Posted on 12/12/2011 9:52:34 PM PST by Fred
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called a truce Monday and vowed to run a positive campaign, saying his and his opponents’ shared goal of defeating President Barack Obama in 2012 was more important than winning the nomination.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Southern New Hampshire 9/12 Project, Gingrich said he planned to communicate this resolution to his staffers, consultants, and even the Super PACs supporting him, in a letter to be sent on Tuesday. (RELATED: Full coverage of Newt Gingrich)
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The venom being spewed by Willard’s surrogates and the loons, e.g. Savage and Beck, against a fellow Republicans is utterly shameful. Do they think they will be able to put the crap back in the horse after the primaries with the path they’re taking?
This is one lifelong Republican conservative that will hold Willard “Richie Rich” Romney accountable for creating irreconcilable splits in the GOP.
It is completely shameful this $h@T they’re saying about Gingrich. Remember, the sun doesn’t shine on the same dog’s a$$ every day, Willard.
Sorry to hear this. I was hoping Newt would gut this fish.
How is beating Obama more important than ending up with Newt as president? Newt would be worse because every single stupid progressive idea that he supports like amnesty would be associated with conservatism.
Sheesh....if you REALLY think Newt would do the same things that Obama had done, then you need to start paying attention.
So much for Newt’s oratorical skills for taking on an opponent. I thought that was the big reason why everybody wants him to win. He can’t even take on a metro like Romney/
****** “ Sorry to hear this. I was hoping Newt would gut this fish. “ ******
More than one way to skin a Cat ... more than one way to gut a fish
But in the end.... the fish needs to be gutted
TT
A lot of vile spewing has come out of FReepers here about Newt lately. Nasty. Not helpful to a discussion. I’ve read so many postings (sometimes the same person over and over) as hateful as the left piles on Palin. I would hope we don’t get ashamed of what’s going on here.
The problem with this strategy is that Herman Cain played it and he got burned by it. I hope Newt is very careful, as this strategy opens him up to the same relentless personal attacks.
Mistake to unilaterally disarm around the smarmy character assassin. I guess the intent is to bait him into starting it, but that is a dangerous gambit. It smacks of Bush 43’s passivity in the face of repeated slanders from the left.
You think Newt would be worse than Obama? Are you really that stupid or do you just think that we are?
True, and while you're at it, take a look around here. Some of the obsessive vile hatred towards Gingrich has spilled out towards fellow FReepers. The supposed Reagan admirers (11th commandment) display their hypocracy every day.
A couple issues I have with Newt’s positions.
One:
Santorum, Bachmann and Perry all oppose extending the payroll tax cut. Mittens, Newt and Ron Paul support an extension of the payroll tax cut.
(Payroll tax being the contribution to the Medicare benefit plan that is a flat rate applying to all salary/wages under an annual max of a little over 100k of gross salary/wages). Mind you, there’s no change in the matching employer contribution, just the voter-I mean employee contribution.
Two:
He wants to continue the efforts at “shaping hearts and minds” in a long term mideast strategy he outlined in his recent debate with Huntsman covered by C-Span.
The video is out there, it’s at about minute 50.
IMHO, the mideast strategy is a dealbraker for me personally. That has not worked even though we have had freewheeling immigration and spread of American culture ad nauseum for at least 15 years. Seems like they hate us worse than ever and still want to cut the head off of everyone who does not submit to them. I see that plan as extremely dangerous for America and IMHO we should be doing exactly the opposite.
Newt and Obama both support amnesty for illegal aliens. I would rather have the Democrat who supports amnesty.
At least the Democrat won’t demoralize conservatives and drag down other candidates and lose other races. Quite the opposite. In 2010, we took back the House and won enormous victories at the state level because of Obama.
What is to be gained by exchanging Obama for Newt? We have same open borders, pro-amnesty policies, but conservatives are demoralized and are going to be put in the sorry position of making excuses for Newt.
Newt is an enormous albatross. This guy is a disaster who has spectacularly imploded before. He is going to embarrass us all over again. Just watch. It will be another fiasco like Herman Cain.
Go ahead and nominate Newt. He will be defeated like John McCain. Just like McCain, Newt lose Hispanic voters (SCOTUS will rule on Arizona’s SB 1070 by July) while alienating a critical mass of conservatives and independent voters.
The only question is: how much will Newt depress Republican turnout? How many other races will Newt end up losing?
Of course.
Newt replacing Obama means we get stuck having to defend someone who is going to be an albatross for the next four years. It means that we own him and his policies. The Left will be liberated of their albatross.
Congressional gridlock keeps us going until we get a real electoral sweep.
And Bummer can hurt the military pretty badly, but it will surivive and can be fixed.
If they need to defend America, they will. Bummer will find somebody “helping” him give the order if necessary.
It’s only when the fan gets really splattered that enough people abandon their “hero” liberals and elect sensible people.
IMHO...
My feeling is that we were pretty much all in agreement that as long as Romney didn't win, it was all good. Well, it appears to me that the race has tightened up into a two person race now and it's either Mittens or Gingrich. Our choice seems pretty clear to me given our unified and completely justified dislike of Mitt Romney. Newt isn't perfect but he's far superior to Romney and infinitely superior to Obama.
Personally, I could support Newt even if Romney had already dropped out. With his experience and intelligence, I think he could be the most effective President that we have seen since Ronald Reagan.
We also need to remember that the Presidency is just one battle we will be fighting next year. We stand a good chance of controlling both chambers of congress AND the executive branch. We have been fighting a hell of a fight since 2008 just to get to this mother of all battles. We have positioned ourselves very well and our enemy is vulnerable. It would be a terrible shame to lose ground where it should be gained because we allowed the primary process to get out of control. What's worse, our failure will have disastrous consequences for our country.
We have beaten Mitt Romney if that is what we want to do. In light of all that is at stake, we should be content with that victory and start moving our eyes towards the general election battles that lie ahead.
Color me not impressed. Liberals were posting the same junk about Palin and Cain. I'm not falling for it. Noot would be just about a thousand times better for the USA than Obama is. Because it looks just exactly like you are supporting Obama, on the lame premise that we can hate him for destroying the country, but we can't hold a Republican to account. Save your precious vote for Obama. You were never going to vote Republican anyway.
Newt isn’t the albatross, Romney is. He is a draft dodging, gun grabbing, abortion supporting, friend of Ted Kennedy who does not deserve to bear the name Republican let alone President. Furthermore, Newt isn’t half as bad as you or others have portrayed him to be. He has a conservative record unlike Romney. Cain isn’t going to win. Bachmann isn’t going to win. Perry isn’t going to win. Santorum isn’t going to win. It’s either Newt or Mitt. Pick your poison.
I agree.
The one thing that is different from recent attacks is that these attacks are very personal in nature, and not politically motivated.
It’s going to come back and bite them when they see themselves in ‘Rat ads, and in their own words.
In fact, it will hurt the party as a whole.
I hope someone will remind them of Reagan’s 11th commandment.
AND...I hope someone will be so bold as to go public about Sununu’s record. He needs intimidatin’!
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