Posted on 08/30/2015 11:09:51 AM PDT by Helicondelta
In a roundtable discussion with political reporters and analysts on ABC's "This Week," former House speaker Newt Gingrich said what others may be thinking.
Gingrich told guest host Martha Raddatz that Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman, real estate mogul and novice politician, could, in fact, become the Republican presidential nominee.
RADDATZ: Could he be the nominee?
GINGRICH: Yes.
RADDATZ: You think — you have to know he could be the nominee?
GINGRICH: Absolutely. I don't think he — I think he also could be the president.
RADDATZ: How does he do it?
GINGRICH: Well, first of all, if you're ahead everywhere and you — and your lead is increasing, as it is in Iowa...
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It's fundamental.
Some people especially self centered ‘news’ persons don’t seem to live in the real world of ordinary people. They play ‘blind-mans-bluff’ all the time.
One liberal supports another.
If Trump gets the nomination, the gop elite have no one to blame but themselves. We turn out at the polls and gave them big victories in 2010 and again in 2014, and just what have they done? Absolutely nothing, but kiss 0bama’s butt. They have done nothing that they promised to do, and they have a long history of that.
Reagan granted Amnesty to a couple of million illegals, which was supposed to lead to securing the border. Reagan didn’t order it secured, Bush the First didn’t order it secured, and Bush the 2nd didn’t order it secured, and if he has his way, Bush the 3rd won’t do anything about it.
I don’t know if Trump will do anything about it either if he is nominated, and wins the election, but right now, he’s the only one who is at least raising the issue.
LMAO....COULD be????????????? He is GOING to be....
It was fun to watch. Gingrich has a Trump-type humor. (it comes with our age group in many cases). Gingrich was explaining that when you’re ahead, that’s how you win.
Newt could end up in a Trump administration. UN Ambassador? Popcorn time!
“Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich: Donald Trump Could be GOP Nominee”
Daa, is the sky blue? Not much of a prediction at this point.
If people are wondering why conservatives are supporting Trump when they know his past track record pegs him as a liberal at best is the fact that many conservatives in elected office haven’t been very conservative lately. Trump is filling the void and again why blame him when the GOP is stumbling all over itself trying to distance itself from conservative principles.
Well said!
I would not mind seeing Newt as the new Speaker of the House.
That’s a great point. I see a lot of well meaning FReepers painting Trump as a liberal. They certainly have a lot of his past statements and contributions to point to.
Trump supporters say he’s evolved, and he supported liberal positions when it didn’t count, before he got in the political game. They say he contributed to Libs because “that’s the way you get things done in business”.
I’d love to see a self funded, ideological conservative with an impeccable conservative record and no ties to the GOPe come along and resonate with voters. Ted Cruz fails in all these categories at this point, and he’s the closest option to this ideal.
The GOP has taken conservatives for a ride, not once but many times. They attack conservative candidates who challenge GOPe incumbents. They mock the Tea Party. They hate us, and only view us as rubes who will vote for a candidate who runs right and pivots left after the election.
These go along, get along GOPe bastards are helping Obama dismantle this country. Trump, warts and all, is the only outside the game option who has a chance to reform the GOP and make it an opponent of the Leftists again, instead of an accessory to liberal big government schemes.
Even if he turns out to be a turncoat liberal, that’s the same thing we get with a GOPe candidate. If Hillary/Biden/Sanders wins, we get our socialism straight up without the deception.
Simply put, there’s nothing to lose by taking a chance on Trump. The GOPe created Trump, and watching them sputter with rage at his poll numbers is damn satisfying.
We’ll see in the next few weeks if Trump can handle the big weapon in the GOPe arsenal...the negative TV blitz. If he can counterpunch or dodge that attack, short of self destruction or assassination I think he’s going to win.
Let's revisit that thought after a couple of hundred millions of dollars are spent on the airwaves attacking Trump from every angle.
They will kick up SUBSTANTIALLY after Halloween.
That's the "go to" standard for how the GOPe has prevailed in the past. And, when fighting for their lives, in a corner, they will reach for their most effective weapon.
It aint gonna be pretty.
Trump must be willing to, at least, match their combined ad spending. Maybe 1/2 billion dollars before the convention.
"By winning more delegates than the others, Martha."
I wonder if the GOPe will support Trump if he is our choice?
Radass probably had to change her lingerie after that interview.
They are going to pull out all the stops here because Donald Trump represents a serious threat to their power structure. And there is no lack of ammunition. Anybody who has remotely followed Trump through the years will know that there is no end of juicy stories regarding his business dealings and his personal affairs that would sink just about any other candidate.
However, I think that with respect to most of the electorate, Trump is immunized against these stories. All these revelations will be seen as "Trump being Trump" and the talk will be "how we need somebody like that to clean up Washington."
Even in this forum, we have our group of anti-Trumpers who post here all day long and they are getting no love at all from the rest of us. Most of us have had enough of establishment politics and while we realize that Trump is no pristine conservative by any means, he is the kind of person who will definitely move the needle once he gets in. Trump is not a "go along to get along" kind of guy, which is what all our conservatives turn into when they get sent to Washington on our behalf.
Republicans now have control of both houses of Congress and can we name even one conservative victory since they got in? Has there even been one time when they went against Obama on anything?
The anger in this country is real and we will have millions of people who will overlook anything that gets dredged up from Trump's past in order to get him to the White House. It's kind of a scary thought but it's probably the only chance we have. We know we will not move the needle with a Republican Congress full of career politicians or an establishment GOP president like Jebbie Bush.
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