Evans: How Gingrich wins the GOP Nomination

Newsmax ^ | 2/13/2012 | Randy Evans

[katiedidit1]

Hang on to your hats folks! this election could go on for quite sometime.

"Gingrich planners projected that with only 396 delegates chosen in March, no clear frontrunner is likely to emerge until Texas (155 delegates on April 3) and there too the endorsement and help of Gov. Perry is to their advantage." It is a long and winding road until any candidate wins over 1,000 delegates needed to become the nominee.

Read more on Newsmax.com: Evans: How Gingrich Wins the GOP Nomination

[JediJones]

You sound like Ann Coulter - it hasn’t happened before, so it can’t happen now.

If a community agitator can get elected President then anything can happen.

Let's not forget Newt was SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, already 2 heartbeats away from the presidency. If it's good enough for the founders, why not the voters?

There's almost no one who's even tried to argue that Newt isn't qualified or capable of being president. In fact people have long been expecting him to run for president, and many expecting him to win, since the '90s. This is less of a longshot candidacy than Obama, Clinton, Reagan, Santorum, Romney.... Have there been any governors who became president after having never even run for reelection once? Clinton won 5 terms. Reagan and Bush won 2 terms each. And they were all popular when they left the governorship, unlike Mittney.

[Marguerite]

"Newt is lovable after all"

If you have an hour to spare, here is an absolutely must-see, in-depth Newt's interview with Piers Morgan.

Discovering Newt’s true human nature, a kind, full of humor and self-derision person, with whom most of the people can connect. He comes from a modest family, studied and worked very hard to rise to the top, and was blessed with an extraordinary intelligence and wit, which contrasts so much with the Beltway guys describing his character as irascible, unpredictable and umbrageous.

Newt's In-depth Interview with Piers Morgan, Jan 12, 2012

Conversation between two genuine Republican Elephants :)

[Marguerite]

Transcript of the interview with P.Morgan

transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/15/pmt.01.html

MORGAN: How would it shape you as a president in the sense that you’re going to face, if you become president, moments where you have to decide, do you take your country to war? It’s going to happen to you. What does that tell you about warfare? I know you’re a military historian in many ways.

GINGRICH: Well, it’s deeper than just going to war. It’s the question of, how can you make the historically right decisions to give your children and grandchildren a prosperous, safe, free country? I mean maybe avoiding going to war because you use the right build-up or the right diplomacy, because you have foresight.

It’s also, how do you operate in a principled manner? Because you can’t just ad hoc all these different decisions. You have to have some underlying set of principles that enable you to say, you know, for America to remain a great nation, for America to remain an exceptional nation, these are things we have to focus on.

And you have to set priorities. And where possible, you have to get ahead of the problems. I mean, one of the amazing things about both Eisenhower and Reagan was that they were able to sort of see around the corner. And so they could take steps that achieved a great deal at minimum risk. And both of them tended to avoid risk.”

[Lady Lucky]

Santorum: I’m such a conservative
Romney: I’m a severe conservative
Newt: Here’s what we’re gonna do:

(because you already KNOW he’s a conservative)

[JediJones]

IMO, Newt needs to broaden his base now. He needs to appeal to the soccer moms. He’s got a solid core of hard-line conservative, testosterone-fueled supporters who love that he’s a fighter and love his big, bold, world-conquering ideas. But the soccer mom doesn’t get excited about going to the moon or about repealing Dodd/Frank. He needs to make more of a connection between his big ideas and his reform agenda and how it will affect the bread-and-butter, pocketbook, kitchen table issues at home. He’s done it before, he just needs to more heavily emphasize things like talking about making the future better for his grandchildren, lowering gas prices, creating new jobs and keeping the government out of your pocketbook and your church.

The best moment for Newt was in the debate where he said he’d help the poor get a job, get a better job and someday own the job. If he can continuously focus his rhetoric more on how his agenda will directly improve people’s lives all across America, then he will be in better shape to make a comeback. He should get specific and explain how the daily lives of some relatable types of people will be better under his presidency. The campaign needs to shift to “Big Reform, Personal Results” as almost a variation on “Think Globally, Act Locally.” The hard-line conservatives will come back to him as soon as they see him broadening his support beyond his base and looking like a credible winner again.

[Marguerite]

“There’s almost no one who’s even tried to argue that Newt isn’t qualified or capable of being president. In fact people have long been expecting him to run for president, and many expecting him to win, since the ‘90s.”

http://uprootedphilosopher.blogspot.com/2011/10/time-mag-man-of-year-1995.html

Time Mag Man of the Year - 1995
Monday, Dec. 25, 1995
NEWT GINGRICH’S WORLD
By LANCE MORROW

“LEADERS MAKE THINGS POSSIBLE. EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional. All year—ruthlessly, brilliantly, obnoxiously—he worked at hammering together inevitabilities: a balanced federal budget, for one. Not so long ago, the idea of a balanced budget was a marginal, we’ll-get-to-it-someday priority. Other urgent work needed doing: the Clintons’ health-care program, for example, which would have installed elaborate new bureaucratic machinery. Today, because of Newt Gingrich, the question is not whether a balanced-budget plan will come to pass but when.

