Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Newt for RNC Chair?
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
11:50 AM
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As state GOP chairman begin (continue) jockeying for position, I'm hearing rumbling that former Speaker Newt Gingrich might be a good choice. It is not clear if he would want such a position, and there is no doubt he comes with some baggage. Still, there is no doubt that Newt has the ideas and intellectual capacity to lead a party out of the wilderness. After all, he's done it before...
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That would be a truly great idea. He is a great political strategist and a true conservative with the intellect to compete in the realm of ideas and on the talk show circuit which is where these guys usually end up often. |
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wife? Oh yeah, baby, let him be the RNC chair. PLEASE make it happen, wingnuts! |
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Yeah, he is just like Edwards, aint' he? Oh, wait, Edwards is the head of the DNC, sorry. |
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Jeez, you guys are so desperate you just make stuff up, dontcha? Also, I love the 5th grade arguemtn "All the other kids do it too!". You guys are pathetic! |
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The entire RNC leadership needs to be fired. Their failure to fight fire with fire in this election, their inability to educate the general public about why our solutions are right for this country, and their continual kow-towing to the socialist lefties are largely responsible for where we are today.
Newt has an enormous amount of support in conservative circles. Most of his ideas are excellent. Leadership of the RNC is not where he belongs. He can be far more effective and will have much more latitude working from the outside.
The histrionics spewed by the lefties here are distractions. Not irrelevant - but off point and intellectually boring. I'm much more interested in debating the substance of Newts policy positions and his ability to educate. In this role, Newt has few peers. His value cannot be maximized as head of the RNC.
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I really like your 5th grade writing. arguemtn???
Pathetic..... |
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I get Dean and Edwards confused. At least I can admit my mistakes. |
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I think this is an excellent idea. Let's just make sure he gets a manmade global warming lobotomy first. Otherwise, I am all for it. |
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What a dying party! Yes, please Newt! |
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might as well get the #2 global warming guy. If we are going to purge the party of old has-beens, let's purge ALL of them. |
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Phil does that mean Biden? |
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Are you proud of not believing in God? |
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he'd ascribe to. However, there are better runs awaiting the former Speaker. Haley Barbour would be a great repeat choice. Jim Baker, if he'd want the job given his age would be the velvet fist we would welcome in the party.
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Because I do not like Obama's agenda, I don't think Obama is worth the presidency, then you call people hatemongers?
Because we don't support the Liberal views we are hatemongers?
Boils down that because we don't agree with you choice of things we are the Bad Ones?
Sorry angel if you are fearful of the truth, it affects people like you in that manner.
How can you believe in God and Believe in killing unborn children is ok?
Tell it to your priest.
If you knew God in any amount you would know that everyone of those little ones are a creation of Gods.
I think you would feel better if everyone said the way you conduct your life is ok, wouldn't you?
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I'd like to see Newt in that job. He's had some of the most interesting and best ideas this year. |
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1. Gingrich has been an effective leader in the past.
2. The man is extremely intelligent and articulate and has a gift for explaining conservative ideals.
3. He's someone the left loves to hate, and if they're spending their time and energy demonizing him, it's less time spent attacking people actually running for office. |
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...IF he will publicly repent of and apologize for his previous infidelities in a very public way. Otherwise there's too much baggage, too much legitimacy to the charge of hypocrisy. |
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Howard Dean can do it, Newt can do it... |
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i prsonly am not looking for a sunday school teacher ,but instead someone who will man up and get the job done .our country deserves a leader with enough courage to call it as it is.newt will history has shown us that often great men have serious flaws but instead of dwelling on their failings step up and get the job done |
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He is a bulldog type, which is what we need to run the GOP. The ivy league, fern bar types have been running the party into the ground for years. Whoever we get needs to listen to the grass roots of the party. I hear more common sense from old, beat-up farmers in a given month than I hear from those who are supposed to be running the party in a year. We do not need anymore "know-it-all" types who listen to no one. |
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He is a great leader and fighter. His short coming in the House was that he couldn't make the transition from underdog to majority leader. As head of the RNC he wouldn't be as visible and would be very effective. |
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Intelligent, accomplished, effective, yes.
