If we looked @ the personal lives of the majority of our "Supposed to be Leaders" Newt would smell like a rose. I am not a fan of Newt. My biggest concern is basically about the shift (if that is a good word) or transition we seem to taking in our country. Why are we so critical of others, remember the saying "people who live in glass houses don't need to throw stones". We need to really find a way to come together since we call ourselves the United States of America. I do not know much about Mr. Coburn and I do have a problem wlth some of the things that exit Newt's mouth. I just think we have enough to worry about with people having no place to stay, jobs, health issues and children being abused and this war. What is it going to take for us to become truly "united"? and do we have the guts or intestinal fortitude to meet and conquer our challenges. Putney

Newt, isn't that some sort of a slimy little reptile that lives in the sewer?

Newt....Didn't he resign after the '98 election and the repubs lost seats after they tried to make the whole election about Clinton getting a BJ??

Big deal. Obama is the last person I would vote for but he still made it into the White House based on his experience of one complete term as senator. Just goes to show you that with the right campaign you can even sell ice to Eskimos, or pass off incompetence as "Change". How's the change working now? Don't you just enjoy it when they estimate GDP growth of less then 2% and the summer of recovery turns into unemployment going up? ?

Gingrich was a huge political changer and made Bill Clinton move to the center and helped create the surpluses. But, he is not electable because of the baggage he has from his time in the House. It is too bad, because he is damn smart

He does a really good job of writing historical novels and perhaps should stick to that.

You mean the Okie cracker can't trust the Georgia cracker? What's the Confederacy coming to?

That's "nyet". :D

Yep!! Same guy!

I say let Gingrich run. He'll lose by a landslide. The Dems are going to win because the Tea Party is watering down the republican constituency and the republicans keep screwing themselves.

the lame-stream is gonna report on anyone who speaks against a GOP maybe, they probably pee-d their collective pants to get a GOP speaking against a GOP and be able to print it, what alot of nothing, just like Coburn...nothing.

say what you want about Newt, but he knows more about where this country has been, and where it needs to go than anyone else the GOP has in the bullpen, and certainly more than any freakin' dumocrat, especially the nim-rod in the WH.

Tell Rush to take another pill and just chill!

"He believes that what he says in public and how he lives don't have to be connected," she said in the interview. "If you believe that, then yeah, you can run for president."

From everything I've witnessed in the last 50 years, that pretty much encompasses the majority of opinionated Americans.

I do not give much credibility to a Quack Doctor that has to go on the Government Roll to make a living. How many Doctors do you know that settle for 175,000 yearly salary and free medical benefits in a government job instead of 1/2 million or more a year as a legitimate Doctor of anything. Maybe he was Gingrich's Mental health doctor and that is why Gingrich is so screwed up.

PALIN 2012!!!!

NO more Obama,

No more Socialists,

No more anti american muslum(yes spelling intended) leadership,

No More Liberals in Office promoting Homosexuality,

No more Democrats DrinKing the Barry Obama KoOlaId!

No more liberal media like leeze bryzinski conFused and conducting hate speach calling tea partiers "evil"!

Mr Gingrich ideas for "us common folk" is DO AS I TELL YOU TO DO NOT AS I CAN DO. What a bunch of stupid sheep being led to slaughter. Some times I feel it may be worth the disastrous outcome for our society just to let these idiotic republicants have their way. Misery is something these people should see FIRST HAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well said....creepy and mean sums up the Tea Party and GOP.  The most self centered people at my work are either Mormon or Christian and also republican.  When I am in surgery many of the Dr's are very racist, sexist and yes! Republicans.  I just don't think most of these people care about anyone but themselves...this is sad on so many levels!!!! 

I think it is time for two countries. Red and Blue. Each state can vote, without being overturned by a gay judge, as to which country they want to live. You would want to live in Blue if you are on welfare, don't go to church, think people that work and achieve success should have their money stolen and given to you, think mothers should be permitted to murder their own children, think that criminals who enter your country illegally should be educated, receive medical care, and be employed, read NYT without throwing up in your mouth, can watch Rachel Maddow more than 30 seconds, believe that people who tell the truth are intolerant and finally, because you are and always have failed to achieve anything you hate success...then vote Blue baby.

If you vote Red you want the government to enforce laws and provide for the defense to enable you to fully exploit all of the opportunity and freedom that the USA provides you. You don't want 1.5 million babies killed every year by their own mothers, if you fail at providing for yourself or your family you understand that unless your neighbor or church wish to help you they are not required to do so and you live your life as our forefathers intended...free.

I'm want to live in the Red Country. The Blues already have their Prez... Obama is their guy! We will have to elect one...Paul Ryan, Mitch Daniels come to mind. Aaaahhh....feel better already....boy won't Chrissie Matthews have his panties in a wad when he hears about this?!?

