Posted on 11/06/2008 12:42:25 PM PST by eeevil conservative
The word among GOP insiders here in Georgia is that Newt Gingrich is considering throwing his name in the hat to be the next Chairman for the RNC....
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I think at his core Newt is a pragmatic politician that has a deep love for our Constitution. I would like to see him renounce the global warming BS and the health care thing, but at the end of the day we need somebody who will get out front and push the conservative agenda and push it LOUD. Newt fits the bill. I have always thought he was better in the role of the opposition leader than majority leader.
The future of the Republican party is coming and coming fast. It is Palin, Jindal, Pawlenty, Cantor and others. I don’t see a RINO in the bunch. We need to cast off the failed candidates of the past and look to the future. As we do, we need a pitbull to attack the Collectivists and interrupt their ability to implement their agenda. I think Newt can do that better than anyone. We’ll see.
I couldn't care less what Newt thinks about global warming. I am way beyond waiting for perfection. We need a pit bull that can get the job done. I think Newt would shake some things. I'm on board.
Ditto. Good idea.
I forgot about the global warming BS as well.... That is almost a complete deal killer for me.
If, IF Newt will fund conservatives and let them be conservative and not be too micromanaging I might be OK with it.
Newt as of late has swung a little too left for my comfort.
You, Leo Farnsworth, can “bullshite” all you want. It does not change the reality that there are only 2 coalitions in US: Republican coalition and Democrats. Newt does not offer to adapt any Democrats socialist ideas. Even his Global Warming bs (and I do think he is wrong there) is based on the “let market work it out” triangulation. But he is the best in expressing conservative ideas. What exactly you disagree with in his American Solutions project? I assume you did go through it, did you?
I_like_good_things_too, allow me to sign under all you said: “You and others really should stop casting stones at anyone who doesn’t adhere to 100% of the conservative position 100% of the time and attempting to throw them out of the conservative movement. Coalitions are built, not torn down,and unless you want to be lost in a tiny little group of people who think exactly like you and have absolutely no political clout whatsoever, you might get used to the idea that sometimes you’ll have disagreements with people who are on the same team as you.
And LIKE IT OR NOT, Newt is one of the more articulate & intelligent architects of the movement (that’s alive right now). This would be the perfect position for him.”
I'm more than fed up with Liberal Lite.
I sense a new Contract with America coming...as well as a renwed drive and focus for the GOP.
I am already part of LetsGetThisRight.com — we supported some candidates this time that the NRCC didn’t support.
In 2010 we plan to be larger and be able to support more good conservative candidates. One of the Freshman Congressmen was told to “work harder” by the NRCC Chair since he was not going to get any money from NRCC. We want to be able to have people in every state to get volunteers together to go help our candidates win.
I am starting on a list of seats that we stand a chance of getting them back with good candidates for the 2010 election.
It is NRCC for National Republican Congressional Committee who is in charge of funding House candidates.
RNC is the only GOP organization that can actually help fund the President.
NRSC is the Senate counterpart to NRCC.
Woo-hoo - we aren't going down without a fight!
I like it! He’ll get the usual “Gingrich Who Stole Christmas” headlines at Newsweek, et al. but it would do wonders for the GOP.
President Bush made two fatally flawaed appointments: Scott McClellan as his spokesman and Martinez as head of RNC.
Exactly, and Newt can ARTICULATE Conservatism in the media, that has been such a problem for us IMO.
Fair warning though, Environmentalism is a part of his agenda these days.
I’m actually reading about Newt’s global warming thing. He’s pretty much opposed to any and all federal regulation (as far as I can see), including cap-and-trade.
I can live with that as long as the conservative message gets through the noise and he cleans up RNC.
George Washington didn’t want to be POTUS either.
That sounds great to me.
I think we have to stop waiting for the “perfect” conservative. They don’t exist. No one will be 100% perfect on all the issues. We had several good candidates in the primaries, and we spent so much time tearing them down because they weren’t “true” conservatives, we got stuck with McCain. Granted, the media and crossover Dems and Indys had a lot to do with, as well. Could anyone of them have beaten Obama, I don’t know. Newt is more conservative than not, and his organizational and communication skills would be an asset the RNC.
