FRiend, you are not accepting the known negatives of Gingrich AT ALL. You're response is always "he's changed," "he's saying something different now."
Why are you troubled by my not "accepting" -- by which I think you mean, not crediting to the point of balancing out some of the negatives -- Gingrich's positives?
Why should I have to accept his positives any more than you have to accept his negatives?
Everyone has to make their own call on how the positives and negatives balance out.
Getting wrapped up in whether someone who obviously disagrees with your conclusions about Newt "accepts his positives" is just another way of arguing that if I only *really knew* what you know about Gingrich, then I'd agree with you. That I haven't *really listened* to your arguments about Gingrich, else I'd agree with you.
Not the case.
I do know what you're saying about Gingrich and I don't agree with you that the positives outweigh the negatives in terms of voting for him in the primaries.
I think conservatives are rushing to hand this man a historical gargantuan pass on a silver platter.
Instead of making clear to Gingrich that we hold him accountable, there is thread after thread about full of "I don't care" posts about his various negatives. If this is how he gets treated in the primaries, forget about him understanding accountability to conservatives once in the White House.
So we disagree on this and we each have valid reasons for our respective conclusions.
We'll see how this plays out in the next weeks and months.
Maybe you should look at my posting history. You would see that on numerous occasions I have stated how much Newt has pissed me off in the past. He’s hardly a perfect candidate to me. Neither was Reagan, but then again, I’m not always right.
Reagan was a Democrat, raised taxes & signed the first abortion bill in Calif., signed off on amnesty, raised taxes as president, endorsed RINO’s, & ruffled the feathers of the elitists more than once, etc., etc.
He’s still one of my all time favorites, warts & all. I didn’t focus on his negatives because his positives, & what he could do for the country far outweighed the negatives. I feel the same about Newt. He’s got a boat load of laundry. But I feel he’s the right guy for the right time, much along the lines of Reagan & Churchill (who also had his fair share of baggage). I just don’t feel that “right guy for the right time” w/ any of the other candidates. They either don’t have the experience or the fortitude to go after it, & both will be necessary IMHO.
We need someone that will give us conservatives that “YES!” moment we haven’t seen since Reagan. No one has delivered those moments thus far except Newt, nor in my opinion will they due to the afore mentioned.