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Newt Gingrich: The master of disguise (Politico Pukes)
Politico ^ | 1/23/2012 | JIM VANDEHEI and MIKE ALLEN

Posted on 01/23/2012 8:07:53 AM PST by GVnana

The surging Newt Gingrich has mastered debates — and disguise.

The debate part is clear: The former Speaker of the House comes to play and owns the stage with an uncanny capacity to connect with the grievances of conservative voters.

The disguise part is clear, too. Gingrich has used his debate skills — and his instinct to hit the raw nerves of conservatives — to camouflage considerable weaknesses as a candidate. The three wives, and cheating on and leaving the first two while they were ill; inconsistency on the most consequential conservative causes of the past decade; episodic bouts of self-importance severe even by politicians’ standards; and countless tales of erratic leadership in crisis

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71803.html#ixzz1kISV3tYc

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: enemedia; mikeallen; politico; pollutico
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It's not really an editorial, and it's not really journalism, and it certainly isn't "news."
1 posted on 01/23/2012 8:07:59 AM PST by GVnana
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To: GVnana

I am loving this in a perverse way. The far left is so puckered up with the idea that Obama may have to face a real fighter and someone who will call him out, toe-to-toe, just has these political children in a tizzy.


2 posted on 01/23/2012 8:11:17 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: GVnana

I am loving this in a perverse way. The far left is so puckered up with the idea that Obama may have to face a real fighter and someone who will call him out, toe-to-toe, just has these political children in a tizzy.


3 posted on 01/23/2012 8:11:30 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: GVnana

Just sit back and enjoy the combustion with media and long term R’s.... This is backfiring and they have no clue who the people are anymore. Its actually hilarious.


4 posted on 01/23/2012 8:12:22 AM PST by GoCards (I am a Hobbit)
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To: GVnana

Politico is a funny one to complain about disguises.

5 posted on 01/23/2012 8:14:36 AM PST by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: GVnana
The former Speaker of the House comes to play and owns the stage with an uncanny capacity to connect with the grievances of conservative voters.

Perhaps that is because he has taken the time to study the grievances of conservative voters and come up with ideas to solve those problems. That is much more preferable than simply parroting platitudes: "I love America. I am a successful businessman. I want all Americans to be successful businessmen so vote for me."

6 posted on 01/23/2012 8:15:43 AM PST by newheart (When does policy become treason?)
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To: GVnana

7 posted on 01/23/2012 8:16:20 AM PST by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: GVnana

Two simple reasons for Newt’s SC victory:

#1 The people loathe Obama and how he has wrecked our country
#2 The people loathe the main stream media for protecting Obama and the Leftists.

Nothing more; nothing less


8 posted on 01/23/2012 8:18:21 AM PST by veritas2002
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To: GVnana

Is Newt Lex Suthor or Superman?

They did this with Dick Cheney too. “He’s too smart for conservatives/Republicans and has them hoodwinked. And he keeps tricking us too.” - Liberal Media

What are they all wound up about? I thought they were afraid of Mit.

I prefer Santorum. I’ll take Newt if I have to. I’d vote for a paper weight for president before I’ll vot for Obama. I just don’t want to have to hold my nose and vote for Romney. I’m still recovering from having to vote for McCain.


9 posted on 01/23/2012 8:18:30 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: GoCards

10 posted on 01/23/2012 8:19:56 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: Tenacious 1

....I mean Luthor. (Not Suthor).

Geez!


11 posted on 01/23/2012 8:20:26 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: GVnana
These Know-it-All Libs in the Lame Stream Media tried to give us another NE Lib RINO but as a good Southerner would says, “we ain't buyin no Mitt RINO”.
12 posted on 01/23/2012 8:30:17 AM PST by tobyhill (Obama, The Biggest Thief In American History)
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To: GVnana
Did I Mention, Did I Mention...
13 posted on 01/23/2012 8:32:08 AM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: EagleUSA

Oh, Big Media is absolutely terrified that the Republicans will nominate someone who will actually take Obama to task for his policy idiocy, his racial divisiveness, his hiring of incompetents, his laziness, etc. etc. .... you know, all the relevant issues that Big Media refuses to talk about.

Newt could wake up the slumbering American public .... ergo, he must be destroyed. And preferably sooner, before the message gets out.


14 posted on 01/23/2012 8:32:20 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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>> The three wives, and cheating on and leaving the first two while they were ill;

Unlike Obama who cheated on America. Obama believed after all during his 2008 campaign that marriage was between one man and one woman.


15 posted on 01/23/2012 8:33:25 AM PST by Gene Eric (C'mon, Virginia -- are you with us or against us?!)
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To: GVnana
...inconsistency on the most consequential conservative causes of the past decade; episodic bouts of self-importance severe even by politicians’ standards; and countless tales of erratic leadership in crisis...

I don't give a crap about the wives part, but all of the above is stone cold true. If we nominate Gingrich, we are taking an enormous risk. Granted...to risk is to potentially achieve great things. BUT enormous risk should not be taken lightly, nor should we dismiss the truth because it's inconvenient.

Also, I don't think Gingrich is capable of bringing all segments of the Republican Party together, let alone attract enough independents and disaffected Dems to beat Obama. Between conservatives and moderates in the Republican Party, the divide is so deep, the vitriol so hateful, that I don't see how the wounds can be healed or even papered over. So I truly believe Obama coasts to victory this November.

16 posted on 01/23/2012 8:35:19 AM PST by Wolfstar ('The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.' Theodore Roosevelt)
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Newt did the morning shows yesterday and every one (David Gregort etc) wanted him to tone down his rhetoric (to “connect with independent voters” - aka stop telling the truth about Obama).

Newt smashed back as usual, saying the “elite media refuses to look into Obama’s Saul Alinsky radicalism.”

The lib media is going to go in for the kill. They know Newt is a truth telling bomb thrower and doesn’t buy into the lib media rules (i.e. Repubs aren’t allowed to mention Obama’s background)

Meanwhile Mittens says Obama is a “nice guy just in over his head.” And he wonders why he is in the process of scoring the biggest political collapse in history. LOL!


17 posted on 01/23/2012 8:37:01 AM PST by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else.)
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To: canuck_conservative
his hiring of incompetents

Not merely incompetent...overt anti-American communist anti-constitutionalists in every single cabinet position and "czar".

Which John Boehner and Eric Cantor refuse to shut down.

And the drivel excuse is always, well we don't control the Senate. The House btw has the authority to IMPEACH not just the President...but the Senate "majority" leader.

18 posted on 01/23/2012 8:43:05 AM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: nhwingut
Meanwhile Mittens says Obama is a “nice guy just in over his head.” And he wonders why he is in the process of scoring the biggest political collapse in history. LOL!

Bump! This is precisely what is going on.

The voters have HAD it with the RINO apologists for Obama's malicious communist tyranny.

19 posted on 01/23/2012 8:47:09 AM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Wolfstar
Nonsense!
Intensity is what matters most. Newt fires up most of the base.
Also, Newt actually diffuses the Left’s favorite weapon against conservatives.
Who can call Newt harsh, intolerant or judgmental in his moral views?
20 posted on 01/23/2012 8:48:11 AM PST by Kansas58
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