Newt Gingrich Blasts The Long, Winding Road To The White House

Ken McCracken • August 9, 2007

And he’s right too, particularly on these points:

“These aren’t debates,” the former Georgia congressman said. “This is a cross between [TV shows] ‘The Bachelor,’ ‘American Idol’ and ‘Who’s Smarter than a Fifth-Grader.’”
“What’s the job of the candidate in this world?” asked Gingrich. “The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous.”

What’s particularly frustrating is that the one serious candidate who has decided not to jump into the race as early as the rest of the candidates (Fred Thompson) has been criticized for doing so.
Do we really need these candidates to campaign for well over a year? I don’t think so.
Most of this is pushed on us by the media. Presidential race coverage is pretty lucrative for them, and it gives the talking heads endless topics to gnosh on. So every year the candidates get pressured more and more by journalists to begin their campaigns, thus every year we citizens are exposed to the silly spectacle of political campaigns started earlier than they needed to be.

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Ronald Walter: The Democrats have more than their share of perverts, homosexuals, adulterers and crooks, to say nothing of just plain old liberal scum bags, so living in that glass house it is damn dangerous to throw stones at Republicans.

A man can be a failure as a husband, father and in other personal parts of his life and still have things to contribute on an intellectual level. JFK was a whore monger, an adulterer, a prolific fornicator and a drug addict, but I suspect like most Democrats you think he was a great President, a great intellect and a demi-god. Billy Jeff was all the bad things JFK was, plus a rapist and a perjurer.

So, Newt can be a pig in his personal life and still have great insights to offer on politics and public policy. Not that I want him to run for President, but he still has positive contributions to make. Can you say the same of yourself your holiness?
wunderkind

Let me say this as plainly as possible; Newt Gingrich is a fraud and a liar, if we want to take back the Republican party from these hacks than our first order of business should be to make sure Newt or any of his cronies don’t get near any more public offices.

Please, let’s all not forget why we ran this hypocrite out of Washington. He is not trustworthy and will say and support whatever position benifits HIM the most.

This is a time when we truely need reform in Washington. Newt is not the answer.
Neiman

wunderkind: Newt is an incredibly intelligent and thoughful scholar and his insights into politics and public policy are worthy of being seriously considered. The problem is that too many people that are thus intelligent and have a great deal to contribute to the political debate do not possess the character and other necessities to hold office and actually implement those policies.

It is counterproductive to call Newt a fraud and terribly judgmental. I do not support his candidacy for political office because of the reasons I’ve stated; but it would be a mistake of the first order not to carefully consider his insights into politics and public policy and welcome him in the Republican Party.
wunderkind

Neiman: Newt is the perfect example (along with Tom Delay) of the soundbite driven, 100% partisan agenda driven, lame duck politics that permeates every molecule of Washington.

There was a portion of my initial comments that were “counterproductive.” I didn’t mean to insinuate that Newt was strictly ran out of office because because of an affair. I really could care less, other than it proves his hypocrisy. The facts are that Newt had long worn out his welcome on both sides of the aisle long before his affair came into pulic view.

Wasn’t one round of venom spitting enough from this guy. Great for him that he’s trying to remake himself into someking of reformer, but I’m not buying it.

As I stated before, these are serious times we are living in that will require all parties to work together to problem solve. Newt is not a politician that fits that mold. We need to move past him and others like him.
Ronald Walter

His first wife would agree with wunderkind that Newt is a complete fraud. A cad too.

It’s election time all of the time these days.

Hey, here’s another example of a ‘Republican.’ Such a fine group of human beings those ‘Republicans’ are.

What a joke ‘Republicans’ have become.
2Hotel9

US Presidential campaigns should be no longer than 120 days. Senate and House should be 90 days. No focus groups, no polling, no sound bytes. All candidates to explain their positions and plans for implementation in detail in 1 hour televised blocks. Direct debates, with verifiable details and data.

That should about cover it.

Oh. And life-time censure for all politicians caught with their pecker in the payroll in anyway whatsoever. And double it for Newt Fucking Gingrich.

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