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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A link or other forms of proof besides second hand conversation would be helpful.
A link or other forms of proof besides second hand conversation would be helpful.
It's a tough decision we all have, and there's a journey for all of us to take as the primaries get close. As a fellow traveler, I wish you the best even if we take different roads for a while.
Obama is an unthinkable choice, he has to be voted out. I pray we can do that, and that our choice to replace him will be okay. Right now, I'm thinking that's all we have.
They are in control now... they are destroying everything... it is they that are doing all of this.
LLS
Before you start boosting Carolyn as a truth teller you might want to check her posting history. Someone that supported Guiliani and Romney while referring to us as “the far right” isn’t someone I’d want to agree with. Oh and, look at the dates too.
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Proof....proof would always be helpful. Is he said, I’m sure there is a video, audio or something supporting our ur premise.
I understand how it works here, that’s why I mostly read and not post. I choose mature, reasoned, experienced, emotionally stable people to lead our country, not those with the best ability to be flame throwers.
Are u supporting Romney here?
Romney is who the Marxist and his media pals are praying for.
This entire anti rich , anti wall street , class warfare nonsense was a very careful set up by Van Jones. , Axelrod, and the Dem party media
to destroy rich boy Romney with day and night until election day
Romney owned a large venture capital firm , Romney has a palace in Lajolla being remodeled Costing millions.
If Newt wins alll this prearranged Axelrod
AstroTurf go to pot.
Are u supporting Romney here?
Romney is who the Marxist and his media pals are praying for.
This entire anti rich , anti wall street , class warfare nonsense was a very careful set up by Van Jones. , Axelrod, and the Dem party media
to destroy rich boy Romney with day and night until election day
Romney owned a large venture capital firm , Romney has a palace in Lajolla being remodeled Costing millions.
If Newt wins alll this prearranged Axelrod
AstroTurf go to pot.
“He’s philosophically unanchored, an unstable element.”
America does not need more instability. Obama is the socialist Joker and now a new comic book character emerges: Mr. Cyclone full of bluster and hot air. This fascination for superheros doesn’t bode well for America. The bigger than life people will have big falls and this unfortunately involves the the nation. It’s an ill wind that blows no good.
You nailed it
Right. While throwing flames from someone who gushed over Obama. And supporting Guiliani and Romney. You like Rinos. You don’t like Gingrich. You post videos from 2005 as if they were recent. And refer to conservatives as “the far right”. I know how it works too.
She even "admits" it:The antipathy of the establishment not only is not hurting him at this early date, it may be helping him. It may be part of the secret of his rise. Because establishments, especially the Washington establishment, famously count for little with the Republican base:. . . because when she says "the establishment" in this case, she should be pointing at the mirror. Rush nailed it yesterday when he pointed out that just as "the greatest generation" was formed by the Great Depression, the Republican establishment was formed by the Great Debacle of 1964 - when the party nominated Barry Goldwater instead of the liberal establishment's preference of Nelson Rockefeller, and was swamped by Lyndon Johnson and hordes of Democrat senators and congressmen. And we got the awful "Great Society" mess it took us so long to unravel."You're the ones who got us into this mess."Fine, Peggy - but that was then, and this is now, and there's been a bit of history in between. Like 1980 and 1984, for instance, when the "right wing extremist" won, got the country going again, whipped inflation, and transcended communism. And like 1976, 1992, and 2008, when your wonderful moderate candidates lost to awful presidents, one worse than the next. And in the case of '08, you got a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate to go along with a San Francisco radical as Speaker of the House and a friend of Bill Ayers for a president. The further left you go with the Republican nominee, the worse the Democratic president will then be. Don't talk to me about 1964. That's ancient history, and you haven't learned a thing since before half of all Americans now living were even born.
If you like playing Russian Roulette with one empty chamber, Gingrich may be your guy.
I agree with you. But people like Sean Hannity keep working into every conversation that Newt "has changed" and Newt "is a grandfather now". Me? I don't think a 68 year old leopard can change it's spots. I think conservatives that are cheerleading for Newt are doing so out of desperation - and that's not a good place to be in at this point.
Just hope that Newt hurries and implodes in the next week or so - get this out of the way before the main election. You KNOW there are people sitting on Newt baggage - just waiting for the train to leave the station - so they can obliterate him before he gets a chance to "wipe the floor" with Obama in a debate.
Sigh.
If Gingrich is such as GRAND candidate, why didn’t he jump to the head of the pack when he first announced in May?
Instead, he struggled around the 10% level for months, until he became the front-runner-by-default.
That is what the GOP has to offer?
I don’t recall that Newt has ever supported a kind of individual mandate on par with Obama/Romneycare. You’re making an apples & oranges comparison here.
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