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Subscribe to RSSNEWBERRY, S.C. – Newt Gingrich made President Obama his only target in a town hall here tonight, describing what he believes would be a brutal general election fight against the president.
“In January 2012, Gingrich-Obama campaign will come down to two questions: Can you endure the pain of four more years of radical incompetence, which would be my argument, and, can I survive the weight of negativity, smears, assaults and lies that they’re going to throw?” Gingrich said.
Speaking to a packed Newberry Opera House after a fundraising barbecue for the South Carolina Republican Party, Gingrich added that the Obama campaign is already attacking Republican candidates because the president can’t highlight his first-term record.
“Watch their first ambushes against Romney and ask yourselves this question: Why would a president of the United States run an attack ad in November before there’s even a Republican nominee? It’s because they’ve got nothing positive to say about three and a half years of failure.”
While the Democratic National Committee and pro-Obama Super-PAC Priorities USA (run by former Obama administration officials) have already begun to attack Mitt Romney, the Obama campaign itself has not, releasing its first ad, a direct appeal to voters from the president, today.
Gingrich dared Obama to run a strictly positive campaign, saying it would greatly reduce his re-election chances, although Gingrich seemed uninterested in doing so himself, referring to the president as a “Saul Alinsky radical” at least three times during the town hall.
The twenty-year congressman and former House speaker’s criticism of Washington was not limited to the president, as he also slammed members of Congress for making insider trades, saying newly-elected members should have to keep their assets in blind trusts.
“It is so clear that they have so much power that there is no way to build trust in an environment where they can make money out of what they’re doing,” Gingrich said.
He also suggested that Congress’ record-low approval ratings are a threat to the country. “You can’t sustain freedom in a country where that level of contempt exists for one of the key institutions of self-government.”
Gingrich also criticized inside-the-Beltway political consultants, suggesting former President George W. Bush’s team could have had a bigger win in the 2004 re-election campaign if they had listened to Gingrich’s advice.
“In the summer of 2004 I wrote a paper for the Bush campaign arguing that [Democratic nominee John] Kerry was vulnerable to a catastrophic defeat,” Gingrich said, noting Kerry’s liberal voting record. “And I couldn’t get the consultants to agree to run a campaign based on ideas,” he added in remarks reminiscent of those he made after former campaign staffers resigned en masse in June.
“My campaign consultants understood 30-second attack ads,” Gingrich said on Fox and Friends on June 15th. “They didn’t understand you could actually write a book with big ideas and actually campaign talking about big ideas.”
Absent from his remarks tonight was any real criticism of Mitt Romney, although Gingrich generated attention for saying he is “a lot more conservative than Mitt Romney” during a radio interview with a Charleston station on Monday morning.
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Dares the president not to run any negative adds but he will do it himself. By admitting this. Yea newt. thats not how it works. And Why bash Obama for running ads against Mittons? Romney ran an add trying to make Obama quoting McCain as though Obama was saying it. And the Dems simply ran an ad back showing Mittons saying one thing one day and the opposite the next. if he thinks those are attack adds wait till The Dems simply point out that while Newt talks about Obamas "incompetence" He is the one who was on that GOP side during the years that helped ruin the country. And made politics an uglier game then ever once he became speaker. His way or shut down the government. Newt, ads that show the truth wont be negative. They will be fact. And then you can yell at the media saying how its all a smear campaign against you.
Newt would be the last American president. The country would be in WW3 within a year. And the media would never get an answer from a guy always yelling. And the middle class would evaporate. Guy has been in politics 20 years and accomplished making Washington more negative then thought possible before he came on the scene.
Your sister is hooked on drugs, a prostitute, and smells like old Velveeta.
newt is NOT GOING ANYWHERE!.......PERIOD! He only has a big mouth,he has no shame like the rest of the rat gop-teabaggers,con-serv-ah-nothins,who pry on the middle-class,the sick,the weak,the old,the young.....& USE THE "LORD'S NAME IN VAIN"....When we all know their hypocrites by using religion as a weapon on the low-info minded people,by preaching good works,then by yelling let him/her DIE!...If they HAVE no health care,go hungry,no shelter,take our jobs over-seas,getting rid of the great American unions that look after the 40 hr work week,no children working in factories(gingrich wants to change that),better pay,bargaining rights,public schools in shambles,so is our infrastructure,roads,bridges,electric grids,fresh water,fresh air.......THE GOP ARE THE MOST GREEDY,EVIL,SELF-HATING,LYING,ANTI-AMERICANS,THEY ARE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY,THEY ARE THE ENEMY......WAKE UP!.....MR. President FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!....DON'T GIVE IN!...GOOD ALWAYS OVERCOME EVIL,ALWAYS HAD ALWAYS WILL,WE WILL FIGHT! WE WILL VOTE! WE WILL OVER COME THE THE BASTARDIZE-GOP & THEIR CORPORATE INTERESTS....The wealthy have never been wealthier than NOW!..Trickle down effect since the bush tax-cuts been in effect never materialized...only for the greedy "beck-Limbaugh" wealthy it has.......American families are being destroyed every day by these feel self-described haters of the AMERICAN WAY...THEY HAD HELP THEMSELVES GOING UP THE LADDER,ONLY TO CUT THE ROPE TO OTHERS WHO ARE TRyING TO DO THE SAME,we know we only have a right to pursue happiness,but not guaranteed happiness....BUT how do we try when the country was plundered under w and cheney and their minnions who put thousands of Americans to deaths over their interests of money ,greed,in oil()halliburon-kbr(Afghanistan).....WE WILL EXTEND A HAND IF YOU UNCLENCH YOUR FIST!!.....AS THE WORDS OF FATHER FLANAGAN:There is no such thing as a bad boy.......so true
Please Mr. President don't bring up ANY of my MANY problems with integrity! I have made my peace with God and he says I'm good to go. I promise to be good in the future. And in the name of God I will repeal the Health Care Plan and get rid of all those horrible entitlements that take care of the poor, educate and feed our children. For God so loved the world he gave us Republicans!
At his best, Gingrich is as good a candidate as the president. And obviously this isn't a level playing field, with the economic situation favoring the challenger. So "as good" is enough to win handily.
However, Gingrich isn't at his best every day. Undisciplined, moody and when he's in that mode he's not very likable. That's the RNC concern, and they'd prefer Romney's steadiness. He isn't very good any day, but he usually isn't very bad, either.
