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WATERLOO, Iowa -- On the first day of the New Year, Newt Gingrich admitted to having been “Romney-boated” with the immense amount of negative ads being run against him, vowing that his campaign will run more contrast ads going forward.
Mitt Romney “didn't get rid of me, he just slowed me down,” Gingrich told reporters in Marshalltown, Iowa, Sunday afternoon. Asked whether he felt like he had been “swift-boated” by the barrage of ads run against him in recent weeks, Gingrich responded, “I feel Romney-boated” – a reference to the outside advertising campaign launched against Democratic nominee John Kerry in 2004.
The former House Speaker even hinted that Romney was trying to buy the election.
“He would buy an election if he could,” Gingrich told NBC News. But he wouldn’t directly say Romney was attempting to buy the 2012 election. “Well I dunno, $3.5 million in negative ads, you tell me,” Gingrich continued.
Romney, campaigning on the opposite side of the Hawkeye State Sunday, pushed back against these allegations from the Speaker.
“Speaker Gingrich I think announced that he raised $10 million this quarter and he ought to be proud of that. We’re working hard to raise funds, as well, this is an election,” Romney said in Atlantic, Iowa. “However, that’s not being driven by money raised, its being driven by message connection with the voters, debate and um experience and I think that those are the features that are driving the campaign so far and I think they probably will be through the entire process.”
Gingrich told reporters his campaign would be increasing the number of positive yet contrast ads on television and radio moving ahead to better combat the negative attacks from his GOP rivals.
“If somebody spends $3.5 million lying about you, you have some obligation to come back and set the record straight,” the Speaker said after his campaign heavily underestimated the damage these ads could do.
The negative attacks have worked here in the first-in-the-nation caucus state: Gingrich dropped from first place in the Des Moines Register’s early December poll to fourth place in Saturday’s DMR poll. Romney now leads in Iowa, according to the new poll, with Ron Paul and Rick Santorum finishing ahead of Gingrich.
Gingrich told the standing-room only crowd inside LJs Neighborhood Bar and Grill here in Waterloo that not answering these negative ads was his biggest weakness.
“I am too reasonable and I should have responded to the negative ads two weeks earlier,” Gingrich said after an interesting exchange between himself and wife, Callista, when the Speaker was asked about his biggest weakness.
The crowd began to laugh after Gingrich and Callista looked at one another with smiles about Newt’s biggest weakness. “Go ahead,” Callista told him as many in the audience expected him to perhaps mention his infidelities years ago. Rather, Gingrich stayed the course and linked his weakness answer back to the negative ads.
The Speaker’s ‘Jobs and Growth Bus Tour’ continues Monday with four stops in Eastern Iowa on caucus eve.
NBC’s Garrett Haake contributed to this report.
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Newt is so full of crap ..back in the day Washington was a respectable place and the politicians were respected ...Then Newt happened and now the government is full of loser "BUMS" con men like he is ! And he has the sac to say why are they doing this to me ! WTF ? This guy is a Psychopath !
Yeah, I would say Newt has been "Gingrich-boated".
Um, I guess it is time for Newt to experience the sword he chose to wield on others in times past?
NO Newt, he is not going to invite you out on his yacht for cheese and wine!
And Gingrich is no different. If he had the money, and if he could do it, he would be the first one to do so.
Looks like Newt fell on his own sword.
No kidding. Does Newt expect ANYONE to feel sorry for him after what he did in the 90's?
Good Morning Newday! Hope you had a good New Years...
Yeah, he does expect exactly that, but he comes across as needing his diaper changed.
and to keep it balanced here -- we all know that the president is trying to buy his reelection with a goal of raising $1,000,000,000.
Hi, Egilman! I did, and hope that you and your family did too. Had a mild storm here, so now we have snow!
I am awed and amazed with the above article. Had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't still asleep! Thought I needed more coffee, then read it again!
Does Newt & the fair Callista actually believe the crap he was saying? "Too nice to respond"
Please, someone, am I really reading this?
Very simply, money has destroyed the election process. Super PAC's need to be banned, 100%. I like free speech, but at this point, it causes more damage than I ever thought possible. We need to get back to $2500 donations, and either ban Super PAC's, or put the same limits on them. Both sides of the aisle are abusing this ability, and we are left to suffer the consequences.
Propaganda works, folks. Sometimes I think it's as simple as scratching a dog's belly to make his feet run. If propaganda didn't work there would be no way the Republicans could get a guy making 9.75 an hour to align his interests with that of paper shuffling Wall Street millionaire/billionaires.
NEWT doesn't need anyone for NEWT to fail. He is quite capable of it by himself.
This guy is hardly a leader. He is self-obsessed self-declared custodian and historian of American Values/History/Politics and what have you. His life and work doesn't reflect any of those noble ideas that he speaks of.
Corporations are people too!
Quit whining, Newty Fruity.
Yes phine, you are reading it right.
