Wake up and smell your country burning. This is no time for a leader with humility. This country needs nothing less than a fire breathing, piss 'n vinegar, cigar chomping, kick-ass-and-take-names, unapologetic patriot for president.
We will not defeat the left, or stop them from dragging our country over the cliff, without such a tiger at the helm. Newt Gingrich is that tiger.
Humility is not being a doormat, it is having a honest knowledge of your talents and strengths and not assuming that you will win just because you are so much smarter then anyone else. People who think that that tend to trip over their own egos and get burned by their own fire.
Like I said Newt got rolled more then once because he overestimated how bright he is. I suggest you read "The University of Hard Knocks" for a complete account of what can happen to those who think they are "Naturally Bright" but to summarize they get conned because they think they can't be conned.
Anyone can be conned. The thing is do you acknowledge that it is possible and keep your eyes open or assume that you can't and walk into a trap?
The sitting with Pelosi on the couch moment was one place where Newt got conned. If he learned from it well and good. If he didn't then that is a problem.
And fire breathing, piss 'n vinegar types don't impress me, they rarely live up to their own billing. I take a Calvin Coolidge over a Warren G. Harding.
Once again, Windfiler, you hit the nail on the head and have described our next President to a T.
I'll add that soon-to-be President Gingrich totally won me over in the recent debate when he described how to deal with our enemies:
Like his appeasing father, Mitt Romney is brainwashed. Santorum is an Ozzie Nelson pushover and Ron Paul, once only an odd curiosity, represents a danger to Our Land. Newt Gingrich is a take-no-prisoners, no-quarter-given Patriot in the mold of Generals George Patton and Douglas MacArthur.
FUMR! FURP! Go Army! Go Navy! Go Marines! Go Air Force! Go Newt!
A LOT of people need to read this sentence slowly and repeatedly. Get behind Newt now - the future of our republic depends upon it.
And a tiger is a wild animal -- it will turn on you at some point.
I've become a reluctant Newt supporter in the last few weeks, even donating to his campaign -- the first donation I've made this season. That being said, I've voiced my opinion of Newt in the past -- well before this race ever began. He'd be great -- really great -- in a high-level cabinet position, but not as president.
The man lacks the moral character needed to be president. He has an established history of questionable and immoral actions, and not just in his personal life. Anyone ignoring those does so at his own peril -- you're stepping into a tiger's cage without a chair and whip. That tiger's sharp-as-a-razor bite WILL be used against anyone, including his allies.
I can't stand Mitt Romney, still believe Ron Paul is the mayor of crazy town, and even though I like Rick Santorum I don't believe he can win the nomination or the general. And I'm not stupid enough to give Obama a vote by NOT voting in the general, or by voting for a third party, so that leaves Newt.
I'm on-board with Newt -- heck, for some stupid reason I like the man, even knowing his past -- but mark my words: he WILL betray us, at some point, and it may be such an embarrassing betrayal that the conservative party suffers for a while. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. I guarantee it.