Posted on 11/22/2011 1:36:24 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion
If you believe the latest national poll, Newt Gingrich is now officially a frontrunner in the Republican presidential circus.
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The surge is propelled not by Gingrich's strengths as a candidate, but by the fact that he is a better alternative to his gaffe-prone and often incoherent 2012 rivals. The weakness of the GOP field has now apparently acted as a blow to the head of Republican voters, who have collectively forgotten why they never liked Gingrich in the first place.
Luckily, we remember.
Here's a list of Gingrich's most glaring flaws:
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Gingrich wants everyone to know he is the smartest person in the room...
we have that with his intelligence, obama.
Lol...who are these pendejos?
Anyone is better than Obummer. Wait, everyone is better than O-lunitic.
Newt’s alleged negatives are as nothing compared to Obama/Biden/Pelosi/Reid.
Cuidado, chuleta!
I don't get some of these hysterically-written pieces. This is what the primary season is about. As each candidate gets traction, the focus turns on them.
Is it really so bizarre?
Actually, there was an author: Grace Wyler
I wish a conservative publication would actually tackle the legitimate problems of Newt rather than dealing with so many irrelevant issues. No one cares about Newt’s marriage problems or most of the stuff they mentioned. So he’s mean? What conservative in his right mind would decide to vote for someone based on meanness or niceness? His record needs to be properly examined by someone rational. There is a ton more REAL baggage when you examine his voting history going back a decade, not to mention his betrayals of the Tea Party and comments against “right wing” extremism.
Newt is only conservative in soundbytes. But these libs are only strengthening his position amongst conservatives who don’t know their history.
To quote Leroy Jethro Gibbs:
"YA THINK?!!!"
LOL... Newt is winning, he is going to continue to win and he is going to destroy Obama. Then, America will begin to turn around and I believe that will begin in great effort........ beginning on day one.
Our Realistic Options: Obama, Romney, Newt. I’ll take Newt any day of the week.
So? We're electing a President, not a f**king Prom Queen.
Newt? Nein, Nein, Nein.
“Obama/Biden/Pelosi/Reid.”
Just the thought of Newt coming at them has those traitors and their supporters scared out of their minds.
I believe that Herman Cain is a realistic option and would make a better President than Newt.
The field isn’t weak. This must be this season’s most repeated accepted wisdom. Looking back in history, this group is pretty good. Claiming that Gingrich is not propelled by his own strengths as a candidate, I don’t get at all. Newt is a brilliant man and a gifted rhetorician. It’s exactly his strengths that have pushed him up. Other candidates gaffes are magnified more so in modern times because there are recording devices everywhere and most of the media hates them. I don’t like Newt because he wanders off the path, but I don’t buy any of these arguments.
Take care of pork chops?
even the pro ‘republican’ news organs like Fox have already thrown Cain under the bus.....
....we are letting the MSM pick our candidate...
OK. Lib rag [Non]BI doesn’t like Newt. Perhaps his rising poll numbers aren’t real. Hmmm.
The surge is propelled …
Oh, wait … so you really mean there IS a real surge? And your headline is a LIE?
The surge is propelled … by the fact that he is a better alternative to his gaffe-prone and often incoherent 2012 rivals.
Hmm. Now Newt’s surge or boomlet is a fact and is ‘The Real Thing’ but it isn’t due to Newt’s strengths at all, only that he is a better alternative to his rivals.
EPIC FAIL.
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