Gingrich Deploys ‘Conservative Dream Team’ in CPAC Courtship
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was a late entry into the CPAC speaking schedule, but his address a few hours after Mitt Romney’s repeatedly brought the crowd to its feet with a string of audience-pleasing agenda points.
Gingrich met with a number of supporters, mainly college Republicans, in a closed-door rally shortly before the address.
His campaign staff had promised the release of a “creative” document to accompany his speech: the handout to CPAC attendees was a chart comparing his stances on personal Social Security accounts, a flat tax, a low corporate tax rate, the elimination of the capital gains tax, and dollar reforms with those of his competitors. Under “more of the same” were mugshots of Romney, Rick Santorum, and President Obama.
The Friday release that carried over more into his address, though, was the unveiling of his “Conservative Dream Team” — dramatically pictured on the screen behind Gingrich as he spoke. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Fred Thompson, Michael Reagan, J.C. Watts, Chuck Norris, Oliver North, and more.
Newt reminded the crowd of this support to a hearty helping of applause.
He said that the fight of the Tea Party against establishment Republicans echoed the days of Barry Goldwater. “In many ways, this has been going on for a half century,” he said. And the first part of his speech, focused on what America can do when unleashed to fulfill its full potential, sounded much like a history professor.
“This campaign is a marginal threat” to the establishment, he said, “because we intend to change Washington, not accommodate it.”
He asked the crowd to raise their hands if they’d ever gone online to check a package’s progress with UPS or FedEx.
“This is not a theory,” he said. “It is a practical reality that we have the technology that enables us… to track 24 million packages a day.”
“The federal government today cannot find 11 million illegal immigrants,” Gingrich said.
Soon after, both Newt and FedEx were trending on Twitter.
Fred Thompson in a brokered Convention!
The Dream Ticket!
Thompson/West!
EV, if they don’t win, they can go back to publishing legal books!
As for Newt, he may be down to handing out fliers and hiring sign spinners with this cash depleted…but, he’s still ready to take shots at his opponents.
He handed out fliers on the speakers’ schedule…calling Santorum “congressman” and titling his speech “In defense of big labor”.
He also took a shot at Romney.
And Coulter.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/10/newt-rewrites-cpac-schedule-with-not-so-subtle-jabs-at-his-gop-rivals/
SOME people might think this is childish and immature, unnecessary and un-Presidential. Then again, he probably isn’t interested in attracting those voters, because he never seems to cease doing stuff like this.
As a law librarian, I really appreciate that comment. +10.
You are a gifted polemicist cfbleachers in the ascerbic satirical style of Mark Steyn. Do you have your own blog? You should be writing for someone-somewheres.
Even the law librarians appreciate your wit.
Indeed, CF does have a place to write for.
That does sound like him. Is that you cfbleachers?
It’s me.
If you would like for me to cover a topic, just let me know.
I would like you to turn that sneer away from the GOP and towards any and every group on the Western Left.
Ridicule couched in smart humor is a powerful tool.
He doesn’t have the mental horsepower or courage to answer simple questions that exclude Romney from serious consideration.
And he thinks it’s intimidating to be asked the questions and whines about it, in the same thread where’s he’s scolded Gingrich for supposedly whining.
cf is a great writer and a good guy, I’m sure.
Just a bit depressed by the mess we’re in.
We gotta stay positive, and by God, get that message to Romney and Newt and Rick to stay positive too, or we’ll kick them so far down the stairs they won’t see daylight again till Gabriel blows his horn.
That’s what I wanna see cf write about. C. Edmund Wright is making a case for it. We all do. Before it is too late.
An Préachán
To Cfbleachers (and oh so many others)
It’s been tooo long since you’ve watched the first debates with Newt … how positive, how team-oriented, how steadily determined NOT to allow the nedia to get “conservatives to attack each other in order to protect Barack Obama.” Or “anyone one of these people on this stage would do a better job than Obama” His eys ablaze, his smile authentic.
ENTER Romney’s negative ad destruction machine in Iowa. It works, Newt is crushed. Destruction machine rested in SC, Romney loses. Rev up the negative ad destruction machine in Florida again (something like 13,000 to Newt’s 200) Newt is crushed.
Negative campaigning WORKS. IT WORKS. Yeah, Newt isn’t very good at it, but he has to try, doesn’t he? This isn’t the liberals going after him, it’s someone from his own party trying to destroy him. Romney’s people are V E R Y good at it.
