Yeah, I’m starting to lose patience with Newt. Looks like he’s banging whatever drum he thinks he needs to bang to get attention on him.
Newt Gingrich is really losing it. What a shame.
“weaning the country from its reliance on imported oil”
That much is fairly obvious. But the environuts thwart every possible option.
a big fan ? seriously ?
wasn’t it just a short time ago that newt was appearing in some sort of sham environmental debate vs. kerry ?
total sellout, but either way, gingrich’s days of relevancy are over, whether he runs for anything, and thank god imho.
gingrich = rino
I'm not, and crap like this is why. Newt may or may not actually believe what he says, but it's highly unlikely that the statement has much more than a political intent.
His real purpose in saying it is probably pretty cynical: trying to stake out particular patches of rhetorical territory for himself, in preparation for his (sure-to-fail) presidential run.
Put another way, he's triangulating in the same way that Bill Clinton did: place himself left of most Republicans with regard to the WOT, so that come primary time he might pull in a lot of the more moderate votes.
Won't work, of course: Gingrich has more negatives than the Walgreens photo department.
Newt is a very bright man, who did great things with the Contract with America. He was not especially effective as Majority Leader and let his personal weaknesses (we all have them) undermine his effectiveness and political career. He can render valuable service with reasoned analysis, but his time has come and gone as an elected official, and ranting like this will only distance him from the people he should be trying to influence. He seems to have had one bad judgment call after another for quite a while now.
So does General Gingrich reads the latest intell???
When I was young, I used to think our elders, especially those who held office, must be smart or they wouldn't be where they are. Now I know that those who are smart enough to hold office are too smart to run for election.
I share both your appreciation of Newt ~and~ your reaction to his language.
As Newt himself might say, he uses the most "stupidly hyperbolic language" on the planet.
(He knows he is the smartest kid in the class but does not have the self-control to discipline himself to the demeanor required of a leader rather than a geek.)
I must agree about Newt, he seem to be becoming the political version of Paris Hilton, in that he will do anything and say anything to get his name in the paper.
Et tu, Newt?
It’s the beginning of a long war Newt, and we have witnessed the greatest success in the history of the armed forces (with coalition help) of The United States of America.
Wacko alert.
He is a very smart, conservative man, however.
I am a reformed Fredhead (thanks to his association with Spencer Abraham), however, I think a Fred/Newt (Beauty/Brains) ticket might be the only thing that can stop Hillary.
Very, VERY dumb thing to say. I don't care if it's taken out of context or if it's not what he meant, Newt should know better.
Someone should show Newt the statistics of global terrorism going way down since this war began.
If I consider Iraq and Afghanistan to be simple battles in an overall effort to eliminate terrorism, then I can see his point. I disagree with him, but I see his point.
His point, in that case, is that we are not taking any long-term actions to stop terror. These are things that Freepers are already aware of:
- We are not eliminating the source of terrorist funding.
- We are not controlling our own borders.
- We are not doing anything about demographics.
But for Newt to call the war “Phoney” is, well, phoney, and meant to grab headlines. The war is real. The stakes are real. And, at present, the battlefronts are on the enemy’s soil and are consuming all of their resources.
Pretty stupid on Newt’s part - he pulled an Edwards.