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To Newt, Or Not To Newt.

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  December 17th, 2011 at 04:30 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

I really hesitated to write this article now, because the field for the Republican nomination remains fluid. As a matter of record, I will support whoever we eventually bring forth to do battle with MaoBama.

I think that as things stand right now, any Republican candidate can defeat Barack Hussein Obama, except Ron Paul. Ron Paul, though he has a small organization of dedicated fanatics, is a total crackpot on anything to do with foreign policy, defense or the military. He cannot win and will not advance beyond Ohio.

It’s never easy to take out an incumbent president and this one is no exception. But, if the election were held today in several swing states, Obama would lose to either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney.

The really scary part of the tale for the ‘Beloved Leader’ is that his DeMarxist Party has been shedding real registered Democrats like water from a duck’s back. According to the National Journal, some 825,000 registered Democrats have exited the party since 2008. Many of these expatriated Democrats are from key battleground states.

So while Obama continues to genuflect to the loony left and cater to the lowest common denominator of his leftist coalition, Democrats who have experienced Obama’s Amerika are fleeing the party in their thousands. The Lame Stream Press, that odiferous symbiont of leftist dogma, has done all it can to destroy each of the Republican presidential candidates in turn. Starting with Sarah Palin, though she was never an announced candidate, then going on to savage every Conservative possible presidential aspirant just as quickly as they emerged to threaten the MaoBama regime. They haven’t seen the end of Sarah either, but that’s a tale for another day.

Democrat strategists were quite smug about having taken out a succession of GOP contenders. Almost as smug as the GOP beltway crowd who have taken on the mantle of kingmaker. The GOP so-called establishment (which they deny exists) has been carrying water for the DeMarxists for far too long. The GOP presidential hopefuls didn’t have to worry about the DNC or the Lame Stream leftist press. It was our supposed own who did the DeMarxists dirty work for them. The most obvious result is that it hasn’t worked.

Newt Gingrich is a complex guy. He has flaws. I also believe that Newt can be directed when he gets off of the reservation with one of his brainstorms. A VP running-mate like Herman Cain or Michele Bachmann, someone grounded in Conservative constitutional principles, would tend to keep Newt on track. I’m not sure that Newt’s the guy. The process still has to shake itself out, and as Rush has been saying… not a single vote has yet to be cast.

I do know that many Conservative Tea Party types, like myself, are thoroughly disgusted with the GOP. We strongly resent the establishment undermining our primary process for their own nefarious purposes. I think it’s going to backfire on them badly. It could even conceivably result in the end of the Republican Party as we know it.

But, regardless of who remains standing at the end, we have but one mission… the defeat of Barack Hussein Obama and the destruction of the Marxists in America.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2011

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  • izoneguy

    To Newt, or not to Newt: that is not the question:
    Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of Obama’s outrageous marxism,
    Or to take arms against a sea of socialists,
    And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
    No more; and by a sleep to say we end
    The heart-ache and the thousand natural tax increases
    That flesh is heir to, ’tis or capitalism
    Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
    To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
    For in that sleep of marxism what nightmares may come
    When we have shuffled off this immoral outrage,
    Must give us pause: there’s the respect
    That makes calamity of so long an election;
    For who would bear the whips and scorns of debates,
    The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s daily poll,
    The pangs of despised politicians, the law’s delay,
    The insolence of office and the spurns
    That patient merit of the unworthy masses,
    When he himself might his press conference make
    With a bare naked lie? who would Republicans bear,
    To grunt and sweat under four score Obama,
    But that the dread of something after death,
    The flyover country from whose votes
    No politician returns, puzzles George Will
    And makes us rather bear those ills of ObamaCare
    Than fly to Republicans that we know not of?
    Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
    And thus the native hue of revolution
    Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of doubt,
    And capitalist enterprises of great pith and moment
    With this regard their currents turn awry,
    And lose the name of action. – Soft you now!
    The fair Obama! Naked before the hordes
    Be all his sins remember’d.

  • snowshooze

    As it is only primary season… I will use my power of choice for what it is worth.
    After that, I may assign a proxy.

  • J. Leg

    .. And I’m saying to people wait to see how Iowa pans out. We’ve got to coalesce around someone to defeat Romney in the primary.

    If Perry’s close, let the contest continue, if he’s way back, let’s get behind Newt.

    It’s the guy who handcrafted Welfare Reform vs. the guy who hand crafted the precursor to ObamaCare.

    Not a hard decision, IMO.

