Video: Newt rallies the base

Frankly, the GOP has no asset in Newt Gingrich after he SUPPORTED Dede Scozzafava
in lieu of Doug Hoffman.

She disgracefully ended up supporting the Democratic candidate AGAINST the conservative
and TRUE representative of the GOP's principles, Doug Hoffman.

“I just think it is a mistake for the conservative movement to think splitting in the special election is a smart idea. If we give that seat to the Democrats, shame on us.” ( Newt Gingrich SOURCE : POLITICO.com )

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28730...

SHAME ON YOU,Mr.speaker.

No doubt he was wrong about Sozzafava and also sitting with Pelosi on that couch talking abot Global warming, and there have been a few other things as well, but remember, he later admitted it and apologized about the Scozzafava incident.. I still believe he's a great asset to the Conservative movement. Speeches like this prove it.

I know.

He does great speeches all the time. Eloquent speaker with a brilliant mind.

But then he goes and does what seems like anti-conservative "stupid stuff" and we're all like WTF!?
He does have great ideas for our country, but you got to get him to FOCUS.
There is such a vacuum of leadership in the conservative area in Washington its scary. I know there are a few Real Conservative there but, they are basically powerless at the moment.

I have a feeling that will change next election.

I totally understand the "WTF' moments with Newt. There's been a bunch of those kinds of moments with him. He'll NEVER be a candidate but he's a very good thinker, speaker and leader. But he's human, and makes mistakes. I give him credit for admitting when he's wrong unlike some politicians who will simply deflect any/all blame when they know they're wrong about an issue.

Newt needs to stay in the media and stay focused on the agenda at hand. Saving this country from liberal madness. The "niceness" and "politeness" needs to go out the window. This is life or death right now to save our country from a Socialist takeover. America is the last great hope on Earth for freedom and it's time to play hardball. Newt should just continue doing what he's doing, only more. Oh and stay away from his liberal "friends".

John, both Michael S.Steele and Newt Gingrich could have
been helpful to the GOP, but when the GOP needed the most,
they didn't deliver.

Mr.Steele's acid comments against Rush Limbaugh and some
remarks about Sarah Palin that she is " off the 2012 table"
really pisses off the conservatives in the party.

The GOP doesn't need COSMETICAL CHANGES, but
rather stick with its principles.
Each passing day the GOP's discourse is becoming much
more like of their Democratic counterparts...This isn't good, helpful
or is likely to gonna bring votes.

It just gives the Democrats more political weapons to be effectively
used during the next campaigns, showing that the Republicans have
no ideas of their own nor a viable alternative to the Democrats'.

If the GOP continues to walk through this path, the Democrats will
be right.

I like Sean Hannity's stance about that subject. Keep the message
SIMPLE and emulate Reagan's deeds when he faced a huge unemployment
back in the 80's, muslim bullies and tyrants, ruskie bolshevism and, at the
end of the day, he did manage to give them all a lesson.

I couldn't agree more with you Jewhawk. I still like a red meat speech
though. I'm with Hannity too. And if you like Hannity, then you should be
with him also when he says about the GOP,

"I'm with you when you're right, and against you when you're wrong".

That's how I feel about Steele and Gingrich. When they are wrong, they need
to hear about it and let them be the master of their own demise (Which is
what they do on occasion with their wrong minded stances on people and
issues), but when they are right, we need to support them.

John, the conservatives are tired from hearing those jaded politicians
that actually do not CARE for their constituency's concerns.

New leadership is sorely needed, people such as Sarah Palin, Doug Hoffman
and Paul Ryan... I still like Mitt Romney, but I'm afraid he belongs to the
category of those professional politicians that includes Mitch McConnell,
Tom Coburn, Orrin Hatch ,John Boehner and mainly LINDSAY GRAHAM...

I do honestly reckon those guys are WRECKING the party's image among
its conservative voters.

I guess Glenn Beck is right.Maybe a THIRD PARTY is the answer.

Third party will NEVER work! We need to take back the Republican party,
(Which I think we're already doing vis a vis Tea party movement, etc)
otherwise we are TOAST.

I'm with you on everything else you said. I predict a Palin landslide in
2012...It's happening, trust me, you shoulda seen me at CPAC this last
year. I got an up close and personal look at the split within the right and
the RINO's don't like us cause we know we're takin it back.

I've ordered a copy of Sarah Palin's book. After reading it I'm gonna tell what
I think about her political future.

She is popular, but also HATED in a manner only NIXON was !! The leftists
despise her so much that I could only feel FEAR and PANIC from them, a
genuine concern that she just might WIN the next election...

But in order to defeat the Democrats, she'll have to overcome the GOP's
IVY LEAGUE representatives that crave to keep the status quo, that is,
to nominate the SAME old, jaded and uncharismatic candidates, such
as BUSH and McCain...

Good grief...

The conservative movement needs an ANTI-OBAMA, an easy-going,
fantastic speaker, good looking, YOUNG, with some good military
record ( National Guard doesn't count ) and married with an equally
attractive spouse and children.

ETHNICITY:

A Roman Catholic, HISPANIC WOMAN would be just great...
It'd thwart the huge effort successfully made by the Democrats
to monopolize the Hispanic vote in California, Arizona,New Mexico
and Texas.

Sounds shallow, doesn't it?

That's how sausages and politics are made.

Newt is a very smart man. I used to watch the classes he taught at a university in GA on public access cable. Very smart man. He has good ideas on helping 3rd world counties come up to speed in thier economies, He's a Hawk on Defense.
That being said....
When he went couch surfing w/ The Duchess of Spend on "Global Warming Blah Blah" thats when he lost me. And of course Scozzafavwah.
He was The Man in ' 94. I am very disappointed to say the least.
Oh well, Whadda ya gonna do?