For the Obama re-election effort, I think they'd have to prefer facing Romney. With someone like Gingrich, there always is a chance he holds himself together for 12 months.
You know, First Read, with these little pictures next to the userIDs, I'm getting the same feeling the day the Washington Post started using color photos. Seems like an attempt to draw interest via offering people who can't appreciate thoughtful comments some other bobble to occupy their attention.
I cant believe that Americans are falling for this Adulterer. How can people be so stupid. It disgust me to see america in this path. Please America, Wake up and stop thinking small and ignorantly. How can america elect this person, who says he has changed and yet he can become president?
Adultery:
Sex on the Desk - Oral Sex is More Easily Denied
Several newspapers are now reporting that Newt Gingrich is dating and basically living with Callista Bisek, a "willowy blond Congressional aide 23 years his junior." Biske, 33, has been spending nights at Gingrich's apartment near the Capitol and has her own key. In an amazing act of hypocrisy, Gingrich was apparently dating Bisek all during Clinton-Lewinsky adultery scandal, even as he proclaimed family values and bitterly criticized the President for his adultery.
Reporters and other Washington insiders have known about this relationship since 1994, even before Gingrich became Speaker of the House, but did not have any solid proof to report. In 1995, Vanity Fair magazine described Bisek as Gingrich's "frequent breakfast companion." Gingrich was married to Marianne Gingrich during all of that time, and just filed for divorce in August 1999.
Newt is apparently trying to create a new hybrid form, Christian adultery. According to MSNBC, Bisek sings in the National Shrine Choir, and Newt would often wait for her at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, listening to her sing while he read the Bible.
This is hardly the first time Newt has cheated, either. "It was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his [first] marriage to Jackie. Maybe not on the level of John Kennedy. But he had girlfriends -- some serious, some trivial." -- Dot Crews, his campaign scheduler throughout the 70s. One woman, Anne Manning, has come forward and confirmed a relationship with him during the 1976 campaign. "We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'"
Kip Carter, his former campaign treasurer, was walking Newt's daughters back from a football game one day and cut across a driveway where he saw a car. "As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then."
Family Values? Pressing Wife for Divorce in the Hospital:
"He walked out in the spring of 1980.... By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said, "Daddy is downstairs. Could he come up?" When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from my surgery." - Jackie, his first wife.
Dead-Beat Dad:
The hospital visit wasn't the end of it, either. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get him to contribute for bills, as utilities were about to be cut off.
Draft Dodger:
Though he relentlessly pushes military spending and talks like a bigtime hawk, Gingrich avoided the Vietnam War through a combination of student and family deferments. (He married one of his teachers at age 19.)
Problems With Women?
Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He also graciously said "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." But his second marriage hasn't been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated - "frankly", she told the Washington Post in June 1989, "it's been on and off for some time."
Does Newt have some kind of problem with women? He has said that he read a book called "Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them", and "found frightening pieces that related to my own life."
Incidentally, Marianne told Gail Sheehy she doesn't want Newt to run for President. " I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy. I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything. ... I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be." Newt's response? Marianne "was just making the point hypothetically" that he would not run unless she agreed he should.
House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks
Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don't, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn't help.
You have to wonder, don't you Jari, how anyone takes him seriously. Of all the moral midgets running for the Republican Presidential nomination, he has to be the worst!
Jari - is that new? Hadn't heard that yet.
I wonder who fed the media this tidbit, lol. Could this be the work of the RNC... hmmm, lol.
Here is the link..
Doesn't look like a list compiled by any outlet, but I did notice a bit of Gingrich news which does seem to have the RNC's fingers all over it. Circulation of a video in which Bill Clinton praised Gingrich's debate performances, and mentioned a couple ideas in particular as thoughtful and worth consideration.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the last thing a Republican candidate for nomination wants is a video of praise from any former Democratic president. And this one in particular also serves the dual purpose of reminding Republicans that Gingrich isn't much better with fidelity issues than is Clinton.
Hey, newday! It's so funny you used the term "moral midgets" today.
Once in a great while I will go back and re-read a book I read 20 or 30 or 40 years ago to see whether I still liked the book. With the new biography of Kurt Vonnegut coming out, I decided to re-read "Cat's Cradle" and finished it last night. Much to my surprise one of the main characters was named Newt (a name I've heard only twice in my life now). And he's a midget!
(P.S. Didn't like the book. Can't imagine what I saw in it back then!)
with Cain getting out, Newt will get a big boost, the Cain group have no were else to go but to Gingrich; I am a moderate, I still say Mitt Romney is the best shot for the Republican party to take the white house, it appears the tea party has become a bigger factor than anyone expected.
I hate to point this out, but the ENTIRE group of candidates, on both sides of the aisle, represent an arrow straight ride down this same path we've been on for decades now. The election is a sham. The presidency is a sham. The federal government is OUR PROPERTY. We don't need more Obama socialism, we don't need one of these republican hate mongers, what we need is... wait for it... Matt Paxton, extreme cleaning specialist (Horders - A&E monday nights, check your local listings) to pull up with his fleet of 1-800-GOT-JUNK and clean DC from top to bottom. Just like on the show, it's a bunch of expensive stuff nobody needs amongst the dead cats, dirty diapers and animal poo that constitute the remains of what was once a proud and mighty federal government.
Jack! How ironic IS that! Maybe that is where Newtie's mommy found the name.
Wait that can't be. That would mean she read a book. I remember the woman being interviewed.
www.salon.com/2011/03/08/gingrich_divorce_hospital_cancer/
This guy is the real Cain brother from another mother. A chance Cain and Newt are just scumbags in politics?? no, ya think???
"can I survive the weight of negativity, smears, assaults and lies that they’re going to throw?”
Hey salamander boy, it would be fitting payback for your time as Speaker in which your number one focus was a witch hunt of Bill Clinton using any means necessary to impeach him for doing something that you were guilty of. I hope Obama and the Democrats throw everything including the kitchen sink at you and if by some lapse of national stupidity you are elected president, I hope you fail. Payback's a bitch aint it salamander boy?
Robin Steele - the continued need to throw the "socialism" word out there just indicates a total lack of intelligence. President Obama is no more a socialist than your dear George Bush. When people have no argument against someone they throw out a word they think will scare people. How totally stupid!
Gingrich is very well aware of his own numerous "negatives" and countless skeletons in Newt's closet, and Newt is afraid because he knows those negatives ARE going to come out.
