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Manchester, N.H. -- Newt Gingrich is expanding his New Hampshire campaign staff for the third time in a month, adding Rep. Michele Bachmann's former state director Jeff Chidester to his team. He is the second ex-Bachmann aide to join Gingrich's team as the former House spealer surges in both state and national polls.
Chidester, who is a radio talk show host and Tea Party activist, will work with senior adviser Jim Wieczorek to build a Tea Party coalition and state steering committee, according to Gingrich's New Hampshire state director Andrew Hemingway. The New Hampshire-based staff now totals eight.
"Jeff has a strong following across our state and his addition to our team provides us with a great resource of knowledge and experience," Hemingway told NBC News.
In a mass exodus fraught with drama and miscommunication, Chidester departed the Bachmann campaign this fall along with several other staffers including Matt LeDuc. LeDuc recently joined Gingrich's campaign as the New Hamphire communications director.
This is the latest in a revolving door of campaign staff moving away from Bachmann's evaporated Granite State operation to other candidates. To date, many of the Minnesota congresswoman's New Hampshire aides have found new campaign jobs.
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Please please please please please Gaseous Old Pharts! Please nominate Newty. This could be the most comical election cycle ever.
Yeah... keep the Republican Clown Car rolling. Bring the pizza man along too for the minstrel show or a few blondes.
Just make sure if the Pizza man comes, have his hands hand cuffed to his belt.
starbuck49
Just make sure if the Pizza man comes, have his hands hand cuffed to his belt.
LMAO
He's so comatose. With all the things twirling around in the Pizza man's head, I doubt if he would need any.
This looks like a very short-term job opportunity ....... back in the unemployment line soon.
This is Newt’s last chance to get to the White House. So may as well surround himself with the best staff available because he’ll need it.
Chicago.......isn't that the town run by 'bama's toady?
Be careful what you wish for. If Newt becomes the Republican nominee America will slide closer and closer to full out revolution.
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If Newt becomes the Republican nominee we will have a Democrat in the White House for the next four years and it will probably also trigger a Democratic landslide in the Congress.
Can you just see Newt & Bachmann working as insiders from the White House ? They would say its business as usual with me and my staff !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Arkius - that the best you've got 'cause that's pretty sad. Since I live in Chicago I can say Emanuel is doing a great job. Now, let's look at the GOP slate - whoa - probably not a good idea. Not one of them could take a 5th grader in a debate or a test on civics.
And, just so you know - Obama's "toady" could beat any GOPer you've got - by a mile!
Re-arranging the chairs on the Titanic?
Mr Gingrich: you are beyond contempt. There are no words to address your self righteous, neolithic and neanderthal ethics and morality. It amazes me that you have the kahunas to tell peaceful protestors who are decry the thieves of the banking industry who even now seek to use lobby firms to shut down democratic protest. You sir, are a fascist. You use law to silence legitimate protest; you dehumanize individuals while in pietistic tones cry for aborted babies - who if they came under your regime, would be uneducated, hungry, homeless, sick and burned in heaps because there would be no money for a decent burial. So the next time you run a bill up at Tiffany to decorate your new wife's cleavage, don't forget to spit on the body on the pavement before you kick it.
tregun
Mr Gingrich: you are beyond contempt. There are no words to address your self righteous, neolithic and neanderthal ethics and morality.
But, tregun
Newt said -- "I will probably teach a course when I'm president. I think I will probably try to do something that outlines for the whole country what we're going to try to accomplish, and offer it online sort of like the University of Phoenix or Kaplan.
So that way if the country wants, they can sign up. It would be free.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/11/21/373813/gingrich-teach-course/
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NEWS FLASH: First of all, Newt you ain't going be President.
Newt is a historian and does have a PHd in history. But, he teaches that daft history like the wild-eyed Michele Bachmann and failing Sarah Palin.
Besides, that history lesson Newt gave on Freddie Mac was neither rational nor accurate.
Bev, I'm going to be Lmao next November when N Ging is elected POTUS. I will be thinking about you, you socialist loser, and laughing till I pee in your pants.
Berverly in Chicago, Never say Never. Who would have thought we could elect a Ronald Reagan, a second George Bush or a Richard Nixon for that matter.
The Republicans want to destroy every social programs except for the ones that benefit them. They want to stop employees from collective bargaining and the very people that that effects (the police) are acting as their henchmen.
