{"id":6871,"date":"2012-01-23T18:42:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2012-01-23T18:58:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:58:43","slug":"upon-further-review-newt-and-why-he-can-win-over-the-gop-maybe-already-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6871","title":{"rendered":"Upon Further Review &#8211; Newt, And Why He Can Win Over The GOP! (maybe already has)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Upon%20Further%20Review%20-%20Newt%2C%20And%20Why%20He%20Can%20Win%20Over%20The%20GOP%21%20%28maybe%20already%20has%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Man, this is turning into a really fun election year. \u00a0 First, we all\u00a0pretty\u00a0much figured this would be \u00a0a race to see how quickly we would\u00a0coronate\u00a0 Mitt Romney as the GOP Presidential candidate. Romney did after all have the steadiest support of all the candidates &#8211; nine at one time.<\/p>\n<p>Then, you started to see some interesting rumblings within the party. You started to see the\u00a0third\u00a0tier candidates get some love &#8211; first Bachmann, then Perry, then Cain, then Newt, then Santorum. The GOP was like kids in a candy store that mostly sold white chocolate &#8211; Romney &#8211; but the GOP customers desperately wanted to have a taste for the other flavors stocked in the store. \u00a0But, thing is, the store only markets one flavor, it only makes its money from one product, and that flavor is Mitt Chocolate. So they&#8217;re not too keen on having too many customers choosing one of the other flavors, because the mark-up isn&#8217;t nearly as profitable. \u00a0Well, it turns out, most of the other candies in the store were bitter-sweets, tasted good at first, but left a \u00a0bad after-taste in the mouth. But, it turns out, one of the candies had a tootsie-roll center, and once you got to it&#8230; Mmmmmmmmmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing Newt &#8211; Chocolate! It&#8217;s actually more of a giant gob-stopper than regular chocolate, with multiple layer, made of stuff you probably don&#8217;t want to know! It&#8217;s not really very sweet. Some of the flavor layers are so tart, you find you want to spit it out&#8230; In fact that was done once already! But there is something about this candy&#8230; It&#8217;s just so BOLD&#8230; And a heck of a lot more interesting than Mitt-Chocolate!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>OK, enough of that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot about the GOP race this week-end, and had a few thoughts about the recent turn of events, and exactly why Newt has made the comeback, and just how he appeals to elements within the GOP. Granted, he&#8217;s not going to curry much favor with the evangelical set, but they already had their candidate, George W Bush, and we saw how that turned out; so they will just have to suck it up for a few election cycles. Newt trying to paint himself as an outsider is just about the most\u00a0ridiculous\u00a0 strategy out there, maybe with the exception of Santorum trying to brand himself as &#8220;The&#8221; Tea Party candidate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That said, Newt brings something to the table that no one else can&#8230; Well, <strong><em>almost no one else<\/em><\/strong>, but we&#8217;ll get to\u00a0that exception\u00a0in a moment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>** Note &#8211; My filter is off, and I&#8217;m going to make a few hints and allusions to things some readers might find\u00a0offensive. \u00a0I thought about editing it out after I was done typing this post, but&#8230; What The Hell! \u00a0It&#8217;s My Blog! \u00a0**<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Point # 1<\/strong> \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0For all his flaws, Newt is a well known public figure. He speaks a lot, A LOT!, and doesn&#8217;t have much of a PC filter to speak of (which may not be a bad thing). He&#8217;ll say what he wants, reflect on things at length, and if he&#8217;s contradicted himself from something he&#8217;s said even a few minutes earlier&#8230; \u00a0Well&#8230; That&#8217;s Newt! It&#8217;s kind of like <strong><em>multiple<\/em>\u00a0<em>marriages<\/em><\/strong> to this crowd&#8230; \u00a0This time, I&#8217;m serious! OK, that was kind of mean, but it&#8217;s\u00a0relevant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Point # 2<\/strong> \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0 \u00a0Newt is <strong><em>loud, bombastic<\/em><\/strong>, which in the minds of many, means he really really believes what he&#8217;s saying! Hey, it works with the talk radio set, so why shouldn&#8217;t it work in a campaign!. Newt maybe has figured out the old meme that no publicity is bad publicity! \u00a0Romney, on the other hand, \u00a0seem just too damned meek and polite and couldn&#8217;t assert himself if he tried.