What Newt DOESN'T recognize is that it's not only the DNC who will be talking A LOT about Newt's negatives, it's everybody who was there, AND all of us who know about Newt for all the decades that Newt has used his Congressional seat and his seat as House Speaker to enrich himself, illegally.
The Republican Party will be wasting its nomination on Newt, but then, no one in their right mind would vote for Newt anyway.
So, DEMs defend their negative campaign tactics. They know they have nothing to say if the campaign is about ideas and leading the country. It would be crazy for DEMs to run a clean campaign. So be it.
Sounds like good old American election campaign fun. It just wouldn't be our style to ignore Obama's arrogance, inexperience, socialism, and ruinous policies. Let the games begin!
Mr goin, Obama is no more nor no less of a socialist than Mr. Bush. Now you've been around here for quite some time, as have I. Perhaps you are aware that I make little distinction between Obama's and Bush's policies. I've no problem in engaging you in polite debate, but if you sir insist upon being rude, well what does that say of your intelligence?
Gingrich says that Obama will lie about his adulteress past, and his humiliating departure from office! One problem. It's all true. This guy will be easier to beat than Ron Paul. Paul at least has integrity.
I hope Gingrich doesn't get that far! He's a pos. The man is the epitome of a self-aggrandizing, favors-trading, corrupt, anti-women, career politician....
And that's just for starters.
Check out Pauls voting record and you might not so easily believe the integrity part.
Paul claims to be against all the corporate power and then voted to retain the tax cuts for the oil companies which gave them more money and more power.
Paul claims to be against the wars and the last two opportunity to vote to end the war in Iraq. The first vote he didn't bother to vote and the next he voted with the republicans to continue the war with no end in sight.
Paul claims he cares about the people and then voted to not increase the minimum wage so it would benefit the corporate owners.
Paul never met a tax cut for the rich that he didn't like and vote for.
Paul votes for the 1% and you think he has integrity?
Nice to hear from this fat boy Newt, an obvious egomaniica with an inferiority complex hidden beneath all the trumped shows of eloquence. The plain fact is, he is in it to win for himself. He does not represent a major secdtion of this country for he is not of us. He is wealthy, loves expensive toys, cruises, jewelry and romps with those who also have big dough. His nose for the future of this country is not focused on gaining back USA manufacturing jobs, or using taxpayer money to finance infrastructure, nor is he alinged with Public Campaign Financing. No, Fat Boy just goes from one speech place to another book-signing with his affluently clad wife. Remember, this is the fat boy who blew both barrels of his morality shotgun at Bill " I didn't have sex with that woman" Clinton while he was cheating on his second wife. Now, it does not seem possible that this insider boy, this former lobbyist who calls himself a teacher, a history teacher at that, can align his morals and ethics and represent the entire country rather than support his own perceived intelligence and BIG IDEAS. It is much easier to play a game of tennis rather than read a book about playing tennis. When you do it, you understand. Newt has not done it yet. He is still in his speculative stage.
Fat boy, white fat boy, cherubic, sarcastic wit, and tells the real heroes of America, the OWS to get a bath and go look for a job. I guess thats how fat boy Newt got his job at Fannie Mae, or was it Freddie Mac? An easy 2 million that he says he fails to remember collecting. How in the hell can anyone forget whether they got paid directly or indirectly the huge sum of two million smackeroos?
Another Republican sicko dude, and he is a dude for he would now know the ass end or the head of a horse and would wear a ten gallon hat and wool chaps..a perfect neophyte seeking entrance into the circle of humanity.
OWS - the hero's of America? For real? Do you sir have a job? Are you working to make things better or are you in need of assistance. These guys are a bunch of lazy stinky hippies whose biggest fear in life is having a job. Their real leaders are in Canada. And to try to improve things, they ask consumers not to shop. This group of buffoons is a testament to that which has gone wrong in this country, a bunch of entitled people who can't even agree on what is need to improve the situation, nor how to properly address the misdeeds of wall street. They should all go home, to their mom's respective basements, and start scouring the help wanted ads.
What a load of crap and norquist pledger talking points!
If some in the OWS bunch are looking to Canada for leaders it is because they are not so ego threatened as you that they can't look beyond the USA for lessons on how to solve problems in our civilization. If your world view had any depth to it you probably would not be so insistent in cheating the rest of us from the opportunity to move forward in history as a society. It is pretty clear that these entitled spoiled buffoons that you refer to are at least successful in making you a little uncomfortable in causing you to ask the right questions for once, something that it is unlikely that you would have done on your own.
@Robin Steele - to quote you
The same applies to you. You want to call names and belittle them, perhaps add some facts to back up your assessment of their intelligence. Heroes? Maybe not to everyone, but to some they certainly are.
Personally, I don't see what the point is of all this "civility in debate." For two main reasons:
1) Why should I give even a sliver of respect to somebody who is, literally, arguing against reality? That women should be kept down for the good of society? That allowing gays to marry would be the end of the universe because their sky-fairy told them so about 4000 years ago (which, incidentally, they think happened 2000 years after the universe was created in 6 days)? That a plethora of scientific evidence showing that we are contributing to (relatively) high increase in overall global temperature is concocted by >90% of climate scientists "in a conspiracy," although ever single scientist that has done the work has been forced to agree because of the data? That because I'm more liberal than GWB, I'm some dirty hippie that needs to get a job?
And I'm supposed to "play nice?" WTF does that mean? I can't make fun of your bronze-age myths? I can't undermine your "sincerely held beliefs," though you seem to undermine what I consider dear (reason and evidence) without a second thought? That I can't call you names like "bigot" and "hustler," no matter how well they fit your actions? Well, f*ck that noise.
2) It's more fun. Name-calling is a grand old tradition, well-respected in scientific circles as a measure of wit. Saying things like, "Actually, sir, Professor Einstein's question isn't really as stupid as it sounds," is of a high note in humor, to many (those who can recognize ironic intent and enjoy context-based humor, at least). So long as the epithet fits. Those who display ignorance should be called out on it. How else will they know? Those who display WILLFUL ignorance (i.e. stupidity), should be mocked. If they're mocked, some will choose to actually educate themselves on the simplicity of discerning information based on knowledge and evidence vs. who yells the loudest. Mockery is a form of communication, one that has proven effective in places and times that other methods have failed.
