Posted on 02/26/2012 7:16:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Newt Gingrich was barreling toward the end of his stump speech Friday night when Occupy protesters started a ruckus in the theater balcony.
His supporters drowned them out with “Newt” chants and one offered the Republican presidential hopeful a piece of advice: “Stay cheerful.”
He did, but he couldn’t resist a jab.
“It’s all right,” Gingrich said. “It’s nice to be in a free country. … There’s no necessary parallel between noise and intelligence.”
Asked to describe himself in one word at Wednesday’s Republican debate, Gingrich used “cheerful,” but a week-ending campaign swing through Washington state, Idaho and California, showed the uneasy coexistence of Gingrich’s cheer and pugilism.
The idea is to project the image of a happy warrior in the model of President Ronald Reagan. The result is a critique of President Barack Obama that is part comedy routine, part frightening description of a diminished nation and dangerous world in a second Obama term. And though primary GOP rival Mitt Romney no longer has a starring role in the Gingrich’s speeches, he draws the occasional barb, too.
Gingrich conducts much of his derision of Obama in a mocking tone, giving the message a lighter feel. He kept his rally crowds laughing as he referenced Obama’s energy speech in which he talked about algae as a promising alternative fuel.
“We should get a bottle of algae and we can go around and we can have the Obama solution,” Gingrich said Thursday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. “And maybe what we ought to do at newt.org is we ought to get T-shirts that say, ‘You choose. Newt: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less. Barack Obama: Have Algae, Pay More, Be Weird.’”
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Excellent post, cj. - I think Newt has the ideas and vision—he just needs to catch a break to get some momentum.
Tinklestein,
Huckabooboo is so far from conservative that he could reach it backward easier than foreward.
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What are all those people doing in that room full of idols?
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>> “Rick is Thick! Not sure he understands head thumpin’.” <<
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The more I see of him, the more I believe that he’s a short-busser.
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Cain conservative is a troll, and has been warned.
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>> To turn to an intellegent alliance with Newt properly places Santorum in the shadow of the giant
Rick is an establishment bit player that has managed to court the affection of morally disenfranchised Conservatives. While Rick is an intelligent, well-spoken candidate, he lacks the competence, charisma, and command required to pilot the Country out of its death spiral.
thanks.
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