Great qualities for a president – being skilled at destroying a colleague in your own party on your way to the throne.
Actually, it has been a liberal attacking Newt.
Smile. How true.
I would have to agree with pretty much everything you say. I’m not sure Newt in practice is the strident conservative he has been in the last few months of this campaign, but he knows conservatism from the inside out and has been a part of the conservative movement for a very long time.
The thing that irks me so much isn’t the seemingly personal back-and-forth between Gingrich and Romney, but the very carefully scripted and filtered way it has been presented by BOTH the Libmedia and RINOmedia. They focus on whatever they think will help Mitt and whatever will hurt Newt, along with endless updates on the personal accusations that are so irrelevant, at least to me.
I’d bet that absolutely ZERO percent of the substantive proposals made by Newt and listed in this article will ever be heard of or read by the vast majority of the population because the MSM and RINOmedia choose to focus on the utterly irrelevant personal posturing and invective and totally ignore the substance. Its a horse race where the audience gets to choose the winner, and the announcers at the track carefully script their good-guy, bad-guy routine so the “proper” horse – the horse they want – will be chosen winner by the crowd.
Guys, I will write on any topic you want…as long as I believe in it.
I consider losing to Obama an unthinkable outcome. He is a severely flawed, extremely radical, spectacularly damaging impact on our country.
To have run a slate that I consider beneath marginal acceptability has not been changed one iota in this fustercluck of a primary season.
Where Obama will take us next…I do not want to go along to get along. Tne “depression” you sense is borne out of frustration at how poorly…sometimes idiotically this slate has behaved, how poorly they have taken the fight to Obama, how they have gotten sidelined onto childish nit-picking and bizarro world conspiracy theories…and have ALL been willing to throw the free market, capitalism, the fight against ACORN/SEIU, under the bus.
They are destroying the Republican brand…and the polls show it.
This Fabian in the White House should have been trailing by 25 points by now…to anyone and everyone who was a serious, stable, solid Republican candidate.
Unemployment is through the roof and consumer confidence is through the floor.
If YOUR “favorite” guy isn’t winning at the polls…HE did all the major damage to himself. Attacking everyone and everything who supports someone else…(or none of the above) as some sort of tinfoil hat “conspiracy” is beyond ridiculous.
It’s mouth foaming, rabid, fanaticism. Truther level not credible.
The CPAC straw poll and the Washington Times national poll have Ginrich dumping into the mid-teens. These are not people easily influenced by nonsense. Santorum is NOT beating Gingrich by a ton…because of something Romney said or did…or something the “establishment” said or did.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/11/breaking-romney-wins-cpac-straw-poll/
I mean, really. Come on. It’s completely illogical. Which issue “stuck” to the extent that Gingrich suffered a complete collapse because of it? Ridiculous.
And which issue wouldn’t come at him…twice as hard…from Obama and the propaganda machine. If he melts like a soft serve swirl at this TAME stuff…he’s not made of stern enough mettle to take on ferocious and dirty battle of the general election.
ALL FOUR OF THEM right now, appear to be likely losers…to the worst President in American history. To the gravest danger to capitalism in American history. To someone who feel he needs to APOLOGIZE for America’s existence.
They are polling as LOSERS. And…that outcome is unthinkable to me.
The further down on that list you are…the MORE unthinkable your candidacy is to me. I don’t like any of them as candidates. (I do like PIECES of each). Instead of accepting defeat quietly, I’m making as much noise as possible to make a course correction. Unless and until I feel that one of these four is not a sure loser to Obama, I refuse to lay down.
I don’t “love” a candidate more than I love my country. And, I damn sure won’t promote a sure loser…just to be a fanatical supporter. Or make up crazy conspiracy theories. Or blame everyone else for his failings. Or attack capitalism and the free market. Or damage the Republican brand for any OTHER candidate…who will need that brand to be intact to win in November.
No, thank you.
My country comes first.
I just wish the candidates and their fanatical supporters would begin to feel the same.
Yet only Newt and Newt s’porters stick in your craw…. whatever! Talk about your fanatics.
As for polling, Newt has been higher and lower. Now Santorum is on top. Lets see what 20 million in attacks from Flip romney do.
Speaking of romney. There is a reason he can’t get above 25%… he is a progressive like obama. And that is from his own mouth!
I will vote for Santorum if he wins, I will even vote for Paul. Certainly of the four, Newt is my favorite. Now one other thing…. I will never vote for Flip.
