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Subscribe to RSSA New York Times/CBS poll is the latest to show Gingrich leading in Iowa. He’s at 31%, Romney’s at 17%, and Paul is at 16%. “Mr. Gingrich is rated more favorably than any of the other six remaining candidates in the race among voters who say they are likely to attend the Republican caucuses in Iowa. He would be supported enthusiastically as his party’s presidential nominee by more voters than any of his rivals, the poll found, and is leading in the head-to-head competition as the campaign here builds. But two-thirds of likely voters remain open to changing their mind.”
BACHMANN: Michele Bachmann’s campaign announced the support of 19 former Herman Cain supporters in South Carolina, including state Rep. Ralph Norman.
GINGRICH: “Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich took aim at President Obama, denied ever doing any lobbying and called out House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in a wide-ranging interview with Larry Kudlow Tuesday,” CNBC writes.
“The idea that Mitt Romney ought to thank Gingrich for passing legislation to create an environment where Romney and Bain Capital could flourish just dawned on Newt tonight during an appearance on CNBC's The Kudlow Report,” New York magazine writes. “Gingrich told Larry Kudlow that ‘[Romney] should be thanking me. He should be thanking me because I did the macroeconomic things necessary to make his career possible!’”
Reuters profiles Callista Gingrich.
Gingrich Productions sent out this morning to a list that included political press an email with the subject: “Gifts Under $10.00!” NBC’s Brooke Brower reports. It promotes a novel Gingrich wrote called, “Gettysburg: a novel of the civil war.” (It’s just $5.99, but for just $4 more, you can get it autographed.)
ROMNEY: “Massachusetts will make available to the public hundreds of boxes of documents from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's term as governor that have long been locked away, the state said Tuesday. The same agency that is opening the files said it would not pursue an inquiry into the purge of electronic records at the end of Romney's term,” the Boston Globe reports. “The moves come after disclosures that Romney had authorized the purging of emails and other closely-held electronic records at the end of administration.”
The DNC has another web video, called “What is Mitt Hiding?”, hitting Mitt Romney for the $100,000 tab it reportedly cost to replace computers and data removed by the Romney administration in 2006.
“Mitt Romney vows to make his ‘closing argument’ for the GOP presidential nomination, including drawing some sharp distinctions with new front-runner Newt Gingrich,” USA Today writes.
Romney said no to the Donald Trump debate.
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“The idea that Mitt Romney ought to thank Gingrich for passing legislation to create an environment where Romney and Bain Capital could flourish just dawned on Newt tonight during an appearance on CNBC's The Kudlow Report,” New York magazine writes. “Gingrich told Larry Kudlow that ‘[Romney] should be thanking me. He should be thanking me because I did the macroeconomic things necessary to make his career possible!’”
I love it when politicians accidently tell the truth.
Gingrich as speaker did balance the budget and turn our economy into surplus. And yes Congress controls spending. Unlike the flip flopper that actually practiced liberal policies he at least has the scars and lived some of the ideals folks are all paying lip service to on the campaign trail right now.
Good Morning America ... think I'll take the dog for a walk while y'all get your bash Obama's speech points delivered top you
RON PAUL is the only candidate with integrity and competence.His record as a politician is of a saint.The neocon puppets are pushed ahead by the corporate media but this time the american people will not be fooled.
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“I predict future happiness for Americans [100%], if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
—-Thomas Jefferson
Aram - If (when) Paul loses the nomination fight do you think he should run as a third party candidate?
Honestly Aram, Ron Paul is not a good fit for today's GOP. That is NOT an insult of Rep. Paul so much as it is a comment on today's Republican Party.
It is not the government that is wasting the labors of the people. It is the corporations.
I read where (I believe it was) Japan has vetoed opening of the big box stores like Walmart in their country. They are the smart ones, while we have allowed them to bring in their inferior products from China and other slave-labor countries and to herald the closing of the mom & pops that used to feed the country, you remember, all those small businesses that create jobs?
WHO is Gingrich:
chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/11/real-newt-gingrich-part-1.html
WHO is Romney
chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/10/romneys-advisors-are-leftist-elites.html
It's difficult to comment on nothing...........