I thought it was interesting that in light of his keeping it "clean" style he professes to, He mentions that he should have started dirty campaigning about two weeks ago.
Treating his past "infidelities" as a joke ... shows that the joke is on the GOP!
And with these negative ads ... the joke is on the public ...
Remember when there was this big to do about if Kerry deserved his medal ... and this coming from folks who were supporting a deserter???
And the answer to the question "will we ever learn" is NO!
Newt is a drowsy candidate - "Felon in waiting"
'Romney-boated'
Pathetic excuses concerning tactics he has no problem using. And the irony is the attacks on Blingrich are true whereas the Kerry ones were fabricated!
Gingrich needs to finish 5th or lower in Iowa as just desserts for all of his hypocrisy. I would rather not see him resurrect his pig-like head in South Carolina or Florida...
He was "boated" because his boat is full of holes. This guy is an arrogant menace, and a serial liar. How dare this dirt bag even think he would be the nominee? He couldn't beat Obama on his best day, but Mitt will, and it will be the shock on the Democrats faces in November that will be priceless.
james- wake up buddy, every politician must now buy their office. Our political system has now been completely corrupted by the right wing of the "Supreme Court". Of course that Citizens United decision was just the final nail in the coffin containing our fair and honest electoral system. And now every person seeking any political office will have to sell their soul to the money interests in this country. It reminds me of the McCain- Feingold legislation drafted to bring campaign finance reform to the electoral process. As soon as he became a presidential candidate John McCain repudiated his position and Feingold was Koched out of office. The American right would have us believe that campaign finance reform is right up there with child molestation so get used to politicians buying elections.
Ladies and gentlemen and voters of all ages, step right up and look at the two bamboozled GOP monkeys in ring number three! These two stalwarts of hyprocrisy and deception are actually going to try and eliminate each other in order, for the winner, to gain contol of the GOP/TP 'Big Money & BS' Circus. Step right up, step right then further right and then further right and then....., WOW, there both right-out'a- here by November 13, 2012--HOPEFULLY!
There is a old saying in politics " GIVE ENOUGH MONEY, I WILL ELECT JESSIE JACKSON GRAND WIZARD OF THE KKK.'
Of course it is about money, very few really examine the real issues, media makes elected officials, money buys media.
You need a serious history lesson Bluelake. It was Obama that opted out not McCain, fact not fiction. Obama said "he would stay with the parameters of McCain / Feingold" and when he found out he could out raise McCain he dropped his "pledge". Many democrats were deeply saddened by this, because Obama was the death nail on campaign finance reform. Your totally and completely wrong.
I think he is just plain "bloated".
Bluelakes history lesson. Don't let facts get in your way. It was Obama who is the liar my friend. He would sell his soul for power, and despite the left wing "Koch Brothers" talking point, it is Obama that is owned Bluelake, follow the money, the 1 billion he has raised so far and see who indeed is the candidate of corporations, the big banks, the insurance industry, and Wallstreet. It's all right there to see if you'd care to look. Sure hate the truth eh?
"Sen. John McCain felt like he was "mugged" by Barack Obama when the Democrat broke a promise to use public financing during the 2008 presidential campaign, according to a top McCain adviser.
Trevor Potter, who served as the lead lawyer for McCain's Republican presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2008, suggested Obama's move was unprincipled and effectively killed the Watergate-era public-financing program.
"What happened to [McCain] was, he — I think he feels he got mugged first by the Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, who walked away from the public financing of the general election, and then by the press, who let Obama get away with it," said Potter in an interview for POLITICO's video series on money and politics that launched Tuesday.
According to Potter, McCain "felt the principle there wasn't the political reality of who could raise more money. It was his belief in the importance of a public funding system, which he thought Obama shared, until he didn't share it," Potter said. "The result of all of that is that we now don't have a functioning presidential public financing system. And that's, I think, bad news for the country."
Potter is a former Federal Election Commission chairman who advised McCain on the 2002 campaign finance reform law commonly known as McCain-Feingold and founded a group that advocates stricter campaign rules. He has long been at the fore of efforts to lessen the influence of big money in politics, including the presidential public finance system.
hmm............. "change we can believe in" eh??
Regardless, Candidates who advertise negative things about another, aren't good enough on their own merit.
JCB,
If your goal is to get Obama out of the White House may I suggest you back an electable candidate. Perhaps Ron Paul?
Romney is a Mormon. He cannot win the election running on the Republican ticket. Im not sure if you realize this but The Church of LDS is mostly ridiculed by religious people. You can start from Smith's background or some of the beliefs that "extremist" LDS members follow. If Romney was a Democrat then I would say he had a chance but not as a Republican.
The Southern Baptist Convention has already stated they wont back Romney. Take some time and research the book of Mormon. How can you vote for someone who believes that EVERY tribe of American Indian were the lost tribe of the Jews? Would you vote for a Scientologist?
