The Strategic Blunder Crown On Newt Gingriches Head

The Looking Spoon ^ | 6-23-11 | Jared H. McAndersen

[The Looking Spoon]

Republicans, including Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani, made a "strategic blunder" by making a joke of Barack Obama's work as a community organizer, Newt Gingrich says in a new book about the radical ACORN group.

It was "not helpful" for Palin and Giuliani to mock community organizing in their speeches at the 2008 Republican National Convention More at The American Spectator

Gingrich is right. I don't KNOW that he's right, but I'm taking his word for it. If anyone knows STRATEGIC BLUNDERS it's this guy....

It was a STRATEGIC BLUNDER to go on a cruise while his campaign was still trying to find its sea legs after his other STRATEGIC BLUNDER of criticizing the only serious attempt by Paul Ryan to deal with entitlement reform.

If we really want to go there, it was also a STRATEGIC BLUNDER to leave your wife for another woman.....TWICE. Unless you're a Democrat, then it's a litmus test.

Newt is getting by on the fact he is one of the smartest Republicans out there today, but he's obviously not that smart, or this post wouldn't exist.

But what about the merit of his assertion?

"It would have been better if Republican leaders "had gotten up and said, here is what [Obama] was teaching, and they had taken the audience through the five principles of [radical organizer Saul] Alinsky."

Yes, that would've been entirely appropriate for Sarah Palin's nomination speech, to turn it into a history lesson on commieunity organizing.

I don't disagree that's what the McCain campaign should've done, which would've provided the air power needed to bolster conservative media hitting Obama on his past...but the presidential debates, and general election campaign speeches are better forums for that. Unfortunately for Gingrich, he wont know what it will be like to participate in either.

[Sgt_Schultze]

It’s not working Noot. Your speaking fees will not go up. You were worth more before you developed into a thundering clod.

[hinckley buzzard]

But what about the merit of his assertion?

Gimme a break. Take an audience through the first five points of Alinsky and you have the miracle cure for insomnia. Not becasue it's not important. It is. But the average attention span of the idiot techie generation is about three seconds. It might work if you used Big Bird and other cartoon characters. Otherwsise you've lost everyone under the age of forty.

[The Looking Spoon]

I agree completely. I think if you go into something like that you have to make it a sound byte powerful enough to be a serious seed of doubt.

To go through the list at the ‘08 RNC would’ve been very foolish.

[Havisham]

Newt is not an idea machine so much as a purloiner of others’ ideas, Thomas Sowell’s among the more notable. Also, he dreams of being POTUS for its own sake. In that sense Newt is like McCain and Graham. For me, it’s “no” on all three.

[EDINVA]

I honestly think Newt should visit a neurologist. He’s always been so brilliant, so worth listening to, and now, he’s become a walking train wreck. I fear he’s got some neurological disorder. Nothing he’s done recently makes sense.