Posted on 12/01/2011 7:57:27 AM PST by Fred
NEWT GINGRICH is the latest unlikely figure to vault to the top of Republican presidential polls, and unlike those who preceded him - Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain - he’s likely to stick around. That’s partly due to necessity. With just a month until the Iowa caucuses, conservatives don’t have time to anoint a new savior. It’s also because, despite his copious shortcomings, he seems immune to what felled the others. An able debater, he won’t flop like Perry and Cain. He’s not a full-on nut like Trump. And his legislative record eclipses Bachmann’s, which barely exists.
But his late emergence as the “true conservative’’ poised to challenge Mitt Romney is rich, and its broader significance underappreciated. For two years, the driving force in national politics has been the Tea Party, whose founding myth was that ordinary citizens were rising up in defiant objection to the hidebound, self-dealing ways of Washington. Greedy politicians, this view held, had bloated the government and lined their own pockets at taxpayers’ expense, while letting the country go to rot.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
I really, really, hate to admit this, but Newt (for better or worse) is now the best choice of what’s running around out there right now.
Mittens spoke at a Tea Party Express event. The Tea Party Express is not the TEA party, and there were a significant number of TEA party people at the event who demonstrated against Mittens.
My sentiments exactly! Isn’t what we despise most about the libs is that they pretend too speak for all of us but only push thier own agenda (which the majority opposes). Why would the Tea Party want to do what is being done to them. Let America decide, so long as we ALL have a voice (this time). I see the Tea Party as being much more accepting of opposing views than it’s counterpart and it needs to stay that way or we just become another version of them. I just wish everyone would stop telling us what to think and who to vote for. We can make up our own minds.
>> If Gingrich is the answer, Tea Party has failed
Bogus condition.
It took 23 posts before a Freeper recognized this as another MSM technique. Thanks.
Divide and conquer.
Damn well said. As commented elsewhere, if we gain majorities in both Houses, a GOP President will go along with the Legislative agenda - reduce government and spending.
I am mystified that some conservatives are influenced by and agree with a Boston GLOBE(?!) column and author, who wishes for the 'failure' of the Tea Party? Only in their dreams.
What’s wrong with Duncan Hunter and Sarah Palin?
Whatever, slave.
Gingrich mocked the Tea Party and Sarah Palin directly. He is a despicable man!
Gingrich mocked the Tea Party and Sarah Palin directly. He is a despicable man!
Every candidate is influenced/impacted to some degree by the Tea Party. Not just the GOP. The Tea Party continues to succeed.
Let me offer another opinion on Newt.
For the last decade, Newt has been wandering in the wilderness - trying to stay both relevant and solvent. That makes for strange bedfellows as different interests align and then break apart.
I wrote him off after the global warming episode. That was really stupid. Then his position on single payer insurance just nailed the lid on tighter. Yes, it is the “humane” thing to do, but no nation can afford it.
I regretted it but I felt that we did not need another political opportunist... even a really smart one.
I first met Newt back in the 80’s when I heard him give an answer on problems in education and offer a plan for teaching kids to read that just nailed it. I thought, wow, if that guy ever runs for president, I’m on board. Then, his career peaked or crashed and he went off the radar.
After the Nancy Pelosi debacle, I didn’t pay any attention to him until these debates of the last few months. Romney was slick, but, too slick. Newt was the “adult” in the room.
I have come to the belief that he is a the right choice for right now because he really does know the right answers.
With his deep, deep sense of history and this being his moment, I do not believe that he would veer to the left. If anything, I think that he realizes that we are out of time and a historically great president is needed.
To save the Republic, we need someone who understands the system, has a perspective that allows them to make tough decisions and is to be able to communicate the reasons why and squelch the opposition. It is a rare ability... and he has it.
There is not another person on the horizon who can do what we need.
That said, out of pure self interest, I’m going to forgive his sins and get behind him.
When I was younger I felt the same way about women.
If they had low standards I was rarely disappointed.
Stop letting the the junk media tell you what to think
Stop letting the the junk media tell you what to think
Wow, does not take much to push you to the name calling phase. You must win friends and influence people all the time.
The Republicans could offer as a candidate a combination of George Washington and A. Lincoln and the MSM would attack them.
This article is the type of "reporting" we have seen develope over the last few months and we will see wose over the next year as the MSM gears up for the benefit of "The Divine One."
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