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He's running.
Gingrich Says He's More Inclined than Not to Run
Sunday, 05 Dec 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he's more inclined to run for president in 2012 than not to make a bid.
Gingrich says he probably won't make a decision until late February or early March. But he says that talking to friends and thinking about such an undertaking have made him more inclined to believe that "it's doable."
He tells "Fox News Sunday" that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is probably the front-runner for the Republican nomination, in terms of campaign structure. And Gingrich says former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is probably the most popular of the likely GOP candidates.
As for where he stands in a potentially crowded field, Gingrich says he's competitive and somewhere in the bunch.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/US-Gingrich-2012/2010/12/05/id/378984
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PLEASE RUN, NEWT!!!!!!!!
He has some great credibility with far-right voters. Aside from the fact he was giving the meat to a mistress (completely irrelevant for the job he'll do as president), the religious voters like him as well.
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PLEASE RUN, NEWT!!!!!!!!
He has some great credibility with far-right voters. Aside from the fact he was giving the meat to a mistress (completely irrelevant for the job he'll do as president), the religious voters like him as well.
Palin/Newt ticket could be a winner!
:D :D :D
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Palin/Newt ticket could be a winner!
:D :D :D
I think you should run since you seem to think you are smarter than everyone else, fag
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Palin/Newt ticket could be a winner!
:D :D :D
Newt would be smart enough to grab a Romney for the moderate voters.
The chances of him grabbing another far-right candidate (when he is a far right guy himself), would be small. He already has those voters. If he grabs a moderate economic candidate like Romney (who isn't all that good with people but is a solid, well-vetted choice) and he'll likely whoop Obama in 2012.
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I like newt and would easily vote for him, but he is prone to meltdowns.
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I like newt and would easily vote for him, but he is prone to meltdowns.
Eh, Romney got busted cheating in the debates. huckabee released a guy who wacked 4 cops at lunch. Newt liked to distribute baby batter outside of his marriage. Nobody's perfect. As long as he could keep his temper in check, he could do very well.
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At this point I think bar none no questions asked the best pick would be a christie/thune ticket.
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This is great news, I hope he does run. Although I don't think he'll be as far right as what you think 240.
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This is great news, I hope he does run. Although I don't think he'll be as far right as what you think 240.
He'd be moderately-right in the primaries, because far-right candidates are doing very well in primaries. He'd be more centrist in the general election. And he's certainly smart enough not to let 'baby girl' cost him the election. ;)
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He'd be moderately-right in the primaries, because far-right candidates are doing very well in primaries. He'd be more centrist in the general election. And he's certainly smart enough not to let 'baby girl' cost him the election. ;)
One huge issue he's going to have to work on is healthcare. He doesn't really have jackshit for an alternative and I think that's one of the Republican's weakest points. The only thing his CHT ever seems to cry about is fraud in the system. That's great, but they need to effectuate a lot more change than fraud and block grants.
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Agreed skip. "the solution is to repeal" works with far-right voters who wear Palin 2012 shirts and are mad about obama's christmas decorations. But it won't fly with reasonable, moderate voters seeking real solutions. Obama's solution wasn't perfect - but the fact repubs had zero alternative (and still have nothing) doesn't help them.
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Gingrich's harsh words for Obama
By: CNN's Gabriella Schwarz
Washington (CNN) - Sounding more and more like a presidential contender, Newt Gingrich came out swinging Sunday against the Obama administration's foreign policy.
"I've never seen an administration, even the Carter administration was never as routinely chaotic," Gingrich told CNN in reference to Obama's recent trip to Afghanistan. "Every time you turn around, this administration is fumbling somewhere around the world."
He said there appears to be a gap between "the clarity and focus of that campaign and the confusion of the presidency."
"He just suffered a stunning defeat, and yet he's behaving as though nothing has changed," Gingrich said earlier on "Fox News Sunday."
When asked about the current congressional tax fights, Gingrich said the president "is choosing class warfare and political rhetoric over job creation."
He also said it will be more difficult for Obama post-midterm elections to soothe the left wing of his party than it was for former President Bill Clinton because of the GOP leadership.
Gingrich, who served as House Speaker after the 1994 midterm elections, said he was "too aggressive" and too willing to fight with the former president at the time, adding that his behavior gave Clinton cover because he could always say, "at least I'm not Newt." On the other hand, Gingrich said House Speaker-to-be Rep. John Boehner will be a less polarizing figure.
"He's a disciplined team leader, and that's been his background," Gingrich said. "I think he'll be very effective as speaker."
But it wouldn't be a Gingrich press appearance without talk of the 2012 presidential campaign.
He said Obama will be a one-term president if the economy remains weak, "no matter how articulate he is."
He also moved one step closer to announcing his own run for president.
"I'm much more inclined to run than not to run," Gingrich said.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/05/gingrichs-harsh-words-for-obama/?hpt=Sbin
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Obama's a foreign policy master. He's accomplished so much that even the South Koreans are walking all over us. ::)
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Gingrich ponders 'realistic possibility' of 2012 bid
By: CNN's Rebecca Stewart
Washington (CNN) – Republican Newt Gingrich touched down in Ohio Friday on the heels of a trip to early-primary-Iowa on Tuesday, both trips that indicate strong interest in the upcoming presidential race.
Though the former speaker of the house isn't shy about discussing a presidential bid, he did his part to temper expectations about his potential candidacy. In a phone interview Wednesday with the Columbus, Ohio, newspaper, The Dispatch, Gingrich revealed that he's been talking to voters in early primary states "to see if there is a realistic possibility" that he can win the GOP nomination next year, but admitted that he trails three other possible Republican contenders.
"Romney's the front-runner in fundraising, Palin is the front-runner in celebrity status, and Huckabee is the front-runner in polling data," Gingrich said. "All three of them should feel pretty good about where they're positioned right now."
Though several GOPers have openly considered a 2012 presidential bid, none have made an official announcement to date.
Gingrich traveled to Ohio, in part, to screen "Nine Days That Changed the World," a film co-produced and co-narrated by him and his wife Callista, and to participate in a discussion on the environment. He has recently spoken on his idea to replace the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with an "environmental solutions agency" that has "a collaborative attitude toward the states."
Gingrich is scheduled to travel to at least two more states that hold early presidential primaries, New Hampshire and South Carolina, in the coming weeks.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/28/gingrich-ponders-realistic-possibility-of-2012-bid/#more-145055
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I would vote for newt no problem. He is right that we need to abolish the epa.
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Gingrich: Presidential leadership requires ‘different kind of approach’
By: CNN's Jeff Simon
Washington (CNN) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich didn’t announce his candidacy for president Tuesday night, but he did outline the issues he’d focus on in a campaign and the approach he’d take as commander in chief.
“I think the country has enormous problems,” Gingrich said in remarks made exclusively to CNN. “I think it requires a totally different kind of approach, a ‘we the people, focus on the citizens’ approach that recognizes that all of us are in this together and that it’s going to take a tremendous amount of joint effort by millions of people for America to be successful.”
Gingrich said his campaign would focus on jobs, national security, energy and “reach(ing) out to every American in every neighborhood and ensur(ing) that they truly have the right to pursue happiness.”
The prominent Republican also praised a potential presidential contender, Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to China who tendered his resignation on Monday and is widely expected to explore a bid for the White House.
“He’s very bright, very capable,” Gingrich said. “There will be a lot of very first rate people. It’ll be a good field.”
When asked if he would like to announce his candidacy during the interview, Gingrich joked that he was “tempted,” and reiterated his self-imposed deadline of the end of February for making such an announcement.
Gingrich spoke to CNN after a wide-ranging debate with former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean at George Washington University.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/02/gingrich-presidential-leadership-requires-‘different-kind-of-approach’/#more-145408
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itll be exciting when these folks start announcing.
Huck was looking chubby on tv yesterday... i doubt he runs looking like that.
Newt is by no means a rock star, but he could very well be an excellent and safe VP pick
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"Anybody But Barry"
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Gingrich says President Obama is vulnerable politically
By Derrick DePledge
POSTED: 10:10 p.m. HST, Feb 18, 2011
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, said tonight that President Barack Obama is vulnerable politically because of his job performance and his core values.
The Georgia Republican said Obama has to bear some responsibility for a national unemployment rate of 9 percent and can no longer blame the poor economy on former President George W. Bush. He also said the Hawaii-born president has accepted a European model of governing.
"This is a country which believes deeply in our creator, it believes deeply in the work ethic, it believes deeply in personal freedom," Gingrich told reporters before speaking at the Hawaii Republican Party's Lincoln Day dinner at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki. "And to the degree that he has accepted a kind of European model, where power comes from government, where the bureaucrats are decisive, where the rest of us ought to let Washington tell us what to do, I think he has a values challenge as well as a performance challenge."
Gingrich said he would decide by the end of the month or in early March whether to enter the Republican presidential primary. He is vacationing on the Big Island with his wife, Callista.
He said people in Hawaii should rightfully be proud of Obama, who was born in Honolulu and graduated from Punahou School. "I would say that this would be one of the last states to decide not to vote for his re-election," he said. "So I'm very conscious of that reality."
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/116524253.html
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Newt Gingrich to Make Major Announcement Thursday
by Jake Gibson | March 01, 2011
Fox News has learned former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will make a major announcement about his presidential aspirations in Atlanta on Thursday.
Washington sources close to the looming Gingrich campaign tell Fox News they have been told to be ready to travel to Atlanta Thursday when Gingrich will make an announcement about forming a presidential exploratory committee.
All signs point to Gingrich officially entering the 2012 race and these sources believe that Newt will throw his hat into the ring on Thursday by announcing that he has completed the proper paperwork to form an exploratory committee.
Fox News has learned that members of Gingrich's inner circle are in the process of changing their email address away from Gingrich's political organization, American Solutions, a tell tale sign that a campaign is on their horizon.
If any additional evidence was needed to illustrate an intention to run, one needs to only look at Gingrich's upcoming travel schedule.
He has been flirting with the idea for months and will travel to the First in the Nation Presidential Caucus state of Iowa on March 7th where he will address the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition. The trip will be Gingrich's third to the Hawkeye State in 2011 and his ninth visit since 2010.
Gingrich will also make an appearance in the first in the nation primary state of New Hampshire on March 17th when he attends Bernie Streeter's Wild Irish Breakfast. The annual St. Patrick's day breakfast in Nashua is a major political event in the Granite state that typically draws both Republicans and Democrats .
Gingrich would instantly be looked at as a formidable candidate. As Speaker of the House he presided over the body when Republicans introduced the Contract With America in 1994 and when they came to a stalemate with former President Clinton in 1995, leading to a federal government shutdown. He is considered by some to be one of the strongest "idea men" in the GOP.
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/03/01/newt-gingrich-make-major-announcement-thursday?test=latestnews
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SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, he's gonna be first? Or will someone jump in front of him tomorrow?
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Gingrich: I Expect to be 'in the Race'
Friday, 04 Mar 2011
ATLANTA (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he expects to be a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
Gingrich announced Thursday that he's exploring a run for president, launching a website to collect donations.
In an interview Friday night with Fox News Channel, Gingrich said "my expectation is that by the end of this exploratory process that we'll have an announcement and we'll be in the race."
He called the prospect "very daunting, but it's also very exciting."
Gingrich has filed paperwork with the Internal Revenue Service setting up a political organization — Newt Exploratory 2012 — that can accept contributions. He has not formed a formal exploratory committee — which would make him a legal candidate — with the Federal Election Commission.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Gingrich2012/2011/03/04/id/388435
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he said previously he would "probably" make a decision by February or early March
Here is is in early March and all he's announced is that he's "exploring" a run for president
so his big announcement is that he's going to keep doing the same thing he's been doing since the day he was run out of his last job in Washington
this is only to keep his name in the news and keep his speaking fees as high as possible
Personally, I hope he runs. He's one of the smarter Republican candidates and it will be fun to see him squirm when asked about whether he belives in evolution or his views on the sanctity of marriage.
In order to win you have to be "likable" and Newt does not have that quality and can't even fake it
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at this point last time, in march... something like 8 of the candidates in GOP had announced already, right?
This time they're keeping the $ secret, and allowing themselves to AVOID taking positions on a lot of issues. You start running TODAY and you have to answer Qs about birtherism huck comments. You have to take a position on Egypt and Libya. And you have to introduce transparency to your fundraising efforts.
They'll wait until the major conflicts are resolved so they can criticize everything obama did while never taking their own position on any of it. It's easy to see 20/20 when you're only operating in hindsight ;)
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I saw a very good segment on newt a few days back. He is milking the cash raising efforts. He may have no intention of running, or at the very least will just settle for VP selection.
My $ is on him sitting out the race, to be honest. He's just milking it. He's fat and not that easy on the eyes. He knows this. he's just getting rich off repubs who want him to run.
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I like newt.
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he has too much baggage
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So does obama.
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yeah but a lot of his was made up by the far right loons
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I like newt.
perfect example of why he's unelectable
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Compared to obama, newt is a tremendous improvement.
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Compared to obama, newt is a tremendous improvement.
this is a meaningless statement
if you're going to make a statment like this you might want to includes some actual comparisons and reasons
save your time though
he's not running
neither is Palin
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he's unelectable end of story
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What's wrong w newt on the issues?
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What's wrong w newt on the issues?
newt is great on experience, issues and intelligence.
He just has a poor appearance.
If experience, issues and intelligence were all that mattered, Mitch Daniels would be prez. Bush would have won a second term. Mccain/Lieberman would have stomped Obama's ass.
But it's also about things like hair, height, smile, and who you'd like to have a beer with. Newt's not that likeable, and doesn't look that telegenic. he'll look like a weird frumpy troll next to a tall and lean obama - and people vote on looks, sad to say.
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lol
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lol
you can laugh... but no short, old, fat troll-like dude is going to do well in the race. You increase the changes of a win greatly with a good looking person.
I know you have achieved great things without the advantages of good looks, but it's not that easy when it comes to things like political races.
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you can laugh... but no short, old, fat troll-like dude is going to do well in the race. You increase the changes of a win greatly with a good looking person.
I know you have achieved great things without the advantages of good looks, but it's not that easy when it comes to things like political races.
You are good for the board. Good comedy. I particulary like the elementary school political analyses. :)
I know you have achieved nothing, without the advantage of good looks, or a good education, or staying out of trouble, etc., etc., but that's neither here nor there.
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You are good for the board. Good comedy. I particulary like the elementary school political analyses. :)
I know you have achieved nothing, without the advantage of good looks, or a good education, or staying out of trouble, etc., etc., but that's neither here nor there.
meltdown
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LOL!
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What a doofus. He cheated on his wives because he worked too hard? How utterly stupid is that? ::) Who is advising him? Geeze. His response should be: I made a mistake, no excuses, I'm sorry, I have improved and made amends, and drive on.
Gingrich responds to criticism of affairs
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN) – Newt Gingrich may not have officially announced a run for president, but he was already preparing for character attacks from his opponents in a radio interview Monday night.
"I expect my opponents to go back 15, 20, 25 years and try to render an alternate judgment I understand that's what they'll do," the former House Speaker told WRKO radio host Howie Carr, referring to his previous marital infidelity and how it might affect a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
Gingrich, who has been married three times and admitted to past infidelities, responded to criticism he sidestepped responsibility for his affairs in an interview with CBN reporter David Brody last week. Gingrich told Brody he was "partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate."
During Monday night's WRKO interview, Gingrich said, "I'm not blaming my life on anyone, and I'm not offering excuses."
"I've made no bones about the fact there were times I did the wrong thing, and I've made no bones about the fact that I've asked for forgiveness," Gingrich said.
There is at least one potential 2012 GOP presidential opponent who is already weighing in as to how Gingrich's past will play into the campaign.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said in a interview with National Review Online earlier this week that Gingrich's personal history, while relevant, should not be the main focus.
"He, like we all do, will have to account for our past decisions. People will take (his past) as a legitimate issue to consider, as to how it would affect his ability to do his job," Santorum said. "I am not saying that is not a legitimate question, but it's not an issue with respect to the positions he takes."
Gingrich was upbeat on how voters would ultimately judge his fitness for office.
"I think most Americans are fair," he said. "And I think most Americans will look at the totality of my life."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/15/gingrich-responds-to-criticism-on-affairs/#more-150333
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He's done.
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I think he's appealing to the religious voters. Really.
If they're hard-working, church attending and bible obeying people, then they know it can be hard to keep their cawk in their holster and trude away while their religious wife will only let them do missionary once a year for reproductive purposes.
They'd love to do what Newt did. They understand that working 60+ hours and having a hater for a wife, he wanted to blow off steam, and life's too short.
I don't hold the affair against newt. He should have handled this explanation better, of course. man up and take the hit. Stop playing the victim newt.
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As long as the Dems have Slick Willie, headlining their fundraisers (as they likely will, to try and save Obama's hide in 2012), they're in no position to talk smack about Newt.
Thus far, it looks as if it's Newt vs. Mitt for the GOP candidacy.
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God help us
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God help us
I give the slight edge to Mitt....for now. Thus far, the only thing the Dems can do to try and discredit him is to link his RomneyCare with ObamaCare and claim that the American voters can't claim to hate the latter and still support Romney.
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I give the slight edge to Mitt....for now. Thus far, the only thing the Dems can do to try and discredit him is to link his RomneyCare with ObamaCare and claim that the American voters can't claim to hate the latter and still support Romney.
I think if Trump or Cain keep up their attacks and message - they can be the guy. Romney seems to be very milquetoast.
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I think if Trump or Cain keep up their attacks and message - they can be the guy. Romney seems to be very milquetoast.
do you truly believe that Trump will be better at legislating change to return us to some republican ideals, than newt?
Trump is a great cheerleader, but newt spent 20 years in DC - he knows how shit works.
Everytime another 'celebrity' wants to be president, i think of how baffled Arnold was when he became governor, and the end result.
LOL.... the first thing president trump would have to do is HIRE newt to tell him how DC works...
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do you truly believe that Trump will be better at legislating change to return us to some republican ideals, than newt?
Trump is a great cheerleader, but newt spent 20 years in DC - he knows how shit works.
Everytime another 'celebrity' wants to be president, i think of how baffled Arnold was when he became governor, and the end result.
LOL.... the first thing president trump would have to do is HIRE newt to tell him how DC works...
Newt is brilliant and knows how shit runs - but his personal life and cave ins gve me pause.
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Newt is brilliant and knows how shit runs - but his personal life and cave ins gve me pause.
i could care less if he likes to screw around.
i'd wager most of the great stars of our time - those who achieved the MFing most - had some side dishes.
As long as they fix things, they can screw playboy models or sheep, i could care less.
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and talk about personal life - yet you support a Trump presidency?