For instance, yelling and raging at Neo-Nazis has been shown to merely rile them up and escalate hostilities. Mocking Neo-Nazis has been shown to rile them up, and then force them to back down in the face of overwhelming humiliation. Mel Brooks said it well when pitching The Producers' most memorable song, "Springtime for Hitler": "Don't tell me this won't be effective in fighting Nazis. I was in Germany in WWII, I know how to fight Nazis."
AW, please note that on the vine we make a broad distinction between fellow contributors and story subjects. If you read my posts, you know that I have no problem flinging vitriol at the morons whose calling in life is to destroy my country. For the most part however, I attempt to confront those with whom I disagree on this forum with an appropriate civility.
Let's see.
We've got Mitt the flip, who believes that a whack job from New York (Joseph Smith) is the prophet. He was born into affluence and made a fortune screwing the middle class. He can't keep his stories straight. The guy's "religion" once endorsed polygamy and didn't allow blacks to be priests until 1978. They think the Garden of Eden is in Missouri.
I think the uber nutjobs like Cain, Perry, Bachman, and Palin were simply a distraction to keep people from noticing what a total psycho Mitt Romney is.
They think the Garden of Eden is in Missouri.
Lots of republicans think the garden of Eden is in Missouri, in a town called Branson.
I have to agree with Rahm Emanual on this one. With the current crop of GOP nut cases it kind of makes you miss the thoughtful introspection of intellectuals like Carabu Barbie........you betcha it does......wink, wink.................
Whats going to be extremely comical is watching Obamagedden try to debate Newt if he wins the nomination. No teleprompters...no notes. Newt will destroy him. This is a debate I would pay to see
Dout it.
LiberalLies - all Newt can do is lie and take cheap shots. Obama would wipe the floor with him. Oh, and Newt's third wife can just sit in the audience and check out the other women, wondering who Newt is playing around with.
You can bet something horrible will come out on Newt....like being a child molester or something..something bad, maybe not child molester bad, but bad just the same...I just think something is out there on him.
radical incompetence=obama=the guy who got bin laden? newt, newt, newt! you are such a lizard!
How dare you even insinuate that Obama had anything to do with the capture of Osama you jerk!! People like you are the proof that political sheep exist.
Obama deserves ZERO CREDIT for the victory and elimination of bin Laden. It was an AMERICAN victory!! Col. Schreiber USMC (Ret.)
OBAMA'S OWN WORDS:
2008: Sen. Obama, "Navy Seal Team 6 is Dick Cheney's private assassination team."
2011: Obama, "I put together Seal Team 6 to take out Bin Laden."
2008: Sen. Obama, "Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial."
2011: Obama, "I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden."
2008: Sen. Obama, "Guantanamo is entirely unnecessary, and the detainees should not be interrogated."
2011: Obama, "Vital intelligence was obtained from Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin Laden."
So, by that logic, I'd be interested to hear what other things Obama can't be credited/discredited with...the economy, perhaps? Just trying to keep people honest.
Tracer - you're a laughable dunce. A perfect dupe for the GOP
The lies you cut and paste have long been debunked:
A reader recently forwarded us a chain e-mail that's been making the rounds, accusing President Barack Obama of hypocrisy over the raid that resulted in the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. A Google search also indicated that the text of the e-mail has been popping up widely in blogs and comment threads.
We found no evidence to support the notion that Obama said any of these things. In fact, several of the fake-quotes are directly contradicted by known statements made by the President. — Polticifact rates this as a PANTS ON FIRE, lie.
^ How appropriate, then that you are a Gingrich supporter.
That song that roots played for Michelle Bachman - - Lyin' a*# b*tch.
It applies to you and Gingrich too! lol. You're all cold busted.
Now, go back to your trailer park Klan rally, and continue your mindless venting.
Now here is what the President actually said during the Presidential debates in 2008, and moreover - it is exactly what he did,and so deserves credit for:
"If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then I think that we have to act, and we will take them out," Obama said. "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaida. That has to be our biggest national security priority."
I love this topic because it causes a cerebral hemorrage among tea bag loons.
Politificat says of Obama's 2007 promise to Kill Bin Laden.
After the raid, we rated his promise to "kill bin Laden" as a Promise Kept.
@Tracer - you guys just can't stand that Obama did what goofball Bush couldn't. He started useless wars for pseudo reasons then left the mess for someone else to clean up................and guess what Obama did it - live with it!
Hey Tracer -- had the operation to get Bin Laden failed, guys like you would be the first ones to blame the president.
Yes, President Obama is the one who succeeded in getting Bin Laden where the previous administration failed. He has also deported more illegals per year than the previous administration. BTW... does anyone on here know what the stock market has done the past couple days?
Oh, yeah... don't forget President Obama also got rid of Ghadaffi without the loss of a single American life; how many of our soldiers have died in the ten years we've been in Iraq to get rid of Saddam? Thankfully NOW President Obama is finally succeeding in ending THAT fiasco too.
Now, where were we? Oh, yeah; the RWNJ's on here are talking about how incompetent Obama is and what a failure he has been these past 3 years...
Go on.
Newt and his big ideals, lets get rid of child labor laws and turn the poor kids into school janitors and watch their self esteem soar. It would be funny, if it weren't so pitifully stupid. Doesn't sound like Newt has spent much time with kids.
If it is self esteem you are after then you need the arts, music, sports, woodworking, welding all the things that create enjoyment in your life. You know all the things being cuts from schools so millionaires and billionaires can have more tax cuts.
Republicans if this is your smart guy, you might want to change your thinking about investing in education.
Your avatar says it all. . .
We cannot possibly have teenagers emptying wastebaskets or mopping floors, now, can we? Why, it might take some of their time away from texting their friends, playing video games, or hanging out!
Their only focus should be on themselves! After all, chores are to be done for the,, not by them. Why should they take any responsibility for their surroundings?
YOUR name says it all - NO - congrats on being a member of the Party of NO and negativity.
Don't forget Newtoid suggesting that orphanages be opened. Yep, mass incarceration of children in a situation that led to death, and environmental mental illness. Would someone read and explain Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to Newtie?
Every time I think no jo can't get worse...guess what...she does! Forced labor of children! Good no jo! Should we re open sweat shops like the Triangle Shirt Company too?
For some strange reason, I can not picture her 'precious' grand-daughter cleaning school toilets...
Can you imagine? No jo would be the first in line in the morning to take the principal of the school to task!
Would love to see it!
No Jo All Blow..And this crap coming from the woman who used her sick grand daughter as a foil in the health care debate....Does this mean your grand daughter is going to be emptying waste baskets? And speaking of "emptying," your posts are about as empty as your head.
