for the “ewwwwwwwwwww” factor.
I want Newt to tear the facade off of Barrack Barry Soetoro Hussein Obama with glee. I want Newt to fully and completely VET the unvetted ‘PRESENT PRESIDENT’ like a laser aimed right at the heart of the Commie/Fascist/Socialist/Marxist SCUM residing in the white house.
I have to say…
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that these Repubs are starting to use more positive lingo about being “US/WE” are better than BHO.
Keep at it, men. You make me proud when you stop attacking each other and attack the issues and especially attack the cretin and his czars and non-vetted cronies!
Spot on!
I’d pay good cold hard cash (when I can find some) to see Newt
tear strips off Obama’s hide. When I heard all those leftards in CNN’s
audience cheer at Newt’s slap to John King’s face it was a real lift. Slap them around some more Newt, Please. At least for the MSM’s abject failure at vetting out the real Obama.
Noting how Callista seems to be joined at Newt’s hip, I think that any nubile young things would have to crawl over her to get to Newt. She is quite a plateful I think who is going to keep Newt too sated to wish to wander off the reservation, so to speak.
LOL! She’s a beautiful ice-queen and she definitely [willingly] takes a back seat to Newt. Being a paramour turned ‘wife’ would definitely make for a scandalous “First Lady Whore”. lol
If nothing else, Newt’s old enough now that Mr. Happy isn’t leading him around anymore. The biggest reason they ascribe wisdom to age is that at some point a man gets old enough to start thinking with the right head.
So very true, Art.
The same thing could be said for women too (well, maybe not the lead around by the peener part, butlead around by emotionalism).
If everyone is really interested in saving our republic then we all need to stop looking for a savior who will lead us back to the promised land. We have all of us bought into the Liberal premise that the federal government is the alpha and omega. We have accepted the anti-constitutional premise of an all powerful central government. One thing that governor Perry said that got a lot of attention was his statement about making the federal government inconsequential. As it should be.
So stop investing so much in one man and work your butts off to elect strong believers in federalism and the 10th Amendment. We need governors and state legislators who are willing to tell the federal government to go straight to Hell.
Although I think it’s great that 26 states are suing over Obamacare, the fact of the matter is the states should simply tell the Feds that Obamacare is unconstitutional and simply ignore it and refuse to allow its implementation within their borders. Without the voluntary cooperation of the states, federal power would wither.
So in the event that Obama might just be reelected, get to work erecting a 10th Amendment barricade in your state or prepare for the end of our republic and your permanent indentured servitude.
Much more on the 10th and Federalism here: http://www.redstate.com/derkrieger/
Actually it won’t be nearly as bad as you say. The fact is once the ACA begins full implementation in Obama’s second term much of the fuss over the new program will disappear quite rapidly once people begin to enjoy the benefits it offers them. Of course this is what the GOP knows and is most afraid of. Once people have decent affordable healthcare you won’t be able to pry it (or their vote) away with a crowbar.
Yeah – just like those rides in the railcars didn’t hurt anyone either huh?
We’re not stupid. Costs will soar – Obamacare has already affected health care costs. Taking away 5 hundred billion from medicare as an accounting ‘trick’ fooled nobody but the fools.
You wouldn’t be one of them would you? You sure sound like it.
Either 5 hundred billion gets taken away and old people suffer or 5 hundred billion gets tossed back into the budget and costs skyrocket. Which is it and why would I be fool enough to vote for the commie bastards that put this over on us?
And tell me why should any wavers be given? I’ll tell you this much – wavers equal political favors – nothing more and nothing less. Your con man’s string is running out and you know it.
So you think the way to succeed is running out of other people’s money faster?
When it’s borrowed money now, and the tap will get turned of any day now?
You are that stupid.
We aren’t.
You are wrong. I’m an American living in Ontario and have been dealing with the Canadian health care system since last March. It is horrible. My doctor (it took two and a half years to find one) referred me to a specialist last May 2011. The appointment will take place in June 2013. By then I’ll be back in the U.S. and working to restore America.
Americans will be horrified when they find out what ACA will do to their health care and their pocketbooks. Also, why do you think that all of the monster dictators of the 20th century instituted socialized medicine as one of their first moves? When you control who lives and dies, you have absolute control.
