Gingrich will never win, the Republican establishment won't allow it.

But wouldn't it be amazing if he did? Many insiders (including Republicans) place the blame for the level of vitriol in Congress at Newt's feet. A Newt nomination would bring to light all of Newt's nastiness in the 90s and go a long way towards showing HOW our Congress became so dysfunctional.

And now Noot begins the attacks on his opponents, but they aren't "attacks" really, because HE says they aren't "attacks". After watching part of the Wolf Blitzer interview, I wonder what makes Noot think he can rewrite history...probably because he thinks of himself as a "historian"? Only the idiots will buy into this.

By the way, just where IS Noots bus manufactured?

If someone tries to pee on you, the conventional advice is to catch it in a bucket and throw it back. But in Newt's case - and let's face it he is a lying, cheating, sack of sh** to start with, who has earned EVERY unfavorable assessment in spades because they are all true - this becomes rather difficult. He should have stayed out of sight and out of mind.

I look forward to a Republican flying sh**fest from which Newt-slobber-my johnston-Gingrich will emerge wearing his true colors, from head to toe.

No wonder he tried to run a positive campaign and HOPE the other candidates would be IDIOT enough to do the same. Not everybody is as stupid as you think Blingrich, at least all of the time..

What a frickin hypocrite of a pig! This is what Blingrich does. He takes advantage of people. In this case, the women in his life. But also the voters and generally people that put their trust in him.

Goodbye Blingrich! Go back to K-street lobbying and Tiffanys if you can still make that work...

Mickey,

Newtster's bus is being made by salamanders-r-us.

Mickey, NY wrote "Only the idiots will buy into this"

after seeing the GOP chasing "give me your money Palin" "N on the rock Perry" "Now you see it now you don't Romney" "Now I see it now I don't Paul" "gimme ... gimme ... gimme that lady Cain" and "Oh no ... did I say that Bachmann ....

There seems to be an ample supply of idiot followers in them there GOP hills ..........

Between all the talk/hate radio the GOP/TP listens to and Faux News, they have no more little grey cells to use.

The Republican establishment couldn't stop Reagan. But, they supported Bush 41, Dole, Bush 43, and McCain.

About half of the Iowa caucus is undecided. Not only that but polling on this even in the past has been notoriously wrong.

I find it odd that Newt is taking the approach that many moderates say they want - and they still don't like him - supposedly.

THERE you go spinning the propaganda lies , even Walt Blitzer acknowledged that his first wife ask for the divorce and by they way Newt very young , first wife one of his high school teachers ( ? that) second wife was involved in unethical if not criminal activity of which Newt has been cleared of having no knowledge or involvement in until of course when these actions of his second wife brought Newt under investigation , justifiable divorce ,

What this shows is that the left , the socialist communists can not run on their record so they gotta dig up and manufacture all the negative dirt they can , When you find some one doing the propaganda dirt thing

YOU AUTOMATICALLY KNOW THEY GOT NOTHING in the way of positive substance ,

The NEWT obama debates are going to make History World history as the greatest debates of all time , NEWT with the peoples solutions , obama with Failed leadership and Failed policies ,

I completely disagree with Gingrich on Israel. They have received billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid. With that much money at stake, who even WANTS peace and stability on the region?? Apparently having troubled relations with surrounding countries brings you truckloads of US taxpayers' money! They have NO motivation whatsoever bringing peace, because they would lose billions of dollars in American aid. If you feed birds in the winter, they get used to being fed and will return to the spot for their daily chunks of bread. Same works with human psyche.

Feisty

Having a forked tounge is also what made him such an effective adulterer.

Emil

Having a forked tounge is also what made him such an effective adulterer.

LOL!!!

He can tickle someone elses fancy - I wouldn't let the poppin fresh boy anywhere near mine! ;o)

Feisty, where have you been lately? Haven't seen any posts from you until today.

Happy anniversary.

P.S. Ron Paul for president!!!

Yet, I heard the Newtster saying they may run a "write in" campaign in Virginia

Yet, I heard the Newtster saying they may run a "write in" campaign in Virginia

That should be a neat trick Newtsie - cause it's illegal to 'write in' a vote in the VA primary.

Being a resident of VA you would think he would KNOW that... lol

What a shmuck!

He knows it, but he's counting on the neo-con trick of changing the rules for themselves at will and he's relying on the GOP voting populace remaining incredibly gullible. Anyone calling himself a Reagan supply-side guy (read "no trickle for you!") thinking it's a good thing is pretty stupid himself. I've always maintained, as a student of politics, that his intellect was vastly overrated.....what a maroon, smuck, buffon, lardbutt, etc.....Come on, I know registered Republicans are smarter than this years race would suggest. To buy this guy, they'd have to be braindead.

This is intentionally shoddy reporting

Carrollton, Georgia (CNN) -- Newt Gingrich claims that it was his first wife, not Gingrich himself, who wanted their divorce in 1980, but court documents obtained by CNN appear to show otherwise.