Scary but...........................
People get ready, there's a train a coming. You won't need a ticket just get on aboard. I aint scared.
Ask Newt how he got his education - marrying a women 17 years older who put him through school - enabled him to avoid the Viet Nam draft - and then divorced her because she was too old
Nuke dump's lady's like used trash, his dirty laundry stinks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd vote for a can of year-old mouse heads before voting for a liberal... Most of you will inevitably disagree, but I'm assuming most of you also blame others for the problems you created. Bad mortgages, idiotic college majors, nebulous ideas about re-distributing wealth which was never distributed in the first place, but created.
Voting should be a privilege, not a right. Prove your intellectual maturity and you're good to go. Otherwise it's like letting a bunch of whiny children take turns at steering the car.
That's what is running on the goper ticlet now is a bunch of year old mouse heads.
Wow, selfmade. You're a @!$%#ing idiot. I didn't crash the global economy. I don't have a bad mortgage. I didn't ruin my bank, then get bailed out by the government to the tune of trillions of dollars. I majored in philosophy; but you probably have no idea what that is. My ideas of wealth distribution aren't nebulous: I want the banks to give us our @!$%#ing money back.
I don't care whether you think voting ought to be a privilege: In the U.S. it is a right. In some countries it's a legal obligation.
Enjoy your year-old mouse heads. Maybe you can wash 'em down with a bottle of fermented cat piss, you whiny right-wing @!$%#.
Speaking of year-old mouse heads, vis-à-vis liberals: Anyone who leads with that sort of comparison has no business demanding intellectual maturity of anyone. So I've obliged you with all the said intellectual maturity you deserve.
See you in the funny papers.
Kater, great PMS rant.
O Arkius, wee Arkius
Thy bite's as toothless as thy barkius
selfmade -you already voted for a can of mouse turd when you voted for Bush twice - so what else is new?
It sounds like selfmade is arguing that his right to vote should be taken away, since intellectually mature he is not.
selfmade13 - and see therein lies the problem. Like most Republicans, you would vote for anyone who is in the GOP without giving a damn about their ability to lead. A can of year old mouse heads? Still better than the slate the GOP has now.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Selfmade Loser" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gingrich is evil. There is no other word for the bastard. Everybody knows it, including the Republicans. If he is ahead in the GOP polls, then they have given up and are flipping off the Republic.
" Greasy Palm " Gingrich is done. Now the crooked corporations and polluting gas, mining and oil companies will have to find another dumb Republican to bribe and bankroll ( won't be hard ).
As usual, a positive article about Newt and all the readers comments are negative. It's good to see that people aren't as stupid as the major news networks think. CNN had a negative article about Ron Paul earlier this evening that was getting only positive reader comments and they shut the comments down. These people are over the top brutal and they don't care if you know it or not. CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NBC, ABC, and CBS scared to death of Ron Paul. He would really shake up their lives. Ron Paul for President
Positive article? I would hardly call the last paragraph a sign of a positive article. RP is no better than any of the other candidates......from either of the parties for any elected office. They are all corrupt politicians undeserving of our vote. This election, vote (or write in, since most ballots don't include the option) NONE OF THE ABOVE or NO VOTE, whichever your ballot includes. Tell ALL politicians they are undeserving of your vote. And join the Popular Amendment Movement to help pass the Election/Campaign Finance Reform and Term Limits constitutional amendments. Go to www.faircampaignreform.us to get involved in taking back control of our election system, and eventually take back the country from the power elite. It is time we heed the warning of the only great GOP president since Lincoln (or maybe Teddy) and get rid of the military/industrial complex's power.
anti-trust actually I'm against your "none of the above" but what I am for is taking the money out of politics - especially that Corporations are people
Do you work for a corporation? Who do they give their PACs to and do you have a say so since supposedly employees are signing off of this? And if not then you have the right to say so
Most republicans in power now are working toward fascism.
Make that Christofascism.
I guess they went from Bachmann to Gingrich and skipped Cain because he didn't stay on top long enough??? Just another bunch of TP members who will work for "anyone but Romney"......oops, they keep leaving out Huntsman......maybe it should be "anyone but a Mormon."
Tregun, you turn a phrase like a brain rotted Nero. I think it's time for your meds.
