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Posted on 08/26/2013 7:10:30 AM PDT by nikos1121
Speaking to you, Newt. I know you will be 70 years old, but I think of John Quincy Adams as a Senator. Why not consider running for Senator from Georgia when the opportunity arises?
If he does I hope he runs somewhere I can vote against him. He’s the epitome of the statist, big government, GOPe leach that is killing this country.
The opportunity arises about every 2 to 4 years.
John Quincy Adams was in his 30’s when he served in the senate. You’re probably thinking of his service in the House after his presidency.
He lives in VA.
Newt was MY congressman for many a year. That said, were he to run for Senator in Georgia, I would not vote for him in a primary. I’d prefer someone more honorable and much less prone to relating every answer to a question with “Me and Callista......”
Sorry, no dice. Besides, he’s a DC/VA Resident now. Been that way for a LONG time.
Is he replacing someone on the GOP or running vs a Democrap incumbent? Just asking Newt..er, I mean Nikos.
There is plenty of young conservative talent out there.
Use them.
Ditch Newt.
(I’m not exactly a young sprite, but enough already of these establishment fossels. Give someone with talent who has not been bespoiled by DC sewage a chance.)
I agree. With Newt you get hot and cold and never know which side of the aisle he will show up. Nope, we need a young conservative.
Yeah, I know. Plenty of house members have died in office. It is about as common as being defeated in a re-election bid. But with the exception of JQA, they all just "hold" the seat like Ted Kennedy did while doing nothing other than issuing press releases.
John Quincy actually died with his boots on. The house was passing a voice vote with "ayes" and he alone stood and objected with a loud "nay", suffering a massive cerebral hemorrhage on the spot from which he died two days later.
Yes...I stand corrected. THe House. Obviously, there are opposing views to the man, and he’s not perfect, but I like his ideas, I like his record over all. He’d be like having a veteran quarterback on your team.
We need people like him, Ted Cruz and others more than ever. Instead it looks like we’re getting another course of “Warm Milk” GOPers. And the young thinkers rammed down are throats are the likes of Fatso Christie?
It looks like the heat he took for questioning Paul Ryan was for naught. A bunch of us here, esp Ann Coulter, and in the media lamb-blasted him for even questioning Golder Boy, Paul Ryan, now it looks like he was right.
Newt’s “Me and Callista” remarks have got very old. It’s like she carries around a lockbox, or something.
Newtie please move to TN and run here ...
Newt had his time and did as well as he could ... let him age and die in peace.
Yeah, and the Rams should sign Dan Pastorini or Bert Jones in case Sam Bradford gets injured.
As somebody at the time said of Adams, which would have made him very happy (and also his father), “where else could death have found him but at his post of duty.”
That’s a great epitaph for any man.
Newt was perfect in the role of an opposition leader against the Democratic party majority. He is a troublemaker, and when the Democrats were in charge of the House he made trouble so well and brilliantly that the Republicans won a huge majority in the House in 1994.
He was a lot less successful as majority leader in keeping the popularity because he did not realize that a House Speaker is going to be held responsible when things go wrong, and if your primary mode of political behavior is being a troublemaker, a lot of things are going to go wrong.
That hasn't stopped Lynn Cheney from running in Wyoming.
The Beltway doesn’t have senators.
He has been a Beltway-er since he left the House.
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