You don’t seem to understand a key motivator for conservatives and that is that we don’t want the government to subsidize us in any way. We simply want to be left alone to take care of ourselves and our families. It’s people like you who want to force, bully, punish, harass, and coerce everyone into following your agenda that will eventually cause an eruption of violence in this country. We conservatives will NOT become indentured servants to the welfare state. We will NOT become wage slaves to the dependent classes of the Democrat party. We conservatives loathe socialism and are growing increasingly angry each day as Obama and his fellow travelers skirt the Constitution to grow government and ensnare all of us in its web. Conservatism can basically be summed up as LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE! Or else…
There was a flag with a snake on it that said something like that…
If Newt wins the nomination, it’s over.
Newt was never meant to run and win, he was only meant to raise issues and his own visibility. In the general, the Dem MSM machine will slice him up like a piece of soft cheese. Obama will be presented as the loving, loyal husband and father, a bright guy but with an ego under control, a centrist that independents can feel ok about voting for and someone who will fight for the ‘little guy’.
…and Gingrich will be presented as the exact opposite!
And the independents, WHO WILL DECIDE THIS NEXT ELECTION, will vote for Obama.
Nominating Gingrich will make the whole general election ABOUT GINGRICH….and then we lose.
ANYONE, and I mean, ANYONE who goes out of their way to vote for the scuzzball that is OBAMA for another terminal hell needs to be viewed is an imbecilic, mentally challenged, morally decrepit, mindless moron.
Satan is at the helm and you sycophants are the devil’s helm steering what you presume are sheep to the slaughter.
No, Sir. Not going to happen. I will lock and load, I will unsheathe my sword, I will shed my blood for my country to remain what my forefather’s fought for and created.
I will gladly die for my country.
Lets see if we can’t settle this at the ballot box first. Presuming there will actually be voting in November I think the sludge will get cleaned out of the WH this time next year.
Sure that’s what the media will try to do, but everybody knows the media lied for Obama and covered for his lies, and this time Obama has to defend his actual record.
Gingrich’s record is pretty good.
Obama goes down.
Nice try Brucie, but polls show independents turning away from Obama in large numbers. Independents don’t get their panties in a wad over moral issues. They are independents because they’re not social conservatives. Nor are they free loading commie sympathizers like the left. The only sure demographics for Obama are government workers, welfare moms, gays and a few other fringers.
“If Newt wins the nomination, it’s over.”
Yes, over for dear Obama. Gingrich may be a bad taste in many mouths, but Obama is far worse. Obama has lurched the country way too far leftward for most people to stomach. They may not like Gingrich, but they know in their little hearts that he has what it takes to get the country back on the right path. All the mudslinging about Newt’s past is going to pretty much fall on deaf ears that have heard it all many times before & is as tiresome as summer TV show reruns. Too many people are simply chomping at the bit to oust Obama & they are not about to let Newt-as-nominee spoil that special moment.
I am a cynic. I think it is too late to fix the debt problems in the US. The economy will collapse. Regardless, in this election it would give me great pleasure to have Newt face off with Obama. It would help people to understand what has been at the heart of the demise of the US. Good to expose Obama for the sham that he is. Newt can do that.
Don’t know how typical I am. If Newt goes against Obama, I would definitely vote for him. If it’s Romney. I will probably stay home. I think Newt has the “We hate Obama” vote sewn up.
Gingrich ” wants to make sure we know he is the smartest guy in the room. And, as with any of us, that isn’t always true. There’s always someone out there who’s brighter.”
Yeah, like Barack Obama – president of Harvard Law Review, taught law at University of Chicago for 12 years.
How they remember him at Harvard: http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/obama-at-hls.html
Professor Tribe likes to say he had taught about 4,000 students before Obama and another 4,000 since, yet none has impressed him more.
Professor Martha Minow recalls: “He had a kind of eloquence and respect from his peers that was really quite remarkable.” When he spoke in her class on law and society, “everyone became very attentive and very quiet.”
Just a reminder from the reality based community.
Now back to your regular programming…
Well, of course fellow communists would say things like that about Comrade Obama.
Oh come on already. Your post is a case of pissing on one’s head & saying it’s raining. If Obama were all that smart, he wouldn’t need a fricking teleprompter & his speech would not be so liberally peppered with “uh’s” as he struggles to get his scattered thoughts in order (this is typical when someone is trying to baffle w/bullcrap in lieu of dazzling w/brilliance).
Leave it to a lib to call elitist university professors the “reality community”. Yeah, like the reality of spending trillions of borrowed dollars to tackle our debt burden. In a sane world, these elitists would be tarred and feathered as the village idiots they are. You might get the Matthews tingle down your leg, homeboy, but we see Obama as a foolish ideologue killing our nation because he’s stuck on stupid.