\u00a0Which brings us to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Point # 3<\/strong> \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Unlike any other candidate I&#8217;ve seen in a long time, Newt has figured out how to deflect an answer and gin up the base at the same time &#8211; Shoot the messenger! \u00a0Even as Newt was floundering, he had already laid down the roots of his comeback with the use of a time worn Conservative strategy &#8211; blame the <strong><em>Main Stream Media<\/em><\/strong>! Though the other guys wanted to, only Newt had &#8220;the guts&#8221; to actually come right out, right there on the debate floor, and\u00a0chastise\u00a0 one of the debate\u00a0moderators\u00a0for asking a question! Now, I don&#8217;t remember exactly what the question was, and I don&#8217;t think it was anything that was particularly out of line, but it doesn&#8217;t matter what the question was anyway. It could be somethnig like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>George Stepha-what&#8217;s-his-face:<\/strong> \u00a0&#8220;Let me start by asking you a personal question. \u00a0Newt, we&#8217;ve heard recently that you&#8217;re\u00a0allergic\u00a0to cats&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newt:<\/strong> \u00a0 &#8220;Well, first of all, Juan, the fact is, that is just an outlandish question to ask, many folks are allergic to cats!!!!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody remembers the question. All they remember is the &#8220;Oh Right On&#8221; and \u00a0&#8220;Yeah Baby!&#8221; moment it produced. It&#8217;s an <strong><em>opiate<\/em><\/strong> for the &#8220;<strong><em>True Conservative<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; set &#8211; <strong><em>addictive even<\/em><\/strong>! \u00a0The beauty of it is, Newt is probably the only one on stage who can pull it of,\u00a0almost\u00a0as if it were a &#8220;<strong><em>gift from GOD!<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why will Newt be the likely winner of the GOP nomination? \u00a0Because he&#8217;s a perfect stand-in for one of the most popular Conservatives out there.\u00a0Newt can &#8220;<strong><em>articulate the message of Conservatism<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; like almost no other&#8230; \u00a0Almost no other, except one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rush Limbaugh!<\/p>\n<p>Newt has indeed become the proxy candidate for Rush\u00a0Limbaugh. That is the true power source of the Newt Gingrich appeal. He has with the last couple of debates finally accomplished the task of tapping into the\u00a0psyche\u00a0of Rush&#8217;s audience. Romney doesn&#8217;t have a chance in hell of appealing to Rush&#8217;s audience. He&#8217;s a &#8220;squish&#8221;! As much as Santorum&#8217;s social views might line up with those of Mr. Limbaugh, he just doesn&#8217;t have that\u00a0rhetorical\u00a0fire on a wide\u00a0variety\u00a0of issues and interests that both Rush and Newt share. I know his detractors will take issue with this next statement, but Rush Limbaugh is a very smart guy! Not smart as in\u00a0scientific\u00a0smart, but he does have knowledge on a wide variety of subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Newt and Rush are so much alike, and have been for a long time. Newt, like Rush. is a risk-taker, and more often than not, it pays off. Rush was kicked around by the radio establishment because they thought his idea of doing a &#8220;gasp&#8221; Conservative radio call-in show was nuts. Yet, here he is, years later, the King of not only a successful-beyond-anyone&#8217;s-dreams radio program, but he\u00a0literally\u00a0saved the AM radio format from\u00a0extinction\u00a0in the process, and created a new road for success for other to follow. \u00a0Newt got kicked around by the establishment and was even eventually in the late 90&#8217;s driven from power by them. Yet, here he is, a creature of the system, running a campaign counter to how the establishment says it must be done, defying them to the end, and\u00a0succeeding! The message, he has realized in the internet age, \u00a0is more important than the structure of the campaign. Both have had more than one marriage (for better or for worse), and both have their addiction problems, Rush to\u00a0Oxycontin, Newt to power! i consider both to be, pardon the expression, media whores.<\/p>\n<p>I would be a blog whore if I had the time. \u00a0\u00a0(this is the part where I\u00a0jump\u00a0and down and scream &#8211; &#8220;Hey Look At Me!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Newt, for all\u00a0intents\u00a0and purposes, is Rush! Watch\u00a0how Newt\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/video\/newt-vs.-juan\">smacks-down<\/a>\u00a0 Juan Williams and it&#8217;s plain to see. It&#8217;s exactly the kind of thing Rush would say if he were on that stage! And it&#8217;s\u00a0not\u00a0even a bad thing. The Republican \u00a0party has needed to come to terms with the fact that\u00a0that\u00a0one man has more power of influence that anyone is willing to admit. No, Rush Limbaugh does not run the Republican party. He has, however, slowly but surely been cultivating and shaping the desires of the base for a generation. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t matter what Newt does or says now. A long as he stays on message, and no other Freddie Mac lobbyist scandals hit the press, Newt has this nomination in the bag.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the true test. Is the United States ready to elect Rush Limbaugh as President?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Upon%20Further%20Review%20-%20Newt%2C%20And%20Why%20He%20Can%20Win%20Over%20The%20GOP%21%20%28maybe%20already%20has%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Man, this is turning into a really fun election year. \u00a0 First, we all\u00a0pretty\u00a0much figured this would be \u00a0a race to see how quickly we would\u00a0coronate\u00a0 Mitt Romney as the GOP Presidential candidate. Romney did after all have the steadiest support of all the candidates &#8211; nine at one time. Then, you started to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6877,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}