Posted on 11/21/2011 12:11:57 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
……..If 2012 were an ordinary election year, Gingrich would be doomed by his gaffes, three marriages, and fleeting alliances with HillaryClinton on health care and Nancy Pelosi on global warming. But 2012 is different. Republicans are fixated on defeating PresidentObama. They’re obsessed. They think about little else. And if that means choosing a candidate with a lurid past and a penchant for self-destruction to beat Obama, Republicans are likely to swallow hard and nominate Gingrich.
In their hearts, Republicans have always wanted a candidate who is bold and tough, and Gingrich is. They’re not sure about MittRomney, who is cautious, conventional, and sounds more conciliatory than Gingrich. There’s a reason Romney’s support has been stuck for months at roughly a quarter of the Republican electorate. His blandness explains it. Gingrich is anything but bland.
To rally behind Gingrich, Republicans wouldn’t have to forgive his past sins, just treat them as irrelevant. They already talk about how sweet it would be to see Gingrich crush Obama in presidential debates. They don’t see Romney that way.
But Romney has two important traits Gingrich lacks: carefulness and self-discipline. He doesn’t shoot off his mouth recklessly, as Gingrich often has. In May, the former House speaker practically blew up his campaign by attacking Representative Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan as “right-wing social engineering.” He later apologized.
Talk to any of Gingrich’s current or former associates and you hear about the “bad Newt.” This is the undisciplined Gingrich, prone, as one long-time friend says, “to overshoot the runway on something,” perhaps with a wild and inappropriate comment that’s ruinous to his campaign. Many of those who know him believe it’s only a matter of time before he runs amok.
Believe it or not, his press secretary…insists Gingrich has gotten a grip on himself….
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NO.
F Newt.
Including Ronald Reagan in that list not only dishonest its shows a mind set that makes this whole article suspicious.
She’s allready been called and she hung up!
If you put to much creadence on what you read or hear on FR you can get depressed. Fact is I will take any of these candidates over Zero. Remember, no republican is going to get good media coverage in general election.
Anybody But Obozo
ABO, that's MY candidate too.
Mine too.
Well it beats voting for Obama.
He's spent ten years pushing for and profiting from the Beltway political culture. And now that he needs support from conservatives, he all of a sudden is back to embracing limited-government conservatism?
The Newt is a chameleon.
So tell me - if a media report had come out about a well-connected Dem getting a million plus to lobby for Fannie, it would have been seen here on FR as proof as how corrupt Fannie and the Beltway political culture is.
But let it be Newt and Freddie, and it's just Newt scraping together a living.
Still a big Cain supporter here. But I’ve gone on record here many a time saying I am watching this as others watch professional sports. Whoever wins in November, we’re in a world of hurt that will just have to play out badly. Even if that winner is Obama. Or Cain. And, frankly, I can’t get past my niggling belief that only a fool would WANT to be president during the greatest collapse in the history of mankind.
What, not on the ball this morning? You are usually in with your vile by the first 5 posts. It’s always the same, and it is always Newt or Perry. Well, used to be Perry since you must no longer regard him as a threat to your “Perfect Conservative” image.
I’m not quite sure if that dude is a Paultard or a Romney guy...hard to tell since he’s always against conservatives, not for anybody...
Freddie Barnes, Billy Kristol and their Weakly Standard doing their daily deed in favor of Team Mittens.
I’ve gone round and round from Palin (still my 1st choice but not running) to Perry, to Cain, to Newt, and now back to Perry. I truly believe he is the most conservative candidate who can win. Still nervous about his debate skills though. Debates seem to make him very nervous. I think he would fair much better against Obama though.
Cain supported the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bank bailouts as a way to revive the economy, viewing it as an investment opportunity for the taxpayers. In a 2008 editorial, Cain wrote, “Owning a part of the major banks in America is not a bad thing. We could make a profit while solving a problem.”[1]
In May 2011, regarding his TARP support, Cain said, “I don’t have any regrets . . . I studied the situation. I didn’t have trouble with the idea; I had trouble with its implementation, picking winners and losers.”[2]
In October 2011, Cain said he does not believe in the concept of “too big to fail” and has stated that he did not agree with the bailouts of “JP Morgan and the big banks on Wall Street”.[3]
Affirmative action
Cain supports ensuring that minorities receive the same opportunities as non-minorities. He does not agree with a “quota” style affirmative action system, which he believes gives an advantage to minorities simply because they are a minority.[38]
Which is exactly why we MUST HAVE an experienced President with nearly 40 years of experience in running this Government as well as a strong ability in Foreign Affairs.
Simply hiring advisers to handle this mess, because the candidate is too ignorant to understand it for himself, is a guaranteed disaster.
Closet Paultard, is my guess. Nobody is as nasty or vile on this forum.
First if you are going to bad mouth Newt at least get your facts right. You’re sitting in front of a computer it’s not that hard. Newt did not lobby anyone. He was a consultant along with hundreds of other consultants.
Imagine you are a young teen in a family. Dad lost his job a year ago.
You’ve been living on savings for that year and was, luckily, able to get a few high balance credit cards just before he was laid off. Meanwhile, your house is now worth hundreds of thousands less than it was and mom and dad have not made a payment in four months.
But mom and dad have not told you any of this. All you know is that dad lost his job but you seem to be doing ok because of savings. And mom and dad are each telling you about solutions they are working on.
The savings is depleted, all of the cards are over limit, and the groceries in the fridge are all that you have. There are no jobs in dad’s line of work and there is no money to buy so much as another carton of milk.
Mom is the democrats and dad is the republicans. This is over their heads, no matter what they try. Both cars were repossessed last night while you slept, and the sheriff is on his way to evict you.
That is pretty much where we, and all of western civilization are right now.
Historically this ends in war. A big one. And it gets pretty ugly before the war starts (which is why it starts).
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