“…we see Obama as a foolish ideologue killing our nation because he’s stuck on
stupidevil.”FTFY…..;-).
Ah, regular programming has resumed, I see.
Another bulletin to interrupt your programming (about Obama’s student years at Columbia):
One person who did remember Mr. Obama was Michael L. Baron, who taught a senior seminar on international politics and American policy. Mr. Baron, now president of an electronics company in Florida, said he was Mr. Obama’s adviser on the senior thesis for that course. Mr. Baron, who later wrote Mr. Obama a recommendation for Harvard Law School, gave him an A in the course.
Columbia was a hotbed for discussion of foreign policy, Mr. Baron said. The faculty included Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national security adviser, and Zalmay Khalilzad, now the American ambassador to the United Nations. Half of the eight students in the seminar were outstanding, and Mr. Obama was among them, Mr. Baron said.
Michael J. Wolf, who took the seminar with him and went on to become president of MTV Networks, said: “He was very smart. He had a broad sense of international politics and international relations. It was a class with a lot of debate. He was a very, very active participant. I think he was truly distinctive from the other people in that class. He stood out.”
Okay, regular programming resumes now….
Of course, that all leaves out the fact that “smart” is defined as being able to recite leftist cant. If you get in, pay, and fill out all the right paperwork, you get Cs. If you get in, pay, fill out the paperwork and show up ocassionally, you get Bs. If you get in, pay, fill out the paperwork, show up, and actually do anything, you get As. If you’re admitted as an Affirmative Action student, if you can fog a mirror, you get an A. It should be a part of the Republican Platform that no Republican government executive from President down to county commissioners and such will hire anyone with an Ivy League degree.
The problem with your comment is that it is ‘imaginary’; that is, there’s no evidence that the students were awed by Obama’s brilliance into silence. They could have been silent because he was speaking in a near whisper; or silent because they were stunned by his ignorance; or silent because the instructor had called for silence; or silent because this particular anecdote is sheer fiction.
That is – where is the evidence from ‘those who were silent’? There is silence from them. No-one remembers Obama at all. No classmates, no friends, no girlfriends. Silence.
Equally – for anyone to declare ‘the best and most brilliant’ without evidence is an empty statement. Where is the evidence? The articles, the essays, the achievements? Missing. Non-existent.
It strikes me as utterly creepy the absolute dearth of feedback about Obama (Larry Sinclair notwithstanding & who is listening to him anyway?); it is almost as if someone or some group has done something to shut these people up, but what?
who knows? dead men tell no tales. the shadow knows . . .
what’s the best way to shut people up
“No-one remembers Obama at all. No classmates, no friends, no girlfriends. Silence.”
Amazing what people on this site will believe, isn’t it?
Well, here are some of his classmates who remember him well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR14k1Sna8M “He was the top student in our class”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zalwa8p6whA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice2008/interviews/butts.html
and one of his teachers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BKsHCR2Ma8&feature=related “He was just a star… smarter than anyone else around.”
But enjoy your fantasy world….
And now back to your regular programming…
The fight is on. The midterms were historic. A national movement, respectful and relentless, fired the first shot by giving themselves the name ‘tea party’.
The country feels it has been forcibly dragged to the left by an engaging, bright, stubborn, idea man (who also happens to be a marxist), and that it will take an engaging, bright, stubborn, idea man (who also happens to be a Reagan constitutionalist) to fight like hell to get us right again.
Polls don’t tell the whole story because the media never tell the whole story. I think Newt will do very well once people read the truth.
Roger, you need to satisfy yourself that Newt did NOT mistreat his first two wives, the cancer story is a lie. His ethics investigations resulted in one fine, which he paid only to find out later the IRS would have seen it his way.
Consulting for Fannie Mae? So you’ve never taken a job for people you didn’t like? And ego? Please, none of us care about that..we want jobs and $3.00 gas.
Mitt will not stand up to the Mullahs anymore than Obeyme did, he doesn’t have that kind of strength. Mitt will stay in the middle; on judges, education, healthcare and social security….it’s just what he does. Go Newt, go tea party, go America.
$2.00 gas
The best take I can give this is that SC mistook a fighter for a leader. My bigger fear is that culture rot infects the GOP this seriously. Gingrich is corrupt and has been corrupt since he was 16 years old . Choosing someone more personally evil than Obama is not a recipe for success. It is symptomatic of a pervasive rot in our culture. It demonstrates that we want a Dear Leader like the Dems want Obama.
