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Posted on 05/13/2011 9:21:09 AM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
WILL MAKE ATTACKS ON PALIN LOOK LIKE CHILD’S PLAY
And so it begins. Now that Newt Gingrich has made it official, we’re about to see a campaign of personal destruction that will make the attacks on Sarah Palin look like child’s play. This cartoon had the caption, “Newt Gingrich is Scum.” Catch the drift?
Disclaimer: I am not condoning or excusing Newt’s past transgressions, which include extramarital affairs and the insensitivity of serving divorce papers to one of his wives while she was in the hospital. I am posing the question as to whether or not his past personal life should disqualify him as a candidate for President of the United States.
While we’ve certainly had presidents who have had extramarital affairs – including Kennedy and Clinton, who committed adultery while in office – Newt Gingrich is different: He’s Republican. He’s a threat to liberals because he stands in stark contrast to their president, who is viewed by millions of Americans as far-left, indecisive, and a man with a vision of America that is very different from theirs – and that of past presidents as well.
Gingrich is an intellectual who would most likely destroy Obama in debates: foreign policy, domestic energy policy, fiscal policy. Democrats and their sock puppets in the media don’t want their president in the ring with this guy. So as any good liberal would do, they must attack and destroy Newt – personally. (While we’ll never know – it’s safe to assume that more than a few of Gingrich’s detractors haven’t exactly lived lives of sanctity themselves.)
So let the debate begin. Newt Gingrich brings excitement, intelligent thought and a belief in American Exceptionalism to the table. He also brings personal baggage. In a country that tends to forgive those who apologize for past transgressions, Newt will have no such luck with the threatened Left, who will pull out all the stops to destroy him. That’s a shame; we are a divided country in desperate need of a president with a backbone who puts America first.
Speaking for myself as a member of the right, I will hold him to account primarily for efforts he made to appease the left in the hopes of not being savaged by them. I respect Newt's intellect. There are aspects of his personal life that may seem a bit unseemly, but I needn't focus on those, and I have no personal interest in 'destroying' him. I simply don't feel that some of his past political positions and pronouncements are consistent with those of the person I want to represent me and to be the party's standard bearer.
I heard him on Rusty Humphries' show last night, and Rusty asked him to explain his backing of Scozzafava. Newt sputtered, stammered and then blamed somebody else for his endorsement of her.
The fact that he’s still around after all these years speaks volumes. Some folks just don’t know when they aren’t wanted.
Let's see what the MSM does with him...
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“Let the Savaging of Newt Begin “
The problem with that is what?
And they were unable to do any real damage to Palin.
They researched hard to find anything, and found nothing.
Thousands of manhours spent finding scandal, and zippo.
They might avoid attacking Newt in hopes he gets the nomination so that they can unload on him after that.
Newt = Dole III
No thanks.
Do you have the quote from the daughter about the divorce papers not being served that day?
I saw his global warming ad with Nancy. I am done with him. And for crying out loud, he has no executive experience. He’s a congressman fer dangsake! They make terrible presidents.
That’s what ended him for me.
I’ve been impressed with Newt’s “American Solutions” - an effort to find solutions to the Nation’s problems based on American values that are widely shared. I thought his “Contract with America” was a good idea at the time.
Is Newt pure as the driven snow? Of course not - what politician is? Would you rather have Obama? I didn’t think so.
Newt is a big boy who can take care of himself. Let the MSM try to savage him - if he is still standing in 6 months, he will have been tested under fire and we will know whether or not he has the right stuff to be President.
I’ve been impressed with Newt’s “American Solutions” - an effort to find solutions to the Nation’s problems based on American values that are widely shared. I thought his “Contract with America” was a good idea at the time.
Is Newt pure as the driven snow? Of course not - what politician is? Would you rather have Obama? I didn’t think so.
Newt is a big boy who can take care of himself. Let the MSM try to savage him - if he is still standing in 6 months, he will have been tested under fire and we will know whether or not he has the right stuff to be President.
Ok, all of you whiners, looking for a conservative saint, you’d better be ready for another 4 years of Obama.
There are no other candidates capable of kicking Obama’s butt all over the debate floor.
You may like their talking points, their personal life story, their telegenics.
None of that will mater when it comes to countering each of Obama’s policies.
I like Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin, and could tolerate Romney, and hold my nose for Huck...
None are capable of defeating Obama in an open debate.
They don’t have the depth and command of the facts.
He is a brilliant man, right on economic policy, completely qualified to be an excellent President...and so poisoned by his personal history and the dumping of his ex wife that there is no way he will get a majority vote. The Libs are going to be screaming that he has faux-family values that the backround noise for the average voter will bury him. And the press will help, giggling all the while at how clever they are.
Should his personal life disqualify him? If he were solely a divorcee, ‘No’. But Mr. Newt’s M.O, i.e trying on the next wife before divorcing the prior one, does. A man who will not honor his marriage vows cannot be trusted to keep any others.
And if one chooses to disregard that, remember that Ginrich talked a good revolution but failed to carry it through, got outfoxed by Clinton on the government closure, bought into the global warming crap, and has shown a penchant for enunciating a plethora of ideas in a scattergun fashion, and seldom following them up.
Well to begin with Dede was the REPUBLICAN candidate! He was supporting the Republican...how does that make him a RINO? Granted she was an awful choice and not the CONSERVATIVE candidate but she had the party's nod.
How do you explain his compromise on Global Warming with Nancy Pelosi?
I would never have made that commercial but nothing in the content of that ad was anti-Republican. Newt's arguement was that cap and trade was coming and we had to get a conservative alternative out there or it would be rammed down our throats. His POV makes sense but I still disagree with it.
We are at the end of the George W. Bush era. We are at the end of the Reagan era. We're at a point in time when we're about to start redefining -- as a number of people started talking about, starting to redefine -- the nature of the Republican Party, in response to what the country needs.
It's 2011, not 1981. Things are a little different.
I'm not arguing that Newt is perfect...he's got alot of baggage but for crying out loud nobody's perfect! Newt deserves our gratitude and respect for what he did to advance the conservative cause in this country when he was Minority Whip and then Leader in the House and for the huge victory he orchestrated in 1994. Is he a fallible human being? Of course he is but he is NO RINO.
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