Newt Gingrich filed a divorce complaint on July 14, 1980, in Carroll County, saying that "the marriage of the parties is irretriebably (sic) broken.

Jackie Battley Gingrich, the congressman's wife and the mother of Jackie Gingrich Cushman, responded by asking the judge to reject her husband's filing.

"Defendant shows that she has adequate and ample grounds for divorce, but that she does not desire one at this time," her petition said

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/26/politics/gingrich-divorce-file/index.html

Nice try, but all your slicing & dicing of words don't change the FACTS! ;o)

@Feisty

Score!!!!!!!

Thanks phine!

Want to join me in the end zone for a happy dance? lol

I see.... your contention is that women are known never to change their minds.... Mmmmm....

I always like what you post Feisty, direct and to the point! We all should know by now that you can't read the news as fact, you must think about what is left out and implied and go do research yourself. Sad but so. Of course one can identify news sources that are more likely to be lying (Faux News?) but really all the mainstream outlets have terrible reporting. Thanks for keeping that awareness in the discussion.

Regarding the point about who filed what when....I really don't care. I am grateful as I'm sure his exes are that those women are free of that freak. Poor Calista.

Thanks for keeping that awareness in the discussion.

You are welcome!

Thank YOU for the kind words...

PS: You can tell by my avatar what I think about Faux Noise! ;o)

your contention is that women are known never to change their minds....

Dude it was YOU who accused Alex Moe of; intentionally shoddy reporting!

Them there are YOUR words NOT mine, no amount of crab walking by you is going to change anything! ;o)

Clear now?

Quit wearing your ignorance like it's a badge of honor or something, almost makes me feel sorry for you...

I said; almost! lol

Wonder if he has to pay off the ex wives to keep from "telling all"?

@Feisty

The end zone dance is all yours! I'll be the one cheering the loudest for it!

Feisty,

I do believe you also scored the two point conversion. Or if this was tennis, you just won game, set and match!

I do believe you also scored the two point conversion

*spiking the ball* ;o)

Thanks!

Feisty,

You are now entitled to another end zone dance - make it a good one! The crowd is going wild!!!!!!!

What a bunch of numbsters, getting all worked up about Gingrich divorce issues... It's a bit too soon for the victory lap cretins...

It's a bit too soon for the victory lap cretins

Don't fret my little pet - I will be voting for Newtsie in the primaries! ;o)

Frankly, Fisty, I don't expect Newt to win. Just wishful thinking on my part. But girl, I'd love to see the two of them go head to head. That would be entertainment to see Odumbo stumbling on first base...

Sincerely,

Your little pet...

Freddie Mac income?

That didn't do it. The lying about it did.

Can't teach an old corrupt right-wing politician how to tell the truth no matter how obvious it is.

Pat Boston MA

Over the years Newt has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar and his dick in any number of honey pots; yet he has the gall to believe that these moral lapses qualify him for POTUS!

A nmemonic for the seven deadly sins is PLAGUES: pride, lechery, avarice, greed, usury, envy, and sloth. Newt is a plague on this great nation and should be exiled or jailed.

What you are working hard to forget is Newter was caught embezzling from his own campaign funds to pay his then-mistress.

Don't even worry about the other 300 ethics violations the right-wing powers then controling Congress dropped.

300 ethics violations. That makes the old Newter just about the most corrupt politician in the post-World War II era.

Political, there were only 85 - 300 charges is what pelosi claims to have on Gingrich. Of the 85 charges brought 84 dropped for lack of evidence. The last two charges Newt agreed to in order to avoid being charged with obstruction.

BTW the allegations in charge #85 were using a college course to promote a politcal opinion and tax evasion for distributing the videos though a 501c3 and not properly reporting the monies as income.

After three years of study, the IRS ruled that the videos were political neutral, making the use of the 501c3 as okay and therefore Newt had appropriately reported his income.

ANNNND here's the backup! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/leadership/stories/gingrich020499.htm

That makes the charges against Newt a Salem Witch Trial.

Well, to be honest, Romney-Obama debates are going to be really boring. Neither of them are that good or feisty. Both of them are the kind of people that are just looking to say what they believe the majority of Americans will agree with, and to make sure they don't make any obvious mistakes.

Gingrich is actually a fairly good debater. And it will certainly be more entertaining with Gingrich than Romney.

Obama will retain his demeanor and frustrate the hell out of his opponent and make them make them selves look like fools

Gingrich would shred Obama in any debate. Obama would fold like the cheap suit he is. His thin skin would soon yield, and his ego give way to anger and fingerpointing... hmm, kinda just what he does anyway.

Step number one for reforming the GOP - stop listening to your talk radio. Step two, turn off Fox. This will improve your minds tremendously. However, I have little faith in the GOP ability to do this.

Hey, Phine, perhaps we should email all your suggestions to the RNC. I'm certain they'd appreciate your superior insight and wisdom regarding reform. Perhaps they should just listen to the critiques spewed by the lefty posters here on the Vine... Oh, yeah! Superb, intelligent commentary. Ugh!

