“I’m convinced that Newt Gingrich is the junkyard dog we need to rip Obama a new one and send him running back to his Chicago cesspool with his tail between his legs.”
I agree. I saw a post the other day that pointed out that in every Presidential election, the one who won was the more “manly” (i.e., ballsy) of the two contestants. I picture each of our remaining candidates up against Obama . . . and Newt is the only one I see defeating Obama. Santorum’s a good guy, but that perpetual “deer in the headlights” look of his is a serious detriment. (Yes, I know that’s superficial. But looks matter in elections, like it or not.)
Newt has awful baggage . . . but let’s face it, OUR side is the only side who cares about it! The Dems probably think his past womanizing is pretty cool. So, we have to decide, are we going to eviscerate our best remaining candidate for his past? We have to decide. I think we need to go with our winningest candidate, no matter what.
Obama must be defeated.
This line is a line of consistency; neither drawn by caprice, nor extended by ambition.. but produced by a chain of events, of which the colonies were not the authors.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776.
Rollback is possible.
RE: Newt’s “baggage”:
I used to attend a lot of hockey games when my kids were young. In hockey, as in other areas of life, you play to win and if you didn’t spend some time in the penalty box, you probably aren’t trying hard enough.
Politics and lawmaking has been compared to sausage-making. Newt is an experienced sausage-maker, so why are we surprised that he still has a few stains on his clothes?
Newt is a fighter, and that’s what we need to evict Obama from the WH.
Unfortunately, you're probably right. I can just imagine Bill Clinton sitting and thinking, “Hey, I could never get away with asking Hillary for an open marriage... I'd get hit with another lamp and maybe the Secret Service wouldn't show up in time to save me.”
Now that a Bible Belt state like South Carolina has shown it's willing to vote for a multiple adulterer and do so by a wide margin, Gingrich has probably proved his electability in the South. I don't know how he did it, but he did, and in the spirit of Jim Robinson's warning that we need to stop the circular firing squad and destroying ourselves, we're probably going to have to accept Gingrich as the main conservative Republican alternative to Mitt Romney.
The next few primaries, many of which are in Southern states, are likely to cement Gingrich's lead as the main alternative to Romney unless something even worse comes out of Gingrich's background, and I can't imagine anything worse than the open marriage accusations. If that happens, we as conservatives need to sit down and have some really hard discussions about how we're going to handle being the party of family values if Gingrich is the nominee and is running against Obama, who will focus on all his work to strengthen black families.
I don't know how Gingrich won South Carolina, but he did it, and elections have consequences.
Let's try to prepare for them this time instead of flying by the seat of our pants. I'm not ready to throw in the towel and surrender a role for Christian conservatives in the Republican Party, but we've got some really hard work to do in the next few months.