Gingrich Coming

[240 is Back]

on Strong in Florida

 Once written off in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is starting to focus on Florida as his campaign finds new life in the fluid race to see who emerges to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012.

After a series of strong debate performances -- and stumbles by some of his primary rivals -- Gingrich has found his footing after a poor start to his presidential bid.

Michael Krull, Gingrich’s campaign manager, sent out an email to supporters on Wednesday, pointing to a We Ask America poll of Iowa, which holds the first caucus. The poll, which was released on Monday, showed businessman Herman Cain in front of the pack in the Hawkeye State with 22 percent. Gingrich placed second with 18 percent -- ahead of former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts who placed third with 15 percent.

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/newt-gingrich-co...

Gingrich showing signs of life

If Newt Gingrich is banking on a "slow and steady wins the primary" strategy, people are starting to notice. Multiple blogs and newspapers ran long pieces yesterday highlighting Gingrich's growing support in national polls.

New Hampshire Republican voters in a recent poll conducted by the Huffington Post and Patch.com ranked Gingrich second behind former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney on ability to fix the economy, but tops on foreign policy, repealing President Obama's health care law and addressing illegal immigration.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/291377/gingrich-s... |CSGroupId%3Aapproved%3ACBC22C46FC83E0CBBE5651FEC4F2CAEB&CSUserId=94&CSGroupId=1

Beware of Newt, folks - he is going to be the anti-Romney, and a lot of Republicans don't like Romney (including the loud, shrill, and well-heeded voices of the RW radio hosts). 

[Hugo Chavez]

[Soul Crusher]

What is wrong w newt?      other than personal bs, Newt is a Jedi master of politics. 


He would make Obama crap his Kenyan panties. 

[howardroark]

What is wrong w newt?      other than personal bs, Newt is a Jedi master of politics. 


He would make Obama crap his Kenyan panties. 

Newt is a sharp, good politician. But he is not a free market capitalist or a small "r" republican.

Author Tom Woods nails Newt here: http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/gingrich-latest-phony-to-rise-in-polls/

    Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a reputation for being a right-wing ideologue. But it is surely a strange right-wing ideologue who credits Franklin Roosevelt with lifting the country out of the Great Depression, joins with John Kerry on “climate change,” and supports (among many other things) the Medicare prescription drug benefit, federal programs to pay for more teachers, Internet access for every American, and rewards to students who take challenging math and science courses — not to mention his sympathy for federal energy policy and Hillary Clinton’s proposed national health-care database, among other things….

    [In 1994,] the GOP leadership made the [election] into a referendum on [Gingrich's] “Contract with America,” a series of proposals the party pledged to champion if elected. Democrats and Republicans alike pretended it was a radical assault on government spending and activity — Democrats in order to frighten their base, and Republicans in order to energize theirs. The Contract was, in fact, a hodgepodge of trivial changes that both kept the basic structure of the American Leviathan intact and neutralized the more ambitious plans and proposals of freshman congressmen who may actually have wanted to change something. The center-left Brookings Institution had it right: “Viewed historically, the Contract represents the final consolidation of the bedrock domestic policies and programs of the New Deal, the Great Society, the post-Second World War defense establishment, and, most importantly, the deeply rooted national political culture that has grown up around them.”