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Title: Newt Gingrich To Obama: Let's Debate, You Can Use Your Teleprompter
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URL Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi ... ou_can_use_a_teleprompter.html
Published: Nov 27, 2011
Author: RCP
Post Date: 2011-11-27 16:29:44 by A K A Stone
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Views: 276
Comments: 7
"I already said that if he wants to use a teleprompter, then it would be fine with me. It has to be fair. If you [were] to defend ObamaCare, wouldn't you want a teleprompter?" Gingrich asked. "Now, just for a second I'm going to go in the detour and I'll try to explain why I've been and he'll say yes. There are two reasons. The first, is ego. Can you imagine him looking in the mirror? Graduate from Columbia, Harvard Law, editor of the Law Review journal. [Against] the greatest articulator in a Democratic book?" "How is he going to say that he's afraid to be on the same podium as a West Georgia College student?" (produced by Shark Tank Media, LLC)
Poster Comment: Good line Newt.
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
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In my view: What's good about Gingrich: Gingrich is generally a really, really smart guy. Gingrich is a great political tactician. He understands the weakness of the opposition and how to exploit it. Gingrich is very articulate and a great debtor. He uniquely knows how to both accurately site facts and also score great debating points. What's bad about Gingrich: Gingrich is basically an academic with little experience running large organizations. Gingrich was such a horrible leader, that 3 years after he engineered the first GOP majority in the House since Harry Truman, his own GOP colleagues kicked him out of the Speaker's position. He then resigned from the House. Gingrich is not Obama, but he doesn't have the leadership experience that Reagan had as governor of California. Gingrich is perhaps even more inconsistent than Romney. He has held all kinds of positions on climate change, foreign policy, and much more. Some of the changes in his position could be attributed to changes in the circumstances, which is fine. I respect people who admit they were wrong and change when new evidence appears. But not all of the changes in positions can be attributed to new evidence. That's a problem. Having said that... If Romney gets the nomination I will not vote for him. But if Gingrich gets the nomination, I will will vote for him. Here are the reasons why: Romney is a big spending establishment type who won't do much of anything to change the horrible path this country is on. The last thing we need is another establishment GOP President who will only make things worse (like the Bush's). Gingrich is a tiny bit radical. He just might make one or two substantial changes that will positively help the country in big ways. He did it while he was speaker with welfare reform. Imagine if President Gingrich could reform Socialist Insecurity or Medicare or Medicaid. Reforming any one of these programs would make a big positive impact on our future. Remember, as Speaker, Gingrich really went to battle with Clinton over welfare reform and won. We need someone to go battle with the left again. Conclusion Gingrich is no Ron Paul. But, Ron Paul is not going to get the GOP nomination. Gingrich could. Gingrich is no Romney either. That is a fact that we need to understand.
Gingrich would make a good Vice President where his experience on Capital Hill would come in handy, but he doesn't have the executive experience (imo) to run the show.
He's the original bully pulpit user and Washington insider workhorse. You must be looking forward to all that Toffler Third Wave stuff he's been harping about for years.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
That is when I started not liking Newt so much. Sounds like New World Order stuff.
He's also a southerner without the annoying (to my ear) accent and would bring balance to the GOP ticket, assuming Perry doesn't get the nominaton. You must be looking forward to all that Toffler Third Wave stuff he's been harping about for years. I'm not afraid of new ideas if thats what you mean...but what I really look forward to though is Newt Gingrich laying a rhetorical smackdown on Joe Biden in front of a national audience.
Toffler's book describes the transition in developed countries from Industrial Age society, which he calls the "Second Wave", to Information Age "Third Wave" society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_%28book%29 Just a heads up on Alvin Toffler.
There were a whole bunch of books in the 90s that articulated the issues that country faces. Almost NONE of them had any ideas on what America needed to do to win the future. Robert Reich (Clinton's Labor Secretary) wrote a book in the 1990s called the "Work of Nations". The first few chapters contained a very astute analysis of how the notion of work was changing. Unlike most politicians, he really understood the dramatic changes in work that were occurring due to technological disruption and globalization. As I read the book, I was encouraged until I read further. Here's the problem -- his solutions were nothing more than a rehash of 1930s programs. Think about how utterly ridiculous his assertions were.... The world is transforming in ways that we have never seen before. SO, the answer has to be more of what we did in the 1930s. Specifically... He said that there is a new "gold collar" worker, not white collar, not blue collar. They are the new drivers of the economy. He's right. What is his prescription for a healthy future??? TAX THEM HEAVILY and give the money to Democrat constituencies. It's shear lunacy. He's is nothing more than a smart political hack. That's the problem. There are people on the left who are smart enough to understand what's going on. But there are almost NO people on the left willing to stand up and challenge the status quo, because they are afraid of losing their power positions. Ralph Nader is an exception (I voted for him in 2004). So is Dennis Kucinich. Other than those two, leftists are generally either stupid of dishonest.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure
#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#3. To: Thunderbird (#2)
Gingrich would make a good Vice President where his experience on Capital Hill would come in handy, but he doesn't have the executive experience (imo) to run the show.
#4. To: mininggold (#3)
Toffler Third Wave
#5. To: mininggold (#3)
He's the original bully pulpit user and Washington insider workhorse.
#6. To: Thunderbird (#5)
The Third Wave is a book published in 1980 by Alvin Toffler. It is the sequel to Future Shock, published in 1970, and the second in what was originally just a trilogy that was continued with Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century in 1990. A new addition Revolutionary Wealth was published, however, in 2006 and may be considered as a major expansion of The Third Wave.
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#6)
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure
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