“Choosing someone more personally evil than Obama is not a recipe for success.”
He isn’t more personally evil, and very far from it. Obama’s goals and means are are Pol Pot’s fields, if he can do it.
This has nothing to do with wanting a “dear Leader”, how can you be so blinkered as to write that? We want someone for the job who will fight for what we believe in. Gingrich definitely can fight, and he may well fight for what we believe in. Romney, in contrast, will not.
I actually think Aloysius is exactly incorrect and this SC nomination of NG is a clear demonstration that we do not want Dear Leader Romney forced on us!
Right. One more mistake and, boom, Gingrich, you’re out! Speak for yourself.
If the man ain’t growed up by now, he ain’t never going to be, no matter how many condescending ultimatums are flung at him.
Newt is 68 years old. You don’t grow up when you are 68 years old.
Gingrich has matured. I can’t say he same for his detractors.
Simon seems intimidated by the testicular fortitude of a genuine politician.
As to the spitballs above, good luck with *your* candidate, but do you really think they stand a chance against The Obama Machine?
Romney? Really?!
Try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OQoBxZZPqU&feature=player_embedded
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv078A36t7Y&feature=player_embedded
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IS33Hkgnls4
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y53Q__57k24&feature=player_embedded
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ARnzBOkKAiE
Those are great, Ed. Glad you posted them.
Newt displayed maturation in his victory speech Saturday night. He and Santorum were the candidates that showed humility and good will toward their opponents.
These are the weapons that will slay Obamunism.
Totally agree, CG! I’m totally stoked to watch Newt win the presidency!
P.S. He reads ‘us’ here =D
Gingrich has flaws. Who doesn’t ? We all agree that the main stream media is in the Democrat Party pocket. The only way for any Republican to win is to ” go over the heads ” of the media. That means the debates are THE crucial opportunity to defeat Obama. Gingrich is the best candidate to field against Obama in that arena. People should stop and ask themselves one simple question- Are you ready for four more years of Obama? If not you must support Gingrich. I do.
Menachem Ben Yakov,
Exactly right. Newt has been pretty much thoroughly vetted already with flaws, faults and all and he’s still an amazing man with a huge set of you-know-whats.
Also, I really believe him when he says that he has learned from his previous mistakes in both his personal life and also in politics. Newt has grown as a person, politician and as a HUMAN being. I adore him and I want him to kick Barry’s arse!
Don’t be surprised if obamas onerous schedule prevents him from debating this year. But even if he does, pravda will form a firewall that will make it very difficult for him to break through as he has in the primary debates.
But they can’t keep him off tv, and he will use every opportunity to paint the contrast between freedom and obama
It will be delicious if somebody asks him about his personal life once outside the primary season because that will be his opening to bring up Ayers, Wright, Rexko, the communists in obama’s family (for example, his father was an acknowledged communist and Obama made him the CENTERPIECE of his arrogant auto-biography. And there is way mor than that.), the cocain usage, etc., etc., etc.
So I think you are right that Newt’s ability and WILLINGNESS to go where Romney won’t go is the key thing in his favor. Just don’t put too much hope in the debates because the marxists will have a good strategy to bury them.
Right, pro;
Obama’s attack dog media will carry the “debate” on the web and front pages every single day from nomination to election day.
Obama, himself, will only add a punctuation, occasionally. Nothing of substance.
There are huge numbers of Americans that get it- The main stream media neither reports honestly or honestly questions. Obamas past is suspect and his record of failure is clear as a bell. Gingrich may have his flaws but he loves his country and understands what American values are. He has the courage to stand up for America not bow down to its adversaries. And when he goes toe to toe with Obama each and every American will be able to draw the distinction. I will support whatever candidate the Republican Party nominates however I am convinced only Gingrich can actually win.
And don’t you think the Democrats know that the last thing they want is for Comrade Obama to have to debate Newt Gingrich? Though I don’t believe it would be the smackdown that many here seem to think it would, it certainly isn’t to the advantage of a still relatively popular incumbent President with a lead to debate Newt Gingrich or anybody else, and you can count on the media to not just let him get away with it but to carry his water on not debating.
So long as Comrade Obama has a lead or even if trailing is within the MOE, or stealing distance, he’ll NEVER put himself on a stage with Newt Gingrich and will only put himself on a stage without a teleprompter before the very friendliest, highly vetted audiences. And with a billion dollars that we know of, and only God knows how much illegal money, he’ll have Hollywood’s finest doing ads with the highest production values and most recognizable faces bombarding the weak-minded middle with how wonderful he is and how that awful Grinch guy shut down the government causing mommies to die of cancer and babies to starve.