LMAO.... he's had waaaaaaaay more freaky shit and drama, etc than newt, a boring fat nerd who was unhappy with first two wifes in 25 years.
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and talk about personal life - yet you support a Trump presidency?
LMAO.... he's had waaaaaaaay more freaky shit and drama, etc than newt, a boring fat nerd who was unhappy with first two wifes in 25 years.
The average idiot out there wont vote for Newt. They will sit home. I think Trump will get people out there. he knows how to create a buzz and get attention.
I really like what I see out of him lately.
As for Newt - of course I would vote for him, but I dont see how he beats obama with the AI voting public.
As for Obama - I really think he is in meltdown mode. no one acts like this who has it together.
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The average idiot out there wont vote for Newt. They will sit home. I think Trump will get people out there. he knows how to create a buzz and get attention.
Does the same apply to palin??
She sure as fck knows how to create buzz and get attention.
Why do polls say she'd get destroyed?
IMO, repubs are plenty motivated and will vote Obama out - IF this isn't 2008 all over again where 60% of voters believe one of the candidates isn't ready for the job (FOX/moffit/edison poll)
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I think he's appealing to the religious voters. Really.
If they're hard-working, church attending and bible obeying people, then they know it can be hard to keep their cawk in their holster and trude away while their religious wife will only let them do missionary once a year for reproductive purposes.
LOL! What?? Where the heck do you get this stuff? lol . . .
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Gingrich Reverses Stand on Libya
Wednesday, 23 Mar 2011 10:31 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Likely Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has met his first debate opponent of the 2012 campaign season: himself.
The former House speaker was quick to criticize President Barack Obama two weeks ago for not being more forceful in leading an international campaign to destroy Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's air defenses and save rebels from impending defeat. Gingrich said the United States should tell Gadhafi "that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we're intervening."
On Wednesday, he did an about-face.
"I would not have intervened," he said in an interview with NBC News. "I think there were a lot of other ways to affect Gadhafi. I think there are a lot of other allies in the region that we could have worked with. I would not have used American and European forces."
An aide said Gingrich backed away from his support only after Obama made a humanitarian mission the centerpiece of the military action. That alone wasn't enough in justify the no-fly zone in accordance with the U.N. resolution, the aide said.
"The president's stated goal of removing Gadhafi changed. Gingrich's goal of removing Gadhafi — since the president made that the goal for the U.S. — has not changed," Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler said. "The only rational purpose for an intervention is to replace Gadhafi."
On Monday, Obama reiterated "it is U.S. policy that Gadhafi needs to go." But he said the goal of U.S. military intervention was to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and protect its civilians, not to oust its leader.
For weeks, some of the likely Republican challengers to Obama's re-election campaign have been scathing in assessing Obama's handling of the crisis in Libya. A few called for a more forceful defense of the rebels, who have seized some Libyan cities and threatened Gadhafi's 42-year rule.
"The United States doesn't need anybody's permission. We don't need to have NATO, who frankly, won't bring much to the fight. We don't need to have the United Nations," Gingrich told Fox News Channel on March 7.
"All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we're intervening. And we don't have to send troops. All we have to do is suppress his air force, which we could do in minutes."
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/US-Libya-Gingrich/2011/03/23/id/390544
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LOL! What?? Where the heck do you get this stuff? lol . . .
Fucking awesome :D
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as much as he's tried to convince everyone that he wants to run...
Rachel Maddow may be right. (shudder)
She said a few weeks back that he's not running. He's taking a 2 month break from FOX to get paid $$ - he's selling tons of things and collecting money for his PAC - but he knows with his history of cheating, his appearance, etc, he won't win. He's smart enough to bilk conservative fans out of their $, and it's what he's doing.
He should run. He'd make a great president. But IMO, he's doing what Palin and Trump are doing - flirting with the idea to collect donations or promote their own enterprises, then not running. Most candidates had declared by now (last time in 2008). Newt is on a 2-month suspension from FOX while he figures this out. It's a cash vacation. I'd be surprised if he runs now. Sad.
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He supported the action in Libya now he dont.
He wants to run now he doesnt.
He should get his head straight first and foremost.
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Gingrich: 'We'll Be Running' for President in a Month
Published March 27, 2011
FoxNews.com
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FILE - In a Feb. 10, 2011 file photo, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. Republican officials say Gingrich intends to take a formal step in the next two weeks toward a run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. The officials say an announcement is likely in the first half of March. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he hopes to jump into the race for president "within a month," noting that he's already made visits to key states like Iowa and New Hampshire and has beefed up his political staff.
"I think within a month, we will have that taken care of and we'll be running," Gingrich said.
In some of his strongest statements to date about his political intentions, Gingrich talked on "Fox News Sunday" about laying the groundwork for a 2012 presidential campaign. Gingrich is one of several Republican heavyweights expected to end the water-testing phase in the next few months and make clear whether they're running.
"The water's pretty warm," Gingrich said Sunday." "My hope is that within a month that we'll be in swimming very rapidly."
Fox News has learned that Gingrich may bypass the exploratory committee phase of a presidential campaign and go straight to announcing his candidacy.
In the interview Sunday, Gingrich tried to reconcile seemingly conflicting statements he's given about U.S. military involvement in Libya. Gingrich earlier said the United States should back a no-fly zone. After President Obama sent in the U.S. military to help establish one, Gingrich said he would not have supported intervention.
Asked to clarify, Gingrich said Sunday that the United States should have been for replacing Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi without using the military. But he said now that the United States is involved militarily, the goal should be to replace Qaddafi.
"If you're not in the lake, don't jump in. Once you're in the lake, swim like crazy," he said.
Gingrich also acknowledged voters may have concerns about his past, including his marital infidelity. He repeated that he has sought "God's forgiveness." But he also defended his role leading the charge against former President Bill Clinton over his affair, saying he didn't believe that role was hypocritical since the Clinton impeachment centered around the issue of perjury.
"The question I raised was very simple -- should a president of the United States be above the law?" he said. "I don't think a president of the United States can be above the law."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/27/gingrich-running-president-month/?test=latestnews
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i still think he's flirting to raise $, then will decide not to run.
If that turns out the be the case, then Rachel Maddow knew all along. She predicted he's just taking a 2 month vacation from FOX to bilk repub donors into paying $ into his PAC (which in turn pays Newt personally). She says he's going to keep flirting and leading people on, then will keep his fortune and go back to FOX.
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i still think he's flirting to raise $, then will decide not to run.
If that turns out the be the case, then Rachel Maddow knew all along. She predicted he's just taking a 2 month vacation from FOX to bilk repub donors into paying $ into his PAC (which in turn pays Newt personally). She says he's going to keep flirting and leading people on, then will keep his fortune and go back to FOX.
Ridiculous. He's not going to profit from his PAC. ::)
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Ridiculous. He's not going to profit from his PAC. ::)
I'll find the maddow video that showed the exact documents showing the PAC made payments to newt for consulting or some other nonsense.
He did the same thing in 2007 ;)
http://fairvaluesforamerica.com/blog/201102280015
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I'll find the maddow video that showed the exact documents showing the PAC made payments to newt for consulting or some other nonsense.
He did the same thing in 2007 ;)
http://fairvaluesforamerica.com/blog/201102280015
Which part of the link you just provided shows he made a "fortune" from his PAC? I didn't see it.
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Rachel Maddow: Newt Gingrich is Faking It
http://tonightsforecastdark.blogspot.com/2011/03/rachel-maddow-newt-gingrich-is-faking.html
In this video, you can see the exact route your GOP donations take from you, to newt's PAC, to newt's pocket.
In 2010,. Newt outraised 14.5 million.
more than any other republican.
He's not sitting on that much money. cause he then SPEND 13.8 million of that money.
He spent $2 mil of it on chauffers and travel costs. Most of the rest of it went to 'administrative costs' - and who was doing the administrative costs?
DING DING DING
A company called "The Gingrich Group" - Which is run by a man named Newt Gingrich ;)
Yes, he spent 2 million on travel and the other 12 million went to "admin costs" that he paid, mostly to himself.
Newt's ex-wife (and the 2008 records) say he's just doing it to raise $. Dumb ass repubs don't want to hear it - they just wanna keep sending him their $$$$$$$$$
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Which part of the link you just provided shows he made a "fortune" from his PAC? I didn't see it.
He made 14.5 million in 2010 from one PAC alone. And 2 mil was spent on travel for him. And 11.8 million was spent on admin fees, mostly paid to his own company.
LMFAO.... it's too funny, really. Newt is using the presidential flirting to get paid. Just like Trump. And Repubs can't get enough of it.
Can anyone here defend Newt taking that much in donations then paying most of it to himself?
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He made 14.5 million in 2010 from one PAC alone. And 2 mil was spent on travel for him. And 11.8 million was spent on admin fees, mostly paid to his own company.
LMFAO.... it's too funny, really. Newt is using the presidential flirting to get paid. Just like Trump. And Repubs can't get enough of it.
Can anyone here defend Newt taking that much in donations then paying most of it to himself?
Assuming that is true, how much of the $14.5 million was paid to him as income?
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Assuming that is true, how much of the $14.5 million was paid to him as income?
Dunno.
Still, if it's $1, donors should be concerned. If a candidate can pay himself 1% to 99% of donor dollars to himself, that's pretty disturbing.
Also disturbing is $2 million in travel costs. What is that, a private plane twice a week? Three times? Four star hotels 24/7? For a financially responsible republican to be blowing $6 grand A DAY on travel?
LMAO... keep on donating, BB.
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Dunno.
Still, if it's $1, donors should be concerned. If a candidate can pay himself 1% to 99% of donor dollars to himself, that's pretty disturbing.
Also disturbing is $2 million in travel costs. What is that, a private plane twice a week? Three times? Four star hotels 24/7? For a financially responsible republican to be blowing $6 grand A DAY on travel?
LMAO... keep on donating, BB.
"The 527 group had a total income of $14.5 million in 2009, with $1.2 million in expenditures. Gingrich did not draw an income from the group, though he spent roughly 16 hours a week working there, according to IRS tax filings."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/02/fox-less-newt-remains-gainfully-employed/
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Newt runs the Gingrich Group - he is the chariman:
http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/newt_gingrich.html
I'm looking for how much of the money his PAC received, then paid to his own company.
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"The 527 group had a total income of $14.5 million in 2009, with $1.2 million in expenditures. Gingrich did not draw an income from the group, though he spent roughly 16 hours a week working there, according to IRS tax filings."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/02/fox-less-newt-remains-gainfully-employed/
He made 14.5 million in 2010 from one PAC alone. And 2 mil was spent on travel for him. And 11.8 million was spent on admin fees, mostly paid to his own company.
LMFAO.... it's too funny, really. Newt is using the presidential flirting to get paid. Just like Trump. And Repubs can't get enough of it.
Can anyone here defend Newt taking that much in donations then paying most of it to himself?
Just making stuff up again I see. :-\
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so he didn't pay himself from this group - but he owns it and it accepted millions?
So it can hold the $ a year (til political season over) and then pay him, or use it how he (the chairman) sees fit?
Sorry, if obama was spending this kinda money and sending it to himself, people here would give a shit.
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so he didn't pay himself from this group - but he owns it and it accepted millions?
So it can hold the $ a year (til political season over) and then pay him, or use it how he (the chairman) sees fit?
Sorry, if obama was spending this kinda money and sending it to himself, people here would give a shit.
The las quote is so true.
Why do we want a hypochritical fat piece of shit in office who also displays bad leadership?
After wasting tax payers money on the Clinton thing i wish he would just fuck off
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we're not arguging if newt's company was paid millions$ from his PAC. that is a fact.
We're arguing whether he personally got the money in a paycheck, or added company value (bump in value of the company he owns!).
Either way, if he runs, he'll have to reveal all of this. Just like Trump (who admits he dealth with bad guys like kadaffi), we'll never know because newt is just flirting to get $$.
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we're not arguging if newt's company was paid millions$ from his PAC. that is a fact.
We're arguing whether he personally got the money in a paycheck, or added company value (bump in value of the company he owns!).
Either way, if he runs, he'll have to reveal all of this. Just like Trump (who admits he dealth with bad guys like kadaffi), we'll never know because newt is just flirting to get $$.
Don't want to confuse you with the facts, but he already revealed it. His PAC has to make annual disclosures. He didn't make any money from the PAC.
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Don't want to confuse you with the facts, but he already revealed it. His PAC has to make annual disclosures. He didn't make any money from the PAC.
Are you saying there will be no add'l financial disclosures required of newt before running?
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his company made $ from the pac. He's the chairman. It didn't pay him, but it did gain value.
Wow, youre playing lawyer ball again. it's okay to say a guy is paying himself (or adding value to his own company) from donations.
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Are you saying there will be no add'l financial disclosures required of newt before running?
I already gave you the link showing he didn't receive any income from the $14.5 mil made by his PAC.
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Unfair slam from Gingrich?
By: CNN Political Producer Alexander Mooney
Washington (CNN) - When Newt Gingrich warned a New Hampshire crowd Monday night that President Obama was trying to "extort contributions" from supporters by announcing his reelection bid so early, it might just have been a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
After all, the former House Speaker, for better or worse, has long been recognized as among the most aggressive and successful fundraisers in the Republican Party. In 2010, he raised close to $15 million through his various organizations and political action committees, a sum that far outpaced that of any other potential GOP presidential candidate.
Indeed, if Gingrich and the president have anything it common, it is that they both know how to raise money – a lot of it.
Gingrich on Monday told a gathering at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics that Obama was going to "use his office to extort contributions on a scale we've never seen before," adding that "he's in effect trying to create a Chicago style machine for the whole country with a billion dollars."
To be sure, the president's reelection timing Monday was certainly all about money. As CNN reported, it's no coincidence the president filed papers with the Federal Election Commission (a move that legally allows him to raise campaign money) four days after the start of the year's second quarter.
When you add to that the fact that the president's team has already scheduled a string of fundraising events over the next two months, it becomes clear the Obama money-making machine that raised nearly $750 million in the 2008 cycle is back in full swing.
But there's every indication that Gingrich, who formed an exploratory committee sooner than most every other GOP presidential candidate, has the same fundraising philosophy as Obama: the earlier the better.
And, as the Washington Post reported in February, the vast fundraising groundwork Gingrich has been constructing over the last several years instantly makes him the fundraising powerhouse in the GOP presidential race.
There's no doubt few Republicans will be able to match the president's fundraising machine, but Gingrich just might.
A spokesman for Gingrich did not respond to CNN on the issue.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/05/unfair-slam-from-gingrich/#more-152884
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Newt will tase everyone for donations to his PAC...
then will decide not to run. He did this in 2008. He's doing it again. People just keep on falling for it. Just like donald trump.
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newt is done - going nowhere.
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Newt Gingrich to Enter Presidential Race
by Jake Gibson | May 09, 2011
Newt Gingrich will announce he is entering the race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination on FaceBook and Twitter Wednesday.
Fox News has learned Gingrich will do his first post-announcement interview with Sean Hannity Wednesday evening. The former house speaker will headline an economic speech in Washington Friday morning before his public campaign announcement at the Georgia GOP convention in Macon Friday evening.
Spokesman Rick Tyler tells Fox News Gingrich will give a commencement speech Saturday at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, the alma mater of Ronald Reagan. Tyler also tells Fox News to expect Gingrich to spend the following week campaigning in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa.
Gingrich will skip the traditional early campaign phase of forming an exploratory committee and will jump straight into the race with the Wednesday announcement.
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/05/09/newt-gingrich-enter-presidential-race
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LOL! Newt is so cute. Like one of those pug dogs.
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Going nowhere.
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LOL! Newt is so cute. Like one of those pug dogs.
::)
Newt will tase everyone for donations to his PAC...
then will decide not to run. He did this in 2008. He's doing it again. People just keep on falling for it. Just like donald trump.
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newt is done - going nowhere.
X2
zero chance
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Gingrich jumps into presidential race
By Kevin Bohn, CNN Senior Producer
May 11, 2011
Washington (CNN) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich made it official Wednesday: He's running for president.
The Georgia Republican announced via Twitter that he is formally seeking the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
Gingrich is widely viewed as the most serious official Republican candidate so far.
"I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the United States because I believe we can return America to hope and opportunity," the former speaker said in a campaign video posted online.
"We Americans are going to have to talk together, to work together, find solutions together, and insist on imposing those solutions on those forces that don't want to change."
The candidate called for more jobs, a balanced budget and decentralized government.
"There are some people who don't mind if America becomes a wreck so long as they dominate the wreckage," Gingrich said. "But you and I know better."
"Let's get together, look reality in the face, tell the truth, make the tough choices and get the job done," he declared. "There's a much better American future ahead."
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, said earlier Wednesday that "the discussion around the presidential race will obviously increase" when Gingrich entered the race for the GOP nomination.
"I think Gingrich has always been an ideas man, and I'm sure that will provide a lot of positive input to the debate," Cantor said.
Gingrich's online announcement followed a recent trend by national politicians to make major announcements through the Internet.
Barack Obama first announced his selection of Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 on his campaign website and in a text message to supporters. Then-Sen. Hillary Clinton announced her presidential candidacy in 2007 with the release of a statement and video on her campaign website.
Asked about his embracing of technology to make his announcement, Gingrich told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday night that "there are a lot of principles that haven't changed."
He came out swinging against Obama, the "elite" media and Hollywood.
Obama should be ashamed of himself for "dishonest scare tactics" in comments about Republican approaches to the budget and immigration, Gingrich said, adding he wanted to "clear away the liberal policies."
The candidate has traveled to key early voting states trying to build a network of support and has met with fundraisers. He has assembled a campaign team and told supporters he aims to raise $100 million.
During his appearances, the former speaker has pushed a wide array of policy proposals in his bid to lay the foundation of a campaign and prove he is a serious candidate, not just a symbol of the past.
"I expect the American people in the end will be remarkably fair. They'll render judgment, and they'll decide whether or not Newt Gingrich is somebody that they think can solve the country's problems and be the kind of leader they want for this country," Gingrich told Fox News in March.
He has given his audiences a lot of political red meat and has not shied away from controversy.
Speaking at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition event in March, he said there is a difference between a majority of Americans and "the secular socialist people around (President Barack) Obama and the degree to which they do not understand America, cannot possibly represent America and cannot lead us to success."
Gingrich has an agenda the includes overturning the health care reform bill, eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency, pushing more development of energy sources and advocating tax cuts.
"He is a polarizing figure (who) comes with a fair degree of baggage," Ford O'Connell, who worked on the 2008 McCain-Palin ticket, told CNN. He said Gingrich has to make himself relevant to the current political climate. "He does represent the past but has to show why he represents the future," O'Connell said, adding that he thinks right now Gingrich is having difficulty doing that.
