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Gingrich is Inspiring -- and Distubing
Wall Street Journal ^ | December 10, 2011 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 12/09/2011 3:59:33 AM PST by Carolyn826

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If you're a gambler, Gringrich may be your guy.
1 posted on 12/09/2011 3:59:38 AM PST by Carolyn826
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To: Carolyn826

Wall street supported Obama big time in 08 and will in 2012 nuff sed


2 posted on 12/09/2011 4:04:58 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Carolyn826

There is nothing inspiring about Gingrich.

He is a corrupt political hack who will tell gullible voters anything they want to hear.

Newt Gingrich is a totally disturbing, sinister character.

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3 posted on 12/09/2011 4:09:10 AM PST by bobk333
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To: Carolyn826

I think what is disturbing to many is he is making more sense than they are use to


4 posted on 12/09/2011 4:13:16 AM PST by SF_Redux (Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
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To: Carolyn826
I am one of the lucky ones who has a primary (SC) early enough that I get to vote for a conservative—I'm leaning towards Santorum.
The way things look right now,the later primary voters won't get that chance because the RINO establishment and Leftist powers may—gawd I hope not— get their way and it will be down to Newt and Mitt.
Then second only to anybody but Obama has to be anybody but Mitt.
5 posted on 12/09/2011 4:14:04 AM PST by Happy Rain ("The Founders obviously anticipated Obama when they crafted the 2nd Amendment.")
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To: Carolyn826

It’s hard to take Noonan seriously when 3 years ago she was gushing about what a genius Obama was.


6 posted on 12/09/2011 4:14:07 AM PST by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: Carolyn826

I was very impressed with Newt, but that was back in the old days of the “Gingrich Revolution”.
I now see him as just another huckster, but who is not?

America is in deep doo-doo.
You have a Marxist president, that by all rights should not be electable as dog catcher, but has a real possibility of winning another term, thanks to brain-dead American fools, dumbed down by A Marxist educational system and Media.

Do not bother any replies touting “YOUR” guy that would be great.
I do not see anyone that can, or would save America from the Communist.


7 posted on 12/09/2011 4:15:13 AM PST by AlexW
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To: SF_Redux

How well do you know him?

I find this comment in her op-ed to be very telling, and factual, based on the many reports that are coming out ...

“What is striking is the extraordinary divide in opinion between those who know Gingrich and those who don’t. Those who do are mostly not for him, and they were burning up the phone lines this week in Washington.”


8 posted on 12/09/2011 4:17:39 AM PST by Carolyn826
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To: bobk333

No over reaction there......


9 posted on 12/09/2011 4:17:44 AM PST by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: Carolyn826

When everyone in the beltway is against a guy, he can’t be all that bad.


10 posted on 12/09/2011 4:18:51 AM PST by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: Carolyn826; Oynx; TheOldLady; trisham; RedMDer; DJ MacWoW; JoeProBono; Dengar01; xzins; ...

Just posted to another thread where a FReeper asked me about “progressive” Newt:

Well, I’ll tell you, after Palin declined to run I really didn’t have a dog in this race. I liked Bachmann and Cain a lot, even Perry, but not as much as I liked Palin. Bachmann and Cain are both conservative enough, but neither have really been tested in higher office, nor do they have much experience in world affairs.

I also had high hopes for Perry because it looks like he’s done a great job in Texas, but his positions on the border issues turned off a lot of people. And his “heartless” statement didn’t win him much opportunity to turn that around.

I guess Santorum is conservative enough and possibly Huntsman, but neither engender much enthusiasm or excitement. Seems they’re just going through the motions. Don’t know if they have the real world experience to be CINC anyway.

Bachmann seems to be trying really hard but don’t know if she’s really qualified for the top spot either. Even so, had Bachmann really lit a fuse on the trail, I probably would have stood by and supported her, but she flopped and is unlikely to recover.

