Posted on 01/21/2012 6:30:40 AM PST by milwguy
What is it about this primary season that causes Republicans to go around the bend? The current beneficiary of the “anyone but Romney” mania is Newt Gingrich, who may actually win the South Carolina primary tomorrow. I find that astonishing. Gingrich has been mostly out of the public view since he retired from Congress 13 years ago. The most surprising feature of this endlessly surprising political year is that, at age 68, Gingrich has made a comeback.
It is hard to make clear-cut statements about the mercurial and often contradictory Gingrich, but one thing we can say with absolute certainty: he will never be President of the United States. Put aside the fact that he lasted only four years as Speaker of the House before resigning in disgrace, leaving Congress with an approval rating around 15%. Forget that he was the father of the earmark. Never mind his notorious lack of self-control and his attacks on free enterprise. Those are all worthy topics for another day, but for the moment let’s just focus on the allegations by Newt’s second ex-wife that hit the press this week. Apart from all the other good reasons why Gingrich will never be President, Marianne Gingrich’s sensational allegations snuffed out any possible hope that Newt can beat Barack Obama in 2012.
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You make alinsky smile. Aren’t you proud? Politics of personal destruction, scorched earth, if you don’t have a good retort then sling allegations and insults and name-calling.
I smell a beckybot who is a nit-wit-mit bot.
“I think he will, counting on platitudes and big words and the media relishing him for what a great thinker he is”
They didn’t behave that way when he was speaker.
He expects nothng from the midia except unmitigated continual hostility.
If you do not realize this, you are foolish.
I keep telling you I am a Christian mom, and I don’t think Newt is playing well with the conservative women voters. He needs to ramp up his message if he hopes to get our votes, and I mean the message that he is not aymore the kink of person that takes advantage or for his own selfish desires hurts those who have chosen him for marriage or office
Did you ever wonder why they weren’t released? Could it be that they would vindicate Gingrich?
We are trying to replace Senor Obama; we are not trying to nominate someone who could be Obamas VP.
If Romney was a dynamic real conservative; people would probably overlook his weird religion.
How am I supposed to ignore all that now?
And that just barely scratches the surface. He is statist monster, always has been, always will be. People lap up the BS from his campaign like they never saw a political candidate spout his carefully crafting talking points before. To a certain extent I can understand why: everything that this Country was founded upon and once stood for has been driven hard into a ditch (quite deliberately) over the past 100 years, especially the last ten, and even more so during the last three.
There is another statist monster in the WH placed there to hasten this country's ruin and most of us that know better are in an absolute panic over it. Many of us viewed Palin as our collective last chance to begin the process of stopping our destruction and starting to turn it around. Even Palin, with the tremendous groundswell of support (both $$$ & GoTV) would have faced extremely daunting odds going against that machine (if you are the least bit honest with yourself, you have to admit that there will be widespread fraud, intimidation, & cheating at a scale never seen before in this country's politics). Seriously, do you really think that they are going to “go quietly” at this point?
They made a calculated gamble after the 2008 election to go “all in” (and risk the level of pushback that we have seen grow over the past 3 years) rather than continue the “slow boil” trend of the past several decades. Is it going to work? So far the jury is still out on that but if you look around at the mind-numbed zombies walking around that will be voting in November, what do you think?
So yeah, it is a natural reaction to be in a panic mode at this point, hence the tendency is to grasp onto whichever candidate that remains that we think is going to be our political savior. Most likely this emotional reaction has never been more pronounced by Conservatives that are aware and understand what has been happening over the years to absolutely and purposefully DESTROY our beloved Country. That is why, in my opinion, people that certainly should and do know better, are willing to overlook the absolutely atrocious public record of someone and scramble to his support. It is an emotional reaction to an existential threat. What else should we expect at this point?
It is truly sad and lamentable that it has come to this point, but it has. It isn't like we weren't warned over the decades, but most of those warnings were cast aside as “crazy talk” because the Normalcy Bias is a very powerful force. How many times has each of thought in our minds (or even vocalized the sentiment) “it can't happen here, this is the good old US of A” over the past decades? In some ways our devoted patriotism and love of our Country has served to blind us to the working of the enemies that have been steadily and quietly (until the more recent past) turning up the heat on the pot. So now it has come to this point, a megalomaniacal self-proclaimed globalist and full-bore big government statist is our “Conservative” choice. I remain less than thrilled at that prospect.
People are sick of all dirty media crap....we just don't care anymore. You see what the reaction was to the ex wife.....boring!
As I said, we've heard it all before and it doesn't have the desired impact the liberals are trying to achieve.
So, according to your mores, Reagan should never have been president. Former liberal democrat, he divorced from his first wife, Hell no, Reagan was not qualified.
ROTFL! Another hysterical Romulan insider...they are everywhere today. LOL. Loving this Newtiful day. G-d help the people of the USA to take these crooked jerks down.
You are judging Newt as you did Cain-—trial by news allegations.
Obama and the LSM love you.
Where are all Cain’s accusers now?
You do not remember Newt’s masterful tenure as Speaker of the House in the 90’s or you would not be denigrating him here.
Yep, let's just vote for Jimmy Carter, he's a good, moral man, who's been only married once, and has no baggage. /s
Newt is the bulldozer we’ve been waiting for.....
I second the motion!
Newt is the bulldozer we’ve been waiting for.....
I second the motion!
“What kind of man sends out his daughters from his first marriage to protect him from allegations (part of which we know is true, ie adultery) from his second wife?”
I doubt he sent them anywhere. I be they are as competent and sometimes ornery as Newt himself is. Good on them.
And good on Newt Gingrich!
Let's take a look at these "wives" for a moment, since there seems to be concern that they may have been "hurt"...
Wife #1 was Newt's high school teacher, who by today's standards would have been a child molester. I doubt there is much sympathy for her "hurt".
Wife #2 broke off an affair with a married father of 3 right before she began her affair with Newt. A serial adulterer herself, I don't see too many Christian women here in SC overly concerned with her "hurt", either.
There are no clean hands in this sordid saga, but sympathy for Newt's ex-wives is a non-starter.
I’ll tell you why Newt is enjoying the level of support he has.
People are damn sick and tired of wimpy, sissy, I can work with democrats tpye republicans.
Whatever Newt’s flaws may be, he’s a scrapper, and I respect that.
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