Newt Gingrich weighs in on VP Sarah Palin...

[JoeContrarian]

Newt Gingrich e-mailed me the following, which he gave me permission to share with the wider world:

Authenticity is the one word threat to the Obama-Biden ticket.

There is something going on this weekend which traditional pundits, traditional consultants and traditional politicians are simply missing. All of the normal biography-oriented and issue-oriented analysis misses an emotional gestalt event comparable to when Ronald Reagan in 1980 crystalized his leadership in New Hampshire when he seized control of the GOP debate.

In one sudden moment Friday, John McCain fundamentally changed American politics in a manner that transcends issues and details.

The great threat to the Obama-Biden ticket can be captured in one word: authenticity.

There is something unaffected and "unsophisticated" (in the Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and University of Chicago meanings of the word) about Governor Palin. She really was point guard of a state championship basketball team. She really is a competent hunter. She is a hockey mom. She has one son about to go to Iraq.

She has 13 years in elected office

By any practical standard she has done far more in the real world with much more spontaneity and practicality than Barack Obama. And there is something deeply real and courageous about John McCain ignoring most of his advisers and all of the "insider wisdom" to reach out to a younger woman whose greatest characteristic is undaunted courage and a willingness to clean out the corruption in her own party.

This is a moment of stunning authenticity versus a sad collapse on the part of the Obama campaign from " change you can count on" to politics as usual, as marked by Obama's choice of a senator first elected when Palin was 9 years old.

As I wandered around from a family restaurant to the dry cleaners to a variety of other non-political places, people kept walking up to me and talking with energy and enthusiasm about their reaction to McCain’s choice of Governor Palin. As I sifted through their emotions and the intensity of their reaction it hit me that they were responding to "the real thing." The power of Palin is that she is so out of the establishment, and so out of the talking-heads, inside-the –Beltway-elite mindset, that the 80 per cent of Americans who believe we are on the wrong track suddenly can identify with someone who isn’t part of what got us on that track.

Palin will make mistakes. The news media and the Obama researchers will find things to attack. But if she stays relaxed and continues to be authentically who she has been for 44 years, the country is going to love her, and they are very rapidly going to get disgusted with the cynical negative nastiness of politics as usual.

Finally 2008 really has given us "change we can count on." Ironically, it is the McCain-Palin ticket.

Newt gets it as much as libs are becoming unhinged. :missingte

Warning to Joe Biden: Beneath that veneer of charm and all-American girl next door charm is a tiger that will eat an inside-the-Beltway loose canon like you for lunch.

The Sarah Palin nomination reminds me when Bush nominated Chief Justice John Roberts. Palin is a stealth dyed-in-the-wool conservative that has the left chasing it's tail and gasping for air.

I can assure you the massive unanimous enthusiasm among conservatives and independents for Sarah Palin is wide and deep.

With this pick the future of the Republican Party is securely conservative, pro-life, pro-family, pro-military and strong on national defense, pro-Second Amendment, pro-property rights, pro-free market, pro-energy exploration and anchored in outside-the-Beltway Reaganism.

I call Gov. Sarah Palin America's Margaret Thatcher -- the new "Iron Lady."

Most Americans will simply come to know her as, "Sarah."

You've been snookered, libs -- and the best part is you don't yet fully understand how badly. :nohead:

 

[Willie99]

Newt, the last man to author and implement a balanced budget. An historian, a brilliant political mind, simple and wise.

 

[JoeContrarian]

Oh yeah, and unlike Professor Bambi, our tenacious "hockey mom" doesn't need a teleprompter. :missingte

Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal (another rising star in the GOP) will transform politics in this country as we know it.

Who knew John McCain was a Reagan conservative?

Country First.

 

[Seymour]

I really hope Jindal speaks at the convention - I've never heard him speak in public and they were saying he may miss it with the impending weather

 

[SmallDaddy]

Newt, the last man to author and implement a balanced budget. An historian, a brilliant political mind, simple and wise.

Nowadays budgets are written by the Prez and his posse

 

[Willie99]

Nowadays budgets are written by the Prez and his posse

The House can write their own budget, it's their primary responsibility, but I'll concede that they don't.

 

[barman]

And Lord knows Newt was an example to all of us fellows when it comes time to dump the Ol Ball & Chain. Wait until she's in the hospital and serve her the divorce papers.

Sarah Palin = Maggie Thatcher

Comedy Gold

Welcome back Mark....you're a few hours later than I first predicted, but when I wake up late Sunday morning I'm counting on you to have created at least a half dozen ObamaIsABigBadMeanie Topics.

Don't let me down.

And please quit holding out on that Ron&Nancy Youtube video.

you know the one I want.