Who is Newt:
10/22/1991 – Voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
03/-/1993 – Voted for sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.
11/19/1993 – Voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.
11/27/1994 – Supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
08/27/1995 – Suggested that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.
04/25/1996 – Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)
04/10/1995 – Supported Federal taxdollars being spent on abortions.
06/01/1996 – Helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in 1996 election.
09/25/1996 – Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
01/22/1997 – Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
11/29/2006 – Stated that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Called for a “serious debate about the 1st Amendment.”
02/15/2007 – Supported Bush’s proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
09/28/2008 – Stated if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
10/01/2008 – Stated in an article that TARP was a “workout, not a bailout.”
12/08/2008 – Paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
03/31/2009 – States we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.
07/30/2010 – States that Iraq was just step one in defeating the “Axis of Evil”.
08/03/2010 – Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.
11/15/2010 – Defended Romneycare
12/05/2010 – Stated that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.
01/30/2011 – Lobbied for ethanol subsidies.
01/30/2011 – Suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
02/13/2011 – Criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.
02/15/2011 – Wrote book saying he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating “a new endowment for conservation and the environment.”
03/09/2011 – Blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.
03/15/2011 – Stated that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
03/19/2011 – Shows no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)
03/23/2011 – Completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.
03/25/2011 – Plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.
04/25/2011 – Became paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.
05/12/2011 – More supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.
06/09/2011 – Campaign staff resigned en masse.
07/15/2011 – Poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.
08/01/2011 – Hired a company to create fake Twitter accounts to make fake followers.
10/07/2011 – Stated he’d ignore the Supreme Court and bypass the constitution and congress.
Still better than Romney. At least not as wishy washy. He stated what he believed about immigration even after seeing it hurt a fellow candidate and he said what he believed about right wing social engineering even while it was the appeal for his party earlier in the year.
The list of "Nutty Newt's" political adventures is well stated by Aram. This post sums it up very accurately, and the message is very clear. "Nutty Newt" is not Presidential, not honest, and will change his "Messages Of Madness" at will. It is time to wave good bye to "Nutty Newt," Romulian Romney," "Bitchy Bachmann," and "Trampy Trump." Getting tired of listening and hearing the GOP Clowns yet America?? I hope so!
But the GOP must have a nominee! Why not help them choose who you prefer to run against Obama? Why not Gingrich?
Wow--Newt is a legend in his own mind! To hear him, every positive thing that happened in this country is attributed to HIS unilateral efforts! Yes--we should all bow down before him and thank him for his beneficence. Watch out--his head is so full of delusions of grandeur it will soon explode!
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
I'll bet Newt even thinks he created the earth. He would say there would be no earth if it weren't for me advising God.
Wait for it, that's about all that's left for Newt to take credit for.
To say that Newt is a pathological narcissistic liar is an understatement!
Newt Gingrich, the man that does nothing but takes credit for everything.
That's one of the reason's anybody that was in congress with him doesn't like him. He'd go out in front of the camera's and take credit for their idea's, and the media would report what a smart man Newt is without bothering to check to see who's ideas they really were. Newt never had an idea of his own he always stole them from some one else.
Hmmm...Romney made most of his money as "The Gordon Gekko of Bain Capital Management," doing "leveraged buy-outs." Leveraged buy-outs consist of identifying publically-owned companies that are considered to be "underperforming" and essentially purchasing them with their own ability to carry debt - i.e. borrowing the money to buy out stockholders, with the assets of the company being bought used as collateral for the loans to buy them out.
Once the company is bought out, it may be broken up to be sold off in pieces that separately were worth more than the whole and/or accompanied by layoffs intended to improve cash flow, make the "books" look better and prepare the company for another sale at a higher price than originally bought.
There are those economists who think that it was a practice that led to "debt overload" and became a widespread contributing factor to the economic meltdown.
Why would The Newt want to take credit for contributing to the financial meltdown?
More "in your face" from the 1%ers...the Job Creators Who Cannot Create Jobs.