Woo hoo!! We can use some of this extreme right-wing craziness in a candidate!! Give them something to whine about.
As usual, Steyn nails it. The amount of FReepers that give Newt a full pass for his past RINOism and endless Gov’t solutions to everything doesn’t make any sense.
Priceless. And, no, he hasn’t changed, except that he moved even further to the left on things like Dede Scozzafava and global warming, or his recent comments about life beginning after successful implantation, which he then reversed after he was called out.
Newt is a very, very good talker, but he has never shown much interest in walking the walk.
Mark Steyn points out what was obvious at the time. Newt was one of the worst aisle-crossers ever during his last year under Bill Clinton. At the time, I suspected maybe clinton had found something in his FBI files. Whatever it was, Clinton would say “Jump,” and Newt would answer, “How high?”
Paper covers rock, rock breaks scissors, scissors cuts paper, Newt beats Romney.
So who does Stein support?
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
So it’s unanimous. The geniuses at NRO are all parroting the anti-Newt party line. Even Steyn. I was half-hoping for something different from Steyn, but fully expecting this.
I don’t care.
And so far, neither do the voters.
If this election shows one thing it will show that the people don’t need geniuses, from Harvard, from NRO, from anywhere, to do their thinking for them.
As for "a cross between Teddy Roosevelt and Alvin Toffler," compared to Obama, I'd say that's a damn easy decision.
Man up, Mark. Get off the Canadian joyjuice.
Example:
At the end of the day the Tea Party will embrace Newt Gingrich. To assume that the Tea Party was about a checklist of conservative principles is to misunderstand the energizing impulse that created and sustains the tea party. The tea party is aroused because they feel, quite reasonably, that their country is slipping away and the danger is not remote but imminent and catastrophic.They did not gather in their millions across the village green of America because the Congress did not put the decimal point in the right place, the Tea Party exists out of the conviction that they must save the Republic.
So they seek policies toward that end and those policies inevitably are conservative policies because conservatism is patriotic and prudent. But they are not conservatives who seek conservative policies, they are patriots who seek national salvation.
When they judge a presidential candidate they will not measure him against a conservative matrix, they are going to ask themselves whether he can save the country. In other words, above all they want a man of vision, a man who can articulate that vision, a man who can carry the country.
Gov. Perry simply disqualified himself from that description. Newt Gingrich among all the candidates alone possesses the potential to be great. He could also be a great disappointment. But we must take the chance because a business as usual president simply is not the man for the times. There is a sense that this is a time of destiny for Gingrich.
To offer the following observation is knowingly to court the cheap and easy rebuke but it nevertheless must be said: the American people are awakening to the danger which is buffeting them from abroad and from within. They fear for their country and for their children. They are turning to a man whom they would not otherwise consider normal times. The historical parallel is Winston Churchill in 1939-1940.
This is not to say that Gingrich is in the same class with Churchill but the resemblance is remarkable. Both are possessed of the highest intellect, both are successful authors, both have vast parliamentary experience, both are seemingly controversial, both are accused of being fountains of bad as well as great ideas, both are masters of oratory, both have been cast into the wilderness and come back, both have been accused of ideological impurity, Churchill having crossed the aisle twice, both have farsighted vision.
England would never have turned to Winston Churchill if it were not the hour of her greatest peril. Newt Gingrich is not Winston Churchill but he might just be Margaret Thatcher. The rest of the field cannot even compete in the same league. If we entrust Gingrich with the office and he missteps at least we will have taken our best shot. It is not ideological purity that we need to save the country but leadership, even charisma. We have no choice but to take the risk of nominating Gingrich just as England had no choice but to turn to the one man that could save her.
This is why The Tea Party is able to embrace Gingrich and this is why the base of the Republican Party is even now embracing Gingrich, and this is why he will prevail in the election. It is not just a matter of eliminating the other candidates, that is not why England turned to Churchill, there were, after all, other men of substance but there was no one else who held the promise that Churchill held to save the world-and no one carried such a risk as Churchill.
They had to assume the risk to get Churchill.
Myth and Newt are a gift...
They are making the RINOS come out from under their rocks..
And the truely confused republicans into rolling their eyes.. and drooling..
I see it a clarifying of the republican party..
Also true.. I am not very smart....... I am a republican..
Michele Bachmann is the ONLY conservative..
AND.. most republicans don’t WANT THAT...
Illegal aliens are either ILLEGAL or they aren’t..
Easy fix... MAKE THEM LEGAL... (amnesty)
I just heard on Fox - the round table - that Newt Gingrich is for Obama’s Health Care Program — the Government Health Care Program.
I have not heard this before. Is this true??!!
First, republicans will call all consevatives names if they say they don't support Newt.
Then, the same republicans who have no problem insulting conservates, will remain mute when it comes to real life and their dem friends/relatives.
Then, Newt will lose. Not because conservatives didn't vote for him, but because he has too many issues that will be used against him. How does one say support my guy Newt after you have disagreed with them on global warming. Or how about vote for my guy Newt, we need to end the corruption in DC, so they bring up the Frannie/Freddie money he received.
Republicans ALWAYS miss the ground game. Always. They really don't understand how important it is to get people out there and get up the chatter that will counter the lies of the MSM.
Don't you guys remember in the 2008 election how quite political talk was? I sure do. Nobody bantered about the candidates.
The republicans I know IRL will talk politics with you, but if there is a known Dem, they will not even speak up with something insulting is said. conservatives though, they will speak out. without them doing this, we will lose. We always do. I believe we really need somebody with strong creds to take on the corruption that is Washington. I really think that would be a game changer, and could also do damage to the MSM that overlooked all the corruption. With a straight face, I don't know if that can be done with Newt.
Oh, and after the election and Obama wins again, guess who the republicans will blame.............?
I'm done with the republican game playing.