Posted on 12/16/2011 6:12:39 AM PST by shortstop
No Newt, no thanks.
He's fun to listen to in a debate, but he doesn't belong on the ballot or in the Oval Office.
Because a brilliant bad man is still a bad man, and Newt Gingrich is a bad man.
He is not good for the Republican Party, and he is not good for the United States. And his popularity in the polls is both troublesome and inexplicable. A big-government career politician, an only sporadic conservative, he has somehow caught the attention and affection of just enough Republicans to be the top contender for the party's presidential nomination.
That is insane. It is time for the infatution to end.
Newt Gingrich is not worthy to be either the nominee of his party nor the the president of his country. He fails the basic test of integrity and temperament.
Yes, anybody would be better than Barack Obama, but in a country of 310 million people, we can do better than Newt Gingrich.
Let's go down the list of reasons why.
First, he is not a nice man. He is shrill, ego-centric, spiteful and vindictive. That is not my observation, it is the report of dozens and dozens who have worked with him. He doesn't have a Napolean complex, he has a God complex. He is a bitter man who, in private dealings with his supposed friends and allies, has no regard for others and their interests.
The Contract with America, which was largely penned by Newt Gingrich in 1994, was a strong document and agenda and it led in large part to the Republican revolution of that year. The anti-liberal backlash of those days made Newt speaker of the House. The agenda was successful, but the man ended up a failure. He was ripped over ethics, and he was turned on by his own as he treated Republicans in the House in a domineering and condescending fashion.
I witnessed a small piece of this personally while walking through the corridors of the Capitol after a State of the Union address one year. To the oohs and aahs of the crowds, Speaker Gingrich hustled through. He was the focus of a crowd of hangers on, lackeys and other ne'er do wells, all attending to him like he was a queen bee. He just swaggered past us, imperious, the chips on his shoulders making it almost impossible for him to walk.
But you don't dump a guy for a passing impression.
You dump Newt Gingrich for the way he treated the members of Congress he supervised and for the hypocrisy he demonstrated as speaker of the House. Newt Gingrich was vicious to his most loyal lieutenants, and dealt with subordinates in an unfair and capricious fashion. I personally knew an exceptional member of Congress, a true Boy Scout, who Gingrich destroyed as a pure act of spite. It was just plain mean.
And that's who he is.
I also was around when Bill Clinton was getting the heat for his relationship with Harmonica Lewinsky, a true national scandal. Not to dredge through yesterday's ugliness, but there were two aspects of that case: The relationship itself, and the subsequent lying under oath. Some felt comfortable commenting on one, but not the other, or vice versa. Newt Gingrich focused on the affair. He repeatedly and resoundingly denounced the married Clinton for having sexual contact with Lewinsky, who -- as an intern -- was a subordinate. Gingrich repeatedly pointed out how wrong that was.
Which is fine.
What wasn't fine was the subsequent revelation that at exactly the same time, Newt Gingrich was himself having a long-running extra-marital affair with a subordinate government employee. He was sleeping with the help -- all the way -- and did so for an extended period of time, at the same time he was ripping Clinton for a marginally less-significant transgression.
That's incredible. He could have shut his mouth, he could have focused on the lie, he could have done any number of things. But what he chose to do is to condemn a guy who was doing the same thing he was. Amazing.
That is Newt Gingrich.
Yes, he is a genius. Yes, it is fun listening to him in the debates. He has a great mind and often speaks powerfully for conservative issues. He is, in some ways, an appealing candidate.
But he is a bad man. And Republicans would be wise to remember that.
Because if they don't, general election voters will.
I'm still of the belief that the ultimate nominee has not been on stage in the debates as yet. That's my hope.
Sorry, but at this point Newt is the only one left who can hold the pass against a Romney victory. The others can’t: Bachmann’s a desperate psycho, Santorum’s a whiner, and Perry’s ability to articulate coherent thoughts is dubious at best.
Naturally, a Romney nomination ensures the reelection of Obumo.
I forget who it was, but someone’s tagline on here reads something like, “Conservatives will find a way to get Obama reelected.” Unfortunately, that ominous statement is coming to fruition.
Thanks guys and gals.
Nail ....Head
“I’m still of the belief that the ultimate nominee has not been on stage in the debates as yet. That’s my hope.”
You’re dreaming. Anyone who hasn’t already filed to compete in the primaries months ago, can’t just suddenly jump in.
What you see is what you get.
Frankly, all of this is either old news or else hearsay on the part of Bob Lonsberry. None of it is very convincing.
YAWN.
I was commenting on a facebook thread last night.
I think people are backing Newt because he’s putting the lamestream media in their place and they hope he will do the same thing in the debates. We want someone on our side to forcefully call out Obama. And because Newt is calling out the media, there is this hope that he’ll do the same to Obama.
I am under no such illusions. We don’t call the R’s the stupid party for nothing.
Yes Newt.
:D
Go Newt!!
****in a country of 310 million people...and I personally knew an exceptional member of Congress, a true Boy Scout, who Gingrich destroyed as a pure act of spite. ****
Find that great boy scout and make him step up to the plate!!!
I’m proudly supporting Newt.
I may not agree with all of his views but his record as Speaker is untouchable. His skill as a communicator is unchallanged.
I believe he is THE man for this hour of our history.
I don’t believe it.
Go Newt!
Look at their accomplishments. Newt allied himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy.
Romney, on the other hand, vehemently denied Ronald Reagan and aligned himself with Ted Kennedy and the left. Romney accomplished installing liberal big government programs, defended and promoted Roe v Wade and legalized abortion as “settled law,” advocated and implemented RomneyCare with its liberty killing government mandates against formerly free citizens and its taxpayer funded or subsidized and mandated abortion procedures. He ran and governed to the left of Ted Kennedy on the “gay agenda” resulting in gay marriage in Massachusetts. He appointed liberal judges and liberal appointees throughout his government. Under his “leadership” conservatism and the Republican party was all but destroyed in Massachusetts.
Romney is one evil liberal progressive. No way in hell will MittBots be allowed to support this abortionist, big government, socialist scumbag on FR!
Guess my message isn’t clear enough. I have to keep repeating it and zotting would be MittBots.
79 posted on Sat Dec 03 2011 19:59:37 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Jim Robinson
Newt will jump back to a 10 point lead in Iowa after his steller performance at last nights debates coupled with Ron Paul’s epic meltdown.
Romney is going to lose at least 40 states to Newt.
And thank God the other losers will mostly be gone after Iowa.
yep.
Go Newt!
It wasn't conservatives. It was the GOP leadership and the media. See tag line.
I still smell a troll and me thinks they need to go home to dummies unlimited.
Waaah. Newt is mean. He made me cry.
Yeah. We picked a nice man last time. How’d that work out for ya Bob?
I hear what you're saying about Gingrich and it does concern me. I prefer Bachmann, or Santorum, or even Perry, but just what is the alternative? The alternative is literally four more years of Obama and the end of the Republic. Of this I am certain.
Therefore, at this point Gingrich may be a flawed candidate but a flawed candidate is better than a Communist president hellbent on our destruction.
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