Republican Battle Royle
Sunday, November 16, 2008
But Gingrich, an architect of the Republican revolution of 1994, took Palin down a notch, asserting that she would not become the party’s leader, as some have predicted.
“I think that she is going to be a significant player,” said Gingrich during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation”. “But she’s going to be one of 20 or 30 significant players. She’s not going to be the de facto leader.”
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Way to go Newt, lets add to the civil war that is currently festering in the party. Nothing like going out there and taking a baseball bat to Palin's kneecaps. I understand he needs to do this in order to promote himself as the new leader but its not even 2 weeks after the election. I tell ya, its going to be a long 4 years of watching the GOP tear each other down in order to find a candidate for 2012. I for one will be enjoying it immensely, I want to see the party drift further and further to the right and in the process alienate any moderate that may have been on board. At their current rate they will be marginalized to a southern and partial western party. All the GOP pundits will still go on and on about how this country is center-right but they don't seem to understand that the GOP controlled all 3 branches up til 2006 and since then lost all 3. To me I am not sure how you can consider the country center-right if the majority of people are willing to toss the republican brand to the curb.
Anyways, I see Newt gaining for a while but he will end up losing the nomination to a younger governer and not Palin. He will destroy his opponents to the point that Obama will roll over them in 2012. Newt will be to blame for destroying the GOP brand under the Obama years and will be banished from the party for good. He will then cozy up to Pat Buchanan as a conservative outsider.
Posted by mardenhill 11/16/2008 10:23:00 PM
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