Posted on 01/29/2006 4:02:42 PM PST by RWR8189
Newt? I really, really wish I could like you. You have awesome ideas, however they come packaged in an adulterous little pasty-faced troll.
I just can't do it. Sorry. :(
Newt gets it.
Same here. Newt's a fine one to talk anyway. Sheesh.
Good post, RWR. For it is conservatism that will save America. And it is conservatism, not the person, that we should lay claim too.
LOL - I like what he says but I don't like him.
Whether we like Newt or not, he is an idea man and that is needed in the Republican party. His background and reputation probably do not make him electable, but he can serve the Party in some important capacity nonetheless.
I'm with you. I can't stand this suck-up Gingrich and the way some people of FR worship him suprises me.
Newt can best serve the party by going away.
He's the last person to lecture Republicans about scandal.
Newt Gingrich is a Twice Divorced ChickenHawk with a Superiority Complex. He is like alot of the GOP "Leadership".
Is this Newt's stump speech? The balloon ain't gonna fly but I guess he will have fun & face time until he gets knocked out in the first primary.
Don't get me wrong. The Republicans need to agree on and adopt a clear, specific, attractive set of actions they will take if returned to power. But given the history detailed above, Newt is not the man to carry it forward.
"His background and reputation probably do not make him electable, but he can serve the Party in some important capacity nonetheless."
Nope. Sorry. I have my standards. He's creepy. He's blown his "street cred" with me. And I don't care if he's only eligible to be elected Dog Catcher. Morals matter to me.
Why compromise your morals and standards? As a Conservative, you can live with that? I can't. And as a woman, I certainly don't take advice from the likes of him. Maybe it's a "Guy Thang?" ;)
"Don't get me wrong. The Republicans need to agree on and adopt a clear, specific, attractive set of actions they will take if returned to power."
If RETURNED to power? We HAVE the power. We're just not using it to our full advantage. I know; some days I wonder about that too, LOL!
The party will lose its control of the Congress and White House if it continues to be governed by the religious zealots who are intent upon incorporating their religiosity into law. Social conservatism is anathema to the great mass of the American electorate, fiscal conservatism is not. The intraparty riff between the two grows larger and more significant every time the presently controlling faction crams some theologically driven societal change down the throats of the party regulars and the popular electorate. One day in the future we'll be on the outside looking in and wondering what the hell happened.
"Reform healthcare?" I saw that and about puked. Get the GOVERNMENT OUT OF HEALTHCARE.....then we'd be making progress.
I understand what you are saying, but in my view every 2 years all members of Congress are out of power. An incumbent, re-elected, has been returned to power by his or her constituents.
The distinction is a subtle one and one that is totally lost in today's debate. But I think it is an important one as it reflects most closely the intent of the Founders.
I wish Newt hadn't messed up his chances. He has great ideas, and expresses them eloquently, but he wasn't that great at the leading part....
"The distinction is a subtle one and one that is totally lost in today's debate. But I think it is an important one as it reflects most closely the intent of the Founders."
I can live with that. Wish more people paid as much attention to this as you do. ;)
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