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Is Newt's moon colony idea out to lunch? - The Arena

This is the lesson of Republican politics today: modesty and self-effacement will get you killed in the primary arena. 

Unless Mitt Romeny can get as low as Newt Gingrich, he will not be able to overtake him.  Newt has a Ph.D and he was not smart enough to get on the ballot in some states, and he is still overtaking the former governor. Speaking of Ph.Ds: anyone notice that not only are few Republicans in Congress coming forward for Gingrich, but also none of his former fellow faculty members are jumping up to give warm remembrances of Newt's time as a colleague in the ivory tower?  Man!  The speaker burns bridges like General Sherman burned through Newt's native Georgia.

Again, what will it take for Republicans to accept Mitt Romney?  As a Democrat, I am beyond perplexed as to why the primary audience across the aisle is rejecting a one-woman man who has made tons of money and then gives it to his church and charities!  The party of faith and family is voting to back Newt Gingrich, a petulant man whose moral compass spins like a centrifuge and is leaving Mitt, the embodiment of their traditional platform, standing at the altar.  And why is Newt surging when everything about his personal and professional life points to oblivion? One thing, folks: self-promotion!


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At the Florida debate earlier this week, Speaker P.T. Barnum took credit for everything that has happened in American government for the past 50 years.  Starting with his student work for Barry Goldwater through his being Ronald Reagan's right hand, bringing down the Soviets, inventing the question mark, etc., Newt Gingrich has been the pivotal force behind our country's success.  Of course during this time Vietnam was occurring: maybe if he had gone into the military he would have put his Midas touch on the conflict and thousands of American lives would have been saved.  Too bad able-bodied Newt could not find time for it…


As a historian, Newt is a hell of a speaker.  Ronald Reagan never gave a damn about  Gingrich, no matter how much Newt speaks of the Gipper the way Skywalker would Yoda.  It is akin to someone saying that Bruce Springsteen wrote his songs about them because they stopped for gas in Asbury Park.  None of the things Newt says is true, but it doesn't matter: saying it louder makes it true!  Now, I am not advocating for Mr. Romney as a candidate.  I admire his charity and his health care plan, but I have personally been affected by companies like Bain Capital.  While shareholders enjoy the dividends, factories are shuttered and machines are sold off like items on eBay, flung to the far corners of the earth so that products can be made cheaply and sold to Americans at the same or higher prices.  (Ever notice that even though products are outsourced, their prices never go down when they appear back on our shores?  You have never seen the price of a car go down from one model year to the next, no matter where it was assembled).
  Millions of American workers did the right thing, living within their means, buying a modest home, and getting up every morning to put their hand to the plow to contribute to the building of this great experiment…and then someone who you have never met comes in, sends your plow to a country where they do not have to worry about things like the environment or workers rights, and then blame you as they jump on their Gulfstream V with gilded copies of "Atlas Shrugged."  Screwing working people then blaming them: what is more Republican than that?


In every category, Mitt is a Republican, but he cannot win the Republican nomination by just being what he is.  He has to sell it.  Modesty is not a platform planner in this incarnation of the GOP.  In every segment of polite society it is expected that you do your good works in quiet, and that the reward is the knowing that you are blessed enough to do those things for others and thankful for the things you have in life.  And even in my modest upbringing I was taught something that I am sure is repeated at affluent dinner tables: you do not talk about money in public.  In this brave new world of conservatism, that kind of restraint is not going to fly.  And unfortunately for the former governor of Massachusetts, he cannot play Newt's game.  When he tried to trot out the "Ted Kennedy had to re-fi his house to beat me" line, it came off as more awkward than Orville Redenbacher opening up a tattoo shop with Billy Graham.  You just do not have that kind of vitriol inside of you, Mr. Romney.  No one has the level of it that surges through Newt: even Satan and Stalin would have pause around the former speaker. 


Governor, I know this from personal experience in the political job world: sometimes you can be everything that your party claims they want.  You can be a boot strapping veteran who used education, hard work, and sacrifice to improve your lot and scale heights unattainable even in your dreams…and be rejected by thousands of entities because they want to go with someone who is everything you're not.  You cannot explain it.  They tell you it isn't personal (even though since you and I are persons, it's personal: Latin isn't that tough a language, folks), they thank you for applying or crossing the country to interview for a job they were never going to give you, and you keep plugging.  They are going to smile at you and hope you will continue to support them with time, money and effort…and you will be struck dumb as to why they will not choose you.  I totally understand.  Just like Jon Huntsman understood that what they say want and what they do are at the complete opposite ends of the electoral spectrum.   He is watching all this from home.  And since Newt Gingrich is giving bread and circus to the masses, I fear you will be, too.

 

 



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