Gingrich Vs Steele

Battling it out to be head of the GOP.

My pick? Steele.

To me, its a no brainer - for all his gifts, Gingrich is yesterday’s news and too tied to the GOP which just got its rear kicked on November 4th. We need fresh faces, fresh ideas and a new enthusiasm. Steele brings this to the table, and we’ll be monumentally dumb if we don’t pick him.

Tags: Michael Steele, Newt Gingrich, RNC

10 comments November 11th, 2008

Newt Just Gave the Smackdown to Ron Allen at MSNBC

I’ll add the video clip as soon as I can, but Newt Gingrich just demolished Ron Allen of MSNBC regarding the allegation that Sarah Palin lacks experience.

Here’s my quick transcript:

Allen: Her resume is not something we are familiar seeing with Vice Presidential candidates.

Newt (getting really animated): Well, it’s stronger than Barack Obama’s. I don’t know why you guys walk around saying this baloney. She has a stronger resume than Obama. She’s been a real Mayor. He hasn’t. She has been a real Governor. He hasn’t. She’s been in charge of the Alaska National Guard. He hasn’t. She was a whistle-blower who defeated an incumbent Mayor. He has never once shown that kind of courage. She’s a whistle-blower who turned in the chairman of her own party and got him fined $12,000. I’ve never seen Obama do one thing like that. She took on the incumbent Governor of her own party and beat him. And then she beat a former Democratic Governor in the general election. I don’t know of a single thing Obama has done except talk and write. And I’d like you to tell me one thing you think Senator Obama has done.

Allen: Thanks very much Mr. Speaker. I’m gonna leave it right there. I’m not going to argue the case.

Newt: Thank you.

OUCH!

Here is the MSNBC video. The key exchange begins at the 2:33 mark:

Tags: MSNBC, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin

30 comments September 2nd, 2008

Newt Gingrich Predicts Obama Win in Iowa

More and more people are falling in line with the prediction I made back on November 7th:

Newt Gingrich predicts Barack Obama will win the hotly contested vote in Iowa, saying the junior Senator from Illinois will motivate more energized supporters than the former First Lady.

“My guess is Senator Obama’s going to win Iowa and that he’s going to win it by a surprising margin,” the former Speaker of the House told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer on “Good Morning America”.

The Oprah Effect - ie, going on the daytime talk shows and being a nice guy and coupling it with a good ground game…that might prove the best means of winning Iowa, at least in 2008. There’s still plenty of time for Hillary to muscle her way to a win (and, boys and girls, who out there wants to say that Hillary would never, ever cheat to win?), but I think that the aura of invincibility is rapidly unravelling for Hillary Clinton. Look for more than one surprise in the early primaries.

Obama Website, Hillary Website

Tags: 2008 Campaign, Newt Gingrich

7 comments November 28th, 2007