"back in the day Washington was a respectable place and the politicians were respected"
Excactly what time in the past are you referring to? Because I can assure you, no matter which era it is, you will find just as many slimeballs and ignoramus as you do today.
It's the rose colored glasses syndrome.
Ron Paul isn't remotely electable.
I agree that Mormonism often sounds silly - many Christian tenets sound silly if you put them in a certain context. Did you know that god is a tornado that tells people who have lost everything not to question him about why?
I'd say he's been Gingrich - Boated. He did this to himself through his own arrogance.
That being said, I wish the citizens in Iowa would look at Huntsman a little more. He is a moderate, has the experience internationally that this country needs and was a very successful govenor. I say this, yet I am obviously a democrat.
@james
You guys are mad because he took your tactics and did it better then you. Well, that's just a darn shame.
Newt is and always will be, his own worst enemy. He's the father of these tactics and to watch them being used on him is hilarious. I just love it when a persons chickens come home to roost.
“I am too reasonable and I should have responded to the negative ads two weeks earlier,” Gingrich said...
Reasonable? Really?
I think we need a resolution on the national election to:
I am sick of watching these con-artists vote themselves raises and benefit packages that no one else in America receives. They are public servants and need to be reminded that they work for the American Public first. To hear people like Cantor claim repeatedly that he is doing what is best for the American Public is a lie. With an approval rating of around 9%, I think it fair to say that the American Public, or at least 90% of it, completely disagrees with Mr. Cantor and the rest of the swindlers on the Hill. I will give some credit to Mr. Obama in his unrelenting efforts to get the kiddies on the Hill to play nice together. The President, any President, can’t do it by him/herself, he/she needs the childish bickering to stop and the Hill to work together to get us out of this hole.
Wake up America – you can change the figurehead on the bow of a ship and that will make things better for the superstitious, but it requires a change in the crew to make the ship run better. VOTE THEM OUT!
America-Anthony....try your post again and get your facts straight. Take your caps off on the word EVERY and get educated. 14 million members and one of the fastest growing Churches. I doubt you would make such unfounded statements personally in front of members of the Church such as Orrin Hatch, Ron Huntsman,Steve Young, Harry Reid, Johnny Miller, Jimmer, Gladys Knight, The Osmonds, The Marriotts,and many other LDS Senators and Congress members past and present. Remember the LDS Chuch does not have a paid ministry. The leaders are called by inspiration and serve faithfully without compensation. Mitt has done this as a Bishop and as a Stake President for many years as have many other thousands of Church leaders. Why don't you spend your time talking about all of the service and humanitarian aid the Church gives to members and non-members alike worldwide. Just saying.....
JCB you can't give anyone a history lesson due to the fact that you distort facts and appear incapable of balanced reason. You have a hard on for President Obama and seek to stroke yourself through propoganda. No one person is responsible for disrupting campaign finance reform. The Republicans are heavily responsible, especially Mitch McConnell as are the Democrats and most significantly, the Supreme Court decision in Citzens United vs. FEC. Everyone should do some research on their own rather than listen to me or JCB. Following are some links that are informative which include other additional links to help anyone have an informed opinion about this matter. I refuse to cut and paste only those parts that favor my position. To paraphrase Mark Twain, there are lies, damn lies and JCB.
Ron Paul is having no issue with his campaign. You do not need billions if you serve the people.
Ron Paul 2012
i'm conservative, but if this POS grinch is on the ticket i'm voting for o'bomber,what's next for this scum? carl rove?...hopefully ron paul will be on independent ticket so i can feel good about voting again.
The President bypassed the 100mil mark many weeks ago so a billion isn't inconceivable as the majority support him. Pure profit as the democrats really don't need to campaign this year. The nutservatives are doing a mighty fine job of it for them already. A dozen conservative wannabees and not a single sane one amongst them although in defense of the actual one that may come along, they would be powerless as the entire republican party have already felt the dumbed down effect of their cult extremist counterparts and they would never support an honest to god republican. Instead of fighting the democrats on every single issue for four years, they would then be inparty fighting for the next and get nothing done.
@Julie,
Service and humanitarian aid to members and non-members? You mean like when the police make a sweep of Temple Square before each LDS conference to clear off all the homeless people so they don't bother conference goers? Please, I lived in downtown SLC for years. The church will give you a dollar, sure, then they'll brag about it for the next month.
14 million members? Yeah, because if you are born into the church you are counted as a member, then when your 8 and baptized you are counted again. It also takes years to get your name removed from their records if you want to leave the LDS faith, as they probably don't want to have to go to the trouble of baptizing you when your dead.
I certainly don't have a problem with Mormons, I'd even vote for Huntsman as I lived in Utah during his governorship and was pleased with the job he did. But I do have a problem when people try to tout the LDS religion as some beacon of humanitarian aid. Especially when I see how the homeless are treated on Temple Square and in SLC in general.
