Newt is delusional
Newt is toast ... well, actually has been for several years now...
Newt, Dede Whats-her-name is NOT a moderate. She is NOT a pragmatist. She is a liberal!
THere is SO much wrong with what Gingrich said, that it just confirms my feeling that the Old/New Guard of the GOP,
(let’s just call them that, because that’s how they think of themselves), as typified by Gingrich/Steele , who think the same way on this, are totally out of touch with what is really happening among the American people. There were lessons to be learned from this grassroots uprising, starting even as late as the April 15 nationwide rallies, AND THEY DIDN’T LEARN THEM. EXACTLY like the MSM, they DIDN’T LEARN THE LESSONS, but instead just thought long and hard as to how to spin them , or exploit them. One of those lessons is that the ongoing discontent is primarily NOT “Party Partisan” in nature-—overwhelmingly the sentiment among REAL people is that “Republicans suck too!”. These official and semi-official GOP “heads” are ALL about this idiot’s game of keeping the Party strong, as if that is supposed to mean something, or create something substantive for the American people, or do ANYTHING to reverse the million deleterious programs and institutions that are already in place, and that THEY ARE KEEPING IN PLACE EVERY BIT AS STRENUOUSLY AS THE LEFT. The other day I googled “An Open Letter to Michael Steele” and found a bunch of results, dating back to soon after his installation as head of the GOP. It’s time for an OPEN LETTER TO NEWT GINGRICH. Or an OPEN LETTER TO THE SELF APPOINTED HEADS OF THE GOP. THey are all irrelevancies, they don’t know how to win, or why they should want to win, they only know, in Steele’s pathetic and frightening words from just a week or so ago, how to
“compete”. When I read that statement by Steele, it made a clear situation even clearer. THESE PEOPLE ARE DINOSAURS.
They are the primary enablers of the Left, and it is them who helped usher in Barack Obama and his gang of thieves.
And oh yeah, I invite everybody to look up the much-vaunted
“Contract with America” from 15 years ago. Read it carefully——you’ll find that it’s just a whole bunch of timid , pussy-footing NOTHING.
40% of Americans classify themselves as conservative. That means you only need to convince 11% of an already right leaning populace to vote for you.
#2. Newt is delusional....
That is probably so, but he is right on this. You cannot, repeat cannot, win a national election with a far right or far left candidate. Obama fooled the moderate indy electorate into thinking he was a centrist, so he got the leftist vote and the moderate vote just as Clinton did. Reagan and the Bushes got the conservative vote and the centrist vote. That is the formula for winning elections. A Palin, DeMint or similar candidate faces an almost impossible handicap to win the Presidency.
Does anyone know how we can directly contact Newtie?
Though the reasons I have for wishing Newt would go away are legion, he does have a few still-glowing embers in his once conservative soul. Here, he shows the beginnings of a valid point, which he then screws up with the exact wrong prescription.
There’s no question that, within any group to be big enough to win elections, there will be disagreements. Conservatives on FR are at each other’s throats often enough that we should know, and accept, that there are legitimate areas of difference.
BUT THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTITUTION—limited government, economic and personal freedoms, etc. One does not “accommodate” assaults on those basics without betraying the very essence of who we are.
But do we find ways to work together wherever we can? Of course. Every day, Americans make a thousand little adjustments in what they say and do in order to foster cooperation, harmony, and productivity in the workplace and with family and friends. They get it. But Newt’s prescription for accommodation goes beyond that. It’s a one-sided hospitality. It does not distinguish between those who want a place at the table and those who want to dictate the whole frickin dinner menu.
At the same time, we do ourselves no favors when we go out of our way to play gotcha with a hundred little litmus tests on minutiae. We all fall short of someone’s purity standards. Give me a flawed but honest patriot at the table any day. If I thought that’s what Newt was getting at, I’d say bravo. Unfortunately, his actions and alliances over the years indicate less an invitation to our table than a dis-invitation to the ones already there.