"If he can demonstrate why he is relevant to the future in the current political climate," O'Connell said, "the baggage will dissipate."
Some Republican activists not affiliated with a campaign have said Gingrich might not be disciplined enough to focus his ideas to run a successful campaign.
Pollster David Winston, who worked with Gingrich during his years in the House, said he can.
"There isn't any question Newt Gingrich is a person with lots of ideas," Winston told CNN. "The step for Newt here is to not just merely focus on the future ... (but to) focus on the problems the country is most worried about."
Gingrich told Hannity he is better equipped to be president than when he left office 12 years ago.
"It's fair to say I am more mature," he said. "I have had time to reflect on what worked and what didn't work."
He declined to list who his strongest Republican foe might be, instead saying the focus is on the president.
The former House speaker, who converted to Catholicism, the religion of his current wife, has especially reached out to the social conservative wing of the party, a segment critical to success in the key states of Iowa and South Carolina.
Many of those activists are skeptical of Gingrich because of his two divorces.
"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate," Gingrich explained to the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody.
After the Georgia Republican lost two runs for Congress in the 1970s, his third attempt in 1978 was successful. He was aggressive and rose to the second spot in the House Republican leadership. He was instrumental in helping to craft the 1994 Contract with America, a blueprint that helped the Republicans take control of the House. He was elected speaker but, after a disappointing GOP showing in the House elections in 1998, he decided to retire in 1999.
He then went about rehabilitating his political career, forming a conservative policy think tank called American Solutions, starting a string of successful businesses and becoming a political commentator. He has an impressive record of fundraising, he has developed a large network of supporters and he has authored almost two dozen books and produced movies on a wide range of topics.
Gingrich still has some work to do on his reputation.
Forty-four percent of those surveyed in a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll said they had an unfavorable opinion of him, while 30% said they had a favorable one. That gives him one of the largest unfavorable rankings of the GOP presidential contenders, although it also shows he has high name recognition.
When Republicans are asked who they favor for the nomination, 10% choose Gingrich, tying him with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas but behind Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee.
"He brings a lot to the debate. But there are a lot of candidates in the process of going through a presidential primary. We'll sort out the good from the bad, and we'll end up with a good candidate," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday regarding a Gingrich candidacy.
It has not been all smooth sailing as Gingrich tested the waters. He admitted his advisers flubbed the initial announcement in March that he was exploring a run and starting a website, when expectations were built up that they would announce a more formal step.
"It led to unfortunate confusion," he told the Des Moines Register. "I wish we had been a little more structured ... but I don't take it as a serious problem."
Gingrich also drew some criticism for not giving a coherent critique of the Obama administration's policy on Libya. He told Fox News on March 7, when asked what he would do, that he would "exercise a no-fly zone this evening." But later, after a no-fly zone was put in place, he said on NBC's "Today Show" that "I would not have intervened. I think there are a lot of other ways to affect (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi."
For his part, Gingrich has denied he flip-flopped, saying he was just commenting on the circumstances as they changed. He posted on his Facebook page: "President Obama said publicly that 'it's time for Gadhafi to go.' Prior to this statement there were options to be indirect and subtle to achieve this result without United States military forces."
"The president, however, took those options off the table with his public statement," he continued. "That's why during a March 7th Greta van Susteren interview, I asserted that the president should establish a no-fly zone 'this evening.' "
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/11/gingrich/index.html
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twitter for his announcement to run.
youtube for his backing out speech.
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He's running.
Gingrich Says He's More Inclined than Not to Run
Sunday, 05 Dec 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he's more inclined to run for president in 2012 than not to make a bid.
Gingrich says he probably won't make a decision until late February or early March. But he says that talking to friends and thinking about such an undertaking have made him more inclined to believe that "it's doable."
He tells "Fox News Sunday" that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is probably the front-runner for the Republican nomination, in terms of campaign structure. And Gingrich says former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is probably the most popular of the likely GOP candidates.
As for where he stands in a potentially crowded field, Gingrich says he's competitive and somewhere in the bunch.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/US-Gingrich-2012/2010/12/05/id/378984
I know you're excited, Bum! After all Newt is soooo incredibly smart. Just look at how he's handled his career and private life! ::)
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he's matured since he was 40 and fcked around on his 2nd wife.
yep.
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I know you're excited, Bum! After all Newt is soooo incredibly smart. Just look at how he's handled his career and private life! ::)
Excited? Not really. I'm glad he's in the race. He needs to help Republicans set an agenda. I don't think he'll win.
He is incredibly smart. Smarter than our current president. The fact he couldn't keep it in his pants and was a hypocrite doesn't mean he isn't smart. We've had lots of smart men over time who couldn't control themselves, e.g., Bill Clinton, JFK, MLK, etc.
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He is incredibly smart. Smarter than our current president.
LOL!
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newt is done - going nowhere.
x3
who really cares?
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Welcome to the Newt show
By JOHN PODHORETZ
Posted: 10:37 PM, May 11, 2011
Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.
I first encountered the newly declared presidential candidate in 1985, as he was breaking out as an insurgent Republican in the House.
What I remember most about the interview in his office (which, he proudly noted, had no desk -- with the unfortunate consequence that there were ungodly piles of paper all over the floor and coffee table) was that Gingrich kept telling me he was an educator, a historian, that he had a PhD.
I had never before met an educated person who was so determined to make reference to how educated he was.
Then, Gingrich said something unusual for a self-proclaimed educator-historian-PhD.The thinker who meant the most to him, he declared, was Alvin Toffler, author of the 1970 pop bestseller "Future Shock."
Not Aristotle; not Plato; not Edward Gibbon, the greatest historian in the English language; not Shakespeare or Tolstoy or John Locke. Alvin Toffler.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
Without question, he is able to see interesting things others can't. For example, at a meeting here at The Post a dozen years ago, he offered the brilliant observation that something significant had changed when people began to trust bank machines with their paychecks rather than handing them to actual people -- and that we should expect the commercial use of the Internet to explode as a result.
When he's seized by an idea, he believes in it wholeheartedly and makes a very good case for it. Unfortunately, it's often immaterial whether the idea itself is sound or wacko. Thus, during that 1985 interview with me, what he wanted to talk about most was how space colonies might become states of the union.
He was remarkably uninterested in discussing the ways he was organizing young conservatives in the House and how he had seen an enormous opportunity in the fact that C-SPAN offered them unprecedented access to the American people through its unedited coverage of House activities.
Yet that was the first step in one of the great tactical accomplishments in American political history. For seven years, from 1987 to 1994, he succeeded in decapitating the Democratic leadership in Congress, exposing the casual corruption its decades in power had instituted, and designing a strategy for a Republican takeover.
But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.
And while he may understand the kinds of hot-button issues that get to people, what he does not understand is how he, Newt Gingrich, comes across to people. The answer: not well.
His career as a public figure has been marked by the kinds of tin-eared pronouncements, mostly about the personal misconduct of others, that can only be likened to a brilliant professional golfer who consistently knocks the ball into the same water hazard again and again.
He has a weakness for wildly inappropriate Nazi analogies. "People like me," he said in 1994, "are what stand between us and Auschwitz." During a bare-knuckled 1985 fight with Democrats over an Indiana House seat, he likened those who wouldn't speak out about that supposed infamy to German Pastor Martin Neimoller, who famously said that when "they came for the Jews, I did nothing, and when they came for me, there was no one left.' "
The two most famous instances of his foot-in-mouth disease came when he 1) likened the Democratic Party to Woody Allen's affair with his own pseudo-stepdaughter and 2) suggested that if you were upset by the fact that Susan Smith drowned her two children so she could run off with her boyfriend, you needed to vote Republican.
Yet, while he felt free to hold others' personal conduct in moral contempt, he only recently offered an (almost comically self-aggrandizing) excuse for his own personal weaknesses in an interview with a Christian broadcaster: "There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate."
Yes, he actually said he misbehaved because he loved his country too much.
Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president. The only positive way to frame his foolish bid is to quote the rueful lyric from "Thanks for the Memories," Bob Hope's signature song:
"You may have been a headache, but you never were a bore."
Occasionally, The NY Post is worth more than the "toilet paper of last resort" for which it normally qualifies. ;)
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newt is done - going nowhere.
x3
Sadly, the same could be said for your hero Paul Ron. :'(
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LOL!
^^^This is what makes this board so great. A crybaby retard is mocking Newt's intellect.
hahahaha.
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Gingrich says voters should judge his ability to lead now
By Tom Cohen, CNN
May 15, 2011
Washington (CNN) -- Judge me by what I can do for America now, rather than only by my mistakes in the past, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Sunday.
The former House speaker, who announced his candidacy last week, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that he has made mistakes in life, including an adulterous affair that led to one of his two divorces.
Now the American people must decide whether he's the right person to lead the country at what Gingrich called a crucial moment in its history.
"I think that if people watch me, talk to me, get to know me, my hope is that the majority of Americans can decide if I have the ability" to bring the country together to solve the problems it faces, Gingrich said.
The nation faces a crossroads on three main issues -- the economy, core values that determine "what it means to be an American," and national security, he said.
His policy prescriptions kept to longtime conservative ideology -- lower taxes and less regulation to spur job creation, no tax increases, and a strong focus on national security.
At the same time, Gingrich called for bringing together top minds to work out solutions that break from traditional perceptions and models of how Washington works, saying there was a need to "rethink the government."
He rejected a GOP proposal to overhaul Medicare a decade from now with a voucher system that would help senior citizens purchase private health insurance, calling that too radical of a change.
"I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering," Gingrich said.
Instead, he advocated working with private corporations and others to create a plan that gets people to voluntarily choose other options than the government-run health coverage for senior citizens that is a major driver of rising federal budget deficits.
At the same time, Gingrich appeared to back another Republican proposal that would change the Medicaid health care program for the poor and disabled to a block grant program, with the federal government providing money to states.
Overall, Gingrich tread a cautious path on the health care issue, opposing the reform plan pushed through Congress by President Barack Obama and Democrats but agreeing with the core concept that "all of us have a responsibility to help pay for their health care."
There are ways to do it "that make most libertarians relatively happy," such as requiring people to post a bond or show in some other way that they have individual responsibility for some of their own health care costs.
Gingrich, who turns 68 in June, was first elected to Congress from Georgia in 1978. He rose to the second spot in the House Republican leadership, and was instrumental in helping to craft the 1994 Contract with America -- a conservative blueprint that helped the Republicans take control of the House.
He then became House speaker, but after a disappointing GOP showing in the 1998 congressional elections, Gingrich retired in 1999.
His push for President Bill Clinton's impeachment for an affair with a White House intern got labeled as hypocrisy when news emerged that Gingrich also had an adulterous affair that broke up a previous marriage. Now divorced twice, Gingrich conceded Sunday he made decisions that should be questioned by voters assessing him as a candidate.
"I have made mistakes in my life. I had to go to God to seek forgiveness and reconciliation," Gingrich said, calling for people to "decide whether or not I am today a person who can lead the country and save us from enormous problems."
He also said it was fair to ask if he had the discipline and judgment to be president.
One of his "great weaknesses" is that he is both a political leader and a teacher/analyst, Gingrich said.
Analysts can say what they want without consequences, he noted, but political leaders must be more disciplined and thoughtful.
"If you seek to be president of the United States, you are never an analyst," Gingrich said.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/15/gingrich.interview/index.html
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"Gingrich also blasted Obama as "the most successful food stamp president in modern American history." lol
Newt Gingrich In Georgia: 2012 Presidential Election Most Important Since Before Civil War
By SHANNON McCAFFREY 05/13/11
MACON, Ga. -- Republican Newt Gingrich told a Georgia audience on Friday evening that the 2012 presidential election is the most consequential since the 1860 race that elected Abraham Lincoln to the White House and was soon followed by the Civil War.
Addressing the Georgia Republican Party's convention, Gingrich said the nation is at a crossroads and that the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama would lead to four more years of "radical left-wing values" that would drive the nation to ruin.
Gingrich also blasted Obama as "the most successful food stamp president in modern American history."
The former House speaker gave his speech at the end of a day of campaigning that took him from a gathering of economic conservatives in Washington to an old-style restaurant in Georgia and then the evening gathering of the party faithful.
Gingrich received a warm welcome at the GOP dinner. He represented Georgia in Congress for two decades and is stressing his ties anew after having lived in northern Virginia for more than a decade.
"I am glad to be home," Gingrich said Friday evening.
On economic issues, the 67-year-old Gingrich said his program would lead to more paychecks.
He outlined a jobs plan that would eliminate the estate and capital gains taxes and lower the corporate tax rate, which he said would infuse the nation's sputtering economy with new investment.
He said the United States needs to reexamine its relationship with Pakistan after revelations that Osama bin Laden had been hiding out there for years as America poured billions of dollars in aid into the country.
"I was trying to figure out what the word ally meant," Gingrich said. "I know what the word sucker meant. How stupid do you think we are?"
In an interview with The Associated Press earlier Friday Gingrich said he's grown more mature since his days as House speaker, and before that, when he was often described as a bomb-throwing insurgent member of the House Republican minority. He said it took him two years after taking the reins in Congress to learn that he had to re-calibrate his style and change his message.
And by then, he said, "the damage had been done."
"There are the things you want to say and what you need to say," Gingrich told The AP.
Some have questioned whether Gingrich_ known for his combative style and what some consider over-the-top rhetoric – has the temperament and discipline to be president.
Last year, he suggested U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was a racist, said Obama is best understood by his "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior," and argued that placing a mosque near ground zero in New York City was akin to placing a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust Museum
Earlier Friday, at a speech before a gathering of economic conservatives in Washington, Gingrich said General Electric's aggressive legal and accounting strategy, which led to reports of a zero corporate tax liability last year, was a clever and rational response to the nation's high tax rates.
Saying he wanted to slash an array of taxes and bureaucracies, Gingrich praised the author of the "Laffer Curve," an economic theory that says unless taxes are kept low, individuals and corporations will invest less and seek ways to avoid paying taxes.
Gingrich cited GE. The company reported global profits of $14.2 billion last year, including $5.1 billion from U.S operations, but modest tax liabilities.
Gingrich said the 35 percent corporate tax rate should be cut to 12.5 percent. He cited GE's "remarkably rational behavior in recognizing the corporate tax rate is clearly past the Laffer curve point. And so 375 tax lawyers in the largest tax department in the world" devised "a very clever strategy which enabled General Electric to pay zero corporate taxes."
After news organizations reported that GE might pay no corporate taxes for 2010, the company stated that it expects a "small U.S. income tax liability" for that year.
GE and others would pay more in taxes at a 12.5 percent rate because they would consider it more fair and rational, Gingrich contended. He also urged eliminating the estate tax and extending former President George W. Bush's income tax cuts for high earners beyond 2013.
Expanding on his remarks, Gingrich told The AP it would be "absurd" to expect that any company would pay more than it legally had to. And he blamed the Obama administration for adopting a patchwork of tax credits and loopholes that effectively encourage companies to hire lawyers to manipulate their returns.
"You should lower the tax rate and fire the lawyers," he said.
Asked if he would encourage other companies to exploit loopholes to keep their taxes down, the author and one-time college professor said, "They already do."
Gingrich also called on Congress to defund the National Labor Relations Board if it continues to pursue a complaint against Boeing Co.
The complaint says Boeing illegally retaliated for a 2008 strike by adding a non-union assembly line in South Carolina for 787 passenger jets. Most of that work is now done in Washington state by union workers.
Gingrich was in Georgia on a day when Gov. Nathan Deal – a key supporter and former House member_ signed a tough immigration law with some similarities to Arizona's controversial law.
He said he had not read the law so he could not comment on it, but that he generally supported states and localities being able to enforce the law.
Gingrich has made efforts to reach out to Hispanic voters and said he doesn't think that the tough GOP stance on illegal immigration has alienated the fast-growing minority group. "I do think we will have to work very hard to get that vote," he said.
He called Obama's recent address on immigration "very dishonest."
"Obama has to answer the question: he's had two years to pass a bill and he never made it a priority. Why should they trust that he will now?" he said.
Former Arkansas Gov., Mike Huckabee is set to announce on Saturday whether he will enter the Republican race for president.
Gingrich said he did not know what Huckabee would decide. But he said if Huckabee declines to run "I suspect it will make the road ahead for us somewhat easier."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/14/newt-gingrich-in-georgia-_n_861977.html
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100 percent.
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Way to torpedo your campaign before it starts. ::)
Gingrich under fire from Republicans over comments
By: CNN Political Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) – Newt Gingrich has been an official presidential candidate for only a week, but the former House Speaker is already under siege from fellow Republicans over recent comments that disparaged a House GOP budget proposal and appeared to endorse some form of a health care mandate that conservatives have long derided.
"This is a big deal," said Charles Krauthammer, the conservative Washington Post columnist. "He's done. He didn't have a big chance from the beginning but now it's over."
"I am not going to justify this. I'm not going to explain this," talk radio host Rush Limbaugh clamored. "The attack on Paul Ryan. The support for an individual mandate in health care? Folks, don't ask me to explain this. There is no explanation."
The uproar stems from Gingrich's comments during an interview on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, when the former House Speaker called a Medicare provision in the GOP budget proposal spearheaded by Rep. Paul Ryan a "radical change" and later indicated he supports requiring every citizen to buy health insurance or instead post a bond for insurance.
The two positions appeared contradictory, with Gingrich hammering Ryan's plan to impulse a mandatory voucher system in lieu of Medicare in one breath while offering support for mandated health coverage in the other.
"What you want to have is a system where people voluntarily migrate to better outcomes, better solutions, better options, not one where you suddenly impose it," Gingrich said of the Ryan plan that has proposed replacing Medicare with vouchers to be used toward private health care plans. "I am against Obamacare imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change."
But in the same interview Gingrich sad of an insurance mandate, "I agree that all of us have a responsibility to pay – help pay for health care…And, I think that there are ways to do it that make most libertarians relatively happy. I've said consistently we ought to have some requirement that you either have health insurance or you post a bond."
Amidst charges of inconsistency, Gingrich released a Web video Monday in which he emphatically stated he was "for the repeal for Obamacare, and …against any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone because it is fundamentally wrong and I believe unconstitutional."
A Gingrich spokesman also insisted Monday that "there is little daylight between Ryan and Gingrich."
"Newt would fully support Ryan if it were not compulsory," spokesman Rick Tyler said. "We need to design a better system that people will voluntarily move to. That is a major difference in design but not substance."
Still, some conservatives remain befuddled when it comes to just where Gingrich stands on health care, an issue that is believe to be rival Mitt Romney's biggest vulnerability not the former House Speaker's.
