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Tweet Oratory died with Leftism, which hides, rather than reveals, truth; and with MTV, which brought America’s attention span down to 15 seconds.  This is the sad result.  No wonder Newt is popular right now.  Whether he’s a snake oil salesman or the real deal, and regardless of staggering baggage, he might just go down [...]

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Tweet One of the things my parents always told me was that there is no one more fired with zealotry than a convert.  Paul of Tarsus is, of course, the perfect example of the truth behind that statement. One doesn’t have to look so far field, though, in time at space.  Just consider the fact [...]

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Tweet We all know the philosophical question that asks, “If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” The media is trying a variation on this question by asking, “If we completely ignore a fact, so that no one hears about it, does the [...]

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Tweet When Newt does things like this, I like him so very much:

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Tweet Yes, Nietzsche ended up insane, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t occasionally hit the nail on the head.  Although it isn’t true in all cases that “what does not destroy me makes me stronger,” it is true in many cases. In the case of Newt Gingrich’s most recent attack against Romney, James Taranto says [...]

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Tweet We all grew up being taught that FDR was the nation’s savior.  He wasn’t.  He was a Progressive who prolonged the depression by an extra seven or eight years, inflicting tremendous damage on the nation.  The fact that Newt finds FDR an effective leader is somewhat worrying.

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Tweet Why, oh why, oh why can’t I get more excited about Mitt?  On paper, he’s a very good candidate.  Yes, there have been flips and flops, but it’s naive to expect perfect political purity from any candidate.  Aside from that, he’s straight out of Hollywood’s central casting, circa 1944:  well-educated, handsome, wholesome, loyal, intelligent, [...]

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Tweet Newt made a very good point about his earlier support for an individual mandate when it came to health care:  The Heritage Foundation, as reputable a conservative think tank as one can find, actually thought the idea was a good one.  Then, as Newt did, it backed off when it realized the ramifications: Scott [...]

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Tweet Since at least Reagan, the standard liberal trope is that Republicans, both voters and politicians, are stupid.  That trope has, of course, emerged again this year.  The joker in the deck is Newt Gingrich, a PhD and author who spokes with incredible fluency and has a masterful grasp of facts. With Newt as the [...]

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Tweet One of the reasons a lot of people, myself included, like Newt is because he says politically incorrect things that ordinary people think.  In other words, his politically correct utterances aren’t out of the KKK playbook, they’re out of “the reasonable common-sense before 1960s Leftist education took over” playbook. A week ago, he said [...]

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Tweet Back in 1987, when he was campaigning for President, one of George H. W. Bush’s advisers suggested that he back off from spouting minutiae to the electorate and spend some time focusing on the big picture, So that he could better sell himself to Americans.  According to contemporaneous reports, Bush, Sr., was not impressed: [...]

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Tweet The alternative title for this post is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”  Scott Galupo is no Newt Gingrich fan, but he genuinely hates Mitt Romney, whom he describes in the same terms once used to describe Tom Cruise:  “I don’t sense a man there. I sense a bristling mass of ambition.”  [...]

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Tweet America’s First Sergeant put up a post that perfectly addresses my last two attempts to figure out Mike McQueary’s inaction.  The first post I wrote looked at McQueary’s alleged youth, which I contrasted with the even youthier youth of a few Medal of Honor recipients who didn’t hesitate to act.  The second (with lots [...]

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Tweet Why you should vote for Newt. Why you shouldn’t vote for Newt. What do you say?

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Tweet Hold onto your hats, folks, because this is a BIG ONE.  I mean, this is the kind of thing that can make or break elections.  Are you ready? NEWT IS AN ABBA FAN (although he loses points for liking it as presented in the movie, which is lousy, rather than appreciating it as sung [...]

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Tweet I can’t decide if Rich Lowry is praising Newt with faint damns or damning him with faint praise, but it’s still an excellent précis of the candidate that is Newt: In many ways, Gingrich would be better-suited as an intellectual ombudsman of the GOP race than as a candidate himself; he has more baggage [...]

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Tweet This is what passes for humor on the Left: Get a “celebrity” who’s been in prison for rape, has bitten off people’s ears, kicked strangers in the groin, is a high school drop-out and — oh, yes — happens to be black, and have him pretend to be Herman Cain in a parody that [...]

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Tweet Dorothy Rabinowitz thinks that Newt’s slow but steady race, one that focuses on beautifully articulated ideas, will win the day.  She points to this speech as evidence of Gingrich’s intellectual strength: (Or view it here.) What do you think?  As for me, the more I see of the others, the more I like Newt, [...]

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