Posted on 03/15/2012 7:37:53 PM PDT by God-fear-republican
Few days ago, after running close second to Mr. Santorum in Alabama and Mississippi, Mr. Gingrich lamented that nobody and entire nation could not understand him. At that moment, I said to myself, “Mr. Gingrich, now I know for certain that I would cast a vote for you in any political election!” I have found a true patriotic visionary whose aspiration is to lead the country to her past greatness, not to run just for the grandiosity of Presidency.
No one understands him. Political pundits enjoy listening to his speech and keep wondering why he did not break out as the front runner like his opponent Romney who is inferior to Newt in every aspect. They don’t understand him either. He does not emerge as the front runner because of his troublesome past that no one could look past and forgave him. The conservative base would forgive him if he was a normal sinner due to the teaching of their Lord Jesus Christ, but they cannot forgive him because he is both a grave sinner and a life-long politician. Additionally, not many can understand his message or aspiration for his beloved country. I think Newt is really frustrated having to discuss politics, economics, war, and worst of all, gas price! He would rather be the secular equivalent of Pope John Paul II orGandhi who fought for an endearing ideal. But he has to lower his expectation while using more common simplistic approach to reach to the hearts of the nation which has long lost the tradition of their visionary founding fathers.
I remember Newt in the days of the Contract of America in 1990s. I reacquainted with him during this election but I don’t remember much about him. I only recalled he was brash, brilliant but arrogant. I saw him gaining quite a bit of weight, remarried again, and converted to Catholicism, softer and more reserved and less talkative. I asked myself why Newt decided to run for the presidency of United States. Why? He is not young any more. What does he try to accomplish? I listened to the debates, liked his ideas and eloquence but was still not convinced. I favored him because of the poor pool of candidates who cannot go past the routine political rhetoric and rehearsal used to appeal to the ignorant mass without saying much anything. Newt intrigued me as he was full of romantic or so-called grandiosities, I wondered about him but not sure if I saw in him what I was looking for.
Now I am convinced, Newt is a complex politician who does not fit the mold, he is a hybrid between a philosopher and a politician, he is the visionary of the eighteenth century, the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Quincy Adams, he is truly the faithful pupil of Ronald Reagan.
Why do I think Newt will be nominated at the Republican brokered convention? Partly because he is putting President Obama in the corner, forcing him to debate one on one in many Lincoln-Douglas styled debates of which the modern electronic forum has become virtual, not made of 2 by 4 and wooden panels any more. Mr. Obama can be ill-afforded not to respond to Mr. Gingrich as what he says making too much sense and too damaging if the issue goes on unchallenged. Remember the bias press still enjoys listening to Newt. Even being liberal, they still enjoy the beautiful art works, picturesque poems or plays, and very much so, with inspiring speech and brilliantly defining idea. As the matter of fact, I finds the liberal tends to appreciate cultural things more than the meat-and-potato Bible conservative. By that I don’t mean that I prefer the former to the latter who show me the simple love and sincerity which rise above all human concepts.
Mr. Gingrich frames increasing gas price as an election issue, something common folks can relate to. He will use others such as mandated healthcare to be another hot button, forcing Obama to defend him one on one. One on one because there is no one else can frame and articulate an issue like Newt as he transform a political real-life issue into something more profound, more conceptual, a skill only a “romantic” politician like Newt can do. Not orthodox realistic Santorum can, not a vicious professional politician Romney can. People will find Newt to be a trustful friend and a repentant one, because they like his ideas and solutions, and thence they will see that he is trying to make a big difference in their lives regardless of their ethnic background, and for the country. Then from being friendly, they will grow to love Newt and find his political style fascinating, just as I once did. Finally they will see Newt to be a Reagan or a less grand Lincoln whom he loves to mention.
If we don’t nominate and elect him to be the leader of our country, collectively we don’t deserve to have him, the man who, even being misunderstood and ridiculed, wants to be a humble leader who comes to serve. He once said if he knows for certain that Santorum could get the job done, he would get out. That comment by no means is a belittling criticism but merely stating the fact that now our beloved country is at a critical pivotal junction, therefore, it takes a bold vision, aspiration, and courageous leadership to turn things around, and most importantly to have a sincerity and perseverance to persuade his own people, the entire diverse nation, to sacrifice and follow him.
If we cannot understand Newt by November this year, we do not deserve to have him. I just hope that after Newt gets nominated, he does not fall in love with Sarah Palin too. “Bless his heart” as one of my friend once had said (inside joke).
We're fixin' to see some of the most interesting times since the Fall of Rome; perhaps like the Revolution, or the Civil War.
In spite of the discomfort or unpleasantness ahead, it's just delightful to see the look in people's eyes when the light comes on, and they realize how utterly stupid they and their comrades have been. One early freeper called this the "Oh Sh!t" epiphany.
It isn't just the Democrats that are in for a rude awakening. Liberal Republicans, evangelicals, religious fruitcakes of all sorts, jock faggots, corporate snakes, gamers, hollywood groupies -- anybody hiding out in their own fantasia -- can have their world turned upside-down, and everything they thought they believed shown to have been a huge pack of lies.
It's long overdue.
You are so smart. You maybe my idol :)
You are so smart.
I`m not. Ask anyone that knows me :)
“...he (Newt) can’t win even in the South.”
Winning with a third of the vote is nothing to brag about. None of them are finishing strong, anywhere.
“Winning with a third of the vote is nothing to brag about. None of them are finishing strong, anywhere.”
OK, so you say that the three are each getting about one third.
Do you think that by the convention it will be split that it will go brokered and Newt might pull it off?
Just wondering how that would work.
In a brokered convention, I assume that voting starts over on new candidates nominated? Wouldn’t delegates for each candidate simply nominate their guy again, repeating the split?
“Do you think that by the convention it will be split that it will go brokered and Newt might pull it off? Just wondering how that would work.”
With Newt staying in I don’t think Romney will have the requisite 1144 delegates to win the nomination outright. There will be 2 months between the last primary and the convention. If Newt can finish strong in the later primaries and he goes into the convention strong, with momentum, anything can happen. If the delegates vote based on the 4 candidates making an impassioned plea for their respective candidacies at the convention, I’m putting my money on Newt.
There are 580 unbound delegates out of 2280 total who can vote for any candidate. So if Romney does not have 1144 delegates prior to the national convention, anything can happen in the first round voting. After the first round, every delegate becomes unbound, therefore, he/she can vote for any candidate. In this case, an inspiring speaker like Newt will have good chance to win over majority of delegates.
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