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Newt Gingrich Makes Bold Predictions for 2016 Presidential ElectionFormer house speaker believes Clinton will be indictedJanuary 27, 2016 By JOSELYN KING Wheeling (W.Va.) IntelligencerWHEELING - Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicts Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton soon will be indicted - effectively ending her bid for the Oval Office.The event will be among many making 2016 "an extraordinary election year," he told a packed audience at Wheeling Jesuit University's Troy Theater Tuesday night.He also believes the eventual Republican nominee will defeat the Democratic nominee in the November general election because the public doesn't want America to continue in its current direction."Whoever walks in in January, it's going to be a wild ride..." he said. "Whether there is a President Trump, a President Cruz or a President Sanders - it isn't going to be normal. And America is better off with wild rides than it is with gradual decay."Gingrich expounded on this thought while speaking with reporters following his speech."I can tell you after a pretty long career - the system is sick," he said. "Political correctness will destroy this country. There is a secular anti-Christian bias built into our courts and our bureaucracy that will destroy the country. So, which do you think is the greater risk? Going down the road we're on, or taking the gamble on somebody with enough willpower and toughness to kick us off the road? I think it's a much smarter gamble to get off the road. It's going to be a wild and woolly ride."And Gingrich said those investigating Clinton's private emails have increasingly become more aghast as they observe severe security breaches. At the minimum, past members of Clinton's staff likely will be indicted, according to Gingrich."She did things with national security for which we normally lock people up for life," Gingrich said. "She was doing things that are crazy."The FBI has announced the Bureau of Public Corruption has now been brought onto the case."There is zero amount of doubt in my mind Hillary will be indicted," Gingrich said. "There is curiosity then about what the president and the attorney general do. ... If the FBI formally recommends indictment, and (Director James B. Comey) is turned down, I have to believe he has no choice but to resign. At that point, there is a media frenzy, you get congressional hearings and the presumption that Obama is covering up. If you're Barack Obama, do you like Hillary enough to do that? Is that the way you want to end your term?"Gingrich and wife Callista actually had planned a visit to Wheeling to visit family friend the Most Rev. Michael Bransfield, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, who then asked him if he might speak at WJU while in the city. The Gingriches came to know Bransfield when he served as rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, where Callista has sung in the choir for 25 years."He was in many ways her mentor when she was a young singer, and we're very fond of him," Gingrich said of Bransfield. "We try to do whatever he asks, which he as a bishop finds appropriate."Gingrich also appeared with a fresh visible scar on the left side of his face. He explained during his speech he had recently had a section of melanoma removed, and he encouraged those present to learn from his experience and immediately seek treatment when they see signs of skin cancer.
I've never agreed with those saying Hillary Clinton will skate because the government won't go after her, because she's Hillary.
Political correctness will destroy this country
And, the Clinton Foundation will be in the middle of it (Lando's opinion).
Hmmmm! Seems like I recall that being said here before!
Democrats are absolutely hating the position that Hillary Clinton has put the party in. The stars are aligning against a Democrat win. Seven years of a failed Obama presidency, an avowed socialist candidate, and a shady politician with an indictment hanging over her head. Gee, what could go wrong?
Gingrich Talks Trump, ‘Noise,’ During Stop in WheelingJanuary 31, 2016 By JOSELYN KING Staff Writer The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register WHEELING - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks a lot and makes a lot of noise, and he is the definition of today's new politics, according to former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.The Georgia Republican weighed in on the 2016 presidential candidate during a stop this past week in Wheeling."Whether he wins or loses, he has already re-shaped American politics," Gingrich said of Trump. "This is a phenomenon. There are pretty basic techniques to what he is doing, and the first is (making) constant noise. "This is the age of the Kardashians. And this is the first truly Kardashian candidate."Gingrich ran for the presidency in 2012, and said he has been asked why he didn't enter the 2016 race."I wouldn't know how in this year," Gingrich said. "Everything that made me an effective candidate involved knowing something about the world that exists."And the political world has changed considerably, especially in the last decade, according to Gingrich. He was among the chief architect's of the "Contract With America," a Republican party doctrine that led to the GOP taking majority of both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate in 1994.Gingrich said he and political consultant Joe Gaylord conducted a study earlier this year, and it led them to believe the Republican promises for the country set forth in that document would not resonate with the electorate today."Our conclusion was if we ran the 1994 campaign this year, we would be annihilated," Gingrich said. "We're too small, too slow and too underfunded."The world has changed so much that the stuff we knew how to do really well doesn't work. And the American people have changed. The ways we communicated with them don't work any more," he said.This is where Trump excels, according to Gingrich. He has observed that Trump has mastered the art of speaking to the public "at a fourth-grade level" and making complicated issues seem understandable."He's the only candidate that does it," Gingrich said. "Most candidates speak at the seventh, eighth or ninth grade level. Politicians know you can't speak that much above ninth-grade level and still communicate."Also, Trump's demeanor and words on the campaign trail "are sucking the oxygen out of any rationale debate," and turning media attention toward him, according to Gingrich."If you're a candidate about to run a regular ad campaign, nobody is going to notice," he said.This year, candidates with established political backgrounds carry with them the burdens of a country going down the wrong path, and the public's belief the candidate had something to do with that, according to Gingrich.He said Ohio Gov. John Kasich was like "his younger brother" when both served in the House. He praised Kasich's efforts to balance Ohio's budget for four straight years, calling it a "a tremendous achievement."Gingrich termed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush an "effective reform conservative governor" and a "very smart guy." He said Bush once served as his interpreter when Gingrich participated in a Spanish language radio interview while in Florida.Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., "is a brilliant guy, and somebody likely to survive the current chaos and emerge again and again," Gingrich said. "This is because he is so talented, so sincere, and so idealistic."Chris Christie, he said, was "a very good U.S. attorney" and a "pretty good reform governor of New Jersey.""Not quite as good as his ads, but he was pretty good," Gingrich said.These experienced candidates all collide with the "political outsiders," he continued.Gingrich believes Dr. Ben Carson "has totally disappeared" from media coverage despite most polls showing him in fourth place in the race behind Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rubio.He said Cruz, while brilliant, is both the "most singularly ambitious person" and "perhaps the most disliked senator in Washington in modern times." The fact he doesn't get along well with his Senate colleagues makes him a political outsider, according to Gingrich.Among Democrats, Gingrich expects Hillary Clinton to be indicted prior to the general election. And if this occurs during the primary season, the nomination likely would go to Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt.This could make for an interesting matchup between Sanders, a proponent of larger government, and the billionaire Trump."You could end up in a general election in which one side says, 'I want to abolish all millionaires,' and the other side says, 'I want you all to be millionaires,'" Gingrich said. "That could be our national dialogue."
After his talk in Wheeling, WV, Newt sat down with a local reporter to ponder the campaign. Here's that story.
Newt has posted this on his Facebook page:Newt GingrichLike This Page · 2 hrs · Here are my top 5 takeaways from the #NHPrimary. What did you think? What do you think will happen next in South Carolina?1. Donald J. Trump won decisively with every group. He is the frontrunner and most likely to be nominated.2. John Kasich's strategy of staying positive and staying in New Hampshire worked.3. Bernie Sanders won a huge victory and Hillary Clinton suffered a crushing defeat.4, Ted Cruz is in excellent position to be Trump's major competitor.5. Marco Rubio suffered from his Saturday debate defeat by Chris Christie. He has to turn it around in next #GOPDebateMore analysis to come in my newsletter tonight. Sign up to receive it here: http://bit.ly/YGRF4q