Yea Art! Newt will be “honored” with the front and center “Gullible Fool Chair” at the “State of the Union” speech and get skewered on national TV like all the others that fell for the “Obama handshake”.
Actually if Newt doesn’t blow it now he will have ample opportunity to do it down the road when it really counts.
LOL! That could be said for ANY new president. ;p
Dear Mitt Romney,
Outdated PolitiBots like you who cannot think for themselves and constantly rely on polling-committees for not-so-well-rehearsed script lines are doomed to fail…no matter how many dolla…err…I mean…batteries are stuffed up your backside.
But, go on, buy all the dirty smear ad spots you can, because you are incapable of convincing anyone you mean a thing you say. You even come off sounding guilty of your wealth. So much for all that Massachusetts influence!
Pity that your “inevitable” slogan, which was on the tip of all your advertisers’ tongues, sank like a lead balloon among those tested. I guess they just haven’t been fed the proper amount of propaganda. Silly, how some people believe they should think for themselves.
Be nice, and you still might get an invitation to Gingrich’s innauguration.
Good column. Newt’s lack of self-awareness is astonishing, but perhaps through some miracle he will exercise sufficient humility so he doesn’t completely turn off the electorate and discourage conservatives.
Why can’t these candidates articulate what Obama is doing,instead of valiantly attacking each other? Lack of character.America is eating the goose that lays golden eggs, so enjoy our dinner.
wasn’t that what Gingrich was doing before Romney’s henchmen decided to undermine him with negative ads?
Yes it was.Newt started out playing the game with class.Just going after zero.He got traction and Romney started in negative.
Now Newt is finishing the fight that Romney started.
Only you have to be really stupid to pick a fight with Newt!
Just as John King, fat Candy over at CNN or DNC Dave can all attest to.None of them will be sitting down to eat their Bulaga and Dom Perignon for a while.
The very sad part of all of this is that neither party has the caliber of person we need to lead this country. The Democrats are perfectly willing to leave us in the hands of Obama.0, even though he is completely incompetent, dangerous and narcissistic. At times he’s even anti-American.
On the other hand: Some in the ruling class want us to back Romney, clearly a champion of crony capitalism, while others want us to vote for the Newt, a man who is a politician before all else.
Our only hope as a nation is that responsible voters will elect, competent, law-abiding, graft-free people to Congress so that no matter which bozo wins the presidency, he wouldn’t be able to continue to screw us over.
The first person to espouse a “graft fee, law abiding, competent” perfect record is a lie teller.
How many of us regular joe/janes could pass for even a chance at being President? I know I sure as hell couldn’t!
Could you? Are you ‘perfect’ and ‘unblemished’?
The more ‘perfect’ people we expect to have as ‘president’, the bigger the LIARS we get to run for president.
Do we want an honest, humiliated mortal for president or a bullshitter telling us everything we want to hear?
The choice, of course, is ultimately up to YOU, ME and that ballot box.
Who said anything about perfect? Not me. You don’t have to be perfect to be competent, law-abiding, and honest. You don’t have to be perfect to put your interests and those of your supporters above the well-being of the country.
What a situation! So many insiders despise Newt as a true scumbag. Now things are drifting back to the suicide of Britt Hume’s gay son. He is like Nixon, only nastier, which is not to say that the Nation might not need him as President, but to me it is a scary proposition.
Not a problem, Dwight. So many people despise insiders as true scumbags that it more than balances out.
The inks to the Hume suicide seem tenuous, but the comments on the article from former Repub staffers are eye-opening.
http://gawker.com/5877207/did-newt-gingrich-out-brit-humes-dead-gay-son
I didn’t see any of the commenters specifically identify themselves as a Republican staffer and the only one who talked of specific knowlege of him was a former page, normally some kid whose mommy and daddy gave somebody a whole lot of money.
