Posted on 07/06/2016 7:03:32 PM PDT by Innovative
When Republican naysayers were mocking Donald Trump's improbable White House campaign before the primaries started, Newt Gingrich was reading "Trump: The Art of the Deal."
It was a pivotal part of Gingrich's introduction to Trump -- and the beginning of an almost scholarly undertaking to understand the making of the man who would go on to seize his party's nomination for president. Months later, as the GOP prepares to coronate Trump at its convention, the former House Speaker has emerged one of Trump's most high-profile supporters and even secured himself a top spot on the billionaire's vice presidential shortlist.
Gingrich appeared with Trump on the campaign trail for the first time Wednesday, marveling at what the presumptive Republican nominee has accomplished as a political newcomer.
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CNN @ssholes. Hillary is being coronated after literally being given a royal pardon - Trump won the votes. He's being NOMINATED.
The media are SUCH SCUM!
VP, or if forced into a female VP then White House Chief of Staff.
I read The Art of the Deal too. Also to learn who was Donald Trump. And then I used some of the negotiation wisdom to negotiate out of a bad deal. I saved more than the cost of the book, and gave Trump the credit!
COS better fit We need someone younger for the VP slot
Chris Christie is confused, and a little worried too.
“I thought I was the ‘inside man’ ‘WHEN did that change and WHO changed it? Did Ivanka Trump make this decision? I’ll bet it was her! I can see her manicured fingerprints all over this!”
Yes, read the book two weeks ago myself for the same reason. I've always considered myself a good negotiator, (learned much from a brilliant company President back in the late 70's), and I definitely learned some new techniques from the book.
Newt was a Southern transplant. Born in Pennsylvania, his dad was in the Army. Newt was an Army brat with his Stepdad stationed nearby, so he decided to live in Carrollton, GA to teach at West Georgia College. My wife graduated from Carrollton High School and my sister was enrolled at West GA when Newt was teaching there. Newt Gingrich is a pathetic cowardly fool. An educated idiot with pie-in-the-sky ideas but no courage to follow them through. After his self imposed exile, he left Georgia in shame to live outside of Washington where he could be close to the fleeting dream of the power he once had. Newt hasn't lived in Georgia for years.
Year-after-year, I drove past his Cobb County office at The Summit on Roswell Road, to and from work every day. I was there to meet Newt's Double Decker London Bus as it arrived at his rally in the parking lot of Williamson Brother's Bar-B-Q which is only a thousand yards from The Big Chicken. I attended Newt's rallies at the Joseph Wheeler High School Auditorium. I wore Newt t-shirts for the TV Cameras, put out yard signs, and helped him defeat Michael "Cookie Monster" Coles, David "Big Red" Worley and Ben "Cooter" Jones. I read two of his books, "Window of Opportunity" and "To Renew America" when he was still my Congressman, giving me hope that he might thwart Socialism. I gave him money, and put out yard signs. I even had a pleasant chat with his sweet ex-wife about his books at one rally. She was a really nice lady! She took the time to talk with me for quite a while on the sidelines at one of his Big Red Bus campaign stops. She described the circumstances of Newt writing the first book. A gracious lady, who at the time validated my confidence in him! How wrong I was about the lying spineless POS!
In his teens, he married a woman who mothered him. In his 30s, he wed a woman who was broken by him. And in his 60s, he partnered with a woman who accessorized him. Is this the best we could hope for as vice president, some combo of spoiled child, browbeating bully and smug trophy holder?I can't help believing that Newt is a sullen and moody person in private which isn't a good character trait for the loneliest job in the world.The first Mrs. Newt Gingrich was Jackie Battley, his high school geometry teacher from Columbus, Georgia. They married in 1962, when he had just turned 19 and she was 26. Jackie supported him financially through college and graduate school; a Georgia colleague once told Vanity Fair that "all the way through the Ph.D., he didn't work."
Another friend from that era described Jackie as a "nurturing, mothering kind of person"who "finished raising him."
"He was her little boy," said Kit Gingrich, Newt's actual mother, who struggled with bipolar disorder.
Even when he eventually prevailed at the ballot box, "It was a very, very bad period of my life," he later told Mother Jones: "I ultimately wound up at a point where suicide, or going insane, or divorce were the last three options." By 1980, Gingrich had made his choice.
