Why Newt Gingrich for VP Is Pure Genius

Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, 25 May 2016 11:32 AM | Christopher Ruddy

[nikos1121]

The media still can’t figure out why Newt Gingrich is at the very top of Donald Trump’s VP list. A recent Slate article starts this way: “Donald Trump selecting Newt Gingrich as his running mate would be insane.” The writer asserts Gingrich would be the “perfect” pick for Trump, implying the GOP front-runner is crazy as well. Call Donald Trump a lot of things; crazy is not one of them. Controversial, audacious, sometimes brash and extreme — all yes. But the primaries have showed Trump is a brilliant communicator and master tactician. “Crazy” like a fox, perhaps. Recently, I had lunch with a group of GOP billionaires and power brokers. The group had various feelings about Trump, pro and con. But all were dazzled by his ability to win a hotly contested Republican primary “all by himself,” as one of the attendees put it. (Billionaires hate spending money; that’s how they become rich. So they admire Trump for his “no-frills” approach.) Trump doesn’t think like a politician — and that's been his greatest strength with the public. When a “normal” presidential candidate looks at picking a vice presidential running mate, the candidate usually weighs what a selection brings to the ticket. Does the prospect carry a state? Would a woman, black or Hispanic help with one of those groups? Those are the questions, and others, asked by the candidates and their closest advisers. Trump wouldn’t ask those questions. He believes he is going to win this election himself. He will win women, blacks, and Hispanics by what he says and does.

[Churchillspirit]

Newt for chief of staff.

Agreed.

[higgmeister]

This makes a lot of sense.

Newt has feet of clay! He was our Congressman for 20 years. I did my job by helping to get Newt resoundingly reelected to the 106th Congress with 71% of the vote and the next day the weird cowardly jerk announced he was leaving the Congress, not just resigning his Speakership, but resigning his House seat. Newt tucked tail and ran like a whipped dog clear out of the state, just when we depended on and needed him. He had an obligation and commitment to serve, after a very successful campaign, yet the chicken litter could not endure a little embarrassment. The effect was to help fix in the sheeples minds that Bill Clinton's situation was just Moral Majority harassment. For Newt to be so smart, that was pretty dumb. I voted for him multiple times and could have forgiven him his peccadilloes. It should have had nothing to do with the job I depended on him to do in Washington.

Newt was a Southern transplant. Born in Pennsylvania, his dad was in the Army. Newt was an Army brat with his Step-dad stationed nearby, so he decided to live in Carrollton, GA to teach at West Georgia College. My wife graduated from Carrolton 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 Doubledecker London Bus arrive at his rally in the parking lot of Williamson Brother's Bar-B-Q 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 and 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?

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

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.

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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 backed down to Congress.

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.

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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.

[higgmeister]

Please see my post # 182. I fear many FReepers only know Newt by rehearsed soundbites.

[higgmeister]

Please see my post # 182. I fear many FReepers only know Newt by rehearsed soundbites.

[fish hawk]

Cruz and Trey Gowdy for Supreme court judges.

[higgmeister]

Gingrich for VP. Trump can show his commitment to fighting global warming and working with Nancy Pelosi.

Exactly right! Just cack me.Please see my post # 182. I fear many FReepers only know Newt by rehearsed soundbites.

[fish hawk]

I guess everyone here is overlooking the fact that Newt IS part of the elite Republican Party, isn’t that what Trump is all about, dissing those morons? New is “establishment” right down the line.

[MayflowerMadam]

Never Cruz for SCOTUS. He’s lily livered. He can be manipulated easily. He’d make John Roberts look positively noble and trustworthy.

[higgmeister]

Please see my post # 182. I fear many FReepers only know Newt by rehearsed soundbites.

[higgmeister]

fyi you guys

Please see my post # 182. I fear many FReepers only know Newt by rehearsed soundbites.

[TexasTransplant]

**** “Newt was branded as a person that told his wife he wanted a divorce while she was dying of cancer in the hospital. Though this has been debunked by people who were there (daughter), and the 1st wife did not die; still, I think it would make a difficult resonance with Trump given the nature of attacks on him” ****

Hey I got an idea ... let us just repeat the “LIE” a few more times, maybe it will get some traction ...

But that makes you the LIAR ... so I think I will post that you are a Liar about 50 - 60 times in various places... And I can prove that you are a liar .... Have FUN

LIAR

[nopardons]

That’s because you are intelligent. :-)

[nopardons]

You're still delusional and incapable of accepting reality! Many former Cruz supporters have long ago given up on him, after seeing him for what and who he is and are now all for Trump!

Go see a shrink !

[TexasTransplant]

Man you gotta read deep to understand that ... were you guys sleeping together?

Buy some new Linen and some Fabreze, change the locks and blank/clear out the remote (You Program it!)

(((( My attempt at humor )))

[nopardons]

Thank you for that lengthy, fact filled post!

It won't matter to the lofos, here, sadly, because they are easily taken in and neither understand nor care to know the facts. I have written post after fact filled post about Newtie ( some don't even know how to spell his name ! ), which have been poo pooed and then castigated and insulted by these puerile hysterics.

[nopardons]

Neither funny nor clever and proves that you don’t want to know the truth.

[nopardons]

That “lie” GOT lots of traction and will again, when Hillary pulls it out, should Trump be utterly stupid ( which he isn’t ) and pick Newtie to be his VEEP...which he isn’t going to do.

[PhilDragoo]

Trump may start crushing Hitlery so badly in the polls that it won’t matter if he puts Al Gore as VP.

Tomas, you have stated the prime factor in the process of the past year: Donald Trump wins doing it his way.

As we see the riots become more violent this summer the people will thirst for a strong man to establish order.

Hillary is under a darkening cloud, weak, venal, and fading.

Bernie's supporters will turn from her.

And the usual regional balancing is of another day.

Gone is the time when LBJ was the ball and chain around Kennedy's ankle or GHWBush around Reagan's.

When Cleveland is a ring of fire Trump will have a masterful choice.

Until then it remains for the likes of Ruddy to cut paper dolls in the Clinton Foundation Day Care.

[trebb]

I would prefer Patraeus.

???? Why?

Really - I may be missing something, but if you have a viable reason for Patraeus, I'd like to hear it.

[nikos1121]

I don’t think Trump needs him or anyone to get elected. He needs people like Newt, on board, to help out once he’s elected.