Oct. 2, 2008
Newt: Palin Should Just Be Palin
Says She Needs To Relax And Be Herself To Win Debate With Biden; Also Comments On Bailout Bill, Pushes Drilling
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Play CBS Video Video VP Debate: Keys To Success "Face The Nation" host, Bob Schieffer discusses the keys to success for Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin in the vice presidential debate.
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Newt Gingrich on The Early Show Thursday (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Timeline Palin's Path A look at Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's life and career
"Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis"
By Newt Gingrich, with Vince Paley
By Newt Gingrich, with Vince Paley
"I think she needs to relax, forget most of her handlers, and be who she is," Gingrich told Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez Thursday. "She was a very effective mayor. She was a very effective governor. She's not a Washington insider. She's not a 35-year veteran of the Senate. She's not a lawyer. And I think she just has to relax and be a grassroots conservative with strongly held views and let, you know, let's see what happens.
"She's not gonna out-Biden Biden. He went to the Senate when she was in the second grade. He is a Washington insider. He can answer all the 'gotcha' questions from the news media. He knows all the trivia, but he's never prepared a budget. Nobody's gonna ask her tonight, 'What was it like to prepare a state budget for the state of Alaska?' and then ask Sen. Biden, 'What was your executive experience like?, to which the answer is 'zero.'
"So, I think it will be very much a Washington insider situation. She's not gonna win by pretending to be a student who has studied Washington. She will win if she relaxes and is the person I think she is, which is a reformer and outsider, a populist, and a genuine conservative."
Rodriguez also questioned Gingrich about revised bailout plan passed by the Senate Wednesday night. Does he think there are enough changes in it fro the version the House rejected to put it over the top there?
"Probably," Gingrich replied. "I think the things they did, particularly the changes that the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the day before yesterday on accounting, the steps they're taking in this bill on tax policy, the fact that it has the energy extenders, which I discuss at length in my (new) book and which we discuss in our new movie, 'We Have the Power," which just came out last Saturday -- I think those are all good things. But I want to say, while I support passing this, I think it is a terrible process. I think (Treasury) Sec. (Henry) Paulson ought to be replaced. I think this has been a very badly handled problem and I think the American people should be in a rage, frankly, as much at predatory politicians and predatory government as at predatory bankers and predatory Wall Street."
The title of Gingrich's latest book, on shelves for just over a week, says it all as far as its assertions go, "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis."
Rodriguez pointed out that Democrats would probably say drilling would hurt the environment and it would be years before we see the benefits, and drilling wouldn't result in relief from nation's reliance on foreign oil, anyhow.
"They're just wrong," Gingrich said. "I just met with two of the leading natural gas companies in Oklahoma City. We have over 120 years' supply of natural gas if we drill for it right now. We have three times as much oil in the oil shales of the Rocky Mountains as there is in Saudi Arabia. We have more coal than there is in any other country in the world. We have enormous resources. We know where there are billions of barrels of oil. The U.S. Geological survey just increased the estimate for the Bakken formation in North Dakota and Montana by 25 fold. Not 25 percent, but 2,500 percent.
"The fact is, if we didn't have so much leftwing litigation, so much leftwing regulation, we ought to be able to drill. We won the entire second world war in three years and eight months. The entire war. We beat Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Japan in three years and eight months, and now we're told it takes ten years to drill? That tells you about government, not about drilling."
To read an excerpt of "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis," click here.
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- In the middle of all the spin, strategy and games, there is one thing both Karl Rove and the Republicans keep forgetting:
**YOU NEVER GET A SECOND CHANCE TO MAKE A FIRST IMPRESSION.
1. If you find no matter how smart Palin is now, she still gets dissed: **
2. If you find that no matter what we do in Iraq, the Iraqis hate us: **
3. If McCain finds that no matter what he says about the economy now, people think he''''''''s an idiot on that issue: **
4. If the GOP finds no matter how McCain spins or lies or disowns Bush, people now blame REpublicans, McCain and Bush for the economy**
**YOU NEVER GET A SECOND CHANCE TO MAKE A FIRST IMPRESSION.
**YOU NEVER GET A SECOND CHANCE TO MAKE A FIRST IMPRESSION.
And that first impression is how people will usually judge and see you. No matter how much lipstick you try to put on it later. - Reply to this comment
- I got it -- Palin''s been talking about suspending her campaign -- it will happen when she get asked the first question for which she has no memorized answer. She will then be rushed off stage and onward to a posh Washington hotel to phone in the sale the bailout to the Republican members of the House.
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- Yeah, Palin should just be Palin..... but Gingrich should try being someone else......anyone else would be an improvement over "Newtie the King of Sleaze"!
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- That is NOT exactly what NEWT said to George Will caught on video. Check out this dandy and pass it on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luwqRA0GWGc - Reply to this comment
Palin is plain.- Reply to this comment
- Gingrich: "We won the entire second world war in three years and eight months. The entire war. We beat Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Japan in three years and eight months..."
Primarily because the Republicans were not running the war, and so invasions were done right with sufficent men and material.
Likewise, the corporations were not allowed to steal from our armed forces, unlike what has proven to be their habitual behavior under Republican leadership.
I shudder to think what language I would be speaking had the Republicans been running World War II. - Reply to this comment
- Who cares what Newt Gingrich has to say ? Republicans bring NOTHING to the table except corporate interests. REJECT ALL REPUBLICANS, they got us into the present mess.
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