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.
I saw that you were from SC and so am I. I wonder if I had said, “I respectfully disagree with you” if you would have shown the same lack of class. It didn’t occur to me to insult you by referring to you in derogatory terms, but since you are from the South, I’m sure you’re aware that we believe “it takes one to know one”.
if you think telling me right off the bat to speak for myself not all South Carolinians agree with me is classy on your part you are more of an idiot than I thought..
if you read my post and thought it had anything to do with me trying to speak for anyone but myself(let alone people from South Carolina) then you have a reading comprehension problem.. you made it personal and I didn’t until you tried to tell me how to post my comments .. so now buzz off
Great post....cat ladies here flee in horror but I loved it
God bless ya
It ain’t bragging if you can do it.
- Dizzy Dean
He had to resign before Clinton outed him for his affairs.
You are correct. I was out of line with my first post, and I apologize.
Thank you, sir.
I’d previously argued that Newt would make an excellent VP choice for the then-frontrunners, in turn, for the exact reasons I now think he’s the best qualified candidate for POTUS, as the others have stumbled. IF he were to win the nomination and IF he were elected, I think some folks here would be surprised at how effective he would be in Office, and soon walk back their anti-Newt comments. Time will tell.
5 minutes after Perry (as the nominee) started debating Obama we would all be puking and wanting to shoot ourselves
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The best thing that Perry could do is state that he is not the best of debaters, that instead he is a do-er, make round the country speeches in all states and all venues, Place ads that spell out his policies and decline to debate.
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