Posted on 01/22/2012 6:50:50 AM PST by nikos1121
ORANGEBURG, S.C. - - Newt Gingrich trundles into the meeting hall - - a former X-rated movie theater - - to rapturous applause.
He is not the best-looking guy in Republican race or the best-funded or the most ideologically pure. But he has found his shtick, and he is shticking to it.
Newt Gingrich is the angriest man in America.
Mitt Romney will tell you that Barack Obama is a “nice guy” but that he is “in over his head.”
Newt Gingrich will tell you Barack Obama is “the most radical and most incompetent president in our lifetime!”
Obama is more than incompetent, in fact. To Newt, he is a moron. “It’s one thing to say the White House can’t play chess, it’s another to say it can’t play checkers,” Newt says and pauses like the professional he is for the laugh to build. “But tic-tac-toe?”
But Obama is more than stupid. He is dangerous. This is important to keep in mind.
The Gingrich campaign is based on the notion of perpetual struggle against perpetual peril.
“How many of you believe the left will fight us every step of the way even after we win?” Gingrich asks the crowd.
The next day, Gingrich will win the South Carolina primary. But he already knows that will happen. That is a given. Just like his nomination and election. But even that will not be enough to silence the “secular socialists” who oppose him from the left.
The “left” is a broad category to Gingrich. It includes liberals, socialists, anti-religious bigots, i.e. Democrats, most of the media, some misguided Republicans, and, well, anybody who opposes Newt Gingrich.
“We knew there’d be attacks, and the closer we were to winning the more ferocious the attacks would be,” Gingrich says.
John King of CNN, who asked Gingrich in a debate Thursday night whether he had ever asked his second wife for an “open” marriage, is part of the ferocious attack machine that seeks to thwart Gingrich.
Gingrich has called this “despicable” and now he calls it “grotesque.”
“Is the American news media just totally out of touch with reality?” he asks reporters after the rally. “You want to say: Get a life! There is a consistent pattern year after year that the American people are sick of the behavior of the news media. Sick!”
Anger, umbrage and bitterness are so much a part of Gingrich’s public persona that he likes to attack the very concept of happiness.
Gingrich, like other candidates for the Republican nomination, has a fondness for quoting the Founding Fathers, but he now says that when they wrote “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, it did not mean what we think it means.
“Happiness in the 18th century meant wisdom and virtue, not hedonism,” Gingrich says without a scintilla of embarrassment, even though he, himself, has pursued a fair amount of hedonism in his lifetime.
“And they promised us the right to pursue,” Gingrich continues. “There is no provision for a Department of Happiness. They issued no happiness stamps. And if you said that you were going to take happiness from some and distribute it to others, the Founding Fathers would have asked by what right?”
So if we don’t have happiness to look forward to, what does Gingrich offer?
Work. Effort. Struggle.
“Work is something you need,” Gingrich says. “I don’t think it’s inappropriate for a 12- or 13-year-old to push a mop. We have the finest food stamp president in American history. I want to be the finest paycheck president in history.
“We will never give somebody 99 weeks of money for doing nothing!”
The crowd cheers its approval. Imagine people getting unemployment benefits for 99 weeks. For doing nothing! The average weekly unemployment benefit in America in 2010 was about $295, which is hardly a princely sum. But if people faced actual starvation instead of getting food stamps and unemployment insurance, wouldn’t this be a better country? As long as you had a job, that is.
There are now three Republican contenders with gold medals: Rick Santorum (Iowa), Mitt Romney (New Hampshire) and Newt Gingrich (South Carolina).
But Gingrich is unworried about Santorum and unworried about Ron Paul, who has yet to win anywhere. Only Mitt has the money and organization to beat him, Gingrich believes, but Romney will fail because Romney’s speeches are filled with optimism and other infantile notions.
Americans don’t want sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. They want blood, toil, tears and sweat. They want a dependably gloomy man in the Oval Office. They want Newt!
And he believes they will elect him come November.
“It will shock the country,” Newt says. “It will shock the world. And shock is what we need.”
