Gingrich: "(Palin) becoming a national leader would take a significant amount of work."

[rainbow4321]

Hah! Under the bus goes Palin...again.

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/04/19/swans-and-snubs-and-bears-oh-my/


Do you see any women emerging in the GOP leadership?

I would start, frankly, with Linda Lingle in Hawaii, who was a terrific governor who got re-elected in very difficult circumstances. You have Kay Bailey Hutchinson running for the governorship of Texas. If she wins that, she will automatically be a national figure because she’ll be the governor of the second largest state.

Women in GOP leadership - Lingle, and Hutchinson. OK, the Newtster is obviously avoiding Palin like the plague, so they’re going to have to come straight out and say it.

You didn’t mention Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin has an obvious role if she wants it. The question for her has to be, are she and her family willing to go through another couple of years of the kind of media coverage that they currently get? Is she willing to do the kind of development of national issues and development of a national profile that would be required? She is a celebrity in her own right. She is probably the most successful figure in the party right now, and she’s a formidable figure. I think to go from there to becoming a national leader would take a significant amount of work.
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Direct link to article:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/aprilweb-only/115-53.0.html?start=1

[realisticphish]

1. is she willing to undergo a brain transplant?

that would be step number 1, imho

[david13]

3. What would be no. 2? I can't stand

her face. And no. 3 would be everything she says. But it's amazing that idiot gingrich is able to see that it wouldn't work. That may only be because he thinks he will now be able to make his "comeback".
dc

[realisticphish]

so basically

they should kidnap her, and replace her with someone completely different, and call her Sarah Palin.

[spanone]

2. newt is only interested in promoting newt

[MADem]

4. Newtie doesn't like women much--unless they're polishing his knob.

That said, even a stopped clock, or a GOP jerk, can be right every once in a blue moon.

[saltpoint]

5. Well now gee willikers, I wonder if Newt , feeling Palin might not become a

national leader, might have anyone in mind for that role?

[IDemo]

6. Stay tuned for public Newt lashing from Rushco/InsHannity/OReally, etc.

Feeding frenzies are fun to watch.

[rainbow4321]

15. Oh, looky, he invented a word: "tri-partisan movement of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents"

From the second page of the direct link to the CT article.
"That's why I created American solutions. My goal is to create a nationwide tri-partisan movement of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents that seeks to change America..."

TRI-partisan??

And on marriage:

"The Democratic Party has been the active instrument of breaking down traditional marriage"

Uhh..and how was it that Democrats made you leave one of your wives as she was post op from cancer surgery???

Oh, wait..you seem to have THREE entries in your "spouse" column on wikipedia.

Jackie Battley (1962-1981)
Marianne Ginther (1981-2000)
Callista Bisek (2000-current)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#Personal_life

Gingrich has been married three times. He married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old (she was seven years his senior at 26 years old).<9><10> They had two daughters and divorced in 1981. She claims he "discussed divorce terms with her while she was recuperating in the hospital from cancer surgery",<11> an action that would later be used against him; in 1992, his Democratic opponent, Tony Center, ran an ad pointing out this fact.

In 1981, six months after his divorce was final, Gingrich wed Marianne Ginther.<12> He remained married to Ginther until 2000, when they divorced. Shortly thereafter, Gingrich married Callista Bisek, with whom he later admitted to having had an affair during his second marriage,<13> at approximately the same time that he was leading the Congressional investigation of Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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As much as I despise Palin, here is thrice married, affair admitting Newty saying that HER family coverage might keep her from going for a national role again??

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Her brand of nuttery is a threat to Gingrich's brand of nuttery.

He's engaging in a political version of survival of the fittest.

We can only hope in the end they do each other in and become extinct. :D

[yewberry]

8. "...because she’ll be the governor of the second largest state."

Aaaand, for the win, who is the governor of the largest state?

Oh, right. How'd that work out for Palin, Newtie?

[leftstreet]

9. Does Newt think he can fill the Republican Leadership Vacuum?

Do the Republicans 'get' that there aren't going to be any more Obamas? Not in their party, not in ours.

The people will start turning to policies.

[RoyGBiv]

10. Fascinating ...

... since, of course, Newt was the one singing her praises and pushing her on the GOP as a potential national leader in the form of the Vice President of the United States well before any of us had even a thought she might possibly in a million years be thrust on the national scene.

Newt is more responsible for creating that monster than anyone else in the GOP, and now he wants to pretend otherwise.

[Metta]

11. Ya think? Isn't this handwriting on the wall?

Even the dimmest Americans are starting to see through her and you, too, Newt.

[MineralMan]

12. A freeping miracle is more like what it would take. Sheesh!

Please let her be the candidate! Please!

[saltpoint]

13. A significant amount of work might also be required to make Newt Gingrich

competitive in the Iowa caucus, especially if Romney spends a buck or two there, and Huck is keen enough to drag his folksy hind end through the farms and small towns.

Right now I'm now seeing Newt Gingrich as all that competitive in Iowa or New Hampshire.

If Obama remains popular the rationale for a Gingrich candidacy is correspondingly less.

[GoesTo11]

14. She is already a national leader

She is the core of the party and represents both its spiritual and intellectual core. I think Newt is just trying to keep her down because he has others he would rather see installed.