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What if he's wrong?

Not a big Newt fan, but I would challenge the assumption that Obama would win in a landslide. I think outside the communist coast enclaves, he's got an uphill fight everywhere,

Gingrich is capable of exposing Obama for the intellectual/political fraud he is. I don't see what the problem is.

And I don't see why Gingrich has to fulfill some Republican voter's moral fantasy. Obama is a traitor and a criminal. That should be enough.

And then who are we supposed to vote for? Ron Paul?

Ugh!

Obama is a traitor and a criminal. That should be enough.

It should be, but 53% voted for him. That's the crux of the problem.

Yes, that is a significant issue, a sizable percentage of them, don't care about the facts
at all, that doesn't mean Mitt will win them over either.

If you can't aspire toward success without spotting the fails, the next step after spotting the fails has to be to categorize them. How has the Republican party failed in the past, by failing to nominate candidates who were nice, handsome & dimply enough? Their failure to nominate candidates who looked like door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen? Or funeral directors? I think not...

The fail has been nominating candidates who were unable to do what Newt did twice this week. The point of failure is saying stupid things like "let's show how nice we are by not talking about Jeremiah Wright."

I'm with ahem. Not that I don't see what the problem is...I kind of get it...but it's an imaginary problem. If thinking through an argument, presenting it, and sticking to it is mean, then they shouldn't want to be nice.

Plenty of Obama's disgruntled voters are mad Obama hasn't been a big enough criminal and traitor. The few Obama voters that see the error of their 2008 vote will fall for the next messiah and call you stupid for not understanding how "this time it's different."

People's capacity for self-delusion is infinite. You can't change their mind you must defeat them. You can't defeat them by being nice and following the rules because they see every issue as a struggle to the death.

Liberals also see all elections as day one of the Long March to the sunlit uplands. Conservatives see elections as the finish line and proof we changed the world and can ignore politics for a few more years. We will always lose while we ignore the nature of our enemy.

Oh yeah, Newt is peccable, quite so. I'm no fan of the Newt either.

However, Jesus isn't on the ballot. God's other son won in 2008 and people can see the tattered robes.

Ron Paul can win; his isolationist foreign policy is mitigated by Congress and international realities. His other policies are attractive. He'll never get drugs legalized.

All said, Gingrich, Romney and Santorum are Donkey Lite.
Don't confuse attacking the media with an antithesis of 'Inside the Beltway' GOP values.

Gerard, we all have some kind of past. I was once a conservative politician. I raised a lot of money, and had my name on the ballot several times. Willard will fold like a cheap suit, take his money, and go home. Newt will fight for his life, because he has no other option. Those who say Newt can't win are simply mouthing Willard's talking points.

Obama may not carry a state. It all depends on how much pain California is in next November. It also depends on how many votes the D's can steal in their enclaves.

Newt can 't win? Obama can't win!

You're right, Gerard, Newt won't win a beauty or popularity contest, but in a gutter brawl with girly-man Obama, Newt won't hesitate to pull a .45 to meet Obama's pellet pistol. Obama will be knocked so silly he won't know which alligator has him by the ass. People expect another McLame campaign against Obama, but, I guaran-damn-tee you, Newt will make it a scorched earth effort.

I don't care for Newt and he's certainly not my ideal candidate, but I don't see how anyone can argue that Newt cannot win. Right now Obama cannot win, he just can't possibly pull it off right now.

This kind of argument I do understand, its based on the wracking terror most Americans feel that President Obama might win again, rather than reason and events.

President Obama won by 6% with a massive media campaign, huge dislike of Republicans, against a candidat even his own party hated, on the wave of momentum for Democrats, on a crafty campaign he cannot use again.

None of that is on his side this time, and few people actually want him to win the presidency again. If President Obama was our guy we'd be gnashing our teeth and wailing about how there's no way he wins.

Yeah, Newt has drawbacks - I'm a little wary of him because I see him as a man of strong appetites. BUT, he's the only candidate who has even TRIED to articulate a conservative position. Everyone else is in permanent hunker down mode.
I think it was a huge error to have all those debates moderated by the "enemy media". The whole point was to make ALL the Repub candidates look bad (and they did). Newt is the only one to have had the ?nerve? ?lack of good manners? to TAKE IT TO THE OPPOSITION. I'd give him a standing O just for effort, right now, AND a vote.

Susan Lee

If Newt can't win, why does he get the applause? Why do people consider him? What people want is fearlessness, but Allen West ain't running, which is a pity, because he would win in a landslide. Newt might be a hard sell, but when he talks, and when he sticks to his guns, people are attracted by that.

Jewel!! Yes!!!

Well, I think the good thing to come out of all of this will be in the General Election, when conservatives will have to bite the bullet and either vote for whomever emerges or endure four more years of Obamanation. America would follow Great Britain into the dustbin of irrelevancy.

5 to one that if Newt gets the nomination, obama does ***not participate*** in any presidential debates. And the MSM will defend obama's nonparticipation.

When exactly was it that Newt ever stuck to his guns? Groucho Marx pretty much defined Newt's principles. When he passes through one we like we cheer because nobody does it better, but don't get hitched just because the girl can work a pole.

Can we vote for the girl on the pole?

As you so acutely pointed out just a few short days ago, Mr. VdL, this election is about one thing only. Pray God may we remember that.

When exactly was it that Newt ever stuck to his guns?

ANy time up to around 1995. I think popularity and fame went to his head. Newt, when a congressman, was incredibly conservative and a Reagan supporter.

Anyone. But. Obama. Someone needed to fire up spirit of 2010. I don't care WHO it is at this point. It won't be Romney, who is my choice because he seems to have success and jobs oozing from him pores. Ron Paul is a quack... A Muslim appeasing quack, at that. People are listening to Newt. It could, in the end, help the Anyone But Obama candidate, Republican or otherwise. We have some rock star VP options. Newt could close this. And he could fire up the base enough that we take the senate as well. A lot of people really don't know Newt. On the other hand, they DO know Obama and they don't like him. Full stop.

It's real simple for me, ABO...anybody but Obama will get my vote.