I thought early on that if Perry got into the race (without Palin) that he’d suck all the air out of it and would dominate. But he flopped. And then Cain took off like a rocket and he flopped.

Now Cain didn’t have elective experience, but he looked like a great conservative so we were all hoping and pulling for him. Well, that didn’t turn out well.

Mind you, that abortionist, lib progressive bastard Mitt Romney is just sitting there smiling through all this and he, Rove and the GOP elite think they’ve got it in the bag. Just gotta hang in there, not say anything rash, not rock the boat, no mistakes, just play defense as one by one the upstart tea party conservative candidates burn themselves out.

In my mind, we must defeat Romney AND Obama. I don’t think George Washington is going to be smiling down on us if we had this great tea party opportunity to knock off the progressives and we let Rove, Romney and the corrupt good old boys club bushwhack us. We’re supposed to be the bushwhackers.

So like a whole lot of conservative Republicans and tea party folks, we’re bouncing candidate to candidate looking for the one to knock off Romney so we can take the tea party battle directly to Obama. Romney is no tea party person. He and Rove, et al, sneer at us. No way in hell are they going to do anything we’re interested in doing even if they do get elected. It’ll be government as usual. Big. They hate us worse than they hate the democrats because we’re a direct threat to their power base.

So in comes Gingrich. Didn’t much care for him at first, mainly because of his well known baggage, and his perceived RINO plumage, but he began making a lot of sense and scoring a lot of points in the debates. Turns out his depth of knowledge and experience in government affairs both domestic and foreign and his experience with Ronald Reagan, the Reagan Revolution and the Republican Revolution of the 90’s are quite extensive and quite impressive if you look.

He’s been through the mill and that’s what a lot of our younger less experienced, less traveled candidates are missing. In the debates he comes off as a wiser, more experienced, more knowledgeable, level-headed senior statesman. And it appeared to me that the other candidates acknowledged and respected that.

So I start thinking back about his history as a congressman and speaker, and lo and behold, it appears to me he’s not such a RINO after all. He was a genuine Reagan protege. And he learned well from the master communicator. He eventually set a goal for himself to build a Republican majority and to take the speakership, and he determinately accomplished that goal.

And he had some great conservative accomplishments as congressman and speaker. He passed the contract with America. He cut taxes. Cut the deficit. Reformed welfare. Blocked HillaryCare. Became a thorn in President Clinton’s side, blocked much of his liberal agenda and ultimately allowed impeachment to proceed. Then of course, he resigned due to his own infidelity scandal. But, unlike Clinton, he didn’t deny it, didn’t lie about it, and he did the right thing by resigning.

Bottom line though, through his years with the Reagan Revolution and the Republican majority much conservative good was accomplished. The Wall came down, the Soviet Union collapsed and our great Reagan economy flourished for two decades.

Now, if a progressive RINO had been in charge of the congress during this period, who knows what would have happened. I’m sure the history would have been a lot different. Remember, before Gingrich and his Republican Majority, we conservatives had wandered in the wilderness for 40 years!! And our country was on life support after Jimmy Carter nearly killed it. And the democrats were saying at the time that there was nothing we could do about it. We were going to be stuck with the cold war. Stuck with the Soviet Union, stuck with Iran. Stuck with high oil prices, gas lines and rationing. Stuck with recession, high interest rates, high inflation and high unemployment from that point forward. They could not be fixed. Jimmy Carter and the democrats had given up on America and surrendered the USA to our fate as a failed nation.

In walk Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich and reestablish that great shining city on the hill! Thank God! It’s not the end of the world after all. Iran returns the hostages immediately. Reagan takes the Soviet Union head on! Reagan takes the democrats head on and doesn’t take no for an answer. Takes his ideas to the people. It was a struggle but eventually the economy began turning. Reagan’s central theme domestically was that the government was too big, too intrusive, taxes too high, too much spending, too many regulations, too many restrictions on business and industry and they all must be cut. And he took that battle over the heads of the democrat congress to the tax payers and they loved it. Sound familiar?

