Posted on 11/17/2011 9:44:38 AM PST by Signalman
Edited on 11/17/2011 9:47:01 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
In all honesty I think most voters are not going to care about his answer in that interview, much less what that answer actually means. What people will care about is one thing and one thing only: jobs. If Newt doesnt have a game plan, he is toast. They will not care about his love-couch with Nan or his flim-flam answer in that interview. They will want to be employed. Everything else is secondary. Without a job, youre dead in the water.
http://townhall.com/video/to-congress-well-never-return-to-pre-obama-unemployment
OMG, after 30 years in Washington there are pictures of him standing next to democrat and he might have even had to work with one or two of them occasionally. so freaking what.
IIRC, I don’t believe he had even come up w/ his own 11th commandment rule in ‘76.
The article was written by one of the most radical libs in the lamestream media. Anyone who sides with Dana Milbank is no conservative.
The more I’ve gotten to know the various choices, the less impressed I get. At this point, and barring a serious gaffe or revelation, I think Newt is the only viable alternative to Romney. It isn’t that I’m especially fond of Newt (I’m not), but the rest of the field is incredibly light and I really don’t believe stand a realistic chance against Obama.
Newt sets the record straight on the mandate lie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEmh3s32Gfw&feature=relmfuhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXSrVg6OKiU&feature=related
at about minute 18 and following: http://sheya.com/2011/11/08/newt-gingrich-on-special-report-center-seat
what is there in this article that hasn’ been said about Gingrich here at FR?
surprise!
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Milbank strikes another blow on behalf of Mitt Romney!
Romney hasn’t had to soil his mittens yet. His dirty work has been getting done by the media and by the less-than-deep candidates who don’t realize he’s playing a game of “last man standing”.
And Obama pitches on Romney’s team as a ghost player quite frequently.
Who needs Democrats when we’re fully capable of destroying all the GOP candidates ourselves?
Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Milbank
It tells you ALL you need to know about this phony Milbank. He seems like a RINO to me.
Newt WAS Speaker. He did orchestrate a balanced budget, He did usher in over a decade of Republican control of the House. He has written dozens of books and accomplished more than a vast majority of people.
Herman Cain DID grow up working class poor and black in Georgia. HE did graduate as a mathematician and work for the Dept. of the Navy. He WAS a trajectory expert for rockets. He did advance high up in the Coka-Cola company, Pillsbury, Burger King, and DID become CEO and President of Godfather's Pizza. He has been incredibly successful, far beyond that of most people.
Rick Perry IS the Governor of Texas, the second largest and most populous state in the union. He has been quite successful as governor. Texas has lower unemployment and larger job growth than most other states. He is staunchly pro-life and walks it like he talks it. He is a man of accomplishment much more so that most in society.
Michelle Bachman IS a tax attorney, she did litigation in the IRS She has her own business, She has raised five biological children and twenty-three foster children. She is a woman of accomplishment much greater than the average person.
The same can be said of EVERYONE of the Republican candidates. They are people of TRUE accomplishment and intelligence. They have a past that is verifiable. They have former jobs, businesses, acquaintances, girlfriends/boyfriends, careers and successes. They also have failures. Some in marriage, some in business and some in personal and business lapses.
None of these things can be said about Obama. A man of mystery with no known accomplishments beyond trashing his political opponents enough to be the last man standing in the contest. He is a man of nebulous past and spurious acquaintances and friendships. He has no documentation of accomplishment. He is as we predicted, A nightmare of incompetence.
Newt is fine. He knows how to punch back. He is a damn sight better than Romney and he will get center right things done if elected.
His success will ride on how well he can convince voters that it was he, not Clinton, who orchestrated the 90s boom. Since this is largely true (well, he plus the GOP Congress), it shouldn’t be that hard, but will be, since the media will distort it.
>> True, but I guess that all depends on your definition of a conservative, right? Now if Perry’s Open-Border positions don’t bother you, you’ll think he is a conservative. If the myriad of non-conservative actions/positions that Newt has taken don’t bother you, you’ll think he is a conservative. >>
Well it was Reagan’s commandment so it was definitely HIS definition that he used, and he did not ever use a single issue template that I can remember.
As for Perry - I have some issues with him on immigration but I don’t think “open borders” is accurate. On Newt, his myriad of position changes does bother me, but he is in his late 60s and speaking of Reagan - Reagan was much different in his late 60s than he was in his 40s, 50’s and early 60’s.
None of them bother me as much as Obama’s positions on everything. And Reagan almost always guagued folks by who the opposition was and went for the “most” conservative.
Sometimes, a smackdown fight is better than a smooth talking negotiation, and that’s what Newt will give us (vs. Slick Mitt).
I’m quickly coming around to the idea that not only can I accept Newt and all his flaws, and not only that he can get the nomination, but that he SHOULD.
I’m also coming around to the idea that he can beat Obama. He’s now polling about as well (or better) than Romney against Obama.
None of them are.
He has a successful conservative history as speaker.
He understands the judicial problems in our country.
He understands the infiltration of islamism into our country.
I think he’s the only one who can do it.
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