Color me underwhelmed…
…by the prospect of a Gingrich candidacy.
[ADDENDUM: And according to Jon Ward at HuffPo, Mitch Daniels also wants to enter the race, but his wife may be reluctant because of their marital history.
What is that history? A lot less controversial than Gingrich’s. The gist of it is this:
In 1993, Cheri Daniels left her husband with their four daughters and married another man in California. She returned a few years later, reconciled with Daniels, and the two were remarried in 1997.
Seems almost quaint to me.]
Me too.
It might indeed be quaint but having seen what happens in the press to families of candidates these days I could never fault any woman for being just a little ‘hesitant’ about it. It’s their life, HER life, and not wanting to be attacked by a rabid pack is most understandable to me.
I second your whelming.
Even before I knew about politics, I couldn’t get interested in Newt; learning more has only made that worse.
Why do I have to say this?
The MSM will flay alive anyone running against Baraq. One must question whether trying (but not succeeding; that is in the short term impossible, and in the long term unlikely) to save what has become a wretched country is worth it. Like Whittaker Chambers said to his wife when they left communism, “We’re going over to the losing side.”
Daniels couldn’t be more Beta.
NOT what I’d want in the WH.
BTW, he’s functionally pro-Salafist…
Anyone who’s still in a dream state WRT islamism is completely wrong for the oval office.
Let’s hope he draws some fire away from whoever is the eventual Republican presidential candidate. The media find Newt to be an irresistible target.
Newt lost me with the global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi. WTF he was thinking is beyond me.
I don’t know enough about Mitch Daniels. His quote from CPAC..” I would submit that as we ask Americans to join us on such a boldly different course, it would help if they liked us just a bit”, tells me something is not quite right with his idea of leadership.
when one gets past the first ideas of how to ‘fix’ an outcome… then one starts to figure out ‘other means’ to the same end… like perhaps not putting up a good opponent, so the field is conceded.. or putting up a good one who will not do well on purpose… or select one with a known skeleton, then bring it out… stack voting areas, intimidate voters (which ranges from cutting the breasts off a life woman in hayes tilden election, to the holder released panthers in the prior one)
but..
it took a while…
and i FINALLY found the source of our ideas of capitalism… our ideas of how they make wars…
in fact… i have foudn the source of the ideologicaql facts and methods followed by this administration and the people who have put up the morons to make war and vote dictatorship…
taking tongue out of cheek
its also a commentary that the idea in the film is what the left has normalized… when you see it, you will be blown away with how well it encompases left ideology, world view, etc…
what was a movie then is our reality now!!!!
Greedy capitalists tired of not making money, realize that they need a war!!! 5 million is poverty to them, and they want more… so thye come up with the idea… lets ahve a war… but who would be stupid enough to be the dictator?
it has it ALL…
from evil capitalists wanting war, to dumb post turtle incompetence to make it happen, the industrial war machine.. and so on and so forth…
The Three Stooges – You Nazty Spy!
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v19301907YK26Ay3K
even their motto fits obama
One for ALL and all for me!!!!
as does the ideological sources (Heidegger, Hegel, etc) which capitalist is soros? [the one telling the post turtle what will be!]
its even better when they tell them what to do! and you have the riefenstahl crowds…
America becomes moronica…
and art imitates life before life happens.
His wife left him and the kids and then came back when she got bored/ realize her mistake and he took her back? Nice guy. Too nice to be prez.
best quotes fitting today:
and today… what do we have?
who knew that the administrations view of the world parallels the three stooges…
If it was Mitch vs. Obama — Mitch is a 10 and Obama is a negative 10.
If it is Palin vs. Obama — Palin is a 10 and Obama is a negative 10
If it is Huckabee, Guliani, McCain, Herman Cain, Pawlenty vs. Obama – they are all 10’s and Obama’s the negative 10.
Why?
Economics 101 is heavily in their favor. Executive decision making in their favor.. Constitutional law 101, etc, etc.
Really? It’s just about common sense. You don’t need to take courses in common sense – you just need to have it.
Liberalism is a mental disease that removes common sense.
As I was a liberal I know what I say.
As I learned more and more I realized I’d have to be brain dead to stay a liberal.
Given what the GOP is serving, I may just skip this dinner invitation.
Maybe it’s just my mood today, but it all reminds me of yet another course proposal that came acorss my desk from our Ed. department. The course proposes to teach teachers how to teach their students to become social advocates. My first instinct was to go to the faculty meeting and submit a remand motion. But then, I realized the buggers have already won, and my time and life are better spent skipping the meeting and being with my kids.
When I see such candidates from the GOP, I have the same thought… the buggers have already won…maybe just enjoy the time we have left as the country goes down.
“Nice guy” and “beta” miss the point.
If Daniels runs, Americans will have the chance to vote for Jesus.
