Can you imagine if someone like e.j. dionne were in charge of our defense or foreign policy? He would give our adversaries such a good lisp-lashing, then a hearty bitch slap and call it good.
Oh wait — someone like e.j. dionne IS in charge of our defense and foreign policy.
Yikes!
I care what EJ has to say like I care what a boil on my backside has to say.
It’s difficult to temperately judge any E.J. Dionne Jr column because he’s such a repulsive weasel.
The effort to blackball Newt Gingrich will be the next drama in this fascinating train wreck of a campaign
And you'll be there in the club car drinking to Newt's demise, won't you, EJ?
If Santorum does not get a big win in Iowa, Gingrich will be the choice of all Christian conservatives like myself.
For those of you who think I am crazy, just watch.
I am in touch with more Evangelical Christians then most Freepers could imagine, and I guarantee you that If Sanatorium does not win, and win bug in Iowa, they will be supporting Gingrich.
My enemy’s enemy is my candidate. Go Newt!
How’s this gem from the article:
“And in truth, the party took his approach to heart. If discrediting John Kerry’s service in Southeast Asia through false attacks in 2004 was what it took to reelect a president who had avoided going to Vietnam, what the heck.”
Biased,much?
Newt was a tough conservative fighter in 1994. However after four years of unending attacks by the left, Newt became weak and compromising. So he resigned at the end of 1998 as he lost support on the right.
The fascinating thing is will the same thing happen again, or will the historian learn from his mistakes, not care what the left and the establishment GOP think, and not fold this time?
TBD.
“The effort to blackball Newt Gingrich will be the next drama in this fascinating train wreck of a campaign.”
I guess for the Washington ComPost, it’s far better to just be told by Soros who your nominee is. No need to ever “vet” your candidate, or even look at his BIRTH CIRTIFICATE or SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
He’s not trying to “re-join the country club”, he’s trying to bypass it entirely.
All I have to say is I want a choice not an echo. What I am hearing from Newt is a real choice, not Obama or Obama lite.
If he wins the nomination he has my vote, till then I am savoring every debate and praying that the Republic is restored.
That said I still can't get on board with Newt. That could change. It's wait and see.
This statement is downright laughable. E.J. Dionne? Please!
But, I must say, that in the article, E.J. is right about the GOP establishment.
ping, to read later....
After Newt and the Republicans took over, the Dems continued to act like it was just a temporary set-back, because the universe wasn't right unless they were in charge.
Their idea of the good ol’ days, when the parties got along in DC and things got done, was before Newt showed up...when the Dems ran the town, and Bob Michel was Tip O’Neills limo driver. The reason things became contentious in DC was not because of Newt as much as it was because the Dems felt entitled to be in charge, and still to this day, refuse to accept their true minority status.
Newt is looking good!
I’m not about to vote for Gingrich, because E.J. Dionne claims he’s a conservative. This is a colossal fakeout. The media is pressing this idea that Gingrich is the conservative alternative to Romney. I am not voting for him just because the media tells me.
"In fact, Gingrich’s rise is the revenge of a Republican base that takes seriously the intense hostility to President Obama, the incendiary accusations against liberals and the Manichaean division of the world between an “us” and a “them” that his party has been peddling in the interest of electoral success."
"The right-wing faithful knows Gingrich pioneered this style of politics, and they laugh at efforts to cast the former House speaker as something other than a “true conservative.” They know better."
Good find.
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