Several pundits are down on Newt Gingrich. They cry that he could not win against President Barack Obama, let alone that he is so personally problematic that he absolutely must not get the nomination.
Shall we name a few of the pundits? -- Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes, Glenn Beck, Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, Brit Hume, George Will, Mark Steyn, and there's Dr. Michael Savage who claims Newt can't hold his own against Obama because he is a "fat, old white man."
Don Imus also has words directed against Newt. In fact he said one would have to be high to believe Gingrich can win against Obama in the general election. In conversation with Mary Matalin, he told her that she was smoking meth or something when she answered that Newt could beat Obama.
Imus reasoned that people don't want to vote for somebody who “walked in and served divorce papers on their wife when she was lying in bed dying of cancer.” Of course, that isn't what happened and Matalin scolded Imus that he is knowingly spreading lies.
While the naysayers are out there to say that Newt is all but gone anyway because of his 4th place finish in Iowa, Dick Morris says otherwise. Morris cautions you can never count Newt Gingrich out. Why? Because he's Newt Gingrich.
Dick Cheney also comments you can't dismiss the bull-doggedness of Newt Gingrich:
"The thing I remember about Newt, we came to Congress together at the same time, '78, and when Newt showed up, he said, 'We can become the majority. We can take back the House of Representatives.'"
"We hadn't had the House since the 1940s. And initially, none of us believed it, but he was persistent. And he was tenacious. He kept it up and kept it up and kept it up. And finally by '94, he's the newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives with a Republican majority.""I wouldn't underestimate him."
Other pundits such as Angela McGlowan express that Mitt Romney as a moderate is the best match-up to win independents. But is Mitt Romney really the best we have against the pitifully ignorant and dangerous presidency of Barack Obama?
Rather, do we not need someone unafraid to tackle the hard issues, to do the "heavy lifting" as J.C. Watts endorsed. It's true that Mitt Romney would likely win against Barack Obama, but why not go for the gold?
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani agrees and told Piers Morgan that Gingrich is actually more electable than Mitt Romney in a race against the incumbent president:
“My gut tells me right now as I look at it that Gingrich might actually be the stronger candidate, because I think he can make a broader connection than Mitt Romney to those Reagan Democrats. You won’t have this barrier of possible elitism that I think Obama could exploit pretty effectively.”
“One of the strengths he has is he’s got a common touch, he’s able to talk to people, he comes from a poor family, understands poverty from that point of view. He doesn’t come from the American elite. It’s going to be hard to paint him that way. There are a lot of other ways you can paint him, but you can’t paint him that way.”
Along with Dick Cheney, Rudy Giuliani, and Mary Matalin, there are other influential pundits generally favorable toward the Newt, among them Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Sean Hannity.
It's hard to be lukewarm about Mr. Gingrich. He has enemies still nurturing grudges from his youth of long ago, and he inspires a type of fervor which Romney does not. His dancing mind gives forth words which make one think, get excited, and feel connected once again about the possibilities our country could offer if we but get rid of the Obama administration.
Newt may be something of a risk; but in these bewildered times against an anti-American incumbent, he's high reward. If Romney gets the nomination, sensible Republicans will dutifully get behind him; and Independents will look at Obama and force a vote for Romney.
If Newt gets the nomination, a vibrant electricity is in the air; and conservatives will be galvanized.
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Why I endorse Newt: "Sadly, there are only two candidates offering a real means by which to actually undo that which the Left has done to this country for the past 50 years, and not just conservative platitudes. One of those candidates is Ron Paul, but his foreign policy is naive at best and reckless at worst. The other is Newt Gingrich, who has campaigned on what I believe is the most important issue facing us as a people—the loss of the rule of law."
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