Go Big Red!

For me he'd actually he'd be third to last, just ahead of Sarah Palin and Glen Beck.

I am a very conservative voter who thinks Newt is a drag on the party and should go change wives or religion again and maybe get it right next time. He is the most "flopping" possible contender and in my mind the worse choice the party could make. He was a very poor speaker of the house and would be a very poor candidate. I know --how do I really feel-chaulk up a vote for anyone else.

Michigander... perhaps it would just be easier for you to move to a red state.  I propose that all those southern states that are soooo unhappy with the fed. government can start by giving the rest of us, you know those horrible, liberal, east coast elites, our money back.  Yeah, 9 of 10 of the states that get back more from the fed. government than they contribute are.... red states.  Better start looking at their divorce rates, the number of abortions, their obesity rates (once again costing me more!) Yes, it should work out fine for them.  No fed. government breathing down their necks, helping them pay their bills, regulating their factories, their mines, the planes they fly, the saftey of the food they eat, etc etc etc.  I'll stick with my blue state and my fed. government, for better or for worse cause you have nothing to offer. 

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OK so some Republicans would vote for someone who, if a Democrat, they'd scream for impeachment. You know, Bill Clinton types. :)

OK I got it.

America went from importing 24% of our oil to importing over 65% in the past 40 years.

American dependencey on foriegn energy is one of our biggest national security risks. Even worse now than during the Oil embargo of the 1970's.

America uses a lot of oil. Every day 85 million barrels of oil are produced around the world. And 21 million of those are used here in the United States.

That's 25% of the world's oil demand. Used by just 4% of the world's population.

Can't we just produce more oil?

Consider this: America imports 12 million barrels a day, and Saudi Arabia only produces 9 million a day. Is there really more undiscovered oil here than in all of Saudi Arabia?

There are several pillars to the Pickens Plan:

Create millions of new jobs by building out the capacity to generate up to 22 percent of our electricity from wind. And adding to that with additional solar generation capacity;
Building a 21st century backbone electrical transmission grid;
Providing incentives for homeowners and the owners of commercial buildings to upgrade their insulation and other energy saving options;
and Using America's natural gas to replace imported oil as a transportation fuel in addition to its other uses in power generation, chemicals, etc.

New jobs from renewable energy and conservation.

Any discussion of alternatives should begin with the 2007 Department of Energy study showing that building out our wind capacity in the Great Plains - from northern Texas to the Canadian border - would produce 138,000 new jobs in the first year, and more than 3.4 million new jobs over a ten-year period, while also producing as much as 20 percent of our needed electricity.

Building out solar energy in the Southwest from western Texas to California would add to the boom of new jobs and provide more of our growing electrical needs - doing so through economically viable, clean, renewable sources.

To move that electricity from where it is being produced to where it is needed will require an upgrade to our national electric grid. A 21st century transmission grid which will, as technology continues to develop, deliver power where it is needed, when it is needed, in the direction that it is needed, will be the modern equivalent of building the Interstate Highway System in the 1950's.

Beyond that, tremendous improvements in electricity use can be made by creating incentives for owners of homes and commercial buildings to retrofit their spaces with proper insulation. Studies show that a significant upgrading of insulation would save the equivalent of one million barrels of oil per day in energy by cutting down on both air conditioning costs in warm weather and heating costs in winter.

A domestic fuel to free us from foreign oil.

The Honda Civic GX Natural Gas Vehicle is the cleanest internal-combustion vehicle in the world according to the EPA.

Conserving and harnessing renewable forms of electricity not only has incredible economic benefits, but is also a crucial piece of the oil dependence puzzle. We should continue to pursue the promise of electric or hydrogen powered vehicles, but America needs to address transportation fuel today. Fortunately, we are blessed with an abundance of clean, cheap, domestic natural gas.

Currently, domestic natural gas is primarily used to generate electricity. It has the advantage of being cheap and significantly cleaner than coal, but this is not the only use of our natural gas resources.

By aggressively moving to shift America's car, light duty and heavy truck fleets from imported gasoline and diesel to domestic natural gas we can lower our need for foreign oil - helping President Obama reach his goal of zero oil imports from the Middle East within ten years.

Nearly 33% of every barrel of oil we import is used by 18-wheelers moving goods around and across the country by burning imported diesel. An over-the-road truck cannot be moved using current battery technology. Fleet vehicles like buses, taxis, express delivery trucks, and municipal and utility vehicles (any vehicle which returns to the "barn" each night where refueling is a simple matter) should be replaced by vehicles running on clean, cheap, domestic natural gas rather than imported gasoline or diesel fuel.

