I do understand your misgivings. I have them, too. One thing -- he has more than facts at his fingertips. He has a record, and while it's loaded with crap (don't get me started on the global warming thing! It betrays his vaunted "intelligence"), it's also loaded with something none of the other candidates can even touch: a record of grasping and carrying through Reagan's concepts, and fighting to see them done.
He’s a very emotionally needy guy. That’s why he cheats. That’s why he falls for “popular” things (global warming with nance) and stupid things ...
Maybe that's why he cheats. Nobody except that immediate circle knows, nor is it any of our business, the full-spectrum circumstances of his family life. Just because someone has an odd and "not normal" personal life doesn't mean they're not extremely valuable and worthy. "There's no normal life, there's just life." I find it to be true.
On the other hand, I agree that a kind of neediness is why he falls for fads like Global Warming (don't you just want to scream at all these perfectly good, "normal," nice Americans dutifully carting reusable grocery bags to the store, in the ridiculously vain notion that it's "necessary" and "responsible" !!!). I've fallen for fads myself, but I hope a lot less now than I used to.
This intense insecurity, coming out of that estrogen-dominant chubby belly, looks like confidence but it isn’t.
That's practically poetic, it's so well-said! Very observatnly put. But honest, I think Newt's insecurity is at most, medium, maybe a little above average.
I don’t know why most of you would trust him with our presidency. He’s not truly conservative or constitutional.
It ain't looking like we're going to get "truly conservative" this time around, but I'm counting blessings: Santorum, Gingrich, even Perry, are a hell of a lot better than the ones we ultimately ended up with last time. I mean, get real: Huckabee??? Was the GOP on crack??? McCain?
I like that Gingrich has at times confessed, admitted, that he's screwed up. That rings true, and there was a lot to be said for the Contract for America. So what if the guy behind it was a bit of a Mama's boy. It takes all kinds.
Gingrich is human. Very human.
Which is a lot more than you can say for Romney!
Great post, finny. I would also vote for Gingrich over Romney. No question. But he is unpredictable and I note that he shares that certain emotional instability of Clinton and Obama. I don’t know why: the two of them were fatherless and neglected or abused, and sexualized or molested early. Don’t know gingrich’s childhood, but he was abused by his teacher in his teens.
He’d be a better president than Mitt. And he knows the constitution backward and forward. But then he does crazy things like scozzafsva, pelosi’s couch, getting all excited over the Bain film he took credit for, etc. He is not going to be Ideal Newt.
But no one is ideal. I’d take him or Santorum. But I trust that Santorum would serve the American people better.