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Does Newt Gingrich’s S.C. win show we’re looking for a mean leader? (New meme to attack him?)
The Washington Post's On Leadership ^ | January 22, 2012 | Jena McGregor

Posted on 01/22/2012 1:19:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Of all the qualities people look for in their leaders, here’s one you don’t hear very often: Mean. Filled with integrity? Yes. Visionary? Certainly. Magnanimous? Sure. But mean? Not one that comes up that frequently.

This, of course, was the response one voter gave to Post reporters for why he voted for Newt Gingrich in Saturday’s primary in South Carolina, which the former speaker won by 12 points, thereby upending the Republican race. “I think we’ve reached a point where we need someone who’s mean,” an 85-year-old Harold Wade said in Sullivan’s Island, S.C.

Others weren’t so candid, but said they were “looking for a good fight” or wanted someone who could “handle” Obama. And two-thirds of voters in surveys at South Carolina polling stations said the debates, in which the former Speaker tore into moderators, launched into sharp exchanges with his opponents and taunted Romney for not releasing his tax returns, played an important role in their decision.

Yes, the man who said he was “committed to running a positive” campaign but changed his tune following his loss in Iowa is now more known for his pugnacious debate style and his willingness to go negative than any semblance of a positive campaign. Since Iowa, he has lashed into his competitors, the media and President Obama with a swaggering zeal.

This about-face doesn’t appear to bother many voters of South Carolina. Nor, it seems, does Gingrich’s efforts to run a campaign that trumpets fear. In Thursday’s debate, Gingrich called President Obama “the most dangerous president of our lifetime, and if he is reelected, after the disaster he has been, the level of radicalism of his second term will be truly frightening.” He repeated a similar phrase in his victory speech Saturday night....

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TOPICS: South Carolina; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: gingrich; newt; obama; palin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That would be good.


41 posted on 01/22/2012 2:43:18 PM PST by livius
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whatever it takes to undo the damage by a President who HATES America!


42 posted on 01/22/2012 2:49:22 PM PST by G Larry (We need Bare Knuckles Newt to fight this battle.)
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To: bunkerhill7

I would have loved to vote for this guy!!! Love him. These guys (and Newt) know that it is EVIL to be “tolerant” of evil....

WAKE UP PARENTS, DONT TOLERATE EVIL—BE MEAN:
1. Don’t allow the elites to teach and condition your 5 year olds to think anal sex is “good” and “normal”. Keep their innocence and morality.
2. Don’t allow your freedom of religion in public to be squashed.
3. Don’t allow our military men to be brainwashed to think sodomy is “good” and a “right” and make Christianity (basis of our legal system and Common Law) to be removed from military. Virtue is essential in militaries (Machiavelli) and sodomy is always EVIL.
4. Don’t force our military to help people who sodomize boys. We should destroy such a culture-—multiculturalism teaches lies. All cultures are NOT equal.
5. Don’t allow your daughters to promote the killing of babies and promiscuous sex and “hate God” and love Wicca and Earth gods and do dances over mirrors and watch vile entertainment which glorifies lesbians raping girls. Get them out of Girl Scouts-—and end any government subsidy of a organization which promotes evil like sodomy and killing infants.

6. I could go on and on -—my point: IT IS TIME TO BE MEAN!!!!!!! before you lose the souls of the next generation. It will be too late then if it isn’t already.


43 posted on 01/22/2012 2:58:52 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law.)
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To: SumProVita

Mean? More like willing to break PC rules and take the fight to them. They will try their best to make him an Angry old white dude—mean spirited (They used this with success with Dole). Mean, un-feeling, racist, hate monger, Nazi, you name it—they will call him that. That and worse! They will accuse him of murder—rape and death. Mad and worse than Hitler. Look for it on MSNBC if nothing else.


44 posted on 01/22/2012 3:19:19 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A Newt is not a Gecko! He’s more like a wolverine! He’s fast on his feet and quick to return a punch that is ten times harder than thrown at him. It won’t be long until others who live in glass houses stop throwing stones at him.


45 posted on 01/22/2012 3:19:39 PM PST by tired&retired
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Mean" is newspeak for any speech that exposes the Left's phony politically correct version of reality. By controlling speech they control the outcome.

Newt is a truth-teller. He sees that the emperor has no clothes and says so in effective, sound-bite fashion. Nothing could frighten the elites more. They thought they drove a stake through his heart in the 90s. But he's b-a-a-a-ck!

46 posted on 01/22/2012 3:49:32 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: Jukeman
The “statist media and the elites don’t realize the level of anger out here. If they go down the road of playing the anger card they are playing right into our hands. You are damned right we are angry. Our country, our republic is being destroyed. Our freedoms are at stake, our economy is at stake. Our constitution is being trampled. Hell yes, we are angry. We support Newt Gingrich. He feels our anger and speaks for us.

"If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention." TM

TS

47 posted on 01/22/2012 3:59:00 PM PST by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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To: livius
You think this is bad. Wait until Newt wins in the General, your TV set will actually melt in your room, as you view. They will ALL need a straight jacket by the time the evening is over.

I have never seen such vicious Hatred from "what we thought was our side", before in any election, EVER. Not one of them can ever pretend to be nice, THEY HATE US.

We are taking our Country Back, and there is nothing they can do about it. Nothing.

48 posted on 01/22/2012 4:04:50 PM PST by annieokie
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.



Throw the rat out

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49 posted on 01/22/2012 4:34:11 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: Parley Baer; All

Newt Gingrich Sums Up “Community Organizer” Barack Obama: “He wasn’t organizing Girls & Boys Clubs – He was Teaching Political Radicalism. . . He believes in a Very Radical Vision of America’s Future” – Video 1/22/12

http://freedomslighthouse.net/2012/01/22/newt-gingrich-sums-up-community-organizer-barack-obama-he-wasnt-organizing-girls-boys-clubs-he-was-teaching-political-radicalism-he-believes-in-a-very-radical-vision-of-americas-fu/


50 posted on 01/22/2012 4:58:08 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Parley Baer; All

Newt Gingrich Sums Up “Community Organizer” Barack Obama: “He wasn’t organizing Girls & Boys Clubs – He was Teaching Political Radicalism. . . He believes in a Very Radical Vision of America’s Future” – Video 1/22/12

http://freedomslighthouse.net/2012/01/22/newt-gingrich-sums-up-community-organizer-barack-obama-he-wasnt-organizing-girls-boys-clubs-he-was-teaching-political-radicalism-he-believes-in-a-very-radical-vision-of-americas-fu/


51 posted on 01/22/2012 4:59:35 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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