Posted on 11/15/2011 4:35:57 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Yesterday's global-warming debate between John Kerry and Newt Gingrich was, as the moderator put it, "advertised as a smack-down and a prizefight." But those labels were too modest for Kerry.
"Welcome to our environmental version of the Lincoln-Douglas debates," the former Democratic presidential nominee told the crowd in the Russell Caucus Room. "We flipped a coin, and I picked Lincoln."
But something funny happened on the way to 1858. Gingrich, a former Republican House speaker, refused to play Douglas to Kerry's Lincoln, instead positioning himself as a tree-hugging green.
Before Kerry got a word in, Gingrich conceded that global warming is real, that humans have contributed to it and that "we should address it very actively." Gingrich held up Kerry's new book, "This Moment on Earth," and called it "a very interesting read." He then added a personal note about saving vulnerable species from climate change. "My name, Newt, actually comes from the Danish Knut, and there's been a major crisis in Germany over a polar bear named Knut," he confided.
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Kerry didn't know quite what to do with his agreeable opponent. "I'm a little confused about sort of where Newt comes from on this," he said at first. Later, Kerry tried to switch places with Gingrich, branding him a big-government liberal. "You know, this is a huge transition," he exclaimed. "You actually want the government to do it. I want the private sector to do it."
By the end of the debate, Lincoln/Kerry was embracing Douglas/Gingrich as a global-warming ally, saying things such as "What we need to do is what Newt just said."
"I'll lay odds if Newt Gingrich and I were responsible for making this happen, we could get in a room and in a week, we'd come up with a program and make it happen,"
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I watched all the Perry hate.Now it’s Gingrich hate.How is it Gingrich gets a huge pass by some on here but Perry is an uber ebil RINO? :::Scratches head::: must be a leftover Palin cult thing?
LOUD APPLAUSE
Contrary to the media matters bloggers and MSM that think they can assist Obama by dragging on the GOP primaries and dividing and conquering with this very tactic of rightious principles of if not Palin/Cain/Sam Hill; no one kinda crap.
IT WON’T WORK.In the end Obama will lose.
It is amazing how the leftist aka progressives rant about global warming. Blaming it on humans. Did the planet stop evolving when people came along?
Well, of course. All of us will. What we're discussing now, however, is whether to support Gingrich over the other Republican candidates. I think we'll all be very disappointed if we do.
But when did we become a people in which the ends justify the means? How often I have heard people good people advocate an bad act as being for the greater good, when in history has that ever worked out? Think of the type of people though history that have called forth such ‘for the greater good’.
Maybe its not so much Obama that's destroyed America, but the lack of ability to stand one’s moral ground that has damaged it.
Thank you for your post.
On Super Tuesday, I plan to vote for Cain.
There isn’t enough room on FR to list NOOT’s political baggage.
Yes, he is intelligent. However, having the attention span of a fruit fly (what I believe is the cause of his serial adultery) combined with a political philosophy that can just barely be classified as conservative (on good days)is what hurts him with me.
I’ll vote for him if he is the GOP nominee, but never in the primary.
Rick Perry is the guy with an awesome resume, but he shows up to the interview wearing a t-shirt and carrying a half-drank twelve-pack of Milwaukee’s Best, drunk off his ass, and can’t even tell you his name properly when actually in the interview.
Newt’s the guy with a somewhat fuzzy resume, but when pressed about his actual record (the one where he was actually legislating), it shines, and, he knows how to answer every question the right way, despite spouting off at the mouth at times.
While the correct term was “The Soviet Union” or “USSR”, I’ll give him a pass on this, as, the colloquial term even back then was simply “Russia” or “Moscow.”
One could sarcasticly argue that, as a moderate who understands some issues near and dear to the left, Newt’s the best choice, better than Romney.
However, let’s look at the reality of the situation. Yes, Newt is an attention whore, and I think that is probably the reason for 99% of the things he has done that have pissed us off over the years.
However, when Newt was actually Speaker, he did more things to further the cause of conservatism than we can ever repay him for, despite his missteps at times.
If the GOP nominee is a spoiled ham sandwich, I’ll still vote for it against Obama.
Apparently so.
And apparently many around FR these days are now Republican first and Conservative distant second, considering how many posts I've seen demanding that Newt's pitiful record of repeatedly backstabbing Conservatives be swept under the rug for the supposed good of the country.
Perry is Jimmy Johnson.
short attention span is sure right...cannot even maintain conservative idea’s when running for office..He was so sweet to anita hill and took a stab at Cain for his none insulting remark..
Could be but he will fight, something none of the others have chosen to do.
Gingrich won’t prevent Cain from winning anything. Watch the next debate, I’m betting Cain destroys himself. He’s not up to speed on what’s happening in the world. He’d make a good press secretary, but not top spot. I was really for him before I found out he was married to a dem for 43y and then saw the Libya clip and the support for collective bargaining in Wisconsin. He was out of his league and was trying to memorize which positions he would find favor with conservatives. It was sad....far worse in my opinion than Perry’s brain fart. Every other contender is vastly more knowledgeable than Mr Cain...though he wins in likeability.
Found your post intriguing. Did you mean they’re both washed up? That they’re both winners? That Newt could make a good VP, Perry knows a lot and has done it all, but is happy in a laid back position.
Didn’t peak at any of your other posts...let me know what you were saying. Enjoyed it.
SJB
Mike Martz is a genius and a brilliant offensive coordinator but he's too arrogant to run the ball or put his own plans on hold for the good of the team. Great offensive coordinator but a bit too full of his own genius.
Jimmy Johnson is less serious, more goofy has the accent and the crazy hair but he has won 2 Superbowls and really 3 off simple philosophy.
If you interviewed them both you might take Martz based solely on the interview but if you were smart you would look at Jimmy's record and think, hey, he can do that for my team.
Well, then, if someone has media-created baggage that certainly disqualifies him or her. So who does that leave? Not cain. Too much baggage. Not Sarah. Too much baggage.
I guess we let Obama take it.
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