After a long deliberation, I have decided that I will not vote for Gingrich in the primaries. You know all the reasons why, so no need to detail them here.
And I see no reason to rush into Newt’s arms before one vote has even been cast for the nomination. I am not influenced by polls and charts about who else is supporting him. That makes no difference to me as there is no need to jump on a bandwagon during the primaries.
At the least, conservatives going all in for Newt now are GIVING UP WHATEVER LEVERAGE they may have had on a President Gingrich. So many who were saying months ago they would never vote for Newt, and for good and longstanding reasons, nevertheless have flown to his support like moths to a candle — imo, showing the GOP elites nothing but a streak of desperation and impatience.
And showing Newt that he can do and say just about anything, now and in the past and, therefore, in the future, and apparently desperate conservatives will support him anyway. Some of them will give it all up just for the very short-term and ultimately politically meaningless thrill of — maybe — seeing Gingrich debate Obama.
Gingrich is treating conservatives like they’re stupid. He spends 20 years flakking for the individual mandate in healthcare, when it becomes a problem, he says oh, don’t worry, I’m not for that. And, off everyone goes, big smiles on their faces, singing Zippety-do=dah! And Gingrich must be saying to himself, GOD, THIS IS EASY.
Jim, you know this man is a phoney. And we are going to run fullspeed to latch on to him before the voting has even started rather than **at least giving him a run for his money and making him work to win the nomination** — thereby at least trying to send him the message that we don’t lap up his Barbara Streisand and he better understand our demands and understand them well.
No, the way things are going now, Gingrich must be saying to himself, “I thought I’d have trouble with those pesky conservatives trying to hold my feet to the fire on all my liberal crap over the years, but, GOD, THEY ARE EASY.”
Have you noticed that before Gingrich was the frontrunner, we were spending our time hotly debating MASSIVE TAX REFORM and GOVERNMENT SPENDING CUTS?
After, all the movement has talked about is Newt. And that’s how it’s always been with Newt: he always manages to make it all about him.
I for one am going to keep on him and try to raise the voice that lets him know he’s not doing a cakewalk with at least some conservatives.
If we end up with a President Gingrich (and I will vote for the GOP nominee), at this rate conservatives are doing nothing but MARGINALIZING themselves as an influence on him and his administration. If he’s going to win, it would actually be better for him to squeak through and know very well where his bread his buttered.
He is NOT principled, but he can be managed somewhat if he knows he must earn and earn our votes (conservatives) every day.
aahaha - you probably were/are a good lawyer.
First you dig up a hit piece about someone getting charged with something but conveniently neglect to also mention that the person was exonerated...to protect your client which is who - Romney? Then you say "...no need to go into details here' and then go on and on. Yep, you got that there lawyer thing down pat.