Before the orgy begins here, may I just ask a question?
Why all the love for Gingrich?
If you step back and view his history in its entirety, I cannot for the life of me see much there to appeal to conservatives.
I’m ‘m not even talkking about the morals aspect.
Dede Scozafova, anyone?
AGW w/ San Fran Nan?
Venture captical = bad, lobbying for Fan & Fred = good?
From an even more general perspective, is it not pretty clear this guy’s in it for Newt. Period?
I know Romney sucks. Believe me I do. But shlould hate for one guy really translate into fervent passion for another?
I’m honestly surprised.
I would have expexted the tone around here to be more like it was in the run up to the McCain debacle.
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I recommend you read one of his books.
LePer zot.
I supported Palin.
But the media did all they could to be make her stay out of the race.
So I supported Michelle Bachmann.
But the media did all they could to make her seem "crazy" and "stupid", so she lost all her momentum and ended up working for Mitt.
So I supported Herman Cain.
But the media did all they could to destroy him with charges that were neither illegal nor serious, and he dropped out.
Now I support Gingrich.
In part, because Gingrich is ready to go to war against the media.
It’s soooo unfair.
You perhaps are suffering from “selective memory” - something that will certainly prevent you from understanding what you are seeing. Ironic since you give yourself credit for reviewing history in “its entirety.”
Perhaps you don’t remember the 94 elections or what life was like in congress for some 50 years before that.
Perhaps you don’t remember Denny Hastert and what life was like with the Republican congress after Newt.
Perhaps you don’t remember the brilliant and passionate defense of Sarah Palin that Newt delivered.
Perhaps you are blinded by all the times that McCain made us stand up and cheer for his defense of conservatism. Oh wait......
The “entirety of history” presents both reasons to cheer and reasons for concern. What is so interesting is that only Newt’s supporters are looking at both sides.
Zot!
I do believe there are a total of 5 us on FR who feel the same.
Newt’s smack down of the media is an act: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71741.html
To put it succinctly, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”... Newt has done much to activate the gag-reflex, nevertheless, he is the only one who has championed our cause, or at the very least, given voice against the political-media complex. I’ll be voting for whoever the nominee is. And on Sup-Tue, I won’t know who to vote for till I pull the lever... at this point it could be any one of them... make no mistake, love for Newt has nothing to do with it...
I’ve always admired Newt Gingrich because he is an idea faucet. The man doesn’t let the labels, ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’, get in the way of at least analyzing what will or will not work to the advantage of America’s citizenry.
Per Jim Robinson:
Newt’s rebirth agenda: Repeal Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and Sarbanes-Oxley! Fire the czars! Fire Bernanke! Neuter the Fed and the EPA! Shutter Health, Education, Housing, Labor, Energy, etc. (can’t remember them all). Return the 185 some odd socialized federal welfare programs to the states and the people where they can either control them locally or shut them down. Privatize social security and Medicare and or return them to the states and the people. Go to a personal flat tax of 15% after deductions. Reduce the corporate tax rate to 12.5%. Eliminate the capital gains tax. Eventually eliminate the payroll tax after social security is privatized and phased out.
Newt left elective government service in 1995. He has had fifteen years in the private sector for that all important perspective on how government has failed to serve its citizens.
Above all, he is a fighter and will not back down from a confrontation, particularly if he believes himself right and the other full of bull shit!
>>...Why all the love for Gingrich?...<<
Because compared to Romney, Santorum and Paul, who else is there to love? But seriously, when a GOP candidate runs, they are running against the DEM candidate *AND* the Lib-dominated MSM combined.
Of the remaining candidates, which one(s) can/would effectively and *eagerly* engage the media and the dem candidate as well as Gingrich can?
There is no perfect candidate. But at this point, Gingrich (warts, skeletons and all) looks to be the best choice of the options available. AND I stress “best candidate of the options available” which is different from “perfect candidate”. There is no perfect candidate and there never will be.