tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post1223989631070682135..comments2024-03-14T02:18:47.610-05:00Comments on TheRightRant: Newt Gingrich clings to yesterday's republican partyEdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01235046826421680852noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-65720783409802325192010-04-23T14:58:38.943-05:002010-04-23T14:58:38.943-05:00I'd like to think he meant it as a compliment....I'd like to think he meant it as a compliment. I hope you are right. I just think there's no room, heading into November, for republicans who are for compromise. Conservatism always gets compromised and liberalism rarely ever does. I mean Newt is OK with Lindsay Graham for heaven's sake. I don't think Newt and Callista want to be disinvited from the cool cocktail-parties at George Will's house for snuggling up too close to tea-party riff raff.ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-61554300333269379592010-04-23T14:52:12.935-05:002010-04-23T14:52:12.935-05:00Remember Newt is very historically minded and has ...Remember Newt is very historically minded and has somewhat of a classical education. I wouldn't be surprised if he meant militant positively, but your take could very well be right.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-83851795526561149722010-04-23T13:21:20.359-05:002010-04-23T13:21:20.359-05:00I don't know Bill. fiscal responsibility, low ...I don't know Bill. fiscal responsibility, low taxes and small government should be the foundation, not a wing of, the republican party. I'm not interested in third-party politics. I'm interested in kicking out any republican who has shown fecklessness when it comes to this platform of conservatism. While the term "militant" may have had a different meaning in the past, like the word "gay", today it means "fringe" and "aggressive". We use it to describe the lesbianism of Rachael Maddow, the environmentalism of eco-terrorists, and the appetite of Rosie O'Donnel. It's not a complimentary term today and I think Newt resents the attention, whether positive or negative, the tea-party activists have garnered from the media. It's put garden-variety, in-crowd republicans on the back burner and taken some control of the party away from them.ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26061284.post-28701218398207796752010-04-23T12:27:05.912-05:002010-04-23T12:27:05.912-05:00Ed, you clearly take "militant" as a neg...Ed, you clearly take "militant" as a negative adjective. I don't think so in this case and don't think Newt did. I remember when people used to speak of the "church militant" in the sense of evangelising for Christ. It doesn't always serve as shorthand for a terrorist, the way much of the media speak of "militants" setting off IED's in Afghanistan.Billnoreply@blogger.com