Will 'New Newt' prevail? (Will he make a comeback like Nixon in 1968?)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 11/17/2011 | Doyle McManus

[fightinJAG]

I see it as Newt is the one guy the Dems have decided they really want as the GOP nominee.

They want to rough him up enough to remind conservatives how much he has disgusted them at various times over the years, but not so much that his path to the nomination is destroyed.

Here's my theory:

# 31.

[org.whodat]

Newt and willard in a sack together when they fell out they would be hugging each other and have interchangeable parts. Both of them love the individual mandate and big government. No, not voting for either.

[fightinJAG]

Did she talk about what happens next?

She goes out with the guy and then marries him. Uh-huh. The day after the wedding she sees new hubby reaching across the aisle to play footsie with her old nemesis. She wakes up screaming: WHAT WAS I THINKING?? NOW I REMEMBER WHY I DROP-KICKED THIS LOSER!!

[Fiji Hill]

[fightinJAG]

Gawd, I feel like I’m in the teen section on Facebook when I hear people who disagree with a candidate’s views, positions or record automatically called “haters.”

Sad, but still kinda funny.

[fightinJAG]

How can Newt give a “Checkers” speech when Callista wears $45,000 necklaces from Tiffany’s? LOL

(And, no, I am not making that price up. The New York Times said so.)

[fightinJAG]

I don’t forget that.

But I don’t have a selective memory, either.

And I’d vote for Gingrich. But he would be one pain-in-the-butt heartburn-inducing rollercoaster-ride “bipartisan” POTUS, just like he’s always been.

[fightinJAG]

Distrust is much different from hate...but you know that.

But if you admit that, then you don't get to call people "haters" (or is it H8Rs), you know, like the cool kids and the alternate lifestyle peeps do!

[hinckley buzzard]

Newt stands on his own merits. The comparison to Nixon is facile but inaccurate. Nixon was a robust Cold Warrior but no conventional conservative as the term has come to be known.

Gingrich was never as "angry" as the demogogues played him out to be. You have to bear in mind, "angry" is an epithet used by the Lefwingers to disparage normal people who are indignant at what they see being done to the country.

[dfwgator]

"The New Dick...it's short, it's sweet and everyone wants to see it."

[jpsb]

Here is my SOP response to the inner thing

I think when people see that Newt keeps him promises as in say the Contract With America. When they see that he reduced government spending, balanced the Federal Budget and reformed welfare they just might conclude that Newt is the kind of insider they would like to see back in the inside.

[hinckley buzzard]

Speaking of jerks...

[maine-iac7]

thinly disguised to link a person with a thoroughly disgraced one -

too many of you are falling for it. The media still rules the day...

[Paperdoll]

Not if the people with brains and deep regard for their country vote for someone else. Newt is a liberal. A tiger does not change it’s stripes. If they try it washes off in the next rainfall!

[jessduntno]

And I’d vote for Gingrich. But he would be one pain-in-the-butt heartburn-inducing rollercoaster-ride “bipartisan” POTUS, just like he’s always been.”

Yep. But he wouldn’t be a jugeared Marxist Kenyan.

[Paperdoll]

LOL! It’s not over until it’sover!

[hinckley buzzard]

"The evil men do lives after them...the good is oft interred with their bones." But for Watergate, Nixon would have had one of the most notable 8 year stays in office of the 20th century-- not orthodox conservative by any means, but centrist in the true sense of the word. It is a tragedy that he fell victim to his own flaws, and in the face of opportunistic hostile forces not totally of his own making. A tragedy not just for him but for the country as well.

[Fantasywriter]

I’m thinking maybe you meant Newt is the quintessential, archetypal or consummate insider [with which I would agree]. ‘Penultimate’ means ‘second to last in a series’, such as, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ is the penultimate book in the series.

[hinckley buzzard]

I feel like I'm in the teen section when I read the assinine, fatuous bullshit that passes among putative adults for informed opinion these days.

[samtheman]

Yesterday I read a comparison of Newt to Churchill.

Now a comparison to Nixon.

I think the Churchill comparison is more apt.