Posted on 12/09/2011 1:31:59 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Assumptions again.
Just sayin’.
But I do hope you’re right.
I completely agree. Gingrich is the best candidate that we have to defeat the Plastic Headed Mittens in the primaries and Dumplin’ Ears in the general.
My Better Half and I were discussing tonight how Reagan, H.W. and Newt finished the job of imploding the Soviet Union.
“Women won’t vote for Newt when they learn about his betrayal of his wives and taking up with mistresses.”
Stop putting us all in your little stereotypical box as if we can’t see the issues we’re facing as a country and aren’t able to make rational political decisions.
Thanks in advance.
Thank you!
I've met two men in my life whom I'd rank in the status of the Founders.
Newt Gingrich and Peter Schiff.
“but women voted for Clinton, as they always do for the “swoon” candidate, because of the orgasm factor.”
I’m getting a tich tired of the characterizations of women being unthinking idiots.
The guy who called the Ryan plan to reform Medicare “right wing social engineering” will not get my vote.
Good grief.
I said from the beginning that there was going to be huge impact on Dem voter intensity if Newt gets the nomination.
Many of them were angry at Obama and might have stayed home.
But nominating Newt will have the same effect on them as the effect on GOP voters if the Dems nominated Nancy Pelosi: crawl over broken glass to vote against the guy.
Can it be helped at this point?
Nope.
But it’s a fact.
Dem voter intensity WILL play a significant role in the outcome. On the other side of the aisle, there may be a building voter intensity in the other direction among values voters who feel the party’s starting to sound too much like Clinton voters — not just supporting Newt, but going further by declaring loudly and often “I don’t care what he does!”
If Newt is the nominee, will you sit it out and let the Marxist have 4 more years to complete the destruction of our Country?
Newt’s a brainiac, and he’s well into his sixties. It’s to be expected that his full record will contain something for everyone to lament.
I’d urge everyone to view this montage of Gingrich comments from the Thanksgiving Family Forum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeRhTjvAkuQ
The comment that most impressed me there was this:
“I had to recognize how limited I was and how much I had to depend on [God]...if you said to me we were electing somebody who believed that they by themselves were strong enough to be president I would tell you that person terrifies me because they completely misunderstand how weak and how limited any human being is.”
Gingrich deserves a fair hearing and I say that as one who was initially reluctant to give him one. After having done so, I think we have an excellent candidate. He has the courage to fight, the skill to fight, and he knows the nature and weaknesses of the enemy like no other candidate in this race. He knows himself at last. He knows the need of God in our lives.
Also, I think that as a 70-year-old President, Newt will be a far different person than he was as a 50-year-old congressman. They’re two utterly different political roles and he now has an extra twenty years of wisdom. Yet politically he was conservative then, and still is. Maybe he has saved his best for last!
He’ll be, at the very least, a capable commander-in-chief. Wouldn’t surprise me if he became one of the greatest.
RE: “I’m getting a tich tired of the characterizations of women being unthinking idiots.”
By significant majority women have voted for Bill Clinton twice, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barrack Obama. At the same time majorities of men voted for George H. Bush and Bob Dole over Clinton, George W. Bush over Al Gore and John Kerry, and John McCain over Barrack Obama.
When women stop voting like unthinking idiots perhaps they won’t be characterized as unthinking idiots.
Almost every elected official in Washington either despises Newt or will not support him. Many we can dismiss because they are people, let's say, not in favor on the FR. However, there are some good people that feel this way. However, I actually agree with Sen Lindsey Graham today.. he said something like Newt could be a great president if he can stay disciplined.
Newt has asked us not to be for him, but with him. This is true, we need to help him fight the good fight but be ready to set him on the strait path when he strays..
Just wait till he moves to the middle after winning the nomination.
Using that simple-minded criteria, you might even come up with Hillary.
Sean Hannity: What you said about Paul Ryan and criticized his Medicare plan and “right-wing social engineering?”
Newt Gingrich: Well look it was a technical mistake but what I said was true. I was asked a question, “Should Republicans impose a plan that is deeply unpopular. And, I said something that Hayek wrote about in The Road to Serfdom, rightwing social engineering is as dangerous as leftwing social engineering. I made a lot of my conservative friends mad at me. But, in fact, Hayek wrote this and he’s right. We have an obligation to explain to the country that any major reform that affects their lives until they decide they’re going to accept it… I was trying to say something very profound but I frankly backed off because it was too much noise to communicate.
I’ll vote for Newt if he’s the nominee.
But I won’t be among the surprised if Bad Newt shows up in the White House and he completely tells conservatives to take it on the chin at the most inopportune moment.
The answer to that, as with any president, is to do our level best to keep the pressure on him.
One of the things I think takes away from that ability of conservatives to hold him accountable is how “easy” it’s been for Newt to gloss over all his foibles and flipflops (I’m addressing mostly his political acts here). I wish a few more conservatives had been willing to “newt” him when he blithely lets the cow patties fall out of his mouth.
For example, on the Freddie Mac thing. He should have been whupped upside the head for that: a, for doing it, and b, thinking we were stupid enough to buy his “I was just a historian” Barbara Streisand.
Does that mean not support him? No. But don’t let him get away with bullcrap like that now. It will be even worse in the White House.
Sometimes I think Gringrich must be looking at conservatives, and events such as his little interview with Sean Hannity the other day, and saying to himself, “God, these people are easy.”
“Newt is the man to defeat Barrack O’Romney and lead the revolution.”
Hear hear.....
I believe that Newt is just as serious about repudiating and repealing everything Obama as he was about defeating the entrenched Democrat majority and their 40 year hold on power when he was in congress. And his conservative accomplishments after achieving that goal were in no way moving to the middle.
Well, the problem with that thinking is that Newt has been a Reagan conservative all along. It’s not a new thing to him. And he’s not pretending.
With Cain out, my state goes to Romney anyway so I’m going to vote my conscience and vote for Bachmann.
Good point! He could have been running for higher office persistently -- like Mitt Romney. Ambition is not one of Newt's numerous shortcomings.
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