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Subscribe to RSSDODGE, Iowa -- Newt Gingrich now says the reason to vote for him over his rivals -- he smarter.
“I’m not running against any of my friends, they’re all good people," Gingrich said at a breakfast at the Best Western here. "But if you watch them and watch me, the difference in the depth of knowledge and the difference in the ability to debate Obama, the difference in actually having done it at the national level, I can’t only think if you’re worried about the future of the country and you’re worried about how we get the country fixed, I’m a pretty good mechanic who knows how to fix the car and the other folks are good at selling it.
"They’re nice people, but they don’t have the knowledge to do something like this on this scale. This is enormously complicated.”
A day after Gingrich unveiled his 10-point new “Contract with America,” he again went point-by-point on his plan -- and again apologized for taking so long to describe it, but “it took so long to put together,” he said.
Gingrich also claimed that he has been studying how to make the U.S. better since he was a freshman or sophomore in high school.
Speaking about Social Security, Gingrich said he wants Americans to have the option of choosing their own, private Social Security account.
“Grandchildren should have right to choose Social Security account they control, it has to be there, we’re going to do a commercial showing President Obama in July saying twice you’re not going to get your social security check," Gingrich said. "Send it to college campuses and say do you want to spend the next 50 years of your life working and paying taxes supposedly building up for retirement when any politician can be this irresponsible? Or would you rather have an account you control so a politician can’t do that do your money. … I’m not going to force them into this system, they have the option, very few people will stay in it if they’re 25 or 30, and think it won’t be there. … If you have this account we don’t have a set date when you have to retire. Fact is, if you have this account and you control it and want to work until you are 85, fine. If you want to retire at 50, fine. What do we care? It’s your life, it’s your money.
Gingrich also pointed to the black community as being most disadvantaged with the current Social Security system. “Sadly most African Americans are the most disadvantaged because they die the youngest so they pay their whole lifetime and it transfers to somebody else because it’s not an estate.”
Speaking about fraud in the federal government, Gingrich said Visa, MasterCard and American Express do a better job preventing fraud than the U.S. government. And claimed as President, he would have the borders controlled by January 1, 2014.
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...and the smartest teatard in the room is........
So boring always talking about republicans. Why is it OMSNBC doesn't want to talk about obama and his failures. Can we talk about;
Solyndra
Tonopha
Light Squared
Fast And Furious. Officer Terry's parents still need answers.
Just ciurious????
Newt - If you are so smart, why in the heck did you marry that evil woman?
Is obama just camouflage until the dem's can slip hilliary in?
He could be right, except for Huntsman and Romney. However, that does not alter the problem of policies, and methodology, which also come into play. Likewise, he is gaining no traction with the GOP primary voters. Is he what the nation needs? No. What the Nation needs is a House of Representatives which puts the interests of the people over their failed political theories, "tax cuts for the rich create jobs, and cut spending to balance the budget. I especially like the fact that we set up a special budget commission to study how to resolve of deficits, and Boehner announces to the world that tax increases are not to be considered. Typical GOP rational, the obvious results which will be a new stronger recession as the economy continues to wind down. No funding for job creation, no solutions, just the same failed policies that got us into this mess, complements of GWB.
Not smart enough to keep from being caught cheating on his wife a couple of times, evidently! LOL
Newt had a couple of divorces?
Obama is destroying out country!
Who will you vote for?
S/R: Obama is destroying our country!
No Gary --- Bush already destroyed the nation. Obama is trying (with no help from republicans) to put it back together.
Obama just don't seem to get it, It's the spending stupid!!!!!!!!!!
Funny -- all these dittoheads are so would up over spending -- in 2011. Where were you clowns from 2001 to 2005 when Bush and his Republican Congress were turning the largest surplus of all times into the largest deficit of all times?
Newt is so smart that he lost his chairmanship, is OUT of power, divorces when the wind changes and his campaign is going NOWHERE. But he does have a line of credit at Tiffany's. Tell us again how smart you are Newt, because the world is FULL of PRIDEFUL, EDUCATED DERELICTS!
Totally agree alan we have one pretending to be a president right now.
obama has been an abysmal failure!!!
If Gingrich is the smartest, why would anyone ever vote republican?
I can't speak for anyone else but I will be voting republican. Reason being, I want to see all current anti-American progressive's out of office.
If Gingrich is the smartest, why would anyone ever vote republican?
OMG - I agree with Newt --- he is smarter than Palin, Bachmann, Perry, and most of the current crop on Republicans. But it's like this --- because I'm a better golfer than my 3 year old grandson doesn't mean I'm ready for the PGA tour.
Gingrich is so full of himself that its obnoxious! Does anyone else besides me see the resemblance to Porky Pig?
In spite of his self-proclaimed brilliance, Newt just can't stop reminding us what a pompous a$$ he is.
Amazing how split we are, some believe obama is a pompous a&&.
I personally feel obama is an anti American progressive based on his friends;
Obama's communist and socialist friends got a pass last time, not this time!!!
This is just a few I find interesting.
Depending on how interested you are there are many other sources available to check these people out!
George Soros: Obama Backer a Jew that hates Jews and the U.S.A..
Valerie Jarrett: Valerie considered to be the other half obama's brain.
Vernon Jarrett: communist. The obama connection
Frank Marshall Davis: communist
Anthony Van Jones: Obama's green energy tsar, forced to resign, anti American.
Reverand Wright. "God Damn America" 20 year obama mentor.
