For years, the party faithful have been clamoring for an outsider, someone with business experience to help the economy grow buy taking government out of out lives. AC has been on the front lines listening to this time and time again. From her book tours to her speaking engagement to her debates with liberals, she been a warrior for the cause.
Right now, Newt being lionized as some sort of Reagan Jr and he’s no such thing. he’s a career beltway insider that only proposes government solutions to problems because he thinks that what “moderates” and “independents” want to hear. He has held unpopular positions on important issues like immigration, “climate change” and health care, which are key issues for average voters. Up until last summer, he has been very vocal about his distaste for conservative principles like the Ryan plan. He suddenly changes when he thought it was the best way to get into the race, which is what Romney did.
He’s never really held a job that didn’t have some sort of government money attached to it and he has no real business experience other than setting up a few “consulting forms” which were pretty much lobbyists without the license.
Aside from all that, he is one of the most disliked people in Washington, not because of his “anti-establishment” ways, but for the exact opposite. He’s unreliable and will not support people or issues that might make him look bad. This is why he’s currently attacking the media, because we all hate the media and it gets good applause lines. I’ve been on the “distrust the media” train since the 80’s and I welcome Newt aboard but we need more than nifty applause lines that get the audiences riled up, we need leadership. Getting audiences riled up over unrelated issues is what democrats do, that is what ACs book is about.
If you take away the Mormonism, Newt and Romney are very similar with the exception of the private sector experience, which is what people have been clamoring for.
I hope he is who people say he is because his record paints a different picture all together.
"Gingrich attended Emory University and received his Ph.D. from Tulane University. - In the 1970s he taught history and geography at West Georgia College.
"Born in south central Pennsylvania to a teenage mother, Gingrich was adopted in infancy by his stepfather, a career soldier."