Posted on 11/01/2011 5:57:06 PM PDT by jageorge72
The College Board and News Corp. sponsored a forum on education with four GOP presidential candidates last week, and the runaway winner was Newt Gingrich. (Truth in advertising: I moderated the session along with Joel Klein, the former New York schools chancellor who now runs an educational unit for our employer, News Corp. Each candidate received 30 minutes, which was refreshing after the 30-second trivial pursuits of the debates.)
Michele Bachmann (local control), Rick Santorum (moral values) and Herman Cain (business principles) stuck mainly to their talking points, but Mr. Gingrich kept the crowd of 1,000 or so engaged and entertained with a wide-ranging tutorial on everything from the failures of "L.A. Unified" to Jeb Bush's Florida "virtual school." The session was a reminder of Mr. Gingrich's knowledge of government and rhetorical skills, which were overwhelmed by his early campaign missteps.
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The Left's attack on Cain was the best thing that could have happened to his campaign.
They enemy of my enemy is my candidate.
Together they are reminiscent of McCain and Wife #2.
Newt is a lot like Romney. A flip-flopper and it's my turn to be President!
He’s not electable as President. Many conservatives are wary about his “rightwing social engineering” and sitting on the couch with Nancy.
Who’s the goofy giant on the left. Or who’s the midget behind Much Man.
Newt is smart, great ideals and a great debater but Newt has a great lack of judgement - his decision making leaves much to be desire, newt is best suited for a chief of staff position
I just don't think a man who can't pick a wife after two tries has bad judgment. Plus I think he cheated on wife #2 while he was in Congress and Wife #3 was an intern.
That shows some lack of character too.
Could you source where you retrieved this information? Thanks, I’d appreciate it because all of this is news to me.
Agree, but I’ll state again, there is no perfect candidate. My main concern is the make up of Congress.. whoever the republican president is (I hope there is one), will fall in line accordingly.
Not really..... I think a majority of the people who won’t vote for Newt because he sat on a couch with Nancy Pelosi are confined to this website. I think most voters will see that, flaws aside, he is still head and shoulders above the other contenders. Newt is also the only candidate where there is universal agreement that he will absolutely destroy Obama in the debates.
Are you sure it was the Left? And not the Rhino Left, that is?
Karl Rove sure was flogging the story during his media rounds last night. Almost like he had some sort of investment...
I’m with you jageorge...and I enjoy reading Newt’s America’s solutions.
The flack over Cain is IMHO politically driven and, for the moment at least, is more to do with how he has responded to and handled this situation as opposed to specifics of the situation (which are as yet unknown). Gingrich did indeed make a series of poor judgments in his personal life at a particular stage in his life. Would I do this? No. Does it preclude him from being the CEO of the country? I would attest no, particularly as his life with his present spouse appears to be exemplary. We all will have to make our own judgment on the matter, but I would ask that - before we deem Newt “unelectable” (seems to be the favorite word of this election cycle - sadly, mostly coming from our side!) - we think about who is the absolute best individual to go up against Obama and, more importantly, who will be best suited to deal with the cluster f*** that awaits the 45th President. After listening to all the candidates in many venues, and having been forced to listen to Barry O, the only real answer is Newt (again IMHO).
I think the plan was to sink Cain, prop up Perry to run as VP to Mitt Romney., who would not beat Obama. Although he has a power house behind him in the Mormon Church, which has intended to take over the U.S. government for l50 years.
Gingrich is of a loose canon, and may be somewhat of a knee jerker. So I would prefer Newt to fill some position in the cabinet, but not VP.
We must seal our borders, so Perry should not be elected. That leaves none other than Mr. Fix-it, Herman Cain to dome to the rescue! The man with the plan will do what he can to boost the economy. He will cut spending, enforce immigration laws now on the books, and make taxes fair to everyone. He will cut departments such as the EPA and the Dept. of Education among others. He has the qualifications without the corruption of a career politician. It is time for Herman Cain!
Don't get me wrong, I admire Gingrich as an innovative politician. The Contract With America was a piece of genius. His history courses are wonderful. He's a sharp guy. But he's one of Them.
Whoever it was, they stepped in it.
I watched the whole forum, the piece is correct. Newt commanded the education issues like no other.
Santorum focused on home schooling, which his wife does for their 7 kids. Bachmann focused on raw numbers and her history with charter schooling. Cain, in a missed opportunity, stuck to generalities about local control. Pathetically, the other candidates were no shows.
How original.
I wish Newt had stuck with his wife through thick and thin.
I wish Newt had told DeeDee Scozzafava to go suck on a lemon.
I wish Newt had taken that couch and shoved it up Pelosi’s pie-hole (or any other available orifice).
But more than anything, I wish the idiot currently in the White House is replaced by somebody with brains and a reasonable degree of conservative inclination - and if Newt’s still in the mix in a couple of months, I suspect he’d do as well as most in the Republican field, and a whole lot better than many (including at least one prominent establishment favorite).
Well, that definitely explains why he is running away with this in the polls.
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