George Will: Newt Gingrich ?Is Just Not A Serious Candidate? For President
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 16th, 2011 4:36 am by HL
George Will: Newt Gingrich ?Is Just Not A Serious Candidate? For President
Today on ABC’s This Week, host Christiane Amanpour wondered whether Newt Gingrich will run in to some difficulties running for president considering he has been married three times. Noting that Gingrich recently converted to Catholicism, NPR’s Cokie Roberts said that “there are an awful lot of divorced Catholics who are very pained by this situation of their own divorce and feeling like they can’t be Catholic,” adding, “and to have this sudden new Catholic with three wives is not going to play well with them.” Conservative columnist George Will, however, said that Gingrich’s problems extend far beyond social issues:
WILL: He’s been out of elective office for 12 years. … Newt Gingrich’s problems are so far beyond just his multiple marriages and all that. His ethanol love affair right now. ON the 7th of March he said, “Let’s go Qaddafi.” On the 23rd of he says, “I never favored intervention.” He did it on television. … He’s one of these people who says that to understand Barack Obama you need to understand his “Kenyan anti-colonial mentality.” This is just not a serious candidate.
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Huckabee Omits Romney From His List Of Social & Fiscal Conservative 2012 GOP Candidates
Last night on his Fox News program, Mike Huckabee announced that he will not seek the GOP nomination for president in 2012. This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Huckabee which potential candidate benefits from his absence in the GOP field. Huckabee said he likes Rick Santorum, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin because, he said, “of their strong positions on issues like life, and traditional marriage as well as fiscal conservatism.” When Wallace noted that Huckabee left Mitt Romney out, the former Arkansas governor said he would support him, just as he would support Donald Trump if the real estate mogul won the nomination:
WALLACE: Now you didn’t mention Mitt Romney. […]
HUCKABEE: If Mitt Romney is the nominee for our party I will support him because I believe that Mitt Romney would be a better president for the United States than Barack Obama on any day. […]
I’m going to support the Republican nominee and unless a person is way out there and is not clear on issues that to me are non negotiable like the sancity of life. I believe Donald Trump would be better for America than Barack Obama.
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