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The Spectacle Blog
Rich Lowry was kind enough in this column to mention an AmSpec post of my own, but that’s not why I link to this. I made a quick comparison; Lowry fleshed it out brilliantly and sensitively. One of several key paragraphs:
Only one other politician in America could have played the victim card so expertly when confronted by the story of a wronged woman. Only one other politician would have thrown out so many obfuscating “facts,” or turned his lavish anger on and off so quickly. Only one other politician would have dared hope to turn such an embarrassing imbroglio to his advantage. If he was watching the debate somewhere, Bill Clinton must have chuckled in admiration and thought, “Well played, my friend. Well played.”
In just a little while, I’ll actually be defending Gingrich from a separate attack from the left (stay tuned). But Lowry’s column is well worth a read.
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Derek Leaberry| 1.24.12 @ 12:41PM
Both Gingrich and Clinton are supreme narcissists. Clinton has more charm.
Jack in Wi.| 1.24.12 @ 2:23PM
Newt does do adultry with prettier women. Clinton will do it with any old dog. Both these guys belong in a chapter of Suetonius, not in the American Presidency. To me Newt looks like Nero if he had lived to old age.
Drek| 1.24.12 @ 12:56PM
Perhaps the salient similarity between the two men, and this is sharply contrasted to the present clown in the White House, is that both men don't need teleprompters.
Clinton is bright, --------- no affirmative action for him.
Gingrich is regularly the brightest guy in any room he happens to enter, lest Scalia happens to be in the same room.
Say what you will about those men, but under their stewardship the American economy took off. REAL wealth of ordinary Americans grew.
Right about now, after the garbage we've been through with the deficits of the idiotic GW years, and after the present nightmare, Americans would thank God to be able to relive the Clinton/Gingrich tenure.
Calvinball| 1.24.12 @ 1:28PM
If you listen to what he actually says, between the applause lines, Gingrich doesn't really sound all that smart. For someone who is allegedly so bright he manages not only to have a lot of dumb ideas of his own, but also to latch onto some of the dumbest ideas from the left. Here's what's really going on:
Gingrich fits a stupid person's idea of what a smart person would sound like.
Drek| 1.24.12 @ 1:51PM
30 second and one minute soundbites.
If you want a flavour of what the man has to offer, check out some of his policy books.
Go read his comments made to AEI, April 22/23, 2003, right after American forces had moved into Baghdad.
That's just one speech, but it's a speech where he lays into the State Department, and goes after that sacred cow Colin Powell. If you saw the video, as I did, you'd also see Charles Krauthammer sitting there in the front aisle, in his wheel chair, just eating it all up.
Clint| 1.24.12 @ 1:14PM
Yeah, The Pillsbury DoughBoy Serves As Our Useful RINO-CINO Dupe To Extend The Campaign, Deny The Ruling Elites' RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney Enough Delegates And Head To A Brokered Convention.
The Tea Party Rebellion Is In Florida.
Oldefarte| 1.24.12 @ 4:52PM
Take your asinine RON IS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR and go home!!!!!!!!!!
Dan| 1.24.12 @ 1:29PM
Second ballot, anyone?
martin j smith| 1.24.12 @ 2:46PM
And Romney is not a supreme Narcissist ?And Obama--please--big deal.
Oldefarte| 1.24.12 @ 4:48PM
'.....Fearing Gingrich, Both Sides Say He's Unelectable Tuesday, January 24, 2012 04:04 PMBy: Matt BarberWhat do establishment Republicans and liberal Democrats have in common? They’ve long labored under a shared misconception: conservative candidates are unelectable.
In 1980, conventional wisdom held that Ronald Reagan didn’t stand a chance against Jimmy Carter. The GOP leadership, the mainstream media and liberal politicos alike lined up against the Gipper in an attempt to derail his presidential campaign.Rush Limbaugh recently addressed this phenomenon on his radio program: “Gerald Ford said that Ronald Reagan was unelectable. George H.W. Bush said that Ronald Reagan was unelectable. The entire Republican establishment thought Ronald Reagan was unelectable because they were governed and informed by the Goldwater landslide defeat. That’s what they think will happen to every conservative.”
That’s what they think will happen to Newt Gingrich.As it became clear last week that the former House speaker was on his way to an impressive victory in South Carolina, liberal strategist and MSNBC talking head Lawrence O’Donnell summed up bipartisan conventional wisdom by suggesting, against all the evidence, that Mr. Gingrich “cannot win a national election … It’s impossible.”On “Meet the Press,” fellow MSNBCer and mushy moderate Joe Scarborough declared, “Republicans are panicked in Washington, D.C., for good reason.”
Indeed, Mr. Gingrich’s solid win, coupled with another surge in Florida, has the establishment squealing and darting about like a flaming pot-bellied pig. Massachusetts moderate Mitt Romney’s campaign has trotted out surrogates like Ann Coulter and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to nip at the speaker’s heels.
Coulter, who has moved briskly leftward in recent years, even joining the Republican gay activist group GOProud, has stooped to personal attacks against South Carolina voters. “Apparently, South Carolinians would rather have the emotional satisfaction of a snotty remark toward the president than to beat Obama in the fall,” she said.Of South Carolina conservatives’ willingness to forgive Mr. Gingrich for his past marital infidelity — something he has long admitted to and repented for — Coulter snipped, “I think South Carolina is going back to its Democratic roots. I mean, to not care about that, that’s the position of the Democratic Party.”
Still, RINO Republicans’ fear of Mr. Gingrich stems from something entirely different from that which drives the left. The GOP leadership actually believes that he cannot win a general election, while — with a traumatic Reagan presidency still fresh in their minds — left-wing “progressives” know that he can.
It’s the liberal media and Democratic National Committee, in fact, that has largely pushed the self-serving “Romney-is-the-inevitable-nominee” meme.In a recent Fox News interview, Sarah Palin, who has all but officially endorsed Mr. Gingrich, said, “I believe the mainstream media and Obama want to face Mitt Romney in the general election.”And why wouldn’t they? In terms of his ability to inspire the base and get out the vote, Mr. Romney is a bit like Bob Dole without all the honorable accomplishments. After last week’s debacle in South Carolina, it’s little wonder that The Washington Post is reporting Romney will no longer commit to any further Florida debates. He finds himself in a Catch-22: he must either debate and lose to Mr. Gingrich or not debate and lose to Mr. Gingrich.Guess who else doesn’t want to debate Mr. Gingrich? Hint: his initials are BHO.I’ll state the obvious: Mr. Gingrich is not a perfect man. Neither is he the perfect candidate. Who is? The question is, do we allow repentance for personal sin? Do we forgive others their trespasses as we wish to be forgiven?
I’m reminded of the biblical account of King David. As a shepherd boy, he slew a giant. As a man, he fell into sin — marital infidelity and even murder. Yet through it all God called him “a man after [His] own heart.” Through it all, David remained a great leader.Like David, Mr. Gingrich has proven to be a man with many flaws. But like David, he has also proven to be a great leader. It was Mr. Gingrich, of course, who led the 1994 “Republican Revolution” that launched the political careers of many establishment Republicans who now fear their past leader’s future nomination.
Our volatile times require a man who will decisively and decidedly lead from the helm. We cannot survive four more years of “leading from behind.”That’s why we need Newt Gingrich....'