Speaks brilliantly, yes. I wish Bush had
a guy with the skills of Newt in the House
for 8 years. Instead, he had Hassert. Ugh.
BUT.....
The guy is a personal dirtbag. Sorry, a little
'baggage'? Two messy, ugly, divorces....could he live a messier private life? We saw how well
that went over for Rudy, and Newt makes Rudy
seem like a homebody. Let him do Fox and write
books, and push the base. But, no, not RNC head.
RNC, learn from 2006........no more old faces
shuffled around into new positions. No more
middle of the road, let's move to the middle
to be like Democrats campaigns!
Geez, WE can figure it out, why can't they?
Raising cash was not an issue. The RNC can
do it easily. Bush does it easily, even with his
poll numbers. Palin can do that too. You give
us a candidate, a cause, enthusiasm, we'll donate
money...that's not the problem.
The RNC needs a voice, face, and an image that
is new, tested, and ready to help (win or lose)
a party base able to do battle in 2010, by
the time 2009 has started.
That's not Newt.
J.C. Watts, Santorum, a woman would be nice too,
a hispanic, asian Republican....why always the
same guys. No one from the McCain team should
be at the RNC (unless he pulls off a miracle
and wins). Karl Rove, Karen Hughes, people who
know how to win an election, raise money, and
get good candidates who can win. Look at
Jindahl's office & campaign, Thune, Palin's
team, a top college Republican go getter.
A top business person who can move the party
out of 2000 and into the reality of 2008 and
2010 - high tech, gen-x-y-z ready, tv friendly,
and not afraid to tackle a Democrat for being
wrong!
I say Rove not so much as RNC head...but, that
man can run a campaign, he should be advising the
RNC. From Nov. 5th on........on a private level.
Outside consultant.
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People dont vote for head of the RNC, they vote for POTUS. The head of the RNC has to be a partisan, a brilliant strategist and someone who can rile the base to get their support, their invovlement and their donations. Add to that someone who can create and implement effective strategery to win elections. Only other possibility would be Carl Rove. |
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Of all the characteristics that define a leader, vision, strategic planning and tactics have to top the list. Newt Gingrich excels in all three categories.
John McCain may yet pull this election out of the bag but if I were a betting man, no odds could entice me to bet on him at this late date.
It will take someone like Newt to put together the plan, the strategy and the political savvy to best the Dems in 2010 and 2012. To my way of thinking, Newt Gingrich is definitely that man.
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He has drunk the Gore-bull warming Kool-aid. |
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Is to represent the citizens instead of illegal aliens and their employers. The Democrats have been representing the illegal aliens and the GOP has been representing the employers of the illegal aliens. The citizens have had no representation. One treasonous party was enough, we don't need two.
If they will not stand up for the rule of law, national sovereignty, and protecting the citizens they deserve to go the way of the Whigs. |
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But if Obama wins it probably won't matter.
The Grand Ole Party will surely be compromised by some Supreme Court rulings asserting a fairness doctrine precedent that allows community organizations like ACORN to select the chair person for the opposition party. Thus the GOP will come to be known as the Great Obama Pleasers. People like Newt will be forced into exile or prosecuted on trumped up charges if they resist the CHANGE. |
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Gingrich has been reaching across the aisle almost as much as RINO Juan in recent years, besides having the same approach to marital fidelity.
So sure, pick another sellout-- the man who buckled the moment his "Contract with America" aroused the ire of liberals and vested interests.
The man who destroyed the impetus of the Reagan Revolution and became an embaler for the RINo bounceback in the party.
The man who now thumps the tub for manmade global warming and globalized solutions (also like Amnesty John).
In other news... ...Matt Lewis, Townhall "journalist" and RNC shill, fails yet again to apologize to his readers for telling them all about Ashley Todd under the headline, in this blog, of "Anti- McCain Hate Crime". |
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Newt would probably be much better than the the current RNC, but as other have noted, he too buys into the global warming hokum and I wonder if that alone would make fiscal prudence and responsibility nearly impossible.
I would prefer Palin as head of the RNC for 2 years. That is a non-traditional approach, but I for one question whether traditional approaches can can save a party that has completely left the rails.
If she shows she can re-establish the base and core principles, she can then turn her attention to being the 2012 Republican presidential candidate. |
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