Bill Ayres. weather underground
Bernadine VanDohrn. weather underground.
Tony Rezco. Chicago crook.
Andy Stern. seiu presindent.
A.C.O.R.N. obama supporters.
Black Panthers: 2010 election Philadelphia.
This is a very partial list of obam's friend's and associates!
I find it interesting how all these obama connections can be passed off a coincidental?????
obama and Immelt got a big laugh out of the last stimulus and now HE wants more??
And now that obama couldn't pass the following: now he is going through the backdoor:
CAP AND TRADE, EPA war against coal, unreasonable new restrictions
CARD CHECK, NLRB, Stop Boeing from moving to South Carolina, reducing union 37 days to 10 days for new contracts.
Dream act, obama administration reviewing each individual case involving illegal aliens
obama will still not permit opening new sites for drilling and opposes a new pipe line from Canada.
obama does not not support Israel.
Solyndra
Tonopha
Fast and Furious: Officer Terry's parents need answers!
obama is destroying our country.
So where do you place Haliburton in this fix? Two illegal wars, 7,200+ wasted American lives, millionaires and billionaires still living high off the hog with their loopholes while the republican'ts strip programs for those in need? Two republican candidates members of a religious cult and so on!
The right has already destroyed America. Look at the growing protests on Wall Street. The revolution is coming and it will be from the bottom up!
I place pre obama in the past.
Much more concerned about the present and obama's friends. If you are not concerned about his friends, may I assume that you too are an anti-American progressive?
I am a pro capitalist and not opposed to the wealthy being wealthy.
Not familiar with the cults you refer to. Not really religious myself but not threatened by religion.
clwyd Apparently michael moore,bloomberg and that son of a bitch hoffa agree with you about the on coming revolution.
I am just curious if you all are referring to dancing in the streets similar to 1967??
That would serve to confirm my anti-American progressive speculation. I really don't want to live in your proposed society.
Gary. a few weird friends, who doesn't have a few, means absolutely nothing. grow up.
When you have to tell people you are smarter than they are you are actually dumber and have already lost.
This guy is an arrogant, shallow-minded, self-centered nut! People who are really intelligent and smart, display their wisdom via their modesty...there is nothing modest with Newt's plea here! So if that's the case Newt, you'd serve America best by opening up your own auto repair shop, and stay away from politics altogether!!
So! That's not saying much! Stupid compared to almost stupid !
Newt,
That's a mighty low bar.......
Newt has to tell people he is smart because we would never notice on our own. He has always been far more impressed with his intellect than he has any right to be and is probably one of only a few people who still believe it.
The fundamental issue with voluntary social security or retirement accounts is that when people need to start saving for retirement, early in their twenties, they rarely can think ahead 40 or 50 years. At that age, we are all optimistic about our future security. This is human nature, not irresponsible behavior. Many people (probably most) who do eventually start secondary retirement accounts such as IRA's and 401K's do so later in their working life when the returns are substantially reduced. The number of people who would eventually retire with no or completely inadequate sources of income would be staggering and the cost to society of providing welfare that was not previously paid for would be staggering beyond anything we face now. We forget that Social Security does not only protects the individual, it also protects the larger society from the potential consequences of broad based poor decision making. And anyone who says that such people will just have to live homeless and hungry are envisioning an America which will long before then have given up any claim to being a modern state of global importance, much less a super power.
Once you become a working adult it is your responsibility to prepare for your retirement. Because some of us seniors got lucky, some not so much it was still our responsibility.
Fact young people today are going to have to get smarter faster. The times they are a chang'in
No ego problem there. But, then again, the republican intelligence bar was not set that high to begin with.
Hey Newt, I trust the government a little more than Wall St. Not much more, but every little bit helps. Wall St already stole a big chunk of my 401K once, I don't want to let them do it again.
Actually, I'm shocked to agree with Newt's basic premise. It doesn't apply to all the GOP candidates, but certainly does to some of the more visible ones; Perry, Bachmann, Palin depending on what she does. It certainly doesn't apply to Ron Paul and I would have to say Romney's no dummy. However, Newt set the bar pretty low, don't you think? This has to be one of the most intellectually incurious (sounds better than dumber than a bag of rocks) groups I've ever seen vying for a nomination.
Why would the GOP tip their hand before they know who they are running against?
Really? If he's so smart he'd realize that clack teenagers have a higher unemplyment rate than Whites,and because of tha twon't contrubute so much to social security because they don't earn any money to pay in. And because of that his whole point is wasted.
Second if he was real smart he would waste time with privatized accounts-the public has demosrtated they don't want them. Third if he was really smart he would offer and insurance priemiunfloor lkie theFDIC toisure against private losses.And he doesn't. This would be like AIG re-insurce that is used to assure contruction money.
And you aren't smart telling your wife you are going to divocre her just after the has cancer surgery.
Rick Perry called it right-a heartless bunch.
OK, so he is smater that his rivals. But who isn't?
Duh! Newt look at what you are talking about. A very, very, dumb ass Texan, ( as opposed to the one we had at just very dumb) a screechy, neurotic, menapausal, wack job, a guy that has not figured out in 5 years how to capture the nomination....
Not to say you seem to be the brightest fellow considering some of your antics, comments, contradictions, but a frickin chimp could probably make the same claim. You know if you can't beat this lot, you fall right in step with the rest of them.
Emil
Gingrich unveils yet another "Contract On America." This is deja vu we can all live without.