    • bzip

      Not me, you mean the guy that supports GSE’s, bigger gov’t, global warming – Nope, I can get behind Newt in the primary no matter what.

    • conservativeparrothead

      Iowa is going to be very tough to win. I think Romney has his solid 23-28% and Ron Paul has is 20ish…and he has been beaten up pretty good both in the debates and the airwaves figuring that Bachman-Perry and Santorum combine for probably 30-40%. That leaves Newt in the 20 range.

      I think the key for Newt is beating those 3 in Iowa, Bachmann refers to herself as a native Iowan, Perry and Santorum appeal much more to the evangelical base there. If he can beat them, in a state where they should have the advantage, then that will be a good thing moving forward if a few of them drop out, because those that drop out who supported those candidates will not likely be Romney backers.

  • greyeagle

    Newt talks a good game, but if you look at his history, he usually doesn’t follow through. He also simply does not have the executive experience to run a country. He is not now nor has he ever been a conservative. There are a lot of voters that simply will not vote for him. The more you find out about him the less you like. He is not getting endorsements either. That alone should give people pause.

  • Common_Cents

    The pansy Romney and surrogates attack Gingrich every way but face to face in the debate. I wish Newt would have called him out on that at the last debate. It would have been devastating to Romney.

    “What this campaign should be about in the next 15 days … is who has the best ideas, who has the best solutions,” Gingrich said.

    “It’s candidly very disappointing to see some of my friends who are running who have so much negative junk.”Gingrich said his opponents should “have the courage to have a campaign that would match ideas, and didn’t see whose consultant could be the nastier, or whose consultant could run the more clever destructive ad.”

    “The only person who profits from Republican ads attacking other Republicans is Barack Obama and I think that’s pretty reprehensible behavior from the point of some of the candidates,” Gingrich said. -huffpo

    • Scope

      Newt are in fact working, even if they don’t help the one putting them out. Luntz from Luntz’s dunces showed the needle flying downward against Noot with two of the ads currently running in Iowa. Newt doesn’t have the money to run counter ads or many if any ads. There are no more debates before Iowa, therefore Noot lost his biggest and free microphone. From the last two polls we are seeing today, done on the Iowa race, seems to be showing the bottom dropping out of his poll numbers. We’ll see if that continues.

      • bzip

        You will have to excuse CC he seems to be in melt down mode right now. Yep, the negative ads do work and that is sinking Newt. Newt also doesn’t have the ground game, man power and resources to get a good turn out at the caucus for anyone to stand up for him. Newt will be history by the end of Iowa :-) .

        If we expand on this (negative ads), that is the same problem both Bachmann and Santorum will face if and when they become a threat – they will have a onslaught of negative ads and they don’t have the money to fight back.

        That is the reason neither Bachmann or Santorum can go any further then Iowa and lets pray they don’t screw it up for Perry who does have the money to fight back on Romney and Paul. Huntsman is praying that NH will propel him into victory in SC and onward and that isn’t going to work, he will be toast right after NH.

        That leaves us Romney, Paul and Perry and I think most woukld agree that Perry would be the best pick (even if you don’t support him now).

        Perry 2012

        • Scope

          is that Noot has now been the frontrunner, or close to the top, for a number of weeks now, yet he still doesn’t have much money to campaign adequately it seems. Every time the bimbo eruptions happened to Cain, the first ones anyway, he collected more and more money. Why is Noot not able to fundraise? Aren’t you as curious about that as I am? If Noot gets neutered in Iowa he’s done, and he may be done even before the caucuses. Bob the Beckel has surprisingly said good things about Noot over the weeks, but he brought up tonight that whenever Noot starts getting there with something, his mouth obliterates whatever he gained. He said that his statements about the judiciary were especially bad, and would most likely hurt him. He referred to Noot’s Face the Nation interview where he said that he would send the Federal Marshall’s to round up the judges that ignored his DOJ subpeonas.

          • bzip

            Yeah, what ever happen to Newt and raising money being the front runner – good question. I don’t think anyone with a lot of money wants to invest in Noot.

            It should be clear to anyone with any knowledge of politics – you have to have a lot of money and Noot isn’t getting it for some reason. One of the biggest problems with Noot is his mouth – he sure does step in it. I just hope enough people wake up before it is too late. At least Perry ha lots of money and his super PAC has something like $55 million so he is very competitive money wise.

            Three cheers for Perry 2012 :-) .

