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Isn’t Mitt calling Newt “a failed leader” a case of the pot calling the kettle black?
Romney failed in his last Presidential run..so he failed too...
Freegards Lex
Romney failed in his last Presidential run..so he failed too...
Freegards Lex
I was just listening to Michael Savage's podcast from last Friday. He said he is good friend's with a major figure in the media that is respected by both major political parties. Said he would not disclose the name, but said the following.
The major Media guy asked Mitt why he had not been on Michael Savage's radio show after he has been supportive of him. Now keep in mind that Mitt Romney in 2007 had a private dinner with Michael Savage. At any rate, Mitt's reply was because he hates conservatives. This is according to this major Media guy. So if this is true (which I suspect that it is the case), then can you imagine what he will do once in office?
the good thing is that he’ll throw away any chance at VP. If he’d been gracious and respectful towards Newt, Newt may have picked him as VP to mollify the establishment and his supporters a la when Reagan picked Bush. But now that’s much less likely to happen.
So we don’t have to worry about that.
Let’s see:
Brings a majority to the Republican legislature. Check.
Creates a plan to address the relevant and important issues of the day. Check.
That plan, The Contract with America, was 2/3rd completed when he left office.
Welfare Reform? Check
Lower taxes? Check
Balanced budget 4 years in a row? Check
Contract with America initiatives brought unemployment from 7% to 4%. Check
Check
Check
Check.
And your record of accomplishment Mitt?
Sounds to me like whistling past the grave yard.Romneys political grave yard at that.
Gingrich earned a place in American history books, and as a conservative Republican.
Romney has also held office, he destroyed the state party, couldn’t run for reelection, left with 34% approval, and the Governor’s seat has been Democrat ever since.
The only successes that Romney can claim are left wing ones.
Somebody needs to get out the word about what Romney did in his four years as Governor, how he failed, and the destruction he left behind for his party and the state. He was 48th among Governors, in popularity.
The more I see mittwitt, the more he reminds me of some scifi program that had reptillian aliens that took on the form of humans. His face just doesn’t seem human to me—just kind of a mask of sorts.
Not that Newt is a Winston Churchill, but Churchill was a “failed leader” until he came back to lead Great Britain during WW II.
No one considers Churchill to have been a failed leader.
The Romney Super PAC is hitting Newt hard on these very topics. Coincidence, not coordination. /s
As pointed out in earlier replies, Romney was a failed leader. He couldn't run for reelection (or try again for the Senate). He was and is despised by Massachusetts.
Santorum's out there suggesting Newt is unstable and shouldn't be trusted with "the button." He tried a version of that on at the debate. It was silly... Newt has too many ideas! (Oh no!) Newt thinks BIG! (Oh no!)
Alright, let us accept for the sake of discussion the article’s premise: Newt Gingrich is a “failed leader.”
In a certain sense this is true. After the mid-90’s Newt dropped out of sight, having been targeted by the vengeful Clintonites and the ever obsequious GOP residents of D.C. This was quite a fall from grace for a Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Newt at the time chose a path to lead others that failed. But who does that reflect on? The leader/teacher only? Or does it reflect somewhat also on the lead/taught?
Newt can be a jerk. OK. I have had many a professor in college and grad school who were jerks, perhaps the majority. But I did not fail to learn from all of them. I figured, if Balaam could accept and learn a lesson from his ass (Numbers 22:22ff.), I could do so from those who held the title of professor. Their problem usually was not intelligence; many were more intelligent than I. Their problem was their faulty foundation, their false definition of reality and of the problem or their unwillingness to see their own weaknesses. But what they knew they knew. That was useful.
Newt knows American history and the institutions and personalities of its governance over the past 200 plus years. He knows it both objectively, as an academician, and subjectively, because he was part of it. He made his mistakes. As a leader (speaker) he proved as fallible as the subjects of his own academic studies years before. As a man he proved as fallible, perhaps even more fallible, as anyone else. But something within me tells me that Newt has learned, that he has seen both the greatness and the weakness of America that the founders themselves saw. He has seen it in himself. And he has learned.
By comparison Mitt is a cardboard cut-out placed in the entrance of the retail store we call America. He is not a “failed leader.” He is worse. He is a wannabe leader, who is not a leader. He has not paid the price. He is not worthy of the title. Mitt may even be a rather good man. But he is not made of presidential timber, certainly not of the timber needed in this dire time in which we live.
So, Mitt, you are not the answer. Be wise. Love your country. Know that this is true. And operate accordingly.
And, Newt, if you prevail, remember who you are and what you are made of. The greatness of America exists outside of you. You can - perhaps - embody it, but you are not it. And remember also to continue respecting the people enough to discuss seriously with them the problems and future of this nation.
That goal is to rid this nation of that which will destroy it as the last best hope of humanity. Be a helper in that cause, not a hindrance.
Cheers!
All I can say is FAIL. I've gone from not wanting to see Mitt get the nomination because he's too liberal to detesting him. Someone needs to tell Mitt that no matter how much cash he spends or how dirty his PAC gets, nothing is going to change the fact that when asked the simplest of questions, Mitt looks like a clueless moron just before they say, "I know you are, but what am I?"