Posted on 12/09/2011 3:59:33 AM PST by Carolyn826
I had a friend once who amused herself thinking up bumper stickers for states. The one she made up for California was brilliant. "California: It's All True." It is so vast and sprawling a place, so rich and various, that whatever you've heard about its wildness, weirdness and wonders, it's true.
That's the problem with Newt Gingrich: It's all true. It's part of the reason so many of those who know him are anxious about the thought of his becoming president. It's also why people are looking at him, thinking about him, considering him as president.
Ethically dubious? True. Intelligent and accomplished? True. Has he known breathtaking success and contributed to real reforms in government? Yes. Presided over disasters? Absolutely. Can he lead? Yes. Is he erratic and unreliable as a leader? Yes. Egomaniacal? True. Original and focused, harebrained and impulsive—all true.
Do you want evidence he's a Burkean conservative? Start with welfare reform in 1996. A sober, standard Republican? Go to the balanced budgets of the Clinton era. Is he a Tea Partier? Sure, he speaks the slashing lingo with relish. Is he moderate? Yes, that can be proved. Michele Bachmann this week called him a "frugal socialist," and there's plenty of evidence of that, too.
One way to view this is that he is so rich and varied as a character, as geniuses often are, that he contains worlds, multitudes. One senses that would be his way of looking at it. Another way to look at it: In a long career, one will shift views, adapt to circumstances, tack this way and that. Another way: He's philosophically unanchored, an unstable element. There are too many storms within him, and he seeks out external storms in order to equalize his own atmosphere.
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And yes....people do take the founder and owner of Free Republic seriously......because he’s right.
Having Noonan as an enemy is something valuable in this race. Gingrich is lucky.
Also, a queer agenda pushing, gun grabbing, global warming,inventor of Obomnycare.
A worthless NE liberal with issue views to the left of Ted Kennedy.
Distubing?
Well said. For me, it is hard to believe my own support for Newt. A year ago, there was no way. Newt will be a good transition to 2016 or 2020 for a Bobby Jindal or a Nikki Hayley.
Please define for us the path that Gingrich, or any other conservative president will use, where they march into the Supreme Court and demand that Roe v. Wade be overturned.
Are. You. Kidding. Me?
I am with you!
I picked Newt four weeks ago. As yet, I have no remorse. Yes, I’d like to have a president with a pearly smile, great looking wife and tons of kids, who doesn’t drink or smoke and who would be the prefect role model for all of us, but let’s face it the times need a Churchill. We heard what Obama thinks about this country and they people innovate and create jobs. I don’t see Romney articulating any difference between himself and Obama as would Newt, and he’d be dependent on all those insiders who got him to the presidency. Newt on the other hand is being described as wild card and erratic. The same things they said about Reagan and Churchill for that matter, until people saw and heard Reagan at the debates and realized that he’s a good guy.
The primaries start now. It’s for Newt to lose. Americans love a winner and hate a loser, and the more the insiders hate and loathe him, Ann C included, the better he does.
Anyway that’s my opinion.
I agree. Like I said earlier, Noot was my congressman in Ga many many moons ago. It looks like it is his to win or loose. As my tag line suggest I want endorse him because Romney is much worse, If Romney winds up the winner, I am not sure I can hold my nose long enough to vote for him. It was very hard to do the last time voting for MCLAIM. . . .
Well,I must say, all the right people hate him ! I’m starting to really like him.
I remember his days as speaker, the reason all congress critters who were around when he lead “palinized” him, no wonder they are anxious. Newt has scores to settle. term limits, anyone?
Rush nailed it, people have had enough of the GOP picking the candidate.
LLS
Interesting posting history you have. First page goes all the way back to 2007. Then you emerge, not to support a candidate, but to to join the bashing and detracting.
Hmmmm.
Welcome (back) to Free Republic.
Are you too freaking stupid to understand that?
The next POTUS will pick two USSC judges.
Rush stated that yesterday newt reaffirmed his support for the INDIVIDUAL MANDATE... the cornerstone of obamacare... just before we try to destroy it early next year in the SCOTUS. You people are delusional.
LLS
Great post JR!
Newt, in addition to being a Conservative, is a realist. He understands that a President is not a dictator - which necessitates listening to experts in science, medicine, military etc., Sadly, those experts push their own agendas.
I pray that from his experience with the Gores, Pelosis and backstabbing RINOs he will always ‘trust but verify’.
He angered his ‘colleagues’ in Congress because he pushed back; their use of the adjective ‘untrustworthy’ to describe Newt is code for ‘he didn’t roll over’.
JMHO
Jim, Rush reported (yesterday) that newt reaffirmed his support for the Individual Mandate... obamacare’s cornerstone.
LLS
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