          • znjs

            I think it was all about selling books. If that’s the plan then this is the perfect time to crash and fall back to earth before you’re stuck going through the whole primary process. Even if you aren’t raising a ton of cash now if you’re serious about winning you go all out and go in debt to keep your numbers up in Iowa. You can pay the debt off pretty quick once you become the nominee. And even if you don’t, it’s not like he’s challenged for money. But if you’re just in it for the publicity then you don’t go in debt or all out, you just quietly let your operation fall apart.

          • Scope

            if not the problem is that Noot already went deeply into debt in the beginning of his campaign, which I understand was something like a half million on private jets, and 4 star hotels. I still ask, where was he traveling to so much, as I don’t remember seeing much news about Noot campaigning early on, and his it obviously wasn’t on frund-raising trips, unless he went places but didn’t have any coins dropped into his tine cup.

            I agree, Noot is still not a serious candidate, he has gotten very undisciplined with his mouth for someone who really desires to win the presidency. He seems to be doubling down on a failed message.

          • znjs

            Politico, for what it’s worth, says he’s got $378K cash on hand, not sure when that’s of though. http://www.politico.com/2012-election/newt-gingrich/index.html

            I think he hoped he’d be able to sell his endorsement to someone (Romney) willing to pay it off for him to drop out. Which fits in with his non-negative campaign plan. Now he doesn’t even have to try to get someone to pay off his debt so long as he doesn’t go back in debt. Which explains why he’s not.

          • bzip

            Interesting news on Newt that I hadn’t heard before:

            Newt Gingrich dodges allegations of illegal campaign spending; strikes back at critics

            http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/12/19/newt-gingrich-dodges-allegations-of-illegal-campaign-spending-strikes-back-at-critics/

          • Scope

            are coming as much from the right as they are from the left, and I don’t mean just his opponents.

            So many have uncovered the nastiness and attacks Noot has done against some in his own party, which was a big reason why he was threatened with a vote of no confidence when he was the speaker, which resulted in his ultimate decision to resign a Congressional seat he had just won. Now he is begging his opponents to not do negative campaigning against him. I guess when the shoe is on the other foot, and it is a few sizes to small, it hurts.

          • beric

            As Newt himself says, you don’t get everyone to like you when you ram through a balanced budget for 4 straight years.

          • Scope

            in any of Newt’s years. It was made to appear that way through budget gimmicks such as moving expenses off into future years, that were still very much so liabilities. The SS liabilities were removed from the bottom line, and that’s just one example. It is much easier to go back and study exactly what happened in those years, using number, charts and graphs with actual numbers, straight from the Government websites to glean the true outcomes of those years. The Democrats tried to glorify Clinton for his ability to balance the budgets, and now Gingrich is trying to claim the same accomplishments, which were not in fact true or real, but it sounds good. The Democrats won’t use this against Newt because to do so would put a lie to what they’ve said in the past. Granted the economic situation is currently much worse than it was in the 90′s, but to claim the budgets were balanced then is false.

  • saulpaulson

    I am just so sick of hearing people say Romney can beat Obama: he can’t.

    Look at every Republican who won in the Midwest last year and they all won by being true conservatives and not by just being a lite-version of democrat.

    Romney’s progressive record as governor of Mass. will be brought out in the general campaign and he will lose.

    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      If he would win the nomination I think he sails to election with a huge majority.

      Because he is conservative enough to contrast with Obama, and he is certainly a proven administrator and problem solver. As opposed to Obama who is a lazy, ideological gadfly.

      Obama’s coalition was one of those things that was a product of the times, Dissatisfaction with Bush and the wars, and frightened of the economic downturn, plus a lackluster GOP candidate who fought with one hand behind his back.

      I actually think that Newt is the only GOP front runner who could lose. Because he just has tons of negative baggage of all types.

      Obama will have none of that working for him this time, and a whole lot of baggage and failure.

      • saulpaulson

        The day before the 2008 Iowa caucuses one of the news outlets was interviewing people about who they would support and this one women says:

        “I just cannot choose, I love Huckabee so much, but I also agree with Dennis Kucinch in so many ways. I wish I could vote for them both!”

        I’ll just let that sink in for a moment.

        People like this lady decide elections and Romney is just not bold enough to differentiate himself from Obama, and without a big difference voters are going to have a hard time kicking-out the first African-American president (no one has been talking about the race card but you it is coming)

        • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

          shallow analysis. Luckily the uninformed mostly do not vote.

          Obama got a lot of them to vote last time and a substantial number of those will be disenchanted by his failures and will revert back to their usual state of uncaring self involvement.