Posted on 11/28/2011 12:32:23 PM PST by Fred
Newt Gingrich is now suddenly the candidate to beat Mitt Romney. And conservatives are said to be "salivating" at the chance of watching him debate President Obama.
But the truth is that a Newt Gingrich nomination would be a disaster for the Republican party: He cannot win.
And it would be a major setback to conservative causes, because Newt Gingrich tarnishes the right's ideals with his obvious corruption.
Let's take those two one at a time.
He cannot win:
The New Hampshire Union Leader credits Newt Gingrich with engineering the 1994 Republican Revolution when Republicans took their first majority in Congress in 50 years and Newt ascended to the role of Speaker.
But Gingrich deserves more credit for ship-wrecking that Revolution. Within just two years, Newt Gingrich shut-down the government and his approval rating dropped to just 25 percent. It never recovered.
By 1997, Gingrich was facing dozens of ethics charges. Although many of them were dismissed, he was fined an unprecedented $300,000 by the House Ethics Committee (still run by Republicans at the time), and admitted to giving "inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the committee." Newt did this precisely during a time he was trying to impeach the president for perjury.
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Obama wets himself at the thought of having to debate Gingrich.
lol.
Obama not the Dem nominee?
Has anyone else even filed to run?
“By 1997, Gingrich was facing dozens of ethics charges. Although many of them were dismissed, he was fined an unprecedented $300,000 by the House Ethics Committee (still run by Republicans at the time), and admitted to giving “inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the committee.” Newt did this precisely during a time he was trying to impeach the president for perjury.”
I’ve pretty much given up trying to bring rationality to the discussion of who our 2012 nominee should be.
We have dumb, dumber, and dumbest being supported by the media. Our folks haven’t demonstrated the ability to hold Conservative tenets front and center. We’re poised to once again loft a Bush Sr, Dole, Bush, or McCain type figure to make sure a real conservative doesn’t get the nod in 2012.
Our side will never learn. The Left chooses our candidates, and we rubber stamp them. And then just for chuckles, some of our group tosses out glowing comments about someone who isn’t running, as if they may just save the day.
Lord have mercy...
Are you really this dense?
I suppose when you ran this by both brain cells this made sense to you, right?
The only problem with that is this... http://www.usdebtclock.org/2015-current-rates.html nearly 24 Trillion in debt in 2015 at current rates closer to 30 trillion by the time the next President will get sworn in.
Current revenue will not even be enough to pay the interest payments on this debt. The entitlement programs will effectively crash the dollar and it will end as the world reserve currency, once that happens the standard of living in this country will plummet, austerity will ensue, riots, chaos and complete collapse.
Unfortunately, the country will probably be able to hold it together until just about 2016 when the Republican takes charge. This will be carefully orchestrated by the Democrats so that the entire collapse can be effectively blamed on the Republican by the Liberals.
Bribery of the electorate over the last 70 years has had consequences and those chickens are quickly coming home to roost.
As for me I am a Cain supporter, the media has done a great job of destroying his character but the one thing that Cain had that no one else did, was a desire to radically change the structure of our debt. The 999 plan would have removed the power and control of money away from the politicians and put it back in the hands of the People that cannot be denied and yet not one of our nominees are even really talking about any radical changes to fix the debt, not one, who wants to be the one to take all the goodies away from the OWS crowd?
If we don't do something dramatic and radical not this debt committee crap that just picks around the edges but seriously radical change. Than the direction that we are headed and the trajectory of our debt means that we are toast. It doesn't take an MBA to figure this stuff out just digest the data it's all right at your fingertips..... www.usdebtclock.org
But even he campaigns as a "Christian"... who can forget his pastor, Rev. Jermimah Wright? The fact a candidate touts their "Christian" faith means little in the U.S.A.
He loves Ricardo too. I'll give that to Clinton, he's more astute that alot of freepers and realizes what these guys were really like in office and what happens when they face liberals. Slick Willie really relishes the thought of a Perrista/Gingriez ticket:
Newt’s comments in illegal aliens places him to the left of the other candidates. He is smart and knows full well the damage his policy would do could not, unlike Obamacare, be undone.
Didn’t the Republican Party refuse to support Harris? I think so because she wasn’t a Republican rino insider.
—Obama not the Dem nominee?—
It’s because I don’t expect him to finish his first term. He may be the Dem nominee for a time, but not in the usual sense of the word.
Knowing that some people will utterly refuse to support Romney no matter how much bleating comes from the GOP Old Boys’ Club then why risk having Romney as the nominee unless your intention is to see Obama re-elected?
Because, like I said, I am not voting for Romney.
Let me rephrase that: If confronted with the choice of casting a vote for Romney or of hacking off my right hand with a meat cleaver I’d ask you to sharpen the cleaver for me.
like where??? you know the history of third parties in this country....won't work, at least not at this late stage in the election cycle. McCain would have been far superior to Obama as president, not perfect of course, but when faced with the option of another four years of socialism destroying this country vs a less than perfect Romney, the choice is clear, at least to me it is.
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