Posted on 12/11/2011 3:19:07 PM PST by Kaslin
The GOP race has me befuddled worse than I ever imagined it would.
The media keeps telling us that the only possible candidates in the running are Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. (Mitt Romney who evidently is completely ignoring conservative media now in an attempt to appease the American left, but I digress.)
I mean, if you would've told me that after the Tea Party of 2010, that the best the conservatives could muster--in a conservative year--with the most reckless spending administration in American history on the ropes--was two of the most inconsistent Republican establishment personalities to ever run for office, I would've likely convulsed.
Compared to the evidence before us as a nation, the amount of serious "get it done" power of will that is to be needed is significant to fix our nation. So after the field has been perused, we're going to have to choose between the guy who authored the healthcare blueprint that President Obama put in place or the only other guy on the stage who has been on record in favor of MANDATING the American people to buy health insurance (just like Obamacare does), I would've confessed to you it begged credulity. That and more convulsing...
Is anybody else here as mystified as me on how it came to choosing between the two abject weakest leaders of the GOP field?
Mitt Romney, a failure in attempting every elective office he has sought for most of the past seventeen years. And Newt Gingrich, a failure as a leader so badly that his own party ousted him after he engineered their greatest comeback.
These are the best options?
Unlike Ann Coulter, I'm not so clearly convinced that Romney will win. And unlike Newt Gingrich, I'm not sure Newt Gingrich should just automatically be given the reigns of power.
Romney will win if the coming Newt implosion happens during the primary and Mitt is our last chance to prevent Ron Paul from becoming our surrenderer-in-chief. But I sure would prefer a different option. For certainly we will be in a much worse position if Newt gets the nomination and then suddenly decides to mandate carbon credits, while lunching with Nancy Pelosi on a park bench.
All of this on the heels of our nation's greatest outcry for grassroots, common sense.
Which brings me to what happened last week...
I'm driving home and pop on my fellow talk radio colleague Michael Medved, who is interviewing some book author on why slightly crazed people make better leaders in times of great crisis than stable people do. Medved kept my attention because one of the first things he said after I got in the car was something along the lines of, "Your premise is making me reconsider my position."
Since talk radio personalities never change their opinion about anything I was clued in for whatever came next.
The author's study had looked at historical figures and the amount of manic depression they endured. Long story short, if you were slightly crazy, you were a great leader--at a specific time. If everything was running smoothly, then the emotionally balanced guy can keep everything afloat.
This premise has HAUNTED me almost daily since.
There is no question that Winston Churchill, besides being one of my favorite people from history, fit the bill. He had mad sleeplessness. He was irritable. He threw temper tantrums, and paid for it politically. He went through a season of near absolute exile. But when the Barack Obama of his era (Neville Chamberlain) proclaimed "Peace in our time" and waved a document with Hitler's signature on it to the cameras, Brits turned to Churchill and he propped up the world on his shoulders in its darkest hour.
The comparisons to Churchill are obvious for Gingrich. He's stubborn. Sometimes painfully so. He's strong of will, even if sometimes the application of that will blows in the wind. (I mean, he INSULTED the Paul Ryan legislation and his own voter base by uttering the words, "right wing social engineering.") He's been through his own season of exile, attempting to pay for his sins he followed Churchill's example and wrote extensively.
There is also little argument to be made that America is at a crossroads of perilous crisis. This, not so much from World War--though terrorism hangs in the back of our minds daily--but more from the war on the values we hold, and the lives we Americans intend to live.
Ultimately I believe that's where the comparisons end. Gingrich's problems have been based in character and the need to be liked. Churchill's problems were primarily of temperament and personality.
It's also likely that Churchill's most zealous supporters at his peak could've predicted the success he would have looking basically at his life up to that point. So one might ask, "Is the best Gingrich yet to come?"
We have nothing that seems to indicate as much, but how could we if he is the new Churchill?
For reasons I've laid out previously Romney will be an easy opponent for Obama to conquer in a general election match-up. With Gingrich's baggage, it would seem three good debate performances in late October 2012, probably won't overcome the billion-dollar media campaign Obama will launch if Newt goes two for three out of the gate in the primary elections.
Which is why, if you truly care about this nation--especially if you live in Iowa, New Hampshire, or South Carolina, I implore you to take this decision seriously.
Please study the records of the candidates involved, not merely their most recent soundbites.
The fate of the free world rests upon it!
If Gingrich is Churchill...I’m the Virgin Mary.
Does the Pope poop in the woods?
http://www.rightnation.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=181725
http://bobmccarty.com/2011/12/07/newt-gingrich-americas-21st-century-churchill/
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/284220/mcquaid-gingrich-resembles-churchill-brian-bolduc
“Gingrich’s problems have been based in character and the need to be liked.”
Eh. the need to be thought smart maybe. Frequently when I see Gingrich I’m reminded of Arnold Horshack sitting in the front of the room with his arm extended high saying “OO OO... OO OO...”
“why slightly crazed people make better leaders in times of great crisis than stable people do”
RP2012 - No one is crazier.
