Newt. The right loves Newt, just as the left loves Clinton. Newt's about six times smarter than Bill Clinton, but lacks the former president's oleaginous charisma. Could he win? Never. And probably just as well. President Newt would respond to a terrorist attack with a brilliant plan — radical, simple, old wisdom and dazzling new thinking in a brilliant synthesis. Unfortunately, it would involve time travel or orbital space lasers.
LOL!
I like the fact that the left thinks that Newt can't win.
Newt was best as an intellectual leader or back bench bomb thrower. He was not an effective Speaker and has no chance whatever of getting elected POTUS. I think he knows that.
Good piece. Lileks is a good writer.
McCain has been on my "absolutely not, not under any circumstance" list, all alone, I hadn't even included Hagel on that list as bad as he is because I simply didn't take him seriously.
I still don't take him seriously. But he's fought his way onto the list, right there next to McCain. So now there are two.
For the rest, my litmus tests are two:
#1, your name isn't "McCain" or "Hagel" and
#2, you understand we are at war, and are prepared to lead us through.
I've got a wish list that follows number two, but number two is basic. Its survival of the Republic.
"As milllions of Democrat wives will say, 'I don't know how he could have won. My husband swore he voted for Hillary."
Huge laugh at that one!
The right loves Newt? Don't really think so.
I don't know quite how to say this but I'm going to give it a try. I think Newt is brilliant as a thinker, an expounder of ideas, a debater. But I suspect a flaw in his character which seems to lead him to put himself first.
Giuliani strikes me as someone who has character flaws, but does not let them infect his work, his public goals.
Understand that we are way out in front of the usual timetable for selecting a presidential candidate because of a number of things, one of which is that the Clintons have given us a 24/7/365 campaign in place of governance.
I refuse to be forced into rejection of or jumping onto any candidate love machine so far in advance of the actual primaries. But I am not going to be driven by the "he wasn't against this or that from birth" crowd or the leftists who come here to denigrate our candidates...and make no mistake, they are here.
Holding our horses and keeping our eyes open would seem to be a wise thing to do.
I don't think Newt can win, but I'd like to see him run so that his ideas get full exposure to the electorate.
A light hearted read with some truth mixed in....
If Rudy were the GOP nominee, the MSM and the DNC will spend six months using Rudy's hedonistic social agenda to attack every GOP voter and every GOP officeholder. They will relentlessly drive GOP voters away from Rudy in the general election by putting pictures of him in drag, grand marshalling gay pride parades, holding press conferences with feminists and calling putting Pat Robertson, Dobson, Falwell and anybody else on TV to comment on how they approve of Rudy being married three times and cheating on his last wife.
Whoever runs at the DNC/MSM candidate will simply avoid speaking to the media or the public for the last 4 months of the campaign except for TV ads where they will appear with puppies, children, old people and fake doctors and nurses. It won't matter because we will be spending the last 6 months trying to explain how a party with the platform we have is going to support a candidate who governed for 8 years in direct opposition to it.
If you remember how much time the MSM spent trying to put some meat on the Bush-Was-A-Cokehead story, now think of what it would be like if there were video of Bush doing cocaine before appearing at an anti-drug rally?
"Fred Thompson hasn't declared, but should. He has been waging a stealth campaign simply by appearing as a guest host for Paul Harvey. He sounds like a man with his boots on the desk and a star on his chest. As a veep, he would make John Edwards look like Peter Pan. For the debate, Edwards might as well show up in green tights."
I still like a Thompson/ Hunter ticket.
Check this one out! James Lileks nails it with this one - with humor ;-)
Dear lord, I am dying here!
Without fail, you post the absolute BEST articles on this site!
((( Rudy Ping))))
Interesting description there considering who this article is about. ;).
This is one of the best posts I've read in a long time. Thanks for the post! It nails everything in a hilarious way!
Let's see. According to political comments here and there, Giuliani married his second cousin, divorced twice, and lived with a couple of homosexuals. Quite a few pictures of him in drag have been posted. It's no surprise at all that a handful of noisy subscribers are pushing him here.
This is hilarious, some great lines in there...LOL