"He can't help himself. Gingrich prefers extravagant lambasting when a mere distancing would do, and the over-arching theoretical construct to a mundane pander. He is drawn irresistibly to operatic overstatement – sometimes brilliant, always interesting, and occasionally downright absurd," Rich Lowry, the editor of the National Review, wrote Monday.
Meanwhile House Majority Whip Eric Cantor called Gingrich's statements a "tremendous misspeak."
"I think that many have said now he's finished," Cantor Chicago radio station WLS, according to The Hill. "I haven't had a chance to really dissect what in the world he's thinking...so I probably would reserve judgment on that."
Meanwhile, it appears Gingrich is doing damage control at an event in Mason City, Iowa Tuesday, signing a petition calling for the repeal of the health care law.
And, in an interview with the Des Moines Register Monday, Gingrich said he is the victim of "gotcha" politics.
"I've for two years gone around the country making speeches about ObamaCare. I've said over and over, 'We should repeal it,'" he said. "And then people to go from all of that body of evidence to say, 'Yeah, but for 25 seconds yesterday, I thought you said X,' that's beyond gotcha."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/17/gingrich-under-fire-from-republicans-over-comments/#more-159398
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Krauthammer shitting on him already. Wow. Signaling all repubs not to donate to his campaign.
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Newt sucks. His little global warming nonsense w pelosi ended for him w me a long time ago.
FFFUUUNNNGGG! ! ! !
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i love the Newt; can't wait for his next glittering appearance.
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feel the rainbow
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Wow. Crash and burn before the race even starts.
IBOPE Zogby: Newt Crashes to Near Zero
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Support for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has virtually evaporated, dropping to just 3 percent among likely Republican primary voters, a new IBOPE Zogby poll reveals.
That’s down from 7 percent in a May 6-9 poll, meaning Gingrich has lost more than half his support in the new poll conducted May 20-23.
Asked to choose from among 13 possible GOP presidential candidates in 2012, poll respondents chose eight Republicans ahead of Gingrich, including several who, unlike Newt, have not announced their candidacy: Herman Cain (19 percent), Chris Christie (16 percent), Mitt Romney (11 percent), Ron Paul (9 percent), Sarah Palin (6 percent), Michele Bachmann (5 percent), Tim Pawlenty (4 percent), and Mitch Daniels (4 percent).
Gingrich was tied with Rick Santorum at 3 percent, and ahead of only Fred Karger, John Huntsman Jr., and Gary Johnson.
Even more ominously for Newt: When respondents were asked which of the 13 candidates they would “never vote for,” Gingrich was cited the most, by 17 percent, while Christie, Cain, Pawlenty, and Daniels all received 1 percent or less.
In the May 6-9 matchup with President Obama, Newt received 36 percent support from all likely voters — Democrats, Republicans, and independents — compared to 47 percent for the incumbent. Today Gingrich gets just 30 percent to Obama’s 48 percent.
“Newt Gingrich has certainly lost juice with GOP voters with his support dropping from 7 percent — respectable enough in a crowded field in early May — to 3 percent today,” pollster John Zogby told Newsmax.
“It is not hard to see why. Among self-described conservatives he gets only 61 percent support in a matchup against President Obama, with 30 percent of this group saying they would vote for ‘someone else.’
“By way of comparison, Sarah Palin gets 72 percent of conservative support against Obama, Rick Santorum gets 64 percent, Herman Cain 78 percent, Michele Bachmann 77 percent, and Tim Pawlenty 78 percent.
“Nothing is impossible, but it is hard to get from 3 percent in May to the nomination for someone who is so well known. He is certainly not Jimmy Who?”
Gingrich has recently drawn criticism for charging that Rep. Paul Ryan’s deficit reduction plan is “right-wing social engineering,” then shifting his position and saying he supports the plan.
Also, Gingrich was grilled by Bob Schieffer on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” about $500,000 worth of jewelry the fiscal conservative bought from Tiffany’s. Schieffer questioned whether holding a revolving charge account at Tiffany’s for two consecutive years without paying interest on the debt was, as Gingrich claimed, the “normal way of doing business.”
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/poll-zogby-newtgingrich-campaign/2011/05/24/id/397525
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The Tiffany stuff is pure comedy.
I mean come on! $500,000 with tiffany? I'm glad I never bought one of his books. the though of $1 or so going o pay for expensive brotches or rings for his girldfriends and wives is insane.
newt - GO AWAY!
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newt's a grifter, wow
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newt's a grifter, wow
$500k with tiffany?
Come on. Totally insane.
He needs to go away and live out the glory days of 1995-1999 at the local pub.
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Did anyone even think for a millisecond that he was going to have any impact whatsoever in the primaries? He wouldn't come within sniffing distance of winning the nod, let alone beating Obama.
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bet wife #3 has been told "Don't be wearing any jewelry in public!"
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He may not survive until the primaries.
Newt Gingrich's Ratings Hit All-Time Low in Poll
Thursday, 16 Jun 2011
By Dave Eberhart
In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 48 percent have a negative opinion of Gingrich -- his worst polling ever.
newt poll low• 16 percent have a favorable opinion of the presidential hopeful, which is down eight points since April.
• In April, Gingrich's favorable/unfavorable rating with all Republicans surveyed in the poll was 46 percent - 11 percent. Now, it's 28 percent - 33 percent.
• Among Republican primary voters, his favorable/unfavorable ratings dropped from 50 percent - 13 percent to 32 percent - 34 percent.
Peter D. Hart, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff, says the numbers demonstrated Gingrich's "total and complete implosion." "His numbers have just dropped," Hart adds.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/NewtGingrichsRatingsHitAll-TimeLowinPoll/2011/06/16/id/400269
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;D
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we are thankful the 3rd Mrs. Gingrich did not let him appear in speedos.
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;D
Dude. At least post a warning before the picture. :-\ He looks pregnant.
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Dude. At least post a warning before the picture. :-\ He looks pregnant.
and, with his political views, he will have to carry that baby to term...
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If he cannot take advice from his campaign advisers, he will have trouble taking advice from his cabinet as president.
Inside The Implosion: How Gingrich Bucked Staff Ultimatums, Suffered Mass Exodus
by Jake Gibson | June 16, 2011
Senior staffers on the presidential campaign of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich were at wits' end.
They needed badly, they reckoned, to regain control of an operation they believed was increasingly dominated by the candidate's wife Callista.
According to interviews and email exchanges with former campaign staffers, Fox News has learned that last Thursday, Gingrich's distressed aides, still clinging to hopes that they could turn their candidate around, devised a last-minute plan to bring in heavy hitters to do the job: operatives from key early states like New Hampshire and South Carolina.
They, along with the senior DC staff, would present Gingrich with a list of demands. If he acceded to them, they would stay on. If not, they would bolt, thereby raising the prospect they might bring their talents and connections to rival candidates.
Among the demands: They insisted Gingrich relinquish control of the campaign schedule. No longer would the candidate dictate the pace of the campaign, or have the option to beg off on crucial commitments whenever he pleased.
Second, they wanted Gingrich to "back off" from continued screenings of "Nine Days That Changed The World," the documentary the candidate and his wife co-produced about Pope John Paul II and which originally debuted in 2010.
"It is a great movie but these screenings have nothing to do with running for president," said one former campaign insider. "You cannot have the campaign team distracted by arranging movie screenings."
Out of fear that such an intervention would further inflame the situation, the discontented aides decided the sit-down would consist of a much smaller group.
Katon Dawson, the Gingrich camp's key operative in South Carolina, and Dave Carney, who held the same role in New Hampshire, would not be present. Instead, campaign manager Rob Johnson, senior adviser Sam Dawson and Gingrich himself would butt heads in the long-awaited tete-a-tete.The former speaker's aides pulled no punches in delivering their core message: Give us the reins of the campaign and sit Callista on the bench -- or find yourself a new team.
An aide with knowledge of the meeting tells FOX News Gingrich coolly rejected their demands. Dawson and Johnson quit on the spot.
"Hope was gone for regaining control of the campaign," said a disappointed insider.
A conference call ensued, with staffers spread out in the early balloting states. To a man, each concurred in the group decision: They would all resign en masse.
By that night, the campaign of Gingrich -- once seen as a promising presidential contender, certain to inject vibrant intellectual energy into the discourse -- had lost twenty key staffers, sources told FOX.
"We had the best, most experienced campaign of all the candidates," one of them lamented.
Staffers who have stayed on the campaign counter that this is water under the bridge, and that those who left were only "consultants, not staff," according to spokesman R.C. Hammond. "Newt Gingrich is looking forward to expressing his vision for the country going forward at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans later this week."
However, those who have loyally remained appear to have significantly less experience actually running campaigns than those who bolted.
One of those who resigned, a longtime aide, confirms that Gingrich's much-criticized cruise to the Greek Isles in early June was at Callista's insistence.
That, in turn, had followed a tough week for the candidate, in which he had been forced to recant damaging statements about prominent fellow Republicans and to defend a $500,000 interest-free credit account at the upscale jeweler Tiffany & Co.
"After the Tiffany's story broke and all the media coverage that came with that, having the candidate unavailable was problematic," said the aide. "Having the candidate on vacation was not helpful; but having him on a cruise in the Greek isles was over the top."
Those once closest to Gingrich on a professional level now think he still hasn't wholly invested himself in a full-time presidential candidacy.
"He hasn't made the distinction between being an analyst and an educator versus being a candidate for president of the United States," said one former confidante.
As far as Callista goes, they predict she will remain an obstacle for a team already under pressure to recover from the loss so many experienced campaign operators.
"We begged him to stay the night in South Carolina a few weeks ago so we could hit the trail again in the morning," one aide recalled, "but since we couldn't find a place for Callista to screen her movie, they headed home and went to an opera at the Kennedy Center."
The opera in question was "Don Pasquale": Gaetano Donizetti's 19th century comedy about an older man vexed by his younger extravagant wife.
Political analysts caution that blaming Callista misses the point; the candidate is always responsible for the decisions made as well as the people he or she chooses to let influence those decisions.
As Gingrich himself told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren on Wednesday night, "Yes, we make decisions as a couple, but in the end I take full responsibility... we try to work out our schedule together... we've made movies together, we've written books together. I think that unnerves some of the consultants who thought they ought to own everything, they ought to control everything and they resented the idea that they had to have the two of us actually talk with them about things like our schedules."
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/06/16/inside-implosion-how-gingrich-bucked-staff-ultimatums-suffered-mass-exodus?test=latestnews
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Watch.... newt will resign the campaign after 29 days to avoid financial disclosure...
punks fell for Trump's BS, and they did it for Newt too.
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Watch.... newt will resign the campaign after 29 days to avoid financial disclosure...
punks fell for Trump's BS, and they did it for Newt too.
Other than yourself, yes you 240, no one else ever pushed for Newt. BB already postedyour previous Newt love posts.
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Other than yourself, yes you 240, no one else ever pushed for Newt. BB already postedyour previous Newt love posts.
Newt is a very brilliant guy. An ideas guy.
Really, is there any candidate in the GOP race who knows more about policy, legislation, and the way DC works? I do'nt think there is. He's a very smart man, just a dumbass on common sense, a little too honest (yes, he was right about the ryan plan on MTP), and a greedy SOB.
But he's very smart - no denying that.
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His campaign is in complete disarray.
Gingrich fundraisers quit
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN) - Top fundraisers for Republican Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign resigned Tuesday, the campaign confirmed to CNN.
Fundraising director Jody Thomas and fundraising consultant Mary Heitman left the team. The two defections follow 16 resignations earlier in the month when top aides stepped down over disagreements with the former House Speaker.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/21/gingrich-fundraisers-quit/
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Gingrich campaign hit by more departures
By Chris Cillizza
Two top fundraisers for Newt Gingrich have quit, the latest in a series of staff departures that have badly hamstrung the former House Speaker’s 2012 presidential bid.
Fundraising director Jody Thomas and fundraising consultant Mary Heitman have both abandoned the campaign, Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond confirmed Tuesday.
Their resignations come less than two weeks after more than a dozen staffers — including the campaign manager, chief strategist and key operatives in states like Iowa and South Carolina — departed en masse.
“The campaign will continue to reorganize,” said Hammond. “We are going to duct-tape together one coalition of Americans after another that believe in his large, bold vision of change.”
Hammond added that the campaign still has “over a dozen staffers” and that the finance director job would be filled internally by a longtime Gingrich loyalist.
The latest departures come just a week before the fundraising deadline for the second quarter — an early test of strength for the Republican field...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/gingrich-campaign-hit-by-more-departures/2011/06/21/AGR9TceH_blog.html?hpid=z2
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he's feeling the glitter
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I know people who have large lines of credit, but none who have lines of credit this large at stores like Tiffany. This is crazy. How the heck did he think he would be able to do this and run for president in the middle of a recession? ::)
Did I overestimate this guy's intelligence?
Gingrich Had Second Line of Credit at Tiffany's, Campaign Says
Published June 21, 2011
FoxNews.com
June 16: Newt Gingrich speaks at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. News reports of another pricey Tiffany's credit account may hurt his candidacy.
Newt Gingrich’s presidential bid hit another snag Tuesday when it was revealed the former speaker of the House had taken out a second line of credit at high-end jeweler Tiffany’s, this one valued between $500,000 and $1 million.
Joe DeSantis, the communications director for the Gingrich campaign, told Fox News this line of credit was taken out sometime after Jan. 1, 2010, and it has been paid off in full.
The new disclosure comes a month after news broke that Gingrich or his wife, Callista, had an previous credit line of $250,000 to $500,000 at the store, news that critics used to paint Gingrich as out of touch with ordinary Americans.
Gingrich has faced a virtual avalanche of bad news since announcing his candidacy last month. Fellow Republicans took him to task for objecting to the House GOP's budget solution. He later was criticized for leaving the campaign trail to take a cruise in the Mediterranean, and that was said to be one of the factors behind a mass exodus of top campaign staff members earlier this month.
And Tuesday, two of Gingrich's top fundraisers quit the campaign as well, amid accusations of lackluster fundraising and heavy spending.
But Gingrich has said he’ll continue fighting for the presidency “no matter what it takes.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/21/gingrich-had-second-line-credit-at-tiffanys-staffer-says/
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I know people who have large lines of credit, but none who have lines of credit this large at stores like Tiffany. This is crazy. How the heck did he think he would be able to do this and run for president in the middle of a recession? ::)
Did I overestimate this guy's intelligence?
Gingrich Had Second Line of Credit at Tiffany's, Campaign Says
Published June 21, 2011
FoxNews.com
June 16: Newt Gingrich speaks at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. News reports of another pricey Tiffany's credit account may hurt his candidacy.
Newt Gingrich’s presidential bid hit another snag Tuesday when it was revealed the former speaker of the House had taken out a second line of credit at high-end jeweler Tiffany’s, this one valued between $500,000 and $1 million.
Joe DeSantis, the communications director for the Gingrich campaign, told Fox News this line of credit was taken out sometime after Jan. 1, 2010, and it has been paid off in full.
The new disclosure comes a month after news broke that Gingrich or his wife, Callista, had an previous credit line of $250,000 to $500,000 at the store, news that critics used to paint Gingrich as out of touch with ordinary Americans.
Gingrich has faced a virtual avalanche of bad news since announcing his candidacy last month. Fellow Republicans took him to task for objecting to the House GOP's budget solution. He later was criticized for leaving the campaign trail to take a cruise in the Mediterranean, and that was said to be one of the factors behind a mass exodus of top campaign staff members earlier this month.
And Tuesday, two of Gingrich's top fundraisers quit the campaign as well, amid accusations of lackluster fundraising and heavy spending.
But Gingrich has said he’ll continue fighting for the presidency “no matter what it takes.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/21/gingrich-had-second-line-credit-at-tiffanys-staffer-says/
tiara for Calista - Crown for Newt; they don't come cheap....
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hahahahahaha this story is awesome. This whole 2008 fiasco is so entertaining.
Trump screaming birther nonsense, all the repubs crying obama was sort on terror til he caps OBL after moving afghan force numbers from 30k to 100k - and now repubs are crying we are TOO MUCH at war? ???
Palin's odd bus tour bumping the Romney announcement off the headlines. Obama-Lite Huntsman might win it all TPaw running for Veep. Cain running for national radio show slot. RPaul senile and right as always. Newt's middle name turning out to be Tiffany. Santorum has worst last name ever. bachmann is awesome but is seriously 19 inches shorter than Obama and will look funny during debates.
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hahahahahaha this story is awesome. This whole 2008 fiasco is so entertaining.
Trump screaming birther nonsense, all the repubs crying obama was sort on terror til he caps OBL after moving afghan force numbers from 30k to 100k - and now repubs are crying we are TOO MUCH at war? ???
Palin's odd bus tour bumping the Romney announcement off the headlines. Obama-Lite Huntsman might win it all TPaw running for Veep. Cain running for national radio show slot. RPaul senile and right as always. Newt's middle name turning out to be Tiffany. Santorum has worst last name ever. bachmann is awesome but is seriously 19 inches shorter than Obama and will look funny during debates.
....Santorum has worst......I always google his name when I need a smile...
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Chad - would you bang Newt?
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Chad - would you bang Newt?
only
if he shared some of the 500K loot from Tiffanys; although Newt would require the entire 100 mg viagra tablet.
and only doggie style; so i wouldnt have to look at him ( and always with a condom ).
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Gingrich campaign: Now accepting 'Office' applications
By: CNN Political Unit
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(CNN)-Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is entertaining the possibility of adding someone with special skills to his team. At least, over Twitter.
Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign is light on staff these days following the resignation of 16 senior staff members in June.
And, dazzled by the poetic possibilities, actor Rainn Wilson offered up his alter-ego, "The Office" wunderkind Dwight Schrute, as a close, personal aide to Gingrich on Thursday.
"Because of the many Newt/Schrute rhyme options, I humbly offer my services as your new campaign manager," Wilson tweeted.
Unfortunately for Wilson/Schrute, his coveted position remains occupied.
"@rainnwilson: We have a campaign manager. What about assistant TO the campaign manager?" Gingrich replied.
Following the resignations, Gingrich vowed that his campaign would rebound and launched it anew at an appearance in Beverly Hills the following week.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/01/gingrich-campaign-now-accepting-office-applications/#more-166003
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Fat Lady is in concert.
Gingrich's Campaign on Life Support
Saturday, 16 Jul 2011
ATLANTA (AP) — His presidential campaign on life support, Newt Gingrich ran into the county coroner at a recent tea party event in South Carolina.
"I'm not here because you're looking ill or anything," Rae Wooten assured the former U.S. House speaker at Tuesday's event in North Charleston. A chuckling Gingrich feigned relief.
For the embattled White House candidate who's seen by some as a dead man walking in the crowded Republican field, the encounter may have hit a bit close to home.
