Newt Gingrich For President?

That was quick! Set'em up and we'll knock'em down.

Even his supporters predicted Newt Gingrich’s mouth might knock him out of the presidential race.

But no one thought it would happen before his first real campaign trip to Iowa.

Now, Gingrich is urgently struggling to convince the political class that his 2012 hopes aren’t dead, amid an unending barrage of Republican attacks over his comments on the House GOP’s proposed Medicare overhaul.

Gingrich finally seemed to realize the seriousness of his political plight Tuesday, when he held three conference calls, made a personal apology to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and admitted in a Fox News appearance: “I made a mistake.”

“The fact is that I have supported what Ryan’s trying to do on the budget,” Gingrich told Greta Van Susteren. “The budget vote is one that I am happy to say I would have voted for.”

It’s not clear whether that course correction has come too late. Before Gingrich’s evening mea culpa, there were growing signs that his gaffe – undermining his own party by calling Ryan’s much-touted Medicare plan too “radical” to become law on NBC’s “Meet the Press” – had already dealt him a near-fatal blow.

For two days, his team seemed flat-footed in response to a spiraling political crisis. The chorus of voices criticizing the former House speaker has only grown louder, drawing in Republicans as prominent as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

“Many have said now he’s finished,” Cantor said in a radio interview, stopping short of endorsing that analysis but calling Gingrich’s comments “a tremendous misspeak.”

Perhaps most tellingly, not a single prominent Republican has rallied to Gingrich’s defense – a testament to the regard in which Gingrich is held by much of the Beltway GOP establishment.

For a host of party leaders, Gingrich seems to have proven with astonishing speed that he deserves his reputation as an undisciplined, self-destructive, shoot-from-the-lip politician. His flair for provocative rhetoric, combined with his desire to make loftier political points, might make him too combustible for the presidential campaign trail.

“The problem for Newt is, this is exactly what everybody who has ever worked for or around him said was his basic problem,” said Rich Galen, the veteran Republican strategist and former Gingrich aide. “Sooner or later, I suspect, unfortunately, the campaign will collapse from the top because people are going to say, ‘I love him and he’s really smart, but he can’t be president.’”

The campaign, Galen added, is “close to being functionally over.”

Gingrich supporters object that it’s far too early to count him out. The former Georgia congressman has come back from the brink of political death before, and there’s still time for him to recover in the slow-starting presidential race.

The candidate himself sounded a defiant note on Fox Tuesday night, largely blaming the media for his woes and vowing not to participate in any more “gotcha games.” Gingrich also refused to answer a question about a POLITICO report that he and his wife, Callista, amassed up to $500,000 in debt at Tiffany’s.

“If it doesn’t relate to solving our problems, from now on my answer’s going to be, ‘I’m not commenting on it,’” Gingrich said. “I’m not playing Trivial Pursuit.”

Gingrich has faced questions about his stance on the Ryan budget during his trip this week to Iowa, where advisers expressed optimism that he’s persuading voters his remarks were taken out of context.



Read more: Newt Gingrich campaign fights for its life - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com

 

I think he's at least as serious about being President as Trump is, and even more serious when it comes to marriage vows or impeaching a President for BJ's while married.

 

It would be great to actually have a Conservative on the other side but the GOP isn't moving in that direction by a long stretch. Ronald Reagan, the Republican God on earth, couldn't be elected in the Republican Party today. He wouldn't be near radical enough for the extreme Right wingers running the show on the Right these days. "Mittens" Romney is the closest thing the Right has to a real conservative and he isn't electable both because of the Mass. health care law and he is a cult member of the Mormon Church. LOL!

For entertainment value, I'd like to Bachmann run. She would really say some stupid, funy, but stupid things during the campaign.

 

It is sad, really. And just more proof that nothing in our country will ever change. If you dare to disagree with whatever the party line is...BAM your campaign is basically over. It just feeds the hyper-patisian, extremism that defines our 2 party system today.

 

Anyone but No-Business-Sense Obama...

 

How's that working out for ya? This statement says boatloads about the way you think. You aren't for anything, you are just against something. It's easy to be against something and much harder to stand for something. You stand for nothing by your own admission. This also defines exactly what is wrong with the Right. If you stand for nothing, anything seems viable except the one thing you are against. Typical Right wing thinking.

 

We stand for individual freedoms without government intervention. With these freedoms comes responsibilities - things you and BO think individuals cannot handle. BO and you stand for the exact opposite. Yes, as I have stated before, I will vote for anything to oust BO and I mean just about anything.

 

Of course, we also have someone on this forum who is the exact same way against an entire party. He professes to not even like the alternative party much but he is against the other party 100%. No thinking needed. Vote against. Period. Not to mention the entire anyone but Bush contingent. So, one party doesn't exactly have a monopoly in this thinking.

 

Are you talking about tomc or dr moen, phd? They are so similar in ideology and rhetoric it is understandable when one can't distinguih one from the other.

 

A completely brain-dead monkey would do a better job than Obama. Thus, I'm FOR anyone who can do a better job than even a brain-dead monkey would do. Or, to simplify it so that you may understand, "Anyone But Obama".

 

What exactly is he not doing that fuels your ire?

 

You should be very pleased with the Republican 2012 Presidential field if all you are looking for is brain-dead monkey. You'll have your pick.

 

Contrarily, it's not necessarily what he's NOT doing, but what he's doing WRONG. For starters:

Outgoing Obama Aide Admits: Stimulus Failed Because We Didn't Understand The Recession

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/16302

President Obama staying in background on deficits - Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com

Obama’s Failure As A National Security President: Makled Extradited to Venezuela

Rising Gas Prices and Obama’s Failure to Lead - HUMAN EVENTS

Obama’s Global Failure

Barack Obama’s Egypt Failure: He’s Becoming Carter Faster Than Carter Became Carter | RedState

Brit Hume | Obama failure | Libya | The Daily Caller

American Thinker: Obama Attacks Libya, and Where's Congress?

 

Youre giving right wing blogs as evidence? You really are full of it. Yeah. Brit Hume. An expert on foreign policy. Gas prices are a Presidents responsibility. What nonsense.

 

And even your monkey would be a dramatic improvement over the present.

 

Sorry if you disagree. I was just telling you what other people said. Make up your own mind.

 

I wasn't asking you what other people said. I asked you the question. I guess your just not a free thinker. Your honesty betrays you.

 

You're asking the disciples of groupthink to start thinking independently of Right wing blogs and Fox News? Statements like "Anybody but Obama" are perfect examples of Groupthink right out of the pages of Janis.
Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints.
Sound familiar?

 

If you don't listen to other people, you only hear the voices in your own head. I guess that's your problem.

 

You just surpassed David in the most asinine statement category. Seriously; do you know how to answer a question?