Gingrich will be an acceptable President — if he can get there. Right now, he can take a plurality of republicans, mostly because as Rush explained today, republicans aren’t voting for Gingrich, but for his attacks against the media.
But Gingrich has terrible negatives. He has serious damage from his time in the 90s, and those negatives won’t be swept under the rug by the general electorate because he attacks liberal journalists.
So if he CAN win, I’ll be happy that he does. But I am not yet convinced he can win the general election, nor am I convinced he’ll actually survive long enough to win the nomination.
But what do I know, I was still hoping Perry could pull it off, because I did think Perry could have won a general election.
But what do we have now? It is scary how many respectable conservatives have either rejected Gingrich, or worse started to come out endorsing Romney.
You’re still externalizing.
WE, THE PEOPLE, are going to win the election and it simply doesn’t matter who we carry to victory.
Put another way, if you find yourself with an infestation of rats and roaches because people who carry and bring those suddenly moved in all around you, would you care who the exterminator was? No. You care about what chemical army he brought to wipe them out.
We’re the army, the chemical, to neutralize the rats and rinos. It doesn’t matter WHO we run with as long as they are persistent in spotlighting our targets for us.
As a Perry supporter, I am actually more pleased that we will carry Newt to victory. Newt can’t wait to articulate what America was before enemies, foreign and domestic, took her down in 2008.
Who was it that actually accomplished the first Republican Congress in 40 years(a plan he worked on for a long time)? I know that Newt has a plan to help sweep additional Senators and members of the House in with him.
The RNC and the GOP E has shown that they don't have a clue in that regard. 2010 was more TEA Party, Palin etc than RNC/establishment. Their attempt at a second contract with America was a marketing failure, and they didn't get candidates trained very well to stick to the message.
If the GOP E doesn't smash Newt, I think he can win decisively and win the the majorities he needs. Then we will have to watch them all like hawks to make sure they do it. JMO
Newt’s high negatives were a construct of endless smears by the MSM, who made him out to be the personification of evil. Do you remember how they cut down a clip of Newt commenting on the GOP plan to let the Health Care Financing Administration “wither on the vine?” The Dems took it out of context to scare seniors into thinking that Newt wanted to abolish Medicare.
If Newt can continue to connect directly with the people, his negatives will go down. Newt was the Palin of the 90s, and was attacked relentlessly by the libs.
>>It is scary how many respectable conservatives have either rejected Gingrich, or worse started to come out endorsing Romney.
I try to look on the bright side. The Romney endorsements by National Review and commentators like Coulter have allowed me to shorten my reading list considerably.