Posted by me in the Tunnel Wall, June 13, 2011: Exit Gingrich
Newt and the Truth Factor "The most important lesson that GOP candidates can learn from the Gingrich freefall is that honesty counts. Newt Gingrich wasn't honest, and it will probably cost him the Florida primary and the GOP nomination. President Obama has a propensity to play loose with the facts, too, and with his "performance record" being what it is, you can bet that he will throw out lots of information that won't pass the truth test. Will it cost him a second term as president? I hope so, but the eventual GOP nominee must be willing to challenge the president's claims when they are patently false to make sure that it does." (Emphasis added)
Somehow the moment we've all salivated over- the confronting of the liberal press by one of our guys- has evaporated into the ether.
Rick Moran: What's gone wrong with the Gingrich campaign? "Howard Fineman thinks there are 5 reasons for Newt's decline:"
Charles Krauthammer: The GOP’s suicide march "The president is a very smart man. But if he wins in November, that won’t be the reason. It will be luck. He could not have chosen more self-destructive adversaries."
Michael Barone "Through all this, Gingrich always was searching for ideas that commanded 70 percent support. He understood that dovish Democrats’ disdain for American exceptionalism was a grave political liability and sought to exploit it. But after his first moments in the spotlight as speaker, he turned off voters. I think he reminded them of the high-school nerd/egghead whom all the other kids disliked." (source: Tunnel Wall Bloopers)I still have this image of Newt being escorted off the set of "What Not to Wear" by some security guys.
Newt and the Truth Factor "The most important lesson that GOP candidates can learn from the Gingrich freefall is that honesty counts. Newt Gingrich wasn't honest, and it will probably cost him the Florida primary and the GOP nomination. President Obama has a propensity to play loose with the facts, too, and with his "performance record" being what it is, you can bet that he will throw out lots of information that won't pass the truth test. Will it cost him a second term as president? I hope so, but the eventual GOP nominee must be willing to challenge the president's claims when they are patently false to make sure that it does." (Emphasis added)
Somehow the moment we've all salivated over- the confronting of the liberal press by one of our guys- has evaporated into the ether.
Rick Moran: What's gone wrong with the Gingrich campaign? "Howard Fineman thinks there are 5 reasons for Newt's decline:"Charles Krauthammer: The GOP’s suicide march "The president is a very smart man. But if he wins in November, that won’t be the reason. It will be luck. He could not have chosen more self-destructive adversaries."
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WHEN NEWT WENT TO OXFORD "In his Washington Post column speculating what an Obama-Gingrich debate would look like, Claremont-McKenna Professor John Pitney recalls the February 1985 Oxford Union debate on American foreign policy in Central America."...
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