Are many cons anti-Newtzi?

[Guns Guns Guns]

If former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is to maintain his place at or near the top of Republican presidential polls, it will be no thanks to the assistance of America's conservative political commentators.



Columnists and bloggers of the right have been torching Gingrich with unusual abandon in recent days — charging that the long-tenured politician can't be trusted to adhere to conservative ideals or to stay on message if he is unleashed in a prolonged general election campaign.



That could cost Republicans victory, the writers fret, against a president viewed as eminently beatable….






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[tinfoil]

we've been saying the same thing

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

The arrows aimed at Gingrich have been particularly sharp, often fired by those who base their opinions on close contact with their subject.



The harshest assessments in recent days may have come from George Will, who mocked the "Olympian sense of exemption from standards and logic" that he said allowed the candidate to claim he was not a Washington lobbyist, despite pocketing $1.6 million in fees from Freddie Mac. The mortgage giant is a bête noir of small-government purists.



"There is almost artistic vulgarity," Will wrote, "in Gingrich's unrepented role as a hired larynx for interests profiting from such government follies as ethanol and cheap mortgages."



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[Damocles]

Remember when Reagan was the target of the establishment republicans?

If Newt wins those same people will spend their time talking about how they really thought he was the bestest ever. I'm just glad that the establishment doesn't necessarily own the party and there are occasionally some surprise candidates.

 

[Rune]

Remember when Reagan was the target of the establishment republicans?

If Newt wins those same people will spend their time talking about how they really thought he was the bestest ever. I'm just glad that the establishment doesn't necessarily own the party and there are occasionally some surprise candidates.

Surprise us soon please. My alaskan malamute would be a better candidate than Newt.

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

Remember when Reagan was the target of the establishment republicans?...

Nope.

...I'm just glad that the establishment doesn't necessarily own the party and there are occasionally some surprise candidates....

Like Spermin' Herman? LOL.


A new round of anti-Gingrich anger erupted this week following his retort to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who suggested Gingrich should give back the Freddie Mac payments.


Gingrich retorted that he would listen to Romney if his rival would "give back all the money that he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees, over his years at Bain," a reference to Romney's investment company.


In what conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt termed "a four-pundit-horsemen-of-political-apocalypse fury," four leading conservatives (Will, Krauthammer, Fox News' Brit Hume and syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg) hammered Gingrich for what they described as anti-capitalist rhetoric right out of the liberal briefing book.


They contended the candidate failed to appreciate the "creative destruction" — including lost jobs and shuttered companies — that sometimes must proceed economic growth.


"This kind of attack is what you'd expect from a socialist," Krauthammer scolded on Fox News on Monday night. "And it makes you wonder about the core ideology of Newt himself." Following Thursday night's debate, Gingrich conceded in an interview that he had erred.


But before that, commentators said Gingrich (whom they tend to call "Newt," when the Ginsu knives start glistening) had compounded an earlier offense: his criticism of Rep. Paul D. Ryan for "right-wing social engineering," a plan to reform Medicare.


Will, of the Washington Post, resuscitated Ryan's earlier rebuttal: "With allies like that, who needs the left?"





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