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.
Then why didn't he use it on Mitt?
Here is some wisdom from my college days. Never trust a good debater. They have one suspicious quality.
What makes a good debater to begin with, is that they can effectively argue both sides of an issue.
You are spot on.
I trust Newt more that the rest. However, I don’t trust anybody beyond my dog.
God is going to need to bless our country again, because it seems the last blessing is starting to wear off.
It is amazing isn’t it? The most ardent Newt bashers post most of their material from liberal organizations. On FR? It boggles the mind.
Did they lie about what Newt said?
Pride comes before the fall.
What a great line!
A foolish nonsensical statement.
I am not a supporter of Newt, but why would he not layout why he thinks he's a superior candidate...he is after all running for president?
Oh, so you're a ROMNEY FAN?!?
Surely you jest! Or, you are terribly ignorant.
Speak for yourself...not all South Carolinians agree with you. You should know by now that not all good debaters are leaders. Do you consider Obama a good leader? I don’t!! You can have your “brilliant debaters”, but some of us prefer sincere, honest persons with common sense and character. Ronald Reagan wasn’t considered brilliant, but he did possess character and common sense - and he had a sense of humor which seems to be lacking in some of the candidates today. Gingrich appears to have an abundance of arrogance and a little trait of mean-spiritedness to go along with his boasts of being the best debater!
Oh, both. :)
LOL!
Does everyone think Newt got to be Speaker because he was so cute? No, it’s because he exhibited leadership while the then-GOP “leaders” dithered. He used every tool at his disposal to achieve major change in Congress and in Washington.
Newt formulated and executed a plan to give us the first GOP House majority in 40 years; he made a promise to the American people, and he kept it. 9 of 10 points in the “Contract with America” were passed within the first 100 days of the GOP majority under Newt’s leadership.
He’s winning the debates because he knows, in depth, exactly what he is talking about. He’s not parroting words fed to him by advisors with expertise in a given area. He’s “been there, done that.” The debates reflect that first-hand experience.
He’s suffered the slings and arrows of our MSM. Remember “The Gingrich who Stole Christmas?” After the amazing GOP takeover he engineered, every major publication had covers and endless articles portraying him as the most evil person on earth. And they never relented. By now he has developed a pretty thick hide and won’t be taken in by the MSM.
Newt certainly has his negatives, which have been documented over and over, and I have a few ‘issues’ with and reservations about him, but it is hard at this point in time to think of anyone with better qualifications to sit in the Oval Office. He’s not pretty and presidential looking like Romney or Perry, nor is he charming like Cain, but when you get down to the nitty gritty, he really is the best qualified. He’d have legislation enacted before any of the others could find the keys to the men’s room.
I’m not a Cardinal voting for the Pope, just an American citizen voting for a president who can steer us away from the morass we’ve been driven into.
what does this have to do with South Carolina you idiot?
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