His aides and advisers resigned en masse in early June. His first campaign finance disclosure report, filed Friday, provided little reason to be optimistic. It showed that Gingrich had raised $2.1 million since getting into the race, badly trailing the front-runner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
He had a little more than $1 million in debt, almost half of that for private air travel.
Gingrich's campaign remains a skeleton operation. He has not moved to replace most of the consultants and staff members who left. His operations in early-voting states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina rely on volunteers rather than paid staff.
"I don't view him as a serious candidate and frankly I don't know anyone who does view him as a serious candidate," said Tom Perdue, a Republican strategist from Gingrich's old home state of Georgia.
"It's not uncommon for a candidate to become delusional and that's what I think you are seeing here."
Gingrich argues that the kind of grass-roots, Internet-driven campaign he wants to run can function with a lean staff and that he doesn't need a stable of well-paid consultants to launch the attack ads of a more traditional effort.
"I am very different than normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with," Gingrich said during an appearance in Atlanta last month. He outlined a strategy that he contended would allow him to continue to plug away at issues while the other candidates beat up each other and, inevitably, fumble.
Gingrich's tactic: Be the last candidate standing.
Gingrich casts himself as the one in the race who has the experience of dealing with the big issues such as the economy.
Still, for all his decades in politics, Gingrich has seemed something of a long shot to win the nomination. He carries heavy personal baggage, including three marriages and an admission of adultery, into a primary where evangelical voters hold powerful sway.
His reputation as headstrong and undisciplined came into sharp focus almost immediately after he entered the race for president as he careened through a series of missteps (seeming to back an individual health care mandate that is anathema in his party) and embarrassing revelations (a huge revolving loan account at luxury jeweler Tiffany's).
Then, just as the GOP race seemed to be heating up, he disappeared with his wife, Callista, for a planned cruise off the Greek islands, leading some to believe he wasn't taking the race seriously.
He has pledged to stay in the race.
Gingrich was in Iowa Friday and aides say he expects to spend more time in the state in coming weeks, even as he plans to skip the Iowa straw poll later this summer that had at one point been seen as a key part of his campaign there.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Gingrich-RunningonFumes/2011/07/16/id/403809
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Why do people think Newt is unelectable ???
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Cheated on his wife?
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I like Newt - he would send Obama off crying for his blanket, but he cant win due to his personal issues.
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I like Newt - he would send Obama off crying for his blanket, but he cant win due to his personal issues.
Is it the wife thing like OzmO said?
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Is it the wife thing like OzmO said?
Its a lot of stuff. He was cheating on his wife during the lewinsky affair.
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Cheated on his wife?
i think that's actually a pre-req to get the GOP nomoniation these days
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Its a lot of stuff. He was cheating on his wife during the lewinsky affair.
Was he blasting Clinton for doing the same?
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Was he blasting Clinton for doing the same?
Impeachment ring a bell?
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Was he blasting Clinton for doing the same?
good question.
Impeachment ring a bell?
complete dodge and non-answer here. ???
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Impeachment ring a bell?
Yes, I know Clinton was impeached but was Newt blasting Clinton for cheating on his wife or for perjury etc?
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Yes, I know Clinton was impeached but was Newt blasting Clinton for cheating on his wife or for perjury etc?
Not explicitly. The whole thing was a jumbled mess. clinton perjured himself over sex.
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Not explicitly. The whole thing was a jumbled mess. clinton perjured himself over sex.
Yes. I'm just curious if he was blasting Clinton for having an affair when he was doing the same himself.
I only recently (in the last couple years) started following politics more closely so I don't remember if Newt was focused on the affair or the law-breaking.
I only saw a bit of the debate but liked what I saw from him and I usually like him in interviews....people have such short memories (some people don't even remember that Clinton was impeached) that I just wonder if he's truly unelectable for personal issues. But I'm sure if he was the frontrunner his opponents would refresh everyone's memories.
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Yes. I'm just curious if he was blasting Clinton for having an affair when he was doing the same himself.
I only recently (in the last couple years) started following politics more closely so I don't remember if Newt was focused on the affair or the law-breaking.
I only saw a bit of the debate but liked what I saw from him and I usually like him in interviews....people have such short memories (some people don't even remember that Clinton was impeached) that I just wonder if he's truly unelectable for personal issues. But I'm sure if he was the frontrunner his opponents would refresh everyone's memories.
His political career is over. His best hope now is to get appointed into an GOP administration; that is what he is angling for.
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Yes. I'm just curious if he was blasting Clinton for having an affair when he was doing the same himself.
I only recently (in the last couple years) started following politics more closely so I don't remember if Newt was focused on the affair or the law-breaking.
I only saw a bit of the debate but liked what I saw from him and I usually like him in interviews....people have such short memories (some people don't even remember that Clinton was impeached) that I just wonder if he's truly unelectable for personal issues. But I'm sure if he was the frontrunner his opponents would refresh everyone's memories.
It was pretty bad. Clinton was impeached for cheating on his wife and then lying about it. During that same period, Newt was helping lead the impeachment charge, while he was cheating on his wife. I think his wife was undergoing cancer treatment at the time? They were going through a divorce, or something like that. He wound up marrying the younger woman he was having the affair with.
Several months ago, when trying to explain why he did it, he blamed it on being overworked. One of the lamest excuses I've ever heard.
I think he forfeited the ability to lead the country after that kind of hypocrisy.
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Too bad too for him because he could have been a president.
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Too bad too for him because he could have been a president.
Agree. I think he's the smartest and most qualified person in the race (on either side).
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Too bad too for him because he could have been a president.
No. He could not have been president. That was never a possibility for him.
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No. He could not have been president. That was never a possibility for him.
Why?
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i thought he blamed the infidelity on being so patriotic?
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What a doofus. He cheated on his wives because he worked too hard? How utterly stupid is that? ::) Who is advising him? Geeze. His response should be: I made a mistake, no excuses, I'm sorry, I have improved and made amends, and drive on.
Gingrich responds to criticism of affairs
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN) – Newt Gingrich may not have officially announced a run for president, but he was already preparing for character attacks from his opponents in a radio interview Monday night.
"I expect my opponents to go back 15, 20, 25 years and try to render an alternate judgment I understand that's what they'll do," the former House Speaker told WRKO radio host Howie Carr, referring to his previous marital infidelity and how it might affect a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
Gingrich, who has been married three times and admitted to past infidelities, responded to criticism he sidestepped responsibility for his affairs in an interview with CBN reporter David Brody last week. Gingrich told Brody he was "partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate."
During Monday night's WRKO interview, Gingrich said, "I'm not blaming my life on anyone, and I'm not offering excuses."
"I've made no bones about the fact there were times I did the wrong thing, and I've made no bones about the fact that I've asked for forgiveness," Gingrich said.
There is at least one potential 2012 GOP presidential opponent who is already weighing in as to how Gingrich's past will play into the campaign.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said in a interview with National Review Online earlier this week that Gingrich's personal history, while relevant, should not be the main focus.
"He, like we all do, will have to account for our past decisions. People will take (his past) as a legitimate issue to consider, as to how it would affect his ability to do his job," Santorum said. "I am not saying that is not a legitimate question, but it's not an issue with respect to the positions he takes."
Gingrich was upbeat on how voters would ultimately judge his fitness for office.
"I think most Americans are fair," he said. "And I think most Americans will look at the totality of my life."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/15/gingrich-responds-to-criticism-on-affairs/#more-150333
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Do you guys think that Newt on the ticket as VP would help or hurt?
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Do you guys think that Newt on the ticket as VP would help or hurt?
Probably help with conservatives, hurt a little with crossover Democrats and independents, although most people tend to vote the top of the ticket. Take a look at how poorly Biden did in the Democrat primary. Didn't hurt President Downgrade at all.
But he has been picking up steam.
Newsmax/InsiderAdvantage Iowa Poll: Gingrich Catching Romney, Cain Still Leads
Friday, 04 Nov 2011
By Martin Gould
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is shaping up to be the “anti-Romney” in the Republican presidential race, according to a new Newsmax/InsiderAdvantage poll of Iowa caucus voters.
Although the survey showed scandal-plagued Herman Cain still enjoying a substantial lead, InsiderAdvantage head Matt Towery says that will almost certainly not last.
“We found most Republican voters in Iowa were unaware of the latest developments in the Cain case,” Towery said after Thursday night’s poll. “There is a great likelihood that his vote will fall off.”
The poll put Cain at 30% with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 15%. Gingrich was third with 12%, followed by Texas Rep. Ron Paul at 9%, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann at 8%, Texas Gov. Rick Perry at
6% and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman at 2 %.
Five percent said their vote would go for another candidate. Outsiders including former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roehmer and gay rights activist Fred Karger were not included in the poll.
“There are only three real candidates now,” said Towery. “There’s Cain who I believe will begin to drop, Romney who has been squeezed down by the whole Cain surge and is holding on but not gaining traction, and Gingrich who is the next in line.”
Towery said the poll has a margin of error of 4.3%, which would put Gingrich in a statistical dead heat with Romney in the first state in the nation to register its vote.
Cain’s strong showing was probably because his face has been all over news reports over the past week, the pollster said. “We have to remember that most Americans don’t read political newspapers or websites and these things take quite a while to trickle down.”
He said the importance of the Des Moines Register in Iowa cannot be overstated and that paper has not run the scandal heavily.
Towery said the decision by Cain’s wife Gloria to pull out of an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren is a disaster for his campaign, whatever the reason.
“If the comes out that the campaign pulled her, it will look like they don’t want the harassment claims discussed. If she decided herself not to go on it looks like she feels she cannot defend him. Either way it’s bad.
“It’s a bit like the Salem witch trials – if you’re innocent you drown, if you’re guilty you are burned at the stake.”
Towery, who was due to discuss the results of the Newsmax poll with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Friday night, said the Iowa poll result is important because, as primary season approaches, national polls are becoming less and less relevant.
He admitted there was some irony that three-times married Gingrich should be the person to benefit from another candidate’s sex scandal. But he said Americans have a history of forgiving politicians if they are given time.
“Newt can now say ‘I made my mistakes and I have waited a long time to run for president. In the meantime I converted to Catholicism, I have been married to my current wife for 11 years, I’m a grandparent and now I’m 68 years old.’”
The pollster said the Perry campaign now seems to be dead, and could be even further hurt because of accusations – since denied – that his camp leaked details of Cain’s past to the website Politico.
Even with the fluid state of anti-Romney opinion within the party, which has seen Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Perry and Cain all rise to the role of front-runner, no campaign has so far managed to “resurrect” itself once it had fallen behind, he pointed out.
But he said he did not believe a much-watched video of an animated speech that Perry gave in New Hampshire last week will hurt him further. “I thought he got his points across well in that speech,” he said.
“I don’t know if he was inebriated, as has been suggested,” said Towery. “But if he was, maybe he should have a couple of swigs of Jim Beam before he goes on the next debate.”
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Newsmax-Iowa-Poll-Gingrich/2011/11/04/id/416954
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Gingrich defends Cain, says media more focused on gossip than solutions
Daily Caller/Yahoo ^ | 11-7-11
Posted on November 7, 2011 10:54:17 PM EST by STARWISE
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich defended former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain on Monday, saying Americans might be more interested in finding a “solutions-oriented leader” than obsessing over another political scandal.
*snip*
“And I just think there’s this huge gap between the gossip that fascinates political reporters, and the average person’s concern about the price of housing, the availability of jobs, solving the budget deficit without crushing the middle class, a lot of things that are, frankly, at a substance level are dramatically more important for most Americans.”
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Newt is looking really good right now.
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The Tea Party Case for Newt Gingrich
The American Thinker ^ | November 7, 2011 | Kevin Tharp
Posted on November 7, 2011 6:00:24 PM EST by St. Louis Conservative
The Republican Party seems to be struggling to find a candidate it can unite around. One impediment may be a mindset common among some of my fellow Tea Partiers, a false dichotomy that if you are in government you are part of the problem, and if you are not in government, you are part of the solution -- whatever those problems or solutions may be.
Herman Cain says, "The folks in Washington have held public office. How's that working out for you?" It's a catchy comeback. But is government tenure, whether recent or not, the reality of the problems in Washington? The biggest problem in Washington today is that we have a president who basically has no experience doing anything important or relevant. And he has surrounded himself with advisors and staff that are inexperienced as well. That's the problem.
This problem can befall Democrats or Republicans. Let me give a Republican example. President Bush's first cabinet had many folks with Washington experience like Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Mel Martinez, Norm Mineta, and Spencer Abraham. All of these, except Mineta, were conservatives. Many of their replacements had no Washington experience. Most folks would agree that Bush's second term was not as successful as his first. Experience was the difference. Next, let's look at the recent Tea Party successes. Two of the biggest successes are Marco Rubio, who had legislative experience, and Scott Walker, who had much executive and legislative experience. I won't belabor the Tea Party failures here. Needless to say, some of them lacked valuable experience. And what about folks in Washington who agree with the Tea Party, like Senator DeMint or Congressman Pence? They predate the Tea Party but they believe the same policies. Are they part of the problem? No, they are not.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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newt's about to inherit at least half of the cain supporters ;)
of course he's defending him.
it's why none of the repub candidates are attacking cain for it. Not because they don't see the bullshit and lies and hypocrisy of him.
No, they're letting the cain ship sink, and they will all defend him as they scurry for his vote and endorsement.
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Newt is on fire lately. He would make Obama crap his kenyan diapers in a debate.
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Newt is on fire lately. He would make Obama crap his kenyan diapers in a debate.
yup
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I'm using this as the official Newt thread instead of starting one. Newt. Is growing on me a lot lately.
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He is on Piers Morgan now. newt is really good. He would mutilate Obama.
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Newt has been steadily climbing the polls for months now and is within striking distance of Romney. Got to laugh at people like 240 who think Americans actually give a fuck about where he stuck his dick decades ago.
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Newt has been steadily climbing the polls for months now and is within striking distance of Romney. Got to laugh at people like 240 who think Americans actually give a fuck about where he stuck his dick decades ago.
beach bum was the one who brought it up a few months back. there are some repubs who do have a problem with it. i dont care, unless he tries to legislate morality. even then, i look past it because i think he'll cut spending.
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Newt is a master. Paul / Newt would be amazing.
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Newt is killing it on Luntz.
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Newt is a master. Paul / Newt would be amazing.
Yeah, but wouldn't most repubs prefer the CHALLENGE of beating obama with a scandal-ridden Cain and a 80 IQ drunkard like Perry?
Seems like it. Newt and Rpaul are the two smartest MFers in the race, and many repubs ignore them.
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Hunts an killing it on hannity tonight. I actually like huntsman a ton.
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Hunts an killing it on hannity tonight. I actually like huntsman a ton.
he's a statesman. safe VP pick. I've been on his wagon since long before obama shipped him to china.
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he's a statesman. safe VP pick. I've been on his wagon since long before obama shipped him to china.
Agreed. I get attacked mercilessly when I pimp hunts on FR.
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Agreed. I get attacked mercilessly when I pimp hunts on FR.
huntsman,
he's the kind of president you would see in a movie. not a drama queen. dignified.
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Gingrich campaign reports fundraising momentum
Posted by
CNN Senior Producer Kevin Bohn
Washington (CNN) - As Newt Gingrich's GOP presidential candidacy gains momentum, his campaign says it has raised $1 million since Sunday.
The campaign brought in $250,000 in the past 24 hours, setting its one-day fundraising record, spokesman R.C. Hammond said Friday.
Much of the spurt in support is credited to Gingrich's performance in recent debates winning praise from many analysts.
Following Wednesday night's CBNC debate focusing on the economy, the Gingrich camp said it saw donations of $160,000 in the first 24 hours.
The fundraising spike will help the campaign erase its debt of nearly $1.2 million, which it reported for the quarter that ended Sept. 30.
"Despite every media attempt to prematurely write this campaign's eulogy, Speaker Gingrich continues to take advantage of the heavy debate schedule to win voters with his substantive ideas and bold policies," campaign manager Michael Krull wrote in an email solicitation to supporters Friday night.
The campaign hopes to use its resurgence to help build its infrastructure and to show the former house speaker is a viable candidate.
Two new national polls just out show Gingrich gaining ground. A CBS poll released Friday shows Gingrich tied for second place with Mitt Romney. A separate McClatchy-Marist poll shows Gingrich surpassing Herman Cain for second place, behind frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Gingrich is also opening campaign offices in New Hampshire and South Carolina this weekend.
"Much of the liberal media are claiming that the recent events on the campaign trail amount to further proof of their hypothesis that Mitt Romney is the inevitable nominee. Thankfully, these pundits don't get to choose our president or have any track record of making accurate predictions; remember when Newt's campaign was over months ago?" Krull wrote.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/11/gingrich-campaign-reports-fundraising-momentum/
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Luntz Focus Group: Gingrich Won Wednesday's Debate
Friday, 11 Nov 2011
By Hiram Reisner
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won the latest Republican debate because of his consistency and ability to credibly answer questions, according to the vast majority of members of a focus group assembled by Republican pollster Frank Luntz. This was the second debate in a row where a Luntz group backed Gingrich — the first last month in Las Vegas.
The group members also said in a segment broadcast on Fox News’ Sean Hannity show Thursday they would be comfortable with Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee.
Luntz asked the group whether Gingrich was too confrontational in Wednesday’s CNBC-sponsored debate and if he came on too strong — both accusations that have followed the former speaker throughout the string of candidate forums. Most said Gingrich’s style served him well.
“I think [for] some of the independent swing voters [Gingrich] might be a little strong,” one participant said. “I hope they listen to what he says as opposed to how he acts.”
Another man in the audience agreed: “I thought he brought passion to the conversation and an absolute command of the issues — he knows what he’s talking about — the rest are all about sound bites.”
Several in the focus group said they were pleased when Gingrich attacked the media over the substance of their questions. “I want him to take on President Obama like he took on the media,” one woman said.
“That’s what I was excited about — to seeing him debate President Obama — and if he can do that the way he did tonight, he’s going to do very well,” another woman said. “He literally had every answer to every question, through his history.”
Luntz asked why Gingrich wasn’t doing better in the national presidential polls.
“He is improving in the polls — I think people are just now revisiting him. We are through the part about all Rick Perry is the star of the day, — Romney is the star of the day — Herman Cain is the star of the day,” one woman said. “Now, we are looking for somebody who can, Number One, debate Barack Obama, who’s got a knowledge of what needs to be done — and I think, really, he knows where the skeletons are in Washington — and that might be a plus as well.”
Luntz then asked the group who took second place in the debate; the overwhelming choice was Romney, with comments centering on the presidential stature of the former Massachusetts governor — though some conceded although they would support him if he was the nominee, they might do so with some trepidation.
“I care about the economy — and his tax plan will lower the rates and it will be fast enough and not too dramatic where it might shock the system,” one man said.