Attack the person that you disagree with, but please leave the family out of it.
Moving on -
Did anyone see the ADP Report today? Good numbers for private sector jobs, not so good for public sector employees.
The pace of job growth in the economy's private sector accelerated in November, with U.S. employers adding 206,000 jobs, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.
no joe, no bo, nj - the stupidity of your post would be laughable if it weren't so sad. Let's see - child labor - sure you're for it. As for the teens texting, etc., we're talking poor children here - don't even have cell phones. The richer children wouldn't have to clean the schools under your dear Newt's plan. Totally stupid!
I have no problem with children doing chores....but to get rid of the adult staff in the school is over the top..in essense what the Gingrich who stole christmas wants is to go back to children being paid a lot less for the responsibility of an adult worker...its about wages for adults so they can bring up a family.
no problem with chores and learning a work ethic at young age, but the primary focus of children and teenagers is education....something Newt just doesn't get because he is a rightwing 1%'er
There is no doubt that Newt is well qualified to carry the flag. At times however, his mouth overtakes his brain. He needs to slow down a little.
That is why I can't wait to listen to a debate between the two of them. Liers have trouble remembering what they have lied about at times.
Case in point, Newt's explanation on O'Riley about global warming, there is a commercial he made supporting Gore's position in which he solicited support for the same.
Qualified to carry the flag? Republicans for the 1% now have a flag?
^ Yeah, it's confederate.
I'm still trying to figure out what the Republicans qualifications are? It seems to change with the tide.
Does not matter what their qualifications are or are not. They only need your vote so they can go on about the business of rape and plunder of America. The GOP only pretends to listen to get elected then its business as usual.............Screw everyone who is not one of us, I.E....the 90 plus percent.
Newt Gingrich has obviously had much experience at political double speak, he is good at it. He comes across as an egomaniac with low integrity. This is NOT what we want in a President.
In his speech in S Carolina he "dared" the President, "To run a strictly positive campaign because it would reduce his (the Presidents I assume) chance of re-election." - and in the same speech Mr. Gingrich insults President Obama -- wow!-- further -- Mr. Bush could have had a bigger win in his 2004 re-election campaign if he had only listened to Mr. Gingrich? -- wow again! Wonder what the price tag was for the advice and why Mr. Bush didn't take Mr. Gingrich up on his offer? Hummmmm --
i assume mr Gingrich thinks, that his base just went "poof" and came into existence . for the rest of of us that where actually adults in 1990 . have a big trip newt your an idiot . Thats HISTORY for ya . LMAO contract on Amerika lol repubs are so funny .
GOP the party of GROPERS
This from the party of:
John Kennedy/Marilyn Monroe, etc.
Bobby Kennedy/Marilyn Monroe
Teddy Kennedy and poor, dead Mary Jo Kopeckny
John Edwards and some skank while his wife was dying of cancer
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Lets not pretend that either party has any corner on integrity, particularly when it comes to "dickie" problems. The offenders are to numerous to mention.
Frankly, I don't really care how many or to what variety our future president has diddled just so long as he is competent. America has a long history of philandering presidents (notice I did not say distinguished history), but I just don't really care. Put me in the ABO (anybody but Obama) camp. I seek competence and am willing to sacrifice (God help me) integrity for competence.
Clinton was GOP?
Clinton did aver that "I never had sex with that woman," but I guess you're right he belongs on the same list.
Ron Adolph - Very selective in your portrayal of men let's try:
George Herbert Bush - Jennifer Fitzgerald
Dwight D Eisenhower - Personal Female Driver
George JR - Female Black Woman in Texas committed suicide with shotgun - only arms could not reach trigger - Uhm daddy head of CIA at the time
David Vittner - DC prostitutes - liked the diaper game
Widestance Craig - pleaded guilty in Minneapolis for solicitation of males
Need I go on?
Only slight evidence of democratic hypocrisy there, Adolph. The affairs of John Kennedy were publicized after his election and especially after his term ended. Clinton was already in office when the Monica s#!t hit the fan.
But Newt is more like the others you mentioned who were not yet in office. Of those: the presidential hopes of John Edwards and Ted Kennedy were dashed by these revelations. Bobby Kennedy never finished the primary. We can add 'Monkey Business' Gary Hart to this list of dashed hopefuls.
And let's not forget that it is the Republican party that presumes the
family valueshypocrite vote.Gingrich is a philandering, hypocritical lobbyist. He lacks the moral center needed in a leader. He is also a demagogue of the first order. Remember when he said that America was in danger of becoming "an atheist secular state . . . run by Islamic fundamentalists?" Think about that. Islamic fundamentalists promoting atheism! He will say and do anything to get elected. However, he would look good in a brown shirt and riding boots.
Here's something of interest from www.biography.com: "Ethical considerations were at the heart of much criticism of the speaker. In 1995, he returned a $4.5 million book advance that the House Ethics Committee had questioned. Another ethics investigation arose about whether Gingrich had used tax-exempt donations to fund a college course he had taught while serving in Congress. Gingrich negotiated an agreement with the House Ethics Committee, and he payed [sic] $300,000 for the cost of the investigation. The House voted to reprimand him by a vote of 395 to 28."
While you libs are basking in denial stew. Here's some good reading just out:
Demorcrats Bailing on Obama
By Patricia Campion | Yahoo / Nov.2011
In 2008, a mystery candidate named Barack Obama made history by becoming the first African American president of the United States.
Today, Obama has a record, a very public record, with very real consequences. Among his most notable achievements: the most deficit spending of any president from George Washington to Ronald Reagan, stagnant unemployment, a record number of Americans living below poverty level and dependent on some form of government assistance and the first downgrade of the U.S. credit rating in United States history -- all while setting the national record for most rounds of golf played by a sitting president.
Republicans and the tea party tried to warn you. But most didn't listen. They were too busy chanting Hope and Change and calling anyone who didn't buy into it a racist. Now, as all those admonitions of economic and social chaos continue to come to ugly fruition, even Congressional Democrats, liberal pundits, pollsters and once rabidly loyal members of the mainstream media are starting to squirm with discomfort.
It's all about saving face, mind you. They knew the chaos would come too. They just know it's just getting harder for them to keep spinning three years of failure into a believable success story without looking like a fool. So now, just as Bush loyalists turned on George near the end of his struggling presidency, the most devoted of Obama's public relations support unit are bailing.
