{"id":2986,"date":"2007-07-24T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/07\/newt-our-political-savior-or-k.html"},"modified":"2007-07-24T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T15:33:00","slug":"newt-our-political-savior-or-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/07\/newt-our-political-savior-or-k.html","title":{"rendered":"Newt: Our political savior? Or knight in shining amour?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Save us, Newt! Save us from the “pygmies!”
\nI know that there are some of you waiting around for Newt to enter the race and think that he has something to offer that the others in the field do not and evidently he feels the same way<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dismissing the GOP presidential field as a “pathetic” bunch of “pygmies,” Newt Gingrich hinted Monday he might step in to beat Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
\n“If, in mid-October, it’s quite clear that one or more of the current candidates is strong enough to be a serious alternative to a Clinton-Obama ticket, you don’t need me to run,” the former House Speaker said at a breakfast sponsored by the American Spectator. “If it becomes patently obvious, as the morning paper points out, that the Democrats have raised a hundred million more than the Republicans, and at some point people decide we are going to get Hillary unless there’s a radical change, then there’s space for a candidate,” he added. “So you’ll know by mid-October one of those two futures is real.”
\nAsked by the Examiner if he was prepared to commit to a run, Gingrich said, “I’m perfectly happy to do what I do,” he said. “Whether that leads to the presidency is the country’s problem, not mine.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe Newt has delusions of grandeur or something to think he is more electable than the other Republicans in the field. Hunter and Huckabee would be way better options than he would since their negatives are much lower than Newt’s. If Clinton is the candidate, wouldn’t it be a good idea for us to counter her candidacy with a less polarizing figure than Newt? One who has much lower negatives than Clinton? Newt is just as hated as she is and I think their negatives are pretty close.
\nThe left is just waiting for us to nominate someone like Newt that they can demonize (and who comes pre-demonized). Why would we want to make their dream come true?
\nBTW, Newt stole that “pygmies” line from Thompson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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