Gingrich has changed the center of gravity. From Franklin Roosevelt onward, Americans came to accept the Federal Government as the solution to problems, a vast parental presence. Ronald Reagan preached that government was the problem, but his Administration focused mostly on the Evil Empire; it did not overturn the grand centralizing legacy of New Deal and Great Society. Newt Gingrich wants to reverse the physics, make American government truly centrifugal, with power flowing out of Washington, devolving to the states.

....

IF GINGRICH WERE TO RUN for president, of course, he might be applying for a job inferior to the one he has created for himself as Speaker of the House. Whatever his fortunes in the polls and in the hands of a special counsel to the House ethics committee, Gingrich has the American genius for reinventing himself.

Justice Holmes judged that Franklin Roosevelt had a “second-class intelligence but a first-class temperament.” Newt Gingrich has a first-class intelligence that fires through a strangely refracted temperament that is not exactly second-class but agitated and sometimes grandiose enough to make Americans nervous. He has proved himself an impresario of leverage in using Congress to change America, a sort of hothouse genius. Americans may discover in 1996 whether Gingrich can evolve outward—as a truly popular leader in the open air.”

[I_be_tc]

I had never known of a community organizer being elected POTUS before, but that happened. Seems like history is kind of going by the wayside lately. So, maybe Newt, even coming out of the House, is viable.

[Marguerite]

“Santorum: I’m such a conservative
Romney: I’m a severe conservative
Newt: Here’s what we’re gonna do:

(because you already KNOW he’s a conservative)”

That sums it all.
Great post.

[sodpoodle]

A must see video. Thanks again for the link;) Will watch again in the morning.

g’nite y’all

God bless.

[Toespi]

“plans of Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney without getting personal, he’ll be back at the top pretty soon.”

Tell me what Newt said or did that became personal to Santorum or Romney. I don’t think discussing romneys financial and business practices was personal. I think it was valuable information that every person needed to know. After all, Romney is running on his success as a businessman. Truth is, Santorum was and is far more critical and personal against Newt. But if we hear something enough, it becomes fact.

[Marguerite]

February 13, 2012 - In a wide-ranging interview with Newsmax, Newt slams the Obama administration’s hostility towards religion and his will to fight for preserving America greatness and restoring America’s prosperity, by unleashing American people creativity and desire to work in their pursuit of happiness

http://www.newsmax.com/video/viewid/1963ca9b-7317-4f8b-ad98-58adade196c3

[Marguerite]

You’re right.

What I meant is, in the debates Newt shouldn’t let himself dragged by “moderators” or by Romney and probably Rick’s future bickering, and stick to present his detailed Contract with 21st century America versus their plans.

[Carry me back]

Go Newt Go ! Things could turn in your favor.

[onyx]

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[onyx]

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[Marguerite]

“So, maybe Newt, even coming out of the House, is viable.”

With almost 50 years career in American politics, 20 years experience as staunch conservative legislator
(91% conservative voting record, 98.7% pro-life voting record) , writer of 23 books and creator of four (small) companies, Newt is much more qualified for the office of president than any of other contenders, Obama being at the last place.

Gingrich has served on several commissions, including the Hart-Rudman Commission, formally known as the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century.

For over two decades, Gingrich has taught at the United States Air Force’s Air University, where he is the longest-serving teacher of the Joint Flag Officer War fighting Course.

In September 2007, Gingrich founded the 527 group American Solutions for Winning the Future. The stated mission of the group is to become the “leading grassroots movement to recruit, educate, and empower citizen activists and elected officials to develop solutions to transform all levels of government”.

Gingrich spoke of the group and its objectives at the CPAC conference of 2008 and currently serves as its General Chairman.

Other organizations and companies founded or chaired by Gingrich include the creative production company Gingrich Productions, and religious educational organization Renewing American Leadership.

Gingrich is also a fellow at conservative think tanks the American Enterprise Institute and Hoover Institution, focusing on U.S. politics, world history, national security policy, and environmental policy issues.

He has done all that and much more. This is NEWT-ON.

[Carry me back]

Yeah RS is not the answer unless you want more of the same old failed policies of the past. Newt is the one talking about real positive change.

[onyx]

GO NEWT - DONATE!

[LADY J]

"Pubs tend to go for governors, generals or private individuals."

Nothing changed. The RINOs are still trying to shove Romney down our throats. I'll go with no governor this time instead of the horrible governor that Romney was!!

I'm still in the Gingrich/West camp & I'm sticking till the end!

[editor-surveyor]

Don’t know about the fat lady, but most of the old Reagan camp seems to be with Newt.