Do I Like Newt Gingrich?
June 3, 2007 – 10:57 am | by gaulardcom
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Listen, I lean to the left and I lean to the right. Who the heck knows. Sometimes the Democrats make such stupid moves they seem like Republicans and vice versa. I once heard a caller on a radio talk show call them all a bunch of “Rebublicrats.”
I don’t know much about Newt Gingrich, besides the fact that he was Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999 and that he co-authored the 1994 Contract with America. Actually, reading up on him on his Wikipedia page, he mostly stands against everything I stand for.
But…a BIG but…you have to admit that the guy is smart. A few weeks ago, he took on John Kerry in an environmental debate. I didn’t see the debate, but I heard that Newt went out there and agreed with Kerry on a good number of issues. John? What happened? I executed a similar maneuver back during my college days in Binghamton. I wasn’t even a skilled debater (like you are). I was the first to speak, so I went up there and laid out my points. It was a narrow topic, so I laid out the opponents points too and why they were nonsense…and I heard their steam ever so silently being released. They had nothing. Couldn’t you have predicted what Newt was going to do and prepare for that? It’s kind of like preparing for a fight so much that when you swing at the guy, he just steps to the left and you punch the wall behind him. He walks away laughing.
On my drive yesterday to the local nursery, I heard an interview with Newt on NPR. Newt was quite eliquently talking up his program called, “American Solutions.” We was very casually letting us know there he and his team have thought up a good number of solutions to the problems that plague our country. He left them open to both Democrats and Republicans. He’s like, “Hey, here they are. Let’s all work on them together.” The interviewer kept badgering him about if he was going to run or not and he kept telling her that he may if the field needs a boost. The interviewer was questioning that it may be too late at some point and Newt replied that if the time wasn’t right, he simply wouldn’t run.
I have to tell you, the guy makes sense. What is it with the current Presidential Candidates? Why can’t they seem to put together a nice coherent message and promote it? Don’t they realize that Newt is sneaking up behind them and just may take the whole bunch of them down? Boy, he sure seemed to have a catchy program title back in 1994 and sure seems to have another one now.
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2 Responses to “Do I Like Newt Gingrich?”
By Paul on Jun 3, 2007 | Reply
OK Newt Gingrich is smart, that much I will give you. As for the rest, he is just saying what people want to hear. Lets look at the man himself. Married several times, left his first wife while she was in the hospital with cancer. Does that sound like a compassionate caring human being?
By gaulardcom on Jun 3, 2007 | Reply
As I said above, I don’t know much about him. I also don’t know anything about the circumstances in which he left his wife.
If he is just saying what people want to hear, he is doing a pretty good job of it. He is also backing up all that talk with very organized action. He doesn’t sound like the other politicians…just OBVIOUSLY saying what people want to hear.