Posted on 12/05/2011 10:57:35 AM PST by freespirited
Democratic strategist Jim Jordan says he and others in the party “passionately” want to face Gingrich. And from the right, conservative pundit Ann Coulter is warning that the former House speaker’s past extramarital affairs and other baggage make him a far less formidable nominee than Romney.
But even as Gingrich’s sudden rise has filled many Obama supporters with cheer and some Republicans with dread, some Democratic strategists worry that the combative Gingrich presents some challenges for the Obama campaign that would not exist if Romney were the GOP candidate....
Gingrich could pursue a strategy that combines energizing the conservative base and chipping away Democratic support among Hispanics — an electoral formula that helped George Bush win in 2004.
Some Democrats believe that Gingrich ... would excite the party base more than a former liberal-state governor with a history of centrist views. And voters yearning for authenticity may be more open to the voluble and rumpled former House speaker, who frequently discusses his past mistakes and his recent conversion to Catholicism, than to a former equity-fund executive with perfect hair.
“He does not carry Wall Street baggage,” said one Democratic strategist working on the Obama reelection effort, speaking on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss his thinking. “He’s really smart. He’s authentic....”
Gingrich has an extensive Hispanic outreach organization, which he has been building for years. Unlike anything in the Romney playbook, that network could give Gingrich a head start slicing into Obama’s base in key states in the Mountain West, where Hispanics are a fast-growing swing voting bloc. Polls show Hispanic voters ... still favor the president — but GOP strategists believe that winning 40 percent of that vote could disrupt Obama’s electoral college strategy by putting Colorado, Arizona and Nevada in the Republican column.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It seems to me that Romney is the DLC/media combine’s designated gentleman loser for this cycle, the Democrats’ dream opponent who can be painted as a Wall Street fatcat whitebread square who also belongs to a weird, fringe cult (that’s how they’ll portray the LDS Church, folks), and who won’t demean himself by actually attacking Obama or reminding anybody that he’s a radical Marxist Amerikkka-hater who wants to destroy the country.
Newt, on the other hand, will be smeared as a short, white-haired, irrelevant has-been up to his elbows in lobbying cash who’s been married too many times and who doesn’t play well with others. But he will go after Obama hammer and tongs. So, if we’re destined to lose either way, I’d rather go down swinging.
Hah! The authors couldn’t get through the second sentence of a piece about New Gingrich without using the term “baggage”.
Don’t need to read the rest of the article, just like I never finished any article about Clinton’s impeachment after seeing the word “salacious” appearing therein.
Gingrich would never pick Cain. Cain was beating Gingrich until a media smear. I doubt Cain would be on Gingrich's ticket, after what he did to him.
“As stated in another thread maybe a Newt/Rubio ticket?”
I’m a fan of Rubio but I think it is way too soon for him to be the VP. He has been in the US Senate less than a year now? Given how much we lambasted Obama for being inexperienced it would weaken us to bring forward a candidate with so little experience. I’d like to save him for the 2020 election.
I think McDonnell from Virginia would be a great VP choice. He is from a battleground and has extremely high approval ratings there. Also, due to Virginia laws, he will be a one term governor so after January 2014 he will be out of a job and away from the spotlight. He can speak eloquently and is a competent manager. Exactly the type of guy you want to be VP (and potentially Prez later on).
>> Cain was beating Gingrich until a media smear.
LOL! Cain wasn’t smeared. Cain beat Cain.
Gingrich’s baggage is in a storage unit, three states away.
Cain got caught HOLDING his baggage... while trying to hide it behind his back!
Good riddance.
What did gingrich do to cain?
Wait, you think that is a defense of Gingrich? Was Cain accused of anything that Gingrich hasn’t been caught doing? So know you believe everything the media says? Whatever Cain did, it’s not going to make me vote for a socialist like Gingrich or Romney.
>> Wait, you think that is a defense of Gingrich?
No — you said that, I didn’t. My comment was more of a Cain smackdown, actually.
>> Was Cain accused of anything that Gingrich hasn’t been caught doing?
Yep. He was. Not only that, he ADMITTED to things Gingrich was never accused of.
>> So know you believe everything the media says?
No. But I believe what Cain mumbled in his own “defense” — and that, rolled up with all the other stuff, including Cain’s actions and his campaign’s actions, is a “preponderance of evidence” confirming Cain is an incurable horn dog in the Clintoon mold. I have no use for another lying serial philanderer who uses his power in that manner.
>> Whatever Cain did, it’s not going to make me vote for a socialist like Gingrich or Romney.
That’s your perogative. I’ll vote to have Obama removed. He is the real enemy.
Such as what?
Google.
He’s a pasty, pudgy white guy who bleeds an attitude of “I’m smarter than you” out of nearly every pore.
What are they afraid of?
The only candidate vaguely conservative is Bachmann.
Unless she has a comeback, it’s not going to make much difference who wins.
Newt, Obama and Mittens are all statists who are tools of lobby groups.
If either of them are elected it will be four more years of furious dissent at government forcing cr@p down the throat of decent people.
The Washington, DC political machine will simply continue negotiating with itself to take away personal liberty and pile up debt on the backs of citizens who pay taxes.
I’d prefer Obama if I had to choose between those three, because people would stay furious and involved.
If an establishment Republican is in the driver’s seat the disaster will be “Republican’s fault” for decades.
And the establishment Republican will get a bunch of crony legislation passed for a few months, masquerading as something good. After a few months, conservatives will start realizing that their “R” President was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. No serious spending cuts will pass, they’ll merely stop “increases” for a year.
Ron Paul would have a better chance at success because he might actually hack spending down to $2.2 trillion per year.
Electing politicians is spitting in the wind.
If Newt wins the primary that proves that most Republican voters are morons - since he’s spent the last 10 years pushing for government-controlled healthcare and has a website the publicly ackknowledges this fact.
It’s like the mother of all “duh’s”.
Newt is working on implementing “GrinchCare(tm)” - and he has been publicly doing that for 10 years.
An actual conservative would be approaching healthcare by shutting down government involvement in healthcare to the minimum - enforcing quality transparent reporting for outcomes. That’s about it.
IMHO.
I've met with him in his DC office. The place was empty of lobbyists the furnishings threadbare, Dr. Paul still had his Med Student books behind his desk. I recognized several, because I went to Med School to.
Ron Paul was wearing shiney wornout polyester JC Penney slacks and a clip on tie. So, Dr. Paul obviously didn't make lobbyists welcome
People remember Gingrich from the 90s. Democrats and Independents do not like him one bit.
You support Ron Paul and that is your stand. His ideas about reforming government by devolving power back to the States is appealing. Conservatives have supported that forever and it has yet to happen because the voters, Washington and the media would not let it happen.
But don’t tell yourself the leftmedia is thrilled to see Newt come along. They were in full throat attack on him every day in every way. Newt wrecked their power structure and set back socialism when he was in office and the Rinos and the Dems HATE him for that. The Rinos especially hate him like they did Reagan and hate all conservatives.
Are you advocating zotting long time Freepers because they don’t support your guy?
We’re still in the primaries, fer cripes sake!
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From beginning to end?
http://www.freerepublic.com/~win43win42/ <-—since 12/05/2011?
That’s long time?
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