And in 1994, Newt Gingrich leads the charge against the democrats who had been in power for 40 years and the Republicans take the majority and Gingrich becomes Speaker. He dreams up the contract with America which was designed as an extension of the Reagan Revolution and and included items attempting to balance the budget, reform welfare, tort reform, term limits, line item veto, etc. Some of it was successfully implemented, some not. But under Gingrich they did cut the deficit and balance the budget four years running. Sound desirable? Sound progressive?

How many times in our history have you seen a liberal progressive, cut taxes, cut regulations, cut spending, cut welfare, balance the budget, block big government programs like HillaryCare, impeach a sitting president, etc?

Never! In other words, all this to say Newt is NO RINO!! He’s a pro-life, pro-small government, pro-national security, Reagan conservative!! In short, we’re desperate, and he’s exactly what we’re looking for, and he’s running head and shoulders over the rest of the field, so what the hell are we squabbling about?

Yes, Romney and Rove hate him, the Republican establishment elite ruling class hates him, the liberals hate him, the democrats hate him and they hate him for the same reasons the taxpayers will support him, the lovers of liberty will support him, the defenders of life will support him, the defenders of national security will support him, the lovers of the Reagan Revolution will support him, and we the tea party should support him!! He’s a tax cutting, budget balancing, strong defense, small government, pro-life Reagan CONSERVATIVE!!

I’ll take a chance with Newt. Over Romney? You betcha!!


11 posted on 12/09/2011 4:20:24 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: Carolyn826

The enemy is Obama and his marxist minions, not Newt.


12 posted on 12/09/2011 4:21:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: bobk333

Who else do we have?Romney can’t beat Obama..Short of a miracle candidate between now and next Nov...


13 posted on 12/09/2011 4:21:42 AM PST by Disgusted in Texas
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To: Jim Robinson

Hoo-Ahh! Nicely stated Jim.


14 posted on 12/09/2011 4:24:07 AM PST by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: SF_Redux

“I think what is disturbing to many is he is making more sense than they are use to.”

Maybe it’s the walking before the running that Gingrich represents but he’d have to be elected first.


15 posted on 12/09/2011 4:25:17 AM PST by equaviator ( "There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Jim Robinson

Mitt Romney, abortionist? (do people really take you seriously?)

Newt converted to Roman Catholicism after he took up with Callista, but until 4 days ago, he wouldn’t say that life begins at conception. Why now? Oh yay, he’s still reinventing himself.


16 posted on 12/09/2011 4:26:02 AM PST by Carolyn826
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To: Jim Robinson

Excellent piece Jim that is very well thought out. I came to support Newt after thinking through a similar process. You should post it as a thread topic.


17 posted on 12/09/2011 4:26:29 AM PST by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Carolyn826

I love these attacks on Conservative candidates. They are written AS IF we are NOT urgently compelled to positively vote out the most anti-American, incompetent, divisive and socially ruinous man who EVER sat in the WH.

Right now America is at a cross roads…. Liberalism is NOT the answer (if it ever was).

Americans should have no thought beyond the immediate preservation of their very sovereignty, security and hope of any prosperity … now or ever!!!

Liberals never valued any of these things.


18 posted on 12/09/2011 4:26:31 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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Noot was my congressman when I lived in Clayton County Georgia, many moons ago. At first I really liked him. The more I found out about him the less I liked him.

No way I can support him for our next president. I really wish I could.

Yes if he gets the nod and ZERO is in I will hold ME nose once again and vote for Noot.

19 posted on 12/09/2011 4:27:13 AM PST by DeaconRed (I know how to get Grinch Ginrich to drop in the poles. He will if I endorse him. All my others did)
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To: Carolyn826

BS. Go look at Newts voting record. Then go look at Romneys. The differences could NOT be more clear!


20 posted on 12/09/2011 4:27:22 AM PST by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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