I don’t want to like Newt. But when I watch him I see someone who is very bright and in command of facts, history and the media. He does not get off track and handles them very well. I have a new theory about Newt. Maybe he was just goofing around before, but now he truly sees that the country is on the line. Given his bent for seeing things in clear historical perspective, he may actually be stepping up. I just don’t want to like him, but I see what I see and he seems like he could beat Obama, at least as judged by the performance in this debate.
I’m tired of hearing “Newt is damaged goods”, “Newt has too much baggage”, “Newt is unelectable”, “Newt is irrelevant”, blah, blah, blah. BS. Obama’s coke use, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, and total inexperience SHOULD have made Obama unelectable, yet he won by a wide margin. Mitt’s “Romneycare” is worse baggage than any of Newt’s past issues.
A big part of winning the next election will be winning the public debate of ideas. If you could pick ONE candidate to debate Obama in (9) ninety-minute debates with NO moderator (...which is what Newt will force Obama to do...), who would it be? I bet 9 out of every 10 people here would want Newt Gingrich to be that guy. It means something to dominate debates in the way Newt does.
Newt vs Obama in a debate would be more brutal that Dick Cheney vs. John Edwards. Much more brutal. I really want to see that. I don’t care what the media says about Newt’s “baggage”. He has my full support.
Newt believes in Man-Made Global Warming and supports taxation and other schemes to mitigate it. That tosses him right out.