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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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
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.
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The way to reach those voters, is to be for AMERICAN JOBS.
We need to dump this outsourcing nonsense.
We have voted ourselves out of power. Bring back US jobs.
You must have a sturdy butt to handle globe straddling airplane diplomacy!
Gingrich is sharp, has some good ideas sometimes, but is personally undisciplined and failed to beat Romney in the primaries. For one thing, Gingrich’s pro-amnesty bent is suicidal for the Republican party. So I’m a little tired of Newt prattling on and on, why not move over for more effective leaders¡
The GOP would also be incapable of competing against Ronald Reagan.
Our future must be predestined if we can’t beat that worthless old bat Hillary.
Another good point. Anybody who even remotely claimed to be "undecided" was simply doing it for the attention. "Undecided" in most cases meant they didn't have a party affiliation (independents, in other words) or hadn't voted for an election or two. But they all knew who they were going to vote for, and generally, I'm sure it was the Democrat.
We need to get voters who actually are interested in our program, and to do that, we need to get candidates who believe in it. I did do my duty and vote for Romney, simply because you have to realize that even if the candidate is lame, even his appointments as president would be better than those of the raving Marxist Muslim freak who is now occupying the WH. But most of the GOP didn't even bother.
That’s true - a sturdy butt and good saddlebags...
Palin is the gutsiest politician in America, so your hurt feelings are just that.
How is she gutsy? What has she run for? I’ll say she’s gutsy when she stops “commentating” and actually puts it on the line and runs for office somewhere.
Anybody can be a political commentator.
I'm afraid that Romney probably got enough conservative votes to lead elitists in the GOP to conclude that they should nominate another liberal in 2016.
>>let’s put it this way ~ chillun are exempt, the elderly are exempt, everybody else works. It’s been that way for hundreds of thousands, even millions of years.
Works at what? There are no jobs. 100 people apply for a job at McDonalds these days. We have automated industry to the point where we just have too many people to need their labor for 40 hours a week. And when you lose industrial paychecks, people can’t afford so many service workers. That causes a supply and demand crisis where labor becomes so devalued that it isn’t worth doing.
And before you start talking about how we did it 100,000 years ago, keep in mind that children were very expendable in those days (look at how easy it was for Pharoah to kill all the first-born) and the elderly were not cared for 20 years after they stopped working.
Newt is absolutely correct.
Hell, the damn pubbies can't even figure out a way to out play nobama. HELLO?
But, the election isn't today. There will be new issues, new personalities and new alliances by 2016 and things are hard to predict.
Maybe there'll even be a stronger third party in 2016!
The aggregate statistics now aren't all that much different than they were at any time in human history.
The problem is the working age population is facing a lengthy period of underemployment. Most of that I attribute to the Democrat party's inability to comprehend the needs of young people to have jobs.
The nominee is most likely going to be a Governor or Senator. Elitists or no elitists, that’s the way it is. If you can find somebody like that to run, fine, he or she will have a chance at winning. If your choice is a Representative or a Pizza Company Executive, he or she won’t win, and there’s not use complaining about that.
You are correct sir, and those with their hands out, will vote for the rats every time. I wonder if I will ever see another Republican in the white house in my lifetime? I think maybe not.
of course you are wrong ~ people who receive social security, a government retirement check, medicare, or homestead exemption DO NOT automatically vote for Democrats.
>>Most of that I attribute to the Democrat party’s inability to comprehend the needs of young people to have jobs.
The Democrat party does not create jobs. The market creates jobs. If there was work to be done, then there would be jobs. Computers and automation have not made our lives easier—at least for the people who get to keep their jobs. We should be down to a 32 hour work week by now, but instead the people with jobs work OT while those without have nothing but Uncle Sugar to fall back on.
This is the demographic shift that the GOP can’t do anything about. And its why they will lose national elections from now on.
There is no simple fix that fits neatly into one party or the other. It will take a new way of looking at work, pay, and benefits and no one is prepared to even talk about it openly.
I’m with you Gator...if the Repubs couldn’t beat this loser of a president, this incompetent farce, then I don’t see any victories for America for a long time.
Pretty sad.
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