Newt vs. Newt

Townhall.com ^ | January 5, 2013 | Steve Deace

[Hoodat]

For the record, Noot never balanced the budget. The Clinton lies about balancing the budget are just as untrue as when Noot tells them.

[RFEngineer]

“He could’ve been an American Churchill.”

To utter “Churchill” and “Gingrich” in the same article makes this a ridiculous article, with the quoted line being the utmost in hilarity.

[LibLieSlayer]

newt is an opportunistic conman and always has been. He was better than all but one candidate in 2102. Santorum is a good man but lacks the skill set that newt has. That is why I supported newt. That shows just how putrid the republican bench was in this past election.

LLS

[Servant of the Cross]

Newt ping. He was the best of times and the worst of times .....

[RitaOK]

Newt just didn’t finish the sentence, that gay marriage IS assuredly inevitable, if Democrats get their way and if Republicans can’t win elections.

But, yes, Newt does have a half dozen or so, bloopers in his career.

An astounding number, in a man of consequence and controversy. /s

[Theodore R.]

Can someone explain to me why Churchill goes to war when the Nazis invade Poland but acquiesces to the Stalinist takeover of Poland in 1945? Is the explanation related to Churchill’s being defeated as prime minister in 1945? Socialists made their biggest gains in England against Churchill that year.

[niteowl77]

But analysis and commentary I can do. It’s how I provide for my family, and since it puts food on my kids’ table regularly somebody must think I’m pretty decent at it. Yet this time I swung and missed.

Deace admits he was wrong this one time? Gee, thanks, Steve. I'll forget all about the other times you helped screw things up. Now get lost... and take Newt with you while you're at it.

That shows just how putrid the republican bench was in this past election.

Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - who was on said bench in 2012 should even be allowed anywhere near it in 2016. I extend the same warning with regard to the con/neocon/paleocon punditry who made the modern CIA look like absolute clairvoyants by comparison.

(Keep Dick Morris... but do the exact opposite of what he recommends. Works great.)

Mr. niteowl77

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I remember Newt proposing the elimination of the PBS. Not in 2012, but back in the 90’s. He was right, then, and now, about a great many things. I think that he is virtually alone in Federal politics in understanding the intended function of the Federal Government, and completely alone in having even the tiniest interest in seeing that it function as intended.

You can say “He’s a show-boater!” or whatever. I think he has little else to do, now.

In 1994, I think he was a real revolutionary. You can believe what you want, but I think he intended to keep the Contract with America. He was in over his head, however, and undone in the end by the likes of Boner (sp) in Congress who were only interested in the power.

Oh, and you can spare me the re-telling of his marital problems (as if they are unknown). I think it is completely appropriate to judge a person for their personal failings, and I count his against him. I just think he was the only person at the time (1994 / 2012) with even some of the right ideas to solve America’s most pressing problems, and that outweighs his marital failings with me.

[Servant of the Cross]

That is why I supported newt ...

Yea, he has his warts but his strengths outweigh them, especially against the other Pubbies. Just imagine if we had Newt as Speaker of the House right now.

Newt Highlights: How sad it was that NONE of this was ever a part of the GOP general election campaign.

[KC Burke]

Churchill was not PM when GB went to war to honor their pact with Poland.

At the conferences for conclusion the US was influenced by Communists like Hiss and the Brits had much less influence.

[kjo]

In 1945 Churchill/Atlee did not have a vote. Britain was broke and in the process of turning free her colonies. FDR made the decision to hold Patten west of Berlin, thus allowing the Soviets their fill of rape and pillage.

Roosevelt absolutely did not want to fight another war. Truman inherited this position and didn’t have the nerve or weight within the Democratic party to do anything other.

FDR gave us the post-war world. Unless you were in Eastern Europe, in the long run it worked out.

[AnnGora]

Newt is an attention ho. Period. He was on Morning Joe last week, yukking it up with all the libs on the show and generally agreeing with everything they said. Newt is out for Newt. He is Clinton lite. Finger in the wind.

[Lakeshark]

I had hoped for and campaigned for Newt as our candidate, even though I was aware of these short comings the author points out. I had no illusions, or so I thought.

In 20/20 hindsight, I think he would have fared far worse than Romney, as would have the entire conservative bench.

*Dons flame proof underwear*

[BCrago66]

Taking about a lack of discipline. This columnist spends more time talking about his accomplishment-free life than he does talking about Newt.

Who did accomplish stuff.

A lot of stuff, as many Freepers already know.

Here's just one that's not talked about much: He was the chief figure who killed the 90's version of ObamaCare, HillaryCare. Here's Gingrich & his allies on the House floor in 1994, demolishing the Dems on this subject: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/55279-1

[BCrago66]

For some reason my link didn’t link. Let me try again:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/55279-1

[ontap]

Don’t leave Karl Rove out!!! He was every bit as accurate as Dick Morris!!

[Tennessee Nana]

that’s not enough to believe he should hold the highest office of this land. If someone won’t defend marriage, the oldest institution in God’s created order, then what can you count on them to defend when it’s hard?
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Is this about Willard ???

Willard the father of gay marriage in MASS...

Willard the guy who was silent about the gays attacking Chik-Fil-A and refused to participate in the Chick-Fil-A Day...

Willard the guy who pushed for gays in the military...

Willard the guy who employeed a gay to head up part of his 2012 campaign for POTUS

and then fired him when Conservatives objected he found it might not be as politically expediant as he first thought...

[Servant of the Cross]

In 20/20 hindsight, I think he would have fared far worse than Romney, as would have the entire conservative bench.

Sigh. We will never know. While I agree that if Newt wasn't able to best Romney in the primary, his odds in the general were long. However, I tend to think his bold, passionate, unashamed and articulate defense of conservatism would have won the day and made 0bama crazy. He certainly would have brought all of the important issues out and challenged 0bama on all of them with force, unlike Mitty who played rope-a-dope after the first debate, thinking, and being advised, that was a good strategy. Meh.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I don’t think Newt would have fared worse, but it would have been totally different. In the very least, it would have been a knock down drag out ideological and philosophical campaign, because it was the “good Newt” that was campaigning (at least until the Florida debates) and it would have been the “good Newt” that got the nomination.

Of course, he’s back to the “bad Newt” now at times. That’s Newt.