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National Review Urges Republicans To ‘Reject A Hasty Marriage’ To Newt Gingrich

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In an editorial released on Wednesday, influential conservative magazine the National Review spoke out against the nomination of Newt Gingrich, making several jabs at his rocky personal life. “At the moment we think it important to urge Republicans to have the good sense to reject a hasty marriage to Gingrich, which would risk dissolving in acrimony,” the editorial said.

Noting that at a time of “uncharacteristic” unity, “we fear that to nominate former Speaker Newt Gingrich, the frontrunner in the polls, would be to blow this opportunity,” the magazine observed. “We say that mindful of his opponents’ imperfections — and of his own virtues, which have been on display during his amazing comeback.”

The magazine pointed out that Gingrich’s personal baggage would be toxic in a general election.

Very few people with a personal history like his — two divorces, two marriages to former mistresses — have ever tried running for president. Gingrich himself has never run for a statewide office, let alone a national one, and has not run for anything since 1998. That year he was kicked out by his colleagues, the most conservative ones especially, who had lost confidence in him. During his time as Speaker, he was one of the most unpopular figures in public life. Just a few months ago his campaign seemed dead after a series of gaffes and resignations.”

The National Review also opined that Republicans should stray from Texas Governor Rick Perry and Congressman Ron Paul:

“Gingrich is not the only candidate whom we believe conservatives should, regretfully, exclude from consideration for the presidency. Governor Perry has done an exemplary job in Texas but has seemed curiously and persistently unable to bring gravity to the national stage. Republican presidential candidates have not been known for their off-the-cuff eloquence in recent decades, but conservatism should not choose a standard-bearer who would have to spend much of his time untying his own tongue. Representative Bachmann’s rise early in the primary season reflected the public’s hunger for sincere conviction; her later descent, following among other things her casual repetition of false anti-vaccine rumors, its desire that conviction be married to judgment. Representative Paul’s recent re-dabbling in vile conspiracy theories about September 11 are a reminder that the excesses of the movement he leads are actually its essence.

(h/t National Review)

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  • Anonymous

    This only helps Newt. NR = the definition of “the establishment”.

  • Anonymous

    hahahahaha…hows it feel to be thrown under the bus wingnuts????….the naional review spent 3 years aiding FOX News and rightwing radio dumb down the electorate, and now they are not happy with the results….they ended up with a bunch of crossburning ,warmongering ,racist, teabagging ,uneducated, backwoods, gadson and confederate flag flying, bible slangin, islamophobic, anti semetic, fallout shelter dwelling, gun toting, fearful, false moral having ditto and beckerheads….YOU DESERVE EACH OTHER….id say stuff a pillow down the back of your pants…..Obamas  foot hurts when it makes contact with your collective asses

  • Anonymous

    Ah, yes. The new conservative voice: “You dare disagree with us. You are no longer conservative!”

  • Anonymous

    By the way, Gingrich is the establishment. He is not the outsider or whatever. He never left DC after resigning as Speaker and has made millions “historianing” for companies with Congress.

  • Anonymous

    out of meds?

  • Anonymous

     I hope you are right. I badly want Gingrich to win.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Newt for the GOP nomination! Oh what a blessed day that will be. 

  • Anonymous

    Wow, take your pills.

  • Anonymous

    Rather odd definition.  Aside from saying the Gingrich is a disaster, I suppose you have a whole list of heresies that you would like to point out.  

    It isn’t like you are going on non-cocked, right?

  • http://www.occupywallst.org (CAR)

    NEW GINGRICH’S POLICIES
     
    1%
    Lower Capital Gains to 0%
    Eliminate the Death Tax
    Lower Corporate Taxes to 0%
    =
    610 Billion/1.5 Trillion Dollars of Corporatism and Frugal Socialism
     
     
    99%
    Privatize Social Security by forcing Senior’s to risk their retirements in the stock market.

    NEW GINGRICH’S ETHICS

    The Good: Has spent his lifetime in politics.

    The Bad: Has the worst record of ethics in Congress, next to the Devil himself if the Devil was elected to congress.

  • Anonymous

    You suck at trolling, fyi.

