Does a Leopard Change its Spots?

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny



Newt Gingrich is, to put it bluntly not the presidential candidate the republican party needs. Aside from carrying to much baggage like his three marriages, extramarital affairs, his well paid "historian" role consulting with Freddie Mac, his flip flops on healthcare mandates and climate change, and his delusions of grandeur, he is not a leader than individuals like to follow. In fact he is a rather divisive figure. When he was Speaker of the House, before his colleagues replaced him for his ineptitude, his lack of principles brought his integrity into question.

Newt, as well as his supporters will tell us he has changed, that his time out of Washington and the national political scene has changed him. That he has matured and is a more reflective and deliberate individual. A person who weighs both sides of an issue carefully and thoroughly before acting. Perhaps, but their certainly is no guarantee, or certainty this so.

I once had the pleasure of working for the President of a northeast corrugated container company, his name was Mr. Robinson and I highly respected the man. Pondering exactly what makes me leery about Newt caused me to recall something Mr. Robinson used to tell me, he would say "Les, remember, a leopard doesn't change its spots."

{FrummForum} - Today’s question is: will the Gingrich balloon deflate like all the previous Not Mitt balloons?

The answer is: yes of course–but given that these balloons take typically 6-8 weeks to shrivel, the impending Gingrich bust may not arrive soon enough to save Romney. No question though, it will arrive in time to freak out the Republican party.

The most important thing to remember about Gingrich is not the three marriages, not the dubious financial practices, not the abrupt reversals on healthcare mandates and climate change. It’s not the grandiosity of language, not the habit of casting opponents as un-American, not the lack of self-awareness that allowed him to impeach a president for lying under oath about an extramarital affair while engaged in an extramarital affair of his own.

The most important thing to remember about Newt Gingrich is that his colleagues in the House of Representatives effectively fired him as their leader even before the impeachment crisis, shifting power instead into the more competent hands of Tom DeLay. It was Tom DeLay who ran the caucus while Newt Gingrich was traveling the country giving speeches about Total Quality Management and the Struggle for Western Civilization.

Gingrich was not pushed aside by his caucus for any of the offenses listed above. He was pushed aside because he plunged the caucus into chaos, because he lost fights that he himself had chosen... {Read More}

I believe Mr. Robinson was on to something. So is David Frumm.

Via: Memorandum

Comments

  1. I do believe Gingrich has changed, in temperament and perhaps in the self-discipline department, but he remains a DC insider enamored of big government schemes.

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  2. Newt is the typical politician say whatever it takes to get elected or make a buck, so he is not my candidate for President. It is looking like the wild man from Texas that is going to take this thing because Romney will never get the job done and all others have withered in the spotlight. I am ready for fresh and sometimes out there ideas because business as usual is sending this country into the toilet.

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  3. So here's to you, Mr. Robinson.

    Ron Paul 2012. Simple as that.

    To vote otherwise, more specifically for Romney or Newt, is 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss' stuff.

    The GOP and the Democrat Party are the same thing. It's time to get serious about giving DC a much-needed enema.

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