tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492310882851199969.post4476470161680223491..comments2024-01-09T15:03:54.986-05:00Comments on Wolf Howling: Levin On The Right-Wing Pundits' Insane War On GingrichGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05814327154035433443noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492310882851199969.post-77401460150427961842011-12-23T05:27:49.003-05:002011-12-23T05:27:49.003-05:00Hello OBH.
Certainly she is entitled to change he...Hello OBH.<br /><br />Certainly she is entitled to change her opinion. That said, her vitriolic attacks on Gingrich - and by my read, more than a few have been intellectually dishonest - are what I expect to see out of the left. Indeed, Krugman has no need to work now to demonize Gingrich, he can merely plagiarise the work of right wing pundits. I am disgusted beyond all belief. One can criticize Gingrich without resorting to the demonization and demagoguery of Will and Coulter. Krauthammer is a case in point.<br /><br />Let's face facts - whoever is nominated is going to get the full mistreatment from the press this time around. Obama can't possibly run on his record, even if our moribund economy picks up a little bit. And indeed, the few times I've seen Romney really pressured, he has not done that well. <br /><br />Romney would make a good President. We would see few major changes to the direction of our country, the systemic problems would largely be left alone, and the long range foreign problems relating to Islam would be ignored to the extent possible. He would bring our economy back to life.<br /><br />Gingrich is much more high risk, high reward. I think Jonah Goldberg, Andy McCarthy and Thomas Sowell right - that these times present a window of opportunity that Gingrich is made for. He would have the same effect on our economy, but the changes he would try to bring to our ship of state would be deep and systemic. After near a century of progressivism building up in the machinery of our state and after half a century of judicial activism working fundamental change to the character of our country - we desperately need that to be cleaned out. I am quite willing to roll the dice on Gingrich. He is the only person I see with the intelligence and strength of character to accomplish what needs doing. <br /><br />This will be the world's dirtiest campaign no matter who is nominated. But I think Gingrich can hold his own - better than Romney, actually. We will see.GWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05814327154035433443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492310882851199969.post-61253346414929034802011-12-23T00:36:32.033-05:002011-12-23T00:36:32.033-05:00>>> Now, she insists that only Romney can...>>> <i>Now, she insists that only Romney can win and the conservatives in the field cannot. Perplexing.</i><br /><br />Not to disagree with you in any way (nor to agree, either, mind you) but<br /><br />a) Many do believe that the alternatives to Romney will lose to President Downgrade, esp. if the economy picks up at all, and esp given the endless left-wing smears that will permeate the mediasphere between now and election time. After all, the media is still repeating the "announced he was leaving his wife when she found out she had cancer" meme, despite the fact that it's been disproven a number of times, including a full and detailed denial by their daughter, who was present for it. <i>Side note: </i>I'd really like someone to bring a class-action suit against the media for willful fraud against the American populace in the repeating of long-debunked memes as still being truth.<br /><br />b) Coulter IS entitled to change her opinion, though it is reasonable to ask for an explanation why.OBloodyHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09992539380115488567noreply@blogger.com