Posted on 04/14/2010 7:46:39 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Mark is well respected. When he gives a complement, it says a lot about the person he speaks of.
I listen to his radio talk show and heard this yesterday.
There is a Mark Levin live thread on FR with great folks on it.
OMG cannot believe I did that. So very sorry Mr. West!!
Thanks, Finny.
I saw Newt Gingrich almost single-handedly orchestrate the end of 40 years of Democrat rule of the House. Didn’t see much sail-trimming then.
Hank
Huh?
By that standard Harry Reid is more conservative than John Ensign.
Ted Nugent is a crazy rock guitarist...and as conservative as they come. Al Franken is quite conservative in his personal life and he’s a lefty loon. Father Fleger (sp?) is by all accounts a priest who takes his vows seriously...and his a dimwitted lefist screwball.
What the heck kind of standard is that?
I hate this idea that to admire Palin you have to dump on people like Gingrich. I like both...but Gingrich did more in the 90’s to advance conservatism than Palin has ever done.
Hank
I was so busy yesterday, I have just spotted this thread now!
TGO is right!
“I saw Newt Gingrich almost single-handedly orchestrate the end of 40 years of Democrat rule of the House.”
Newt didn’t singlehandedly do a thing. The American people did it and it was a reaction to Hillary care. Newt happened to be in the right place at the tight time.
As for sail trimming, he did that almost immediately when he let Clinton bluff him into caving when the government was shut down over the GOP’s refusal to appropriate the money Clinton wanted. You must have been in Hooterville when that went on.
The bottom line on Newt is that he is a Rockefeller Republican and so identified himself when he was studying at Tulane University in the late 1960s. He was a Bomb Thrower in his early years in the house to get himself noticed. Once he gained power, he became a card carrying member of the Establishment. He was not very effective and his arrogance makes him unelectable nationally.
As far as debating Obama is concerned, did you happen to look at Newt at the SRLC? He will be 70 in 2013 and looks every day of it and he is as big around as Tip O’Neill at his biggest. Leaving aside his arrogance and his political correctness, which Obama will exploit without missing a beat, the man would look awful on stage with the young and athletic Obama. It would be Kennedy and Nixon again but a hundred times worse.
If you really don’t think Gingrich was the key person in bringing about the ‘94 house takeover, you’re simply historically mistaken. It just wouldn’t have happened without him. But you’ve obviously got a blind spot about him so facts won’t change your mind.
Hank
Oh Dio...you have outdone yourself with that Willard poster. Wow. That expresses my feeling exactly.
“It just wouldn’t have happened without him.”
He was never that important, any more than old man Dole, who took over the Senate in 1994.
Assuming you are right (which is a big leap), then who is the leader of the GOP, the sine qua non, without which the GOP will not be able to gain control of Congress? There is none. It is going to happen. Period.
I have no blind spots about Gingrich. And I do remember the histroy. I remember his embrace of Gore and global warming, Dede Scozzafava over Doug Hoffman, his capitulation to Clinton in 1995 on the budget, his affair disclosed in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky impeachment that led to his departure.
Gingrich is not Churchill. He is not Reagan. He is an historical asterisk. Nothing more.
And, yes. Palin would wipe the floor with him in a GOP debate. She would be the better nominee to face Obama. By a long shot.
Just remember Hank: Don’t conflate smugness and intelligence. Gingrich has more of the former than the latter. And it shows. Which is why he is a radioactive figure politically. People don’t like him. And if they don’t like a person, they don’t vote for him.
Sure. Because Tulane gives PhD’s to morons.
Forget it....as badly as some have Palin Derangement Syndrom, you appear to have Palin Sainthood Syndrome.
Newt is, and has long been, a serious thinker and political strategist. Sarah’s a great story and a good conservative. But she could no more have brought down Jim Wright than fornlorn old get-along Bob Michels, who Newt thankfully steamrolled into the oblivion he so richly deserved.
Frankly, Michelle Bachman would be preferable to Palin. She’s much more articulate and more ideologically sound.
Hank
“Tulane gives PhD’s to morons.”
I can give you some names, being more than a little familiar with the school.
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