In August, Politico reported Democrat strategist James Carville offering a single word of advice for the struggling president: "Panic." On Monday, Patrick Caddell, President Carter's pollster, and Douglas Schoen, who advised President Bill Clinton's re-election, suggested through an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that it's time for Obama to "step aside" and give the nomination to Hillary Clinton.
According to a recent CNN/ORC International Poll 26 percent of Democrats would prefer that their party nominate another candidate for president. While that is hardly a majority, that number was only 18 percent a month ago.
In September, after listening to Obama's absurd class warfare rhetoric that the "millionaires and billionaires" need to pay their "fair share" of taxes, even the Associated Press had to call him out and bear the facts that prove "they already are."
Because of their highly unpopular fiscal policies, like Obamacare and the waste of his 2009 trillion-dollar stimulus, Democrats were pummeled in the 2010 midterms. Losses in the Sept. 13 House special elections in New York and Nevada were again attributed directly to Obama.
In anticipation of another drubbing in 2012, seventeen House Democrats - including the 16-term Democrat from Massachusetts, Rep. Barney Frank -- have decided not to seek reelection.
As Obama tours the country on his own reelection tour, incumbent Democrats who want to keep their seats are avoiding him like the plague.
After contacting over a dozen Democrats in the moderate Blue Dog Caucus Politico found only a few were even "willing to comment on whether they supported Obama's reelection bid."
Unable or simply unwilling to come through with those promises of Hope and Change the New York Times reported that Democratic operatives for the 2012 election have decided that "the party will explicitly abandon the white working class."
According to Gallup, 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Obama's effort to create jobs, 67 percent disapprove of his handling of the economy and the deficit and 73 percent believe it's all getting worse.
Republicans and the tea party tried to warn you. Now, after three years of the economic chaos Obama has inflicted upon the nation, their new message is simply; "We told you so."
Patricia Campion, well-known reactionary mouthpiece, occasional Fox News guest "expert" (at what, one can only imagine), notoriously anti-progress. Just the person to be quoting if you want to be considered credible and objective, Tracer!
The trouble with all of you right-wing dump jobs is that you always end up believing your own hype. Considering how the Republicans have been stonewalling Obama every step of the way since Inauguration Day in their desperate foaming-at-the-mouth grappling to unseat him, it's a wonder he was able to accomplish anything, much less as much as he has. If history ultimately labels him a failure, it certainly won't be for lack of trying.
The Republicans, on the other hand, will have to defend their four years of total inaction (other than blocking everything Obama tried to do). The voters will decide, and most of them live in the center, not out on the rightmost fringes where all the noise is coming from.
The Republicans are trying to block stupidity demonstrated by Obama and his recent bills. Just because Obama makes and effort doesn't mean its the right thing to do. Please don't confuse the two.
That's fine. And the alternatives for 2012? An intolerant, bible-thumping, totally alienating witch, a business man whose admitted ignorance about the world around us he brushed off like an insolent teenager, and several others who care more about religion than their qualifications and who won't be happy until every last piece of open land is paved into a walmart parking lot and we have to wear gas masks to the park. Yeah, Obama has done a horrible job, but the goddamned Republican party is so hellbent on religion and inciting hate (against whomever fits the bill for that time period) that I would rather chop my own hands off than vote for them. Shut up about your Christianity. It has no place in my government. Learn some humility (be Christ-like instead of shoving your Christianity down our throats). Learn to speak reasonably and without inciting HATE among the sheep who follow you. Goddamned GOP...just as worthless as the Democratic party. Neither will get vote.
Drink that rotten Tea Tracer..............LOL.
Aimless Obama Walks Alone
MICHAEL GOODWIN - New York Post
The reports are not good, disturbing even. I have heard basically the same story four times in the last 10 days, and the people doing the talking are in New York and Washington and are spread across the political spectrum. The gist is this: President Obama has become a lone wolf, a stranger to his own government. He talks mostly, and sometimes only, to friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and to David Axelrod, his political strategist.
Everybody else, including members of his own Cabinet, have little face time with him except for brief meetings that serve as photo ops. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner both have complained, according to people who have talked to them, that they are shut out of important decisions.
The president’s workdays are said to end early, often at 4 p.m. He usually has dinner in the family residence with his wife and daughters, then retreats to a private office. One person said he takes a stack of briefing books. Others aren’t sure what he does. If the reports are accurate, and I believe they are, they paint a picture of an isolated man trapped in a collapsing presidency.
Obama conceded in one television interview recently that Americans are not “better off than they were four years ago” and said in another that the nation had “gotten a little soft.” Blaming the country is political heresy, of course, yet Obama is running out of scapegoats. His allies rarely make affirmative arguments on his behalf anymore, limiting themselves to making excuses for his failure. The blame game isn’t much of a defense for Solyndra and “Fast and Furious,” the emerging twin scandals that paint a picture of incompetence at best.
Obama himself is spending his public time pushing a $450 billion “jobs” bill -- really another stimulus plan in disguise -- that even Senate Democrats won’t support. When it comes to getting America back on track to economic growth, he is running on vapors. Yet he shows no inclination to adopt any ideas other than his own Big Government grab. His itch for higher taxes verges on a fetish.
Harvey Golub, former chairman of American Express, called the “jobs” bill an incoherent mess. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he said that among other flaws, the bill includes an unheard of retroactive tax hike on the holders of municipal bonds. “Many of us have suspected that economic illiterates were setting the economic policy of this administration,” Golub wrote, adding that the bill “reveals a depth of cluelessness that boggles the mind.”
The public increasingly shares the sentiment. Only a mere 29 percent say the economy would improve if the president gets four more years. The election, unfortunately, is nearly 13 months away. The way Obama’s behaving, by then we’ll all be talking to portraits of past presidents, asking why this one turned out to be such a flop.
Ah, the New York Post. That's one of Murdoch's reactionary Republican mouthpieces. This must be why Obama is leading all Republican presidential candidates in virtually all polls. See http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html
Oh yes.....If its not from a liberal source..it must be false reporting. Wow....how lonely it must be in your little hole.
"A liberal is all about tolerance until they realize that there are other views." William F. Buckley
Tracer--It is an opinion piece, with no citations, no sources save the anti-Obama Wall Street Journal. It offers a point of view. In this case, a rightwing Republican point of view. I offered some facts. The polls tell a different story than the one protrayed in the opinion piece you cut and pasted.
The polls at this point mean nothing. You know that...!
