Newt Gingrich: What Would You Have Done? Nelson Mandela and American Conservatives

Gingrich Productions ^ | December 6, 2013 | Newt Gingrich

[fwdude]

Preferring the frying pan to the fire.

Perhaps, choosing NEITHER would have been better?

[EveningStar]

I agree with you.

[berdie]

Your posts on this thread have made it one of the most informative and thought provoking that I have read on this subject on the forum.

Thank you.

[ZULU]

No. The Stanley Baker Movie - ZULU.

[x]

If Newt had any class, he would have shrugged off the comments, and let it go. Instead, he let his ego take the bait, and printed something to embarrass us all and hand fuel to the Left. This is not a leader.

Geez. Wrong all around, for heaven's sake. This is very classy and ego-less and unembarrassing so far as Newt is concerned.

You can disagree with the position Gingrich took here and some of the judgment calls he makes about Mandela and still recognize that he shows some dignity and restraint here that others haven't always shown.

And how many times a day or week do we attack politicians for lacking guts? You could say Newt bowed to some liberal consensus in writing his original tribute, but the fact that he takes the time to defend himself and doesn't try to scurry away from the confrontation is admirable.

And what kind of fuel does he hand to anybody that wasn't there before he wrote this? So much has been written about this that anybody looking for ammunition already has it.

[x]

I think I’d take the Boers.

Not really your choice to make, though, is it?

[berdie]

“Free education and free healthcare and a good economy are all wonderful, but would you trade your full liberty and freedom for that.”

I think we, in this country, are about to find out. And not in a good way.

[ReformationFan]

Exactly.