A ‘back blast’ is the blast cone behind certain weapons that utilize the back blast to minimize recoil. ‘Walking into your own back blast’ is a term for just plain stupidity. When I was in the Marine Corps, walking behind a 106 recoilless rifle would get you dead if you were close, or just knock you on your ass and maybe blow out your eardrums from about 15 to 30 feet away. Not a smart move.

ABC and, by association, all of the DNC/Administration surrogates of the Lame Stream press may have stepped in it with the brazenly timed, extremely shallow interview with Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife of some eighteen years, Marianne. Naturally, as with all of these DeMarxist straw horses, they posit all of these things as fact when, in fact, almost all of these Marxist publicity stunts turn out to have back stories they aren’t anxious to have see the light of day.

Marianne has given several interviews along the same lines over the years. I’m not going to say she is an embittered, spiteful woman venting her spleen once again. However, you have to question the very fact that she agreed to the interview in the first place with a network who, at the behest of their Marxist masters, timed the interview at the precise moment that, in their sick judgment, gave them the best chance of destroying Newt Gingrich… just as he rightly begins to surge in North Carolina.

All of us know divorced people… it’s a sad commentary on our times. Many of us also have friends on both sides of these broken marriages, and it seems like there’s always one who, for whatever reason, can never let go and move on with their lives. Marianne strikes me as this type of person, given her history of willingness to hang out the family laundry. Now we find out that the network stalked her for a couple of months… bottom feeding their way to a smear on Newt?

Enter the back blast. The aforementioned bottom feeders have brutally excoriated Conservative after Conservative, in their desperate need to defend the indefensible Barack Obama. Part of that is our own fault. The self-proclaimed, non-existent Republican establishment has been working in full time overdrive to convince the nation of the inevitability of their milquetoast moderate Mitt Romney, arguably the author of Obamacare with his Massachusetts Romneycare which, of and by itself, gives all Conservatives serious pause.

Hang on to your hats, folks. Newt has a damned good chance of winning South Carolina and his message is beginning to resonate across the country. The backlash which is hitting the Lame Stream Media is more than richly deserved. The sheer volume of lies and prevarication, with which they have attempted to suborn the truth for their Marxist masters, has finally reached the tipping point. They may have propelled the one guy to victory that they absolutely, unequivocally don’t want to run against their welfare state boss… not only in South Carolina but in the Republican primaries as a whole.

I like Newt’s fire and the intense focus he brings to the critical issues facing this nation. We need a fighter and not a milquetoast hack like Mitt Romney, constantly parroting the establishment line. Rick Santorum is a nice guy with solid Conservative values, but he’s not the guy for this time and this place.

Remember, the aim is the destruction of Barack Hussein Obama and his entire regime. Just like Newt said… “I want to knock him out”.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2012

It appears the long-suspected theory many of us have held is correct . . . that it is no mere coincidence with the similarities of these two dreaded objects of doom. With the “breaking-but-not-yet-broken” “story” (yes, that’s a lot of air-quotes . . . for good reason) of Marianne Gingrich’s career-ending interview regarding her ex-husband, our worst fears have been confirmed.  To our great surprise, we have emerged from hyperspace to encounter a fully-armed and operational battlestation!

Preface 1 – This was originally derived from my comment number four-hundred-and-something under Erick’s post regarding Rick Perry as Kingmaker. It was getting long for a comment so I turned it into a diary entry.

Preface 2 – This is authored by someone who has been and continues to be a public and enthusiastic  Rick Perry supporter, someone who is not vehemently opposed to Romney as the nominee, and someone who has not necessarily been kind to Gingrich in his commentary.

Enough referring to myself in third person.  To the point:

Although rotund, Newt is not Alderran. . . but he’s sure being treated like it.

A great debate performance, probably THE debate performance, from a “non-Romney,” coupled with poll numbers that seem to indicate that said “non-Romney” could actually provide a bump on the road to inevitable nominee-ness, and all of a sudden, this happens.

We learn, in time to have a negative effect on the election but probably not enough time to recover, that (partly based on a story from last year), Speaker Gingrich’s ex-wife Marianne could “end his career with a single interview.” And, after leaking the existence of this interview to, um, fellow media outlets, the Imperial Propaganda Ministry ABC News Execs (that’s where Georgie Stephanopolos works, right?) are now debating if it would be “ethical” to release the interview before the Palmetto state primaries.

PLEASE.

1. If Marianne Gringrich hated her ex-husband enough to “end his career with a single interview,” and had more to divulge than she already has, don’t we think she would have done it before now? Newt didn’t exactly emerge from obscurity or a self-imposed exile to make a run at the White House. He’s been at the forefront of political commentary and an influencing force on public policy (Drill here, drill now) for years since leaving elected office. So if what Mrs. Gingrich had to say was SO damning and she was SO bent on “ending his career,” don’t we think that this would have happened before now? (End it here, end it now).  Maybe she should have started a Super PAC. 

2. What does the establishment, the Status-quos, the Democrats, and the PR Firm of the Democrat party The Media not want? They do not want a conservative nominee, because a conservative nominee would win, and be, probably **conservative**.  Given the current field of prospects, it’s no great secret their favorite would be Romney, and Romney is who the administration most wants to run against (Pon Laul does not count). So it seems a bit consequential that all of a sudden when a “non-Romney” that might actually hold some core conservative convictions starts to get a little tailwind . . . WELL, we have a blockbuster, career-ending, deal-breaking story here.  But . . . (leading to point #3)

3. ABC does more damage to the Gingrich campaign by noting the story exists, but NOT releasing the interview, than it does by actually releasing it. Why? My guess is, much like with most any movie featuring Ashton Kutcher, the trailer for the interview (a.k.a. ‘leak’) is much more sensational than the interview itself (for the record, I did really like That 70′s Show). If they really fear Gingrich as a conservative and had a blockbuster interview that could bury his big mouth forever, does anyone really believe they’d take the “ethics” of the thing into account. Heck, actually, I think it would be far less ethical to hold a story that could effect an election versus actually running with it and letting the people decide.  Isn’t that what the media is for . . . to report, and then we decide?  It would seem that they think they should be in charge of deciding when we get to decide.  Not sure I read that in the 1st Amendment, unless maybe Ruth Bader Ginsburg has “discovered it” as a right (oh those, tricky, tricky, Founding Fathers, hiding all those rights like that!).

ANYWAY, all of this tells me that the interview itself is not that damning or even forthcoming with new information.  But the suspense of what the interview might contain is. Remember, these folks understand and have worked hard to condition the public that it is not the nature of the evidence but rather the “seriousness of the charge” upon which we must all be judged (unless you’re elected with a -D by your name . . . see Eliot Spitzer, William Jefferson, William Jefferson Clinton, etc.).

As a conservative who would rather see a non-Romney as the nominee, my plea is this:  Release the d*mn interview. If it’s that bad, then we shouldn’t support Newt. If it’s not, as I suspect, then this is one of the most blatant instances of media-based election engineering that I have ever seen.

But the Death Star didn’t exactly go to any great lengths to disguise its purpose, either.  I mean, the thing was called the DEATH Star.  Of course it was a trap.