Thank you for posting a separate thread!
I truly believe that Newt Gingrich is the best equipped to first takedown Romney and then the Marxist. We're in the battle for our Republic.
Who's going to appoint the SCOTUS vacanies? The Marxist or President Gingrich?
Forget his Samsonite Lamestream Baggage. It's already worn out by too many travels 'round the world. Nothing new to throw at Gingrich.
I think that historian Newt Gingrich, will want President Gingrich to be viewed by history as the second Ronald Reagan.
Furthermore, I think President Gingrich will want comparisons to Reagan while he's in office, beginning from day one!
I agree with parts of what you say, but Newt is NOT small government. You cannot make that of him. He was against HillaryCare, but he was for ObamaCare. He was for GW (global warming), as well as cap & trade. His reforms did not last and things are worse today that before. Yes, I know he was followed by big government presidents and House leaders, but part of the reason he was losing his base in the mid-90s was because he’d already abandoned THEM, had moved on to other things. He does not stay the course. What concerns me about Newt is his ego, and that is big enough to drive a train, his finger-to-the-wind philosophy. Let me explain. When new ideas come out, Newt supports them, then when he sees dislike among conservatives, he’s against the same thing. He realizes that the tea party is trying to make government more accountable, smaller, less corrupt, so now he’s on this bandwagon, too. If, after he is elected, there is a lot of protest about governing too conservatively, Newt will abandon conservatives to accommodate those people, too!
As a school nurse, and my husband being a counselor, we KNOW people and how they act, what to expect of them. They are predictable.
I, too, wish Palin was running. She gets it, and is willing to speak out or do whatever is necessary to save America, come what may. She is party-blind (such as color-blind) in dealing with corruption and wrong-doings. Newt will charge to safer ground to save his sorry ass when the complaints start. That is what he does. We are habitual people. I just ask: how many times do we need to be fooled before we realize that he cannot help himself.
Newt knows by now who it is that has placed him in the lead, and he’s known all along who his enemies would be if he took the lead. He leads, with no machine and with a million in debt, because of us, and plenty of Indies and plenty of moderate Republicans are ready to buck the bridle off against the establishment because we are all awake now.
After Florida, we get Romney or else. Period. No one but Newt has the genetics to even take on two fronts simultaneously. Nobody has the genius of the game that he cut his teeth on long ago, under their belt. If the mission is to defeat first Romney, then Obama, then the purists are going to have to take it elsewhere away from me. They are in the way.An overwhelming force is coming at us, and the single digit trailer crowd are in the way.
I agree with parts of what you say, but Newt is NOT small government. You cannot make that of him. He was against HillaryCare, but he was for ObamaCare. He was for GW (global warming), as well as cap & trade. His reforms did not last and things are worse today that before. Yes, I know he was followed by big government presidents and House leaders, but part of the reason he was losing his base in the mid-90s was because he’d already abandoned THEM, had moved on to other things. He does not stay the course. What concerns me about Newt is his ego, and that is big enough to drive a train, his finger-to-the-wind philosophy. Let me explain. When new ideas come out, Newt supports them, then when he sees dislike among conservatives, he’s against the same thing. He realizes that the tea party is trying to make government more accountable, smaller, less corrupt, so now he’s on this bandwagon, too. If, after he is elected, there is a lot of protest about governing too conservatively, Newt will abandon conservatives to accommodate those people, too!
As a school nurse, and my husband being a counselor, we KNOW people and how they act, what to expect of them. They are predictable.
I, too, wish Palin was running. She gets it, and is willing to speak out or do whatever is necessary to save America, come what may. She is party-blind (such as color-blind) in dealing with corruption and wrong-doings. Newt will charge to safer ground to save his sorry ass when the complaints start. That is what he does. We are habitual people. I just ask: how many times do we need to be fooled before we realize that he cannot help himself.
GO GINGRICH!
Who’s Newt Gingrich? :-)
When the campaign started, Newt was not my first choice, my second choice or any choice for that matter. However, the window is rapidly closing on any new candidates and I'm going to have to leave Linus alone in the pumpkin patch because it looks like the Great Palin is not coming around this year.
So unless something drastic happens between now and the Massachusetts primary, I will be pulling the lever for Newt in the primary and if he gets the nomination, your very well thought out essay above makes me feel a lot better about him becoming president. I just hope he doesn't screw the pooch and that he does us proud once he gets in. It's all we can hope for at this point because it's becoming apparent that we won't have any other palatable option.
