Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich. If you are an American currently residing in the United States, you definitely know who I'm referring to (and if you don't, then all you need to do is read, listen to, or watch ANYTHING in the media or simply leave your house just once).

If you are an American currently studying in yeshiva or residing outside of the US, then I will give you a brief description (almost as brief as Gingrich's quick rise to Republican primary poll leader, where he currently sits)... Newt Gingrich was the Speaker of the House of Representatives some time in the 1990s. For one reason or another, he decided that he would be the best candidate to kick Obama out in 2012 and bring the country back to where it belongs. Just a few months ago, maybe 10 percent (probably less) of Republicans polled said they would vote for Gingrich. Up until the last couple of months, he was practically a no-name when it came to candidates. The big candidates four or five months ago were Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, and maybe Michelle Bachmann.  But definitely not Newt Gingrich. In fact, up until recent weeks, the first thing that came to mind when I saw the name Newt was "Maybe this is a new nickname for my hometown Newton...?!" I think you get my point.

Everything has changed. Now Gingrich has the lead in the polls for Republican candidates by a LOT, with around 35 percent of the poll (the current runner-up has about 20 percent). Now the Democrats are trying every last possibility to make fun of this guy. Why? Because they're SCARED of him. Just like they were scared of Mitt Romney and therefore started the whole business of Mitt being a hypocrite by criticizing Obama-care. That's why they overplayed the whole Herman Cain sexual abuse fiasco (not that I believe that Cain is innocent or that sexual abuse is okay- I never said either of those things). Democrats have, in their blood, a potentially-successful-Republican-OH-NO monitoring system. When the system beeps, these Democrats have to find a reason, whether bogus or minor, to get this guy off the stage.

So how can Democrats get Gingrich off the stage? Hmm...let's think hard. Maybe they can taunt him for making a historically ACCURATE statement, and consider it as if he embarrassed himself. Oh, man , I think I'm a little late with this idea! The Democrats are so genius that they came up with this one a few weeks before I did!

Let me explain: The entire Democratic party and media went crazy when Gingrich stated in an interview on The Jewish Channel that "we've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community." True statement. Palestinians are a newly invented union, comprising descendants of Arabs who lived in Israel around the time of 1948. According to polls, most "Palestinians" in the West Bank approve of suicide bombs against Israel. Palestine? Never a sovereign state. And if you don't believe me, look at the long list of historical rulers of Israel. Not a single ruler called the "Palestinians."

But, as I said, the Democrats saw the rise of Gingrich, and their monitors began beeping extremely loudly just a few weeks ago. So, when given this opportunity, they lashed out at and mocked Gingrich for this statement, in addition to taking it out of context. (The context was the Palestinians' continued stubbornness and inability to negotiate with Israel, NOT their nonexistence.) All the liberal media went crazy, and the Democrats (and even Mitt Romney, who used this quote as an example of how he, unlike Gingrich, will have a reasonable foreign policy record as president) attacked Gingrich. By the way, this marked the end of my support for Romney. I like Gingrich's honesty and sharp, hard-lined stances against evil a lot more than I like Romney's self-proclaimed "reasonable" politics.

Newt Gingrich is very reminiscent of Ronald Reagan. They both speak the truth, they both take very hard and necessary positions on unions and other economy-destroyers, and Democrats hate them both because of their sharpness and success. Root for Newt!