Monday, November 14, 2011
The Rise of Newt
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had a very respectable showing at the last debate moderated by CBS News Scott Pelley and really shone on foreign policy and is even getting traction in the polls. By now it is conventional wisdom however that Newt is unelectable so why is that? It is because the Powers that be say so and this is reinforced by the echo chamber of the conservative punditocracy (e.g. the New York Post's John Podhoretz) and trickles down into the psyche of the voting public. I know soapie will disagree with my analysis here especially since Newt has gone all green on us but whenever I read that he is unelectable I never really hear the reasons why. Is it because he once dumped his breast-cancer stricken wife in the hospital? is it because he's so yesterday, some retro-90s fit? is it something else? We say so so it shall be so, he has no place in the Matrix of Politics. Then again he's not Ron Paul:)
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I have always liked Newt Gingrich VERY much and would vote for him in a flash, my only problem is and i mean my ONLY problem is that I don't think he can win. He has much to much baggage that the Dems would use to destroy him with and you know the Dem's and their games! But I think that he is a BRILLIANT man with a great deal of experience, and he really knows foreign policy. He would make a fine president.
ReplyDeleteI think I posited my view on Gingrich in a recent post comment.
ReplyDeleteNewt is a bit old and jaded; just
ReplyDeletepart of the Tea Party control of the GOP and the 'Anyone but Mitt"
movement. They go up..they fall
down. The old Duck,Duck,Goose primary game.
He's more conservative than Romney and has more knowledge of foreign policy than Cain. In my job I feel a bit old and jaded, should I simply leave the scene?
ReplyDeleteMal mentioned Newt's baggage;
ReplyDeletetoday we learned he made $1.5 million from Fannie Mae (and his
tall tales once again shift with the wind)
A little Samsonite action, that's the prob with Newt. Should we just put it in the overheard bin and worry about it later?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't vote for Gingrich if my life depended on it.Just a few reasons....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE_A_LUCFws
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-16/gingrich-said-to-be-paid-at-least-1-6-million-by-freddie-mac.html
and of course this well documented piece by the John Birch society:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02HX5v5Thpk&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLC6E67826A609B1BB
I could live with Newt easier than Mitt, but any of the GOP candidates would be far better than Obama.
ReplyDeleteSoap the John Birch Society doesn't like anybody.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't put the blame on the John Birch Society for that.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that "any of the GOP candidates would be far better than Obama" is predicated on nothing more than fantasy.
With the exception of possibly Gary Johnson, John Huntsman, and of course Ron Paul, all of the other candidates fully support the policies of Barack Obama despite their rhetoric.
Go to war to prevent Iran from getting a nuke? Check
Deficit spending? Check
Waterboarding, Torture, and Rendition? Check
Bailouts and corporate subsidies? Check
John Huntsman? Way too much sense to be a candidate. My problem with
ReplyDeleteNewt: used to work with a guy like that, same high pitched know-it-all voice, same chubby face, same non-stop talker. Yep, even his baggage had baggage. Glad when they canned him....
That's funny BB. I can picture Newt as a boss constantly walking around the different departments all day telling people to do this and that. He also kind of looks like a pastor around here who while he gives some excellent sermons comes across as just a tad self-righteous and smug.
ReplyDeleteNewt; if it walks like an amphibian....
ReplyDeleteBill Clinton could wang it though and it's all good:)
ReplyDeleteFor all his meandering ways, Clinton was only married once.
ReplyDelete...and he didn't blame his transgressions on his patriotism.
God, I love that Newt excuse. :)
Well where I come from Clinton lowered the bar on sexual harassment so what Herman Cain is alleged to have done should be small potatoes. Here's the dilemma though, what if Newt despite all this other stuff is the best one in the Republican field?
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