"It came as a complete surprise," Jackie later told the Washington Post's Lois Romano. "He walked out in the spring." That September, Jackie, in the hospital for her third cancer surgery, had a visitor. Their daughters told her, "Daddy is downstairs." But when he came up, Jackie told the Post, "He wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering."
What Newt Gingrich's three wives tell us about the president he'd be
In every case you can list, Newt caved to pressure from Democrats and "teamed" with then in "compromise" from a neurotic need to be "loved and appreciated" by the public at large.
When attacked on the budget for being petty, he gave in instead of standing firm against the Democrats. He even gave up his government limousine, provided as SotH, to accusations by the Democrats that it went against his stated goals of Congressional reform; although the fact is that Newt used it as a traveling office and got more work done in his limousine than ten other politicians together.
Rather than ignoring attacks and standing against the Democrats and the MSM, he will continue to try to usurp their positions with the effect that Republicans are constantly pushed to the left. Rather than trying to implement "green conservatism", Newt should have been shouting from the mountains that the Environmental issue is a globally manufactured Socialist tool for the destruction of Free market Capitalism.
Rather than trying to solve the "health-care issue", he should have exposed it as a manufactured Democrat Socialist issue that must have no federal involvement. Rather than attempting to "transform government" he should have stopped the Socialist transformation that has occurred for the past one hundred years.
In addition to all of that, in the Federal Budget Crisis of '98, Congress lead by Speaker Newt Gingrich, caved in to President Bill Clinton, and sent him a revised budget instead of forcing him to shut the government down. In the case of all previous Budget Crises our Republican Presidents have given in to Congressional pressure.
Knowing all this, consider he gained notoriety and thereby gained his Speakership by forcing his Democrat predecessor, Speaker Jim Wright, from power for corruption in a suspicious book deal that might have been a payoff.
Gingrich has a pathological need to feel "loved" and will therefore meekly acquiesce in the face of any pressure. Gingrich started the trend of the GOPe Congress kowtowing to the Democrats to avoid criticism.
I tried for a few years to give him the benefit of the doubt, but there was one thing that continued to gall me. I really liked his sweet wife Marianne, but who can know what goes on within interpersonal relationships, so I forgave him his "tete a tete" with his current wife, Callista.
The thing that was so repulsive to me was his total disregard of Cobb County and North Georgia voters that kept him in Congress year after year. He could never do or say anything to overcome that affront for me.
Now as the years roll by, I continue to observe Newt Gingrich strive to appease and reconcile with Socialist Democrats in a defeatist position of conciliation. The only position a Conservative can have against the evil enemy at the gates is intransigence. Conciliation only gives tacit credence to Progressive Socialist mendacity. The media whore Newt of today has grown fat on Saul Alinsky's Salami Slices.
Newt, I loved you when you were my Congressman before 1998. You’ve wasted all the votes you’ve ever gotten from me. I’ll never be suckered by you again. Now, I would not waste a heimlich maneuver on you.
CNN would love for the liberal lover Gingrich to be the VP nominee!
Newt knows how to charm the Donald. No. No. No. Newt.
Newt couldn’t get Nancy to reach across the aisle, so he did it himself. Because Global Warming affects us all and it’s so important to get the message out.
with Newt - the WALL will never be built :(
guy has too much personal baggage.
Cheney worked out well for GW Bush.
Gingrich could help Trump.
Newt is auditioning to be his janitor, to improve Newt’s “work ethic”
There are no better young brainy all business visionaries like Newt IMO.
Newt will not help Trump. Women HATE the way he treated his wives and now a cold fish Barbie.
What kind of sick subhuman would marry is High School Geometry teacher and allow her to put him through college until he is awarded his PhD, without him employed in a job at all? Then on top of that, ask her for a divorce while she is in the hospital for her third cancer surgery. That is just creepy weird. The man is defective and insanity runs in his family.
I read "Art of the Deal" shortly after it came out, and was impressed. Trump may have had help in the writing, but if you look at the core message, you see a man able to deal with realty with imagination and talent. IMO
That s the DU version I once read as well.
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