Sneaky Democrats looking for ways to re-elect Barack Obama should hie themselves to Florida and hit the hustings for Newt Gingrich. Newt’s nomination by the GOP would give Obama another four years — and by one of the larger margins in our election history.
Just one man’s opinion, agreed. But Gingrich would be a clear and present danger to the republic as president and the American people would become aware of that and never put him in the White House.
His biggest failing is his towering ego. And that is almost matched by his unbroken record of unfaithful and cruel treatment of his wives. (Callista will learn and leave, in the bye and bye.) Add to those immoralities the fact that his own party kicked him out of his speakership because of his arrogant, self-centered, often irrational, behavior in Congress.
What’s left to admire or trust?
THIS REACTION to Saturday’s primary election in South Carolina was followed by the observation that the Republican Party has fielded a particularly weak field of candidates for the 2012 presidential nomination and election. Three contests produced three different winners
As of now, Mitt Romney is the only credible Republican candidate and he came in second among Republicans in Iowa and South Carolina, both solid red states.
What’s the matter with Romney? Too rich? Too Mormon? Too many flip-flops? Too blah?
Maybe a little of all of these; but, in the end Romney’s problem is that he, like the others on the party ballot, can’t unify the Republican vote, let alone that of independents. Unity fails to develop because, I think, the voters have been given nothing but personalities to support. There has been no program of work presented; no set of goals or principles to rally around.
Each GOP candidate has, to be sure, opposed the health care reform law in cataclysmic terms; each has scowled, growled and declared that defeating Obama is essential to another four years of America’s existence on earth. But not one has laid out a vision for America’s future in the long or short term in concrete, practical terms that would fire the people’s imagination and enlist them in the cause.
Each has urged support for their candidacy on the basis of their personality, past experience, religious conviction, personal record of achievement and performance. None has said, climb aboard my train because this is where I will take you.
As a consequence, voters are first attracted by one set of happenings and then another and the mantle falls on different shoulders as those ephemeral events shift from caucus to primary, from north to south.
Gingrich won Saturday, the voters said as they left polling places, because he jumped on the “liberal media” and was the more bellicose of the batch. He would, they said, be most effective against Obama because of that one-time event and the me-first aggression which has been at the root of so many of his past defeats.
How long will popularity based on so weak a foundation last?
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
