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THE LEFT WING MEDIA MADE ME DO IT.
Crystal Wright writes in Towhall.com (which, if you enjoy poor reasoning, is the gift that keeps on giving) that Republican voters love Newt Gingrich and that “may explain the Washington Post running multiple articles daily tearing down his candidacy”.
Actually if the Post wanted to tear Gingrich down it has to do no more than report what the conservative punditariat and Republican politicians are saying to tear Gingrich down.
Don’t blame the messenger. If the Washington Post was plotting to promote a left wing strategy they would do nothing except say nice things about Gingrich. After all nothing unites left and right as much as the idea of Newt’s unelectability.
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THE PUNDITS DON’T LIKE HIM, THE POWERS THAT BE DON’T LIKE HIM AND NOW THE NEXT GENERATION EXPRESSES ITS OPINION
Newt Gingrich is campaigning for the Iowa nomination by signing books – his wife’s books – in Virginia. He also plans on taking a break over Christmas. This after he announced that if judges wouldn’t justify their decisions he would have them arrested.
Meghan McCain - Doesn't work for the Washington Post, doesn't support Gingrich's candidacy
This all led to Meghan McCain (John McCain’s daughter) opining: “That’s the thing I can’t understand, someone on the road –you are on the road! I don’t think we spent Christmases at home. I think I spent Christmas in New Hampshire if I remember correctly. It is baffling! Everything he does, it’s like, ‘hit me again, crazy!’ I literally can’t get enough. This judge thing is my new favorite thing. It’s clearly insane. It’s out of a science fiction novel.”
She added: “I can’t handle it! As a Republican, this is the end of the Republican Party if we nominate this man.”
NB. Ms. McCain does not work for The Washington Post.
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IT’S NOT THE POST IT’S THE EXAMINER
It was an article in the Washington Examiner not the Washington Post that pined for Jeb Bush. To be fair it didn’t pine, but it reported on the unrequited Republicans who, in casting about for the new ‘not Newt Romney’, have cast glances at Jeb Bush.
Sarah Palin - doesn't work for The Washington Post, thinks that another candidate could still run.
Sarah Palin has also said that there is still time for an unannounced candidate to join the fray, saying: “You know, it’s not too late for folks to jump in.”
Is the Republican Party like a young, Victorian woman collecting wedding proposals from eager swains and serially rejecting them; hoping not to play the game so well that she is left single, old and alone?
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PILING ON
Michael Medved, conservative columnist, isn’t rushing a new candidate into the field. He is instead floating the idea of a deadlocked race with the candidate selected at the Republican Convention..
If Crystal Wright believes that Newt isn’t feeling the love, she should look closer to home than the Washington Post for this alienation of affection.
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PERHAPS IT IS THE POST’S FAULT AFTER ALL
In fairness The Washington Post did have an anti-Gingrich editorial. Mark Thiessen criticized Gingrich for his inconsistency on abortion. Thiessen goes so far as to claim that as Romney had embraced an anti-fetal stem cell research position six years ago, while Gingrich came to this position only two weeks ago, Romney could claim to be more pro-life than Gingrich.
But back to Crystal Wright’s contention that it is the Post that is poisoning Gingrich’s well she should note that while Thiessen is a Post columnist, he is also a fellow at the Hoover Institute after a career as spokesman for Jesse Helms and speech writer for Donald Rumsfeld and George W Bush (that is to say he is hardly a liberal).
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