I would vote for Newt. I wish he was still in Congress.
Rudy Takala
August 3, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
There are few desirable candidates seeking political offices this year, something we can attribute to the fact that monarchs within the party establishments chose who would be allowed to run in most elections. Our plight is hardly worth expounding on. As we peer into the future, however, we should realize that even worse candidates will be upon us in 2008.
Republicans appear hell bent on emulating every Democratic president the nation has had since 1940. The current president has managed to outspend LBJ, but he hasn’t managed to act as a flamboyant moral degenerate. This is a flaw that some Republicans will attempt to rectify in the next election. Generally all of the names we see mentioned as potential candidates for president will disturb any person who is reasonably informed. However, I continue to see one name floated about that I find particularly atrocious.
That is Newt Gingrich’s. In a straw poll held at Minnesota’s state Republican convention, he received 39% of the vote — more than twice as much as Senator George Allen, who came in at second place. He has won similarly in several other straw polls across the nation.
Tom Coburn, now a Senator in Oklahoma, was elected to the U.S. House in 1994. He left in 2000 due to a pledge that he would only run for three terms, but in the course of his six years in the House, he witnessed the rise and demise of the Republican revolution. He wrote about his experiences–prominent among them his encounters with Newt Gingrich, then Speaker of the House–in a book, Breach of Trust. I am going to quote from the portion that outlines its demise (it begins around page seventy of a 270-page book).
“The last bill to be taken up before the two-week Easter recess [in 1997] was a bill that would have trashed one of the key items in the Contract with America. In 1995, we passed a bill that cut committee spending by a third. Now, only two years later, leadership had decided to increase committee spending by nearly 15 percent. Many of my colleagues were incensed that we were so casually going back on our word.”
Fortunately, the bill failed by a vote of 213 to 210. “A few minutes [after the vote], the whip’s office announced a mandatory meeting of the conference… it was immediately obvious Newt Gingrich was furious… Gingrich said every Republican would be meeting… even if he had to send the sergeant at arms—the police—to track members down. Senior Republicans had never heard of a mandatory conference before.”
According to Coburn, Gingrich said, “The eleven geniuses who thought they knew more than the rest of the Congress are going to come up and explain their votes… Those of you who had planned to go to [Representative] John Kasich’s wedding on Saturday are not going. No one is going anywhere until we get the votes we need to pass this rule.”
Representative Steve Largent wrote about the meeting in his diary: “[Gingrich’s] speech began by praising the moderates for voting with the team… He said he never wanted to hear from ‘you conservatives’ about the moderates going south on the party. (Interesting to me to hear Newt refer to us as ‘you conservatives.’)… He also suggested if we didn’t want to go along we should consider becoming independents and form our own party.”
Lee Howell, Newt’s press secretary in 1974, once observed, “Very candidly, I don’t think that Newt Gingrich has many principles, except for what’s best for him, guiding him.”
Politics aside, there’s also Newt’s personal life. It’s one of those cases where morals don’t apply so long as you belong to the right party. The thrice-married Gingrich, according to his former campaign treasurer L.H. Carter, justified his first divorce with the statement: “She’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer.”
The second divorce, as most will remember, took place in 1999, after the discovery of Newt’s five year affair with an intern twenty-three years his junior. Another observation of Lee Howell’s was, “Newt Gingrich has a tendency to chew people up and spit them out. He uses you for all it’s worth, and when he doesn’t need you anymore he throws you away.”
But then again, that’s in sync with the spirit of today’s Republican Party. Thanks to amoral liberal converts from the Democratic Party, the Republicans are a party without any standards or morals. This is a topic I would like to expand upon in the future; for now, suffice it to say that we don’t need another Bill Clinton for president – even if his name is Newt Gingrich, and even if he has an R next to his name.
Jindal/Palin. Sorry.
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