Fantom, just imagine what 200 million in attacks from Obama can do to poor old put upon Newt.
but but but, didn’t Newt consult with Fannie Mae, the agency that 10% of the country despises and the other 90% doeesn’t know anything about?
And wan’t he censured by the entity with the lowest approval rating in the country…last heard from at about 8%…well below used car salesmen, pornographers and vulture capitalists.
And didn’t he come out in favor of rejuvinating the space program? What idiot thought THAT up…certainly not Ann Coulter or Karl Rove. Unless there are mandates involved, those two aren’t in favor of ANYTHING.
We better stick with the guy who is conservative, or liberal, or moderate, depending on the audience.
And we certainly can’t risk a guy who might be impolite to our beloved president. That would turn off the independents and would result in a catasrophic loss in Congress, maybe even bigger than the catastrophic loss when we weren’t polite enough in 2008.
Newt as the most qualified and likely candidate to beat Obama will get my vote. This however is at odds with the main stream media and the main stream Republican old guard to select the most “McCain like” loser candidate possible. Obama knows this and counts on this. Truth be told the Rebublicans in congress want all of the money, benefits and job insurance they can get and they know Obama is their boy to deliver the goods. We have two groups of Americans including those who are dependent on or “connected” with the government and those who are not. Tax payers are suckers. Newt would have the best shot at changing this which therefore dooms his chances.
Well said!
Agreed.
And we certainly need Newt to stay in if we are to have hope of a brokered convention.
Ditto *4.
Newt is the only real leader out of the four choices we have. Paul is a nut, Flip Romney is a lieberal(and a total scumbag as well.. but I repeat myself), Santorum is a mental lightweight who looks like he is constipated.
Newt, with all his faults, is the only one with the vision, the experience, and quite frankly ….the balls this country needs.
it’s so pleasant to see all of the sneering and ridicule of so-called rinos, establishment types, etc. though, it might be that mr. romney gets the support of people who carefully study and decide that if he is president, it is likely that employment will climb and other good things will happen. i know that is not the mob mentality of those decrying his credentials, but i happen to think he is the most likely to win, and the most likely to succeed as president. and there are a lot of us who think that way, without…. any connection to the MSM or power elites. amazing! i don’t think that mr. gingrich, he of petulance personified, of self-aggrandizement, is likely to succeed. mr. gingrich has some great ideas, but he is not going to win a nomination because of his ideas, but because of his checkered past, and if he won the nomination, he would not win the election, and if he won the election, he would not govern well.
Nope, Flip carries about the same 25% he has always carried from the start. Likely those are the liberal element of the Republican party…..otherwise know this cycle as Nitmitts.
Likely it has little to do with due diligence(seeing as they were there to start with), intellect, or anything but progressive ideology.
Speaking of sneering… what is it about progressives. They always claim to be the “most reasoned.. the most enlightened”…… Nitmitts.
Given that the only time Romney wins is when he outspends his opponents 3x or more in cash, it kind of shows what people really think of him. The only way he wins is when his campaign and the Super PAC supporting him run non-stop attack adds against his opponents.
Seriously though, how is he suddenly so electable THIS time when he couldn’t even beat out John McCain last election cycle? Just more of the “It’s his turn” mentality of the establishment. He had his chance, he lost already, now he needs to get out and let the people choose someone else without spending millions of dollars on spin to discredit his own party.
But then, maybe that’s his purpose. Given that he is a self-professed progressive, and the only things he has that could be considered “conservative” are his family life, and his business experience. Since Soros, Buffett, Gates (Sr. and Jr.), and Steve Jobs (up until his death) are all successful businessmen and flaming liberals, the business experience alone doesn’t say much.
I don’t know, seems to me putting bar code tats on the arms of illegal aliens might smack to much of a World War Two concentration camp: for the politically squeamish foreheads might be a better place for the bar codes. Forehead bar codes would be easier for the cashiers to scan at the local stop and robs and Burrito Bobs too. Since the schools would have bar code readers, I presume children and minors would be required to have forehead bar codes to track their educational experience? Since illegal aliens wouldn’t be volunteering for the bar codes, I presume only those illegal aliens that were caught and released the first time would be getting bar codes and thus facilitating the catch and release program? To speed up the instant check gun check for gun purchasers and to combat health care benefit fraud, perhaps everyone should have forehead bar codes?
Check your meds, dude…
Just give President Downgrade another four years and you will get your wish.
