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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina political activist, listed as one of Newt Gingrich’s 44 county co-chairs here, asked to have her name removed from that list.
Joanne Burroughs, who serves as the Greenwood County Republican Party executive committeeman, said she told a Gingrich staffer that she would serve as a liaison between her county and the campaign (as she does for all candidates) but that she didn’t know she would also be listed as a county co-chair.
“I was called and asked if I could be a contact person in case anything came up in our county,” Burroughs told NBC News. “That does not mean that I’m endorsing Newt.”
Burroughs added that, as a member of the South Carolina Republican Party executive committee, she would not be making an official endorsement but that she is “a very strong Mitt Romney fan.”
Burroughs said her inclusion on the list might have been a “misunderstanding” between her and DeLinda Ridings, Gingrich’s Midlands director who contacted her.
Ridings told NBC that she asked Burroughs, “will you help me as the county chair in Greenwood,” but that Burroughs “misunderstood what I was asking about.”
Burroughs’ name was removed from the Gingrich website, Newt.org, by this afternoon. Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said the Gingrich campaign still has “complete leadership” throughout the state, as Beth Taylor of Greenwood County will fill the co-chair position.
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Isn't the internet great.?
There you go again, Newt. Assuming that you are loved by everyone and they would kiss your boots for the opportunity to endorse you. Can't wait until you become the Republican nominee. No Democrat is going to pull the dirt on you from congressional records until you win. We want you to win.
Everyone thinks you are a good debater. You excel at being condescending and deflection. Nothing more. Obama will eat you alive on debate night. Can't wait. When you get angry you turn so red. It should make from great reality TV in October 2012.
That red face should show quite well in Hi Def.
That being said, I still have my doubts he will make it to the nomination. If this race gets much worse, the GOP elite may just go and try to have a brokered convention. We need to get that popcorn going!
Sounds like an FR troll we know, hmm?
If Romney wins, Teabaggers will want to run a third-party candidate. If Gingrich wins, establishment Republicans will want president Obama to be reelected.
Phine - I'm all for popcorn. This just keeps getting more and more interesting! But this should be serious - you are going to elect a POTUS. Just makes me thank God every day that I'm not a U.S. Citizen.
While Newter is busy kissing the 'Donald's' ass...
Did someone mention *popcorn*?
This little episode is just another example of the disorganization and chaos that is afflicting the GOP's wannabe candidates campaigns. They are not prepared nor equipped to run their campaigns on a national stage.
The Republican "pretenders to the presidency" are just a gaggle of small-time crooks and amateur-hour crazies. They will be good for a laugh or two during the primaries and then they'll fade away in shame and embarrassment, just as Cain did.
Got that right Ana. Newt "I am not a salamander" Gingrich's entire tenure as speaker was an all encompassing witch hunt to find some sort of trumped up excuse to impeach the President, despite being guilty of doing what Clinton was doing, an act between two consenting adults. In comparison, this almost makes the current Weeper of the House looks like a posture child for classy decorum. I can't wait for the dirt to fall because payback is a b!tch!
Sailcat - I sincerely hope you are right!
Thought I would drop in to see what is new in Newt World.
In all honesty, this group of GOP candidates has to be the worst I have ever seen. Yes, I am a proud Progressive, but a good opposition party is good for the country. This group is not a good representation of what the GOP used to be. Sad.
Going back to my herbal tea and blanket now. Have fun kids.
So I just saw Obama's kick ass polling numbers. Oh my.
So what's up with that gang? Per Gallup's rolling 3 day average:
Today: 41% approve, 51% disapprove. Just a few weeks ago, 11/26 it was 44%/46%.
Looks like you libbies really need to get out there with those pom poms. Apparently the rest of the people just have not scene those totally fantastic lists you all keep re posting which cite all of his awesomeness.
And good god but tomorrow will likely not endear him to anyone - all Holder and Fast and Furious, all the time. Except here at MSNBC of course.
I'm with Sailcat - disorganization and chaos. But somehow I kinda doubt 'cat was talking about the DOJ or Holder.
The Newt is going to hit the fan, Great White North Observer. The GOP doesn't have a single candidate who is credible or believable, and moderate voters will abandon the Republican cause just as the GOP has abandoned them in favor of the right wing lunatic fringe.
This will not be the Republican Party's finest hour. Not at all.
How does Obama look as compared to the GOP's leading failures?
Obama vs. Romney
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
Obama vs. Gingrich
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_gingrich_vs_obama-1453.html
Read 'em and weep, sports fans!
Ras is at 45 though and you can't run a ham sandwich against a sitting president. You're half rattling some cages and half whistling through the graveyard (otherwise why choose the LOWEST number?) here as you're smart enough to realize that this isn't exactly the optimal scenario one could have hoped for if you're a republican or simply a conservative who has voted republican. Newton's not an ORGANIZATIONAL genius, as both his few allies and many detractors in the Republican party attest to, so sloppy organization and snafu's are to be expected.
Don't worry about the libbies Spanky, it is the Romney establishment Republicans that will do in Newton, if he doesn't implode unassisted. It's Mitt my friend and you are as welcome to him as the dems are to their guy...
Thanks for the sources Sailcat. Just added site to favorites!
You're very welcome, Ana! Here is a Pulitzer Prize winning site that researches the statements of politicians to check their veracity:
http://www.politifact.com/
I find it handy for refuting the vague innuendos and outright lies of some of the more colorful political figures who haunt the media these days.
Sure danger, but I love ham sandwiches and whistling, but usually Dixie, not past graveyards.
