Posted on 01/25/2012 3:14:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Indiana Rep. Dan Burton said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the only GOP presidential candidate who can go toe-to-toe with President Barack Obama and turn the country away from the president’s socialist path.
Burton, who made the comments while endorsing Gingrich at the speaker’s Latin American foreign policy speech at Florida International University in Miami-Dade County, told the audience that “we cannot stand four more years of president Obama.”
“He is a socialist,” Burton said. “He is taking this country down the socialist path and we have to change it or America will be changed forever, in the wrong way.”
Burton made it clear that Gingrich is what the country and the Republican Party need.
“We need a fighter, someone who will go toe-to- toe with Obama and take him down, and Newt Gingrich is the best debater I know and in a face-to- face with [Gingrich], Obama will have no chance,” he said....
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No contest. In a debate there are no teleprompters to save this kenyan idiot.
If they did seven three hour debates, no moderator, time keeper only, they could put them on pay-per-view and put a serious dent in the pay down of the national debt.
Right, Obama is so brilliant that only Newt can vanquish him in debate. This is the guy that uses teleprompters in second grade classrooms, right?
Urkel used teleprompters on his wedding night.
Can anyone here tell me why Santorum is staying in? Hmmmm? This contest would be over in three minutes. What are you doing, Rick? What is your agenda? YOu’ve not ticked up one iota. Be a hero... Be a huge hero here and across the country. Let’s start the healing process.
Why? Tell us why?
Can anyone here tell me why Santorum is staying in? Hmmmm? This contest would be over in three minutes. What are you doing, Rick? What is your agenda? YOu’ve not ticked up one iota. Be a hero... Be a huge hero here and across the country. Let’s start the healing process.
Why? Tell us why?
I’m feeling at times isolated, as if we have on the one hand Newt and people like us here who support him and on the other hand the establishment, liberals, coulters etc against us...similar to when Palin was getting hit from the left.
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE, PEOPLE? WHY IS SANTORUM STAYING IN THIS? CAN ANYONE GIVE ME A LOGICAL REASON DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INSIDE INFORMATION WITH THE CANDIDATE?
Rick, you can be a hero. Why keep spending your money. You’ve not gained one iota of support since the last debate.
Please, drop out and let this run its proper course.
An Obama-Gingrich debate would be very interesting. But the idea that Obama cannot debate without a teleprompter is belied by the fact that polls judged him to have been the winner in all three debates he had with McCain.
More than that, those same sycophants will play up the idea that Gingrich is a great debater who has lots of recent experience debating while Obama has been busy shooting hoops, playing golf, going on vacations, undermining the country saving the world instead of honing his debating skills. It'll be set up as David vs Goliath, where Obama by simply having the nerve to go up against such a fearsome opponent should be viewed as a victory.
Nevertheless, Gingrich IS a tremendous debater and would brilliantly lay out the case against Obama to a public that have by and large only heard the defense's side of things. Also this time (and i think for the first time in his career) Obama will have to run on and defend his actual record. And Gingrich should no trouble tearing his record apart, both in the debate(s) and on the campaign trail. No amount of spin on Obama's or the media's part will be able to completely mask the fact that he failed miserably to live up to his promises and that there's no reason to think his new promises will work out any better.
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