dforest, just for conversation- Friend Rick openly adopts the “Richie Cunningham” persona; to the extent he is “mom and apple pie”, that’s fine—— if he isn’t, then people are going to view him as insincere.
Newt, on the other hand, is “the Fonz” - We all know he’s the “bad boy”, but at the same time, many of us feel he’s the “go-to” guy and the real star of the show.
He is no star. Sorry.
Fonz, was cool, Newt is another pudgy gray haired old man like McCain.
He won’t fly.
Here's a brief detour down the lighter side for this post. I was recently tracking down some YouTube music videos from my college days. I came across Billy J. Kramer's 1965 appearance on Top of the Pops with a Rick Santorum look (absent the vest, of course).
I also stumbled across Creeque Alley from that same era. I was struck by Denny Doherty who really had the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad look going way back then.
Now back to the more serial bidness of this thread...
Yep. We don’t need a Ritchie Cunningham at this point.
What this country needs right now is someone who is going to have blood and entrails dripping off his desk from all the gutting of the socialist system that’s in place right now.
And I’m just talking about day one!
LOL! Has to be the first in the known universe Newt Gingrich has ever been compared to The Fonz.