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Why Gingrich Can't Win
Townhall.com ^ | March 13, 2011 | Steve Chapman

Posted on 03/13/2011 5:21:53 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: NavVet

Not that I have any plans to vote for News, but why do you call him a RINO? It seams to me the word is thrown out much to easily


21 posted on 03/13/2011 5:47:57 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Obama told us a lot, but one thing it screamed loud and clear was “no more old white guys”.

He Lied (as usual)


22 posted on 03/13/2011 5:50:42 AM PDT by spokeshave (WTF....the only thing 0bambi's investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy.)
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To: Kaslin
Plus, Newt's almost 70 and has no real executive experience. Yes, Reagan was older, but Reagan was Reagan and had LOTs of executive experience.

When we put forward elderly legislators, like Bob Dole or McCain, we lose.

23 posted on 03/13/2011 5:52:08 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: Kaslin

He can’t win because he’s a sellout and a pantywaist. The republican electorate is not what it was (I hope).


24 posted on 03/13/2011 5:54:35 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Kaslin
As far as I know, no one who has been only a U.S Representative has ever been elected President.

Add to that fact the image below.


25 posted on 03/13/2011 5:54:40 AM PDT by Defend Liberty
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To: Hardastarboard
I always wondered about Newt ,what it was that made me leery of him, and now I know the label for it.......As proof, all one has to do is see him walk into CPAC like he was a prizefighter, to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger"

Everyone else comes out on the stage, not Newt, he comes in through the audience shaking hands to that tune.......didn't sit with me too well........He seems to have a view of himself as REALLY IMPORTANT

26 posted on 03/13/2011 5:55:46 AM PDT by estrogen (2012 can't come soon enough)
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To: estrogen
Last week I got a phone call from Newt's "exploratory committee" asking what I thought of a Newt run. I told the caller, "he can't win, he has too much baggage and a faulty idea that he is a rock star. No, I don't think he'll run.

I would like to see a Paul Ryan or Jim DeMint run.

27 posted on 03/13/2011 5:59:45 AM PDT by estrogen (2012 can't come soon enough)
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To: Kaslin
How about because Newt is a fat philandering tub of crap!

The man is delusional to think he has a chance. He should write books and give speeches.

28 posted on 03/13/2011 6:00:11 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: sig229

Around here we called her Dede Skeefooza. She was just a democRAT who couldn’t get elected in a republican district.


29 posted on 03/13/2011 6:05:58 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: Defend Liberty

Yeah, and Newtie supported über-rino Dede Scuzzyfuzzy in NY 23 against true conservative Doug Hoffman.


30 posted on 03/13/2011 6:06:11 AM PDT by Amagi (ObamaCare proposed a tax on Tanning Salons. That is RACISM STRAIGHT UP!)
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To: Kaslin

I would vote for Newt. I think he speaks well, can tear up a lib in a debate. He’s taken a lot of arrows from the left and come out fighting.

The first comment I see under the article nails it for me. Obama is a worse demagogue than Newt, but Newt has far more experience. He speaks well. It’s Newt’s kissing up to Nancy, especially over climate change, gives me agita.

I see Newt as basically a dishonest person, which would bother me, but doesn’t disqualify him from the presidency for me. I don’t demand my president to be honest. Honesty, IMHO, is important for people who don’t pay attention to politics, which is why Obama’s base doesn’t understand what a friccin’ liar he is. I expect POTUS to be capable and understand what this country stands for. This brings me back to the climate problem.

Newt has one thing I like. He thinks outside the box, and has ideas.


31 posted on 03/13/2011 6:07:21 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: NavVet
The reason Newt can’t win is that he is a RINO

Yep - if he was a true Conservative, he would be hard to beat because he really is smart. I met Haley Barbour at a Promise Keepers convention a few years back - engaging, Christian, and probably smarter than any of the Repub possibles. Right now I'd like to see him or Palin and possibly a joint ticket if someone can figure out the dynamics for it to fly.

32 posted on 03/13/2011 6:11:08 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: trebb

I remember Newt declaring that he had the utmost respect for Hillary Clinton and that she was doing a good job as SofS. That is an eliminator right there. Did he respect the 500 FBI files she had her goon squad collect, or did he respect her trashing of Flowers, the White House assistant (forgot name), or when she arranged to have the whole village of Orthodox Jews stuff the ballot box for a payoff later. Newt needs to go away.


33 posted on 03/13/2011 6:33:04 AM PDT by doosee
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To: NavVet

Once Newt led the pubbie takover of Congress he allowed them to spend MY money like it was sea water.
Then he cozied up to Nancy and Hillary and tried to make nice with the vermin scum of the democrat party that also want to “TAKE MY MONEY” to use as they see fit.
These big spending turds can ALL kiss my rear end.
NO to RINO crap.


34 posted on 03/13/2011 6:39:08 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: NavVet

and demagogues don’t get elected president of the United States.

Unless they’re thin, tall, half black, and, as Senator Reid says, capable of skillfully adopting a “Negro dialect” when consiously choosing to do so.


35 posted on 03/13/2011 6:40:05 AM PDT by flowerplough (Thomas Sowell: Those who look only at Obama's deeds tend to become Obama's critics.)
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To: PapaBear3625
Newt's almost 70 and has no real executive experience.

Right.

He resigned from his House speaker-ship. Then, he basically walked away from his House seat. He hasn't been elected to anything since then.

If the GOP were stupid enough [Party of Stupid?] to nominate him, he wouldn't get as many Electoral votes as McCain. The MSM would parade his trainload of baggage incessantly. The MSM would love to delve into his ethics violations, etc.
36 posted on 03/13/2011 6:42:18 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: estrogen
He seems to have a view of himself as REALLY IMPORTANT

The thing that goads me about him is during his various commentaries. He says 'WE do this, we passed this, we were against this, we will do such, we, we, we ...

He acts like he is some big official in the GOP. Last position I remember him being elected to was in the late 1990s.
37 posted on 03/13/2011 6:46:12 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Kaslin

He will lose a massive amount of the female vote just by the opposition constantly reminding the public he told his first wife he was divorcing her as she lay in a hospital after cancer surgery

He will be branded as a cold heartless bastard

It may not be politically rational, but there it is


38 posted on 03/13/2011 6:48:59 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Kaslin

Here is the definition of demagogue from the Merriam-Webster dictionary online

“a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power”

That describes most democrats.


39 posted on 03/13/2011 6:55:42 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Kaslin
The chief problem is not that Gingrich has been through two divorces and is married to a woman with whom he was having an affair while married to his second wife.

At about the same time as clintoon was hitting on Lewinsky and after it became public, Newt was still plumbing the hired help.

40 posted on 03/13/2011 6:56:32 AM PDT by org.whodat
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