Open Letter To Newt Gingrich Supporters

To: Newt Gingrich’s Supporters
From: Mitch Berg, guy who really wants to like and support Newt, but juuuust can’t yet.
Re: No, the postscript in my “From” line really says it all.

All,

Loathe as I am to cite Hugh Hewitt, he did  have an excellent point for all of you Gingrich supporters last night on his show.  I’m going to turn that point into a question.

I’ll get to that in a moment.

William F. Buckley’s rule for picking a candidate was simple; pick the most conservative candidate that can win.  I follow this – after doing what I can to make the candidate who can win more conservative (see Tim Pawlenty, 2002).

Now, let’s leave aside the troubling episodes in Newt’s career – older ones, like his creakingly convoluted personal life (and I’m disregarding everything Marianne said in her loathsome interview, by the way, and only going by stuff Gingrich has admitted to, or which is in court records), middle-term ones like his trading butterfly kisses with Nancy Pelosi, and painfully recent ones like his tossing all of capitalism under the bus and his adoption of Saul Alinkski’s tactics to try and eke out a lead in South Carolina (which is the very definition of politics in its worst form over principle); let’s even leave aside the fact that Newt is in many ways a conservative (fingers crossed) mirror of his would-be nemesis, Barack Obama – albeit with more actual real-world government experience.  Forget all that.

Remember Buckley; pick “the most conservative candidate that can get elected”.

As Hugh notes, Newt has 100 percent name recognition, and 60% negative perception.

Why should I support him?

Don’t talk principles.  Don’t talk history.  Don’t talk 1994.  Don’t talk policy.  Talk numbers.  Convince me.

That is all.

7 thoughts on “Open Letter To Newt Gingrich Supporters

  1. Keep in mind, this is a guy that just used the children from his first wife to convince the public that his second wife is lying about his third wife. Imagine the balls it takes to even think you can pull that off, much less actually do it.

    I’m thinking the gravitational pull from those monstrous balls alone is worth a few percentage points….so that gets him to say, 45%?

  2. And you know this to be true, how; Kevin? You do realize that it is possible for children to know when people are delusional or lying, right? Did you give any credence to the possibility that they were telling the truth? Just asking.

  3. It’s comical how far you are from getting the point, Boss Hogg.

    Funny how the guy with three wives isn’t the Mormon, eh?

  4. Question, MB: What numbers would convince you? And would they just bore the bejeezus out of the rest of us?

  5. “Funny how the guy with three wives isn’t the Mormon, eh?”

    😆 Good one! 😆

    AssClown finally hits a joke. It’s about time, shun-boy.

  6. That I know what to be true bosshoss???

    What did I say that is even remotely in dispute?

    That he’s committed infidelity? He’s admitted to that.
    That his children from his first wife defended him? Well, they did, you can see for yourself.
    That they claimed his second wife was lying? Well they did.
    That his second wife was making claims about his third wife? Well she was.

    What is supposedly in dispute that I said???

    Actually here’s a better question, did you actually read and comprehend what I said? Or was this just a knee-jerk reaction. I’m pretty sure I know the answers, but just curious.

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