I realize it must be hard for you to accept the fact that your "Hope and Change" is failing so miserably. Hang in there.....he has another 12 months to save his crumbling reputation.
I leave here (laughing) while remembering a famous statement:
Obama 2009 - “I’ve got four years and … A year from now, I think people are going to see that we’re starting to make some progress. If I can’t fix the economy in three years, you can call me former President Obama!"
Good night...!
If the polls mean nothing, an opinion piece in the NY Post means even less. And, yes, the economy is improving despite all Republican attempts to stifle growth.
Bye Tracer............dont' let the door
Wow, Tracer got his feelings hurt. Turn off Fox "News" Tracer, you will feel better.
Old Vet,
Be gentle on poor little Tracer. He has no choice but to cut and paste because he doesn't know how to think on his own.
Nice one, Tracer. Another "unbiased" opinion from another Republican standard-bearer. Do you take us for idiots? What would we expect him to say, for God's sake.
Well, two can play at that game, me bucko!
Romney Peddles Obama Defense-Spending Lie
by Siddhartha Mahanta
"GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney used Tuesday night's CNN presidential foreign policy debate to drag out a tired, debunked claim: that President Obama intends to cut $1 trillion from defense spending.
It's not true: $600 billion of the cuts Romney is talking about will come via the "trigger," the cuts written into the August deal to raise the nation's borrowing limit. Those cuts go into effect in January 2013, but that's thanks to the supercommittee's recent failure to come up with another $1.2 trillion in savings—not Obama's nonexistent anti-military jihad.
The other $400 billion of Romney's $1 trillion? They don't exist, as Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin reported in September:
The fact is that the Obama administration has made no serious attempt to curb military spending. And if Congress finds a way to renege on the sequester-mandated defense cuts (as defense hawks have been pleading), the other $600 billion worth of cuts won't materialize, either."
Is this the best the Republicans can dredge up? How pathetic does a field of so-called "candidates" have to be to actually make Newt Gingrich look like the best choice?
Newt demands that Obama not run a negative campaign while criticizing the president, congress and political consultants (of which he was one). How Newt. "Do as I say, not as I do" should be his bumper sticker.
2003 Newt: Rein in the Patriot Act
—By Siddhartha Mahanta
Newt Gingrich opened tonight's CNN debate by saying he would support strengthening the Patriot Act, the controversial law that vastly expanded the reach of America's intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
"I think you want to use every tool you can possibly use," the former speaker of the House said.
That doesn't exactly square with what Gingrich wrote in an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003:
2011 Newt wants a robust Patriot Act; the lily-livered, 2003 Newt didn’t seem so committed. Views can change. But Gingrich's inconsistency on one of the central civil liberties questions of the post-9/11 era should give primary and caucus voters serious pause.
I realize it must be hard for you libs to accept the fact that your "Hope and Change" is failing so miserably. Hang in there.....he has another 12 months to try and save his crumbling reputation.
I leave here (laughing) while remembering a famous statement:
Obama 2009 - "I've got four years and … A year from now, I think people are going to see that we're starting to make some progress. If I can't fix the economy in three years, you can call me former President Obama!"
Good night..!
Tracer--Even you must realize how feeble the Republican pretenders are. Obama is no miracle worker, but the race will be between two. And the best the Republicans have to offer seem to be Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and Willard Romney. That gives Democrats hope.
Tracer: thanks for rehashing that wing nut nonsense. The failure belongs to the obsructionist TeaPublicans whose publicly stated top priority is not to fix the economy, create jobs, work on tax reform, etc but it is to defeat Obama. What a bunch of losers and posers.
And, by the way, the mess was created by the Republicans during the Bush/Cheney regime.
Can The Lizard survive the radical incompetence that he has exhibited over the course of his public carreer AND the weight of the truth of his philandering, leaving a sick wife to marry his mistress TWICE, leaving congress in shame, taking huge amounts of money for lobbying and then lying that he was never a lobyist, etc, etc, etc. Gingrich would be the best gift the TeaPublicans could give to the Obama reelection campaign
For a minute there I thought you were talking about John Edwards. You know...the demtard cheating on his wife while she was dying of cancer?
The "gift" will be if Obama has to debate Newt. Newt will destroy him
From what I'm reading, Newt is starting to make Cain look like a promiscuous boy scout. This is gonna get interesting real quick..
Liberal: your hero is a paper tiger...serial adulterer, ethics violater, brought the government to a standstill because Clinton had the audacity to put him in the BACK of Air Force One...Watch. He ALWAYS starts believing his own press and then always self-destructs...of course, hero wworshipers that don't know the difference btween farce and substance will keep him rich for many years to come...He'll be just fine on the sidelines, where he's been and where he will return.
More likely Newt will destroy himself. I doubt very much he is capable of winning a argument, let alone a debate. He will just lose his temper or simply spout off the same rhetoric he has been spewing.
Newt:
"he also slammed members of Congress for making insider trades, saying newly-elected members should have to keep their assets in blind trusts."
Pot meet Mr. Kettle.
And he's slammed, nailed, and (his preference) oral interviews from many aides and sycophants from what I've heard.
Hermain Cain meet Newton Gingrich
newt & THE REST OF THE GOP CLOWNS are American traitors of our way of life!!....Values? what values,what is wrong with the gop of today?....No shame of being hypocrites?lying?greed?pure evil?.....No health care?....die!! THEY YELL!!......They wish our President,their President failure which in turn the country,our country,the United-States failure!......We must stop these anti-Americans in the voting booth!...That's why these unhonorable Americans are trying to stop millions of Americans from all walks of life from using there most sacred right: a right to vote,by trying to pass un-lawful anti-American laws in about 35 states or more by using tyrannical maneuver's that will not hold up in a U.S. court of law............We will over come in 2012...........
yawn....time for some new talking points peewee
Why don't you liberals refute the posts that criticize obama? Of course you can't because he has nothing for accomplishment. That is why you attack his critics by calling them names and insulting them. I do not think you understand negative campaign. If you criticize somebody with facts, like obama being a big time failure, it is not negative campaigning. Negative campaigning is when a candidate, like obama, tosses in the air, allegations and lies void of facts and truth, and hoping one might stick. Keep at it Tracer.
Sailor, keep it up, if you guys continue to promote the lie that Obama is a failure, surely someone will believe you. NOT! But, every time you do, thousands move over in support of Obama, because anyone with a brain knows he started with a Republican problem and has been thwarted from solving that problem by Republicans! LOL, you are such losers.
