Can It, Newty!

Looks like Newt Gingrich has sold out and joined Hugo Chavez and Nancy Pelosi in their slanders on our leaders.

Newt Gingrich is one of those who fear that Republicans have been branded with the label of incompetence. He says that the Bush Administration has become a Republican version of the Jimmy Carter Presidency, when nothing seemed to go right. “It’s just gotten steadily worse,” he said. “There was some point during the Iranian hostage crisis, the gasoline rationing, the malaise speech, the sweater, the rabbit”—Gingrich was referring to Carter’s suggestion that Americans wear sweaters rather than turn up their thermostats, and to the “attack” on Carter by what cartoonists quickly portrayed as a “killer rabbit” during a fishing trip—“that there was a morning where the average American went, ‘You know, this really worries me.’ ” He added, “You hire Presidents, at a minimum, to run the country well enough that you don’t have to think about it, and, at a maximum, to draw the country together to meet great challenges you can’t avoid thinking about.” Gingrich continued, “When you have the collapse of the Republican Party, you have an immediate turn toward the Democrats, not because the Democrats are offering anything better, but on a ‘not them’ basis. And if you end up in a 2008 campaign between ‘them’ and ‘not them,’ ‘not them’ is going to win.”

I didn't see you complaining the last six years as Bush and Cheney implemented parts of your agenda. And you only shut down the federal government for a few days before you became best friends with Clinton. George Bush and Dick Cheney have shut much of it down for six years.

Besides, your comparison of this administration to Jimmy Carter is simply not born out by the facts:

Despite President Bush's low popularity, he is still getting better marks than the weakest ratings for Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, according to a new analysis from Harris Interactive.

And it looks like Newty has decided not only to turn his back on the Republican party, but has pulled a Tony Blair, and turned his back on the English language itself as well:

Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, aims to soon be able to give interviews in Spanish, according to an article in The Politico, based on an interview with his private Spanish tutor.

How do you say traitor in Spanish?

Note to Republicans: You Don't Win by Appeasing the Left

It's really quite sad. I've mentioned before how Tony Blair, after many courageous actions as Prime Minister (such as bringing Democracy to Iraq) lost his nerve, and tried to appease left-wing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when he captured British troops who were merely working on spreading Democracy. He could have taken a tough line like he did with Iraq (48 hours for Ahmadinejad to leave the country, or perhaps the threat of nuclear strikes), but instead he opted for Jimmy Carter style "negotiations." Having made a disgrace of himself, Blair was forced to resign. So he announced his resignation ---in French.





Let's see, Jimmy Carter-style "negotiations", announcing your resignation in French-if there was one man who would be impressed with Blair's behavior, you'd think it would have been Jimmy Carter himself. Not so.

Tony Blair's lack of leadership and timid subservience to George W Bush lie behind the ongoing crisis in Iraq and the worldwide threat of terrorism, according to the former American president Jimmy Carter.

"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed by Tony Blair's behaviour," he told The Sunday Telegraph.

You see, unless you are willing to pull out all the stops and advocate Chavez/Pelosi/Carter style "21st Century Fascism," there's no point in even trying to appease the left. Tony Blair might have learnt the lesson too late but it is something that Dick Cheney takes to heart. You're never going to see Cheney "negotiating" with Ahmadinejad, or announcing his resignation in French-or any other language.