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.
“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.”
Who the hell wrote this, a 9-year-old?
“I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments and I will respect him.”
“But I have to tell you, I have to tell you, he is a decent person, and a person that you do not have to be scared as President of the United States.”
— John McCain
(Three weeks before losing the November elections)
Krauthammer, Steyn, Coulter, Beck...now Lonsberry goes over to the dark side.
Goodbye BL. I shall read you no more.
Has anyone asked why Newt is hated by other members?
Could it be as Speaker he did not tolerate deviation from the course as set in the Contract With America?
What did the House Republicans do after they pushed Newt out the door? Did they get more conservative or did they go on a spending spree?
Who is the only candidate who led the effort for a balaned budget and won?
Who is the only candidate who led the effort to reform an entitlement and won?
Who is the only candidate who led the effort to enact term limits and won in the House?
You can tell me Newt is mean, you can tell me Newt said X or Y or Z, but I will go by Newt’s RECORD as an elected member of the House.
Unless Lonsberry can pull a winning candidate out of his hiney, his comments are worthless. We'll just have to make do with what we've got to choose from.
I will vote for whomever is opposing The One.
Sorry, Bob
I work in Rochester and listen to your radio show all the time- but you are wrong wrong wrong and here’s why:
You said “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”
Yes the agenda was successful and THAT IS WHY WE NEED NEWT AGAIN!
The “ethics” he was “ripped” over had to do with liberal democrapy idiocy and a snafu on a document made by an underling. (NOT NEWT HIMSELF- HE ONLY MANNED-UP AND SAID “OK, I AM IN CHARGE SO I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY- HE DID NOT THROW THE UNDERLING UNDER THE BUS)
The democraps leveled more than 80 ethics charges and this was the only pair of their dirty underpants that they got to stick to the wall.
And the Republicans who “turned on him” were RINO’S Who were democraps elected by pretending they were Republicans AFTER Newt was so successful, two years later.
He was in NO WAY a failure - he forced Bill Clinton to balance the budget and reform welfare for cripe’s sake!
Do you remember that Bill Clintons ORIGINAL (first year) budget projections showed $700billion dollar deficits by the year 2000? Newt got that down to 0.
Anyone who does not NOW know why Palin decided not to run? Obviously she was told in no uncertain terms that if she did she would get the Newt treatment, that Romney is the Establishment choice, that they would rather lose than suffer anyone except their choice to be President. Never mind that he is Dewey—Bush 41-Dole—McCain all over again.
Totally agree. His argument boils down to the mean way Gingrich walked through the halls of Congress and hypocrisy about sexual affairs. Are you kidding me, Lonsberry? Is this all you have? I shouldn't waste my time reading his banal drivel.
Will you vote for Gingrich?
“Therefore, at this point Gingrich may be a flawed candidate but a flawed candidate is better than a Communist president hellbent on our destruction.”
This pretty much says it all! We have to get rid of Bozzo! That is job one!! I don’t like any of these candidates, but I am starting to believe that Newt is the only one of them that is smart enough, and tough enough, to fight against Zero, and the SRM!
LOL: Is that u Barack? Newt coming for u, gonna get ur job.
Good Lord, what kind of nonsensical attempt at logic is that? We've got a 57 state intercontinental railroad teleprompter Marxist in there who is pure evil. Love to see his SAT's.
I’m with you- Newt is not perfect, but at least he is NOT ROMNEY
I don’t think I could drag myself to the polling booth for Romney.
But I would GLADLY vote for Newt.
And I can’t wait to see the debates~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Newt will have Obama whimpering in the corner.
The momentum has shifted, RUN Paul is toast, Bachmann is an idiot, and Newt made FOX look like the RINO loving morons they truly are!
NEWT RULES! GO NEWT!
I noticed that too but hadn't the stomach to reread it and make sure. Methinks BL is nursing a very personal grudge.
Ding~! Ding~! Ding~! I THINK WE HAVE A WINNER~!
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