“This was an economic debate and that’s where Romney is the strongest,” a woman said.
http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/debate-gingrich-luntz/2011/11/11/id/417661
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everyone else has had the front seat of the Clown Car so it's only fair for Newt to be in the driver's seat for a while.
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Just watched an interview with him and have to say I was very impressed.
Newt’s Rising Numbers
by Lexi Stemple | November 14, 2011
As former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's poll numbers rise, so are his fundraising numbers. His campaign reports they will raise more than $3 million in the fourth quarter.
If that money pans out, it would be well ahead of the $800,000 the campaign raised in the third quarter. But, the debt is still there.
The campaign reported about 1.2 million dollars in debt last quarter, and Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond says that number will be about the same this quarter.
"We've had a consistent increase in new and Newt donors since the Ames debate," say Hammond, who adds "about one out of every 2 donors is someone who hasn't given to the campaign before."
Several recent polls show Gingrich near the top, including one Public Policy Poll out Monday that puts him ahead of the GOP pack with 28%. That poll credits the fading of Atlanta businessman Herman Cain, who still came in second with 25%.
Hammond claims people want the substance and big ideas Newt is credited for bringing to the GOP presidential debates. "More people are seeing him in person, as opposed to how he is depicted in the media, and they are changing their minds," Hammond said.
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/11/14/newt-s-rising-numbers
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Just watched an interview with him and have to say I was very impressed.
Newt’s Rising Numbers
by Lexi Stemple | November 14, 2011
As former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's poll numbers rise, so are his fundraising numbers. His campaign reports they will raise more than $3 million in the fourth quarter.
If that money pans out, it would be well ahead of the $800,000 the campaign raised in the third quarter. But, the debt is still there.
The campaign reported about 1.2 million dollars in debt last quarter, and Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond says that number will be about the same this quarter.
"We've had a consistent increase in new and Newt donors since the Ames debate," say Hammond, who adds "about one out of every 2 donors is someone who hasn't given to the campaign before."
Several recent polls show Gingrich near the top, including one Public Policy Poll out Monday that puts him ahead of the GOP pack with 28%. That poll credits the fading of Atlanta businessman Herman Cain, who still came in second with 25%.
Hammond claims people want the substance and big ideas Newt is credited for bringing to the GOP presidential debates. "More people are seeing him in person, as opposed to how he is depicted in the media, and they are changing their minds," Hammond said.
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/11/14/newt-s-rising-numbers
Didn't you just a couple of days ago say how Newt's past would cause you to not vote for him?
I'm not gonna go find it, but I'm pretty sure I remember you typing that here on getbig.
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Didn't you just a couple of days ago say how Newt's past would cause you to not vote for him?
I'm not gonna go find it, but I'm pretty sure I remember you typing that here on getbig.
He did suggest dissatisfaction with Newt but don't try to lock BB into something like you just did because you will fail lol. BB is always intentionally ambiguous in everything he says. BB should run for office, he would be good at it lol...
Newt is actually one of the best speakers in American politics. Even when you disagree with him, he has always been impressive when he starts talking. He's spectacular in a debate or just giving an interview and always has been.
That BB is all of a sudden impressed with him, I have no idea what he's thinking. Maybe he never really payed attention to him before. He was a Clinton supporter when Newt was at this height.
Personally I think Newt is a freaking Scumbag and total hypocrite and the thought of him as president could make me vote for that sack of shit Obama again.
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Personally I think Newt is a freaking Scumbag and total hypocrite and the thought of him as president could make me vote for that sack of shit Obama again.
Seriously? Why?
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Seriously? Why?
yes Seriously and you've already read the thread where "why" was talked about.
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yes Seriously and you've already read the thread where "why" was talked about.
OK thanks. Maybe I'll try to do some searching later for your reason. Or maybe someone else could tell me if they remember.
was it the infidelity thing? You don't have to answer if you don't want to.
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Just watched an interview with him and have to say I was very impressed.
you hated on newt for a long time because of his hypocrisy while chasing clinton out of town for perjury about sex.
now youre coming around because he's the frontrunner and FOX is loving him.
Just as I attack every repub frontrunner for the kicks, you cheerlead every repub frontrunner out of duty.
Now, let me just respond for you, save ya the time: " ::) "
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you hated on newt for a long time because of his hypocrisy while chasing clinton out of town for perjury about sex.
Is that the reason Hugo would rather vote Obama than Newt?
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Is that the reason Hugo would rather vote Obama than Newt?
Clinton committed a crime of perjury. Demos were very good at confusing the issues back then.
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Didn't you just a couple of days ago say how Newt's past would cause you to not vote for him?
I'm not gonna go find it, but I'm pretty sure I remember you typing that here on getbig.
Wrong.
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Who in their right mind would vote for Newt Gingrich? He is the republican version of Clinton. A big government, global warming, wife cheating scumbag.
Gingrich=Obama=big government/wars/police state
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you hated on newt for a long time because of his hypocrisy while chasing clinton out of town for perjury about sex.
now youre coming around because he's the frontrunner and FOX is loving him.
Just as I attack every repub frontrunner for the kicks, you cheerlead every repub frontrunner out of duty.
Now, let me just respond for you, save ya the time: " ::) "
Oh this is hilarious. :)
Thune 2012.
Bachmann 2012.
Huntsman 2012!
Perry 2012... it's gonna be the ticket. Without a doubt.
Ron Paul 2012.
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Oh this is hilarious. :)
lol @ you caring so much bro
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Beach Bum 2012
Casey Anthony 2012
Larry Sinclair 2012
Accuser #4 2012
Godfathers with extra Sausage 2012
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lol @ you caring so much bro
lol @ the lying liar outed again. :)
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Wrong.
Lie.
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I like it. :)
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I like it. :)
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Doubt he would do that.
Newt: Gingrich/Cain Ticket 'A Real Possibility'
Tuesday, 15 Nov 2011
By Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter
Former House Speaker and current Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich tells Newsmax that a Gingrich/Herman Cain ticket in 2012 is a “real possibility” — and so is a slate with Cain on top and Gingrich as his running mate.
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http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/gingrich-cain-romney-iowa/2011/11/15/id/418160
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Doubt he would do that.
He would never add such a liability to his ticket.
this is just a shrewd move to try to give the Cain supporters a boat to swim to ;)
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Poll: Gingrich scores best versus Obama among voters today
Miami Herald ^ | Tuesday, 11.15.11 | STEVEN THOMMA
Posted on November 15, 2011 8:01:31 PM EST by presidio9
Newt Gingrich is the strongest Republican candidate when matched head to head against Democratic President Barack Obama, according to a McClatchy-Marist Poll released Tuesday.
The former speaker of the House of Representatives is neck and neck with the incumbent president, back just 2 percentage points among registered voters. Obama leads 47 percent to 45 percent.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is next closest, trailing Obama by 4 percentage points. In that matchup, Obama leads 48 percent to 44 percent.
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is the third best bet for the Republicans right now, 8 points back from Obama. No other Republican is within single digits of Obama. The survey has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The poll, coming as Gingrich has surged within the Republican field, could boost Gingrich's argument that he would be the party's best voice to debate Obama in the general election.
"He runs better," said Lee Miringoff, director of Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in New York, which conducted the national survey. "It's a closer race with him than with Romney or the others."
The poll last week reported that Gingrich had surged into second place among Republicans seeking their party's presidential nomination, trailing Romney and moving ahead of businessman Herman Cain.
"If this fall has been about anything, it's been the search for the anyone-but-Romney alternative," Miringoff said. "Clearly the next two weeks will be telling whether this is fleeting for Gingrich, or is he
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time to get off the cain train, nuthuggers.
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time to get off the cain train, nuthuggers.
Newt Paul and Bachmann are the best.
Paul earned my vote no matter what. But in the general, I would be ok voting for newt or Bachmann.
Cain would be a great Cabinet choice for commerce
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Cain would be a great Cabinet choice for commerce
i dont even konw about that lol.... a LOT of professionals say 9 9 9 sucks ass.
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i dont even konw about that lol.... a LOT of professionals say 9 9 9 sucks ass.
he means well and I like him, but he needs to bow out gracefully and work a cabinet spot for commerce or something like that
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McClatchy-Marist Poll: Gingrich Vaults to Statistical Tie With Obama
Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011
By Newsmax Wires
The political fortunes of President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich continue to head in opposite directions. As Obama’s star keeps falling, Gingrich’s keeps rising, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
The survey of registered voters shows that Obama leads former House Speaker Gingrich in a one-on-one matchup by only 47 percent to 45 percent. That’s well within the poll’s 5 percentage point margin of error.
Obama’s lead over GOP front-runner Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, also falls within the margin of error – 48 percent to 44 percent. The president has a stronger lead over businessman Herman Cain – 49 percent to 39 percent. And Obama leads Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann 54 percent to 35 percent.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Marist-Gingrich-Obama-Republican/2011/11/16/id/418299
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N.H. Union Leader backs Gingrich
Posted by
CNN Political Producer Rachel Streitfeld
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - New Hampshire's largest newspaper has endorsed Newt Gingrich for the Republican presidential nomination.
The New Hampshire Union Leader's Sunday editorial says the former House speaker "is by no means the perfect candidate" but calls him "the best candidate who is actually running."
"Republican voters too often make the mistake of preferring an unattainable ideal to the best candidate who is actually running," writes the paper's publisher, Joe McQuaid. "In this incredibly important election, that candidate is Newt Gingrich. He has the experience, the leadership qualities and the vision to lead this country in these trying times."
The Union Leader is the state's largest paper and its endorsement carries heft both locally and on a national scale, where it is seen as a bellwether for the nation's first primary. New Hampshire voters head to the polls Jan. 10.
The paper's backing of Gingrich could help the former House speaker position himself as an alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in a state where Romney has long been considered the front-runner. He hovers around 40% in recent polls, while Gingrich surged to 14% in a Suffolk University poll conducted November 16-20.
In an interview on CNN, Union Leader editor page editor Andrew Cline said the paper narrowed down the candidates to a choice between Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Cline said the paper picked Gingrich because he had the political experience to enact much of his platform.
Cline said the board gave "a fresh start" to its consideration of Romney, who has long been a favorite to win New Hampshire’s primary, but who has been repeatedly challenged by the Union Leader's editorial page.
“Romney's a guy who wants to be liked,” Cline said. “He's a politician who wants to be liked. Gingrich is a politician who wants to be respected, who wants to actually accomplish - he has an agenda that he wants to set in place.
"I'm really not sure precisely what we get out of a President Romney who might very well be a good president, but we don't really know," Cline added. "So given the choice between the candidate who wants to be liked and the candidate who wants to be respected, we would rather have the guy who wants to be respected.”
In the editorial, McQuaid praises Gingrich's "forward-thinking strategy" and the "positive leadership" he showed as House speaker.
"A lot of candidates say they're going to improve Washington," he writes. "Newt Gingrich has actually done that, and in this race he offers the best shot of doing it again."
The conservative Union Leader editorial page has a history of passing over the front-runner in its selections. The paper endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980, Deleware Gov. Pete DuPont in 1988, Reagan aide Pat Buchanan in 1992 and 1996, businessman Steve Forbes in 2000, and Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2008.
On CNN's "State of the Union," Cline said electability wasn't the only factor in selecting a candidate to endorse.
"We consider the candidate overall," Cline said. "I mean we don't just look at the poll numbers. This isn't a game where we're trying to win the primary so we can have a record of X-number of wins. We don't look at it that way. We are not trying to attach our name to a winner. That's not really leading. That would do our readers a very big disservice. We're looking at who we would like to see as president."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/27/n-h-union-leader-backs-gingrich/
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I would vote for newt no problem. He is right that we need to abolish the epa.
Expand Patriot Act too!!
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Expand Patriot Act too!!
You got that w Obama. Fail.
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You got that w Obama. Fail.
but Newt wants more expansion
Double down Remember?
Boom Fail... i win again
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Rep. Scott: Gingrich would take South Carolina
Posted by
CNN's Ashley Killough
(CNN) - Political heavyweight and Republican Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina said Monday that if the election were held today, GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich would win the Palmetto State.
"We'd love to see Mitt Romney spend more time in South Carolina, but I believe today if we were to hold the election, those are the two guys that would be at the top of the ticket and Newt would win," Scott said in an interview with CNN's "John King, USA."
The first-term congressman, a tea party favorite, has yet to endorse a candidate but has hosted a series of town halls for the presidential hopefuls stopping in South Carolina. Gingrich was in town Monday night to attend one of the events.
The former House Speaker took heat from the right last week when he said his approach to immigration would be "humane," arguing that longtime illegal immigrants who are well-assimilated into society should be considered for legal status.
Scott said he disagreed with that position but conceded voters in the state weren't looking for "the perfect candidate."
"We are simply a very strong anti-illegal immigration state. We will stay that way," Scott said. "You don't have to find the perfect candidate, however. What we need is someone who can beat President Obama and someone who makes sense."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/28/rep-scott-gingrich-would-take-south-carolina/
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More numbers breaking... It looks like it may have been up to $100 million between healthcare and housing company.
I'm okay with that, as I can understand how the 'system' works. But there can be ZERO condemnation of obama for being "washington business as usual..." from Newt. He is the definition of the problem in DC. Obama's a rookie at it still, in comparison.
He's defending it, still saying "I was never a lobbyist..."
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Newt is the globalist schill we need to turn the country around.
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Just a tad overconfident, but he might be right.
Gingrich: 'I'm Going to Be the Nominee'
By: Terence Burlij and Quinn Bowman
Newt Gingrich is looking to bring some certainty to a Republican presidential race that has been anything but settled.
"I'm going to be the nominee," the former House speaker told Jake Tapper of ABC News in West Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday. "It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee."
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/12/gingrich-bets-high-on-his-campaign.html
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Everything Newt knows about today's youth, he learned from watching season 1 of the Wire.
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Just a tad overconfident, but he might be right.
Gingrich: 'I'm Going to Be the Nominee'
By: Terence Burlij and Quinn Bowman
Newt Gingrich is looking to bring some certainty to a Republican presidential race that has been anything but settled.
"I'm going to be the nominee," the former House speaker told Jake Tapper of ABC News in West Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday. "It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee."
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/12/gingrich-bets-high-on-his-campaign.html
Well, we all knew it wouldn't be the black guy.
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Ouch.
Gingrich’s leadership ‘lacking,’ says Sen. Coburn
Posted by CNN Political Unit
(CNN) – A conservative Republican on Sunday openly balked at the idea of a Newt Gingrich presidency, basing his qualms on the former House Speaker’s leadership while in Congress.
“I’m not inclined to be a supporter of Newt Gingrich, having served under him for four years and experienced, personally, his leadership,” Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn told “Fox News Sunday."
Coburn said he often found Gingrich’s leadership “lacking” in Congress, but he declined to provide specifics.
Gingrich has surged to the top of national polls for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, but hasn’t yet won over Coburn.
“I will have difficulty supporting him as president of the United States,” Coburn said.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/04/gingrichs-leadership-lacking-says-sen-coburn/
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What an incredibly dumb thing for Pelosi to say. I'd expect something like this from Biden.
Pelosi ready to tell all on Gingrich
Posted by CNN Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh
(CNN) – Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office said Monday that any potentially-damaging information she had on Newt Gingrich was all open to the public, defending earlier comments that she had "a thousand pages" of investigative material on Gingrich during his time as House speaker.
"Leader Pelosi was clearly referring to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report with which the public may not be fully aware," said Nadeam Elshami, a Pelosi spokesman, in a statement.
Earlier Monday, Pelosi suggested in an interview she would talk in detail at some point about the House ethics committee's investigation of Gingrich in the late 1990s.
In the interview with the left-leaning news website Talking Points Memo, Pelosi was pressed to talk about her thoughts on the Republican presidential candidate's recent rise in the polls. While the House Democratic Leader demurred, she signaled she'd have more to say later.
"One of these days we'll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich," Pelosi told TPM. "I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff."
According to the TPM story, Pelosi "joked" the information would come out "when the time's right."
After hearing about the interview, Gingrich told reporters in New York that he considered Pelosi's comments "an early Christmas gift" and said any information the Democratic Leader might release on the ethics probe would itself be a violation of House ethics rules.
"That is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House and I would hope members would immediately file charges against her the second she does it," Gingrich said. If Pelosi did talk publicly about any private deliberations of the inquiry, Gingrich urged members of the House to file a complaint against her.
At his press conference on Monday, former Speaker Gingrich also noted that 83 charges the House committee investigated were found to be false.
But in 1997 Gingrich became the only speaker to be reprimanded by the House, for giving false information about using tax deductible funds for political purposes to the ethics committee. He was also ordered to pay $300,000 to cover the cost of the panel's inquiry.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/05/pelosi-ready-to-tell-all-on-gingrich/
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Ouch.
Gingrich’s leadership ‘lacking,’ says Sen. Coburn
Posted by CNN Political Unit
(CNN) – A conservative Republican on Sunday openly balked at the idea of a Newt Gingrich presidency, basing his qualms on the former House Speaker’s leadership while in Congress.
“I’m not inclined to be a supporter of Newt Gingrich, having served under him for four years and experienced, personally, his leadership,” Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn told “Fox News Sunday."
Coburn said he often found Gingrich’s leadership “lacking” in Congress, but he declined to provide specifics.
Gingrich has surged to the top of national polls for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, but hasn’t yet won over Coburn.
“I will have difficulty supporting him as president of the United States,” Coburn said.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/04/gingrichs-leadership-lacking-says-sen-coburn/
Ouch? Are you serious? More like, yay!
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An opinion piece sent to me by a Romney supporter. (Shocker) :)
December 6, 2011, 11:52 pm
The Tempting of the Christian Right
By ROSS DOUTHAT
More than any other Republican constituency, religious conservatives have good reasons to be wary of Newt Gingrich. As the leader of a right-wing insurgency in the early 1990s, he often kept their causes at arm’s length — deliberately excluding issues like abortion and school prayer from the Contract With America, for instance. As Speaker of the House, he undercut their claim to the moral high ground by carrying on an extramarital affair even as his party was impeaching Bill Clinton for lying under oath about adultery.
During his years in the political wilderness, though, Gingrich found religion – both as a convert to the Roman Catholic Church and as a born-again champion of socially conservative causes. He’s spent the last decade producing books and documentaries about America’s Christian heritage. He raised money for a referendum to recall the judges who legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa. His public rhetoric borrows the tropes of the religious right — emphasizing the dangers of secularism, attacking the usurpations of activist judges, and so on. And when he talks about his checkered personal life, it’s always in the language of sin, repentance and redemption.
