What they don't understand is what the roar means.I think you called it.The roar is passion. The roar is intensity. The roar is pent up frustration. The roar, put another way, is the national mood of conservatives. It is a roar that will demand a fighter. It will demand that those who want our votes must not cower in the face of the liberal template. If fact, it is a roar that demands that we do not accept any liberal templates.
Someone finally gets it!
However, most Americans have a very short attention span and are very fickle.
“what the voters are craving in the debates and on the stump is someone who can look liberals squarely in the eye and tell them why we are right and they are wrong. The American conservative base has had to put up with being called stupid, racist, greedy and unfair for decades by not only the Democrats but the vast majority of the media. The pent up frustration of these decades is magnified by the fact that George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush and John McCain would not or perhaps could not confront this.”
Mittsy Flippsy is another mushy Rino who dares not confront the media and cultural elites that attack conservative values on a daily basis.
Newt genuinely despises the elites. As the article states, that’s where he gets his biggest applause lines.
A strange calculus seems to be afoot: The more the elites attack Newt (ex-wife interview on eve of SC primary), the angrier the Republican base become
s and the more they rally to Newt’s defense, especially when he fights back.
The MSM still doesn’t get it. They’ll dredge up all the old charges to derail Newt in the days ahead. Quite possibly it will backfire in their faces.
Absolutely. No one - NO ONE - gets enthused over a coward or an appeaser. Democrats learned this fact many election cycles ago, while the GOP is apparently content to pretend it is not a factor.
Nonetheless, it is a factor, if not THE factor.
I'm not a big fan of Newt Gingrich, but I'm not much of a fan of anyone outside of wage-earning, lower middle class, flyover country types anymore.
Lincoln (a flawed man) said of Grant (a flawed man): "I can't spare this man- he fights!" Newt is willing to fight Obama and the communists. McCain was (and is) only willing to bully other Republicans and conservatives. Newt already knows names, and I am gratified to watch him kick some asses.
I don't need another messiah, I don't want a fuehrer, and I don't expect a saint. I want someone who will at least stand up and throw a punch in person instead of not doing it at all or having surrogates do it.
Mr. niteowl77
Great article, great post, C. Edmund Wright always makes great comments and posts and I appreciate his contribution and his efforts for Newt. My wife is on the phone now talking to her brother and sister-in-law in Florida about Newt, the SC outcome and the coming Florida primary. I’ve already sent this article to my e-mail and I’m about to forward to all on my list. This is the best analysis I’ve seen of Newt’s debate skills and the impact on the electorate. Finally Conservatives, the people, have an advocate.
The roar is passion. The roar is intensity. The roar is pent up frustration. The roar, put another way, is the national mood of conservatives. It is a roar that will demand a fighter. It will demand that those who want our votes must not cower in the face of the liberal template. If fact, it is a roar that demands that we do not accept any liberal templates."
I think that roar is more. That roar should be hitting the reptilian brains of some of these politicians and professional consultants that there is a real anger roiling in the electorate, and that the "business as usual" hijinks is playing a very dangerous game.
I'm not fond of the next 10 years, because if things don't drastically alter course, a lot of the roads into the future do not look pleasant, in an 1860/1789 sort of way.
I think and hope Newt understands one thing: 2012 will NOT be won by appeasing the Left and playing humble before them. 2012 will be won by firing up the Republican base so that every single one of them SHOWS UP and votes.