Newt Gingrich's Candidacy - 2012

DoggerDan

"Moon colony?" Have you any idea of the vast percentage of the U.S. budge that would require right now? Have you any idea of just how far out of favor space exploration has gone in the last few years, largely as a result of research scientists who keep saying "more! more!" while people here in America are living in squalor and starvation?

DoggerDan

Aye! That we can!

It's not as straightforward as some believe, though.

DoggerDan

So what do you think was the primary reason for going?

In my mind, it was to use the situation at hand to induce (aka lead) a great revolution with respect to rocket science.

mheslep

Yes, but why do you feel the need to address that to me?
That's misinformation. People are not starving in the US for lack of resources.

Astronuc

I think Gingrinch is his own worst enemy.

Moment of Zen - Newt Gingrich's View on the Chevy Volt
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tu...the-chevy-volt
Newt Gingrich pooh-poohs the Chevy Volt with a false claim, and a Volt owner proves him wrong.

He (and the other candidates) need to think before they speak.

Alfi

Ya can ?? put a gun rack in a Volt.!!

Yee Haa ! lol




perhaps Volt underestimated the market/marketing sales requirements in the design phase?

it's quiet ... almost stealth like ... optional gun rack on request.

turbo

Cottage industry! Gluing up PVC gun-racks for compact cars. I have lots of guns. I see no need to have a gun-rack in my pickup, though. Just another incentive for a smash-and-grab moron.

Jimmy Snyder

You're still here? It's over. Go home. Go. I'm surprised this thread hasn't been locked. Here is a Gingrich quote from last night taken way out of context.

Well, he didn't mean it like that, but imagine waking up in the morning with some floozy that looked so good last night when you were drunk. And it turns out to be your wife. Thanks for that insight Newt.

skippy1729

1. Sarah Palin endorsed Newt Tuesday night on Neil Cavuto's election coverage. There are still at least as many people who love and respect her as those that loath and despise her.

2. Sheldon Adelson has recently pledged another ten million to Newt's super-pac.

3. George Soros doesn't see much difference between Romney and Obama and clueless Rick Santorum revealed his true political skills when he publicly bashed JFK. If the Republicans nominate one of these guys, they deserve the four more years that they are going to get.

Newt might just rise from the dead (a third time). The next month should tell the tale.

Skippy

mheslep

How is what Soros' sees or does not see possibly relevant to Gingrich's campaign?

Evo

It appears that Newt is stealing votes from Santorum. It's doubtful that Newt has a chance, so is he staying in to guarantee Romney wins? Who do you think Newt will back when he has to quit?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...n-out-primary/

turbo

I can't figure out what Newt is doing. Maybe it's hubris and he really thinks he could win it, but some of his advisers should point out to him the problem with women voters. My sisters and nieces are revolted at the thought of having Callista in the WH as FLOTUS. Not a scientific survey, but they are politically aware, and they don't pull any punches when we discuss politics.

ThinkToday

I think it's pretty simple. The "anybody but Romney" votes total more than Romney. I think Santorum is a good person, but he's stepped in "it" several times with his comments about women in the military, birth control, etc. I'm not a woman, however, my conservative wife doesn't think too much of his comments about women’s issues. IMO Santorum could beat Romney if Newt and Paul dropped, but he'd get killed in the general election. I think Newt would beat Romney if Santorum and Paul dropped out. I think the headline yesterday that referred to the Romney "eh" nominee had it about right. I don't know anyone excited about him, and I mean no one I know. I think Gingrich is banking on Santorum continuing to step in it and he would rise to the occasion. Unfortunately, Gingrich, IMO has the most inept campaign management team in the world. Not getting on ballots, missing deadlines, not having caucus states organized, etc. It’s almost like he doesn’t want to win. If Gingrich had someone like Karl Rove running his campaign, this would be over, IMO.

Hands down, I think Gingrich would clean Obama’s clock in debates, especially the Lincoln Douglass style debate he did with Cain. Prompters don’t help the person that doesn’t have command of the facts. I personally feel strongly about getting back to the country our founding fathers envisioned.

mheslep

The problem is built in apparently: that "I will be the nominee" ego won't allow the discipline that a professional campaign manager would bring.

ParticleGrl

I don't know where this idea that Obama is somehow a dullard without a teleprompter comes from. He generally seems to be intelligent and articulate.

Also, I think Newt comes across as an opportunist who says what he thinks you want to hear. After all, he was once an advocate for cap and trade, and for a healthcare reform bill very similar to what passed under Obama. What has changed that has moved these policies from Newt's big ideas to socialism, other then a democrat centralist is now advocating them? Romney has the same problem- backing his healthcare plan back when it was considered republican centrist.

Gokul43201

I think it's pretty straightforward. If Newt, Santorum and Paul stay in the race till the end, Romney likely won't have the majority he'll need to ride into the Convention as the inevitable nominee. At that point, anything is possible (albeit with strongly varying degrees of likelihood). Why would Gingrich take off his hat now, when he can leave it on till the end, and maybe, just maybe, pull a rabbit out of it at the Convention?

ThinkToday

He explains his positions here: http://www.newt.org/answers/

Anyone that has read any of his written works will see he has is anything but "big ideas to socialism". His recent book American Exceptionalism (not a Newt term, btw)provides a solid look at the way he thinks. Having just finished it, it can be summed up as a return to the founding fathers idea of how the Constitution was intended to work, and from that many other things fall into place on their own. Contrary to assumptions that "American Exceptionalism" means we/he think we're better than everyone else, it really has to do with reflections throughout our history on why others thought the American experience was in many ways exceptional, starting with the founding of the country. There were things in the book I had forgotten, some I had to look up to be sure, and new things I never knew. I forgot just how amazing our history really has been.

The next thing on my reading list is The Original Constitution: What it Really Said and Meant , which I found through the 10th Amendment Center and is supposed track the evolution of the Constitution, discussions at the Convention with actual written records, and meanings of the terms at the time they were written. The thoughtfulness and forethought of the founding fathers really is amazing.

Now, I almost fell out of my chair when you wrote “a democrat centralist is now advocating them”. Who are you talking about? Surely, no one in a power position.

As much as I don’t care for Romney, at least he has a defense. RomneyCare was a choice of the people of MA at the State level, meaning they citizens could vote it in or out at will. ObamaCare would require almost a Herculean effort to get out of the Federal governments control. This is especially true when there is little likelihood Republicans would ever be able to get past a filibuster in the Senate to get it to a President.

As far as Romney being a “republican centrist”, who the heck knows? I think he says what he needs to say for the audience in front of him. Hence, I don’t trust him.