Newt was asked about our purported call for him to drop out yesterday and responded as only Newt can, by saying we had already once called on him to exit the race back in June (not quite true, although we did take a very dim view of his candidacy) and that we’re not conservative.
I wish Newt had said something like this to the reporter who asked him about the editorial: “Frankly, you don’t know how to read. Your lack of appreciation for the nuances of a carefully crafted editorial position is stunning. It is what is fundamentally breaking politics in America. This is why no one wants to run for president. NR’s editors were clearly just throwing back at me my own ill-considered shots at Rick Santorum when I was temporarily riding high in South Carolina and afterwards, and because I’m so fundamentally willing to say whatever is most convenient to me at any given moment, hell, no, I’m not getting out. Next question.”
(Gingrich, by the way, conceded that Santorum was right to resist his demands that he leave the race. Of course that’s a convenient admission now…)
Oh, please!
When one reads a magazine like National Review one expects to read cogent analysis, not instinctual attempts to carry the candidate du jour's water.
What will be left of NR's prestige after November 2012, if not before?
As for the sarcasm directed against Gingrich's verbal patterns, did you *ever* make fun of either Romney's or Santorum's - way poorer than Gingrich's - command of the English language?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhy is NRO refusing to acknowledge that your editor-at-large, Kathryn Jean Lopez, wrote here that the editorial was a call for Gingrich to quit?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt sounds like you're insinuating that NRO's editor-at-large doesn't know how to read and lacks an appreciation for the nuances of a carefully crafted editorial position too. Or am I missing something?
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI hope you transcribe this post into your slam book -it's a keeper of a burn. I'm only disappointed that your fantasy doesn't include whether Gingrich looks fat in that outfit when he acknowledges how awesome you really are, or if he realizes that nobody likes him that's why he wasn't asked to join the yearbook club, because it's totally true.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRE: "I'm only disappointed that your fantasy doesn't include whether Gingrich looks fat in that outfit when he acknowledges how awesome you really are . . . "
Heh -- so true. It's like watching junior high spite and cattiness over here.
Man oh man, Lowry hates Gingrich. Fascinating to watch.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHaha...great stuff, Rich! Newt is a bloviating blowhard. If he had his way three weeks before Iowa, everyone would have dropped out, since, according to his ever-wise prognostication, he was going to be the nominee.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJust when I think NRO writers can't get any more juvenile in their coverage of the GOP primary race, they prove me wrong.
Really Mr. Lowry, this Corner post stooped below juvenile to infantile status.
Have you no shame?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOH SNAP! That would have been epic...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTruth be heard, Mr. Gingrich has left the race.
Not so much a volitional move, as a 'Force majeure' brought forward by the voters and their heavenly protector.
We are now witnessing the contrail of one bad projectile and his version of the vapors.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIn the immortal words of Sir Bedevere: What's a newt? That phase of the primary season is over.
And if you've missed Ron Pauls's demolition of Santorum posted on his site, read it now. The Santorum phase will also pass.
Romney/Rubio 2012.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNR's editors should resign. Just get out and allow the NR to replace you with conservatives.
You are a complete disgrace and an ongoing embarassment to a once great publication.
Don't you understand how absurd it is to have a publication posing as the conservative standard-bearer being run by barely right of center establishment moderates?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe Editors: "Against Gingrich". Yes, we know. Old news.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePoor NR, they write an editorial and then spend a couple of days denying it's intent. Nuance indeed.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI wish Newt had said something like this to the reporter who asked him about the editorial: “Frankly, the NRO has thrown away all its credibility already ... so why would I even care what they said? Did you ask them who has had the highest overall poll ratings so far? Who has had twice as many National polls (source Real Clear Politics) place him at or above 35% in the past 2 1/2 months? (39 polls ... Newt=6 Mitt=3 Rick=1) Again I would say ... since NRO seems to have no use for the fact that I was lower in Oct. then leading in DEC ... lower in early Jan. then leading.again in late JAN. Why would I care? What do they actually know about politics?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNational Review is conservative? Who knew?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLowry, your so awesome...what's it like to be you. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYour translation of the Newtonian Dialect is almost flawless, but you forgot to use "grotesque" at least twice.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAlso I really like the matter-of-fact way Gingrich points out that NRO editors aren't conservative.
Just a bald assertion -- good that the word is getting out and being accepted too.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd Newt is considered the big whiner? Wow, Mr. Lowry. Just wow.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'm sure when you and the Oxford boys are standing around the cooler you get the that-a-boy accolades, but out here in the world you just look small.
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