” His campaign must be more about his ideas than his emotional state. After Tuesday, he’ll need a clear explanation of why he should be the not-Romney rather than the issue-focused and increasingly likable Rick Santorum.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204369404577211091105850680.html
So says the evil Karl Rove, hated by the left…and their mirrors on the faux right.
The “mental giants” who believe that “establishment Republicans” and “conservative pravda” are behind Gingrich’s freefall….but can’t seem to account for how Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are now running ahead of him in the last primaries.
A guy who can’t get on the ballot in a state where he lives, (not Georgia, btw), and has such little support that he is nearly out of money. If he is sooooo beloved, where are his donations? He was going to “teach” his campaign staff a lesson about how to run a campaign the “new” way.
The Real Clear Politics RCP Average poll…has him running DEAD LAST against Obama.
I know, I know…the “conservative pravda” and “establishment” run around answering phone calls in people’s homes while they are away, planting phony answers for EVERY OTHER candidate except poor Newtie Patootie.
Gingrich loses to Obama in the RCP polls by 10.9 (51.0 to 40.1)
That makes him currently the LEAST likely…even less than Ron Paul…to beat Obama.
Again, this is tough math for the mentally challenged, emotionally overwrought crowd.
But hey, every good truther has a “theory” about how it’s all an inside job.
And the faux right believes that “vulture capitalism” and the free market and the “establishment” are the enemy.
Along with the “conservative pravda”.
And to think…some people want me to pay attention to those attacks on the left. I have, for several years. Hundreds of comments and dozens of articles. Easy to find.
The greater danger currently comes from those attacking the right from the inside, however. And…from running candidates who are likely to lose the most important election of our lifetime. Every one of them…current running behind…the worst President in history.
Can’t stop yourself, can you?
Neither can you, apparently.
Honestly, some of the Gingrich supporters are as deep in the Kool-Aid tank as Paul supporters.
Whatever Newt does, apparently, is just fine with you. He can support health care mandates, just like Mitt and Obama, and that’s just fine with you… you’ll even declare it a “conservative” stance, though you still say that it shows Mitt’s “liberalism” that he did what Newt suggested! Same thing with global warming and cap-and-tax.
The problem is Mr Bleachers comes snark in hand to deminish one of our Candidates in what could be a positive tread. All the while bemoaning all who have/may dismisss whomever is Mr Bleachers pet in the race. It sounds like he is a Flip Romneybot.
To wit. “The greater danger currently comes from those attacking the right from the inside, “.
I would say Mr Bleachers should look to the log in his own eye first. Otherewise, to whine about inside attack all the whilst propagating them is so very … so very, well I say it so very obama like.
BTW, on the individual mandate. Newt was for them, just like the Heritage Foundation used to be for them. Both repudiate that position today. Newt never voted for individual mandates. Flip Romney did and stands by that vote. Even Saint Ricks hands are dirtier than Newts on the individual mandate.
Saint Rick, by supporting Arlene Sphincter over Toomey, in a close race, may very well be why we have obamacare and the individual mandate today. Certainly at the least, Saint Rick has shown hisself to be a water carrier for the Republican establishment.
In other words… if Newt does it, it must be conservative, if Mitt does the same thing, it must be lefty.
Same sort of hero-worship we see out of the Paul and Obama supporters.
As for CF’s snark, that’s his stock in trade. If ya don’t like it, don’t read him. Each of the Tatler contributors has his/her own style, and while I can’t speak for everyone, Bryan has let me run with my own style… as I am pretty sure he is letting CF and everyone else run with theirs. That’s what makes this blog so interesting to read.
So, in other words, what part of Flip Romney being the only one to actually mandate an individual mandate do you not understand.
As for hero worship. Yeah, Newt is one of Americas greatest conservative hero’s of our time. His actual accomplishments for the Conservative cause are epic. They tower over any that the others in this race have achieved, casting a shadow over history as long and great as Reagan’s .. and perhaps even greater.
Flip romney… not so much.
So hero worship… not necessarily a bad thing when deserved.
But it is not needed here to acknowledge the truth. That the individual mandate was mainstream conservative thought, espoused by the Heritage foundation and championed by Newt back in 94. Largely it was discredited well before Flip romney passed it as Gov’ner. You do acknowledge truth do you not?
As for Mr Bleachers style, I could care less, his critique is aimed not at the attacks by all, Flip romney being the first and worst to do so. But only at Newt. He slams Newt and others yet engages himself in the BS. That makes Mr Bleachers more team obama in y book than a decent person.