DC staffers especially, but staffers generally, are a mercenary lot. Most of them lean Democrat, though they can fake being Republicans and a few actually are, because that is the only safe thing to be. When Democrats take over a government or a legislature, they fire or run off everybody who ever had a Republican thought starting with anyone who carried any water for a Republican. Republicans tend to keep holdovers around (and then wonder why they’re constantly sabotaged, leaked, and thwarted) Republicans also tend to have smaller staffs, first, because they unlike the Democrats aren’t really a client-seeking organization so they don’t have to give away so much patronage and, second, because the Republican constituency doesn’t necessarily want to be a government employee when they grow up so they don’t have people clamoring for a job because they put out a few signs. Additionally, Republicans don’t have the shadow government of unions, law firms, non-profits, and foundations that the Democrats have, so if you’re a Republican staffer or appointee who gets fired in a Democrat takeover, you’re really fired and have to go back to selling cars or practicing law back in the district; no more Georgetown honies for you!
And finally, especially in legislatures but really with anybody in a supervisory or managerial level in government, those who remain after somebody gets fired, quits, or retires have to immediately ingratiate themselves with the new boss and the best way to do that is to tell the new boss how wonderful s/he is and how awful the person they’re replacing was and how great it is to have them take over. Putting one’s promotion pads on is also a good step. When you leave from a managerial or appointee level position, no matter the circumstances of your departure, you know that everything wrong with that agency and everything that goes wrong in the year or so after your departure is going to be your fault. To this day I can be pretty certain that anything that goes wrong on the labor relations front for the State is because of some process I put in place or something I taught the staff; the Wasilla Hillbillies went so far as to prohibit the staff that I had hired and trained from contacting me – which, of course, they immediately told me about, and I’d already been retired for six months before they even took office. The “Blame Bush” proclivity of the Obama junta is greatly exagerated from the norm, but it is nothing new or unexpected.
Those who like Romney will keep pointing out Newt’s flaws. Those of you who do not like Romney better stop talking about Newt’s flaws and start pointing out his strengths.
Those what, can do, those what can’t complain about those what can.
For me , following Gingrich is like following a drunk on the highway. You have to hope , clenching the steering wheel , he gets where he is headed before he kills himself or several others or both. If he receives the nomination , I fear , he will lose it for us before it is held. I held my nose and voted for Dole , I held my nose and voted for McCain , please don’t make me hold my nose and have to vote for this rude , arrogant , self absorbed politician.
your nose instead
Who would you like to hold your nose and vote for, then?
Anyone but O naturally
Let’s define what Roger means by “grow up.”
I think we’re asking if Newt can transcend Newt. That’s what’s required for him to succeed at this point. He’s managed to get himself to this place, and we’re all watching to see what comes next.
I’m a Florida primary voter, and I’m undecided. Newt has to convince me he can transcend the self-destructive behavior, the indiscipline, the grandiosity that would keep me from selecting him. Don’t promise how you’ll use other people’s money to buy my vote, convince me that I can trust you to do the right thing. It takes a crooked mind to break a crooked system. Convince me that you’re the insider that has had his road to Damascus moment and will slay the status quo.
Even with this, it could be too late.
I agree that a Newt Gingrich presidential candidacy will be problematic. There are people who know, KNOW, I tell you, that Newt Gingrich is a hot-headed, undisciplined, hateful, racist, angry attack muffin that wants to destroy public education. I do believe that’s what Mr. Simon is driving at. Certainly it explains why Newt Gingrich was confronted by an angry black man in South Carolina, and challenged to meet with Al Sharpton on the subject of education(!!) I waited and waited, but found no comments about that incident, beyond the mention that Newt said he knew Al Sharpton and would be glad to meet with him.
It took some digging, and I had to plow through a lot of Rachel Maddow lying about what Newt has said, and I did find some original source references on this topic. If you look at the dates, you’ll see the problem.
The guy who confronted Gingrich didn’t know that he and Al Sharpton have been talking, and that they do find an area of agreement where they can sometimes work together. But Sheila Jackson Lee and Bill Maher are working hard to make sure that people don’t know it.
Newt Gingrich on Education Reform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34twrbPiiI&feature=relmfu
Rev. Al Sharpton on Education Reform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8hKxBYTj8E
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/205557-gingrich-confronted-on-race-agrees-to-meet-with-sharpton
Sheila Jackson Lee
http://www.breitbart.tv/sheila-jackson-lee-newt-using-racist-codewords/
Bill Maher
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/21/maher_on_why_tea_people_like_gingrich_mean_snarly_and_racist_like_them.html
If you have the stomach to watch the Bill Maher clip all the way to the end, you’ll find something else: an admission by the panel that they all agree that Newt has substantial appeal among Democratic voters.
