Grassroots Right Rejects Gingrich 2012

The Atlantic ^ | 10/26/09 | Mara Gay

[pissant]

Newt Gingrich appeared on talk shows this Sunday and flirted with the idea of a 2012 presidential bid. In a glaring example of just how wide the schism between Republican Party moderates and conservatives has become, pundits on the right were quick to shoot Gingrich down. The man who led the GOP to a 1994 revival is now dismissed being by some on the right as a RINO -- Republican In Name Only. Why? In a contentious New York State Congressional race that has split the Republican Party at the national level, Gingrich irked conservatives by endorsing moderate Dede Scozzafava, and urging Republicans not to support the more conservative third-party candidate Doug Hoffman. In the ongoing battle for tomorrow's GOP, the former speaker of the house isn't gaining any ground with grassroots conservatives.

* Palling Around With Liberals

Michelle Malkin imagines the administration Gingrich would have if he were president. "Picture the cabinet: Al Sharpton as education secretary. Scozzafava as labor secretary. Al Gore as global warming czar. Noooooo, thanks." she says. According to Malkin, "the conservative base is wising up and pushing back," and it won't need Gingrich's services to retake the party. "Constantly invoking Reagan isn't going to erase the damage Gingrich has done to his brand over the years by wavering on core issues and teaming up with some of the Left's biggest clowns."

* Gingrich Has Lost Touch With Base

At The American Spectator, Quin Hillyer says Newt Gingrich "should be ashamed" of himself for being "beltwayed" and missing the anti-establishment wave of the new conservative grassroots. "Right now the broader public, not just hardline conservatives, are in an anti-establishment mood. Yet Gingrich has sided with the establishment, and with a professional politician, against a self-made outside businessman getting into politics due to principle."

[pissant]

I'll give Newt the same number of votes I gave McCain.

[pray4liberty]

NO!!!!

[editor-surveyor]

Good bye Newtie!

[cripplecreek]

He’s just using up somebody else’s 15 minutes now.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Newt is Mr. Irrelevant! Put him and McNuts in a slow boat to .....anywhere!

[hinckley buzzard]

Yup. I think "screwed the pooch" applies here.

[Bahbah]

NO to Newt!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Newt is Mr. Irrelevant! Put him and McNuts in a slow boat to .....anywhere!

And, put Grahamnesty in the boat with them!

[editor-surveyor]

"At The American Spectator, Quin Hillyer says Newt Gingrich "should be ashamed" of himself for being "beltwayed" and missing the anti-establishment wave of the new conservative grassroots."

The spectator and Hillyer needs to wake up. Newt hasn't missed the anti-establishment wave of the new conservative grassroots, he is determined to bury it.

[samtheman]

the only difference between mccain and gingrich is at least mccain served in the military

otherwise, they are identical

who needs either one?

[Jim W N]

Gingrich blew it in the 90's. He betrayed America. Why should we vote for him? The GOP has also betrayed America. I’ve given up on the GOP (read, old Democratic Party). Anybody with half a brain can see that GOP party officials couldn't care less about our country but only about their stupid party and their positions in it.

20 years after Reagan left office, conservatism as a viable political movement is dead in the water. Yet there's conservative beliefs and ideals pulsing through many in our country.

I think the true conservatives (many are Christian believers) are ready, but there's little leadership except in a few corners. We've lost almost every American institution to the Marxists. Maybe an explanation is that true conservative leaders are morally clean, aren't on the take, and don't want to consolidate power but rather, give it back to the states and the people respectively.

[SmokingJoe]

I will repost what I posted in the other thread:
Newt has never been the most principled or moral guy you could get. This is a guy, who pressed his wife on their divorce even while she was sick in hospital from cancer. He has a very long history of questionable behavior with women.

Newt Gingrich's Skeleton Closet:
Quotes:

"We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'" - Anne Manning (who was also married at the time.)

"We would have won in 1974 if we could have kept him out of the office, screwing her [a young volunteer] on the desk." - Dot Crews, his campaign scheduler at the time

[In the book] "Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them", [I] "found frightening pieces that related to my own life." - Newt.

"I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to" - Newt, speaking to Gail Sheehy.

Draft Dodger:
Though he relentlessly pushes military spending and talks like a bigtime hawk, Gingrich avoided the Vietnam War through a combination of student and family deferments. (He married one of his teachers at age 19.)

House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don't, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn't help.

http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm

He'd sell his soul to the devil himself, if that would get him power. He is exactly the kind of politician we don't need.
Perhaps, Newt should go see this movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033532/

The real surprise here is why we have even paid mind to what Newt has had to say all these years.

[BobL]

He blew it in NY23. Looks like a cakewalk for Sarah.

[Man50D]

Keep talking Newt! You’re making the Conservative movement stronger every time you speak.

[VaRepublican]

I’ve noticed that the established “republican” party keeps telling me not to go third party, I have also noticed that many freepers also say that we are idiots to vote third party ,”think supreme justices” but ya know what,Screw that, I’m just not seeing the results from the supreme court. Give me a good third party candidate, Sarah, and I’m onboard.

[devane617]

I know you lurk here Newt, so here is a message for you: Thanks, and see ya later—much later.

[arthurus]

Dede Scozzawhatsa is NOT A MOSDERATE! She is a LEFTIST. Her party affiliation is irrelevant.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I already promised myself that in 2012, I will ONLY vote for someone who shares the same principals as mine. If they lose, so be it, but I am NOT going to hold my nose for anyone anymore. I only voted for McCain because of Sarah Palin. I lost all respect I had for Newt, I can’t even look at him anymore after his recent behavior

[4Speed]

Experienced DC Politicians need not Apply for 2010.
American Voters are the Experienced ones, and we will make decisions based upon our Lousy experiences the last few years with RHINOs and Obama supporters......both are “Tied” for the Nobel “Lying SOBs” prize.
Next weeks elections will tell a story.....A “Never Ending Story” of change.

[SaraJohnson]

How did the Rinos get such influential power over people with brains like Newt? Crimney, they have him bowing down to Algore’s global earth god, rubbing elbows with race hate pimps and foreigners, campaigning for an award winning baby killing New York socialist and shouting down the people he once fashioned reform to please.

There really is some kind of brain eating disease in Washington that infects everyone in due time.