Newt Gingrich is the real thing as Romney looks more like Elmer Fudd each passing day
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Watching the Republican debate last night it really struck me forcefully.
Newt Gingrich is for real.
I fully expect him to win the Republican nomination.
Watching him in close combat with Romney I was reminded of the tortoise and the hare.
Romney had bolted to the front of the pack early but has never put his rivals away.
One by one they had their day in the sun coming close to him but eventually falling away.
Until Newt, the ultimate tortoise who was once so far behind that Romney could hardly glimpse him in the rear view mirror.
But there he was last night, big and bold, aiming deadly zingers at an increasingly flustered Romney who looks more and more like an Elmer Fudd.
Gingrich's line that Romney would have been a professional pol too if he had defeated Ted Kennedy in 1994 was the best line of the night
Romney's problem is that very few Republicans love him -- they tolerate him.
Newt on the other hand has a love/hate relationship going with most everyone.
He is fire to Romney's and indeed Obama's ice-- and he is all the better for that.
Sure there are times he puts his foot in it-- calling the Palestinians an invented people was too much even for the Israeli government.
But Republicans are beginning to sense that, for the knock down drag out fight they need to wage against Obama, Newt is much better placed to take the battle to him.
Like the hedgehog and the fox fable Gingrich is the hedgehog ---he knows one big thing, how to take the fight to Democrats as he did when he became House Speaker ending decades of Democratic rule.
Romney like the fox knows lots of other things but does not give off the impression that he is a true street fighter.
And that is undoubtedly true.
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GeorgeDillon | Dec 15, 2011, 01:03 PM EST
Reports out of Iowa are that Ron Paul is now the candidate with The Big MO! Go Paul! For no foreign wars and less domestic taxes.
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wizardofoz | Dec 13, 2011, 07:18 PM EST
“Newt Gingrich is the real thing” he sure is! He has all the credentials for president of the USA. He’s a liar! He’s on the take! He’s an Israeli stooge! If he gets the nod over Ron Paul, America is finished and so it should be. Only Ron Paul can beat the black puppet (another liar) in the White House. This is the “last chance saloon” for Amerika. Last throw of the dice folks, you better get this one right!
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CorknDown | Dec 13, 2011, 09:36 AM EST
I'll tell ya folks, from this side of the pond there are really NO good choices. Romney's only talent is that he looks good in a suit, Gingrich was drummed out in disgrace not so long ago ( but things are forgotten very quickly these days)Bachman is certifiably insane. Forget Perry, everybody else has. The problem is the Republican party has done its best to throw a wrench in the works and obstruct anything that might get the country back on track while Obama tried to repair the carnage (recession, war, stock market crash, rising unemployment all started on the Bush watch)of the last Republican administration. The main thing President Obama has gotten right is that the US is no longer an Island. He has worked to move the US into the world community and economy. I don't beleive he was a great president and that change at the top would be good for everyone, but who is ready and able to lead this country? You'd think the GOP,with the past 3 years to prepare, would have a good clear choice to run. I just hope whoever gets elected will keep the good relations with Ireland our previous presidents have had.
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seanomelbourne | Dec 12, 2011, 06:11 PM EST
A fair and balanced statement proudirishlass you are the no spin zone.
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proudirishlass | Dec 12, 2011, 11:12 AM EST
It is unfortunate that an intelligent, moral gentleman like President Obama has not received the support from the U.S people that he needed. Every suggestion that he tried to put forward was sabotaged by the republicans. Obama foolishly thought the democrats and republicans could work together for a better America. He is too polite and decent to be among the den of thieves and that is why he is perceived to have failed. He was never given a fighting chance. Newt is a ruthless bully and will bring this country down a disastrous road of destruction. He will steam roll his way to the top. I wonder if he was responsible for Cains demise.
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MikeRock | Dec 12, 2011, 10:52 AM EST
Elmer Fudd, Niall? look in the mirror.
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CitizenWhy | Dec 11, 2011, 11:16 PM EST
Do the fundamentalist conservatives know that Newt is now a Catholic and therefore, as they believe, surely going to hell? Will they trust a man going to hell in the White House? Will he attempt to take the whole American nation to hell with him?
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MegK311 | Dec 11, 2011, 09:14 PM EST
Anyone of the Republicans running for President would be an improvement on the present occupant of the White House.
ANYBODY BUT OBAMA.
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1IrishMedic | Dec 11, 2011, 09:04 PM EST
Newt is the quintessential "dirty old marshmellow man" and isn't fit to be president of someones trash heap.
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allentown | Dec 11, 2011, 07:49 PM EST
When you look at Paul Krugman's eyes, he looks like a man ready to jump out of his suit. He always looks like somebody is about to deck him.
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Opoets99 | Dec 11, 2011, 06:27 PM EST
Any of the Republican candidates are rocket scientists compared to the teleprompter reader in chief obama
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seanomelbourne | Dec 11, 2011, 04:07 PM EST
Ron Paul might win a three cornered race he seems to have broad support.
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SeamusMartin | Dec 11, 2011, 03:36 PM EST
Gingrich is an insult to a newts (salamanders)! He's much more dirty, stinky and slimey.
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newnation | Dec 11, 2011, 03:03 PM EST
An American president called Newt, ha that'll be a funny joke for a few years, a self proclaimed snake in the white house for once if he gets there..
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