  • Anonymous

    Saying that Gingrich is out to screw the 99% isn’t exactly going to lose him any of the conservative vote, you know.  And he’s already lost the moderate, liberal, libertarian, and populist vote just by being himself.  LOL

  • Anonymous

    Relax, everyone. America is not going to elect as president a pompous, inconsistent, unreliable, unfaithful, arrogant former Speaker of the House who irritates people and has a handshake as limp as a dead fish (I speak from first-hand experience). Let the radical right whine about Obama and give him all the kindergarten playground names they can think of or get off Fox Noise. It still doesn’t change the fact that New Gingrich will not be inaugurated in Jan. 2013. Newt certainly doesn’t care. He is out there to increase his “be seen with me for a price” business. I’m sure his business strategy will stand him in good stead.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s hoping!

  • Anonymous

    Do you have this paragraph on re-dial? Seems we are constantly seeing this diatribe of fanciful nonsense from you.

  • Anonymous

    Did you forget about his inane suggestion about adding millions of illegal alien parasites to his voting base? Yes sir, add another 20,000,000 people looking for the 12 jobs left in this country, that makes sense?!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_K47R2KNGRYXOECLVDSESRNL2ZE sam

    December 9, 2011 Ron Paul Has Real Chance of Becoming GOP NomineeNIA believes that the free market is the number one predictor of the future. We pay a lot of attention to the web site Intrade.com which allows investors to place bets on current events by buying shares on the outcome. Right now on Intrade for the cost of $4.69 you can buy shares that Mitt Romney will become the Republican Presidential Nominee. If Romney is victorious, your shares will become worth $10 and you will more than double your money. If Romney doesn’t win the nomination, your shares will become worthless and you will lose your entire investment. With shares in Romney costing $4.69 it means Romney has a 46.9% chance of winning. Back on November 14th shares in Romney cost $7.15 meaning he had a 71.5% chance of winning. In the last three weeks, Romney has gone from being an overwhelming favorite to no longer having a majority of support. Along with Romney collapsing, so has Cain who dropped out of the race. Cain had a 9.5% chance of winning on October 15th, but now has only a 0.1% chance of winning. Meanwhile, Rick Perry was exposed as being the phony candidate from Texas. Perry’s support has collapsed from 39.4% on September 3rd to only 2.1% today. With Romney, Cain, and Perry collapsing, where has all of their support gone? Newt Gingrich’s chances of winning have increased from a low of 0.8% on September 27th to 33.3% today. Ron Paul’s chances of winning have increased from a low of 2.2% on November 8th to 7.4% today. Jon Huntsman’s chances of winning have increased from a low of 2.1% on November 7th to 7% today. Iowa is the first GOP caucus and widely recognized as the first step in becoming the Republican nominee. Intrade doesn’t allow you to buy shares for the Iowa caucus, so we can only look at polling. A new PPP poll for the Iowa caucus just released on December 5th shows Gingrich in the lead with 27%, Paul in second with 18%, Romney in third with 16%, and Bachmann in fourth with 13%. Rather than giving Ron Paul a serious chance of winning Iowa, the media is currently portraying Paul as a potential “spoiler”. The Washington Examiner published an article this week with the headline, “Ron Paul could complicate GOP’s two-horse race”. Despite Paul currently polling second place in the most important primary state, many mainstream media news reports about the election have been mentioning Ron Paul’s name before immediately saying, “who has no chance of winning the nomination.” History has shown that just like in a horse race, Presidential candidates who take a big lead early on almost never win the nomination. Those who think Romney will win the nomination also thought that Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani were going to be the two nominees four years ago. If history is right and Romney doesn’t win the nomination, the winner will likely be either Gingrich or Paul. NIA considers Gingrich to be unelectable and predicts that his support will evaporate as soon as voters learn the truth about him. Gingrich might as well be a Democrat. He would have zero chance of winning an election against Obama because voters would choose to go with the real thing. In the last Presidential election, voters only had a choice between two candidates who supported the government’s bailout of Wall Street. You would think that Americans today would only be supporting candidates who were strongly against the government’s bailout of Wall Street. Gingrich stated in 2008 that he “reluctantly and sadly” was supporting the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. If Gingrich was the nominee, it will be a disaster for America because it will show that nobody in the U.S. has learned a thing. Gingrich claims to have never favored cap-and-trade, but in 2007 he said that he would “strongly support” cap-and-trade with “a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions.” He went on to say in 2009 that he might still support cap-and-trade for “the 2,000 most polluting places,” if packaged with green energy incentives. Even more disturbing than Gingrich’s support of cap-and-trade, Gingrich was paid $30,000 per month by Freddie Mac as a consultant during the subprime mortgage crisis up until it effectively became a government controlled entity. Gingrich received a total of $1.8 million from Freddie Mac as part of two contracts, one that lasted from mid-1999 to 2002 and another that lasted from 2006 until September of 2008. NIA believes that Gingrich is largely responsible for skyrocketing health care inflation in the U.S. today. In 2003, Gingrich founded The Center for Health Transformation, which was paid dues of $200,000 per year from health insurance providers and other health care firms. Those dues would provide health care companies with “access to Newt Gingrich” and “direct Newt interaction”, which NIA looks at as bribes that were paid to Gingrich by these health care giants to pass regulations that pushed health care costs through the roof. Gingrich’s organization advocated