Gingrich Sees Dark Days Ahead for GOP

Human Events ^ | 12/1/6 | Robert B. Bluey

[StoneWall Brigade]

Dose he have an e-mail?

[KC_Conspirator]

...Abolish the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

Newt has my ear on that one. They need to be abolished because they are not serving the taxpayers.

I do agree with Newt on many things, but I don't think the GOP screwed up 2004. However, 2006 was a flunking grade for the GOP and its leadership. I do see rough days ahead in the wilderness.

[PDR]

sorry - i misunderstood

[hosepipe]

[ Pretty clear, here, that Newtster is seeking to "talk down" any success Bush might have in the last two years so as to make a "savior" necessary. ]

-OR- make some sense of republican nonsense.. ANY sense would be welcome.. even if partially correct.. Newt is the closest thing this republic has to anything(electable) thats RIGHT WING.. Literally ALL other prospective (electable) republican candidates are left wing.. Some republicans are WAY left wing.. including the White RINO House..

Newt is the only game in town.. And with Ann Coulter as Campaign Manager he might WIN, 2008.. In that scenario any debates and TV appearances would be delicious.. Simply scrumcious.. Hyperbole would not be needed.. The democrat take over of Congress is hyperbolic enough.. Just speaking the TRUTH (about it) would be hyperbolic..

Really, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid choosing Committee Chairmen?.. May may... and George Bush assuming "the Position" for two years.. The comedy (if presented correctly) would delicious.. Americans love a good laugh even if a zinger is inserted.. Ann is the maven of zingers and Newt can deliver them accuratly.. win, win...

[KC_Conspirator]

He is dead right about Rove.

[oceanview]

perhaps the conservative base will learn some lessons from 2006 - all these "conservative democrats" elected to the House and Senate, they are all clay pigeons. they simply exist to empower the liberals that control the party.

what good is having a "base", if they equivocate about voting for you? if they look at the Dem opponent and say, "oh, he doesn't look too scary, I'll stay home".

[PDR]

No.
Newt did not have to resign.
He was not having sex with his secretary.
No credible person made any accusation of the sort to which you refer.
Newt left Congress because of the larger than expected loss of seats in the 1998 election -- one in which the GOP had expected to pick up two dozen seats and because certain other GOP leaders were again plotting to oust him from the speakership over issues like spending (the same House GOP leaders, by the way, who produced many of the problems that plagued the GOP in the last election).

[KC_Conspirator]

If the GOP is to recover it (we) first have to face where it's gone off the rails the past few years... sometimes it's painful to hear the truth about yourself and those you love, but we shouldn't shoot the messenger.

I totally agree. There are many things that went wrong since the mandate of 2004 that was thrown away. This month I will be attending many Beltway holiday parties with lots of Hill workers (many now updating their resumes) and it will be interesting to see if they are still in denial.

[jerry639]

What part of "Bush blew the 2006 election" do you not understand? Bush and Rove are where the buck stops>/i>

How Did Pres. Bush blow the election? He wasn't on any ballot. Just why does anyone believe it is the responsibility of the President or the job of someone else to get the people we desire to run and then elected?

If we want a quality person that is in agreement with us on the important issues it everyone's responsibility to encourage them to run. Then help finance their campaign and get out the votes for them to win. Don't sit back and depend on someone else to do the job. Get involved. Put up some cash. Get out the votes. That is what it takes to win and have the type of elected officials we want.

[trisham]

If the GOP is to recover it (we) first have to face where it's gone off the rails the past few years... sometimes it's painful to hear the truth about yourself and those you love, but we shouldn't shoot the messenger.

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Anyone with a working brain knows where the GOP has gone wrong in the last few years. Gingrich surely knows this. He's also old enough to know of and appreciate the wisdom of Reagan's good example:

"The personal attacks against me during the primary finally became so heavy that the state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. It's a rule I followed during that campaign and have ever since."

If Gingrich is smart, he'll stop bad-mouthing Bush.

[Gideon Reader]

Right.
Newt Gingrich by virtue(something he does not have in sufficient puritan quantities of, to run for higher office, according to comments I have recently noted herein)of being in the race for President, lowers or removes the chance of a "real" definitely more "saintly" candidate with better conservative credentials, and a more fluent, coherent clearheaded manner with which to convince an electorate that a conservative candidate running as a Republican would be better to run the nation and it's business, from emerging to lead the field of candidates on the Republican side. And he cheated on his wife(s)and had girlfriends. And like a glass of maker's Mark or Mccallan, of Sam Adams or hot cocoa, and a cigar. And IS ABLE to express the paleo-conservative position of smaller government, self reliance and strong defense, and sound fiscal policy; i.e., the conservative viewpoint, like NO OTHER Republican candidate that I have heard named to date.(except Haley Barbour) > Look, I accept that there may be a certain ridgity or even a dislike for an individual not imbued with the characteristics of St.Franciso or other such figure, but there needs to be a bit of realism added to the stew. If there is to be an elevation of the debate to clear arguement as to the merits or left vrs right, and right is to win, the spokesman needs to A:Understand the position B:Be capable of explaining that position in a clear manner to persons whose attention is ordinarily geared to the size of some Hollywood Bimbo's bust or butt. C:Defeating in debate, the counter arguement of committed candidates whose position, that of the Democrat Party is geared towards socialism for the USA. If there be a candidate able to perform those tasks, admittedly Herculean, I would look more than once at such a candidacy with favor. Absent that name being put forth, I'll stay with Newt Gingrich as my favored choice.

[WalterSkinner]

..Newt was one of the greatest tacticians and bombthrowers we ever had, but the MSM would carve him up with infidelity stories and the religious right, generally, could not support him--as much as I enjoy his lectures and ideas, I couldn't get behind him...

[PDR]

Could you back Romney?

[CPT Clay]

Bump to read later

[CaptainK]

I'm paying attention.
They are both back stabbers.
And treated their sick wives the same way.

More alike than not.

[Joe Boucher]

Thanks.

Leatherneck MT
are you in Montana?
Last year I rented a cabin in Kila for a week and thought it was a most wonderful area.
Also stayed in Seely lake. Most beautiful.
Just about the right amount of folks, very few. And seems like everyone cared to keep the place beautiful.

[WalterSkinner]

Could you back Romney?

..no, not really. Even if the religious issue didn't bother me, I remember how he blew a race against Kennedy when he had it in his hands...

Now that Allen is toast, I am looking (and so are a lot of influencial conservatives) at Gov. Haley Barbour of Miss.--I hope he'll run...

[MVV]

GO NEWT!! I saw him on Sean's show earlier this week and was very impressed with what he was saying!!! Good for him!

[LS]

Yep. It's a trait that afflicts a lot of entrepreneurs, who know how to build a company, but not manage it so it continues profitably.

[WalterSkinner]

..prior marriage shouldn't be an issue unless there were some "activities" which led to those divorces--I don't think Newt could withstand that test, I regret to say...