Newt (and Dr. Sowell) ping.
Gingrich is the Devil no doubt about that...
Like Patton or McArthur.. or Sherman during the Civil War..
Do you want somebody “NICE” or a President?..
Make your choice this is no GAME...
“how much does Newt Gingrich’s personal life matter”?
Not much. Marrying his high school geometry teach is a bit creepy but I’m not too into the personal matters. They count but they aren’t everything.
“In a world where we can make our choices only among the alternatives actually available, the question is whether Newt Gingrich is better than Barack Obama — and better than Mitt Romney.”
Yes. Heck, my neighbors dog is a better choice than Obama or Romney.
I’ve said this before ,so please forgive.
Ted Kennedy killed a woman.
He ran for President and was elected and lionized as a Senator for years.He was a known drunk and womanizer,married,divorced and married again.I know this is not about Ted ,but all eyes averted to the left to let this guy run a public life.
This is not to sanitize Newt in any way.
Dr.T Sowell is wise a wise man indeed.
He lost me right there.
IF it came to Newt or Obama ...?
There it is & there is our nominee. They’ve all been vetted. Let’s close ranks & get the MoJo go’in.
I’m sitting here wondering, if Gingrich is correct and this is “the most important election since 1860”, is Gingrich the best we should do?
Newt’s personal “baggage” has nothing to do with me.
Have heard the statement “It takes one to know one” or “Fight fire with fire”? Well, Newt was one of them at one time and knows how to deal with Washington. He got a lot done while he was Speaker.
He has more creative ideas than any of the others on the stage. We need someone who is not afraid to make a fool of himself every once in a while.
Screw the media.
All due praise to Dr. Sowell...I don’t choose to choose between Mitt and Newt.
He does.
His choice is better than the only other alternative he presented.
Newt isn’t as bad as Romney. Newt is better than Obama.
Doesn’t address the issue of taming Big Daddy Government. Newt has been on the wrong side of that many times. He says otherwise when it suits his purpose, and even acts otherwise at times, but he reverts back to it, and back, and back.
What results? He was elected on the Contract With America"
Name one of those 10 contract items that have survived. Just one.
His presidency will be likewise promises made while he preaches global warming and amnesty and expanded government programs like he did with Medicare and TARP.
“and the fact that he made a lot of money running a consulting firm after he left Congress”
I have to disagree with the good Doctor on that point. If you run the numbers the money he made is peanuts in the total scheme of things.
Wasting no time, let's just get right to the strawmen.
However, Newt has expressed favor for the health mandate, climate change and he called the Ryan plan "social engineering". His calling FDR the greatest President of the 20th century is what a majority on the left believe.
Are we not caring what a candidate says anymore just because he's not Romney?
Here are two questions for NRO...
1.) Name significant Conservative accomplishments for Newt Gingrich
Answer- several.. Contract with America, Welfare reform, budget balanced, capital gains cut..
2.) Name one significant accomplishment for Mitt Romney..
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I guess all those postings about Clinton were just a waste of time...
The only Speaker in History to be removed for ethics.
The wisdom of Afronaut: You people would vote in Satan as long as he was a Republican. You are the fringe of society, soon to be ignored for the mess your generation has bestowed on America. Your Generation has destroyed the hope and dreams of anyone under 30.
Sowell is certainly an insightful thinker, but I have to wonder if his situation as a professor doesn't color his view. He has a whole world of academia and ideas as well as the political world. It seems like a lot of people who only have Washington politics have found it harder to make their peace with Newt.