I am a Liberal, and normally I vote with the Democrats. I have been disgusted by the dishonesty and incompetence of this administration, and also by its willingness to pander to the venal interests of its supporters. We worked so hard from the Vietnam era forward to ensure transparency and accountability in our government, and we now have an administration that thinks it can ignore any law or rule at its convenience, without even reading it. Further, they have spent the money entrusted to it for venal purposes by the billions with a “b” — to enrich their contacts and get kickbacks, instead of the purposes we intended.
The people who gave us Barack Obama have been busy lying to us also about Newt Gingrich. Unfortunately for them, anybody with a computer can get original source material going back a few years.
I was fortunate enough to be able to home school because I believed that the public school system was completely broken.
“Public school” has become a joke of indoctrination, piss poor twisted history lessons, mindless affirmative action “union” teachers and rudderless school rooms without discipline or respect.
If you can’t find it in your heart to vote for a Republican, do the next best thing and don’t vote at all because four more years of 0bama is going to destroy this once great country.
Sounds like you are a straggler of a nearly extinct species…a liberal who wants to make life better, rather than just control the lives of other people.
Oh that’s rich, Rodger. It isn’t Newt that needs to grow up; he HAS grown up. Newt’s house, at long last, is finally in order.
If anyone needs to grow up it’s voters. Progressives are playing both parties for fools. It’s the republican-progressives who have transformed the party of Lincoln into a neocon plantation, and believe that once all the conservative competition is destroyed in the primary, the conservative vote can be taken for granted because they have nowhere else to go. The Democrat plantation entraps “Zell Miller democrats” in much the very same way. The progressive’s tactic in 2012 is a repeat of 2008: to make the general election into a contest between two progressives. Whether it’s John McCain, or Mitt McSame who is the progressive-republican nominated to compete against the democrat-progressive is irrelevant; a progressive gets into the White House either way. The only question the general election will decide is how far, and how quickly, the Country “progresses” leftward into socialism.
Newt’s win in the SC primary is evidence that, while conservatives may be slow on the uptake, we are starting to catch on to the tactics of our GOP-establishment brethren. This has so far been an uncharactoristically dirty republican primary, because of the stealthy campaign to eliminate Romney’s conservative competitors one-by-one. There are already rumors floating about how the GOP establishment types orchestrated the savaging of Sarah Palin to prevent her from even entering the race (and possibly deny Romney his “turn” for the presidency). There are other rumors that the Romney camp is behind the personal destruction of Herman Cain. What happens when the scuttlebutt is that Romney’s minions are also behind ABC’s slimey interview with Newt’s ex? How much loyalty are rumors like those going to engender among conservative voters to “hold their nose” and surrender their vote to the “establishment candidate”? What happens to the all-important “independant vote” when these rumors, for now only grumbled quietly among the anyone-but-Romney republican voters, are blasted as outright accusations by the Obamatrons during the general election campaign?
I’ll tell you what happens: a second term for the progressive-democrat, and a TEA party house-cleaning in the GOP to rid it of progressives.
For better or worse, Newt is showing us that he has a pair, and that is appealing to voters. I think having a pair in this election cycle is going to be wildly popular. Everyone, Right and Center, is weary and resentful of being smugly bullied, corrected, lectured and denigrated by the Left. All Newt has to do is to stand up to them, and he stands way out from the crowd of wannabe’s. Newt can simply run against the “elite media” and he wins big, IMHO. The “elite media” was supposed to be a campaign tool for Obama’s use, not the club Newt will happily use to beat up the left and their blatant hypocrisy! How clever to take offense at the media attack on him during the SC debate. They couldn’t wait to drag out that ex-wife. Bet they are sorry now. Everyone hates the bully, and boy is he giving it back to them. That single exchange may have won Newt the SC vote. Not too shabby in his exchange with Juan Williams either. What if he can do that kind of response every time the “elite media” opens its collective mouth? People will be excited to vote for him.
Yep. People love an underdog! The fact that Mittens has soooooooo much moula behind his campaign could actually work against him.
I love Newt’s balls! There. I said it.
I haven’t decided between Romney and Gingrich. But I do know one thing. If Gingrich does win the Presidency he knows every inch of Capitol Hill and how it works. I don’t think there will be too much whining about what Congress will and will not do.
In my view, Newt’s “center” has changed since the 90s. When he was Speaker of the House, his center was Washington, power, and political gamesmanship. Today, based on what I’ve heard him say, his center is the “first principles” of the Declaration of Independence.
Excellent post and I totally concur.
