Posted on 11/21/2011 12:26:59 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
NASHUA, N.H. — Newt Gingrich has made his refusal to launch negative attacks on his GOP rivals a point of pride, but he didn't hesitate to lay out why he thinks he's a superior candidate at a speech here Monday morning.
Channeling the oft-repeated comments of what Republican primary voters say they like about him, Gingrich held up his experience and debate skills to contrast himself with the other Republican hopefuls. Continue Reading
"If you stop and ask yourself: it's October of 2012, President Obama is spending $1 billion beating up the Republican candidate [and] you get to the debates, who do you want to have debate Obama to draw clarity between the various lies they will be telling and the truth?" he asked. "I think most people end up thinking I'm probably a better debater than my friends are."
To that, Gingrich got a loud ovation from the crowd of about 100 students and businesspeople.
Gingrich, speaking at Rivier College, had been asked by a student for "the one thing" that separates him from his Republican opponents. He listed three.
"The scale of the solutions that I propose — which are much bigger and much more comprehensive than any other person running for office," he said.
And, he added, there is his experience.
"I've actually done it," Gingrich said. "I'm the only person running this year who has actually helped create a national majority twice, in 1980 and 1994" (Gingrich was reelected to the House in 1980, but it's not clear whether he was claiming a share of credit for Reagan's victory, Senate Republicans winning a majority or both).
Of his record as House speaker, Gingrich rattled off a list of accomplishments.
"I passed entitlement reform, welfare, I passed a second reform, Medicare, which was done so well nobody noticed it," he boasted. "AARP was for it, the Democrats didn't oppose it."
Gingrich also noted his pushing through a series of balanced budgets.
"Nobody else running comes anywhere close to that," he said.
Got a good chuckle out of the subject line of an email someone sent me this morning:
Newt, “a stupid man’s idea of what a smart man is.”
Once again, Politico speaks and FR starts salivating. Their agenda is to splinter the GOP base, and it’s working. Show me one candidate without baggage, but not ONE has the baggage of Zero. Too many agendas here.
—...but he took his ball and went home, where he could make money.—
As far as I am concerned, that’s known as PERMANENTLY giving up any political aspirations.
To the lions!
See my tagline, you Romney lover.
How did he help Reagan?
A 1980 memo from then-freshman House member Gingrich may be the original inspiration for Ronald Reagan’s “are you better off than you were four years ago?” line from a presidential debate the same year. Some think that was a game changer. You decide.
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2011/03/reagan-and-gingrich.html
I like Newt and give her a lot of props for her bravery and ingenuity in surviving the aliens (with the help of Ripley of course) but puh-leeease- When Hudson said “Why don’t you put her in charge?” I’m sure he was being facetious.
—...but he took his ball and went home, where he could make money.—
It’s funny, but I never thought about this until now: Can you actually imagine Newt as president? I try to picture it and he is just NOT presidential. Most of the rest are (the other three, I mean) It is somewhat embarrassing to admit that because I don’t consider that to be a reason to not support a candidate, but here I am...
Newt is a DC fixture and nothing more. A product of years of honing his oratory skills, prostituting his political connections, publishing position papers, coining clever talking points, and trimming his sails to the prevailing political winds. Precisely what we don’t need at this historical juncture.
Yep, and how is the narcissist we have in there now working out?
What makes him good at debates is his knowledge. Any of the other candidate could debate like him if they had his knowledge and they don’t. Is knowledge now under the N/A column, now?
Hmmmmm, that almost sounds X-rated.
New tagline ...
“We need to nominate the candidate with the best chance of knocking off Obama.”
That may well be Hillary...
He is a Master Debater and a Cunning Linguist.
I’m all for Newt’s rise in the polls...it’s good that we can dispense of it now, the earlier the better. Newt will never be the nominee and I’d just as soon get his 15 minutes out of the way now.
Time for the Newtbots and the Perrybots to engage in a war, the likes of which have not been seen since the Daleks and the Time Lords fought.
Exactly. We need an executive who will put his nose to the grindstone and follow through.
Newt LOVES ideas and flits from one to another, to another, to another.
He’ll talk us all to death.
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