“I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring. The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles,” Newt Gingrich just wrote on Facebook.
Why does anyone pay any attention to this lard-a**? He has never been anything more than a bloviating fool. I guess this is what is considered intelligence among the Beltway elite.
You fell on your sword once before for the good of the nation.
I remember when you quit as Speaker. So as to not become an issue in the coming debates. You set an example of honor that you hoped might help more quickly heal, the damaged integrity and dignity of the office of the Presidency.
You knew Clinton was rightfully under assault for perjury and obstruction of justice ... and as you stated clearly enough at the time, to anyone who listened, that it was NOT all about getting hummers on the seal of the President of the United States.
But over the years, you grew quietly more acceptable to a lot of people who went along with the majority at the time, and considered you the villain for shutting down the federal government, and acquiesing to other dubious personal assaults.
Still, your actions tamed Clinton, kept the playing field reasonably sane, and brought out many of his better angels for a while... but those bad angels came to be one of the biggest Black Swans in history.
Still, I trust that "history" will judge your actions at that time to have portrayed a moment of sincere and solid statesmenship.
OK then... Nobody in the field, including you, is the one indispensible man, or woman.
You blew the call on Medicare - it's getting beyond the point of bureaucratic tweaks.
If you had read these pages, and other strong voices of intelligent insight and clear opinion, you would have known that the time is quickly coming for an economic and political showdown on entitlements.
Why would you take anything off the table when an easy to notice invisible hand is menacingly and relentlessly still at work against the failed short and long policies that truly brought (or as Hayek would assert "bought"), us to this sorry point?
The government is not always the world's best buyer of things. It's time to roll the train backwards for a while... not "just like", but exactly like Wal-Mart used to always try to Rollback the "prices".
The social safety net will never disappear. We are, after all an innately compassionate nation.
Only fools and anarchists can ever believe that it could, would or should.
But the current structure is not going to last "forever", and more and more people are getting it, no matter what pipe they're smoking.
... and, by the way, in case you hadn't noticed, there's a locomotive coming the wrong way on that track to forever that can only be stopped if we let, not just get, as many people back to productive work again as quickly as we can.
Please be one of the "Team of Rivals" who will come together under common cause and do their best to help the nation peacefully transition to a more stable (and free) economic and social order.
Friedrich Hayek only wrote "The Fatal Conceit" in 1988 - at the end of his life and at the end of the Reagan era... An era upon which his work was clearly a seminal influence.
In the meantime, Milton Friedman piled up achievement after achievement by putting greater mathematical rigor to Hayek's beliefs, combined with a profound belief in the dignity and worth of every last possible individual in a very fateful world.
(If high school students can be forced to watch anything, they should be forced to watch "Free to Choose", hour for hour, for all the "Inconvenient Truth" claptrap that for too long has had a monopoly on their precocious, precious little minds.)
Theirs are the real "new ideas" that took Adam Smith out of the 18th century, and solidly built upon his still undeniable truths about so many important things. Their ideas, like his, worked better than any other game in town whenever they were allowed to.
They were all decidedly NOT Utopians.
I think there are other candidates out there who agree more with those propositions than you seem to.
... Drop out, give your endorsement to someone you deem worthy, and keep speaking up on the issues as you come to see them. The nation always needs men of your experience, and usually solid judgment.
Newt will not win voters' confidence, I am pretty sure.
But we have until February 2012 for Iowa and then NH voters to register their feelings about his campaign.
Of course the Ames Iowa straw poll is a big deal in August 2011.
If Newt recognizes that he cannot win the election, he could still contribute to the campaign. We need people who can say what needs to be said, and those with reasonable hopes of being nominated seldom can.
Can we now stop paying attention to Newt?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLos angeles isn't too far from san francisco. Maybe he's announcing pelosi will be his VP choice if he gets the nomination.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMaybe he could hire some of Weiner's staff.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhy does anyone pay any attention to this lard-a**? He has never been anything more than a bloviating fool. I guess this is what is considered intelligence among the Beltway elite.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse... and ends on Monday
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHe didn't say which Sunday.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMaybe some of those really competent people who ran John McCain's campaign are available.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTranslation of Gingrich's remarks: "Newt finds himself in a hole. Decides to continue digging."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'm waiting for the part where Newt sticks his head through the car's convertible top and they put Pebbles on his head.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse...as a Free-Form Jazz Odyssey in front of a festival crowd.
