Posted on 10/19/2008 5:38:53 PM PDT by pissant
Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich reacted this morning to Colin Powell's endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., arguing, "What that just did in one sound bite... is it eliminated the experience argument."
Powell, the former secretary of state, announced his long-awaited endorsement Sunday morning, explaining that he is backing Obama "because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of this campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities – we have to take that into account – as well as his substance – he has both style and substance – he has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president."
In all-star roundtable edition of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," former presidential adviser David Gergen categorized Powell's announcement as "the most important endorsement of the campaign so far."
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Romney would have fired up the Mormon machine, which has considerable energy. And he would have eliminated the need to bring in $$$$$$$$, as his personal spare change dwarfs any money Palin drew in (not to mention his friends’ personal spare change — he doesn’t exactly move in small-town hocky mom circles). The only downside to Romney as VP candidate is that he would have tended to make McCain look weak. Though maybe not as weak as choosing Palin made McCain look, by a very different mechanism.
What a fool!
Adolf Hitler had the ability to inspire, he was inclusive of Germans even outside of the greater boundaries of Germany, he reached across the width and breadth of Germany, and he had great rhetorical abilities.
We know how well that turned out for Germany and the world!
Obama is cut from the same cloth.
I'm from Arizona and I did not vote for McCain in the primary and I was going to vote Libertarian but Sarah got me back and I've sent $$$, work the blogs, past out yd signs, bumperstickes. So Sarah was my pick.
That having been said, we need to stop beating up our side.
Victories come from “addition” not “division”.
Because COLIN is impressed with a guy’s style, that means his 143 days as a Senator qualifies him to be CINC?
COLIN is being ridiculous. All of these jerkwads are afraid to say the obvious: Colin is backing the black guy. And Hussein HAS NO SUBSTANCE...except his socialism.
Period.
Of course it didn't, and it was an incredibly stupid statement for Gingrich to make.
What it did do, however, is demonstrate definitively Powell's defective judgment and his dishonesty and hypocrisy.
I didn’t say McCain was a brilliant choice as nominee for President either, but at least he isn’t laughable. His only hope of winning was with a very strong VP candidate — one that eliminated concerns about who would take the Prsidency if McCain’s age and health took him out, and eliminated concerns about his ability to pull in strong, knowledgeable, experienced people for his cabinet and other key positions. When he picked a joke like Sarah Palin as his VP candidate, reasonable people became alarmed as to what sort of people would be in other key positions in his administration. And while Obama is plenty worrisome to many reasonable people, he picked a decently experienced running mate, who wasn’t going to become the brunt of jokes all over the world. He demonstrated as much as possible at this stage, that people who are afraid he’ll fill his cabinet with wacko radicals, may not need to worry so much after all. Doesn’t mean he won’t pick a bunch of radicals after he gets to the White House, but at least with his only opportunity to make a pick before election day, he didn’t pick one. McCain had one chance to make a pre-election day pick and screwed it up badly, flat-out terrifying all the undecideds who are turned off by the GOP’s evangelical wing, and scaring off a whole lot more likely GOP voters by appearing to regard serious job qualifications as unimportant.
Well said. I concur completely. I still have a hunch enough Americans see through bambi’s charade.
Because he's Black
“I love Newt, but from time to time he says these things to counter balance his hard stance on all the issues. It is too fuzzy and warm for me, I like it when Newt is spitting fire.”
Newt wants to be liked. He wanted to be liked by the panel this morning. Newt was saying something he knew would please the rest of the panel members. Newt should shut up and try to control his baser instincts.
uh, joe lieberman, dude.
hey, dude, a number of FReepers beat you to it.....but thanks anyway.....
;^)
Newt is explaining well. I assume he means that the average viewer will now buy the argument that Obama is qualified.
The truth is that Obama is not qualifed. Qualifications have absolutely nothing to do with recommendations/endorsements.
Actually a lot of them are going to be voting for Biden.
And Bush-Cheney simply weren’t scary to anyone who was even considering voting Republican in the first place. They were both well qualified, having spent many years operating at high levels of government and business, and what Bush lacked in personal experience with things like foreign policy and economics, he appeared to compensate for a high awareness of his limitations and ability to tap into very well-qualified people to fill senior positions in those areas, largely as a result of having been well into adulthood when his father was President.
Other than politics, has Newt any real world experience other than academic? He often sounds like he is speaking down to us from his ivory tower.
Mine ended about 1995.
No, actually Americans will see it for it really is, Powell supporting the Black candidate.
newt
n.
a soft, squishy invertabrate
Amen.
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