IMHO
BTW Conservative Wanderer.
I don’t read Mr Bleachers, not because of style though. But rather because of content… or lack of worthwhile content anyways. Much like Rubin. One horse phony pony’s.
I will however, engage in the comment section if that is ok with you.
One clarification. The “Rubin” I am talking about is the racist one.. rubin navarattee or however you spell it’s name.
what’s wrong with the individual mandate? here is where conservatives lose the distinction between what states do and what the federal government does. romney never voted for – or signed off on – the individual mandate from a federal level. for all the snarky commentators here,there is a difference between a state doing something, and the federal government. that…um… is what the supreme court case is all about. a state can impose different mandates on insurance, as they do for cars. we don’t need shrill partisans, liberal or conservative, pontificating ideologically about what should and shouldn’t be be done for health care. we need 50 experiments at the state level, and let the results be analyzed. romneycare is a whole lot better than obamacare, but the main thing is that is done at a state level and its long term effects can be assessed, in comparison to other states. but hey, it is comforting to see shrill conservatives acting like shrill liberals. different flavor of the same conceit.
lukeliberty
what’s wrong with the individual mandate? here is where conservatives lose the distinction between what states do and what the federal government does
This nation is founded on the principle that individual freedom is paramount; that freedom is acknowledged and supported by the Constitution of the United States of America. That Romney would deny that freedom because it is legal to do so in Massachusetts is his signature failure as a conservative.
Conservatives seek to preserve individual freedom and liberty; progressives seek to subsume the individual to the commonweal. Like it or not, Romney thinks as a progressive, not as a conservative.
Well lukeliberty, I’ll tell you what the problem is. We have to measure candidates by what they have actually done as opposed to what they say today. Especially if what they say today is opposite of what they have always done in non-election years.
Flips record speaks for itself in this regard, as does Newts, Saint Ricks, and now obama’s.
Only two of those have actually implemented a mandate. Now maybe we risk Flip as meaning what he says now wanting to be elected. Heck even obama is starting to sound like Rush these days. Or we measure them by what they have done, and said their whole lives.
Mitts own words brand him as a progressive. So do his actions in office.
I do not think it wise to let him in the Oval office. Unless of course you are a progressive. Then vote for Flip… he is your man.
OMG, cdfbleachers & conservative wanderer are now BLOGGING for PJM! Long-winded, monotonous, constant takeovers of threads used to be known as trolling.
I guess pro-Romney/anti-Gingrich ideology trumps all for PJM. Perhaps the new editor will try to bring some faux enthusiasm to the Santorum surge.
…by the way, not to worry about the polls. The media trashed Bachmann (remember the Newsweek cover), they crushed Cain (unsubstantiated allegations) and did a hatchet job on Newt (ABC interview with ex-wife). They’ve barely touched Santorum but they will now that he’s riding high. Why has the media left Romney virtually untouched so far?
Obviously they want him to run against Obama. He will be destroyed by the media and the Obama machine on his corporate wall street country club rich guy persona – and Bain Capital will be his achilles heel.
(an interview about Bain below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmrEUHdwAwQ&feature=youtu.be
Yes, the polls show Newt behind the others in a match up with Obama. But he’s already been targeted. Romney hasn’t. And he will be crushed.
Please refer to #4. The MSM is doing to the Republicans what the folks on this site are doing to each other. They sit back and watch the fun and lick their chops while Conservatives devour themselves. Too much in fighting and not enough focus on the real problem – defeating Obama the destroyer of a great nation. Have decided to discontinue reading this sepf-destructive site.
“Conservatives devour themselves”
Newt was running a clean campaign based on the issues and defeating Obama. Attually, as long as McMitt was safely in the lead, the entire field was relatively civil to each other and focused on obama.
McMitt has serially destroyed or attempted to destroy the following candidates in the last four years: Guilliani, Thompson, Huckabee, McCain, Perry, Cain, Gingrich, Santorum…all of whom managed to challenge overcome his 5 to 1 money advantage in one way or another.
Who is doing the devouring?
True, but the Nitmitts will not acknowledge this truth.
Very good point. So clever is the meme “conservatives devour themselves” and SO misleading. Keep pointing this out, proreason. Very good insight. It’s ROMNEY’S camp doing this. And those who are getting clobbered – eventually – have to respond in some fashion. They HAVE to respond because the negative attacks work. It’s Romney who derailed a civil, honest, positive discourse.
