{"id":4460,"date":"2012-01-25T11:25:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2012-01-25T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:50:55","slug":"gingrinch-as-consensus-builder-left-and-right-agree-hes-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/gingrinch-as-consensus-builder-left-and-right-agree-hes-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrinch as consensus-builder: Left and Right agree he’s mad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gingrich\u2019s restless mind could push Obama forward – The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Gingrich is a Rorschach test: If you don\u2019t think he\u2019s nuts, you are.<\/font> \u2026<\/p>\n

Gingrich channels George C. Wallace, the four-time Alabama governor who ran as many times for president. \u2026<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney adds nothing to the national debate, not so far anyway. If he\u2019s the GOP nominee, we will get more of his nonsense about running a business \u2014 tell me what great president ever ran a successful business \u2014 and how he\u2019s a job creator. With Gingrich, it would be different. He might actually challenge Obama to think hard, to be creative, to come out of his shell \u2026<\/p>\n

Of course, if Gingrich becomes the Republican nominee, it\u2019s incumbent upon him to lose. He\u2019s an unscrupulous man, a one-car demolition derby<\/font>, but if he goads Obama to unaccustomed bravery and other Democrats to rethink outdated liberal dogma (affirmative action, etc.), then he will have done his nation a great service. Take a bow, Newt. Then take a powder too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gingrich\u2019s restless mind could push Obama forward – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Cal Thomas Official Web Site – It\u2019s complicated<\/a> <\/p>\n

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A longtime conservative<\/em> friend sent me an email after reading something positive I had written about Newt Gingrich: \u201cWhoever votes (for) or supports Newt for president is out of their mind.\u201d<\/font> <\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be the first time I\u2019ve been called crazy. <\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cYou can believe in redemption, as I do, but you are not thinking seriously if you support a person for president with the baggage he is carrying. What an example for our children and future generations when we dismiss character as the foundation for leadership.\u201d <\/p>\n

There\u2019s more, but I get his point.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Cal Thomas Official Web Site – It\u2019s complicated<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gingrich\u2019s restless mind could push Obama forward – The Washington Post Gingrich is a Rorschach test: If you don\u2019t think he\u2019s nuts, you are. \u2026 Gingrich channels George C. Wallace, the four-time Alabama governor who ran as many times for president. \u2026 Mitt Romney adds nothing to the national debate, not so far anyway. If … Continue reading Gingrinch as consensus-builder: Left and Right agree he’s mad<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}