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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 04:56 PM Dec 2012

Gingrich: If Hillary Clinton Runs In 2016, Current GOP ‘Incapable Of Competing’

Newt Gingrich told David Gregory on Sunday’s Meet The Press “the Republican party of today is incapable of competing” with a 2016 presidential run by Hillary Clinton.

Gingrich thinks “every Republican” should be focused on 2016 because of the severity of their defeat in 2012. Gingrich said that if Clinton were to run in four years, “supported by Bill Clinton and presumably a still relatively popular President Barack Obama, trying to win that will be, truly, the Super Bowl.”

Referring to the comments about the 47% made by Mitt Romney, Gingrich called it “an absurdity.” He didn’t, however, fault Romney entirely for the GOP loss this year. Gingrich told Gregory,

“I think this is much more than Mitt Romney. We didn’t blow it because of Mitt Romney, we blew it because of a party which has refused to engage the reality of American life and refused to think through what the average American needs for a better future.”


Watch the full clip, via NBC:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gingrich-if-hillary-clinton-runs-in-2016-current-gop-incapable-of-competing/

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Gingrich: If Hillary Clinton Runs In 2016, Current GOP ‘Incapable Of Competing’ (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2012 OP
Not sure it matters... Wounded Bear Dec 2012 #1
Ditto. truebluegreen Dec 2012 #10
No. It is not sad. LeftInTX Dec 2012 #11
Clearly I should have used truebluegreen Dec 2012 #13
Chris Christie, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush NewJeffCT Dec 2012 #18
"The Permanent Republican Majority" Submariner Dec 2012 #2
Newt has his moments of lucidity Gman Dec 2012 #3
If Newt says it's a sure thing BeyondGeography Dec 2012 #4
That's My Reaction. Paladin Dec 2012 #12
Oh, please TroyD Dec 2012 #19
Even a stopped crock is right twice a day. TheCowsCameHome Dec 2012 #5
2016 will be decided in the primaries Cayenne Dec 2012 #6
If Hillary wants it, shes got it. DCBob Dec 2012 #7
ah, yes.. the "inevitability" meme... it's hers..there is no one else. It's "inevitable." nt antigop Dec 2012 #8
Well, I'm glad that's settled... truebluegreen Dec 2012 #9
Gingrich gets it Cayenne Dec 2012 #14
A lot John2 Dec 2012 #15
Hillary runs for POTUS in 2016. NPolitics1979 Dec 2012 #16
Gingrich is just talking. The right knows that they are ready to pull that politicaljunkie41910 Dec 2012 #17
2014 is much more imminent Iwillnevergiveup Dec 2012 #20

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
18. Chris Christie, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 10:01 PM
Dec 2012

are all going to be viable candidates on the national stage. The media like Rubio and Christie, and W will be a long forgotten memory by 2016. If W could be "elected" in 2000 despite his father's record, I don't see why Jeb isn't almost a shoe-in for the nomination by the end of 2013. He's already got the reputation as the "smart" Bush (low bar to clear, I know)

Submariner

(12,509 posts)
2. "The Permanent Republican Majority"
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 05:07 PM
Dec 2012

That statement from Rove back in 2002 gave me a great moment of pause back then. I'm glad to see that will never happen now.

Gman

(24,780 posts)
3. Newt has his moments of lucidity
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 05:09 PM
Dec 2012

Gotta realize there are a lot of them that think their candidate just needs to be more conservative and they can win anything despite the most concrete evidence to the contrary.

Paladin

(28,272 posts)
12. That's My Reaction.
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 06:26 PM
Dec 2012

Newt hasn't been correct about much of anything for a long, long time. Beware, Hillary partisans......

TroyD

(4,551 posts)
19. Oh, please
Mon Dec 10, 2012, 02:20 AM
Dec 2012

Newt Gingrich isn't Dick Morris. This isn't a case where what the person says always turns out to be the opposite.

Unlike with Dick Morris who never had the real polls or math on his side, the polling and evidence so far backs up the argument that Hillary Clinton would be formidable in 2016.

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
9. Well, I'm glad that's settled...
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 06:02 PM
Dec 2012

Last edited Sun Dec 9, 2012, 06:34 PM - Edit history (1)

I'm sure we can put 2 billion dollars to better use next time (for those who may misread that, for the first clause, serious about the second).

As for his comments about rMoney and the party, he's the proverbial broken clock...

Cayenne

(480 posts)
14. Gingrich gets it
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 06:39 PM
Dec 2012

But the rest don't get that their tent is shrinking and their only strategy is throwing out moderates (aka RINOs).

 

John2

(2,730 posts)
15. A lot
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 08:11 PM
Dec 2012

depends on what President Obama does with his pledges. If he helps the Republicans destroy Social Programs, people want for get it. It will put more people in poverty. It also depends on his Foreign Policy decisions also, as well as this marijuana issue. People are not sheep. They put him in office for a purpose. Those people that depend on those programs will abandon the Democrat Party, including Hillary Clinton, because they will be no different than the Republicans. They certainly want get my vote, ever again. It doesn't mean I would vote for a Republican either. I'll just declare Independent. We vote for Policies and not popularity contests.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
17. Gingrich is just talking. The right knows that they are ready to pull that
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 09:46 PM
Dec 2012

right wing smear job about Hillary that they called a movie, off the shelf, dust it off, and run it again to try and discredit Hillary in 2016. We can't get complacent or let our guard down. We still have a least 30 states out there with GOP governors, who will stop at nothing to steal back the White House. Governor Snyder of Michigan who just snuck through that anti union legislature through both houses of a Republican State congress during a lame duck session while no one was looking, comes to mind.

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