that “anyone who earns more than $50,000 a year must purchase health insurance or post a bond.” NIA believes it is unconstitutional for the government to force Americans to buy anything. This type of distortion of the free market by Gingrich is what has helped fuel massive health care inflation for the past decade. On September 27th when Gingrich’s support was only 0.8%, Paul was beating him with support of 2.6%. Gingrich is the latest flavor of the month. We also saw huge spikes in support for Perry and Cain before their support collapsed back to below 2% as voters figured out the truth about them. Paul is the only candidate who has never been below 2% and has enjoyed a very large and solid support base that has been growing consistently. Paul is currently second in Iowa and third nationwide and when voters realize he is the only candidate who will implement the changes that need to be made to save America from hyperinflation, Paul will be the only candidate left standing to take on Obama. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism just released a study yesterday of 20 million tweets and it shows that Ron Paul is overwhelmingly viewed more positively on Twitter than all of the other Republican candidates: After studying 20 million tweets, 55% of tweets about Ron Paul were positive while only 15% were negative. For every other Republican candidate, negative tweets outweighed positive tweets by two-to-one. The mainstream media loves Twitter and when Lindsay Lohan tweeted that she enjoyed NIA’s latest documentary, there were dozens of stories in the media about it. However, there was very little media coverage yesterday about the Pew Research Center’s findings. Ron Paul also leads all of the other Republican candidates in Google searches. Paul is currently receiving 823,000 monthly searches on Google compared to Bachmann in second with 673,000 monthly searches and Perry in third with 550,000 monthly searches. Cain and Romney are both tied with only 246,000 monthly searches. Flavor of the month Gingrich who the media is now portraying as the potential new frontrunner has been receiving only 165,000 monthly searches, which shows that Gingrich really has no grassroots support and that his artificial support is being fueled by the mainstream media trying to manipulate the minds of voters. Ron Paul in September won the California GOP Presidential straw poll, but it got almost no mention at all by the mainstream media. At around the same time, Herman Cain won the Florida GOP Presidential straw poll and it became the number one story on the news with the media declaring Cain a serious threat to win the nomination. If you search on Google for “Ron Paul” and “California straw poll winner” only 25,400 results appear. However, if you search on Google for “Herman Cain” and “Florida straw poll winner” you get 54,600 results. Last night on FOX News, they kept airing commercials repeatedly for upcoming FOX News segments about Perry and what he is doing to get back into the race with Romney and Gingrich. Perry has no chance of recovering from his current support on Intrade of 2.1%. In a recent GOP debate, Perry copied both Ron Paul and NIA by talking about branches of the government that he claims he wants to eliminate. The only problem is, Perry forgot the branches of government. It became clear to all watching the debate that Perry is merely trying to recite lines that he has memorized and is not a real Presidential candidate. Paul has been talking about eliminating many branches of government for decades and when Paul speaks, you can tell he is a real genuine candidate who speaks for himself and means what he says. Perry is just a parrot and if he were elected, he would not follow through with anything he has been attempting to say. Ron Paul Has Real Chance of Becoming GOP NomineeNIA believes that the free market is the number one predictor of the future. We pay a lot of attention to the web site Intrade.com which allows investors to place bets on current events by buying shares on the outcome. Right now on Intrade for the cost of $4.69 you can buy shares that Mitt Romney will become the Republican Presidential Nominee. If Romney is victorious, your shares will become worth $10 and you will more than double your money. If Romney doesn’t win the nomination, your shares will become worthless and you will lose your entire investment. With shares in Romney costing $4.69 it means Romney has a 46.9% chance of winning. Back on November 14th shares in Romney cost $7.15 meaning he had a 71.5% chance of winning. In the last three weeks, Romney has gone from being an overwhelming favorite to no longer having a majority of support. Along with Romney collapsing, so has Cain who dropped out of the race. Cain had a 9.5% chance of winning on October 15th, but now has only a 0.1% chance of winning. Meanwhile, Rick Perry was exposed as being the phony candidate from Texas. Perry’s support has collapsed from 39.4% on September 3rd to only 2.1% today. With Romney, Cain, and Perry collapsing, where has all of their support gone? Newt Gingrich’s chances of winning have increased from a low of 0.8% on September 27th to 33.3% today. Ron Paul’s chances of winning have increased from a low of 2.2% on November 8th to 7.4% today. Jon Huntsman’s chances of winning have increased from a low of 2.1% on November 7th to 7% today. Iowa is the first GOP caucus and widely recognized as the first step in becoming the Republican nominee. Intrade doesn’t allow you to buy shares for the Iowa caucus, so we can only look at polling. A new PPP poll for the Iowa caucus just released on December 5th shows Gingrich in the lead with 27%, Paul in second with 18%, Romney in third with 16%, and Bachmann in fourth with 13%. Rather than giving Ron Paul a serious chance of winning Iowa, the media is currently portraying Paul as a potential “spoiler”. The Washington Examiner published an article this week with the headline, “Ron Paul could complicate GOP’s two-horse race”. Despite Paul currently polling second place in the most important primary state, many mainstream media news reports about the election have been mentioning Ron Paul’s name before immediately saying, “who has no chance of winning the nomination.” History has shown that just like in a horse race, Presidential candidates who take a big lead early on almost never win the nomination. Those who think Romney will win the