Newt and high paying lobbying that is not lobbying, and child labor that is not child labor even though his idea would have grade schoolers doing janitorial work to save gov't money. It was 1953 I thought the GOP longed for, but now I think it might be 1898 before Teddy Roosevelt's labor reforms. Please let him make the cut in the GOP clown tryouts.
What you will have is Newt's intelligence, which is extremely sharp, coupled with Limbaugh's heart, which is extremely evil, advancing toward a position of extreme power, which is extremely dangerous. Did I mention extreme too often?
Wow, the "Anyone burt Romney" crowd should start recycling anytime now.
I think the order was:
1) Palin
2) Trump
3) Bachmann
4) Perry
5) Christie
6) Cain
7) Gingrich
With of course a parsimonious sprinkling of Ron Paul over the whole feast.
This guy would make a great democrat. Every time the wind blows or a poll changes, he makes a move. Newt going NOWHERE but DOWN and OUT! Just like the democrats.
In the days when the Grinch was sending out his pep talk tapes to all Republican candidates, after mentioning that they could build as many prisons as they want, he said that they would start a real revolution. He will probably be the one that actually does start a "real revolution". He could prove much more dangerous than the Bush's ever were, because he could build upon what they have done.
Selfmade when you make money in a country you should be willing to pay taxes for the benefit of all concerned in that country. The Bush tax cuts along with all of their lobbied for loopholes have them getting a free ride. That is the part we want redistributed on the tax bill. But I don't expect you to understand that. You are either a 1 percenter or and idiot. I'm thinking the latter.
We all need to remember this nut from the 1990's, if Gingrich becomes President there will be no middle class. While Republicans talk about the middle class, they have no plans to save it. We may complain about the Democrats and the alot of their programs are give aways but with a guy like Newt, the middle class will perish. This country is becoming the haves and the have nots, plain and simple.
Oh OH Newt looks like he has another female ready for his tent. First Bachmanns staff and probably Bachmann is in the near future. Who knows might be wife number 7or 8. Is there any GOP 'ER with any scruples at all. You can not trust any as far as you can throw Newt.
Actually - I would like to patent a bobbing doll on the dashboard - had a blonde helmet - looks like a Callista - and signed off by all of the Crongressional Police - want to join me
Musical candidates. Ima gonna vote for the candidate that I think is gonna win so that I can gloat not because I believe in what they spout. Worse is the guy who is agonna work for the candidate he/she thinks is agonna win. And even worse is the person who votes because of what they see on TV. Bizarre! And worse is Ima gonna vote for the Pilsbury Doughboy because everyone likes dough.
OLD Paul - the question never asked by these so called candidates - "Why do you want to be President"
Mitt Romney - I think carries the same mantra as George Bush - George - Jeb was the favored son - Dad could only serve one term I'll show them
Mitt - dad ran for President - got skewered for his Viet Nam brainwash statement - I'll show them
Would like your take on this - neither one gave a dam - except for their dads
Let's hope he does for NEWT what he did for BACHMANN... NOTHING!
Newtie is not tea party... sorry.
Jeff is not tea party either.... this is a joke! The tea party is not for Newt and won't be endorsing him... this is fake.
Newt is flying by the seat of his "Depends Soiled Britches"...he only hired this person because there might be a chance of "winning" or should I say continuing this farse of a Presidential Camaping in and after NH...
The GOp / TNutBagger Parties are nothing more than a cult with brainwashed nutz following them....48% of them believe someday they will be rich while the other 2% are RICH and nurture the lie to keep the followers following like sheep to the slaughter....
So what kind of test should we take to have the privilege of voting? Maybe one written by your buds? I doubt any of your gop has beens could pass a history test let alone anything else.
Republicans/ T-partiers pleaseee!!! nominee Newt Gringrich, hell I love to see Newt Gringrich & Herman cain vs Obama & Biden for 2012. It's going to be fun make me forget damn congress for awhile.
First of all, Congresswoman Bachmann's staff did a really fine job for her, didn't they? Kudos to former Speaker Gingrich for hiring them, hope they do a better job than they did for her.
Second, if Freddie Mac is so bad, what does that make former Speaker Gingrich for working for them, right when the housing market went to blazes?
Can't wait to see what scum rises to the top for the GOP. I'll be able to take my bath early and go to bed at a reasonable hour this next Election Day.
Obama/Clinton 2012.