I lived in Newt’s district the entire time he was in congress.
Newt’s greatest strength (and weakness) is that he is action oriented. He wants to actually solve problems, not just talk about sovlving them. Sometimes he jumps off the deep end without thinking things through, but the point is he jumps—he’s willing to stick his neck out; take a risk; and take action.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the three most reviled politicians by the press are Reagan, Gingrich, & Palin. All three are action oriented—people that don’t want to just talk about conservative principles & ideas, but actually wanted to implement them.
Am I thrilled about Gingrich? No, he’s not a perfect candidate by any measure—he has spent too long in the halls of power, and flirted too often with big government solutions. But, I also remember Newt of the 1980’s and 1990’s, who was a conservative dream to behold.
Which Newt are we getting now? I’m not sure, but I am sure he will DO something; he will make a legitimate and conserted effort to SOLVE our problems. He will not be satisfied to let our country continue to drift towards disaster.
Thanks Jim, you helped me a whole lot here.
I was a Cain man and was once again wandering, I think you have just convinced me.
Thanks my FRiend!
Newt reinvents himself at will. Who will he end up being?Only Newt knows.
I can say that if Obama is not stopped ths time. It is over.
Jim Thompson couldn’t have said it any better!
I won’t go into the degrees of puzzlement and frustration I have felt with those accusing Newt of being a RINO. He scored between 90 and 100% when in office according to the ACU, and you’ve listed the extensive conservative accomplishments that, at the time. nobody else could have accomplished.
Then I realized the key passage in your text:
“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.”
Jim, we remember this. We lived through it. We see the exact same thing happening now that was happening from the mid 70’s until the Reagan Revolution. But, many of our fellow FReepers weren’t born or weren’t old enough to remember the times or who the players were that got us out of that mess....Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich.
Just like Reagan was much more than a conservative, he was a warrior...a revolutionary, that is the type of leader we need now. And that is Newt. He will bring the fight to them. He will go over their heads directly to the American people and lay waste to the progtards.
Newt is the man to defeat Barrack O’Romney and lead the revolution.
Your post is excellent and it should be helpful to many.
For the good of our country, we simply must come together and get behind Newt.
I have long been convinced that Newt is the one candidate that can beat Romney and go on to stop Obama’s War on America. I am equally convinced that if Obama and the democrats were to remain in power, our country will be lost.
I can’t thank you enough for that very thoughtful and persuasive post.
We ALL love our country and we ALL need to work together to save her.
Go Newt Go......
Anybody, even Ron Paul, is better than Romney.
Until I've seen the actual election day results from Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, I will continue to support Gov. Perry. After that I'll assess the situation.
I have two goals: defeating Romney and Obama. I think Perry can do it, but if it turns out to be Newt instead, that's fine by me.
Jim, thanks for the clarification on Gingrich and I heartedly agree with your assessment.
From the grousing and whinery I read further down in the replies to your posting I am convinced there are many here that aren’t old enough to remember the Speaker’s accomplishments and a time when the USA was proud again after the debacle that was Carter. And there are some that are hanging-out on this website to simply stir up shit in the mistaken hope that their candidate has a chance to take the Republican nomination.
The insanity that passes for “now we’re going to have Obama II if Gingrich (or Romney)is the nominee” is pathetic, non-sensical, and shallow. Look at Obama’s favorability, look at his economic record, observe the silence, the lack of large crowds at his appearances (lest they be union ticketed backers) and watch as Dem after Dem peels away from running another term in the Congress. If you can’t see what is coming for Obama & Co. perhaps you should give more than two seconds to regurgitating lefty boilerplate and do some actual reading and research.
I am convinced that the American people understand what is going on and they will respond accordingly come next November. You want perfect, you’re a loon. You want leadership and a combative style? There is only one candidate at this time that can fill those shoes. Warts and all it is Newt Gingrich.
I can’t stand the thought of voting for a man who, siding with the Democrats, actively opposed George Bush’s 2005 efforts to strengthen regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddic Mac — an effort that, if successful, might have prevented the full force of the housing market and economic crash — all the while he was taking millions of taxpayer dollars from Freddic Mac in consulting fees.
WHAT.
I say Welcome aboard, Mr. Robinson.
The guy who called the Ryan plan to reform Medicare “right wing social engineering” will not get my vote.
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.
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..