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Consensus breaking out: Not Newt
Washington Post ^ | December 4, 2011 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 12/04/2011 6:04:20 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

On Friday, I suggested that Republicans “could pull a name out of a hat and find a more consistent and personally stable conservative” than Newt Gingrich. Many smart conservatives seem to agree. (VictorDavisHanson points out that with Gingrich as the nominee the GOP would forfeit the “crony capitalism” issue; No one has been a bigger crony than he.)

The latest and perhaps brightest warning flare to the right is sent up by GeorgeWill. There are too many delicious lines in his column from which to choose a favorite. (e.g.,“There is almost artistic vulgarity in Gingrich’s unrepented role as a hired larynx for interests profiting from such government follies as ethanol and cheap mortgages”; “Gingrich, who would have made a marvelous Marxist, believes everything is related to everything else and only he understands how.”) George patiently explains to those who think the conservative movement began with the Internet and is defined by those who can burnish the most withering rhetoric: “Conservatism inoculates against the hubristic volatility that Gingrich exemplifies.” Yes, Gingrich is what conservatism aims to save us from.

Now, George would choose TexasGov Rick Perry or Jon Huntsman. RameshPonnuru would take MittRomney. There is also RickSantorum to consider. Reasonable conservatives differ on the alternative, but other than sheer contrarianism and temporary amnesia it is hard (for those who want to maintain the ideological health of the conservative movement and win the WhiteHouse) to justify embracing Gingrich. That he is more “gregarious, upbeat” than he used to be is no reason to choose him as president or to declare he has turned over new leaf.

For those conservatives who are not systematically averting their eyes, Gingrich every day gives Republicans further reason to conclude there is no “New Newt,” only the same disorganized egomaniac who drove his House caucus to revolt.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: 2012; conservatism; gopprimary; notperryeither; rinos4romney; romneycare; rove4romney; tokyorove
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1 posted on 12/04/2011 6:04:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This still won’t help Perry. Nice try though.


2 posted on 12/04/2011 6:05:54 AM PST by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

um... yeah

I can see the groundswell starting for Willard “Mitt” Romney

becuase his campaign of “Hey, I’m next, right?” has me bowled over.


3 posted on 12/04/2011 6:06:11 AM PST by Mr. K (Physically unable to profreed <--- oops, see?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Jennifer is batshit crazy... Total Mittbot.


4 posted on 12/04/2011 6:07:21 AM PST by Tuxedo (Drink Tea - not Kool-Aid. Sam the Eagle for POTUS 2012!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Oh, horrors...the establish speaks and they don’t want Newt. It’s good that the people decide, and not the establishment that brought us Dole, Bush I, and McCain.


5 posted on 12/04/2011 6:07:50 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, "Paradise Lost")
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To: Solson
Where were the news reports of “Consensus: Not Romney” when 75% of the people wanted someone else
6 posted on 12/04/2011 6:07:58 AM PST by Mr. K (Physically unable to profreed <--- oops, see?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Not Santorum either. Click here for links to prove that he is a fiscal socailist and once triangulated his position on abortion.
7 posted on 12/04/2011 6:08:46 AM PST by JimWayne
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Now you know I love your posts most of the time. And you know I could easily live with Perry as nominee.

BUT, just because Jennifer Rubin and George Will say so, a consensus this does not make....


8 posted on 12/04/2011 6:08:50 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Moderator of Florida Tea Party Convention Presidential Debate)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The latest and perhaps brightest warning flare to the right is sent up by George Will.

LOL!!!

9 posted on 12/04/2011 6:09:18 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Politics ain't beanbag...and honey badger don't give a sh!t.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Really, George Will calling Newt egotistical is the like the Pope calling Billy Graham too religious.


10 posted on 12/04/2011 6:11:14 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, "Paradise Lost")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

New tagline ...


11 posted on 12/04/2011 6:11:44 AM PST by EternalVigilance (You might want to consider the distinct possibility that they are all wrong.)
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To: Solson

It may not be Perry, but lord help us, it’s not Newt!


12 posted on 12/04/2011 6:13:22 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Please add the disclaimer that Will’s wife works for Perry.

Truth and trust.


13 posted on 12/04/2011 6:14:10 AM PST by sodpoodle ( Newter the Democrats and newtralize the RINOS - the Senate, House & WHouse)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
BUT, just because Jennifer Rubin and George Will say so, a consensus this does not make....

Well, C.E.W. we know they aren't the only ones.

14 posted on 12/04/2011 6:14:37 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Using an establishment RINO pundit’s desperate ramblings to hate on Newt

is like

humping a desperate bisexual male hooker to get back at your husband.


15 posted on 12/04/2011 6:14:38 AM PST by Notwithstanding (1998 ACU ratings: Newt=100%, Paul=88%, Santorum=84% [the last year all were in Congress])
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To: BunnySlippers

If not newt, then it will be Romney. It’s easy math at this point.


16 posted on 12/04/2011 6:16:08 AM PST by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: JimWayne

Santorum is so out of the running, he isn’t even traded on Intrade.com (i.e. his chances are less than Cain’s and Cain has suspended his campaign).


17 posted on 12/04/2011 6:16:16 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

We like Newt.


18 posted on 12/04/2011 6:17:07 AM PST by y6162
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

We like Newt.


19 posted on 12/04/2011 6:17:22 AM PST by y6162
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To: RoosterRedux

This is beginning to smell like another McCain look-a-like


20 posted on 12/04/2011 6:17:41 AM PST by Dustoff45 (A good woman brings out the best in a good man! A better woman might be just what this nation needs)
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