The Obama Biden comprehensive New Energy for America plan will:

Provide short term relief to American families facing pain at the pump
Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.
Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined
Put 1 million Plug In Hybrid cars – cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon – on the road by 2015, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America
Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025
Implement an economy wide cap and trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050

Prior to 1950 the U.S. had absolute energy independence. In 1950 the USA was producing over 50 percent of the world’s oil, enough for all of its own needs with plenty left over for exports. But the post World War II U.S. economic boom eventually created demand for more oil than U.S. wells could produce.

Between 1950 and 1973 (the year of the embargo) U.S. oil imports had grown from near zero to about 32 percent of U.S. oil consumption. By 1994, the U.S. was importing more oil than it produced. In 2010, oil imports will provide about 60 percent of all oil consumed in the USA.

The 1973 oil embargo had exposed the harsh reality that America was dangerously dependent on imported oil. The energy independence policies of Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter had demonstrated that America can achieve strategic energy independence through political will and legislative action.

It took nearly ten years for U.S. energy independence policies to take effect and reverse the trend of growing oil dependence, but the results were worth the effort.

For a brief period between 1982 and 1985 U.S. oil imports averaged less than 30% of total U.S. oil consumption.

Developing alternative energy sources (primarily coal, nuclear and natural gas to replace fuel oil used for heating and electricity generation) and keeping oil imports below 30% of total oil consumption had broken the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and ultimately exposed OPEC’s vulnerability: dependence on oil money.

The USA enjoyed strategic energy independence between 1982 and 1985.

But then, in 1986 U.S. oil imports began to increase again. Why?

By July 1986 the price of oil had fallen below $9 per barrel. Ronald Reagan was then President of the United States.

President Reagan had abandoned the energy independence policies of his predecessors in favor of a free market policy, where private industry would provide all of America's energy needs without government interference.

The gap between the wealthiest Americans and middle- and working-class Americans has more than tripled in the past three decades, according to a June 25, 2010 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Since 1980, we've lost half our manufacturing jobs. We've lost 10 million manufacturing jobs since job protecting tariffs were cut.

Imports are $1.563 trillion (2009 est.) $2.117 trillion (2008 est.)

Imports - commodities:
agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital goods 30.4% (computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery), consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, medicines, furniture, toys)

March 20, 2003 the price of oil was $26 per barrel. Five years later, March 20, 2008 the price of oil had risen to $100 per barrel. Then, during July of 2008 the price of oil hit $147 per barrel, with a weekly average of $130.

From September 2007 through October 2008, the world economy was rocked by the unprecedented transfer of more than one trillion dollars from European, Asian and American economies into Middle East national treasuries in exchange for oil.

Between 2003 and the summer of 2008 the price of oil quadrupled because of market fears. War in the Middle East and threat of a nuclear armed Iran intensified worldwide fear of an oil supply interruption — fear of a global oil shortage produced the market speculation responsible for pushing oil prices to $147 per barrel during the summer of 2008.

Fear of a global oil shortage added a “fear premium” to the cost of oil, inflating the price of oil on the world market by over two trillion dollars per year. The increased cost of oil caused over two trillion dollars to be taken out of consumers' pockets worldwide. Two trillion dollars that was no longer available for buying other products and services. Global business stalled, jobs were cut, and consumers stopped spending.

The dramatic rise and fall of worldwide oil prices exposed the insidious influence of unregulated commodity speculation. Clandestine trading on the world commodity market caused the price of oil to spike to a level that would otherwise only result from a terrorist attack on a major oil production facility or supply line.

In addition to putting our security in the hands of potentially unfriendly and unstable foreign nations, we spent $475 billion on foreign oil in 2008 alone. That's money taken out of our economy and sent to foreign nations, and it will continue to drain the life from our economy for as long as we fail to stop the bleeding.

Projected over the next 10 years the cost will be $10 trillion - it will be the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind.

August 17, 2010:

Less than a High school diploma, 25 or older: 15% unemployment.

High school graduates, no college, 25 or older: 10% unemployment.

Some College or Associate Degree, 25 or older: 8% unemployment.

Bachelors degree and higher, 25 or older: 5% unemployment.

We can solve our economic problems, our lack of jobs, by solving our energy dependence and infrastructure problems and restrict the necessary spending to products made in America.

Coburn is a hypocritical idiot. Isn't he the one who tried to broker his buddies infidelity? What a moron. He has a lot of nerve talking about values... he has NONE.

Not a republican, but even if Newt were a Democrat I couldn't vote for him. Mr. family valve has none and ran around on several wives while pounding that Clinto has no morals. Then there were all those ethical violations. Last I did support his contract with America and believed in it until he broke it. I have no trust for Newt.