Because Tracers posts are biased right wing propaganda................just starting. I guarantee there is no crap like Newts in Obama's closet! Good Luck with the spins.
H*...plenty in ObaMaos closet. The Leftard Media just chose to ignore or downplay it
"plenty in ObaMaos closet. The Leftard Media just chose to ignore or downplay it"
Really? Then how would YOU know about it? Oh, right, you've got the 'truth' over at Fox 'News' or from WND.
what about bushs numerous attempts to get congress to rein in fannie and freddie dod & frank would not let it happen. you know frank his boyfriend now has a cushy job with freddy. these idiots had alot to do with the recesion...!!!!!
"you know frank his boyfriend now has a cushy job with freddy."
Sorry, no. Get your facts straight.
No if he had done something wrong I would take offense to it. Hence why I take such offense to the republicans doing things wrong as well. I'm an equal oppurtunity hater over here, and quite liberal you jack ass.
President Obama has accomplished many things. Many "Gross Odd People" (GOP), and the "Really Not Competent" (RNC) have a very difficult time comprehending what they read. Many of the GOP Clowns are closet Tea Beggers, and mental illness on many levels runs deep. First President Obama took out Bin Laden, and has a Foreign Policy that is well thought out. Only an intellectual President like President Obama is capable of doing this successfully. President Obama saved "Brainless Bush Economy" from going into a full Economic Depression. President Obama saved GM, and now GM is doing very well. Now the GOP/RNC Clowns have everything possible to destroy an American President. By the way?? This is Political TREASON America! Before President Obama even took office in 2008. "Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell" the "GOP Rat" of political spewing. Made it very clear to all listening and properly comprehending. The GOP/RNC goal is to destroy the President at all economic and political costs. Now the "Hoodlum's On The Hill" in the House have taken this message to political heart. The "Bonehead Boehner Bunch" has lead the way by destroying Social Security. Read the voting record of the House on this issue America. President Obama has tried to pass many Economic Etimulus Bills however, the GOP/RNC have said NO to everything. As for "Nutty Newt" the man who loves to puke?? He is a Confederate States Of America Politician, who has no chance of ever becoming President. "Nutty Newt" is a proven GOP Clown who loves to lie, then distract others, and in the end "Nutty Newt" he has NO plans of helping 99% of economically struggling Americans. "Nutty Newt" believes in a nation that existed around 1855, and any history after that is mute to "Nutty Newt." Now "Nutty Newt" likes to make up his facts, and he makes it worse for himself by "flip-flopping." Again!!
Wow.... you cant really believe what you are typing.. I would suggest you get proffesional help
Why mb? You are the one who needs it.
My Democratic Colonel father told me years ago what a tool Newt was...I was younger when the whole Clinton thing went down...but remembered my dad yelling at the TV about how unAmerican and what a traitor Newt was(he called him alot of other things having a mouth of a Marine)... ...my Dad was a highly decorated officer...but never was like these people (baggers) that demanded everyone know about his service...he said it was his JOB...paid for by the American people!!!! He adored Clinton and became very successful during his presidency.. so all you "patriots" can rest assured that plenty of the military is behind Obama!!! and my dad respected Clintons views on Vietnam...He thought George Bush Jr. was a chicken @!$%# but also said that you NEVER disrespect your commanding officer!!!!
So rest assured someone with the tag name "fracker" or "tracer" or "patriot and puts down the president"..was A)did only one tour or B) just plays Call of Duty
OBAMA 2012!!!
jennifer..have anymore bullsh@t you would like to post?
Gingrich will get the prick vote, which is what Gingrich is...
Gingrich is the reason Clinton and your dad were sucessful
Newt, don't loose the tiffanys account!!!!!
How he spends his money is your business how?
I guess it's that whole understanding-the-pain-of-the-middle-class thing.
I suppose it's none of our business if a guy who wants to be President has done this:
"The most notorious incident in Gingrich's marriage ... was when he cornered Jackie in her hospital room where she was recovering from uterine cancer surgery and insisted on discussing the terms of the divorce he was seeking. Shortly after that infamous encounter, Gingrich refused to pay his alimony and child-support payments. The First Baptist Church in his hometown had to take up a collection to support the family Gingrich had deserted. Six months after divorcing Jackie, Gingrich married a younger woman, Marianne, with whom he had been having an affair." No?? maybe if he spends yours and my tax money on BS like he did at tiffany's maybe?? Gingrich is SCUM and his actions prove it!!!
I know you dont care about facts but his wife was in for a biopsy whitch was not cancerous and she asked for the divorce. but dont let facts stand in your way.
mb: those are definately not the facts. Wife number one was successfully treated for cancer. She asked for the divorce only AFTER she found out about the affair he was already having....facts are stubborn things.
"I know you dont care about facts but his wife was in for a biopsy whitch was not cancerous and she asked for the divorce."
Not according to her. Or Newt for that matter.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2937633
Republicans are truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. Newt Gingrich?
From the Washington Post - 1997:
The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing.
That was a bipartisan reprimand. Even Republicans couldn't stand for the unethical conduct of Mr. Gingrinch.
Fast forward 14 years and we get this from Newt:
He also slammed members of Congress for making insider trades, saying newly-elected members should have to keep their assets in blind trusts.
Hypocrite!
This guy is not a public speaker..he cant hold my attention for more then like 2 mins. The minute i see him all i think is OMG more psycho babble ..He talks and says nothing ...He reminds me of Romney and Perry ...
another ignorant leftard without a clue
Gingrich would wipe OBOMBO out in a debate and expose that
this man isn't the KING Genius that the liberals pretended he was!!!
Sounds more like a description of the president more like it. Everytime I see O'Idiot's face on TV, I turn the channel. I can't stand to listen to all of his great speeches filled with flowing oratories that in reality say very little about anything. Newt was right when he said that all Obama has ever done is "talk and write".
Look how successful Newt is. After all he is on his third wife and President Obama is still on his first.
Then look at Newts other successes, he has been thrown out of congress for ethics charges.
Poor President Obama just doesn't seem to want to be as successful as the Newt. And am I ever glad.
Obama/Biden 2012
Just makes you wonder what Michelle believes in since Barry did have a couple of affairs. Guess you never read his book did you?
"Just makes you wonder what Michelle believes in since Barry did have a couple of affairs. Guess you never read his book did you?"
False. If that's true, give the name of the book (there are 4) and the page number this is found on.