nomination also thought that Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani were going to be the two nominees four years ago. If history is right and Romney doesn’t win the nomination, the winner will likely be either Gingrich or Paul. NIA considers Gingrich to be unelectable and predicts that his support will evaporate as soon as voters learn the truth about him. Gingrich might as well be a Democrat. He would have zero chance of winning an election against Obama because voters would choose to go with the real thing. In the last Presidential election, voters only had a choice between two candidates who supported the government’s bailout of Wall Street. You would think that Americans today would only be supporting candidates who were strongly against the government’s bailout of Wall Street. Gingrich stated in 2008 that he “reluctantly and sadly” was supporting the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. If Gingrich was the nominee, it will be a disaster for America because it will show that nobody in the U.S. has learned a thing. Gingrich claims to have never favored cap-and-trade, but in 2007 he said that he would “strongly support” cap-and-trade with “a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions.” He went on to say in 2009 that he might still support cap-and-trade for “the 2,000 most polluting places,” if packaged with green energy incentives. Even more disturbing than Gingrich’s support of cap-and-trade, Gingrich was paid $30,000 per month by Freddie Mac as a consultant during the subprime mortgage crisis up until it effectively became a government controlled entity. Gingrich received a total of $1.8 million from Freddie Mac as part of two contracts, one that lasted from mid-1999 to 2002 and another that lasted from 2006 until September of 2008. NIA believes that Gingrich is largely responsible for skyrocketing health care inflation in the U.S. today. In 2003, Gingrich founded The Center for Health Transformation, which was paid dues of $200,000 per year from health insurance providers and other health care firms. Those dues would provide health care companies with “access to Newt Gingrich” and “direct Newt interaction”, which NIA looks at as bribes that were paid to Gingrich by these health care giants to pass regulations that pushed health care costs through the roof. Gingrich’s organization advocated that “anyone who earns more than $50,000 a year must purchase health insurance or post a bond.” NIA believes it is unconstitutional for the government to force Americans to buy anything. This type of distortion of the free market by Gingrich is what has helped fuel massive health care inflation for the past decade. On September 27th when Gingrich’s support was only 0.8%, Paul was beating him with support of 2.6%. Gingrich is the latest flavor of the month. We also saw huge spikes in support for Perry and Cain before their support collapsed back to below 2% as voters figured out the truth about them. Paul is the only candidate who has never been below 2% and has enjoyed a very large and solid support base that has been growing consistently. Paul is currently second in Iowa and third nationwide and when voters realize he is the only candidate who will implement the changes that need to be made to save America from hyperinflation, Paul will be the only candidate left standing to take on Obama. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism just released a study yesterday of 20 million tweets and it shows that Ron Paul is overwhelmingly viewed more positively on Twitter than all of the other Republican candidates: After studying 20 million tweets, 55% of tweets about Ron Paul were positive while only 15% were negative. For every other Republican candidate, negative tweets outweighed positive tweets by two-to-one. The mainstream media loves Twitter and when Lindsay Lohan tweeted that she enjoyed NIA’s latest documentary, there were dozens of stories in the media about it. However, there was very little media coverage yesterday about the Pew Research Center’s findings. Ron Paul also leads all of the other Republican candidates in Google searches. Paul is currently receiving 823,000 monthly searches on Google compared to Bachmann in second with 673,000 monthly searches and Perry in third with 550,000 monthly searches. Cain and Romney are both tied with only 246,000 monthly searches. Flavor of the month Gingrich who the media is now portraying as the potential new frontrunner has been receiving only 165,000 monthly searches, which shows that Gingrich really has no grassroots support and that his artificial support is being fueled by the mainstream media trying to manipulate the minds of voters. Ron Paul in September won the California GOP Presidential straw poll, but it got almost no mention at all by the mainstream media. At around the same time, Herman Cain won the Florida GOP Presidential straw poll and it became the number one story on the news with the media declaring Cain a serious threat to win the nomination. If you search on Google for “Ron Paul” and “California straw poll winner” only 25,400 results appear. However, if you search on Google for “Herman Cain” and “Florida straw poll winner” you get 54,600 results. Last night on FOX News, they kept airing commercials repeatedly for upcoming FOX News segments about Perry and what he is doing to get back into the race with Romney and Gingrich. Perry has no chance of recovering from his current support on Intrade of 2.1%. In a recent GOP debate, Perry copied both Ron Paul and NIA by talking about branches of the government that he claims he wants to eliminate. The only problem is, Perry forgot the branches of government. It became clear to all watching the debate that Perry is merely trying to recite lines that he has memorized and is not a real Presidential candidate. Paul has been talking about eliminating many branches of government for decades and when Paul speaks, you can tell he is a real genuine candidate who speaks for himself and means what he says. Perry is just a parrot and if he were elected, he would not follow through with anything he has been attempting to say. If you would like to be the first to see ‘Occupy Wall Street the Documentary’ coming soon, simply enter your e-mail address to receive the free NIA newsletter! © 2009 National Inflation Association. All Rights ReservedQuestions/Comments: editor@inflation.us – Legal Disclaimer