Exactly right!! It made me so angry when McCain let opportunity after opportunity go by to go after Obama and just sat there like a milk toast!! Newt won’t do that!! He will take down Obama or die trying and THAT is what we need!!!
I agree however with Simon, Newt is angry. That’s why we like him.
Hum, from the Politico eh? I think I see the beginning of the POS campaign: Newt, just an angry old white man. I love the first line that begins about the place having been an old X rated theater, kind of like trying to bring up his divorces without actually mentioning them. It is going to be a real tough election and we must have a candidate up to the task of throwing as much dung back as he can muster while keeping his eye on the enemy: OBAMA.
Listening to a cub reporter on Fox right now. The guy has more vocalized pauses, (ah...you know...ah...etc), that it’s annoying. Didn’t he learnt to speak before a camera?
And why is that?
“Right on, right on!”
Santorum should drop out now. Staying in just gives the lead and possible opening for Romney.
Does anyone know WHY he’s staying in? Can it help Newt?
He was referring to this scene in seinfeld, a very funny one, not slamming Newt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMzhnDi7hu0
All these quotes from Newt were from his speech last night
in South Carolina.
He actually didn’t gloat. or appear like he loved getting revenge vs. Romney.
But he did say two things which hit hard v. Obama.
One: About the Keystone Pipeline. that’s when he said they can’t play
tic tac toe.
Two: he did say that it is a choice between radical Alinsky and freedom and
pursuit of happiness.
I did say in my mind that was for the Republican primary voters,
because I don’t think most general election voters know who Alinsky
is and that Obama taught Alinsky tactics.
Newt Angry? No. Not last night.
This column was fundamentally misleading.
Article was almost decent but proved ineffective, in summary, for this line:
“but Romney will fail because Romney’s speeches are filled with optimism and other infantile notions. “
The author could have said something with bite, along the lines of:
“You are getting your clock cleaned because you don’t stand for anything and you are generally full of shit.”
Go ahead Mitt, tell me point blank where you stand and then let me test that stance with a follow up question.
There should be no perceived equivocation, evasion of mind in yourself. You ought to be understood crystal clear and you aren’t.
You are a parser and I’m going to name a herb after you.
I won’t eat it because I’ll never know what I’m eating.
Welcome aboard...
I’m liking someone like Rick Perry for VP. What do you think?
Orangeburg S.C. is the hometown of Eugene “Comrade” Robinson. Look for him to characterize Newt’s visit to a majority-black & heavily Democratic city as an attempt to stir up those “angry white (racist) southern males” against Obama, progress, sunshine, lollipops, etc.
FWIW, I worked in Orangeburg & I voted for Newt.
Orangeburg S.C. is the hometown of Eugene “Comrade” Robinson. Look for him to characterize Newt’s visit to a majority-black & heavily Democratic city as an attempt to stir up those “angry white (racist) southern males” against Obama, progress, sunshine, lollipops, etc.
FWIW, I worked in Orangeburg & I voted for Newt.
Contrastthat with Romney and Santorum. They can’t talk about issues, so even in congratulaing Newt they slam him personally.
He, Romney. You decided to go after the Speaker in Iowa. He hit back hard and you lost.
Mitt Romney will tell you that Barack Obama is a “nice guy” but that he is “in over his head.”
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When has he ever been a nice guy?
He is an apologist,but nice? I don’t see it.
Was he nice when he ran for State Senator and won by challenging his rivals petitions for inclusion on the ballot. A nice trick.
Was he nice when he took his primary challenger Blair Hull and had his divorce papers leaked to the press? Then to top that in the General election ,Obama faced the very popular Jack Ryan, a one time Goldman Sachs partner. It appeared that Obama had no chance against Ryan. But then Ryan’s divorce records and child custody files were released. In the custody files, his then-wife, the actress Jeri Ryan (who had a role as Borg member “Seven of Nine” on Star Trek: Voyager), alleged that Jack Ryan had asked her to perform sexual acts with him in public in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as “a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling.”
In other words he skated to the United States Senate on the bodies of his rivals. Not so nice.
LOL...some people...when they post things...show they have no social exposure. "Not that there's anything wrong with that." ;-)
It's a Seinfeld quote.
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