Posted on 01/22/2012 6:50:50 AM PST by nikos1121
ORANGEBURG, S.C. - - Newt Gingrich trundles into the meeting hall - - a former X-rated movie theater - - to rapturous applause.
He is not the best-looking guy in Republican race or the best-funded or the most ideologically pure. But he has found his shtick, and he is shticking to it.
Newt Gingrich is the angriest man in America.
Mitt Romney will tell you that Barack Obama is a “nice guy” but that he is “in over his head.”
Newt Gingrich will tell you Barack Obama is “the most radical and most incompetent president in our lifetime!”
Obama is more than incompetent, in fact. To Newt, he is a moron. “It’s one thing to say the White House can’t play chess, it’s another to say it can’t play checkers,” Newt says and pauses like the professional he is for the laugh to build. “But tic-tac-toe?”
But Obama is more than stupid. He is dangerous. This is important to keep in mind.
The Gingrich campaign is based on the notion of perpetual struggle against perpetual peril.
“How many of you believe the left will fight us every step of the way even after we win?” Gingrich asks the crowd.
The next day, Gingrich will win the South Carolina primary. But he already knows that will happen. That is a given. Just like his nomination and election. But even that will not be enough to silence the “secular socialists” who oppose him from the left.
The “left” is a broad category to Gingrich. It includes liberals, socialists, anti-religious bigots, i.e. Democrats, most of the media, some misguided Republicans, and, well, anybody who opposes Newt Gingrich.
“We knew there’d be attacks, and the closer we were to winning the more ferocious the attacks would be,” Gingrich says.
John King of CNN, who asked Gingrich in a debate Thursday night whether he had ever asked his second wife for an “open” marriage, is part of the ferocious attack machine that seeks to thwart Gingrich.
Gingrich has called this “despicable” and now he calls it “grotesque.”
“Is the American news media just totally out of touch with reality?” he asks reporters after the rally. “You want to say: Get a life! There is a consistent pattern year after year that the American people are sick of the behavior of the news media. Sick!”
Anger, umbrage and bitterness are so much a part of Gingrich’s public persona that he likes to attack the very concept of happiness.
Gingrich, like other candidates for the Republican nomination, has a fondness for quoting the Founding Fathers, but he now says that when they wrote “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, it did not mean what we think it means.
“Happiness in the 18th century meant wisdom and virtue, not hedonism,” Gingrich says without a scintilla of embarrassment, even though he, himself, has pursued a fair amount of hedonism in his lifetime.
“And they promised us the right to pursue,” Gingrich continues. “There is no provision for a Department of Happiness. They issued no happiness stamps. And if you said that you were going to take happiness from some and distribute it to others, the Founding Fathers would have asked by what right?”
So if we don’t have happiness to look forward to, what does Gingrich offer?
Work. Effort. Struggle.
“Work is something you need,” Gingrich says. “I don’t think it’s inappropriate for a 12- or 13-year-old to push a mop. We have the finest food stamp president in American history. I want to be the finest paycheck president in history.
“We will never give somebody 99 weeks of money for doing nothing!”
The crowd cheers its approval. Imagine people getting unemployment benefits for 99 weeks. For doing nothing! The average weekly unemployment benefit in America in 2010 was about $295, which is hardly a princely sum. But if people faced actual starvation instead of getting food stamps and unemployment insurance, wouldn’t this be a better country? As long as you had a job, that is.
There are now three Republican contenders with gold medals: Rick Santorum (Iowa), Mitt Romney (New Hampshire) and Newt Gingrich (South Carolina).
But Gingrich is unworried about Santorum and unworried about Ron Paul, who has yet to win anywhere. Only Mitt has the money and organization to beat him, Gingrich believes, but Romney will fail because Romney’s speeches are filled with optimism and other infantile notions.
Americans don’t want sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. They want blood, toil, tears and sweat. They want a dependably gloomy man in the Oval Office. They want Newt!
And he believes they will elect him come November.
“It will shock the country,” Newt says. “It will shock the world. And shock is what we need.”
Totally irrelevant, but they are running out of things to smear him with.
Rick is doing a great job in TX. He needs to stay there.
JMHO.
Ben Franklin had a more gracious way of saying the same thing. “ If you want to help the poor get out of poverty there has to be discomfort in poverty. “
Hahahaha... Beautiful post.
I’m loving it. Last week I was depressed, then Newt gave a shallacking to Juan Williams, and I found myself applauding at the TV.
Haven’t been this happy about a candidate since REagan...Did you hear that Ann Coulter?
Newt is no angrier than me and most of the people I know.
Journalist’s became useless when they started calling themselves journalists and not news reporters...A journalist writes about themselves, they keep a journal (we all can do that) A newsman reports the news, not his opinion...
Newt’s just scratching the surface of anger at the MSM and political elite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmtk30-sTaY
(direct link to 6 minute video of Gingrinch speaking on the Ground Zero mosque and about Islam and sharia in general)
Mr. Gingrich “gets it”.
This is why leftist organs such as the new york times (not worth the capitalization!) are so afraid that he may become the nominee.
Keep talking like this, Newt.
DON’T “tone it down” for the sake of “appealing to a broad spectrum of Americans”.
You are saying what many millions already know and believe in their hearts, but have been cowed by political correctness (and the fear of being called “racis’”) to say openly.
And the same goes for the mounting and ever-more-vicious attacks of “racism” which are going to be hurled at him, at conservatives, and at Republicans — and simply at Euro-Americans.
We’d better develop thick skins and duck-like backs for the rising crescendo of racism that is to come in the days ahead.
Yes, you’re right. Newt is humble. Thanks everyone and then goes at Obama.
Meanwhile across town is that light weight phony Romney who is blasting Newt, not on any issue, but personally.
He sends a cake commemerating the anniversary of when Newt was forced out as Speaker. Does anyone else here find this, like me, as kind of petty and revealing of the Romney bunch?
Ann Coulter, it seems, fits right in the pettiness of the Romney campaign... Come to think of it, so does Chris Christie.
CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR RUSH TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Newt Gingrich trundles into the meeting hall - - a former X-rated movie theater...
Here ya go liberal media
President Obama who support killing (aborting) 14,000 babies a day.
[[ Reporter: “Well what do you think of Romney?”
Newt: “I don’t.” ]]
Has Newt been channelling Howard Roark?
(Aside: this is a near-identical response to one of the most famous dialogues from Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead”)
YOU’RE RIGHT. Everyone should watch that youtube on the New York Mosque, and he saie this July of 2010.
WE have a national treasure here, Folks. Someone who listens. He listens to ALL sides of the argument, then persuades with Conservative values...
Then you have Chris Christie, Rick Santorum and Romney TRYING TO TELL us that Newt is NOT conserrvative.
HEY! dO YOU THINK WE’RE STUPID...?
Slick willy left his DNA on more seats than blue dresses.
Great point. Subtly but important distinction that I missed.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.