No one has to lie about Newt, just read off his past deeds.
Hey Charles, what exactly are the "distorted facts" my friend. Spell them out please. Making blanket statements with no regard to the truth is the lazy way. The Fact of the matter is President Obama said he would "stay within the limits of McCain / Feingiold" and then he decided that he could "raise more money" outside the system after giving his word. That Charles is the definition of a liar, and you stating otherwise does not make it not so. The Supreme Court decision case 2 years after Obama's bailout, and it sucks, but that does not excuse the liar in chief, who gave his word. Maybe lying is something you can accept in order for your guy to stay in office, but it doesn't fly with me. Charles why don't you go to Factcheck.org and get some knowledge before spouting your garbage. That's where my quote came from, and it's the truth, hurts don't it??
Kinda funny, that with all the attack ads and "lies" being told by the opposition for years and years, I can't recall ONE LAWSUIT against one candidate for liable. Lies or truth's?
Imagine how Obama feels being "republican boated" for 3 years now.Unhonorable phony bastards every one.
I'd say he was "hoist with his own petard".
Gingrich should not be in this race. He made a deal before he left the house, that he would never run for office again, so he would not go to jail.
Romney
Born rich and became richer buying American companies, closing them and sending the jobs overseas. When he was governor of Massachusetts's it was 43rd in creating jobs. He changes his mind as the wind blows. I do not believe anyone with common sense would want this man in the White House or senate or congress.
Ron Paul
Who has run for President every time the wind blows, he message is still the same, extreme, extreme, extreme.
Bachman
She needs to go to a class to learn about American history. She is against government, but enjoys the farm subsidies, money for the foster children, government pay checks when she worked for the IRS and now as a congress person. Can not make a decision without her husbands permission. She is not presidential material or adult material.
Perry
He is trying to ride into Washington DC on the tail of George Bush, he is an idiot just like George Bush. They say he has never lost an election. I find that very hard to believe. He makes Texans look like idiots for voting for him.
Huntsman
He is a man with common sense and could get independent votes, but the strange forces that are controlling the GOP now will never vote for him. The tea party will destroy him.
GOP is a joke now, they are afraid of the tea party and continue to cater to them, it is very very sad to watch a political party die.
Olrock...
Very true. Nobody, nobody, could do what President Obama has been able to do when so many have been on the attack. And, if the attacks were substantive, that would be one thing, but the socialist-communist-stalinist-nazi thing, birthers, oh, and he has an occasional cigarette, truly is republican-boated behavior.
CW – exactly what would those accomplishments be? Libya, Syria and Egypt? Leaving Iraq on the time table Bush proposed? A Beer Summit? Pushing through an ill-posed health care bill that was unread partly because it is still being written … but hey, just trust me. A health care plan that unions were exempted from and does nothing to reduce the actual cost of health care … just transfer the cost to someone/anyone wealthier than you?
JCB- Getting a history lesson from you is like getting a lesson in evolution from a Texas school board. Perhaps you should take a look at the republican reaction to McCain Fiengold. Perhaps you should look into the positions, historically, of the republican party in regards to campaign finance reform. You should look at the all important political orientation of our "Supreme Court" majority. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while and thus you are correct in as much as I should not have cited John MCain.
McCain, now as then, a rather pathetic figure on the national political scene has been, systematically used, abused, ridiculed and libeled by a very powerful, indeed the most powerful, element of the republican right. The financial king makers. Look at a history of the fund raising and campaign organization of George W. prior to his nomination. I really wonder about McCain's knowledge and judgement at the time of his nomination. He apparently agreed to the absolute worst choice for a running mate. He, like you floated the idea that...Hey I wanted financial restrictions on the presidential campaign but greedy, nasty Obama forced me to take the millions and millions of dollars flowing into my campaign. I'm so disillusioned." You're kidding? Right?
If you believe that pal, I've got some South Pacific islands to sell you.
Republican politics 101: Smear big, smear broad, smear often, smear with truth when possible, smear with lies when that works better (most of the time), never ever let truth interfere with a good smear. Even smear a fellow Republican if needed to get the nomination, and always, always use third party support groups so you can pretend to disavow any knowledge of the smearing and pretend to have no ability whatsoever to stop it. Repeat until elected. Voters are really, really stupid and anything said loudly enough will be believed eventually, or leave enough of a stain to benefit - regardless. What a great country! The most effective propaganda machine in human history and it's not even a government owned organization. All it takes is money and no scrupples.
mikela @1.37
Lets say there are 350 mil or so people in the country Men, Women & Children. If every single one of them gave $100 to the president that would total 3.5 bil. 1 billion would be 100 million giving $100
Obviously he's getting his money from somewhere other that the citizens. (how bout corporate america)
Bob, I agree 100%. If Newt Gingrich gets the GOP nomination, this lifelong Republican will vote for whoever stands the best chance of beating him, up to and including President Obama. This POS has no business in Washington, let alone in the White House.
