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The Spectacle Blog
Newt Gingrich is back in battle mode, calling on the GOP to fight the nomination of Timothy Geithner. Reports the Washington Times:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is challenging Senate Republicans to take on President Obama's nomination of Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary.
Mr. Gingrich said Mr. Geithner's failure to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 should automatically disqualify him, and that if Mr. Obama doesn't withdraw the nomination Republicans should make a stand.
"Senate Republicans should make it clear that they will not permit a tax evader to become the secretary of the Treasury," the Georgia Republican told The Washington Times. "Even after he was explicitly sent material telling him he had to pay them he did not do so."
Gingrich's stand raises two issues. One is whether Senate Republicans will pick up cudgels in what appears to be their best bet to block an Obama Cabinet nominee and win some popular points along the way. Second--and far more interesting--is whether this is the beginning of a Gingrich bid to take over leadership of an essentially leaderless party. With the Republican presidential contest in 2012 looking very open at this stage, might this be Gingrich's "Churchill coming in from the Wilderness" moment?
Whaddya' think?
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Interested Conservative| 1.21.09 @ 7:46AM
Not so much Churchill, since he never really went to the wilderness (i.e. left the party, renounced prior associations, etc.) as Nixon letting a few cycles pass.
Newt's challenge will be the same as O's, managerial skill, and O may well lower the bar enough by 2012.
ConservativeWanderer| 1.21.09 @ 8:10AM
For Gingrich to be a viable candidate for elected office in the GOP, he'll have to express public regret for his affair during his second marriage... otherwise the lefties will use that relentlessly to bash him. Even with a public apology, he may have a tough time rallying social conservatives because of it.
I'm not saying it's impossible, nor am I saying I wouldn't support him; just being brutally honest about the very rough road ahead of any Gingrich 2012 campaign.
james23| 1.21.09 @ 9:10AM
Clearly, the GOP is leaderless at the moment. I doubt that Newt can lead the party, which needs a new face, not an old Washington hand.
I would add, I heard Newt on Bennett's show this morning. Both he and the host fell all over themselves echoing the Left/Media gushing about the Obamuration. Very disappointing, their discussion only underscored the need for NEW leadership in the party.
Repentant McCain Supporter| 1.21.09 @ 9:52AM
'Wanderer: we already tried compromising our basic conservative POLICIES to get someone in the White House and that didn't work out so well. If "social conservatives" are more concerned their candidate be a spotless human being than an electable and effective leader who promotes true conservative policies, it will be them wandering in the wilderness for another four years.
L. Ross| 1.21.09 @ 11:27AM
I'm with James23 on this one. Lately, every time I see Newt, he comes across as a spineless centrist of the McCain appeasement school. I don't know who we need, but I'm pretty darn sure it isn't Newt.
J David| 1.21.09 @ 12:23PM
No mixed from the Pelosi-pandering, Gaia-worshiping Newster, Heh?
Hooray for the street-fightin' RINO-man!
J David| 1.21.09 @ 12:24PM
No mixed messages from Pelosi-pandering, Gaia-worshiping, Newster, Heh? ...And etc...
ConservativeWanderer| 1.21.09 @ 6:08PM
Reluctant,
Where in my comment did you see anything about compromising our essential conservative principles? I ask because I just re-read it and I sure can't see it.
You must be new around here (or a troll under a different name), because I've been one of those pointing out the lack of true conservatism in one Bush, George W... including No Child Left Behind and the Medicare drug entitlement.
Please don't jump to conclusions... it makes one look foolish.
Joe Strummer| 1.22.09 @ 7:21AM
Does anyone take Newt Gingrich seriously? This is a guy who has had more bad ideas than anyone since Donald Rumsfeld. We might even call them snowflakes. Gingrich isn't a serious thinker, although deep-thinking like "everyone should get a laptop" is the sort of a BS that a culture that also thinks Tom Friedman is a genius might think is brilliant. But whatevs man. The GOP is awful, and Gingrich is a sign of how awful (and unmoored) it is from basic governing principles.
Trackback| 1.27.09 @ 4:03PM
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sidnee| 12.12.09 @ 12:07PM
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