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.
It is a crime that anyone would get paid to write this drivel..
President Newt Gingrich...... it’s going to happen.
GO NEWT GO..........
What truly irked me about Lob Bonsberry was this truly idiotic statement...
“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.”
Clinton diddling in the oval office while keeping a head of state waiting is NOT A MARGINALLY LESS-SIGNIFICANT TRANSGRESSION BOB!!! Nor were all the other Bimbos Clinton lied about and/or raped!!!
I like many things about Ron Paul, but he is not in the real world as far as Foreign Policy.
In many ways he reminds me of Barrack Obama when he thinks we can talk sense into the Islamic Radicals to change their thinking about annihilating the USA -
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.
Sounds like Obama.
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I believe both Obama and Newt are narcassitic.
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The ethics charges?
I "like" Newt...he's entertaining ... but I don't trust him and I could never support him in the primary.
My distrust of Newt began long before he announced as POTUS candidate.
I think he is a narcissist.
His latest wife looks like a blond Pelosi!
Horse hockey. In any two man race, Romney loses. The sooner people come to this realization, the sooner we can begin backing an actual conservative candidate. Romney's numbers have not gone up in months. This means that a sizable majority of Republican voters will back anyone other than Romney.
We should be operating out of confidence rather than out of fear.
You are, of course, free to make your own judgements about a candidate; but the man’s wife is not running for Office!
Just saw that tagline. The truth in a few short words. LOL
Some things are understood unsaid...and that is one of them!
That said, the wife plays a prominent role. In this case the jokes have already started..."The Third Lady," etc.
“His latest wife looks like a blond Pelosi!”
She doesn’t look much like Pelousy, but that nose on her looks like a coathangar. LOL
Here's the counterpart to this from the Rombots.
"Romney is the only one who can win."
Santorum, Bachmann and Perry all could win against Obama.
Unfortunately for FOX, their advocacy of Mitt Romney is no longer in question. I saw that Steve Hayes interview as well and also the earlier segments commenting on the debate which were slanted against Newt and toward Romney. This in spite of the poll they put up showing Newt leading the pack by a good percentage. This is a disappointment to me but not a shock or surprise. After all, employees are paid to do the job at hand, which appears to be elevating Mitt Romney and beating Newt Gingrich down. I am not a Mitt Romney hater but I know an obvious hit job and it does reflect adversely on Mitt as well as FOX.
She has that wild eye deer in the headlights Pelosi look, also.
Everyone’s got an opinion. Some are vocal about it, others keep it to themselves.
However, the only poll that really matters is the election next year.
Moreover, Newt’s dalliance was not with a person who worked for him, so the underling angle doesn’t apply. Her job did not depend on him.
Furthermore, Clinton’s offense was perjury, not hanky panky. Which is bad — but perjury before a grand jury is on a whole different plane.
BL is obviously personally invested in someone who crossed Newt once upon a time.
But we’ll never hear Newt’s side of that story (or many another) because he doesn’t go public with private quarrels.
Its another election cycle of barrel scrapers, which one would you prefer?
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