Amazing what people will overlook when thier a## is on fire after following the appeasers. One reaches for the difficult one, the one they called uncompromising, the one without the look, the angry one who speaks the truth when no on else does.
What a silly string of non-sequiters and false assumtions. Does this guy really get paid to write?
Well the German People fell In Love with the Furher didnt they? The Messiah will save You ,Obama has all the answers,THEY are trying to cheat you,THEY are evil,I love you,THEY have been standing in My way,Vote for me So THEY will not succeed and Cheat you out of the American Dream,Attaining and staying in the Middle Class!
We must draft, nominate and elect Sarah Palin president in the most crushing tidal wave of enthusiastic good judgment ever seen in the history of this nation. With that one bold move we will accomplish the dual goals of seeing America led by the greatest natural born leader in our generation, even as we witness the final implosion and last agonized shrieks of our endlessly lying extreme left loonies. Their entire movement, from the fabricated attacks on Bush beginning with ‘Blood For Oil’ to the crammed-down-our-gullets lies of Obamacare and the Shovel Ready Stimulus, have been nothing but one vile deceit heaped upon another. Such an absolute inability to deal in the truth or to face the facts of our situation and its solutions only proves that there is simply no place at the grown-ups’ table for these diseased sputa. Good riddance to rubes and bad rubbish. Time to usher in the American Renaissance, carried in on the invigoratingly freshening breeze of President Sarah Palin.
She’s dead Jim
I’m not voting for Gingrich, and here’s why:
Did General George Washington ever surrender to the British armies?
Do you think that if he had that America would have survived?
Now, does the Tea Party surrender to RINOs?
Do you think that if it does that America will survive?
Think about it.
Everyone else has been found wanting and Kevin doesn't even have the guts to suggest an alternative.
I still believe Obama's going to win regardless of the patsy put forth next November, the GOP might as well go for Newt. It can be argued both he and Romney need to be kept on the reservation but Newt has fought, he has that in him, whereas Romney's no fighter.
This race did not draw out the kind of candidate I think we needed most.
Sir, I think the pablum us true conservatives are going to be left with on November 6 next year is Obama, if he has not resigned, or one of the current republican candidates unless you are one of those that believes in a “brokered” convention being possible in 2012. I don’t.
So, I am going to back up just a little on previous statements I have made given which way this worm seems to be turning. My big concern about Perry WAS immigration. Now, not so much since he is promising to build a fence and completely secure the border even with troops in his first year. Please don’t be persuaded by media’s obsession with pubbie candidates mis-statements. At least Perry knows how many states there are. I predict Perry will be second, if not first, in Iowa. He’s been elected governor down here 3 times. We learned to “NEVER COUNT PERRY OUT!!”
Sir, I think the pablum us true conservatives are going to be left with on November 6 next year is Obama, if he has not resigned, or one of the current republican candidates unless you are one of those that believes in a “brokered” convention being possible in 2012. I don’t.
So, I am going to back up just a little on previous statements I have made given which way this worm seems to be turning. My big concern about Perry WAS immigration. Now, not so much since he is promising to build a fence and completely secure the border even with troops in his first year. Please don’t be persuaded by media’s obsession with pubbie candidates mis-statements. At least Perry knows how many states there are. I predict Perry will be second, if not first, in Iowa. He’s been elected governor down here 3 times. We learned to “NEVER COUNT PERRY OUT!!”
>>>We must draft, nominate and elect Sarah Palin president in the most crushing tidal wave of enthusiastic good judgment ever seen in the history of this nation.<<<
I read this and weep.
The Marxist soft coup d’etat continues unabated, and those of us who support Constitutional, limited government are split up, undecided, arguing amongst ourselves, running this way and that, seemingly unable to muster even the slightest opposition.
Sarah Palin would make a good candidate, in my opinion, as would Bachmann or Santorum, and we’re left with the good news businessman and the old professor. I’ve always read that in times of crisis in the United States a leader emerges to lead us out of the darkness, but maybe those days are over.
Meanwhile, the left is organized, without scruples, and willing to do whatever it takes to stay in power. They have strategies and, most important, cohesion. It looks like their decades-long effort to disillusion Americans has worked. God help us.
The lynching of Cain made my decision easier by handing Michigan to Romney and by extension, Obama. I could write a name in if I wanted to and it won’t make a bit of difference.
“Is Gingrich Churchill?”
Yes he is and I’m gonna be MVP of this year’s Super Bowl. We can all dream.
The Churchill - Gingrich comparison has been discussed on prior threads. Several writers have noted the similarities of their journeys of early success and ignominious time spent in political exile.
The comparisons have not included their beginnings i.e. Churchill’s aristocracy, military adventures, Parliamentary victories vs. Gingrich’s modest childhood and professorial accomplishment which contrast strength of will and character.
Their life stories are both compelling for the perilous times in which they lived and how their countrymen looked to Churchill for inspiration and now to Newt for common sense and purpose.
I don't know how mystified I am about it but I am certainly disgusted.
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