Newt must have forgot that after 1996 he was run off by Republicans. If his party could not stand him 16 years ago what makes him think his popularity improved with time, the fact that few people remember or pay attention to him?
But yes he would be heads and tails better than Obama (as would my cat).
“Vote for Jesus”?
What the heck is meant by that?
Jesus forgives.
Newt Gingrich is clearly a flawed human. He is also a very intelligent person. While not electable, he would sure be fun to watch in debates. Too bad he won’t make it to engage the President.
Gingrich is way too tied to the ethanol subsidy crowd. He is juat a “business as usual” politician who talks a great game.
Daniels currently lacks the profile to capture the TEA party crowd and the independents who want an outspoken alternative to the DC circus. I hope he can make the grade to be a contender, if he chooses to run.
baklava, I’m with you on the 10/-10 scoring. Obama is into this Team of Rivals thing, which is why we have Eric Holder, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, and Valerie Jarret counterbalancing the more sensible people like Gates and Panetta. How can The Won project a coherent policy when he hops between the planets his advisors live on. And it is exactly this incoherence, whether on energy, education, or foreign policy that weakens us. Any Republican candidate will have a better team with similar visions.
physicsguy, I understand your frustration about the Reps, but any candidate will have to respond to public pressure from the Tea Party, and, if elected, he will also have a more conservative Congress to deal with. I think this will help keep RINO tendencies in check. This is not the time to drop out. It is time to keep up the pressure.
I originally liked Newt, he is learned, very smart, is articulate, and knows Congress inside and out but, somewhere along the line, as his policy positions started to add up, I quit liking him and, in any case, his professorial air makes him unelectable. I also quit liking potential candidates like Fred Thompson, whose no doubt well compensated shilling for “reverse mortgages” destroyed any credibility he might have for me, and Huckabee is way too slick. In fact, except for Representatives Paul Ryan and Allen West, none of the current members of Congress are people I would trust or vote for.
Today, to what I think might be to be a greater extent than in the past, although Mark Twain, who called politicians “America’s only native criminal class” might disagree, almost all politicians are a repellant and not too bright crowd–slippery, shrewd and cunning, yes, but not very learned or bright, and men without principle, integrity, or honor, out for themselves first and foremost and ‘the devil take the hindmost”–and, as we have seen, when they get elected, you cannot, except in rare instances, rely on them to keep the promises they made and to stay on the course they said they were on when they were candidates. Unless they are honest men or women of well thought out, deep, firm, and unwavering conservative Judeo-Christian, Constitution–based, free market principles–from what we have all observed, just over these last few years–a rarity in a politician–when they attain power they will do whatever their own interests, or their party, or expedience tells them to do.
What this country needs are very conservative and bold solutions to major, potentially crippling problems that have the potential to relegate us to third world status and can do so rather quickly if not reversed/solved. Scanning the horizon, so far the only honest, intelligent, articulate, conservative politicians I see who might be able to articulate and sell such proposals are Sara Palin, Allen West, and Paul Ryan.
I fear that Newt could be a victory for less-than-tea-party politics and his own earth shattering ego.
Well might he deserve that ego.
Still.
The media and his own party screwed him but no one seemed to mind. Even the IRS didn’t find him guilty and who knows exactly what happened with that messy first divorce and the alleged callousness.
Love to read what Newt writes. I’d like to see the Obama machine defend the intellectual prowess title!
But I can’t stomach the constant Callista exposure. Seems contrived . . . political. I received “their” email for a couple months then hit the “do not send key.”
I have to agree with Wolla Dalbo: I don’t trust him.
I have a cousin who married into an Indiana farm family over 20 years ago. At a family wedding last September, when pundits were just starting to toy with the idea of a Daniels candidacy, I asked her and her husband how well liked Daniels was in Indiana.
They both told me he had been a good governor and he was well liked by both Republicans and Democrats.
I have to believe if he can appeal to both parties, then he can also appeal to a big chunk of independents. And THAT would be a winning formula.
Lots of poli-sci type opinions here. Trust, independents, spousal thises and thats. As far as I’m concerned, you’ve gotten sucked in by the media, who love to handicap any horse race, like to stimulate doubt about all opposition to the Left.
Me? I do not care who opposes. Kinda like voting for McCain…anybody but Baraq.
When I’m drowning I will not quibble about the size, shape, color of the flotation thrown to me.
Pity Santorum is not getting more attention. He wrote an editorial describing the danger of an Iranian bomb so he understands America’s greatest threat. He also did well in bashing Obamacare (America’s second greatest threat) in the South Carolina debate.
It says something when a person is considered outstanding when he sees and states the obvious. Such is the impact of Obama.
In fact Pawlenty, Bachman and most of the Republicans potentials seem good and well qualified. I disagree that Christie or Rubio are the only hopes for defeating Obama. Unless there is a third party splitting the anti-Obama vote defeating him should be easy.