JCB-I also do not like the fact that your posts were collapsed. If you can't take criticism then you should not be on the vine. I can easily ignore your posts if I wish but unless they are truly threatening I believe posts should not be collapsed. I hate arguing with a collapsed post.
The irony here is, middle class Americans could benefit from all the billions of dollars wasted on these inana campaigns. Instead millionaires, spend billions, to win a job, that pays thousands and power that can reap the GOP winner omnipotent power and wealth. In the mean time, the middle class continue to get poorer, wield less power and their vote means nothing.
It's time the entire Republican presidential slate of candidates were put on the Titanic and aimed at an iceberg. This entire campaign is an embarrassment to the Constitution and people who have fought for our civil rights.
There are hundred of thousands of people who are just as capable of running this country but the are too honest, too wise and too poor, to mount such a campaign.
The Untied States does not have fair and honest elections, the have side shows and photo-ops. It is time the election process be scrutinized and made honorable. Elections should not be held, for the wealthy and powerful but for the best and the brightest.
Instead of flinging mud, we should be washing it away. It's time voters can see what they are getting.
It is always such a wonderful thing when you actually get to see that, what you send around will come back to bit you in the rear. One very seldom gets to see this actually happening:)
The Only reason Gingrich has tried to be positive and not run negative ads is that he knows he is the easiest target that has eve run.
He has more baggage than Samsonite. He hopes to laugh it off and that the public memory is short, too bad for him that the public is easily reminded of his pasty hypocrisy and out and out misdeeds.
He wants you Reps to see him as Reagan 2, but even most Republicans see him for what he is, a statue to hypocrisy. A Chameleon (similar to a newt or salamander) who changes his past and his stands with only a little less frequency than Romney. Newt you were found guilty by the House, you were fined hundreds of thousands for your transgressions...you are not fit for office. You embarrassed the United States. You got caught. Begone.
Egilman
Your being a republican have no belief in the little peoples contributions. 350million people donating 100$ per = 35billion, not 3.5.
The President raised more than 600million$ on his own during the 2008 campaign and that was even before the conservative extremists introduced themselves into the republican branch where they were readily accepted. Now that the republicans have changed their attack on foreign nations to an attack on the american middle class, it isn't inconceivable to think the democrats could break the one billion dollar campaign mark.
A couple of things you mentioned JCB warms my heart: 1) reference to factcheck.org and 2) your opposition to liars. I encourage all to look at factcheck.org as a part of getting their information straight. The gist of your first statement was that President Obama "killed" campaign finance reform. There is nothing on factcheck.org to support your claim. In a very slippery manner, one that I have come to expect from narrow minded fellows, you have attempted to shift your argument onto President Obama's refusal to endorse the bill of goods McCain was selling. It is not that simple. Fact is, the President did not kill efforts to reform campaign finances and you can't support that claim! As for support of liars, I can't compete with you on that one.
This has to be the worst batch of repubes, to have ever run for anykind of office, let alone POTUS. I don't think a decent repube will run as long as the teanuts are out there screwing everything up. They would try to destroy them even if they have to go back to grade school and find that they tinkled on the floor. After all this debating thats been going on with the repubes and then the way the teanuts have been doing their jobs while in office, I'll never vote for another republican the rest of my life. The showed me something this time. Everyone of them are so crooked its not a country for the people anymore if the repubes are in office. Dubya went nuts when he was in office, trying to finish what Reagan started and he did a good job for the repubes, trying to bust the middle class and if another one of them gets into office its going to be real bad this time. I can't see a repube in office now again til maybe in 2030. If anyone votes for a repube then they are just cutting their own throat, unless they are very wealthy or their momma is very wealthy and they are living off their money in the basement apartment.
If Mitt and Newt worked together I bet they could make outsourcing and complete tax avoidance with their own moon village a reality.
And a nice hint of Carbon taxes to top it all off.
Isn't it nice to see that the Republicans can be united in admitting that what they did to John Kerry was wrong? Isn't it nice to see that they admit that those of their party were trying to in fact buy an election back then? Sweet irony.
It's too bad irony usually flies over the head of most if not all Republicans.
Ha, caught by his own type of tactics. Of course, there is a huge difference; the swift-boat ads, according to those who served with Kerry were lies. Romney was just telling the truth.
I can't wait for the truth telling to begin for Willard.
Every one of them is trying to buy the election. Political analysts have already determined, that the candidate, who has the most money to spend, usually wins the election. Maybe someday the American people will realize, that ads by the super pac's are accountable to no one. Their contributor's do not have to be revealed. They basically have unlimited funds, and the Supreme court has already ruled that political ad's are exempt from the truth in advertising laws. So they can say just about anything about another candidate, and not a word of it be true.
for sure. They live in a delusional world. Who wants these weirdos ?
