Posted on 11/19/2011 4:40:33 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Newt Gingrich could very well be the GOP nominee for one very simple reason: He doesn't give a damn. He doesn't care what the media says about his campaign. He doesn't care that you shouldn't say Barney Frank should be arrested. He doesn't mind telling a CBS debate moderator he's lying...He couldn't give a flying fill-in-the-blank!
I've been saying for more than a year that the person who defeats the Billion Dollar Democrat will not do it with great speeches or flashy ad campaigns or by delivering a glib line on Jay Leno's couch. It's not going to be about with whom the voters want to have that proverbial beer. The person who defeats Barack Obama will do so in the debates.
In order to defeat Obama in the debates, the GOP nominee MUST be willing to stand at a podium on national television and do the following two things over and over: Tell the truth about the president and force him to run on his record.
It will fall upon the Republican nominee to force Obama to once and for all enlighten us about the many years of his academic life which have been happily redacted by the leftist media; to tell the world who he socialized with and to whom he was drawn ideologically.
The nominee must make Obama run against the NOMINEE and not congress, banks and so many fatcats. The nominee must use words like redistribution, apologist, transparency, mandate, fast, furious, socialism, division and class warfare. The nominee must make the president refute these words with facts not rhetoric. The nominee will have to chant "jobs-jobs-jobs" like a eastern chant, and remind people of the president's description of middle America as "clingers."
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You have a problem with facts and history apparently.
FACT 1: Newt has quadrupled or quintupled his support in recent weeks, so there must be a reason for it.
FACT 2: Newt was very low in the polls for those weeks because he has had some really awful moments in his long career.
FACT 3: he did engineer the Contract with America election and that election, and maybe the first year and a half of its congress, did an awful lot of good for the country.
FACT 4: Newt has won almost all of the debates.
FACT 5: Newt has attacked the media in the debates more than anyone else.
FACT 6: Newt has been more complimentary of other candidates than anyone else in the debates.
So, where do we go? I look at all of the facts and draw conclusions. My conclusion is that 1,3,4,5 and 6 are right now convincing people to move into his column in spite of number 2. NO ONE is denying number 2 and his awful moments.
You, however, are denying 1,3,4,5 and 6.
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All debates do not occur face to face. Debates happen in the media too. The good thing about Newt is that he shoots off his mouth, creating debaes in the media that the other side must respond too. That will really help people focuson Obma’s shortcomings. The bad thing about Newt is no-one can tell what the hell he really believes, if anything.
Bingo. Newt is simply smart enough to know all the buttons to push to get the conservative base excited. As for his supposed willingness to call out 0bama on his hidden commie past, I offer as contradictory evidence Newt’s past coziness with his fellow philander Bubba Clinton and with kleptocratic fascist Nancy Pelosi.
>> The bad thing about Newt is no-one can tell what the hell he really believes, if anything. >>
You make some good points about the plus/minus of Newt. If I had to take a stab at your last point, I would say he generally believes in the right things, but since his experience is as an academic and a politician - he hasn’t lived much of what he knows intellectually.
When you add that to perhaps a bit too much self confidence, he leans towards being a government tinkerer - because he has lived government but has not lived free enterprise. And yet, he knows from history, it is free enterprise and limited government that is the groundwork for prosperity. But he ends up conflicted internally.
What do you think?
"Genuine Phony"...now that's a great line! I don't agree with it, but it reminds me of an ex-daughter-in-law of mine of whom someone once said : "Deep down, she's shallow."
As attractive a ticket that that would be, I doubt that we could elect two Georgians. Usually they try to balance the ticket geographically.
>> Newt is simply smart enough to know all the buttons to push to get the conservative base excited. As for his supposed willingness to call out 0bama on his hidden commie past, I offer as contradictory evidence Newt’s past coziness with his fellow philander Bubba Clinton and with kleptocratic fascist Nancy Pelosi. >>
Now I have a serious question for you: why is it you assume the conservative Newt is simply some one “pushing buttons” but you assume the other Newt is the genuine Newt. Why couldn’t it be vice versa? Or, why couldn’t it be that he is internally conflicted sometimes?
When it comes to actual accomplishments in government, your theory gets a real test. Most of his liberal flirtations were thought experiments that never went anywhere.
Not being snarky - sincerely asking...
What infuriates me is that Obama is ten times as corrupt as Newt, but the press will give Newt an anal exam, as Rush says, while kissing the ground O walks on.
The press will attack and vilify any conservative ruthlessly. Palin, Cain, etc. They’ll do it to Romney once he gets past the primary, while circling the wagons around their very corrupt and imperfect “Anointed One”. It really doesn’t matter who we put up.
I remember the week a Republican was thrown out of office for a suggestive email to an older intern, which the press was in fury over - the same week, the Dems had a standing ovation on the floor for a Rep who had actually had an affair with an underage intern. The corrupt MSM will magnify whatever a R does, while ignoring and minimizing what a D does. We can’t go by that. They are so filled with hate for conservatives it doesn’t matter what they have to manufacture to destroy a R. Remember how qualified Palin was, and how unqualified O was? To this day people have no idea how credentialed Palin is.
I’ll vote for Newt. I won’t vote for Romney. I like the way Newt speaks, and I like the way he takes no prisoners in a debate. I like he does think out of the box. I like he is truly educated. He sure didn’t give us Romneycare.
I’d like to see him against the oily Obama in a one on one. He’d pin him up against the wall (Although the next day the press will probably berate him for being “disrespectful” to the president, right?)
And, as my son says, will he run around Europe and Asia bowing to every tyrant he can find? Like me, he was probably taught in 2nd grade Americans don’t do that.
Yes, that was a great line....
If Newt is Rhett, does that make Perry Bonnie Blue Butler?
I'll vote for Newt over Romney but right now I'd think I take Paul in a head to head with him.
It's down to Perry, Cain & Santorum for me with Perry ahead by a good bit.
Actually, Crazy John was outspoken in his warnings about Freddie and Fannie.
I would take take McCain over Newt.
Fortunately, he's not running this time.
I’d be scared to have a beer with newt. Better bring gloria Allred with me...
He may not give a d**n, but he sure is no Clark Gable either!
You can say that again...
I am afraid all of you miss the most important point -
obama, if allowed to run again, will steal the election again., simply because he has the lamestream brain-washing voters, trashing whoever is the R nominee, committing massive voter/voting fraud and intimidation.....
The only way is to keep his name off the 2012 ballot!
How? Use all your energies and time spent on fighting over who can defeat obama, instead, focus on filing complaints to your states’ SOSs to demand verification of obama’s constitutional eligibility prior to placing his name on the ballot! You have the constitution on your side. It is the official/legitimate way and your right to challenge the election officers to do their duties to verify the candidate prior to placement on the ballot!
Another way is to convince the R candidates to challenge obama’ constitutional eligibility on the campaign trail! But we all know they are to cowardly to do so.
However, there is one Cody Robert Judy, FEC-registered Dem pres candidate that you can support to send them the message that the people don’t want an inelig candidate BHO in the race!
>> Actually, Crazy John was outspoken in his warnings about Freddie and Fannie. >>
Yep, until campaign time - and then he blamed the economic meltdown on “unfettered capitalism” and on Republicans doing business with Jack Abrahmoff - and didn’t utter a friggin word about Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and Fannie and Freddie.
McCain is the worst GOP nominee ever - by far. No one has done more to submarine conservative policies and other conservative people in the media as McCain. And it’s not even close.
The conservatives/Tea Party failed to field a viable candidate. It’s now a race among establishment big government hacks. And Ron Paul.
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