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DEL.ICIO.USNewt on Hillary: ‘The mountain is very, very high’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Wednesday that Hillary Clinton’s bid to be the Democratic presidential nominee is looking grim.
“I think the mountain is very, very high, verging on a cliff,” Gingrich said in Atlanta following a bill-signing ceremony with Gov. Sonny Perdue. “On the other hand, the Clintons almost never give up.”
The legislation signed by the governor boosts high-premium health insurance plans that are paired with health savings accounts, and Gingrich has championed similar proposals.
The former House speaker talked politics after the formalities with my state Capitol colleague, Aaron Gould Sheinin.
Gingrich said he assumes Clinton will win primaries in West Virginia, Kentucky and Puerto Rico, but doubts they’ll provide her with the momentum she now needs. Her victory over Barack Obama in Indiana on Tuesday was not big enough, he said.
“There are a lot of unanswered questions about Senator Obama,” he said. “And people in the Democratic Party have to wonder whether he is the next John F. Kennedy or he’s the next George McGovern, Mike Dukakis — and they don’t know yet.”
He suspects Democratic party leaders are putting pressure on Clinton to drop her bid, but knowing the Clintons as he does, “I wouldn’t bet anything that they’re going to get out.”
As for the strong warning he gave this week to Republicans in Congress, Gingrich said the stern tones are warranted.
“When you lose the speaker’s seat in Illinois that you’ve had for 75 years, and you lose a seat in Louisiana you’ve had since 1977 — a seat, by the way, that George W. Bush carried by 19 points — and you look at the national polling data, you had better figure out that the voters generally are not happy with how Republicans have run Washington,” Gingrich said.
“And they’ve got, I think, three or four months to prove that they got the message. And if they don’t prove that, they should expect to have a very, very tough election,” he said.
However, voter upheaval doesn’t extend to third party bids, such as the one being considered by another former Georgia Republican congressman, Bob Barr.
“No reasonable conservative is going to vote for anybody except (John) McCain if the alternative is Clinton or Obama,” Gingrich said. “Barr is not alternative. Barr has zero hope of winning.”
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By Eric
May 7, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this
Why exactly would it be the case that no reasonable conservative would vote for the conservative Bob Barr (or for that matter, the more conservative Chuck Baldwin), over the liberal John McCain? Is it because Barr can’t win that it is unreasonable to vote for him? Tacit premise: it is unreasonable to vote for someone who can’t win. Why is it unreasonable to vote for someone who can’t win? Is it because one’s vote is only reasonable if it is expected to contribute to that candidate being victorious? But surely Newt would not be so fantastic in his imagination to believe that any single voter would be reasonable to expect that his single vote will make the difference in a presidential election. And since no reasonable voter can expect his single vote to make a difference in a presidential election, it cannot be a test for reasonableness that such a voter would cast a vote based on the false pretense that it would make a difference. Therefore Newt’s tacit premise is incorrect and there remains no reason why any reasonable conservative would vote for a liberal like McCain.
By Will Jones
May 7, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this
…and Gingrich, one of the false-elite’s key fast-talking, draft-dodging intermediaries, picked by a DuPont, to mislead The People, opened the way for the homosexual draft-dodger cheated into the White House by the Roman Catholics on the Supreme Court, to go on and commit 9-11 for false war, Afghan heroin and Rockefeller/Saudi Roman Catholic BIG OIL.
Gingrich is scum and should be shunned by all Georgians.
Any candidate or elected official willing to be seen with Gingrich should also be shunned.
By Kateesha
May 7, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this
Hillary’s done. It’s Obama’s time. The clintons need to go back to arkansas and keep quiet—they are racists and need to learn that the black people are going to be in charge once Obama gets elected next November—-he will beat old man McCain easy.
By Will Jones
May 7, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this
“Kateesha” - is that you “Churchswill?”
Nice “try,” moron…the People voting Obama into office legitimately, are voting for him because his grace and righteousness demonstrates his worthiness of El-ection…unlike the pederast traitors you actually support.
By Amerillo Patel
May 7, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this
If he’s wearing a summer dress and whistling dixie that’s Churchill, from his neighbor who also laughs at your antics
By ericbl
May 7, 2008 9:44 PM | Link to this
No reasonable GOP party hack will vote for anyone but McCain. Honest, hard working Americans who are frustrated did give Perot 19% of the popular vote nationally, even after we all found out that he was nuts. Bob Barr is not nuts.