  • Anonymous

    December’s flavor is Newt, November Cain, October Perry, September Romney and August Bachmann. I guess it’s Ron Paul’s turn in January. All of these politicians have baggage except  Paul and Bachmann, so it looks like Paul and Bachmann are the finalist. What do you think ?

  • Anonymous

    Bachmann doesnt have baggage?  Her baggage is her tendency to say crazy things everytime she opens her mouth.

    Anyhow, Romney will get the nom.  This whole primary has just been the GOP desperate to nominate anyone but Romney.  But at this point, who’s left?

  • Anonymous

    “Newt Gingrich is a bottom-feeding scam artist”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdqxTVM9qY

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KV4RFCL74WV652VV43U3GDPAEY Stephen W

    Sam, how many people do you think actually read this huge post?

  • Anonymous

    It would be great if you could conform to some of the more standard rules of grammar because it’s really easy to read and dismiss this on that basis alone.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I didn’t read the post… it was too short!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    The Republican establishment knows Newt has no chance of beating Obama!!

  • Anonymous

    Yup. We LOVE Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

    HUSSEIN

    HUSSEIN

    WHO CARES WHAT HIS MIDDLE NAME IS?

    Lol

  • Anonymous

    With the due dates to sign up for the primaries over and gone; that imaginary air-person would have a hell of a time gaining enough delegates.

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