Posted on 12/12/2011 12:11:57 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
While the entire elite insider structure of both parties in a full tizzy over the out-of -the crypt rise of Newt Gingrich -- and the national pundit class totally vexed by it -- allow me to unlock the deep dark mystery that has them all scratching their pointy little heads.
It's the persuasion, stupid.
Now before you slough that off as too simple and too shallow of an analysis, keep in mind how rare true persuasion is these days in politics. And by true persuasion, I mean the ability to persuade voters to consider changing their minds to agree with the politician who is speaking.
Generally, the only persuasion we see today is the phony attempt to make voters think the politician agrees with them. This normally happens after some shallow political hack has persuaded some soulless office seeker that this is the way to win the precious moderates and independent voters.
Too many folks running for office are merely thermometers, hiring a consultant to take the electorates pulse and then attempting to reflect it. True leaders are like thermostats. They set the temperature and bring the electorate to them.
Now keep in mind that anyone who even tries to do this is almost always reflexively attacked by the keepers and beneficiaries of the status quo. This was true of Gingrich back in the 90's when as a pugnacious minority leader he had the temerity to go hard after Bill and Hillary Clinton. His leadership and creativity led to the Contract with America revolution in the 94 midterms. That election was conservative America's shining moment between Reagan's win in 1980 and the 2010 midterms....
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Gingrich’s rise is due to one thing: Bachmann, Perry, and Cain receded. That and the weaknesses of Romney made Gingrich rise. But turning the GOP into a socialist party is not the answer.
I am not a Newt supporter, but I think that Newt’s willingness to jab the media may be one on the many factors that is attracting followers. Polls show large numbers of people don’t trust the media and Newt never misses a chance to put the media down.
By attacking the media, he’s certainly making friends with the Tea Party members.
It also makes it harder for the MSM to Newter Gringrich. :)
Finally, some are starting to get it. Persuasion, in any other word is simply leadership, and that is exactly what people are looking for. Bachman, Santorum and Cain, though grounded in conservatism, and otherwise decent and intelligent people, simply aren't leaders.
It's that simple, and that's why Gingrich is rising and the others are falling.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Newt Gingrich didn't create the 1994 midterm conservative triumph in a vacuum.Ronald Reagan, having won the Cold War and reversed the Carter malaise was abandoned like Churchill.
George Herbert Walker Pluperfect Read My Lips Voodoo Economics Bush soared to ninety percent after the First Gulf War and crashed and burned on caving to the Democrats.
Clinton went pedal to the metal with the biggest tax hike in history and socialist health care, bringing widespread oprobium.
Enter the bold and the brave Newt and the New Conservatives, fighting for fiscal responsibility and welfare reform.
In the days before the internet and any help at all from a Fox or coterie of conservative hosts beyond the all-knowing, all-caring, all-seeing Maharushie, Newt did it.
But the Democrats trapped and taped and went viral with his "wither on the vine" remark. The Gingrich Who Stole Christmas. AP has four thousand outlets; all the shrieking fairies and carping harpies attacked him night and day.
According to Rush the dramatic divorce of the dying cancer-ridden wife is one of the top things people know that isn't so.
And compared to Clinton's treason with Loral and Bernie Schwartz and our missile secrets, and Barry Hussein's nonstop attacks on our security financial and defense, Newt's a shining character.
The larger point is that he can make the case for what we must do and why we must not keep doing things the Barry Hussein way.
Case in point his dynamite truthtelling vis-a-vis the "peace process"--imaginary people.
Author Wright suggests that Newt Gingrich can persuade, that this is what Ronald Reagan did.
It's harder for our team than for Barry Hussein.
He just says Hope and Change and if we disagree we're racist.
Newt can handle the sales talk.
I just find it unacceptable that half the country is on the dole, pays no income tax, yet can vote more money from those who aren't on the dole and do pay the tax.
I think Newt can sell it the best of our candidates.
I’d vote for him. Did he not say he would make Bolton his Sec of State?
Works for me.
BRAVO! BRAVO!
Excellent!
He will have to almost work a miracle to convince me he stands on the side of God and the U.S.A. that God would bless.
Persuaders exist for every political stripe and as most of us know, Satan is the father of all lies and the first persuader. I will not knowingly vote for one of his human minions. New Gingrich will have to prove to me that he is not one of them.
That’s like one of those poem things, yes?
You might get a Reagan once in a generation, if you’re lucky. We got another one (Sarah Palin) and allowed the press, Democrats, popular culture and nutroots to destroy her without much of a fight. We deserve a Romney or Gingrich for that, if nothing else.
Consider Prohibition
I'm sure there were many people in this country Who thought they were doing the right thing, standing as were, on principle. How could a Christian nation tolerate drunkenness, and everything that went along with it. Yet, history remembers them as the moral architects for a greater evil that befell this nation, the consequences of which, they surely knew, or should have.
Sometimes we have to choose between the lesser of the two evils.
If Gingrich is so great, with shiny conservative trophies on the mantel, then...
...why did Obama get elected?
If Gingrich is all that, some heroic GOP leader who supposedly led America into a conservative wonderland, then the question you all need to be asking yourselves is...
...where is this conservative America that Gingrich created?
The fact that Obama won a presidency tells me that Gingrich’s conservative trophies are nothing more than rusting sheet metal.
The fact that Obama is sitting in the White House should tell you that Gingrich is a failed leader.
The fact that Obama is about to win another Presidency against a failed GOP leader should be warning to you all to vote for conservatism, not perceived electability.
Yes, Gingrich is good at being persuasive. He’s persuasive enough to get you all to vote for failure.
And that is the only thing that Gingrich is good at.
Oh baloney JohnBrown....that’s just nonesense....you need to look at the ‘whole picture’ which includes conservatism but is not enough alone for the trouble this country is in and what it needs.... and Newt is not to blame for Obama being in office...good grief man the people voted for what they wanted and believed the horses butt right from the getgo.
If you blame anyone...blame Hitlary and her sidekick for not taking Obama seriously...or and McCain for handing the election to Obama....sheesh...you know better!
>> We got another one (Sarah Palin) and allowed the press, Democrats, popular culture and nutroots to destroy her
Get a grip, man. Take heart.
Sarah Palin wasn’t “destroyed”. She was merely delayed.
If she’s made of what I think she’s made of, she’ll be back. With a vengeance.
Like Reagan. He endured and overcame MANY setbacks.
FRegards
That post doesn’t even make sense.
But let’s pretend it did, and you’re right, and there’s a better choice.
NAME YOUR CHOICE: ___________________________
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