So if he is this good at serial destruction, why don’t you want him to run against Obama?
Speakin’ of States where one lives.
I s’pose you s’port Santorum? Someone who’s State did not even think was Senate material. After one term lightweight Rick lost re-election by 18%. Maybe his home State knows him better than the national electorate does.
Whine on with your badself.
“If FedEx can track packages, why can’t the feds track illegal immigrants?”
Stupid question. False equivalence.
FedEx tag the packages they ship, the feds don’t tag humans,legal or not.
Packages are brought to FedEx, illegals do not show up at the feds.
If the so-called conservative Republicans are stupid enough to fall for stupid rhetoric, be prepared for Obama 2.0.
Hey…elk1…..you beat me to it…..
I was about to comment that Illegals don’t wear pre-printed bar-codes on their foreheads.
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I’m under-impressed with the overall lackluster quality and seeming emptiness of statesman-like background of these guys…..we need candidates with more of the stature of a George Bush the Elder….Gingerich is sharp as a tack, witty, too mercurial..etc..Santorum is far too inexperienced, Romney’s Hollywood appearance of looking like he just stepped out of Central Casting and having been tutored in smoooothness……etc.. Are these the the best of America that filters up to wanting to be President?
Is that job so onerous and thankless that only the opportunistic Obama-Affirmative-Action-President-Types have the brass to become candidates; and we the voters are so indifferent to our precious votes that we actually elect such rank emptiness as an Obama?
We Americans should be ashamed that we elected this Obama…..what a dangerous waste of our precious votes…..votes preserved for us by so many brave military men, and now women, in faraway wars.
I was also going to mention that.
We can certainly track illegal aliens as well as FedEx tracks cargo–the day we start treating those illegal aliens as cargo.
We stopped treating people as cargo in 1863.
LOL, you haters cannot understand Newt was talking, not about a real …proposal, but in jest about what works, Private enterprise and what does not… government. Not even when he states so during the same speach about it being hyperbola…. sheesh.
Now go back to your koolaid stand and raise some funds for Santorum.
so what to do? attack the media, relentlessly, on everything.
and attack obama, on every last thing, with no holds barred.
trouble is, it’ll take an all-out effort, unified, no loose ends.
The (de)merits of Mr Romney appear to have been adequately covered.
I live in Obama(Mary)land … so I feel I have carte blanche not to vote for a presidential candidate if someone likely to be marginally effective is selected as the Republican nominee.
As for Mr. Santorum: His records support contentions that he is a compassionate (Bush style) conservative for big government to carry out his penchants in governance. However, he lacks Executive Experience. He lacks current and intimate familiarity with the enemies within the bureaucracies – Who need Immediate Attention – to arrest the damage they are visiting on our nation. In many ways his resume carries worrisome comparisons to that of our present “on training wheels” former Senator/President. Mr. Santorum is a cheerful ever optimistic young chap and solid social conservative, with a large family confirming this aspect of his resume. However, with his past support for RINO’s and big government initiatives … I can’t generate enthusiasm for his candidacy.
I have to admit I would rather see Mr. Gingrich as a consultant and idea man for a Clearly Conservative, Experienced Executive who has a current familiarity with the evils of the bureaucracies and likely Conservative legislative support … when he is elected to the Presidency in 2013. On the other hand, Mr. Gingrich appears to be the closest of the remaining field to the multifaceted candidate that is needed for governance.
I am none the less hoping for a brokered convention that would produce a Presidential/VP team of nominees to best take on contest (and conservative governance when elected) for this election.
I think Newt can still do it. It will be tough, but he may just be able to pull this one out in some of the more conservative states. Maybe. I always thought that “To catch a thief you need a thief.” I’m not calling Newt a thief, but nobody knows how Washington works better than Newt. And the only way you’re going to get things done, really important things done, is by using a person who knows how Washington works and who has the stones to change them. Newt has both. You don’t want to elect a saint to president and I don’t want to elect a “nice” guy. I want a George Patton-type of person who has a good record of getting things done and then gets the job done. THAT is what we need. We’ve had enough of “Saint” Obama, a thief who would kill you with a smile. No, we need the toughest S.O.B. out there who will strike terror in the hearts of Congressmen and let them know who is in charge. He doesn’t want to win any popularity contests, he just wants to change the way things get done in Washington. And for that, I think Newt IS the man.
