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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Newt, Reagan, and Spiro
14 comments:
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bocopro said...
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Newt has ripped a page from the Soetoro playbook: Dazzle ‘em with rhetoric and deflect the issue to point back at ‘em, So far most of what he has said in debates has been little more than oral gymnastics and verbal flamenco. Like Copperfield, he made the elephant disappear right in front of our eyes -- he never answered the question.
While I admit that he is by nature more American than the Kenyan-in-Chief, his loyalties are rooted much more in egotism than in patriotism. The bottom line is that his boxtop collection is barely more impressive than Ovarmint’s. All he really has going for him is a glib tongue and a rather shaky tenure as Speaker.
He is as quick to posture and shift blame as the fraud he wants to take on in the general election, and he doesn’t seem to have any better strategy for reducing the size of government or the national debt.
Will I vote for him to end the Obamalaise? Oh, of course. But I’d vote just as quickly for Terry Bradshaw or Hulk Hogan if either one of them were the GOP nominee. In my case the vote for Gingrich would be for three distinct reasons: maintenance of the starboard list in SCotUS, preservation of at least a semblance of military strength, and ejection of alien sewage from the White House.
It just seems to me that a whole lotta conservatives see Gingrich for what he really is: an arrogant, blame-shifting, quick-witted, mercurial, largely inexperienced narcissist more interested in self glorification than nation salvation. And, boy! Does THAT ever sound familiar.
Back when I was a young man, there was a heavyweight fighter named Cassius Clay who was as quick with his tongue as he was with his fists . . . and that's precisely the point: he could back up his words with deeds. Noot has a fairly decent jab, but I'm not convinced that he can go 15 if he has to. -
1/22/12, 10:38 AM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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A+ bocopro
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1/22/12, 10:42 AM
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DougM said...
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Your movie speech clip.
I'm postin' it.
Thanks. -
1/22/12, 11:06 AM
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Juice said...
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What bocopro so succinctly stated is why Newt is a bur between my toes. But I'd take Newt over Mittens or Dr. Crazy, any day. That is to say, from the disappointing lot we're being offered.
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1/22/12, 11:30 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Sorry. Don't trust Newt. Don't trust any of them, really. They all have histories of cuddling up with the wrong people - no pun intended to be aimed at any of them.
Far as Spiro, he was pretty much correct on the media, but he missed on the entirety of the anti-Vietnam argument - I don't remember seeing his slicked back hair in Dodge City or the Ashau Valley, or even in Da Nang. He must have been there at a different time.
jd -
1/22/12, 12:22 PM
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Chris in NC said...
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bocopro: I second what Rodger said... A+ or as the kid in Christmas dreamed his essay would get: A+++++++
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1/22/12, 12:36 PM
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Alear said...
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Well-written, well-thought post, Bocopro. Thanks. Glen Reynolds trumps you on the alternatives, tho. He's famously said he'd vote for a syphlitic camel over teh Won.
More disappointing to me than Romney's loss last night is that I can't seem to find any true fans of his other than myself. Mitt has so many positive qualities and so few negative (ok, I'll give you Obamneycare), while Newt is such a true bastidd, that I'm shocked at these results.
Anyhoo, I'll bet anyone here a silver dollar that Mitt will take Florida, and go on to become our candidate (mail me at aleara at the gmail place. Rodg'll vouch that I'm good for it, should I lose.) -
1/22/12, 12:43 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Bobopro, I totally agree with you. I do not think I could vote for Newt. I cannot stand his adultry or his dirty tricks.
Buzz D. -
1/22/12, 1:14 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Inasmuch as Andrew Jackson has not indicated that he is running, I'm going with Newt.
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1/22/12, 1:51 PM
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Skoonj said...
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I am for Newt because of his adultery and dirty tricks.
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1/22/12, 2:13 PM
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Kristophr said...
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The last saint we had for president was Carter.
I'll take competent evil any day of the week. -
1/22/12, 3:38 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Sorry, bocopro, you only get a C out of me. Although I can't disagree with much of what you said, I don't understand why you are picking on Newt.
You said, "It just seems to me that a whole lotta conservatives see Gingrich for what he really is: an arrogant, blame-shifting, quick-witted, mercurial, largely inexperienced narcissist more interested in self glorification than nation salvation. And, boy! Does THAT ever sound familiar."
It sure does. It sounds familiar because it's JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER POLITICIAN THAT EVER WAS. Newt's just a bit more flamboyant (and effective) than the others. If those qualities disqualified anyone from holding public office, there would not be any one to do those jobs (wouldn't that be nice?) and all those politicians would be in the private sector where they could do some real damage.
These things matter even less than their personal lives. It's just personality. What matters is what their policies are and what they can get done. The last time Newt was in office he got a lot of stuff done that was really needed. Exactly the kind of stuff that desperately needs to be done again.
GrinfilledCelt -
1/22/12, 4:03 PM
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Anonymous said...
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THIS is worth the time, and the comments are scintillating...
The Ugly Shane
Consensus(?):
Newt may be a thug, a gut-shooter, a roll-in-the-mud guy, but we need one this time around. Mitt would ask someone to hold his coat, and take off his tasseled loafers...
tomw -
1/23/12, 7:13 AM
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Anonymous said...
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OK, if those of you who were so inclined to suck Bocopro's dick are finished, I'll tell you why you're wrong.
Do you remember 1994? Nobody in 1994 remembered a Republican House, nor believed that we'd see one in our lifetime... except Newt.
Now STFU you little girly romney men, and go cry in the corner. -
1/23/12, 8:05 AM
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