Gingrich Rips CNN a New Hole

[green]

I just have no clue what the right wing stands for anymore...

[video]https://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/indecision-2012-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-wealthy/17wlkys8w

When campaigning against Obama, they preach free market, lower taxes, less regulation, allowing companies to fail, capitalism, etc.Yet, when campaigning against Romney, all of a sudden they sound like Democrats, and preach the exact opposite. My favorite part of this video is Stewart says, "It's like Romney responded to the republican eharmony ad and now they're angry!"

LOL. Romney is the very essence of what the repubs are trying to portray (or at least, I thought). Good looking, successful capitalist, etc. Now, they're attacking him for being successful? For eating up other companies? For taking advantage of lower taxes and deregulation? Now all of a sudden the repubs feel like it's unfair to compete against someone so powerful and unrestricted like Romney? Newt, meet the 99%....

Do they even know what they stand for? Other than just saying anything to become elected? I think this further emphasizes the desperation and confusion in the GOP that we talked about months/years ago. So many of them are indistinguishable from Demos. Yet, you do have a small faction (tea party) who claim to be for small government (yet, I haven't seen anything to show that they really are).

Once again, the whole credibility issue comes into play.

Sometimes this batch of GOP candidates is liberal. Other times conservative. And most of the time they just appear to be sleazy car salesmen.

Really, the only GOP candidate I see as not BSing everyone and sticking to his guns, is Ron Paul. Dude might be old, snippy, and senile, but at least he speaks what he says and doesn't change his tune depending on the flavor of the week (which is something I wish I could say about the other losers).

Great post. Completely true. The tea party is a joke. Republican are quickly running after those wacko's and catching up fast.

 

[Mission Accomplished]

[video]https://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-23-2012/indecision-2012---the-gingrich-who-stole-south-carolina

 

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[colton]

[video]https://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-23-2012/indecision-2012---the-gingrich-who-stole-south-carolina

Good stuff. Thanks for the link.

 

[JazzGal]

[video]https://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-23-2012/indecision-2012---the-gingrich-who-stole-south-carolina

That was hilarious! Gotta love Jon Stewart.

 

[Stoked]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/20...sion-to-hold-debate-applause/?test=latestnews

I personally do not think Gingrich gives a rats behind if they get to applause or not. Apart from the fact that he is playing to emotion and to the rights distrust and anger at the media.

 

[PearlWatson]

Actually, I think Obama will win in 2012, based on the Lichtman keys.

Too bad for you.

https://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/despite-keys-obama-is-no-lock/

 

[One Brow]

Too bad for you.

https://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/despite-keys-obama-is-no-lock/

So, by making claims for the keys that Lichtmen has not made, and ignoring the ways Lichtman has tried to objectify some of the more subjective claims, an author made a strawman system look bad. Whatever.

 

[PearlWatson]

So, by making claims for the keys that Lichtmen has not made, and ignoring the ways Lichtman has tried to objectify some of the more subjective claims, an author made a strawman system look bad. Whatever.

Eh?

Let's look at the supposed "keys"

1. Party mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the House of Representatives than it did after the previous midterm elections.
2. Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.
3. Incumbency: The incumbent party’s candidate is the sitting president.
4. Third Party: There is no significant third party challenge.
5. Short-term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign.
6. Long-term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms.
7. Policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.
8. Social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term.
9. Scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.
10. Foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs.
11. Foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs.
12. Incumbent charisma: The incumbent party’s candidate is charismatic or a national hero.
13. Challenger charisma: The challenging party’s candidate is not charismatic or a national hero.

1. Fail
3. Incumbency but very unpopular
5. Fail
6. Assume a Fail
7. Obamacare Fail
8. Occupy Fail
9. Solyndra Fail
10/11. Got on the Jews bad side, and no one cares about Osama anymore
12. Lost any Charisma he had from 2008