Now his path to the nomination depends on this conversion paying off. If Gingrich hopes to outlast Mitt Romney, he needs to win over evangelicals wary of Mormonism and social conservatives worried about Romney’s many flip-flops on their issues. He needs the Republican Party’s values voters to forgive his past indiscretions and embrace him as their champion. And his rise in the polls has prompted a lively debate among religious conservatives, both in Iowa and nationally, about whether they should do just that — whether he’s really changed, whether his various conversions are sincere, and whether they can trust him.
But these are the wrong questions. The real issue for religious conservatives isn’t whether they can trust Gingrich. It’s whether they can afford to be associated with him.
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Newt Gingrich at the 7th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.., on April 27, 2011.Conservative Christianity in America, both evangelical and Catholic, faces a looming demographic challenge: A rising generation that is more unchurched than any before it, more liberal on issues like gay marriage, and allergic to the apocalyptic rhetoric of the Pat Robertson-Jerry Falwell era. To many younger Americans, religious conservatism as they know it often seems to stand for a kind of institutionalized hypocrisy — a right-wing Tartufferie that’s incensed by the idea of gay wedlock but tolerant of straight divorce, forgiving of Republican sins but judgmental about Democratic indiscretions, and eager to apply moral litmus tests only on issues that benefit the political right.
Rallying around Newt Gingrich, effectively making him the face of Christian conservatism in this Republican primary season, would ratify all of these impressions. It isn’t just that he’s a master of selective moral outrage whose newfound piety has been turned to consistently partisan ends. It’s that his personal history — not only the two divorces, but also the repeated affairs and the way he behaved during the dissolution of his marriages — makes him the most compromised champion imaginable for a movement that’s laboring to keep lifelong heterosexual monogamy on a legal and cultural pedestal.
For some religious conservatives, the big question for 2012 seems to be whether Gingrich has done enough to show contrition for these sins. Richard Land, the president of the Ethics and Religious
Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, recently published an open letter urging the former Speaker to “address this issue of your marital past directly and transparently and ask folks to forgive you and give you their trust and their vote,” suggesting that he should “pick a pro-family venue and give a speech (not an interview) addressing your marital history once and for all.”
But repentance isn’t the issue here. Of course Christians are obliged to forgive a penitent, whatever his offenses — though a cynic might note that it’s easy for an adulterer to express contrition once he’s safely married to his mistress. But one can forgive a sinner without necessarily deciding that he should be anointed as the standard bearer for the very cause that he betrayed. Contrition is supposed to be its own reward. There’s no obligation to throw in the presidency as well.
In a climate of culture war, any spokesman for conservative Christianity is destined to be a polarizing figure. (Just ask Tim Tebow.) But a religious right that rallied around Gingrich would be putting the worst possible face on its cause and at the worst possible time.
His candidacy isn’t a test of religious conservatives’ willingness to be good, forgiving Christians. It’s a test of their ability to see their cause through outsiders’ eyes, and to recognize what anointing a thrice-married adulterer as the champion of “family values” would say to the skeptical, the unconverted and above all to the young.
An earlier version of this column incorrectly described Richard Land’s position in the Southern Baptist Convention. He is president of the group’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, not the president of the convention itself.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/the-tempting-of-the-christian-right/
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Thomas Sowell: I’ll Take Gingrich over Romney
Wednesday, 21 Dec 2011
Economist and conservative author Thomas Sowell says voters should disregard Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s “baggage” and support the former House speaker because defeating President Obama in 2012 is crucial to America’s future.
Sowell cites Gingrich’s solid record of “concrete accomplishments,” which he argues makes him a stronger candidate than former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who pushed through one of the liberal healthcare programs in the nation.
Sowell, one of the nation’s most respected conservative columnists and a senior fellow on public policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, writes in his nationally syndicated column: “What the media call Gingrich’s ‘baggage’ concerns largely his personal life and the fact that he made a lot of money running a consulting firm after he left Congress.
“But how much weight should we give to this stuff when we are talking about the future of the nation?”
Sowell points to Obama’s economic policies, which have taken the country down a path that has “led Western European nations to the brink of financial disaster.”
He also cites a foreign policy that has “pulled the rug” out from under America’s allies while seeking to “cozy up” to our enemies, and says the failure to deter Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons development could have consequences “beyond our worst imagining.”
“Against this background, how much does Newt Gingrich’s personal life matter?” Sowell asks.
Voters should recognize Gingrich’s “concrete accomplishments” when he was House speaker — the first Republican takeover of the House in 40 years, welfare reform, and the first balanced budget in 40 years, Sowell says.
The real question, he observes, is whether Gingrich is better than Obama — and better than “smooth talker” Mitt Romney.
He concludes: “Those who want to concentrate on the baggage in Newt Gingrich’s past, rather than on the nation’s future, should remember what Winston Churchill said: ‘If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.’ If that means a second term for Barack Obama, then it means we’ve lost, big time.”
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/sowell-romney-gingrich-obama/2011/12/21/id/421814
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Thomas Sowell: I’ll Take Gingrich over Romney
Wednesday, 21 Dec 2011
Economist and conservative author Thomas Sowell says voters should disregard Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s “baggage” and support the former House speaker because defeating President Obama in 2012 is crucial to America’s future.
Sowell cites Gingrich’s solid record of “concrete accomplishments,” which he argues makes him a stronger candidate than former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who pushed through one of the liberal healthcare programs in the nation.
Sowell, one of the nation’s most respected conservative columnists and a senior fellow on public policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, writes in his nationally syndicated column: “What the media call Gingrich’s ‘baggage’ concerns largely his personal life and the fact that he made a lot of money running a consulting firm after he left Congress.
“But how much weight should we give to this stuff when we are talking about the future of the nation?”
Sowell points to Obama’s economic policies, which have taken the country down a path that has “led Western European nations to the brink of financial disaster.”
He also cites a foreign policy that has “pulled the rug” out from under America’s allies while seeking to “cozy up” to our enemies, and says the failure to deter Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons development could have consequences “beyond our worst imagining.”
“Against this background, how much does Newt Gingrich’s personal life matter?” Sowell asks.
Voters should recognize Gingrich’s “concrete accomplishments” when he was House speaker — the first Republican takeover of the House in 40 years, welfare reform, and the first balanced budget in 40 years, Sowell says.
The real question, he observes, is whether Gingrich is better than Obama — and better than “smooth talker” Mitt Romney.
He concludes: “Those who want to concentrate on the baggage in Newt Gingrich’s past, rather than on the nation’s future, should remember what Winston Churchill said: ‘If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.’ If that means a second term for Barack Obama, then it means we’ve lost, big time.”
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/sowell-romney-gingrich-obama/2011/12/21/id/421814
Newts "baggage" is his repution with his own party from people who were unfortunate enough to personally experience his type of "leadership". This will sink him more than his horribly hypocrtical and un-christian personal problems.
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Paul: Gingrich a 'chickenhawk'
Posted by
CNN's Kevin Liptak
(CNN) – Rep. Ron Paul said Wednesday that rival Newt Gingrich was a "chickenhawk" for voting to send American troops into war while never having served in the military himself.
Paul was responding to a question from CNN's Soledad O'Brien on the program "Starting Point" about Gingrich's assertion that the Texas congressman would be a "dangerous" candidate.
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"You know, when Newt Gingrich was called to serve us in the 1960s during the Vietnam era, guess what he thought about danger? He chickened out on that and got deferments and didn't even go," Paul said. "Right now he sends the young kids over there and the young people come back and the ones in the military right now, they overwhelmingly support my campaign."
Paul pointed to the number of veterans who are supporting his bid for the GOP nomination, citing their endorsement for his platform of limited American involvement overseas
"We get twice as much support from the active military personnel than all the other candidates put together," Paul said. "So Newt Gingrich has no business talking about danger because he is putting other people in danger. Some people call that kind of a program a 'chickenhawk' and I think he falls into that category."
Paul has previously criticized the former House speaker for deferments he received during the Vietman era. Paul himself served as a surgeon in the U.S. Air Force after attending medical school.
Paul also said Wednesday he had no idea who posted a snarky message about rival candidate Jon Huntsman on his official Twitter page.
The post, which appeared late Tuesday as results were being complied in the Iowa caucuses, read: "@JonHuntsman, we found your one Iowa voter, he's in Linn precinct 5 you might want to call him and say thanks."
"I didn't quite understand even what you just read, but, obviously, I didn't send it," Paul said. "So, I don't even understand. I'm sorry, I didn't catch the whole message there about Jon Huntsman. I haven't talked about Jon Huntsman in a long time. I don't know what's going on there."
The message was sent from the account @RonPaul, which is the candidates official feed. Paul admitted Wednesday that he "has some help tweeting."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/04/paul-gingrich-a-chickenhawk/
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Fearing Gingrich, Both Sides Say He's Unelectable
Tuesday, 24 Jan 2012
By Matt Barber
What do establishment Republicans and liberal Democrats have in common? They’ve long labored under a shared misconception: conservative candidates are unelectable.
In 1980, conventional wisdom held that Ronald Reagan didn’t stand a chance against Jimmy Carter. The GOP leadership, the mainstream media and liberal politicos alike lined up against the Gipper in an attempt to derail his presidential campaign.
Rush Limbaugh recently addressed this phenomenon on his radio program: “Gerald Ford said that Ronald Reagan was unelectable. George H.W. Bush said that Ronald Reagan was unelectable. The entire Republican establishment thought Ronald Reagan was unelectable because they were governed and informed by the Goldwater landslide defeat. That’s what they think will happen to every conservative.”
That’s what they think will happen to Newt Gingrich.
As it became clear last week that the former House speaker was on his way to an impressive victory in South Carolina, liberal strategist and MSNBC talking head Lawrence O’Donnell summed up bipartisan conventional wisdom by suggesting, against all the evidence, that Mr. Gingrich “cannot win a national election … It’s impossible.”
On “Meet the Press,” fellow MSNBCer and mushy moderate Joe Scarborough declared, “Republicans are panicked in Washington, D.C., for good reason.”
Indeed, Mr. Gingrich’s solid win, coupled with another surge in Florida, has the establishment squealing and darting about like a flaming pot-bellied pig. Massachusetts moderate Mitt Romney’s campaign has trotted out surrogates like Ann Coulter and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to nip at the speaker’s heels.
Coulter, who has moved briskly leftward in recent years, even joining the Republican gay activist group GOProud, has stooped to personal attacks against South Carolina voters. “Apparently, South Carolinians would rather have the emotional satisfaction of a snotty remark toward the president than to beat Obama in the fall,” she said.
Of South Carolina conservatives’ willingness to forgive Mr. Gingrich for his past marital infidelity — something he has long admitted to and repented for — Coulter snipped, “I think South Carolina is going back to its Democratic roots. I mean, to not care about that, that’s the position of the Democratic Party.”
Still, RINO Republicans’ fear of Mr. Gingrich stems from something entirely different from that which drives the left. The GOP leadership actually believes that he cannot win a general election, while — with a traumatic Reagan presidency still fresh in their minds — left-wing “progressives” know that he can.
It’s the liberal media and Democratic National Committee, in fact, that has largely pushed the self-serving “Romney-is-the-inevitable-nominee” meme.
In a recent Fox News interview, Sarah Palin, who has all but officially endorsed Mr. Gingrich, said, “I believe the mainstream media and Obama want to face Mitt Romney in the general election.”
And why wouldn’t they? In terms of his ability to inspire the base and get out the vote, Mr. Romney is a bit like Bob Dole without all the honorable accomplishments. After last week’s debacle in South Carolina, it’s little wonder that The Washington Post is reporting Romney will no longer commit to any further Florida debates. He finds himself in a Catch-22: he must either debate and lose to Mr. Gingrich or not debate and lose to Mr. Gingrich.
Guess who else doesn’t want to debate Mr. Gingrich? Hint: his initials are BHO.
I’ll state the obvious: Mr. Gingrich is not a perfect man. Neither is he the perfect candidate. Who is? The question is, do we allow repentance for personal sin? Do we forgive others their trespasses as we wish to be forgiven?
I’m reminded of the biblical account of King David. As a shepherd boy, he slew a giant. As a man, he fell into sin — marital infidelity and even murder. Yet through it all God called him “a man after [His] own heart.” Through it all, David remained a great leader.
Like David, Mr. Gingrich has proven to be a man with many flaws. But like David, he has also proven to be a great leader. It was Mr. Gingrich, of course, who led the 1994 “Republican Revolution” that launched the political careers of many establishment Republicans who now fear their past leader’s future nomination.
Our volatile times require a man who will decisively and decidedly lead from the helm. We cannot survive four more years of “leading from behind.”
That’s why we need Newt Gingrich.
Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. He is vice president of Liberty Counsel Action.
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Gingrich-Republican-Florida-Primary/2012/01/24/id/425363
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is FOX taking sides against Newt?
During SC primary results FOX didn't cover Gingrich's victory and speech: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12513372
Currently MSNBC is showing the President live in Iowa.
Currently CNN is flipping between Gingrich in Florida and the President in Iowa
Currently FOX is showing an update about snow in Washington State, and other blather but neither Gingrich nor the President live.
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Nancy Reagan 1995: Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt
Legal Insurrection ^ | January 25, 2012 at 9:50pm | William A. Jacobson
Posted on January 25, 2012 10:20:04 PM EST by Utmost Certainty
There is something truly obscene about the full blown assault on Newt Gingrich’s strong Reagan conservative history from and on behalf of Mitt Romney, who unabashedly ran away from the Reagan legacy and conservative principles in his 1994 Senate campaign and 2002 gubernatorial campaign. Truly obscene.
The latest iteration comes from Elliott Abrams writing in National Review, quoting pieces of a single speech Newt apparently gave on the floor of the House on March 21, 1986, in which Newt criticized certain foreign policy decisions of the Reagan administration. Abrams does not link to the full speech or to other speeches of Newt at the time.
Instead much of the anti-Newt conservative media — including a screaming Drudge banner — accuses Newt of “insulting” Reagan. It is part of a smear campaign which started when Newt surged in Iowa and National Review unloaded with it’s infamous “Marvin the Maritan” issue, and now it has resurfaced once again now that Romney is in electoral trouble.
A more honest assessment comes from Jeffrey Lord at The American Spectator. Lord, who was in a position to know because he witnessed first hand Newt’s interaction with Reagan, has written a critical column, Reagan’s Young Lieutenant, Much like Byron York’s column debunking Romney attacks regarding Newt’s ethics charges, Lord’s column is a critical contribution to the truth in a sea of shameless lies.
Lord portrays Newt in a much more favorable light:
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
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mitt is running nonstop ads against newt in FL.
I'm talking CSI on CBS.... on MSNBC.... on ESPN....I think i even saw one of the ads on nickelodeon.
I think FL will be closer than ppl thing... lots of mitt votes were mailed weeks ago, long before s carolina.
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Newt wants to put a base on the moon.
No waste of money there.
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Newt, or even a random idiot out of the phone book, would be better than what we have now.
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Newt, or even a random idiot out of the phone book, would be better than what we have now.
weaker than a wet noodle your "argument" is
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weaker than a wet noodle your "argument" is
Actually it is not you 95% moron.
Obama basically said that unless he gets 60 plus votes in the Senate plus the house of reps back he cant get anything done.
In 2012 - there is literally no scenario where obama gets 60 plus seats in the Senate and the house is still up for grabs.
So why vote for him again when he already told you that an obama second term will literally mean 4 more years of bullshit? no my words, his!
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Actually it is not you 95% moron.
Obama basically said that unless he gets 60 plus votes in the Senate plus the house of reps back he cant get anything done.
In 2012 - there is literally no scenario where obama gets 60 plus seats in the Senate and the house is still up for grabs.
So why vote for him again when he already told you that an obama second term will literally mean 4 more years of bullshit? no my words, his!
Sure the fuck is.. your bitch ass always comes with the dumbest "arguments".... and your arguments are all opinion.. you fuckin bitch
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Sure the fuck is.. your bitch ass always comes with the dumbest "arguments".... and your arguments are all opinion.. you fuckin bitch
Really? Refute my point. you cant.
A vote for thugbama is a vote for 4 more years of slap chop POTUS
Over priced garbage no one needs or will use.
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Really? Refute my point. you cant.
A vote for thugbama is a vote for 4 more years of slap chop POTUS
Over priced garbage no one needs or will use.
the last three years have brought returns on investments over 20%. I sure hope he gets another 4 years!
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Massive Poll: Half of Tea Partyers Support Gingrich
Thursday, 26 Jan 2012
By Martin Gould
Tea partyers overwhelmingly back Newt Gingrich to be the Republican presidential nominee, a huge poll of 29,000 people shows.
And despite claims that rival candidate Ron Paul is the grandfather of the grass-roots conservative movement, the Texas congressman comes out with the worst ratings in every single question asked in the survey.
More than half of the respondents said they believe Gingrich will win the nomination. Even more say he has the best chance of defeating President Barack Obama in the fall, while slightly under 50 percent say the former House speaker is their choice, according to the Grassfire Nation poll.
“Newt Gingrich appears to have solidified strong support from just under half the tea party movement. Now the question is no longer one of who has the most support within the movement, it’s more a matter of the movement’s ability [or inability] to outperform the traditional GOP primary voter base,” wrote Grassfire Nation media director Eric Odom.
When it came to stating which of the candidates is their least favorite, those surveyed picked Paul by an overwhelming majority over Mitt Romney, Gingrich, and Rick Santorum, in that order.
“For all the messaging we’ve seen about Ron Paul being the tea party granddaddy, it’s amazing that he fails to shine at any point in the survey,” Odom said.
“Ron Paul is clearly the least favorite out of the 29,000 surveyed, he’s perceived as the least likely nominee, and the tea party base views him as having the worst chances at defeating Barack Obama.
“This flies in the face of the argument that Ron Paul’s foreign policy isn’t damaging to his brand. On domestic policy one could easily assume Ron Paul wins hands down. It’s the foreign policy that immediately yanks him to the back of the line.”
When asked which candidate they would vote for in a primary or caucus, just over 48 percent said Gingrich, with Santorum at 25 percent; Romney, 15; and Paul, 12. When asked who ultimately would be the candidate, Gingrich had 55 percent, Romney 32, Santorum 7 and Paul 6.
But Gingrich really shone on the question of who is the best candidate to beat Obama, getting 57 percent, compared with Romney’s 23, Santorum’s 12, and Paul’s 9.
Gingrich and Santorum were the only two who more than half of the tea party supporters feel would be acceptable candidates. Gingrich scored 69 percent support; Santorum, 61; Romney, 43; and Paul, 22.
“That means every other tea party voter finds Romney totally unacceptable,” Odom said. “That’s a big problem for Romney in that the tea party movement is currently the most energized part of the Republican voter base.”
On the question of the least favorite, Paul easily outstripped the others with 57 percent; Romney scored 25; Gingrich, 13; and Santorum, 5.
