Given up for
dead after disappointing finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire, Gingrich like
Lazarus, arose from the dead after strong debate performances in Myrtle Beach
and Charleston, SC.
Voters in the
Palmetto State were fed up with the Republican Establishment’s desperate
attempts to force Mitt Romney down their throats.
Like a child
reciting his multiplication tables, Romney tosses off catchphrases by rote like, "I
love this land, I love its Constitution, I revere its founders, I will restore
those principles, I will get America back to work, and I'll make sure that we
remain the shining city on the hill."
In his victory
speech last night, Gingrich said, “It’s not that I am a great debater, it’s
that I articulate the deepest-held values of the American people.”
Voters in
South Carolina and elsewhere hunger for actionable substance, not empty sound
bites.
Winston Churchill
once admitted, "The Conservatives have never liked nor trusted me."
The same thing can be said of Gingrich, who has had a tortured relationship
with the GOP's conservative wing, to say the least.
Investors
Business Daily offers this analogy from Gingrich
Looking Churchillian In Political Comeback: “Once
the brash, even obnoxious Young Turk in Congress, Gingrich is today wiser and
more experienced. He has seen what works in public policy and what doesn't.”
“With the
nonstop media coverage of his failed marriages, people might just forget Gingrich's
solid record of accomplishment. He co-authored the; 'Contract With America,’ and
is probably the man most singly responsible for the GOP's taking control of
Congress in 1994 for the first time in four decades.”
“As House
speaker, he oversaw the passage of welfare reform, a capital-gains tax cut that
helped propel the Internet boom, and, in 1998, the first balanced budget since
the 1960s.”
[SNIP]
“Gingrich
knows the world's future lies with freedom, not with party masters controlling
the destinies of billions of people. He's more likely to aggressively pursue
the illogic and the inconsistencies in Obama's statements in a head-to-head
debate—and to take on Obama's failure as a central element of his campaign.”
[SNIP]
“With a
president in office who, if not an actual socialist seems awfully like one in
the statist policies he promotes, America is headed toward inevitable decline
and an end to its ancient freedoms—unless, that is, our course changes
dramatically.”
In what became
known as Mario Savio’s Sproul
Hall Steps speech, he urged:
“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
Gingrich is pleading
with us to take action.
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