Posted on 01/20/2011 7:13:17 PM PST by Sioux-san
First let me say, I like Newt Gingrich, or at least, I've tried to like him as he's morphed into a political chameleon who talks out of both sides of his mouth. Gingrich is articulate and shrewd, but the author of To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine might want to go back and read himself, because lately he's sounding a lot like Richard Lugar.
Initially, there was Gingrich's Hispanic "outreach" in which he warmed to amnesty on the Laura Ingraham Show and seemed taken aback by her argument against it. Laura knows the difference between "legal" and "illegal" and is perhaps the first person Newt has encountered who put a sock in his blow-horn. Gingrich, who espouses Puerto Rican statehood, seems to want it both ways, fantasizing that if only we make citizens of law-breakers, they'll join the Tea Party.
But his "principles" are in question. The old GOP paradigm that political expedience trumps conviction finds a taker in Newt, and the more he speaks, the more paradoxical he becomes, equivocating as he straddles a rickety fence.
Now he's praising the man on whom he's feasted and who revived his career. Tucson solved everything-the healing words, the steady voice. Newt, on Good Morning America, parroted the choir re-exalting Obama as the second coming of Lincoln. Every president plays Comforter-in-Chief, and it's good politics, but the trouble is that Newt, in adopting a civil tone, is accepting what he rejected: hypocrisy.
It was Obama who said, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," "get in their faces," "punish your enemies," and whose boot fell to "the neck" of B.P. as flailing bureaucrats exacerbated the oil spill. Pivoting from the Secular-Socialist mantra to praise its inspiration, Gingrich turned the color of his chair, defining "phony" for the audience, while agreeing that Obama's high approval-rating is "deserved."
But what about ObamaCare? The soaring debt? Surely, Gingrich doesn't believe that the president was transformed by speech. No, Newt is playing to the public, softening his tone secondary to violence and a nation in-tune to "vitriol" on the air. Angry Newt is less so when anger isn't popular.
And, of course, there's "Green Newt." At the peak of hysteria on global warming, when Cap-and-Trade seemed a certainty, Gingrich embraced what was then "settled science." In fact, he made a video with Nancy Pelosi, urging the U.S. to "act fast." The author of To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine said that "Everyone agrees, we must address climate change," though failed to point out that it's Marxist at its core.
All of which points to Gingrich, the actor. True conservatism doesn't test the wind. It doesn't re-do itself. And it's not a chameleon. Gingrich's talent is his eloquent tongue, but the more it flutters, the greater the confusion, and the harder it is to believe in its noise.
Gingrich has a power lust which is a kind of insanity.
He’s a hack loser with Newsweak quality ideas.
Newt will say anything to get back into power.
In fact that’s what he did the first time. Then when he had led the revolution and gotten into congress, he proceeded to fold when clinton put the pressure on him.
He simply cannot be trusted. In marriage, in politics, or in anything he says.
I can’t believe that Neil Boortz is dumb enough not to understand that.
Use of the word “chameleon” implies that he has somebody fooled.
Gingrich is a douchebag and anyone who even considers supporting him should be lobotomized.
Sad to say I was taken in by him. His words to Sarah Palin were enough to leave a bad taste in my mouth. Chuck him and look for new faces for the New GOP—the Anti RINO GOP. I rather have Trump as President than Newt.
He’s always been a chameleon... Even with the ‘contract’ though persistent in pushing it through - it was about bringing certain issues ‘up for a vote’ - not to pass them - esp. term limits.
While he’s good at parliamentary procedure and back bench politics (likely the best our side has ever seen, at least at the time he took over) he’s always wanted to be part of the ‘intellectual elite’ with his ‘science’ side - Toffler, et. al., visions of being a ‘visionary futurist’. And that gets translated into the whole ‘green’ morass that hangs around him like an albatross. He can’t shake it because he kinda likes it.
He was beat badly by the Left in their ‘Whack a Mole’ game on any Republican that even smells like they might endanger their establishment. Bob Livingston - Gingrich’s proposed replacement - whacked, Delay, eventually whacked, Armey... a whole line of others, then Bush, and now Palin and any of the hopefuls.
Gingrich quit popping his head up for a while and rather than fighting back, he’s tried to make some friends - he should know better - that’s impossible to do - ask someone who tries even harder than he does - John McCain.
Character matters and Newt has none.
Thanks - you made me laugh this morning!
I have a hard time respecting a man who has problems coming to grips with the concept of “absolute truth”....
You’re welcome!
If Nancy got any closer she’d be on Newt’s lap !
I guess he expects we’ll all forget that betrayal.
FYI ping
Remember Scuzzy-Favva!!!
I sure do - so when Boortz goes on about “old news” as a lousy reason not to support Newt now, why is Boortz in such a fog on the recent history of Newt’s continual betrayals? Obviously, Newt is one of the anointed lizards from the NWO sent to fool the sheeple one more time.
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