Posted on 12/09/2011 1:31:59 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Don’t forget the 5 seat loss in the 98 election—primarily caused by voter disaffection over the Clinton impeachment (another major Gingrich accomplishment). I don’t care about the repercussions, it was the right thing to do and it was unfortunate that his fellow Republicans lacked the intestinal fortitude to stand with him.
Yup. Not much difference between Romney’s record and Obama’s. Abortion, gay rights, gun-control, liberal judges, gays in the military, gays in the scouts, gay preferences throughout, global warming, big government mandated health care complete with tax payer funded abortion, etc.
Completely agree with you, Jim.
Saw Josh P’s tweet re your defense of Newt. I haven’t been back here since mid Oct because it seemed like a lot had gone off the deep end after Sarah declined. FreeRepublic had turned into one big fight site! Didn’t notice a lot of productive discussion.
I’ll start checking back in with ya.
I refuse to watch BOR, but my darling husband was watching. I keep telling him....”NO BOR.” but I wanted to eat dinner with him on Catholic Fish Friday!
I don’t do the Fish Friday anymore like we did as kids but, I love fish and it’s good for our health. So, I’ll have a crab cake. :)
That is the meat and potatoes of it. Have a very Merry Christmas Jim.
Well, I’m not going to sit her and pine for Palin, Bachmann or Perry when we have an experienced and knowledgeable veteran conservative warhorse like Gingrich running solidly over Romney and the rest of the field. If Palin joins the race or Bachmann surges, it could be a different picture. Meanwhile, I’m here to ensure we first defeat Romney, then take the battle directly to Obama.
Gingrich is one bulldog who can do that. Give me another and I’ll be happy. The more conservative bulldogs we have in the race, the better our chances. Romney’s the one who should be down in the single digits and all of our conservative bulldogs competing for the lead. Bring them on.
Thank you very much. And Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Welcome back! Nice to hear they’re tweeting about us.
Leave the bones in the fish next time. ;)
You are very wise.
Yes. He also said he could see Allen West as his VP. I'm sure he can imagine all kinds of people for a VP. I mean, the guy writes alternate history novels for fun.
I’m inclined to agree with Jim. The lamestream media narrative has always been “well, Obama’s policies have failed, but he’s such a brilliant, brilliant man that you need to have faith in him.” I think against Newt, they won’t be able to hold together that narrative, and by the debates, they’ll have to abandon it altogether or spin like a nuclear-powered loom.
I think the LSM hammered into the brains of most independents that the concept that affairs should have no bearing on Presidential figures during the Lewinsky scandal (and even misled many people that he was being impeached because of the affair, not perjury and subordination to commit perjury), so they’ll have a difficult time reversing that position now to try to save Obama with Newt’s “baggage.” It will just get people thinking about Clinton, and Newt’s record of accomplishment during that same time period.
I think Newt would win, and I think he’d make a pretty good President. No Reagan, but better than the Bushes. Certainly infinitely better than Obozo.
Of course “their view” is that people like Bush I was a better bet than Reagan, Dole was more electable, McCain was electable and now Romney is “more electable” and will win more seats and we know how that worked out.
Thank you Jim, I really missed the camaraderie.
Here are the tweets:
from Josh Painter
More Robinson: “Newt is NO RINO! He’s a pro-life, pro-small government, pro-national security, Reagan conservative!” bit.ly/svf5m1
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from Josh Painter
Freeper-in-chief Jim Robinson: Newt “was a genuine Reagan protege. And he learned well from the master communicator.” bit.ly/svf5m1
Gingrich got a republican congressional majority for the first time in 40 years and brought up and passed large portions of the contract with America and passed welfare reform and tax cuts. Bachmann hasn’t persuaded anyone to do anything positive.
How will she persuade the country to accept conservative ideas and concepts. This is an ability that Reagan had in spades and people like Palin and Gingrich have, the ability to communicate a POSITIVE conservative vision, it is something that well intentioned people like Perry, Bachmann and Santorum are incapable of.
Don’t worry. Gingrich won’t be president anyway. Frankly you don’t sound like you have much use for conservatives anyway.
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.
Newt has his critics, to be sure. They will happily list Newt's errors, and dwell on his many shortcomings. But Newt is a fighter and doer, who dares greatly, with a passionate love of America. As long as he is, he's conservative enough for me.
Romney, in contrast, is the embodiment of the cold and timid soul.
You’ve got that right!
Also, a great leader who accomplishes big things is bound to make enemies and mistakes along the way. That is why Newt says he wants to set up a system for dialog between us and him (if POTUS) so we can let him know if the ideas are good or not, working or not, and make suggestions. I think his critics from the House have mostly complained about how hard he made them work. Not a bad thing in my book.
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