[Cincinatus' Wife]

FReepers! Are your memories so short?

Please read this 2 page OpEd.

Conservatives don't have to latch on to Newt Gingrich.

"Marry in haste, repent at leisure."

[Notwithstanding]

There is no perfect flawless candidate to latch on to.

Newt is a proven mover and shaker - and we need a president who will move in and shake up Washington just like he did as a long-term member of congress when he orchestrated the historic GOP majority and Contract With America.

No one else has any sort of track record that indicates they have actually done anything at all similar to ACCOMPLISHING a real SHAKE UP in D.C. with TANGIBLE CONSERVATIVE RESULTS!

[2ndDivisionVet]

All this happened back when Gov. Perry was a Democrat and backing Al Gore, right?

[sickoflibs]

RE :”The congressman still remembers that fateful trip on Air Force One in November 1995, when Clinton made Gingrich sit in the back. Miffed, the speaker later asked the press, “You just wonder, where is their sense of manners? Where is their sense of courtesy?”
“I still think it’s the main reason we lost [the government-shutdown] debate,” King says.
“Before the government shutdown we thought Newt Gingrich was invincible,” writes Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) in his memoir, Breach of Trust. “After the shutdown, however, he was like a whipped dog who still barked, yet cowered, in Clinton’s presence.”

I just recalled this on another thread comments. Newt actually claims Clinton caved to him in that confrontation. His head is the 'biggest thing in the room'.

Putting Newt in front of a camera/mic is like handing your 5 year old a handgun unsupervised. No telling what direction the bullets will fly.

[shield]

Here is an ad running in Iowa on 3 marriage NEWT.

Newt Gingrich, Proverbs 10:9

[apillar]

I don't necessarily disagree with anything in his article. For that reason, Newt sits at #5 on my preferred candidate list, behind Palin, Caine, Bachmann, and Perry. However, if, as it looks now, it does come down to Newt and Romney. I will go with Newt in heartbeat.

[Tribune7]

Rick will be last man standing.

[CincyRichieRich]

Right, let’s remember all his crappy stuff...and hold out for the white knight like the MSM said we should...so let’s dump Perry, Cain, Gingrich...let’s root for Santorum since he has such a chance...but wait, even he had some “moderate views” in PA. Let’s hold out for Palin! Ooh, no, there’s Romney still.

Sarc off.

[hosepipe]

Good article... Wonder if Newt is not the progressives Plan “B”.. instead of their Plan “A” with Romney.. Cain was obviously just a diversion.. to eat up sound bytes..

Its being played quite successfully by the progressives..
The ONLY real conservative Michele Bachmann has been “ECLIPSED”..

These progressives are brilliant the game is being well played..
Although Nov. 2010 is forgotten a bit too easily..
Nov. 2012 will be the main event.. and the Tea Parties have BEEN GROWING... GROWING..

Polls have always been and ARE... mere Propaganda..

[GeronL]

Yes, apparently people have short memories.

You should see some of them swoon when Newt calls for a new government jobs program for inner city kids.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2815130/posts?page=124

I no longer have a candidate to support. I don’t like any of them really. I am hoping for a contested convention at this point.

[Gaffer]

While I agree with you on the dangers of the unexplored Newt, there is still no way in cowboy hell that I am going to vote for a Rick Perry.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

yeah many married Perry too quickly and look what happened?

GO NEWT

[Lib-Lickers 2]

who has done more for the Conservative movement in this country than anyone else...Perry, Romney or Gingrich?

[11th Commandment]

I enjoyed the editorial, thanks for the post. The article does bring to light positives about Newt even from his critics.

As you know, I am (maybe was) a Cain supporter. I gave him $100, the only candidate to get money from me. I can support Newt because I know his Strengths and I know his weaknesses. With Cain, he had only been on the scene a short while so first I got to know his strengths, then his weakness- that really deflated the ballon. With Newt, it is all you see is all you get.

[mnehring]

Whether when all this shakes out, we have Newt, Perry, Cain, etc, we would be well advised to heed Winston Churchill's words:

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.


In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill.

[Servant of the Cross]

Are there no positive articles about Governor Perry for you to post?

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down.

[Confab]

Just wondering, but how much did any of those mentioned in the article do for conservatism after Newt left? Did the Republican party become more or less conservative in congress? Seems to me they went way “country club” after he left.

[chris37]

I’m starting to think conservatives, generally speaking, have no memory or intelligence.

In fact, I’m just going to say that’s what I think.

[dfwgator]

Newt is also a quitter, quit his House set in 1998....so he lost his job as Speaker, he still let down his constituents.

[corvus]

“Focused on fulfilling the Contract with America, they passed a ‘FLURRY OF LEGISLATION’, which kept them occupied — and their divisions concealed — for the first two years.”

Newt is great at talking the talk. In wagging his tongue over the years he has been all over the spectrum, keeping himself in it. This may win elections, and ridding the executive branch of the ‘anti-executive’ (follower)this election cycle is paramount, but this child has little confidence that Gingrich can help himself resist the temptations of power to be something to everyone. Newt is no conservative, and it is a disservice to suggest Newt is helping, or representing ‘Tea Party’ thought.

[Josh Painter]

An OpEd from the Mittwits at NRO. Hmmmm....