2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBookmark This: Newt Gingrich will never be President of the United States.
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I say this without malice. There's an element of personal tragedy here I know only to well. Somebody will have to drop the H-Bomb if it looks like Newt could win the Presidency.
When Newt was contemplating running, PBS noted,
No, no, Newt! plead many of his ardent supporters and strategists. But other observers say the G.O.P --a party which, in columnist Joe Klein's words, "can't resist a tent show"-- won't be able to resist "drafting" Newt.
His most ardent supporters plead with Newt not to run? In her own way, so did his wife in 1995. BTW, Marianne Gingrich comes across as a real piece of work.
"He can't do it without me," she replies. "I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy" --she giggles at her naughtiness. "I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything...I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be." (Same Ref)
'I don't think he should be President'.
Why? Marianne doesn't answer, she's learned a few grandiose dodges from Newt. Right now, the presidency is not a single person. It's not so much what he'd be doing. It's what I'd be doing.
Romney can fracture the Reagan coalition. Newt can repeat 1972. Not a nice choice for the GOP, to put it mildly.
madokie
(51,076 posts)makes my bowel movements run for cover. Hell they'll head for the sewer to get away from him.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)themaguffin
(3,826 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Not going to be Romney either.
denem
(11,045 posts)kinda guy. You know, that turn the other cheek thingy. Wave the white flag when the NRA storms into town.
How could I have got it so wrong? How about a nice soothing bet on intrade?
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)Newt can win after the STOLEN 2000 Presidential election I don't put anything past the republicans
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)They might prefer Gingrich to hang in there and force a brokered convention so they can annoit a better candidate like Mitch Daniels or Jeb Bush.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)They just dont know how to do it.
NAO
(3,425 posts)vote for WHOEVER is the Republican nominee in the General Election. WHOEVER means ANYONE. The guy who is NOT Obama (insert any name here). If we found out Newt was at the center of the financial crisis, had distributed child porn, and had helped bin Ladin plan 9/11, they would still vote for him.
They were already braced for (horrors) voting for Romney, and that's a pretty big deal for the hardcore conservative base.
They've been frothed up for 4 years by talk radio and constant chain fwd fwd fwd emails trashing Obama and creating an extreme sense of dire urgency to get him out.
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musicblind
(4,484 posts)Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)Then I agree with the OP. That means I'm not going t win a pint of karamel sutra, too.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)will they have any one left to stand against Obama once all the dirt comes out?