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Isn't it amazing how the Supreme Joke... Ohh I mean the Court A Conservative bunch of lackeys have ruined this country. How can anyone have any respect for a bunch of Clowns like these.
We can see the irony, but they can't. Kerry was a Vietnam war vet and a hero. Have any one of those people who smeared him ever apologized for it?
Gingrich is a whiner. He thinks he's so intelligent but he can't see that he has been the one and only one who ruined his reputation, all by himself.
"Yeah,......he likes to dip his wick into every floozie on the East coast."
You know she was thinking it; especially since she was floozie number,.....what,....... 4?
Good point, you know there are some out there that we will never know about. Newt was quite of the ladies man. Ever notice the little woman is right there by his side. Thats a sure fire way to have Newt keep it in his pants. Callista knows if he cheated before he will do it again. Wait a moment. She was doing him when he was married, well wait till She does the same to him. That would serve old Newt right.
I have no problems with Newts infidelities. Whats always rubbed me the wrong way about it was that he was cheating on his wife while he was trying to crucify Clinton for the same offense. Who's to say what ethics violations he would commit while in office, all the while lauding the dems for the same offenses. He's a hypocrite, and that's what America hates most in their politicians.
Dem...tell me that Newt wasn't rubbing you too!!!!!
Funny that infidelities were no big deal when Kennedy and Clinton were doing it and they were already presidents, which should have been more reason for them to set examples for the American males. Bill was so blatant about his relationship with Monica in the oval office and out that people started pointing the blame at Hillary for being a cold fish. "Well, men will be men", they would say. He was found guilty of lying, not having an affair/affairs.
The truth is, Mr. Gingrich is so far ahead of the rest of the candidates in the intelligence department that it should be an easy campaign for him to win. We need a person that knows what this country needs to put us and the country back on the right track.
Obama has been so busy doing his best to destroy our wonderful country that it is going to take a person with extreme knowledge to pull us out of the recession we are in. I'm tired of hearing that we are on the road to recovery when nothing has changed but the rise in people being hired to cover the Christmas season. Soon they will once again be back in the unemployment line with the rest.
Obama has driven our country into the ground with his extreme spending of the taxpayers money and snubs his nose at anyone that doesn't like it. While many are struggling just to survive he and his fat ass wife are living like royalty. Seems most have forgotten that he is merely a servant for the people and we are the ones that pay his salary. When does the employee live the life of luxury while the employer is doing without ?
Newt is the person that will turn our country around and make it great again. He is the only candidate that has the answers for us to succeed. What Mr. Gingrich has done in his past personal life has not hurt the rest of us, what Obama and Michelle have done to our country for their own amusement and spitefulness has caused us great harm and it will get worse before they are booted out.
A vote for Mr. Gingrich is a vote for America
OMG you should be a stand up comedian! Hardly know where to start!! How DARE the duly elected POTUS and family live in the WH?
Especially while his "extreme" spending (all of which is approved by the Rep. congress.....go take some civics classes since you're obviously failing) of the LOWEST TAXES IN DECADES....lower than the 8 X St. Ronnie of Alzheimer's were.....with a much much larger population. Guess you are one of those minimum wage folks that thinks wages should remain the same while the costs of everything increases cuz that's identical "logic".
Newt's personal life has done NO harm? Lying, cheating, and hypocrisy don't inflict harm? Why do we have the 10 Commandments then? I thought all you people believed in religious teachings?
Finally, what POTUS and FLOTUS have done for their own "amusement & spitefulness" is what? Did THEY cause the 2008 crash? Did THEY take your 401K? Did THEY offshore millions of jobs?
Guess you're unhappy with the GM/Chrysler bailout which saved millions of jobs, and has been PAID BACK and thriving.
Guess you're unhappy he got OBL, helped Libya, and followed thru on his promise to get us out of Iraq?
Guess you're simply an ignorant, talk radio, uninformed Faux news bot who prefers to cower in fear and lies....good luck with that!
@Rangewolf,
As my comments state, I could care less about his infidelities or any politicians for that matter. What bothers me is the hypocrisy. Newt can have all the infidelities he wants, but he can't at the same time run as a family values candidate. He can't have 3 marriages and then tell people they can't have even one (gay marriage). And he certainly can't criticize anyone for negative ads when he advocated the use of blatant lies against his opponents. He left government shamed by ethics violations and a $300,000 fine. A vote for Gingrich is a vote for the arrogant and insane.
Anyone who thinks Obama is intentionally destroying our country is a blatant idiot and should stick to driving forklifts or frosting donuts. Yes, advocating that everyone have healthcare, that unemployment benefits be extended in this recession (that Bush created) and the killing of Bin Laden is really destroying this country.
Rangewolf:
Wow, how short is your memory? The Republicans did indict then-Pres. Clinton for lying about the affair. Most Americans liked Clinton's policies but not his personal conduct. Newty brought the government to its knees because he refused to work with the Democrats or the President. Apparently you do not recall the government shut-down?
