Posted on 12/27/2011 3:36:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Iowa caucuses are upon us, and with it the official start of the 2012 presidential election campaign. Therefore, it’s time to evaluate the Republican field. When you get to it, this race is really about one person: Newt Gingrich.
This really is Newt, Part 2. For all of us who remember 1994, and the Republican Revolution, which is already 18 long years ago, we conservatives are playing jilted wife to that political lothario, Newt Gingrich. Should we take him back and give him another chance? Or is it a case of fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me? A brief disclosure, I was still a conservative Democrat in 1994 and not fully vested in the conservative cause and its home in the Republican Party.
Almost miraculously, Newt has resurrected his political career, since being faced down by Bill Clinton over shutting down the federal government in 1995, and by ethics investigations and censures from which in the long run Newt was mostly absolved. Since those times, Newt has also divorced and remarried. He also has been a highly-paid lobbyist for Washington bad guys, the now government agencies of Fannie and Freddie. He is and has been a bomb-thrower with the English language, controversial, and self-referential, to a fault. Nevertheless, for true-believers like me, we are enthralled with his star.
For example, Gingrich said what everybody who knows any history knows to be true: that the Palestinians are a made up people. Equally outrageous to some is Newt’s comment that the judiciary should be ignored when they render unconstitutional judgments. He is flat out correct about that....
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Hey, I'm one of those who still holds out hope for a real conservative who can rally the base to jump into the race. Might be a fruitless hope, but it could still happen.
That's actually my first choice. Newt is my back up option. We're in one helluva situation, and as you say, sometimes in life there are no good options. You just have to confront the fact that you're gonna hurt for a while.
Taking the long view, there's always the option of 'watering the Tree of Liberty'. It may come to that, whether we want it to or not. The odds of us going down that path increase exponentially if Mitt or Obama wins next November. If it comes to that, I believe that the pain will be intense, but short-lived. The poisonous barb will be removed all at once, and our nation will be set on the road to full restoration of our constitutional republic.
I will be damned if some Canadian blogsite is going to change my opinion. Shake my hand, we might talk. Broadcast from a foreign country? Fergetit.
Alright, bud. I guess we'll have to talk down the line about where and how conservative authors post their works these days. I think we're mostly on the same page as far as this election goes, and where the country stands. I think we're at least reading from the same chapter ;-)
Andrew Jackson was a national hero, the last revolutionary war veteran to serve as president as well as a successful territorial governor, general, house member, planter, senator, and district attorney. No one in the current line-up even comes close.
He resigned from the Senate before a year was out.
And was a hick lawyer. Where in the Carolinas are you going to get a legal education?
My favorite quote from him is: "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."
Sounds like he's head and shoulders above the current crop. He was electable, and he got his picture on the $20.
/johnny
Also fresh on my mind is the candidacy of Bob Dole in 1996, and Newt stepping down in 1998 while his Party was still in power. Reminisce the glory years of the Clinton Administration? No thanks.
Who else do we have? A kooky anti-semite racist? Two back-benchers who have no chance against Mr. Obama? A Texas governor who makes Dubya look like Orson Wells? The author of RomneyCare, RomneyMarriage and assorted other leftist dreck? Please tell me.
I'd rather have a conservative nominee. Sadly, it looks like no such luck.
Gingrich is the one who has no chance against Obama. But a conservative candidate will beat him.
There is no way in the world that Rep. Bachmann or Senator Santorum, neither of which has a day of executive experience, will beat a sitting president.
I vehemently disagree.
Moot point, really. It seems neither one is headed for the republican nomination.
Perhaps you should include Newt in that group also, seeing how he does not have a day of executive experience under his belt either.
The establishment is sure bashing him! Everyone is bashing him! JC Watts though endorsed Newt!
This is why I am no longer a Republican.
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