Newt Gingrich, glutton for punishment, tries to make the case for Dede Scozzafava one more time: "The New York 23 special election is a test of whether we respect local parties and local leaders."I'm not sure why Newt has chosen this hill to die on. He's really hurting himself with conservatives as he goes up against Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson and Tim Pawlenty in sticking with his endorsement of a pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, big tax and spend RINO. It certainly doesn't seem consistent with the conservative principles that use promoted when he led the GOP to retaking the House and Senate in 1994.
In the abstract, and in many cases, Newt is right; my taste for conservative or Republican candidates and preferred issue positions may or may not match up with Olympia Snowe, or Mike Huckabee, or David Vitter, or Mike Castle, or many others (which is not to say I don't like most of those figures). But I don't live in Maine, or Arkansas, or Louisiana, or Delaware or anywhere except Virginia right now, and ultimately, the choice is up to Republican voters in those states.
But every once in a while, the local leaders nominate a person who is intolerable. And as I noted on Hugh's show last night, Scozzafava asks us to do way more than just tolerate an unorthodox position on abortion or gay marriage or the stimulus or any one of plenty of policy issues. Her behavior suggests she doesn't know what a local police force can and cannot handle. She may or may not know what constitutes a crime, and she clearly doesn't know how to handle a reporter who is asking a question she doesn't want to answer. (Correct response: Say, "no comment," and leave.) It is not unreasonable to wonder if her desire or willingness to have the police intercede to deal with an inconvenient reporter suggests a quasi-fascist view of the role of government officials and the citizenry.
Sorry, Newt. That's not a bridge too far, that's an overpass so remote that it takes the light from it several years to reach us.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Newt Makes One More Push for Liberal Republican
Newt Gingrich just doesn't want to give up on the liberal Republican chosen by local party officials to run in the NY-23 special election. Jim Geraghty has more:
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Speaking of points missed....
"He's really hurting himself with conservatives as he goes up against Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson and Tim Pawlenty in sticking with his endorsement of a pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, big tax and spend RINO."
The important point is that he is up against me, and any voter that thinks like I do.
You should read Douglas Carswell and Daniel Hannan on what Gingrich accomplished with "The Contract For America" and by extension the irreparable harm he did when he pissed it all away.
The conservative Newt died with The Contract With America. This Newt is the one who has a problem with his moral compass, the one who cheated on his wife and married the staffer that he cheated with, who hopefully was the only one he cheated with.
I really can't figure Newt out. He used to be right on, but for one reason or another he has flipped his lid. I would put little trust in what he says now and think most likely he is washed up with the Conservative base in the Republican Party.
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