The smart one in the Presidential race IS the President. Pres. Obama is not perfect, no one will disagree about that; however, he has brought our country from the brink of disaster back to a stable place where now we can look at adding jobs and rebuilding our economy. Everyone would like this pain to be over, but it isn't and we have to work hard to get out of this mess. One huge mistake I believe Pres. Obama made with BOA and other banks that took bailout money, was not requiring them to hire more people to make mortgage modifications a smoother process. There will be no recovery of housing until people have jobs and more affordable payments. Since BOA and other banks swindled people into mortgages they could not afford, it seems only fair that they be penalized for same. Breaking them up into little pieces would help guarantee that we don't experience this again.
No one has to make up negative ads. All they need do is read Newt's history. He preaches out of one side of his mouth and lies out of the other.
Newter had to be totally naive to not have known that his personal baggage would be examined sock by sock, dirty shorts by dirty shorts in a very public arena in a presidential campaign. He was elected to congress in a district of maybe 1/2 million residents. Like Ron Paul and Michelle, congress people tend to get elected by local issues, not overarching world events.
If the attack adds are truly false, he should rebut them point by point. Ooops, he didn't get around to raising the money needed to respond.
BTW Rangewolf, we can tune into Rush and Hannity ourselves if we care to, no need for you to echo their talking points. But if you feel a need to, don't forget the birther issue.
"Newt Gingrich is a perfect example of what an idiot thinks an intelligent person sounds like."
I think this explains most of post #238.4
Holding out hope that the Iowan Republicans are smarter than they appear and that they will caucus "None of the Above". I know it's farfetched given the public idiocy that the voters have expressed thus far, but who knows, reason could dawn...it could happen, Oh Dear Lord, please let intelligence infect them......please?
rangewolf Your quite the comic, don't quit your day job.
To Rangerwolf: Newt has been defined as the stupid man's idea of an intellectual. You're a flippin' bigot.
Rangewolf,
Let me try explaining it to you in simple terms.......... Never mind.
Mamie, You hit the nail on the head. Newt knows he is full of BS, and he throws any wreckless statement out there, knowing the irrepsonsible media will be all over it, and the stupid,the absolutely clueless, will think it is brilliant. Rangerwolf's post left me stunned. Unbelievable that someone could believe in such nonsense enough to write a post on it.
Ha that reminds me of the movie Jaws when Robert Schneider's character says "we're going to need a bigger boat"!
Go get him Newt, if you say nothing people will think Romney is simply telling the truth about you albeit negative truths, call him out expose his lies, if they are lies. Like you said, set the record straight.
That's what he gets for chasin his own personal white whale....
(do you think Ahab would've liked a "Bigger Boat")
Forrest, again I ask, anyone....over the whole history of electioneering, has there EVER been a liability lawsuit from campaign "lies"? I can't find any.
I don't think so, evidently you can say whatever you want even if it is common knowledge that it is false. Look what has been and continues to be said about our president, nobody even calls out the media when they broadcast myths, much less file a lawsuit.
Forrest Grump
The media is what has been protecting Obama's ass since he has been in office, or he would have been impeached ages ago. Our senior citizens have been abused by his horrendous policies. The money he and Michelle have wasted on their Hawaii vacation alone speaks volumes about how concerned they are about the seniors and the citizens that are struggling just to survive. While they are living the life of luxury many of our elderly have turned to eating food that is barely a grade above dog food.
Take a few minutes out and tell all those that are still out of work how the country is recovering. The only people benefiting right now is the same ones that have been living on welfare for the past five to ten years. That's the ones Obama has gone out of his way to help. Yes, he is the foodstamp president and the middle class taxpayer is paying for it all.
Hey you got the Fox and friends talking points memorized perfectly, thanks for proving my point Rangewolf.
Seems here that Rangewolf is another one of those who believe that American history started on 1/21/08.
Rangewolf @ #4.4... How ironic that you do not even understand what you type...
"Yes, he is the foodstamp president (farm subsidies & price supports) and the middle class taxpayer is paying for it all."
Notice that you did NOT say that the 1% SUPERICH is paying for it! Knuckle dragger!
Maybe your search would have been more effective if you had been searching 'libel lawsuit' and not 'liability lawsuit'. Libel is the defamation one. Liability, like in "how responsible". Used in a sentence it might look something like, "Your party must accept the lion's share of the liability for getting our country into two wars and putting us on a path of self-destruction". Just for example.
Rangewolf, just who was protecting George W. Bush and his puppetmaster Cheney, the media too?
Newt's light at the end of the tunnel is quickly fading...meaning the book tour is about done.
Every Repug darling so far this year has been promoting a book. They are all part of the right wingnut Book of the Month club. Evidently, none of them have a calendar, and all have their own excuses when their month is up.
