Gingrich wouldn’t have even gotten 40% of the vote. His un-erasable negatives are through the roof. It would have been one of the biggest wipeouts ever, if not the biggest. You and I would have voted for him, but not enough other people would.
You mean Gingrich would have lost...which is exactly what Romney did.
The difference between the two is that Gingrich had the ability to overcome his negatives with voters, because he could explain to swing voters why they should vote for him.
“...un-erasable negatives...”
Please explain what his un-erasable negatives are.
I kept hearing about Newt’s “baggage” all through the primary debates. What more baggage does he have that Obama, doesn’t?? As far as I know, Newt never hung out with communist radical assh*les, wasn’t brought up and educated by communist assh*le radicals, didn’t hide his college records and other pertinent information so as to avoid public scrutiny.
And In light of Operation Fast and Furious, and now the Benghazi disaster, especially, which I fully believe Newt would have handed him balls over in the debates. We’ve got dead Americans that are laying right at the feet of this fraud in the WH.
These topics never came up with any real attempt at pinpointing the blame squarely where it belongs. And Romney fought harder against his GOP opponents than he did against the REAL opponent. When it came to the vulgar brawl that we needed, he folded like a cheap lawn chair.
I’m just curious about the whole “baggage” and “negatives” thing, because every time I heard Gingrich speak, he seemed in command of the issues, and I remember him from his days going head to head with Clinton and making Slick Willie take it on the chin (instead of leaving it on Lewinsky’s chin [sorry...couldn’t resist]).
“...It would have been one of the biggest wipeouts ever, if not the biggest...”
You mean similar to the one we just had with Romney?
This election, and the GOP’s part in helping it, was a disaster for the entire country.
Personally, I think Gingrich scares the hell out of the dems and their RINO comrades alike. We need MORE candidates who scare the hell out of them.
Look at who they’re going after the hardest and you’ll know who they’re worried about - guys like Scott Walker, and Allen West for instance.
Those are the two gentlemen I want to see team up and run in 2016. I’d LOVE to see Allen West as the Speaker of the House - replace that spineless weasel we have right now with a combat vet that isn’t afraid to get in the faces of the domestic enemy.
Don’t take this an attack on your post either; merely want to understand what you mean by Newt’s “negatives”.