By Pablo
May 7, 2008 10:34 PM | Link to this
I voted republican in all the elections I have voted in. I am certainly not voting democrat (ever), but the republicans should get used to the idea of not getting my vote anymore. Time to look into the Libertarian Party…
By Charles
May 8, 2008 7:31 AM | Link to this
I’m sure Hillary’s camp is thinking hard about the “nuclear option” about now. For those in the Democrap Party who don’t understand that scenario it’s dropping a story to the press by a third party that would be irreparable to your opponent - something the Clintons have perfected over the years. The only thing that’s probably holding them back is cleaning up their tracks to avoid being branded ‘racists’ - even if the story is true.
I’ve always been a believer in Karma. It looks like all the years of the Democraps supporting this ‘couple’ (it’s not a marriage - only a union of convenience) is about to bite them in the arse.
By Copyleft
May 8, 2008 7:50 AM | Link to this
Why do people keep reporting what Gingrich says, as if he still mattered?
By Dan
May 8, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
More than a few GOP leaders, as well as conservative voters who obsess over short-term results rather than focus on long-term change, need to get over their respective cases of entitlement thinking (“The GOP is entitled to your vote, because its nominee is slightly less worse than the Democrats’ nominee.”) and abused voter syndrome (“The GOP really is conservative, it didn’t mean to let me down all those years with all those bloated budgets and its failure to trim the size and power of government.”). The institutional GOP will continue to be the slightly-less-worse wing of the Big Government Party until pro-freedom, pro-responsibility, pro-limited government voters prove that we won’t be taken for granted any more, and vote for the Libertarian (or the Constitution) Party nominee. It will take electoral shock therapy such as that — and a willingness to probably stomach a Democrat in the White House for four years, which while distasteful is something we’ve survived before — before the institutional GOP seriously takes to heart the concerns of those who it once claimed to value.
By Mike
May 8, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this
I am a conservative. I WILL NOT vote for that Liberal the Republician party seems to be ready to run. A liberal is a liberal, it doesn’t matter what party. I will be voting for someone other than McCain. I will not be wasting my vote as I will be voting for the person I feel best suited to be president of my country.
By Walter Earl
May 8, 2008 8:28 PM | Link to this
Well after reading this are we as dumb as Newt think….You have Rep.running from their party like Leman Bennett had young guy’s slipping out of Falcons Camp… getting away from what? PRESSURE. Everytime we pull into a gas station,or food store,and losing your home,plus the high cost edcation, and the lack of Military training, fighting the not one but two WARS. Newt his high paid big I’s and you don’t need nothing little you’s. NEWT is better than Richard Pryor. I have my beer please tell me some more because I know you’re just joking making money. Be for real the longer this go the more money you and your buddy’s have to play your stocks and keep feeding us bull the economy is slowing down I know you mean STOPPED.
By Will Jones
May 8, 2008 10:53 PM | Link to this
Vilfredo Pareto was an economist who understood how false-elites maintain power through manipulation of money, tax, trade and commerce, war and peace, to keep the “lower” classes from becoming a threat to their rule.
An essential tool in their manipulation is “intermediaries” like Gingrich to gull the “masses” in compliance with their corrupt goals.
Jefferson and the Whig Founders created America based on the People’s sovereignty over government: Novus Ordo Seclorem…no more king and pope in The New Secular Order: “Natural aristocracy” was cultivated appreciating contribution based on virtue, merit, reason, science and art.
Making elect only those of honor and probity - as servants of the People - we can restore Our Nation: expropriate the People’s wealth stolen by treasonous fascism/corporatism behind the shield of Rome’s Rockefeller/Bush Fifth Column; bring to Justice those who violate the People’s Trust; and execute those who have treasonously committed 9-11 to send us to false war.
Gingrich is smart. Unfortunately because of his whitetrash background, like Bill Clinton, he came up a coward, discerned “earthy power” in our society and devoted his life to its service. He is, therefore, no man and no American…and must be shunned.
By Levik
May 16, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this
This is for Kateesha. The Clinton’s are not racists, YOU ARE for making the comment that black people will be in charge once Obama is President. This is exactly why Obama will NEVER BE President because of people like you KATEESHA.