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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I am starting to think the presidency is a hot potato. No one wants it because whoever is at the helm —gets the financial armageddon.
Amen, Jim.
I still can’t comprehend why Sarah ditched. I don’t know if I will ever forgive her.
Firstly, a case has to make it’s way to the USSC for review.
Are you too freaking stupid to understand that?
Yes, he did. For those of you who missed Newt’s pontificating support for the IM, here ...
Don’t play dumb. A case wont be brought until the votes are there to overturn it.
Well Carolyn, it’s kinda hard to take you seriously. Checked your posting history briefly and you seem to like Big Government Romney. And you don’t post very often. So, go ahead. Poke the owner of FR. And push Romney. It’ll be interesting.
I don't trust Newt for a lot of reasons, but right now I trust all the others a little less.
Defining personhood by law, as being a person from conception, would be a huge first step ... Something Newt supports, I believe.
That video is from2005. He said he supported what Heritage had supported at that time, which they did. What was Rush referring to yesterday, that newt recently reaffirmed his IM support? Where?
I’m not a liberal. I’m a Conservative who isn’t interested in a candidate who is walking human grenade.
Whilst you two so unfairly ganged up on me for being “serious”......:-)......or swimming, or something.......(I smell conspiracy here between you two).......there has been a tectonic FR shift: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2818122/posts?page=40#11
I sincerely believe pundits should be held accountable, too.
Gushing for Obozo 3 years ago should be enough to send a pundit back to the minors.
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I want someone guiding our recovery in whom private enterprise will have faith because he’s been there and understands the challenges they face, from government and global forces.
Good point. But I fear there are globalist vultures in the shadows waiting to put it all back together again in ways that would make Lenin proud. Who has what it takes to stand these forces down?
Nice, thanks for putting into words why I have always had a soft spot for Newt even when he wasn’t always lovable.
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