The tea party supporters showed their allegiance to the Republican Party with 79 percent saying they would not support a conservative third-party candidate. Sixteen percent said they would and 5 percent said they were undecided.
“Hands down — no questions asked — there simply is no interest or support for such an effort,” Odom said.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Gingrich-tea-party-Grassfire/2012/01/26/id/425649
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Shows how dumb the Tea Party people are.
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Cuban-American Leader: Huge Push for Newt Over Mitt
NewsMax ^ | January 28, 2012 | David A. Patten
Posted on January 28, 2012 5:21:07 PM EST by Cincinatus' Wife
Carlos Perez, one of Ronald Reagan's closest Miami advisers and a Radio Mambi talk host who is influential in Florida's Cuban-American community, says there is growing resentment among Hispanics due to “lies and distortions” from GOP candidate Mitt Romney targeting former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Perez told Newsmax in an exclusive interview Saturday afternoon that a backlash is brewing against the Romney campaign’s allegation that Gingrich tried to undermine former President Ronald Reagan’s agenda.
Perez was a close adviser to President Reagan, and Reagan even acknowledged his Cuban-American friend's achievement during a State of the Union address.
“Among Cuban-Americans, you can bet your life Newt Gingrich will win the primary election,” Perez flatly predicted.
Perez, host of a popular Miami radio and television show, said Hispanic voters and especially Cuban-Americans are now “backing Newt Gingrich dramatically” and “getting a little bit mad at the Romney campaign.”
Perez endorsed Gingrich’s presidential bid on Monday. On Saturday, he told Newsmax that the buzz in the Cuban-American community has turned strongly pro-Gingrich.
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Newt Gingrich vs. the Republican establishment
Politico ^ | Koffler
Posted on January 29, 2012 10:04:32 PM EST by VinL
The conservative Republican base understands Newt Gingrich better than the GOP establishment thinks.
They are aware of his intermittent apostasies and occasional adventures with crackpot policy. They know Mitt Romney is the one with executive experience and that Gingrich can’t really run things.
And they don’t want Gingrich to run things. They want him to destroy things.
If you are in Washington and you see a member of the Republican establishment, say, walking down K Street, wrap your arms around them. He or she needs a hug, because probably for the first time ever in a Republican presidential primary the establishment is in danger of being completely ignored.
The Republican establishment believes that the birth and rebirth of candidate Gingrich should have ended in the cradle, that he had no right messing up Romney’s coronation in South Carolina and had better be stopped in Florida.
The establishment knows Gingrich. He’s kind of a friend of the Republican establishment. And Gingrich, the establishment says, you’re no president.
The establishment may be right. But it may not get its way. Win or lose Tuesday in Florida, Gingrich is in the game for real, because the Republican base is giving him a chance.
The grass-roots conservatives, tea partiers, evangelicals and the like who compose the base have had it with the establishment. The base is not only angry at President Barack Obama. The base wants to eat its own.
It was nice, polite Republicans, like Romney, who colluded with Democrats in expanding the federal government and who piled up the $15 trillion debt that now threatens to destroy the country. It was upstanding members of the GOP who added a new Medicare entitlement without paying for it, who created new agencies and wove myriad regulations to govern the lives of regular folk.
The base wants someone who is not polite, who is not conventional, who has the potential to grasp the established order in Washington by its cuff links and rip out its entrails.
For the same reason conservatives fell in love with blunt Herman Cain and his cigarette-puffing campaign manager, they now have eyes for Gingrich.
And the establishment is desperately trying to figure out what to do.
Sure, Republican primaries have, on occasion, created some turmoil. But in the end, someone “sensible” with the imprimatur of the establishment has always prevailed.
The nomination has usually been passed like a monarch’s crown — to the runner-up in the previous contest. George H.W. Bush prevailed over Bob Dole in 1988 and then fended off the anti-establishment upstart Pat Buchanan four years later. Dole got the nod in 1996.
With George W. Bush, the establishment actually passed its genes from one president to another.
Even Ronald Reagan, often cited as the man who broke the establishment, was not the type of uncontrolled meteor that Gingrich is. Reagan had almost beaten President Gerald R. Ford in 1976 and was the heavy favorite going into the 1980 primaries. He had the backing of many prominent Republicans as well as the leading outlet of conservative thought, the National Review.
This orderly process of selection does not succeed because the Republican establishment is a kind of omnipotent secret organization that meets every Tuesday in the bowels of the Chamber of Commerce to plot the fate of the GOP.
Rather, it is a loose network of Republican thinkers, politicians, lobbyists, staffers and journalists based in Washington who share common experiences — like being educated in the same ivory towers as liberals and having to answer to them at cocktail parties.
Within the establishment, everyone can safely turn to one another and say with a reasonable expectation of concurrence that Ron Paul is an unelectable crank with some wacky ideas, that something’s not quite right about Rick Santorum with all his moralizing and religious ecstasies and that Gingrich can’t be trusted with your children, let alone nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, Romney is a robot from Planet Hairdo, but at least he won’t screw things up. He’s someone with whom the establishment can feel comfortable — who won’t spill merlot on the carpet.
Romney says that Gingrich is part of the establishment. Technically, Romney is right. Gingrich was House speaker, after all, and then made millions trading off his name and his insider status.
But Gingrich is not part of the real Republican establishment.
He’s rude. He has weird ideas. And he’s unpredictable. One day he’s huddling in a backroom with Tom DeLay and the next he’s seated next to then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), talking global warming.
He rattles the established order. He upsets people. In the 1990s, he removed from power poor old Republican Minority Leader Bob Michel, who every two years had bleated “Oh well” and handed the speaker’s gavel to the Democrat in charge.
This is what the conservative base likes. It sees that while Romney will do a modest job reining in the budget, Gingrich might just whack the thing until it begs for mercy and releases all its wasteful programs.
It knows that while Romney will oppose the world’s bad guys, Gingrich might just scare them back into their caves and then bury them with B-52s.
Snarling at CNN’s John King, proposing to colonize the moon and wondering aloud if child labor laws need revising, Gingrich is the end to business as usual.
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MSNBC is working OVERTIME to get romney the win in FL.
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MSNBC is working OVERTIME to get romney the win in FL.
Because they know Romney is a time bomb waiting to blow that will give Obama a second term on a platter.
I fucking hate romney.
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Because they know Romney is a time bomb waiting to blow that will give Obama a second term on a platter.
I fucking hate romney.
on DU they pointed out the way FOX was intentionally dissing newt this last week.
the MSNBC slobberfest on friday was shocking... they love romney... 'it's inevitable'.... they must have said that a dozen times.
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on DU they pointed out the way FOX was intentionally dissing newt this last week.
the MSNBC slobberfest on friday was shocking... they love romney... 'it's inevitable'.... they must have said that a dozen times.
Romney is the foil. Anyone not seeing that is delusional. Romney s a piece of shit.
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Newt Gingrich: President Obama 'needs to move to Europe'
Seattle PI ^ | Updated 05:06 p.m., Friday, February 24, 2012 | JOEL CONNELLY
Posted on February 24, 2012 8:31:57 PM EST by Red Steel
FEDERAL WAY -- Ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, seeking his third comeback in the Republican presidential race, told a Friday rally that Barack Obama is "president of the wrong country" and ought to "move to Europe."
Gingrich dispensed red meat rhetoric with a smile. He is again the happy warrior seen in a CNN Republican debate earlier this week, and not the angry candidate who won in South Carolina but then lost big in Florida.
"Our only opponent is Barack Obama," Calista Gingrich said in introducing her husband. As for Newt Gingrich, he mentioned the GOP field only once with a dig at a free-spending, well-heeled rival: "Mitt Romney raises a lot more money from Wall Street than I do, but we have 170,000 donors."
The former House Speaker is holding four rallies in Washington, anticipating the state's Saturday, March 3, precinct caucuses
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The themes of his speech here could be summed up in three words: gas guzzlers and God.
Gingrich is touting a drill-baby-drill energy policy, saying he wants to be known as "President Drilling." He lampooned the fuel-efficient Chevy Volt, and the prospect of generating energy from algae -- calling Obama "President Algae" and "President Food Stamps" -- and claimed that the 44th president is seeking "total power" to shape Americans' consumption habits.
"The President would like to force all of us into small vehicles," Gingrich alleged. "The President would like to force all of to do what he wants. He's president of the wrong country. ... He needs to move to Europe."
It was about as blunt as any Republican candidate has espoused the Barack Obama-is-different line of argument. Gingrich followed up with another hit at the President, saying: "Obama's vision is one of total power in the White House."
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FUBO. Rot in he'll every ghettobamabot!!!
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Gingrich to leave presidential race next Tuesday, sources say
Published April 25, 2012
FoxNews.com
Newt Gingrich plans to formally leave the Republican presidential race next Tuesday, senior campaign aides told Fox News, after struggling for months to turn around his sagging bid for the White House.
The former House speaker will "more than likely" endorse Mitt Romney when he makes his announcement to either suspend or end the campaign, a source said.
The decision comes after Gingrich huddled with senior advisers following the five primaries Romney swept on Tuesday night. Romney's victories made it virtually impossible for Gingrich to secure the 1,144 delegates needed for the Republican nomination.
Gingrich's exit is a stark turnaround from his public posture just a few months back, when in December he confidently declared following his rise in national polls that he's "going to be the nominee." His campaign then flagged until his blockbuster victory in the South Carolina primary in late January -- Gingrich failed to follow that up with any victories save for a win in his home state of Georgia, as Romney marched steadily toward the nomination.
Gingrich and Ron Paul were the only Romney rivals remaining after Rick Santorum bowed out earlier this month. Meanwhile, Gingrich continues to receive protection from a scaled-back Secret Service detail, though it's unclear whether that will change before his announcement. Bloomberg/Business Week recently estimated that the detail is costing taxpayers at least $40,000 a day.
For several weeks, Gingrich staffers have been reviewing accounts and making preparations. Gingrich had been holding out hope for a strong performance at least in Delaware Tuesday night. Absent that, Gingrich decided to plan for his exit next week.
He will complete his North Carolina schedule this week, making it something of a goodbye tour while supporters, friends and family arrive from across the country for his departure from the race.
Earlier on the trail, Gingrich signaled Wednesday morning that he was preparing to drop out. Telling a breakfast gathering of county Republicans in North Carolina that it's clear Romney will be the nominee, Gingrich said the campaign is "working out the details of our transition" and will have more information in the coming days.
"I think you have to be honest at some point about what's happening in the real world as opposed to what you'd have like to have happened," Gingrich said, praising the front-runner's primary performances Tuesday night.
"This guy has worked for six years, put together a big machine, and has put together a serious campaign," he said. "I think obviously that I would be a better candidate, but the objective fact is that the voters didn't think that."
Gingrich said he plans to complete his campaign schedule in North Carolina, which runs through Friday, but "I want you to know that I've been coming here a long time as a citizen, I'm going to keep coming as a citizen, I have a schedule through the rest of the week as a citizen."
Gingrich said that he and Callista are still committed to going to Tampa, but made it clear that they would be attending as Romney supporters and not as spoilers for the nomination.
"I do think it's pretty clear that Gov. Romney is ultimately going to be the nominee and we're going to do everything we can to make sure that he is, in fact, effective and that we as a team are effective both in winning this fall and then, frankly, in governing," he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/25/gingrich-to-suspend-presidential-campaign-next-tuesday-sources-say/
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[bTea Partyers Support Gingrich[/b]
Tea partyers overwhelmingly back Newt Gingrich to be the Republican presidential nominee, a huge poll of 29,000 people shows.
Guess it wasnt enough :-\
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I'm missing Newt already.
and Herb Cain, too.
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Candidate Gingrich ends campaign but vows to keep fighting as 'Citizen' Gingrich
Published May 02, 2012
FoxNews.com
Newt Gingrich officially suspended his GOP presidential campaign Wednesday – though it was more like another episode in the long goodbye that started weeks ago.
“It has been an amazing year for me and Callista,” Gingrich, the former House speaker, said at a Hilton Hotel in northern Virginia. "Today, I am suspending the campaign, but suspending the campaign does not mean suspending citizenship. Callista and I are committed to be active citizens. We owe it to America."
Delivering a roughly 20-minute address, Gingrich vowed to, with his wife, remain “active citizens,” as he looked back on the primary campaign and looked ahead to what challenges remain in America.
But he also declined to endorse Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination -- meaning another announcement could still be on the way and potentially giving Gingrich another chance to deliver one of the extended monologues he is known for.
Even so, Gingrich has slowly slipped away from the limelight in the Republican race.
The campaign suggested in March that Gingrich might quit should he fail to win Mississippi or Alabama, but the campaign limped on. Aides then revealed last week that the candidate would be calling it quits – but pushed off the day of the announcement itself until Tuesday, then delayed that announcement until Wednesday afternoon.
Despite not endorsing Romney, Gingrich did make clear that his doubts during the primary campaign about Romney’s conservatism are dwarfed by his concerns about President Obama winning another term.
“This is not a choice between Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan – this is a choice between Mitt Romney and the most radical leftist president in American history,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich’s candidacy had seen its fair share of twists and turns since its launch last summer. He got off to a rough start -- losing his staff and finishing fourth in the Iowa caucuses, which kicked off the 2012 primary season -- but later gained momentum with a big win Jan. 21 in South Carolina.
He scored a must-win primary victory March 6 in Georgia, the state he represented in Congress for 20 years. But his plans of becoming the conservative alternative to frontrunner Romney -- and to Romney's deep-pocketed and well organized campaign -- during primaries across the South unraveled when Rick Santorum pulled off a string of wins in the region.
The wins moved Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, into position as Romney’s closest competitor in the race to face Obama in November. But like Santorum, who suspended his campaign in last month, Gingrich also had trouble raising money to stay in the race. His campaign is nearly $4 million in debt.
Santorum also has not officially endorsed Romney, the likely GOP nominee who remains in the race with Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
"I want to thank the former speaker for echoing my calls for monetary policy reform including a full audit of the Federal Reserve, steps that will bring America closer to lasting economic prosperity for middle-class Americans who bear the brunt of the dangerous and unjust inflation tax," Paul said.
Gingrich, a skilled debater, stayed true Wednesday to his penchant for lofty ideals and ideas, predicting his grandchildren Maggie and Robert, who stood beside him on stage, would live in world with frequent space travel, a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and autism and advances in mental health care.
“I’m not certain I’ll get to the moon, but Maggie and Robert will,” he said.
Gingrich acknowledged that his pitch for a moon colony – delivered to voters in Florida’s beleaguered Space Coast – was “not my most clever idea,” or at least according to Callista.
In 1994, Gingrich helped Republicans retake the House after 40 years. But he has since been criticized, including this year, by some of those House Republicans for lacking leadership skills.
The Obama re-election campaign released a web video Wednesday that included clips for the primaries in which Gingrich criticized Romney on issues from immigration to Romney's career as a venture capitalist.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/02/gingrich-officially-suspends-campaign/
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i miss him already.
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Candidate Gingrich ends campaign but vows to keep fighting as 'Citizen' Gingrich
Published May 02, 2012
FoxNews.com
Newt Gingrich officially suspended his GOP presidential campaign Wednesday – though it was more like another episode in the long goodbye that started weeks ago.
“It has been an amazing year for me and Callista,” Gingrich, the former House speaker, said at a Hilton Hotel in northern Virginia. "Today, I am suspending the campaign, but suspending the campaign does not mean suspending citizenship. Callista and I are committed to be active citizens. We owe it to America."
Delivering a roughly 20-minute address, Gingrich vowed to, with his wife, remain “active citizens,” as he looked back on the primary campaign and looked ahead to what challenges remain in America.
But he also declined to endorse Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination -- meaning another announcement could still be on the way and potentially giving Gingrich another chance to deliver one of the extended monologues he is known for.
Even so, Gingrich has slowly slipped away from the limelight in the Republican race.
The campaign suggested in March that Gingrich might quit should he fail to win Mississippi or Alabama, but the campaign limped on. Aides then revealed last week that the candidate would be calling it quits – but pushed off the day of the announcement itself until Tuesday, then delayed that announcement until Wednesday afternoon.
Despite not endorsing Romney, Gingrich did make clear that his doubts during the primary campaign about Romney’s conservatism are dwarfed by his concerns about President Obama winning another term.
“This is not a choice between Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan – this is a choice between Mitt Romney and the most radical leftist president in American history,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich’s candidacy had seen its fair share of twists and turns since its launch last summer. He got off to a rough start -- losing his staff and finishing fourth in the Iowa caucuses, which kicked off the 2012 primary season -- but later gained momentum with a big win Jan. 21 in South Carolina.
He scored a must-win primary victory March 6 in Georgia, the state he represented in Congress for 20 years. But his plans of becoming the conservative alternative to frontrunner Romney -- and to Romney's deep-pocketed and well organized campaign -- during primaries across the South unraveled when Rick Santorum pulled off a string of wins in the region.
The wins moved Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, into position as Romney’s closest competitor in the race to face Obama in November. But like Santorum, who suspended his campaign in last month, Gingrich also had trouble raising money to stay in the race. His campaign is nearly $4 million in debt.
Santorum also has not officially endorsed Romney, the likely GOP nominee who remains in the race with Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
"I want to thank the former speaker for echoing my calls for monetary policy reform including a full audit of the Federal Reserve, steps that will bring America closer to lasting economic prosperity for middle-class Americans who bear the brunt of the dangerous and unjust inflation tax," Paul said.
Gingrich, a skilled debater, stayed true Wednesday to his penchant for lofty ideals and ideas, predicting his grandchildren Maggie and Robert, who stood beside him on stage, would live in world with frequent space travel, a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and autism and advances in mental health care.
“I’m not certain I’ll get to the moon, but Maggie and Robert will,” he said.
Gingrich acknowledged that his pitch for a moon colony – delivered to voters in Florida’s beleaguered Space Coast – was “not my most clever idea,” or at least according to Callista.
In 1994, Gingrich helped Republicans retake the House after 40 years. But he has since been criticized, including this year, by some of those House Republicans for lacking leadership skills.
The Obama re-election campaign released a web video Wednesday that included clips for the primaries in which Gingrich criticized Romney on issues from immigration to Romney's career as a venture capitalist.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/02/gingrich-officially-suspends-campaign/
lmao
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Shows how dumb the Tea Party people are.
And Obama supporters are smarter? HEHEHHE!! HOPE AND CHANGE!!! ;D ;D
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And Obama supporters are smarter? HEHEHHE!! HOPE AND CHANGE!!! ;D ;D
Smarter than Tea Party people? Who knows... I would wager that blanket tea party supports and blanket Obama supporters probably average out the same.
Anyone who supports any politician blindly is an idiot as far as I'm concerned.