Posted on 12/09/2012 1:01:03 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather
Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said the current GOP would be “incapable of competing” against Hillary Clinton should she run in 2016.
Gingrich on NBC’s “Meet the Press” called Clinton a “very formidable” person who is married to “the most popular Democrat in the country.”
“If [the Republicans'] competitor in ’16 is going to be Hillary Clinton, supported by Bill Clinton and presumably, a still relatively popular President Barack Obama, trying to win that will be truly the Super Bowl. And the Republican Party today is incapable of competing at that level,” Gingrich said.
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She could have run...and she didn’t. She could have endorsed...and she didn’t.
Palin doesn’t have the guts for it. I liked her a lot and only voted for McCain because of her, but I have been extremely disappointed since then, and I think she seriously messed up the last election because many people were holding out, hoping she would either run or directly endorse somebody...and she never did.
Lower offices are fine, and she did a good job in endorsing lower level candidates, but she obviously doesn’t have what it takes to run for President or even to endorse somebody for the office. I was very disappointed but not that surprised (after she left her governorship).
Newt is wrong. You don’t have to compete against Hillary. You have to compete against the news media. If they were doing their job bubba would never have been re-elected and we certainly wouldn’t be saddled with the marxist muslim loving puke we’ve got now.
The media is America’s enemy number 1, and they are facilitating the downfall of our country.
I completely agree with Newt.
We had our chance to save this country in 2012. Being unable, and in some cases unwilling, to come together to beat the worst p-resident in the history of America, pretty much damns this country.
Oh well, maybe she will corkscrew land into something hard.
I kept waiting for the GOP to respond to the constant bombardment of the voters by the DemocRATS with their totally insane “campaign ads”. I stopped waiting on November 7th and figured that the GOP just wasn’t interested in winning this time. I guess they were too busy trying to figure out how they could get out of being blamed when Barry took us over his “fiscal cliff”.
Yes, I think all those things are in play. Plus Hillary has a very unattractive persona and image, and while that may not matter while her only job is supporting an important man, she’s not going to go far nationally with it. She got elected in NYC because they elect the likes of Jerrold Nadler (my rep back in the day - ugh - the slob used to stand by my subway stop at rush hour trying to shake hands and I always avoided him) as long as they’re raving liberals. But outside of NYC, I don’t think she’d go very far.
Obama was the first celebrity candidate, and henceforth, every candidate is going to have to be a celebrity. Bizarrely enough, he’s not good looking, is a terrible speaker, has a lousy track record and a dead-fish personality (with a very limp handshake, I’ve heard) - but the press picked him to promote as a celebrity mainly because of his color and his leftism. Obama was a faux celebrity much the way the Kardashians are, but regardless of that, it works.
The GOP is never going to get the press to give us a faux celebrity. So our next candidate has got to be a genuine celebrity, somebody who’s done something and is somebody, is attractive personally even if not physically, and who can’t be ignored.
Sad but true.
Exactly.
(hoping, hoping)
During the Three Kingdom period of Chinese history, the Warlord of the North (Cao Cao) was defeated by the coalition of the South and West (two had to combine just to overpower the North) at the Battle of Red Cliffs. When asked by advisers on what to do next, Cao Cao realize he cannot defeat the enemy coalition so he adopted the decade strategy. He waited and rebuilt. He knew that the South and West coalition cannot remain forever without rivalry and fighting breaking out. The Dems have two brittle coalitions. Jews and Arabs. Arab Americans hate the Jewish Americans like Chinese hate Japanese. Right now the Arab immigrant/US citizen population is about 3 percent, equal to the American Jewish population. Arab Americans are not as well organized as the Jews, but are making strives in numbers of voters. The other brittle coalition is Blacks and Immigrant Hispanics. Hispanic immigrants do not like blacks, because in their view blacks are lazy. Fights break out everyday in mix schools composed of blacks and hispanics. Unlike blacks, hispanics do open businesses in their communities, and move up the economic ladder. Blacks will resent Hispanic success because it reminds them that the race excuse is invalid and black lack of progress is due to their inadequacies, not racial barriers. Hispanic dominated communities literally become Little Latin America with little or no accommodation for blacks. It is a matter of time they will fight. Question is who will the Dems back? Question is who will the GOP attempt to peel away from the Dems to GOP? The GOP at minimum needs to stay united, survive the bleak period and exploit the Dems fissures. GOP did this in the 1990’s by winning the Southern whites who due to the Civil War vowed to never vote GOP until the 1990’s when the Dems supported social issues that Southern Whites can no longer stomach.
Obama Care is the new Zylon B and our hospitals the new ovens of Auschwitz.
What choice do they have, they spent the Social Security money.
Whitey will be the new Jew.
No, her inclination simply isn't to clean up anyone's messes ~ she's a porker.
The newer or younger generation is where we lost last month. And until the GOP figures out how to reach those people, we won’t win the White House in 2016.
Jonathan Last has been writing some good articles on the unmarried generation that is growing and ascending. They don’t care about gay marriage, abortion, Libya, etc.
GOP needs to become much more libertarian to reach this group IMO.
You’re right. They don’t want to win. They don’t have a plan that will fix anything. The people need a real economy that manufactures things to be sold to other Americans. Not everyone wants to be a telemarketer, salesman, or lawn mower and that’s all they offer.
At least the Dems are honest—if they win, they promise to create as many high-paying government jobs as they can for as long as the credit holds out.
The GOPs plan is to let the Dems take us over the cliff and then to offer a socialist solution to bring us back to a Greek-style economy as a counter to the Dems third-world communist solution.
It's been that way for hundreds of thousands, even millions of years.
LOL!
She cleans up when she gets paid to do so...paid by getting to live in the White House with bulbous-nosed Bill, or paid by getting the title of Secretary of State from the Indonesian.
Now that’s an office that has gone downhill. She has rendered the position of SOS almost meaningless.
He was not electable.
Throwing away our principles is not the way to attract anybody...we tried that in the last two elections and you can see where it got us. Young people are like any other people, they vote for principles and the holders of those principles.
Romney consistently avoided any discussion of GOP social issues or even foreign policy objectives (if you recall, he kept saying he agreed with Obama on everything), so there were no principles even offered to young people.
Most of those that I know actually liked the social planks in the platform, but they didn’t vote for Romney because he obviously did not like those planks himself and scrupulously avoided them talking about them (and would not even let Ryan talk about them).
There were 64 million Republican voters and 69 Democrat voters. The way you win is by drawing them out to vote for you ~ not to vote for the other guy.
This last election Obama lost enough of his 2008 Democrat voters that someone pulling in the Bush Republican voters from 2004 would have won easily.
As a standard thing here on FR we should have an automated caveat dropped down on any post that uses the terms 'undecided', 'moderate' or 'independent' that says DOES NOT EXIST ~ AN ILLUSION INDULGED IN BY POLITICIANS WITH NO GOOD IDEAS
You would think that someone with the blood of 4 dead Americans on their hands wouldn’t stand a chance of becoming President, but for Hillary Clinton, its an added bonus apparently in the minds of libs
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