This is exactly right. I knew it after hearing Gingrich on Thursday night as well. I was one of those people cheering in my living room. I don’t want a candidate to tell me that Obama is a “nice guy who is in over his head.” I want a candidate to tell me that Obama is what he is - a dangerous, arrogant utopian statist who is consciously destroying my country, and I want him stopped. I want someone to take it to the media, who protects him and lies about his agenda. I want a candidate who reflects the passion and anger I feel. I don’t see that in any of the candidates except Ginrich at the moment. Santorum has it, I think, but I don’t think he has the ability to draw blood in the contest against Obama when the time comes, especially in debates. It amazes me how out of touch even the conservative pundits are - except for Levin. Everyone should read “Ameritopia” - it states the problem so clearly and perfectly.
I don’t often listen to the pundits, and I’m not familiar with the book you mention, but...
AMEN!!! to the rest of your post! :)
There is an American Spirit, and Newt is tapped in. I only pray he can hang on and is ready for this role... He definitely seems to me to be! :) The people have been yearning for this for a while now - Obama and the left tapped in to that in 2008, but they were “using” those who were too desperate to know better that it was all shallow wordplay on Obama’s part for his whole “Hope and Change” campaign.
Newt doesn’t need any fancy slogans or to tell people what they are missing in their leaders - he exemplifies it in his actions and people respond to it because it’s REAL. He doesn’t make cliche promises, and I wouldn’t want that anyway. Reagan did the same thing and that’s why the response in 1980 was so powerful in that election (at least that’s what I’ve come to learn about it - I was too young to know why everyone loved the guy so much! LOL However, I do remember the feeling his election evoked - as a child I could see a change around me and on TV even if I didn’t understand why.)
Thank you for that “nice guy in over his head” comment. That is one of two things when people say it: Republican/conservative denial, or Dem propaganda.
I went to a conservative meetup the other night and the leader of the group described Obama as “incompetent” and “do-nothing.” No.
And he is not the worst president since Carter, as someone said on FR last night: he is the only president ever to hate America and to set about destroying it. That sounds extreme to many people but it is the truth.