Posted on 07/15/2006 8:32:36 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says America is in World War III and President Bush should say so. In an interview in Bellevue this morning Gingrich said Bush should call a joint session of Congress the first week of September and talk about global military conflicts in much starker terms than have been heard from the president.
"We need to have the militancy that says 'We're not going to lose a city,' " Gingrich said. He talks about the need to recognize World War III as important for military strategy and political strategy.
Gingrich said he is "very worried" about Republican's facing fall elections and says the party must have the "nerve" to nationalize the elections and make the 2006 campaigns about a liberal Democratic agenda rather than about President Bush's record.
Gingrich says that as of now Republicans "are sailing into the wind" in congressional campaigns. He said that's in part because of the Iraq war, adding, "Iraq is hard and painful and we do not explain it very well."
But some of it is due to Republicans' congressional agenda. He said House and Senate Republicans "forgot the core principle" of the party and embraced Congressional pork. "Some of the guys," he said, have come down with a case of "incumbentitis."
Gingrich said in the coming days he plans to speak out publicly, and to the Administration, about the need to recognize that America is in World War III.
He lists wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, this week's bomb attacks in India, North Korean nuclear threats, terrorist arrests and investigations in Florida, Canada and Britain, and violence in Israel and Lebanon as evidence of World War III. He said Bush needs to deliver a speech to Congress and "connect all the dots" for Americans.
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World War 4 actually. Reagon won WW3.
I saw that much later on when I got off the thread and went back to look... I think I mixed it up with a poll one of the networks put out last week that said Rudy was at 29%, McCain somewhere around 23% and next in line was Gingrich at something like 13%... the rest were way down the line.
Just got back from a weekend in Chicago, so I have some catching up to due. I was amazed at two things there.
1. No one really seemed aware of what was going on in the Middle East. Lots of talk of the subway derailment, no talk of the war.
2. Most people are not even the least bit prepared. My little sister doesn't have any idea of what she would do if there was an attack.
Kind of odd, when a city in Iowa has more of an idea of what is going on than a bunch of people in Chicago. And yes, we are in the opening stages of WWIII
IMHO AT the outset Bush said the American public needed to be prepared for sacrafices in the WOT. It is time for those sacrafices...
I appear to be in the minority here, but I care about my country and the brainpower posessed by the man in the WH first and foremost. Newt has brains to spare compared to everyone that has been mentioned so far. This is a dangerous world we live in.
And your thoughts we provided by the MSM? They made him the most hated man in America....did they get to you?
How often has this WH used the word "win"?
Newt has what it takes....he gets a bad rap by the "leftest" media, of course. I'm amazed by some of the flack he gets around here by the so called "conservatives". Most of them bought into the MSM stufff about how he was the most hated man in America. He is a gem!
Maybe from the psycho's, but not Canada. Albertans are good folk.
I don't care if he walks on water, though it does seem to matter to some. McCain certainly can't claim he was an angel in his first marriage and I'm not certain about this one, since he isn't home much... and Rudy... well I like Rudy, but we all know his history. Newt, as far as I can tell, is 100% conservative and that carries a lot of water with me.
I agree. There is no reforming a serial adulterer. McCain, Guliani, Ginrich....They all make Romney look pretty good.
I'd have to learn a lot more about Romney... I dont' have anything against his being a Mormon, but I do have issues with the Mormon Church and immigration and would want to know for certain where he stood on this given his family came from Mexico.
The media spent a lot of time tryin to destroy Newt. I am suprised at how many around here bought into it. He is clearly the best but he must get thought the primaries. I hope he will go for it!
The 'COLD WAR' has always been considered WWIII...so maybe it's WWIIII....
They honestly believe the good times last forever.
Consistency is the most tempting illusion that good moral people will fall for. They'll turn away from drinking, drugs and gambling, but fall right into this one, and they won't even realize it until it every piece of the illusion is completely stripped away.
We're more aware than generations past. We know now not to expect jobs or relationships to last a lifetime. But peace? Nahhhhh. Everything's fine. It's all just politics and fearmonging. Keep your cynicism in place, because you'll just look foolish among your friends and neighbors without it.
Cynicism is great! Nothing is important!
I think he will and given world events maybe people will think long and hard about who they vote for, he can beat Hillary and if she brings up his laundry he won't be afraid to mention her's... so that becomes a wash.
I did say "unfortunately".
But:
Personally, I think Gingrich talks a good game and would make a great Cabinet appointee. But let's look at the latter chapters in his resume: he went limp in 1995, let the steam hiss out of the Contract With America, and resigned under pressure of a cooked-up "ethical" probe.
So in my mind he's a visionary golden-tongued quitter who choked in the clinch and fell well short of the mark I'd want to see leading the GOP and the nation.
Or maybe you know something I don't. If so, please let us know.
"I think you missed the phrase "more fearful THAN NECESSARY"."
No, I didn't. I objected to the notion that American men would become increasingly fearful in reaction to more bad news. I think most of us would instead become more angry and resolute.
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