To reverse the direction of Obama’s socialism we need a strong, decisive person with the know-how and the dedication Gingrich has. You don’t have to like him. Just respect the fact that he’s the only one running who has a clue about how to get things done. If he steps on toes, kicks some butt, so be it.
Get behind him, send him money, work for him, and vote for him. Then watch a miracle happen. He’s done it before, he’ll do it again. He is our last, best hope. God Bless the USA !!!!
“he is the only one who knows how to get things done…” are you kidding? i mean, i get that he knows how to trade on influence peddling and then being dishonest about it. i get that 18 years ago he was in the right position to capitalize on a nation already weary of an over-reaching young president, and to lead to a house takeover, leadership he then had to leave. i get that he likes to take credit for things that were not his doing and to avoid responsibility for things that were. i get that mr. romney has all those things shrill conservatives seem to dislike, like the ability to work with those who are not shrill conservatives. but he also knows how to work tirelessly, unlike mr. gingrich. he has a a vast reservoir of business knowledge and successful business experience. he understands competition far more than mr. gingrich. and at the end of the day, he knows he will be judged on whether more people were able to find work and whether the economy grew and escaped the mortal peril it is in now. i trust him far more that mr. gingrich to meet that challenge. but hey – i could’t possibly think for myself. it must be that someone else told me what to think.
Getting things done as Speaker of the House is a very different job from getting things done as President of the United States.
As House Speaker, Gingrich didn’t have giant bureaucracies like HHS to oversee that employed tens of thousands of people. Sure, Congress looks at them and investigates them, but they don’t report to Congress, they report to the President.
And as House Speaker, Gingrich got things done by wheeling and dealing, not by inspiring and leading the American people as a President must do. The female half of the American people won’t be led by him, because they just don’t respect him.
Gingrich gets the shiv out aimed at Santorum’s back.
All that whining about Romney saying negative things about Gingrich…and the first minute Santorum (his friend) gets a little momentum, surprise, surprise, surprise.
This phony canard about being able to go negative because of “money” …and THAT’S why a candidate free falls…is being put to the test of reality.
“Among Tea Party members, I have a much stronger following than Rick does. And they understand that it’s principled and that I am supportive of the Tea Parties; I am not attacking them, as he did,” Gingrich said.
His campaign cited a 2011 video, now circulating online, in which Santorum can be heard telling an audience in Harrisburg he has “real concerns” about efforts by the Tea Party to refashion conservatism, and added that he planned to “vocally and publicly oppose it.”
But Gingrich didn’t stop there. While calling Santorum a friend, he assailed the latter’s voting record in the House and Senate.
“He was a Big Labor Republican who consistently voted with the unions,” Gingrich told Fox News. “Ironically, while he says that I’m not a real conservative, I had a 90 percent American Conservative Union rating. His is dramatically lower. So he actually was more liberal, according to the American Conservative Union, than I am. But that’s part of being a Big Labor Republican. I don’t think you can run trying to get the support of the AFL-CIO in a place like Pennsylvania and not have votes that most conservatives would look at very dubiously.”
More “liberal”? Santorum had an 88.1 rating. That’s hardly liberal.
Secondly, Gingrich got his rating…but LONG BEFORE he twaddled onto a couch with Nancy Pelosi to peddle the global warming hoax, went to Fannie/Freddie to help them with their coverup for Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, Barney Frank and Herb Moses, and before Gingrich supported the mandate.
It’s comparing apples to gorillas.
What are their respective positions NOW…and since the frothing, foaming, “truthers” insist that Romney be judged on his past…not his STATED positiong…then we should insist on one rule…not shifting sands…for ALL the candidates.
This BS that when Newtie Patootie does it, there’s some excuse, alibi, phony canard to explain it away.
Newt has cozied up with the left MUCH MORE RECENTLY than Santorum, or Romney for that matter.
His assault on Santorum’s Big Labor history is fair game. In fact, it’s true. And, Santorum is an earmark and pork guy. That is NOT in the Tea Party wheelhouse.
But this skit about “Quien es mas liberal”, is a farce. There is not a credible small government one in the bunch.
Gingrich has “big ideas”, almost all his “big ideas” are “big government” boondoggles. He wants to “transform” America…just like Obama. He doesn’t want to ratchet back government overreach, he wants to replace Obama’s government overreach with Gingrich government overreach.
The people want someone to get government OUT of their bedrooms, their wallets, their small businesses, their inheritances, their children’s piggy banks, their insurance policies, our natural resources, ….to the furthest extent possible.
