Posted on 09/14/2007 6:05:28 PM PDT by indcons
Newt Gingrich, who must wake up each day spewing ideas and dispensing advice, offered a gloomy prognosis today of his party's chances of winning the White House in 2008 and his own prospects of running.
"I believe for any Republican to win in 2008, they have to have a clean break and offer a dramatic, bold change," he said. "If we nominate somebody who has not done that...they're very, very unlikely to win it."
Republicans must break with President Bush and separate themselves from the current state of the political system, he said, and so far none of the current candidates has met that test. But he also made clear that there is now almost no likelihood that he will become a candidate himself, having too little money, too much baggage and too much impatience for a successful campaign.
Gingrich, like many Republicans, believes Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee, and he spoke with some awe of the Clinton machine after remarking on the fact that, on the same day, Bill Clinton was on Oprah and Hillary Clinton was on the Ellen DeGeneres show. "As a professional, I am very, very impressed," he said.
Clinton can be defeated, he said, but only by the kind of campaign that none of the potential nominees is yet running. "None of the Republicans have figured out how to get a routine, repetitive explanation of the future that breaks out of the current situation and that's their primary challenge," he said. "Whoever does that will both, I think, win the nomination and have a realistic chance of defeating Sen. Clinton."
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You are absolutely right about voter fraud. I think this occurs in the big cities far more than many realize. I think it’s funny that some Dems have already stated that they might be in trouble with her as the nominee due to the fact that she is probably the most polarizing candidate in modern history.
You are absolutely right about voter fraud. I think this occurs in the big cities far more than many realize. I think it’s funny that some Dems have already stated that they might be in trouble with her as the nominee due to the fact that she is probably the most polarizing candidate in modern history.
Sorry about the triple post. Not sure what happened there... my conputer appeared to lock up.
Newt is a slightly chubbier Bill Clinton which somehow translated into Newt being the submissive one in their relationship. You can have him.
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The msm has taken a steeper dive since the clinton years than newt. you can hold onto the msm. but they will pull you down. not newt.
I sure agree with this assessment and would add that success spoiled Newt. It went to his head and he wasn’t/isn’t thinking logically enough to see the consequences of some of his more stupid, and I do mean stupid moves......moves that if he had just a smidgin of common sense would have told him, Don’t do this, it will come back to bite you big time.
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“The republican governor of Hawaii is a minnow in democratic ocean. Hawaii won’t vote republican in any case.”
Have you been hitting the sauce, dipdung? No place in what I said did I infer that Hawaii would vote Republican. By the way they said that about our Governor’s race in 2002....Hawaii will never vote for a Republican for Governor.
Well, just like your idiotic, assessments, they were wrong
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you’re trying too hard. but I like your assessment that the impossible can happen in Hawaii. but likely it was because the hawaiians decided they hated/feared the asians more than they hated/feared the white men.
I’m starting to agree with Newt, I don’t think its likely we will win in 2008. The electoral votes just don’t add up.. I think my guy Romney has the best chance by winning in the midwest and carrying the south, maybe breaking into some liberal strongholds like new england. But by appealing to such differing constituencies he has to be on all sides of a couple major issues.
I’m nearly looking to 2012, and hoping Petraeus will run.
Agreed - on all of your comments. We’re in some trouble.
“but likely it was because the hawaiians decided they hated/feared the asians more than they hated/feared the white men.”
When you post crap like this, you are showing everyone that you don’t have the foggiest notion of politics in Hawaii.
“but likely it was because the hawaiians decided they hated/feared the asians more than they hated/feared the white men.”
When you post crap like this, you are showing everyone that you don’t have the foggiest notion of politics in Hawaii.
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when you post crap like you did on Gingrich you are showing people you don’t have the foggiest idea of mainland politics.
Not sure about that ... This week McCain, Guiliani and Thompson all took good shots and scored. Maybe more followup might help, but these slap shots hit home. It furthered the war effort and put her in her place, weak on defense.
Ganging up on Hillary weekly in a round robin tag team would be a good strategy.
"Don't be hasty young master Gandalf."
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