I think the killing of OBL cuts too deeply into Gingrich’s populist appeal.
Newt was last seen peddling Dinesh D’Souza theories, throwing the RightWing’s otherwise excellent record on the first amendment out the door during Mosque-gate, and warning us about sharia law.
These memes doen’t work when the guy on the side just killed OBL. Recent polls indicate birtheism has been cut in half so there goes 50% of Newts natural base. The Obama = Carter tact? Yeah, good luck with that.
The 2nd act for Obama is an Ike-like grey haired steady hand. Newt looks unstable in comparison and his personal life only adds to the impression. The justification for giving him a shot has all but disappeared in the Indian Ocean.
To make matters worse, early report indicate that OBL was still involved in operations. Bush’s decision to not to spend too much time on him looks foolish. That doesn’t help Gingrich’s case. Hell, Obama could run the 3am ad against the republican nominee at this point.
If Newt manages to get the Nom it’ll be Adlai v Ike all over again with Newt as the egghead and Obama as the trusted and seasoned Commander-in-Chief. I predict Gingrich’s electoral map will look like Stevenson’s. For those who don’t know what that is…think George Wallace.
Republicans should nominate Herman Cain and give everyone a choice: which black person do they want to be president?
Manju is back from someplace, I know not where, but wherever it is, they clearly haven’t run out of Kool-Aid.
Obama is still a hostage to fortune. Killing OBL–assuming the White House can suppress accounts of his indecision at the moment of truth, and assuming that the White House can find a way to defend itself against charges from the international Left that Osama’s rights were violated–may leave a positive impression. Whether that positive impression will have any impression on “populists” (i.e. Jacksonian Americans) if the Afghanistan War limps to a sorry conclusion indistinguishable from defeat, our Mideast foreign policy in Libya and Syria is in disarray, and the engagement policy with Iran is in shambles. The White House will need a very long spoon to sup with OBL’s Palestinian supporters as partners in a peace process. We haven’t even addressed problems in East Asia or South America.
No, the Jacksonian populists (also known as the “bitter clingers”) are not going to be impressed for very long, assuming they are impressed now, which I doubt.
“”These memes doen’t work when the guy on the side just killed OBL.””
Manju
Obama can’t kill enough jihadi rednecks to offset who and what he fundamentally is. A marxist piece of crap who’ll lie when the truth would do.
Well, if nothing else, Newt’s just about got the sleazy opportunist vote locked up.
You’re absolutely right regarding the Daniels “issue” – a great big Nothingburger. As far as Newt goes, I welcome him into the race, not expecting him to win, because the race needs a designated “smart guy” and Paul Ryan hasn’t announced.
d(^_^)b
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“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
The only thing I care to have in a President is the guts and will to slaughter our enemies. Foreign as well as domestic.
Bristol Palin is preferable to Obama. Any normally intelligent and energetic average conservative person from Anywhere, USA is preferable to Obama. That’s the actual truth and reality of our situation. Those two statements – both – fall under the category of “actual fact”.
We Republicans lead the Universe in being underwhelmed by people who would do a fantastic and amazing job compared to Obama.
In a way, that is why we get what we deserve.
Ironically, the John Birch Society used to call Ike a communist. So, you added another parallel to my narrative.
IMO Newt is yesterday’s paper. I discount him without reservations.
As I’ve stated previously, there are many things to like about Daniels; but he doesn’t have the fire in the belly which I think is necessary to defeat BHO. In order to win we need a candidate who is willing to forcefully call BHO out on his past associations and on his record as POTUS. The only ones I can see who would be willing to do that are Bachman, Cain, Christie, Palin, and West. My choice is either Cain or West. May be then we can finally put the race card in the discard pile.
PS – BHO killing OBL in hand to hand combat will not be an issue come October 30, 2012. The issue will be the economy.
Newt is a man with a lot of ideas. Some quite good, others a little less so. I watched him on Hannity tonight and he did a good job of calling Obama out on his record and his assocations. He also has a decent plan for economic revitalization of the economy. He claims he could balance the budget in five years. But he also says, and I agree with him, that he would need a Republican Senate and another 40 seats in the House to do it. That’s a big order. Not unattainable if the economy continues to worsen as it is under pressure from high gas prices and the despicable anti-business policies of the Obamaites.
I worry that Newt would try to go in too many directions and get too complex during the campaign. He’s got a million ideas and he just can’t resist espousing them all. What the Republican candidate needs to do is concentrate on “It’s the economy, stupid,” reducing spending, getting rid of Obamacare, and rational reform of the entitlement programs. Stick to those main themes and keep it simple so the average voter and unengaged independent can easily understand it. That and have a high powered media program to quickly challenge and refute any lies and misinformation that is bandied about by Obama and the MSM.
All that said, I doubt Newt will get the nomination, but if he does he’s my man. Anybody but Obama!!