Tony D-373561

Tony, the Phine is right. People like " Limpjaw", " Beck", O'Riley self serving ,pompus prick he really is, do more damage than good. Layer over that the lunacy of the " TeaBaggers" and "Evanjels" trying to hijack Repub. party and the end result is no continuity in approach/message. Easiest way to identify where Repubs are today is look at slate of candidates presented. That mix could never be homogenized. Need someone with the balls to clip the tail ends of the bell curve, tell them we don't want them or need them and move on.

Emil

All moderation accomplishes is letting 2 totally corrupted party's run by the same global monopoly corporations do the bidding of those corporations. If you look at the largest corporate lobby donations you see almost a 50/50 split between the party's. The party's fake battles so we perceive something beyond the collusion we have. All outcomes are decided behind closed doors well before a vote. It is a rigged game.

We lost all systems of checks and balances we once had with these two party's. Neither party will cut either defense or entitlements which used to be the defining checks and balances that kept either from becoming a runaway deficit expenditure.

All a compromise means is both party's steam shoveled enough unrelated lobby driven pork into the 3000 page bill. There is no more diplomacy in Congress at this point than crack dealers fighting over the same hood. Unless they can both find some hapless victim to exploit nothing is passed.

Both parties have digressed into nothing more than marketing departments for the largest lobbies on the planet. Neither party cares at anything beyond its lobby's and special interest groups which only represent a small minority of the country and certainly not the taxpaying citizens.

You have to have two parties fighting for the tax paying citizens to have a meaningful compromise. Do you really care if you get screwed by Goldman Sachs or Lockheed Martin? You call that some meaningful polarization? The polarization you perceive is stalling on things like "CUTS" that don't benefit the lobby's and lose special interest votes. Nothing but more spending actually goes beyond "talk" to passing.

@ Stumpy Joe: I agree that compromise is supposed to be at the very heart of a democratic government - our elected officials are supposed to take into account what is in the best interests of their constituency and the country as a whole and then work towards a resolution that satisfies those needs while also satisfying the needs of other constituencies. However, the Republicans and Democrats today treat governing as if it were a sporting event where the only goal is to make your "team" win by making sure the other team does not get what it wants. Essentially, this results in our elected representatives only doing what is in the best interests of the party itself and the few large organizational contributors to the organization as opposed to the needs and desires of the majority of American citizens. This is not democracy or governing for the people.

This problem is caused in large part by the overentrenchment and excess power of the Republican and Democrat parties, which in turn is a result, in large part, of the campaign finance system that the Reps and Dems have installed for themselves and the balloting rules that ensure that these parties remain in power indefinitely. These systems keep these parties in power, effectively ensure that no third party can ever become a legitimate option, and and cause elected representatives to focus only on the needs and desires of the party with which they affiliate and the few large organizational contributors to those parties.

This is not how a democracy is supposed to operate. I encourage everyone to check out the American Overhaul Act at www.americanoverhaulact.org, which proposes a set of Constitutional amendments designed to correct the systemic deficiencies that are allowing these problems to persist. The Act is focused on six areas of concern: Congressional Term Limits, Federal Election Campaign Reform, Congressional Size Limits, Congressional Compensation Limits, Elimination of Party Favoritism, and Federal Budget-Deficit Reform. Please check it out, and, if you agree with the proposals, share it with your friends and family so that we may continue to gain the support needed to cause our government officials to take notice of this Act.

I guess the point here is: why point fingers and why not start living the way we know we should? Why is always their fault, does it matter any more whose fault it is?

I'm not perfect and catch myself at times, but the biggest reason everyone wants to point fingers instead of talk about real solutions is that it's easier.

"I can see what the problem is, so I'll tell you who's to blame and then we'll argue about who is really right or wrong."

All that energy could be better spent spending time thinking about and discussing reasonable ways to fix the problem. The only way D.C. is going to make change based on the people's voice instead of the money is when they start losing their jobs every election if they don't do their job for the people. We don't always have to go to extremes, in fact that just makes it harder to get the right thing done.

Without consequences, the current system in D.C. will never change. If this country wants to avoid a violent revolution, and it will happen if we continue down this road - we would have to be ignorant of history to deny that, then the people have to demand accountability.

We need to engage our friends and family in what is happening in this country and discuss our views, allow alternate views and opposing views, discuss the differences and similarities. Maybe we'll change or temper their views. Maybe some of ours will change. That's not a bad thing.

No matter their views, suggest they forward their ideas to their representatives. If you have a group with similar views, offer to compose the letter and allow them to edit and forward copies. You can provide easy links for them to use. If it's easy, they'll send it. If they begin to feel involved, more of them will vote.

That's where the power is. Once D.C. hears the voices and sees a high turnover rate, elections will matter. And I see this being the only way any real change happens peacefully on this current path.

I want to be clear that I'm not advocating any candidate. In my opinion, this could open the door for a change in relevant political parties to a new, more moderate party, or two.