Posted on 07/22/2010 6:54:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yes, I know. But the presidental candidates are not the only people on the ballot. I still will vote for Senate/House/Etc... But I will Newt vote for the Republican if they put Gingrich on the ballot.
That just about sums up my thoughts on Newt. And, when he sat on the couch with Speaker Pelosi and blathered about Global Warming, he lost me - a double dinger - Nancy AND global warming.
A long time ago, when Newt was riding high and throwing rocks at the crooked and subversive, Sandinista-hugging Speaker Jim Wright of Texas, Rolling Stone ran an article on Newt in which they reached back into the misty past to remind conservative Republicans (as a way of demoralizing them, no doubt) that back in the early 70's, when he first ran for Congress in a district, my old district when I lived there, that had elected for years a very, very conservative Larry McDonald, Newt had packaged as a soft liberal. McDonald had died on the KAL 007 flight that was shot down over the Sea of Okhotsk by a Soviet interceptor in a major international incident. Before that, Rolling Stone taunted, Gingrich had run as a Rockefeller Republican, much in the same mold as Rep. George H.W. Bush in Houston, the Ultimate ArchRiNO of All Senior RiNO's, and had become a strong conservative only after McDonald had left the scene. How could conservatives trust him to walk the conservative walk in the bigs?
I guess the answer is finally in, and Rolling Stone, bless their maggot-eaten little hearts, has at length been proven right. Gingrich failed in the clinches as Speaker, he was beaten like a red-haired boy by Slick and Beast and Little Tommy Dasshole, and he almost let Slick sneak up on him by spiking up the black vote in the 1998 election to recapture the House and repeal the then smoking-fresh bill of impeachment Newt's Republicans had passed against Slick.
Never mind the deathbed divorce scene (which may or may not have happened like that -- do you believe anything they said then, knowing what you know now about Media?), never mind the book deal and the serial affairs. He did, after all, ring up some serious wins, like welfare reform -- which Obama has now reversed by building on Republican Congressional failures which Newt helped inaugurate, by refusing to purge weak, corrupt Republicans -- a failure in which the cipher Denny Hastert followed him by likewise failing to discipline the GOP Representatives, thus opening a huge door for Rahm Emanuel and Red Nancy Pelosi to walk through.
How to write "EPIC FAIL" in bigger letters? Well, then he did the couch scene with Nancy and tried to "grow" in other ways, to attract a Power Structure digit of re-empowerment from above, the one the Mexicans call "dedazo". So far, no sale.
You're right, he's about done. If he wants to rebuild his career, he'll have to go home to his old district and run again, and then he'll have to prove himself to conservatives all over again by coming up with new, constitutionalist ideas for undoing the damage the Big Government parties have done since Woodrow Wilson -- and even Abraham Lincoln.
If you stop and think about his suggestion to “Meet at the local level”. That is the best way to overcome the extremism of the National leadership.
Otherwise the barriers persist.
Thank you for writing my post for me :)
Faceoff? They’ll be running mates!
Well, good for you!
I only referred to the Architect because his analysis of ‘08 was that a lot of conservatives refused to compromise their votes (according to him) and did not show at the polls - a point the person I was responding to made...
As far as his record in ‘06, can’t win ‘em all, I guess...
Sorry, lent...I assume (wrongly, it appears) that there is a kind of patois/slang/insider info that most of us here are familiar with because we all seem to be politicos at Free Republic....so I thought EVERYONE here knew who the Architect was...Rove.
I will leave the Country
I realize this is the received wisdom, based upon Republican gains in the Clinton era credited to Gingrich.
I seriously question the veracity of this, given the gross overreach of the administration and the revulsion of the voting public at the time, as well as the sheer idiocy displayed by Gingrich both politically and in his personal life since then.
He's a relic, of questionable provenance. That I don't question.
... that, plus he looks and sounds like one of the wimpier Jim Henson creations.
The idea of Gingrich running at the top of the Republican ballot regardless of the opponent makes me want to throw up.
That was who I thought of when I heard that phrase.
LLS
Clash of titans?
More like midget wrestling.
I have often heard that but I have never seen any data that shows Conservatives did not vote or voted third party. obama and acorn manufactured his win by 4 million votes... that is what happened... mcnasty was such a bad candidate that new voters never even considered him. Everyone that I know voted for Palin.
LLS
But Karl Rove, self proclaimed Idiot Savant is also a deep thinker. It is he who convinced the Bushes, Father and Son, that the offspring of illegal aliens, welcomed into the country in their many millions, would become "The Republicans of the Future."
Karl Rove is very intelligent; not as intelligent as he thinks, but plenty intelligent enough to rake in the big bucks from many so-called "Republicans," when Dick Morris is too busy working for the Clintons and George Soros to bother to run their campaigns for them. He is also plenty smart enough to talk with Sean Hannity, when Sean can't get Dick Morris on the phone.
Today's Republican Party is the bastard love-child of Karl Rove and Olympia Snowe, and one real reason grass-roots financial support for the RNC can no longer be found.
I was thinking of him as a “mental giant” from the perspective of his background as a historian and his ability to understand the significance of events. His problem is that his response to situations (other women, political events) isn’t what it should be.
I think Newt really wants to be POTUS.
I imagine Newt sitting in front of the television camera on a sofa with Hillary.
Hillary keeps slapping him, he sits quietly, not wanting to seem controversial.
Until he quits.
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