His “big ideas” of sex on the moon, and Jurassic Park…and global warming hoaxes and individual mandates…are completely out of touch with the sane, the sober and the stable.
Here’s the problem…Romney, Paul and Santorum are just as bad (and Obama is the worst)…for other reasons. Right now, if America had to …was forced to…choose one…Gingrich and Paul are running dead last. Even to Obama. Or more to the point…ESPECIALLY to Obama.
Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/02/09/gingrich-vowing-national-campaign-jabs-santorum#ixzz1m5JKVao6
nonsense, as usual, by pjm’s chief fantasy poster and Gingrich hater (which is simply a way to shill for Romney).
LOL, unhinged much?
Yep Newt has sat on a couch with peloser. Saint Rick gave his support to the man who ensured obamacare would pass.
Need we go on?
Now you come with unsupported, unproven innuendo as attack.
To Wit: “went to Fannie/Freddie to help them with their coverup for Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, Barney Frank and Herb Moses, and before Gingrich supported the mandate.”
Unless you have the transcripts of every meeting Newt had with Fannie/Freddie you are engaged in a smear campaign of unproven lies.
At least Newts attack is truth, as admitted in the very article you bring forth.
“His assault on Santorum’s Big Labor history is fair game. In fact, it’s true”.
The rest you bring is the rantings of a madman. Focused only against one candidate.. “Newt”, it shows you to be nothing but a hateful shill engaged in the worst kind of politics. Maybe you can get a job with team obama. You have there style down pat.
BTW, this was meant as reply to #12 above.
Why can’t the federal government find 11 million illegal aliens? Why can’t the federal government seal the border, even after 9/11 and now finds islamist material among the trash? Answer: because it doesn’t want to. Our government is full of the “open borders” crowd funded by George Soros and his ilk. I suspect that George has operatives on both sides of the aisle. Maybe the Maine twins, Dick Lugar and others.
All the candidates have flaws and conservative heresies in their background. For all of Newt’s drawbacks, he is still the only with the stature and balls to take on President Obama and win. Santorum will be made to look like a religious nutcase. Romney, no contrast to Obama because they’re about the same, maybe with different methods. Ron Paul, sorry no deal since he can’t see the danger in Islam. And, Newt is just the guy who can drag Bonehead and McMumbles sorry arses into the woodshed.
romney and obama are the same? let’s take two differences. romney’s life experience in the business world is about making companies profitable, i.e. private sector wealth building, which right now is the opposite of mr. obama’s focus on public sector empire building. mr. romney has a far more sober and realistic understanding of china than mr. obama. the obama=romney claim is a canard that ignores their most powerful differences. newt drag mr. romney to the woodshed? sure, go ahead. that’s what the debates have been about. the last two, mr. gingrich was reduced to his own mumbles.
Two words… Ampad… ok one word.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/13/fact-or-fiction-romneys-private-equity-past/
A lot of Flip romneys “business” experience was vulture capitalism. No other way to put it.
He put in 5 million and reaped over 100 million in this deal leaving a company way over extended in debt and the US taxpayer on the hook for pensions. Sure he can point to Staples. But Flip practices a brand of capitalism more along the lines of George Soro’s than Henry Ford. Buy a company, run up the debt, pay yourself huge “management fees”, let it go bankrupt… ah the good life.
No wonder Soro’s is ok with Flip.
” Answer: because it doesn’t want to. Our government is full of the “open borders” crowd funded by George Soros and his ilk. I suspect that George has operatives on both sides of the aisle. Maybe the Maine twins, Dick Lugar and others.”
Big business also campaigned for immigration reform.
The current Saudi/Iranian proxy war in Syria is the precursor of the shape of the world when Islam finally dominates. This Sunni/Shia conflict is as old as Islam itself and makes a mockery of Muslims claims to 1.5 billion Cult members when they each consider the other to be apostates. Islam needs blood to be spilled to exist so when the left wing moonbats in the West have finally completed their capitulation to dhimmiehood, not too long now if current trends continue, then Islam will prepare for its final Sunni/Shia Armageddon.
I wonder what President Obama will do about the 19 American hostages being held by the Egyptians? I just wanted to change the subject from poor pitiful put upon Newt(I’m Mad as Hell and I Won’t Take it Anymore, Later) Gingrich. Newt puts together sentences with more adjectives and adverbs than any candidate, so he must be the smartest among them all. ABO2012