The ‘new Newt center’ is more than likely a mere mirage. He only achieved it post-tea-party and post-Obama in his run-up to run for president. I really don’t like Mitt Romney, and lots of people should agree with that, but Newt is probably going to be worse.
This is just a manifestation of everyone’s desperate desire for a good candidate, but in Newt’s case the rationalization is really too much.
Santorum is pretty bad himself.
Ron Paul deserves more open and honest consideration – you need to look at his actual policy proposals. He really could be a good option, and could definitely beat Obama. But I won’t kid myself and ignore how I know people here feel.
That said, Romney is pretty bad, but he does have the business experience, and I think is pretty committed to some basic good fiscal principles. He’s bad, but ‘safe’. Newt is NOT ‘safe’.
Thank for saying what I tried to say in post#48 only better.Except Paul’s foreign policy scares the crap out of me.
Post #49 , sorry
I am surprised; Romney, Rove and the establishment crowd just don’t see or get the Tea Party or the general mood of the voters in the GOP. I mean when have conservatives ever been able to assemble 500,000 people on 2 different occasions for anything? Iowa and S. Carolina I bet have opened their eyes finally.
Newt is the only one left who will make real changes. Santorum is lacking and Mitt will go too slow.
I just hope Newt doesn’t have a “plan” other than nixing 30% of government employees and voting on the repeal of Obamas first 2 years in office. We do not need more government.
still bothered by the fact that newt is an incontinent w/no self-control who thinks the rules don’t apply to him. not a man i can respect. yes, a good debater, but he’s not running for president of the forensics club.
we need Newt is that he does connect with people. Mitt does not and if one looks at Obama whether you like him (hahaha) of not he’s likable to the vast majority of Americans even when they disagree with him. Many people who are not informed on the issues will just go and vote for people they like and in that case Mittens is in deep trouble. Willard reminds me of the rich kid in the neighborhood who you have to be nice to cause his dad might fire your dad. His body language is terrible and he cannot convince people he is sincere. Newt can and we just can’t nominate a MA liberal like Kerry and Dukakis.
With the whole country to choose from, Romney opted for one of the most left wing,hate America,moonbat loving places available. I will vote for anyone who runs against “O”, but I ain’t happy about the choices. For those who will stay home on election day, just remember only one third of eligible voters turned out in 1933 Germany, because the choices sucked, but they all paid the price for Hitler’s victory.
Good article. My worry is Newt may be more like Barak Obama than Ronald Reagan.
Similarities to Reagan:
1. Good conservative ideas.
2. Excellent spokesman for those conservative ideas.
3. Less likely to compromise on those ideas.
4. Rightous anger at the worste cases of leftist idiocy or totalitarianism.
5. Both had some problems with divorces in past years.
Differences from Reagan.
1. Reagan had executive experience running a state, Newt does not.
2. Reagan knew how to attract smart talented people and listen to them. Newt looks like a one man show.
3. Reagan had a frendly self deprecating disarming persona that made conservatism look friendly. Newt projects constant anger, grandiosity, and hubris.
Newts similarities to Obama:
1. Neither has any executive experience. (You could argue that Obama has executive experience NOW, but I would counter that experience at constantly doing things wrong, and refusing to recognize they are wrong, is not useful experience. Clinton learned from his mistakes, Obama has not.)
2. Both are inflexible idealoges. (I would prefer an inflexible conservative to an inflexible leftist, but regard both as potentially bad.)
3. Both have to be the smartest guy in the room. (In Obamas case the smartness is mostly illusion, fostered by the media, while Newt really is smart. But Newt still thinks he is smarter than he actually is, potentially leading to fatal hubris.)
4. Both can skim on ethics to achieve their Great Cause.
5. Both are great at stirring up the base, but not as good at working with a loyal opposition.
6. Like Obama, he is suspectable to crony capitalism, he just has different cronies.
Given Newts qualities, he might be another Reagan, but it is just as likely he will be a disaster, as a conservative version of Obama, or possibly another Bush 2. Romney is much less inspiring and transformative, but a lot less risky, both for winning the election, and governing afterwords. I would take Newt over Obama, since while Newt might be bad, we are already certain that Obama is terribly bad. But for safetys sake, I presently prefer Romney over Newt.
yes, you ARE “easily suckered” by Gingrich. I hope the rest of the American public is not so easily suckered, because there’s no way he can possibly beat Obama.
Newt, if you are reading this, you have to stop being a snarky, mean-spirited prick!
Be a Happy Warrior extolling the truth. People will respond to you and you can stop the attacks on a decent man named Mitt Romney.