A few days ago I predicted that the ABC smear via the ex would “backfire,” and it has.
Gingrich trailed Romney by double digits just days ago. But that changed quickly after Gingrich’s performance in Thursday’s night CNN Southern Republican debate. The former House speaker was able to turn his biggest liability — accusations by his second wife, Marianne, that he wanted an “open marriage” — into an asset, drawing two standing ovations for assailing the media for bringing up the allegations.
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
The reason I put “backfire” is in quotes is that I think the leftist ruling elites want Gingrich to be Obama’s opponent, and they manipulated the situation perfectly by playing the right wing hatred of the MSM like a violin.
Unless things change, Gingrich will be the nominee, and I’ll have to hold my nose and vote for the bastard, simply because he isn’t Barack Obama. Hating the left more than the right works that way, but I am so, so tired of it.
What? I should have endorsed Romney? That would have made a big difference in South Carolina, wouldn’t it? (If I have any South Carolina readers, please feel free to sound off.) But overall, considering my longstanding antipathy towards the man, I think have shown great restraint in holding my tongue fingers.
I have remained silent because I have seen that attacking Gingrich seems to help him. In that respect he’s like the new virus that’s going around.
Let it run its course. We have the Constitution as backup.
AFTERTHOUGHT: If I had any sense, I wouldn’t care about Newt Gingrich and I would not write these silly posts. But I have this weird sense of — what’s the word — duty? And when I see an impending train wreck, I just feel obligated to warn about it, even though I can’t do a damned thing.
If Gingrich is the candidate, he will either win or lose. Both alternatives are bad.
More: A headline that sounds too gooder to be truer.
(CNSNews.com) – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has defeated the national media in South Carolina by a margin of 54 percent to 14 percent, according to a survey conducted by a Democratic polling firm.
The poll, conducted by Raleigh, N.C.-based Public Policy Polling (PPP), interviewed 1,540 likely South Carolina Republican primary voters from Jan. 18 to Jan. 20. It showed that 54 percent of those voters said they had a favorable opinion of Gingrich while 37 percent said they had an unfavorable opinion of him.
At the same time, only 14 percent said they had a favorable opinion of the media, while 77 percent said they had an unfavorable opinion of the media.
Gingrich defeated the national media?
Spare me.
AND MORE: “Evangelicals are the base of the GOP.”
Really?
Does that mean the GOP has become the Party of God? And even if that is the case, I thought the evangelicals favored Rick Santorum.
What’s up with Gingrich? Does it all come down to anti-Mormonism?
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I wish republicans would learn that “This cat is not your friend” when it comes to the media. See, I have a cat — Havey — who is very sweet and very trusting, and a cat — D’Artagnan — whose nickname is Slinky McEvil. Somehow D. has entraped A. in all sorts of things, from upending a bucket on him to locking him in a glass-door bookcase. I keep telling Havey “This cat is not your friend” but Havey won’t listen. I feel that way about Republicans. The media has drummed anyone worthwhile out, or even convinced them not to run, but they suddenly came out and said that Gingrich’s divorce REALLY wasn’t that bad. That’s when I knew the fix was in. I’ve changed my registration to vote for Romney in primary for what it’s worth. He’s a slightly LESS syphillitic camel
Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, housefraus, shut-ins, peapickers – everybody’s got to jump when someone else blows the whistle…their mine, I own ’em, they think like I do, but even more stupid than I am, so I got to think for them.
Lonesome Rhodes/Newt Gingrich/Demagogue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaLQMs_VDLw
I’m beginning to be a fan of divided government. Well a bigger fan.
I’ll definitely not be voting if Gingrich is the nominee.
The bumper sticker is
Newt in ’12
He won’t deliberately ruin the country.
The plus is that unlike Bush, or Romney, he can defend what he believes when the media come around.
Bush did incredible damage by being inarticulate about explaining the war.
Re: explaining the war
What Bush should have said
To do serious damage to the US, a large organization and finance is required. Shopping mall explosions are not serious damage, just news media entertainment. Taking out a city is serious damage.
Fortunately, as an organization gets larger, it gets easier to detect, by footprint and through informers and so forth.
So how big can an organization grow without detection? Some size X.
So long as X is smaller than the size needed to organize serious damage, we win.
The war strategy is keep Al Qaeda busy watching its back rather than organizing, so it never gets near X in size.
This potentially goes on forever, but it’s the price of ancient grudges with modern weapons.
If a nation can’t do this by itself, it’s not sovereign in its own territory, and that’s where we step in and do it for them. A side activity is training up the country so it can do it itself, but this doesn’t have to succeed. We can stay forever.
If a country can do it themselves and won’t, then it’s a matter for normal diplomacy and then normal war, which hasn’t come up yet.
This is doing Islam a favor, by the way. The alternative after a repeatable taking out of a US city will end the matter in an afternoon. It’s better that that doesn’t happen.
One can only hope a President Gingrich will “go to China” on the pharmaceutical wars. I’m not betting on it.
But why not? No Democrat has even tried.
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This is just plain eerie. There’s one scene in A Face In The Crowd where Lonesome Rhodes rears back his head with a demonic laugh. It’s linked above.
Drudge just put a look alike picture of Newt with the identical demonic laugh. Elia Kazan was way ahead of his time.
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tcSAVoxRVniDFlt.DgMIwg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD0zNDI7cT04NTt3PTUxMg–/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/563f5e663734fb02040f6a7067001ad8.jpg
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