Posted on 03/29/2012 11:47:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
It is not often that I rise to the defense of N. Leroy Gingrich, Definer Of Civilization's Rules And Leader (Perhaps) Of The Civilizing Forces, but I think if the man wants to keep running for president, he should keep running for president. I think he should ignore the people telling him to get out so the party can line itself up behind the Romneybot 2.0, because the party plainly doesn't want to do that. Willard Romney is not unpopular because Newt Gingrich is still running against him. He is unpopular because, to anyone not in Willard Romney's income ionosphere, he is an unprincipled boor who speaks as though he learned English backwards and 20 minutes ago. Consider the fiasco he constructed for himself in Wisconsin yesterday, when he tried to relate an "amusing anecdote" about Pater and the groundlings who once worked for him, and ended up sounding like the Grand Duke of the Duchy Of Dipshit.
"One of the most humorous I think relates to my father," he started, going on to tell how George Romney closed a car factory in Michigan and moved the production to Wisconsin. That became something of a sensitive topic when the elder Romney ran for governor, especially when he happened to be out at a parade with a school band that could play the Wisconsin fight song, but not the University of Michigan's. So every time they would start playing ‘On, Wisconsin, On, Wisconsin,' my dad's political people would jump up and down and try to get them to stop, because they didn't want people in Michigan to be reminded that my dad had moved production to Wisconsin," Romney said.
You think this guy is going to become less obviously maladroit just because Newt Gingrich isn't around to heckle him any more? The Republican fixers want Gingrich out so that they can get busy creating a meretricious narrative about Romney that they can pitch to as many of the gullible rubes as will buy it. The less time they have to do that, the better. (Making out of Mitt Romney a plausible human being is not a task that can be accomplished quickly.) So Newt should stay in just to make that job harder because, really, what does he owe to any of these guys? Say what you will about his megalomanical ideas, he at least expresses them in a way that doesn't make you feel you should be trimming his hedge or something.
He should also ignore the people who say he should get out because he has very little money. If that's the scoreboard by which we measure candidates now, the Republic is lost anyway. Nobody's telling cheapskate Ron Paul to get out, even though crazy Uncle Liberty (!) has pretty plainly been absorbed into the force field that surrounds Romneybot 2.0.
Newt should also ignore people who say he should get out because he is firing all the people who worked for his campaign. That's important to approximately 25 people, and they're all sitting around various Green Rooms anyway. If Newt wants to go on as The Man Who Walks Alone -- "...like Caine in Kung Fu." Jules Winnfield -- I say god go with him. At the very least, we will be spared a little while longer from the inevitable campaign film, Willard Romney: My Struggle Upwards From Wealth.
I’ll be sure to ping you Laz.
Please stay in, Newt. If you go there is no one for which to vote.
They're afraid that by having Newt as a lifeboat, Mitt will continue looking like Mitt to the voters - incompetent. If we have another option -- are not forced to accept Mitt with no other left to vote for, we can pressure the Establishment who thinks they are close once again to fulfilling their mission of nominating a mushy moderate, while thumbing their noses at the unwashed base.
Others say the math shows that Newt is keeping more delegates from Mitt; if he leaves Mitt will rack up a win for sure.
Godspeed Newt.
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Sarah + Newt + West = Dynamite. I don’t care what order they appear on the ticket.
Any two would clean house.
It will be a whole new world with Newt as President. He won’t lower the oceans, but Main St. will look like America again!!! Newt all the way, please God.
Thanks for the link :)
I went and saw Newt at a fundraiser this week. It was at a private residence. He spoke for about a half hour, answered questions from the audience, and posed for pictures.
1) His goal is to stay in the race until the convention. If Romney is 100 or more delegates short by the convention, Newt thinks that he can make the case that he is the best person to take on Obama in the debates.
2) He is an amazing intellectual, and also very good in the face-to-face campaign game, which is a very rare combination. He rattled off a three minute answer about the money supply and the velocity of money in response to a question about inflation. Hearing him answer questions is like watching Picasso paint.
3) If not for Newt, Romney would have walked away with the nomination 5 months ago. Romney has had to go on record making conservative statements for the last 5 months that he would not have had to make if not for Newt. And despite the Etch-a-Sketch comment, a Republican can not walk away from campaign promises like a Democrat can. Remember “read my lips, no new taxes”? It cost Bush Sr. a second term.
4) His personal history may be messy, but without Newt Gingrich we would not have had a Republican majority in 1994, and the world as we know it would be a very different place. Imagine a second Clinton term with no Republican congress - we’d have had socialized medicine in 1995.
Thank you for the information and comments.
He would be a wonder - teaching the country and standing up to Congress with the voters’ help. To have a say and not be continually disappointed by our representatives, to see the actual roll back of regulations and agencies, an energy boom and economic surge would light this country up and by extension buoy our allies and make our enemies back off.
A-ha-ha-ha. How droll.
What? Poppy endorsed you? How wonderful! Now you can add "kinder, gentler" to your resume, along with laying off the proles and patronizing the lowbrows.
That's a very good point. The liberals are losing discipline (if they ever had any) and are beginning to take the gloves off with Mittens (if that's not too mixed a metaphor).
Nothing but rocks and shoals for Mitt from here on in.
How badly will it screw with their heads if the convention throws over the traces and stampedes for Sarah? (Yeah, yeah, I know .... but I can dream, can't I?)
Yeah, whatever . . . but at least he has Mitt pegged! ;-)
He needs to win 3 more states to even have his name entered into nomination, he’s not gonna get one more.
There is only one alternative to Romney, Rick Santorum.
Vote for Liberty! Vote for “Due Process”! Vote for Newt!!!
I will “Root for Newt” until someone officially has the republican nod. After that, tough decisions ahead on whom to support.
It really, really irks me that more voters can’t look past Newt’s personal history, see through the absolute lies that have been spread about him by the MSM, lib/progressives, and yes, Mitt Romney and the GOP-E. I fear it is a sign of the lack of seriousness of today’s voters to study the issues.
To me, Newt is the ONLY candidate that states the obvious problems we face today, unashamedly promotes common-sense conservative solutions, while the other candidates simply ignore these pressing problems or propose band-aid solutions.
A prime example is in the huge media coverage this week of the SCOTUS arguments for & against Obamacare. The obvious question arising from this huge decision, and one that is NEVER asked by the MSM, is “How did we allow ourselves to morph from a republic of free people into a judical oligarchy?”
The answer is “judical activism” that simply allows the judiciary to “amend” the constitution without the lib/progressives having to argue their positions, convince a majority of the voters, and go through the arduous constitutional amendment process. Liberal/progressive judges have effictively made the amendment process superflous.
Newt is the ONLY candidate to address this problem, and propose a detailed, historical, constitutional, common-sense solution. His reward was to receive nothing but guffaws and put-downs from the liberal/progressive/media cabal, as well as from the squishes that inhabit the GOP-E and Romney (but I repeat myself).
God bless Newt, and I pray he will find some way to win this nomination.
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