Newt Gingrich! for President! 2012 !

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by joeydb

As George W. Bush would say, it's a great strategic advantage to be "misunderestimated"

Advantage: Gingrich.

Unfortunately I suspect a lot of folks understand Newt quite well.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Unfortunately I suspect a lot of folks understand Newt quite well.

He might beat Huckabee in Iowa.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Riot

He might beat Huckabee in Iowa.

This is what amuses me about this "Newt-love", because he has an education, right wing folks are climbing all over him..."Oh, he's so intelligent, a real intellectual" etc etc...now for every right wing PhD or tenured college professor, there are a half dozen (just a guess) left wing types, folks who agree about 95% of the time with my rather extreme views. These folks have been attacked by the right for decades (brainwashing our kids etc etc)...so how come an educated right winger is to be admired because he/she is just so smart while an educated left winger is demonized as the devil himself?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

.so how come an educated right winger is to be admired because he/she is just so smart while an educated left winger is demonized as the devil himself?

Because the dinosaurs that walked the earth with Adam and Eve said so be it?

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

This is what amuses me about this "Newt-love", because he has an education, right wing folks are climbing all over him..."Oh, he's so intelligent, a real intellectual" etc etc...now for every right wing PhD or tenured college professor, there are a half dozen (just a guess) left wing types, folks who agree about 95% of the time with my rather extreme views. These folks have been attacked by the right for decades (brainwashing our kids etc etc)...so how come an educated right winger is to be admired because he/she is just so smart while an educated left winger is demonized as the devil himself?

If I had a nickel for every time I had to hear about how intellectual Obama is, I'd be able to afford Obama's proposed tax hikes.

The thing is, Newt really is that sharp, and I have a feeling that he's about to prove it in his debate performance, in the primary season certainly, and, possibly, as the candidate for the GOP.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by joeydb

If I had a nickel for every time I had to hear about how intellectual Obama is, I'd be able to afford Obama's proposed tax hikes.

The thing is, Newt really is that sharp, and I have a feeling that he's about to prove it in his debate performance, in the primary season certainly, and, possibly, as the candidate for the GOP.

we'll see...hell, I could win debates against Trump, Palin and those folks. Bush was frequently characterized as rather stupid, I never bought it, I seldom agreed with his politics but I never saw him as unintelligent.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Riot

He might beat Huckabee in Iowa.

And if nobody noticed, Huckabee is officially OUT of the running.

The only ones officially in: Gingrich, Pawlenty, Romney, Johnson, Ron Paul (there are, of course, also the usual collection of declared weirdos that run every President election)