Posted on 12/01/2011 3:37:44 PM PST by Hojczyk
Which is a long way of saying that the best thing that can happen to Newt right now is that the conservative media vet him and do so with great vigor, anticipating every charge and debating every past apostasy and failing. Newt's personal story, marriage to Callista and his conversion are powerful walls against his past poor judgments in his life, but they serve not as all to answer Steyn's charge that Newt "hops and skips like a giddy frog across lily pads across the pond, from one, little, itsy-bitsy novelty idea to another, not awfully well thought out."
"And when I look at some of the things he’s managed to sign onto over the last fifteen years, I find that very worrying," Steyn offered, before doubling down: "The idea of Newt as the Republican presidential candidate is, I have to say, extremely dismaying to me."
I got email last night denouncing Mark Steyn, just as Geraghty got such mail yesterday and I get such email every day --most of it from the anti-Romney fringe who have been serially outraged at journalists covering the serial collapses of the previous anti-Romneys, correspondents who vastly overestimate the influence of the center-right chattering class. Romney's base network of support --his rock-solid 25%-- has been built over years and is holding together and Romney will thus either put the nomination away early or answer the bell for the next thirteen rounds after Iowa and New Hampshire. A extended, vitriolic Newt v. Mitt debate between the two camps will be great for talk radio and cable television, but exhausting, expensive and exhilarating for the Chicago gang.
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Indeed.
Conservatives seem to have lost their collective brain cell.
Mark, I totally agree.
Guess the voters in the polls don’t count.
I give up...
I try to keep that Newt/Nancy commercial around to beat myself over the head with any time I start thinking Newt is anything but a Mittens clone.
I’ve always liked Mark, but he better be wielding a very sharp stick or else he’s only going to hurt himself in the public’s eye.
“but exhausting, expensive and exhilarating for the Chicago gang.”
My first impression is, I think not. Although Gingrich has a long list of foibles and opps!, it doesn’t come close to the rotten scum obuma and his tome-size file of treachery, racism, hatred and stupidness.
I’d be willing to put up Newt’s laundry list of mistakes against obuma’s encyclopedia of treason toward America. And I’m not particulary fond of Newt, but I’ll sure as sugar take him over the Kenyan savage. I’m not a perfectionist, so go Newt!
These are sad times for the Romney supporters.
I expect Ann Coulter-Romney to go ballistic in one of her upcoming articles. Steyn is already griping (”there is no Establishment, Romney’s support is all hard-earned, grassroots Conservatives!”). Rove dismisses Newt like he believes his own spin, and Christie is flailing wildly in the hopes of doing Romney’s dirty work.
Sad times, indeed!
I was about to lose my senses. Thanks Mark, for brining me back from the dark side.
But now I have no clue who to support. Glad I don’t have to vote for a while.
Out of 310 million people one would think we could find competence, honesty, ethics and service to country from our political elite....the exact same thing we all expect from our servicemen.
Too many politicians are about self serving interests. They like getting rich (so do we, if done ethically) serving others who will reelect them, but serving the USA as our nation is not even one of them. The last scares me the most. They care about number 1 not the USA.
The pols are like the global international corporations and unions and others that have billions to spend. They either willingly accept bribes/money or their buddies use it against opponents.
They like lobbyists too and even those who work for other nations, and they like a media too that will promote them if only they vote their way. In the end too many pols don’t give one FF about the USA people.
That’s the way I see it.
At some point both Gingrich and Romney are going to have present a conservative vision to the Pubbie faithful. They’re going to have to enunciate a conservative program/manisfesto or fall by the wayside. Romney’s problems are worse than Newt’s, because despite his spotty past, Newt has a record of combating the liberal establishment. Additionally, he’s more likely to sound conservative. Can anyone remember Romney disseminating a conservative program?
Same here. Newt Gingrich makes my skin crawl. He seems like a sinister sleazebag.
no thats only if they vote romney right
Newt has a record of combating the liberal establishment.
wow when was this?...oh you talking bout the contract..that he dropped as soon as he got in oh ya
Newt has a record of combating the liberal establishment.
wow when was this?...oh you talking bout the contract..that he dropped as soon as he got in oh ya
Newt has a record of combating the liberal establishment.
wow when was this?...oh you talking bout the contract..that he dropped as soon as he got in oh ya
Who does Mark Steyn support? All of our candidates are imperfect.
Golly, folks, I am of the mind that any of our people: yes, Romney, too, would be a better President than the Kenyan Communist.
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