Well, that would be a valid reason if it were true, but it's not, and the polls support that. Oddly enough, the greatest resistance I have found, is from conservatives themselves, who again, oddly enough, engage i projection and who they themselves are easily manipulated. Think about it for a moment. They are using your own principles against you. Rendering you ineffective and easily conquered, all the while allowing you to stroke your pride under cover of assault. Know your enemy my friend and know him well because he is not a fool.
If you want the White House, then take it, because it's within our reach. It's in the hands of people like you.
It’s utterly disgusting that these Beltway RINOs are more scared of Newt winning than Obama winning. This article totally lays bare the lies the establishment is spreading that Newt is somehow a RINO himself or a liberal or that he is unelectable.
I can’t explain all of Newt’s seemingly more moderate views in recent years, but it looks like he’s willing and ready to come home. Newt may have been trying to soften his image up to appeal to independents in a potential election, with things like the Pelosi ad. It seems like most of so-called moves to the left were not based on policy, but more based on trying to be friendly to the opposition on a personal level, which may have seemed to have some strategic value at one time or another. I think he assumed Republicans would always know he on his side, and could not have anticipated being labeled a liberal given his long record in the conservative movement.
At any rate, Newt seems to be the most successful Tea Party candidate of all time, even before the Tea Party existed. He shook up the RINO establishment like no one else long before the Tea Party movement came along.
I believe electability often comes down to charisma. The more charismatic presidential candidate seems to have won every time since at least 1976. Who would you prefer to have enter your living room while you’re watching the candidates on TV? I could easily see Newt coming off as a strong, decisive, intelligent yet warm, down-to-earth and approachable candidate, while Obama comes off as a patrician, evasive, condescending, detached-from-reality, out-of-touch candidate (just as Mitt Romney does now and past losers like Kerry, Gore, Dukakis).
Likewise I don’t see the argument that we want the focus to be on Obama, so we should elect a candidate like Romney who will sort of shrink to the background and let Obama be the focus. That will NEVER work. If the media focuses on Obama, they will spin him in a relentlessly positive way. We need a candidate like Newt who is such a lightning rod and so juicy that he will command the attention of the media as they look for ratings. That’s when he can deliver his blows by making his arguments against Obama. How in the hell can the pro-Romney camp think the media NOT focusing on our candidate is a good thing? Talk about leading from behind. Newt’s plan to follow Obama around everywhere he goes and respond to him with his own speech is utterly brilliant and exactly the kind of thing the Republican campaign needs. It also shows the kind of ambition and fearlessness that Newt has unlike any other candidate in recent memory.
We just don’t know how the debate chemistry is going to work out for sure. Rick Perry appears to be Mitt Romney’s kryptonite, inspiring him to make his worst gaffes. There’s a chance Newt might have the same effect on Obama. He is also smart enough that he may figure out Obama’s weaknesses after the first debate and figure out how to target him in the next ones.
To see Newt bashed because of his negative comment on Romney adds to the craziness. Don’t we WANT a guy who is going to snap back on Obama that fast and fearlessly? I don’t really care whether he attacks Obama from the right or from the left.