If Newt is the candidate, it will be “crotchety old white guy” versus “young, hip, black guy” all over again. And the MSM will play the old ethics stuff over and over again. Buckley’s rule — support the most conservative candidate who is electable. It ain’t Gingrich. It’s Romney.
““crotchety old white guy” ...support the most conservative candidate who is electable. It ain’t Gingrich. It’s Romney.”
You are actually saying Romney is not a “crotchety old white guy” but Newt is??? You’re really funny.
Not to mention Romney isn’t conservative at all. He is and Obama share many primary traits, including the fact that ObamaDeathCare is nothingbut RomneyDeathCare.
As if Romney would be the cool white guy. Romney sux!
You got corn cobs for ears? Don’t push Romney at FR.
Oh, do I hate to say it, but you're probably right about that. And old white guy will lose to hip black guy again, although by a closer margin.
I just wish the alternative wasn't Romney. Personally I'm hoping for a brokered convention.
If it is Romney, the media will spin it as Hip, African-American Scholar President versus Slimy, Used-Car Salesman looking, Wall Street Insider Guy who isn’t different from Obama on many key issues.
I would rather have the crotchety old guy with a record of success than Romney’s sliminess whose only legislative success was when he moved so far left, he shared a botox clinic with Nancy Pelosi.
“If Newt is the candidate, it will be “crotchety old white guy” versus “young, hip, black guy” all over again. “
You’re right, but isn’t it interesting that all the Occupy hipsters are fawning over Ronpaul, who is like 85??
Romney is not electable. He is “me to” and “dem lite”. EVERY time the GOP has run such a candidate they lost. When the GOP runs conservatives, they win.
You can not win elections without the base. Romney’s positions are so liberal that he will not carry the base. I wont vote for him even if he is the nominee. I would rather have divided government with the Congress in opposition to Obama than have a RINO pushing the liberal agenda. In that capacity, Romney will do more damage and not execute the repeals of the programs instituted by Obama.
Let me see, as I recall that worked real well with Bush 1, Dole, McCain.....???
Think that rule needs to be revised.
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Romney who?
Because Mitt Romney is not and has never been a conservative.
So either you are talking about a different Romney or you have not been paying attention.
Wrong on both definitions - conservative and electable. IMHO, Bill Buckley would be for Newt! Big Time.
About those “ethic” probes: Here is a really good site to find out exactly what it was all about (and from a liberal source, no less)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/leadership/ethics.htm
The $300,000 fine was actually not a fine, it was the cost of the probe. All charges were dropped but one. The one that wasn’t dropped was about a misuse of a tax-exempt organization. So what did the IRS say about it? They found that Newt and the organization did nothing improper, no charges brought.
Using the words conservative and Romney in the same sentence is cause for alarm.
If Newt is the candidate, it will be “crotchety old white guy” versus “young, hip, black guy” all over again. And the MSM will play the old ethics stuff over and over again. Buckley’s rule — support the most conservative candidate who is electable. It ain’t Gingrich. It’s Romney.
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Eh, maybe for some who don’t use a single neuron in their brains it will play that way (and we’ll never have THEIR votes anyway) ....but I believe Newt is going to turn around that old “crotchety” white guy image into something else .... he’s going to do it the old fashioned way and EARN the respect of voters through his words, actions, and results.
AND I DO believe that narrative needs to be squashed, once and for all. It’s reverse racism, and its divisive and someone needs to call it out. I’m sure Newt will be the one to do that.
“...it will be “crotchety old white guy” versus “young, hip, black guy” all over again. ..”
It might be crotchety old white guy, but THIS time, the old white guy will actually FIGHT BACK and point out the miserable failure of the past three years under the young hip black guy. That’s the difference.
OUCH! I do recall that after the 2008 elections, the Barry the Marxist campaign managers said they wanted McCain because he would present the biggest contrast. But... this isn’t 2008, and if you think Barry Soetoro is hip, you need your head examined. He’s not hip, he’s a big geek, an evil geek, but a geek nonetheless and I think most people realize that in 2012. The blacks realize they didn’t get his stash, they didn’t get their mortgages paid and they are worse off than they were in 2008. Of course IF they vote, they will vote color even though Barry is whiter than I am when I have a good tan in the summer.
If you saw the photos of him on the beach in Hawaii this past December, the only “black” parts of Hussein are his neck, hands and face.
Any white ignorant enough to vote for him in 2008 because they had some sort of ridiculous guilt over slavery which they had nothing to do with unless they are about 150 years old, forget that vote. They voted their guilt vote in 2008, they won’t do it again. Young people are struggling, the jobs aren’t there, they have moved onto other things. They see the elitist and his pig beard(wife) taking all of those lavish vacations, her 700.00 tennis shoes, 5000. dresses, she spends a fortune!! and I mean a fortune. I would venture to guess she has spent more in 3 years than the last 2-3 first ladies spent combined. Camp David isn’t good enough for them, they never go back to their home in Chicago.
Time to take the trash out and Newt is the only one with enough balls to call Hussein what he is.. and Alinsky radical and he won’t play nice like McCain, Newt will go for the jugular.
Run for your life!