You know they have been saying that Newt will implode/Romney will 'get him' but there is little time for either.
More importantly, the stuff against Newt is old news.
And in any event the party line will solidify behind the eventual nominee.
Looking at Obama's trend line, he's toast, particularly against such a terrible, horrible field. But then again there is his record.
Plus tomorrow will likely be another really bad, horrible day for team Obama.
Side note - why would Sebelius pull the rug out of the morning after pill?
Why Spanky, as you told a liberal just yesterday when they said that it was too late for Mitt, that's pretty funny before a single vote has been cast. Where was Obama at this time in '07?. You can't have it both ways, at least not with me. Mitt has the organization, the conservative establishment media while Newton in addition to his Santa's Sack of scandals, is not exactly Mr. Popularity in his own party.
As I said , the republicans are stuck with their spiel and have to hope that things DON'T improve, as your gloom and doom so clearly shows, and that's a lousy position too be in.And you really shouldn't want Newton NOT to self-destruct, unless you're a secret Obama supporter...:)
These kinds of things happen when the work experience of your entire campaign staff all centers around organizing book signings.
The GOP candidates sure do seem to like the word "oops"
Yeah phinep, just the GOP.
Of course at this point last time around you had two super fine fellas in the mix.
John Edwards, and Biden. Now Biden tends to say oops fairly often [plus there was the big OPPS when he got caught plagiarizing in 1988], but Edwards 'screw' up on on a whole other level.
So what's it going to be tonight; White of red? Your posts are far more entertaining after a glass or two.
Care to hazard a guess as to what Holder will be saying tomorrow? Opps, perhaps?
Not tonight, Spankers. Think I am coming down with something. Got a headache and a sore throat. Just took some advil.
Alcohol is the best medicine of all. Ain't nothing a couple of glasses of wine can't cure.
At least for a little while.
Sorry Spanks, going for herbal tea and a warm blanket.
Did you actually call Governor Perry a "dumb ass"? And the so--called "Community" let you do it?
Could I get away with calling Barry a Dumb ass? Guess I will then.
Barry, President of the United States, also known as Barak, I sincerely hope that the Republicans in Congress take your threat personally, and the Democrats jump ship, and you get stomped by the vote on the tax cut, the gas pipeline, and the threat (whatever that threat could be). Are you really threatening members of the House and Senate? Who in the H--- do you think you are?
[Who in the H--- do you think you are?]
He's your president, dumbass...
[I sincerely hope that the Republicans in Congress take your threat personally...]
What "threat" are you referring to? His WARNING that he'll veto any payroll tax cut bill that has any bull@!$%# attached to it?
Gordon - a different view:
Try looking at things from multiple perspectives and take off your blinders.
Spanky--- Yes the internet is great and a couple glasses of wine makes it even better. BTW, in answer to your question about if I was trying to be funny or not. If it wasn't obvious, then my apology, but laughing about what has become of our country sometimes makes it sting a little bit less and you guys in the Republican party must realize that you are on the wrong side of the vast majority of Americans and if you don't wise up, then all I got to say is, look out, barbs away.
Might I suggest more wine?
Makes the barbs, and the bombs much more fun.
You see where I'm going then? Cool! More fun for me and you. A win, win.
More jobs are created in building an environmentally safe pipeline than an unsafe pipeline. And yes, the oil companies can well afford it. So what's wrong with the President standing up for the protection of the environment as we create jobs?
LMAO Newt will return the House to the Dems and fortify the Senate against cloture
i wonder if that chick was hot.
im wondering, because putting a hot chick on my list of delegates just to meet her and ask her for a couple hours to try to convince her why she should be on my team... *mfn WINK!*
is something i would do.
History Lesson on the history teacher
How can anyone possibly cave in to a lying, and corrupt professional politician.
The American people deserve more.
House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker
By John
E. Yang
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January
22 1997; Page A01
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.
The ethics case and its
resolution leave Gingrich with little leeway for future controversies, House
Republicans said. Exactly one month before yesterday's vote, Gingrich admitted
that he brought discredit to the House and broke its rules by failing to ensure
that financing for two projects would not violate federal tax law and by
giving the House ethics... committee false information.
"Newt has done some things that have embarrassed House Republicans and embarrassed the House," said
Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.). "I [the voters] see more of that, they will question our judgment."
The 395 to 28 vote closes a tumultuous chapter that began Sept. 7, 1994, when former
representative Ben Jones (D-Ga.), then running against Gingrich, filed an ethics complaint against the then-GOP whip.
The complaint took on greater significance when the Republicans took control of the House for the first time in four decades, propelling Gingrich into the speaker's chair.
All but two of the votes against the punishment were cast by Republicans, including Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett (Md.).
For Gingrich, it was another humbling event in a remarkable series of peaks and valleys
since 1994. That year, he led his party to the promised land of control of the House and Senate, only to threaten it when he was blamed for two partial government shutdowns during the battle over the budget, making him seem reckless.
In a strongly worded report, special counsel James M. Cole concluded that Gingrich had violated tax law and lied to the investigating panel.
The ethics committee that handled the charges against Gingrich went out of business at midnight last night without resolving complaints that the speaker received improper gifts, contributions and support from GOPAC, the political action committee he once headed.
At a closed-door meeting of House Republicans yesterday morning, the speaker noted his agreement to
accept the sanction, which the ethics committee approved on a 7 to 1 vote Friday night, and said he wanted to get the matter behind him, according to lawmakers who attended