("I specifically said Newt Gingrich should go ABOVE Puppet Show.")
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"..running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring."
is Newt talking about running his own campaign differently? or on Sunday he starts to run someone else's?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"New" campaign should be on life support by late Monday.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCampaign begins anew on Monday......after shopping trip to Tiffany's on Sunday....
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSomeone PLEASE put a harpoon in this abomination.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNewt,
You fell on your sword once before for the good of the nation.
I remember when you quit as Speaker. So as to not become an issue in the coming debates. You set an example of honor that you hoped might help more quickly heal, the damaged integrity and dignity of the office of the Presidency.
You knew Clinton was rightfully under assault for perjury and obstruction of justice ... and as you stated clearly enough at the time, to anyone who listened, that it was NOT all about getting hummers on the seal of the President of the United States.
But over the years, you grew quietly more acceptable to a lot of people who went along with the majority at the time, and considered you the villain for shutting down the federal government, and acquiesing to other dubious personal assaults.
Still, your actions tamed Clinton, kept the playing field reasonably sane, and brought out many of his better angels for a while... but those bad angels came to be one of the biggest Black Swans in history.
Still, I trust that "history" will judge your actions at that time to have portrayed a moment of sincere and solid statesmenship.
OK then... Nobody in the field, including you, is the one indispensible man, or woman.
You blew the call on Medicare - it's getting beyond the point of bureaucratic tweaks.
If you had read these pages, and other strong voices of intelligent insight and clear opinion, you would have known that the time is quickly coming for an economic and political showdown on entitlements.
Why would you take anything off the table when an easy to notice invisible hand is menacingly and relentlessly still at work against the failed short and long policies that truly brought (or as Hayek would assert "bought"), us to this sorry point?
The government is not always the world's best buyer of things. It's time to roll the train backwards for a while... not "just like", but exactly like Wal-Mart used to always try to Rollback the "prices".
The social safety net will never disappear. We are, after all an innately compassionate nation.
Only fools and anarchists can ever believe that it could, would or should.
But the current structure is not going to last "forever", and more and more people are getting it, no matter what pipe they're smoking.
... and, by the way, in case you hadn't noticed, there's a locomotive coming the wrong way on that track to forever that can only be stopped if we let, not just get, as many people back to productive work again as quickly as we can.
Please be one of the "Team of Rivals" who will come together under common cause and do their best to help the nation peacefully transition to a more stable (and free) economic and social order.
Friedrich Hayek only wrote "The Fatal Conceit" in 1988 - at the end of his life and at the end of the Reagan era... An era upon which his work was clearly a seminal influence.
In the meantime, Milton Friedman piled up achievement after achievement by putting greater mathematical rigor to Hayek's beliefs, combined with a profound belief in the dignity and worth of every last possible individual in a very fateful world.
(If high school students can be forced to watch anything, they should be forced to watch "Free to Choose", hour for hour, for all the "Inconvenient Truth" claptrap that for too long has had a monopoly on their precocious, precious little minds.)
Theirs are the real "new ideas" that took Adam Smith out of the 18th century, and solidly built upon his still undeniable truths about so many important things. Their ideas, like his, worked better than any other game in town whenever they were allowed to.
They were all decidedly NOT Utopians.
I think there are other candidates out there who agree more with those propositions than you seem to.
... Drop out, give your endorsement to someone you deem worthy, and keep speaking up on the issues as you come to see them. The nation always needs men of your experience, and usually solid judgment.
Sincerely
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles"
That's akin to the Titanic captain announcing "Next stop, New York!".
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNewt will not win voters' confidence, I am pretty sure.
But we have until February 2012 for Iowa and then NH voters to register their feelings about his campaign.
Of course the Ames Iowa straw poll is a big deal in August 2011.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf Newt recognizes that he cannot win the election, he could still contribute to the campaign. We need people who can say what needs to be said, and those with reasonable hopes of being nominated seldom can.
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