No, it couldn't be because you are worthless, a womanizer, a dumb sheet. It couldn't be any of those things.
YES! No one, not even Newt, thought he had a chance. Just like Cain, Newt was "book touring" and din't have the backing, nor THE will, to run for presidential candidate, let alone trying to become the president!
BUT the TEABAG hatred of a Mormon GAVE RISE to the CRAZIEST BUNCH of CLOWNS around!
Fun to watch though!
LDS is a business masquerading as a religion. Mitt will do what the LDS elders tell him to do. In Denver we are unindated with "I'm a Mormon" billboards showing smiling women and minorities who are "happy" to proclaim their mormonism, all this is high priced preparation for Mit's candidacy.
@Noisy,
Exactly, the LDS church is a business and functions as a PAC when needed. Love how they tout their "Humanitarian Aid" which is just a way to buy members. Back in the 80's in Chile they actually paid or manipulated people into being baptized to the extent that 20% of Chileans had become members, and most of them had forgotten the incident completely. All of course part of their 14 million. But go to Chile now and you'll find half their chaples empty and unused, and the other half barely able to fill half the seats available.
It's time for this organization to stop breaking the law, if it's going to function as more than a religion it's time they start paying taxes too.
Dem in Texas. I hope you got a file for Christmas so you can grind your LDS axe more. Your comments are false and uneducated. Most people who make such ignorant statements were once a member. They can leave the Church, but they can't leave the Church alone. Why is that ? I don't see Catholics ripping on their Church when they leave, nor Baptist ? All I want to know is what commandments were you not able to live. Voting for Newt, right? He must have alot in common with you.
@Julie,
It seems that you are the one who is uneducated. I lived in Chile for a few years as an exchange student. Have you ever lived in Chile? Or do you just assume your religion is perfect, like all Mormons? The Mormon missionaries were hard to aviod and I was young and in a foreign country, happy to talk to any Americans. I learned a lot about the Mormon church there (and even more when I attended the U of U).. And yes, back in the 80's missionaries boasted 80-90 baptism in a 2 year mission. Many of these baptisms happened the same day first contact was made, often times they were paid and missionaries even went so far as to mention the opportunity "members" had to study at BYU. Many Chileans accepted the church thinking it would get them away from the Pinochet regime. Many just took the few pesos offered to them and took the quick swim. It was so bad and had such a negative affect that Elder Obvenson (from the 70) went there to address the problem and search for solutions.
I was there, my guess is that you were not. So don't tell me my comments were false and stop basing your facts on a friend of a friend's son who served a mission there.
It was widely reported that the church urged it's members to support anti-gay marriage legislation in California. This is a fact, but maybe you were like most members, asleep on the bench when their bishops announced it. This alone should have resulted in the church losing it's tax exempte status. Your church serves as a PAC, if it really is the "true and only true" church it should either get out of politics or start paying taxes.
Great. Gingrich is already blaming someone besides himself. Way to show leadership, Newt. And this is just for a campaign ad. If you want my vote, dude, you're going to have to act more like a man. I guess this is just more of the same, though. You had no fault with either of those divorces, right? I mean, that's what you SAID. . . .
Julie:
Apparently you missed my post about how ridiculous the Catholic Church is allowing priests to be pedophiles and the "sanctions" imposed when caught was to move them to another community to inflict the same pain on more children; now the Catholic Church runs ads on TV telling people to come back to the church while simultaneously firing a good teacher because she became pregnant via artificial insemination. Yes, she is single, but who is the Catholic Church to tell someone that really wants to be a Mom that she engaged in "An EXTREMELY IMMORAL ACT"? Are you kidding me?
How many parishioners can the church alienate before people realize that the church is extremely unnecessary?
I may not think much of the Mormon faith or dogma. I especially do not like their meddling in politics (I mean the organization--I think Churches have no business being involved with or funding campaigns--Thats why they have tax free status). And honestly I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink Diet Coke (KO Good Stock!)
BUT
I see the bigoted hatred towards Mormons as equally bad as those who claimed Obama was not a Christian. I have not made my decision as to whom I will support in 2012. My feeling is it will be Obama as I see Romney catering to the Rabid Right which will destroy any chance of his being my choice, exactly as McCain did in 2008 with the find straw picking that freak Palin. I expect Romney will do something similar, if he was smart he would pick Huntsman...then I would have a real choice to make.
But I will NEVER EVER support a candidate who considers gay people to be less than full Americans deserving of the same Civil RIghts as anyone else. It is just too fundamental to the core of a human being to compromise on. If you are not an equal human being, you have nothing else that matters.
I also cannot support those who would deny women the right of Choice. But to be honest, none of the possible candidates, despite the pandering to the Anti-Choice fanatics has any intention of doing that. They had both houses and the Presidency and Courts in the early 2000s, and they did not try it then. I find it funny the anti-choice fanatics still drink the Rep Kool Aid on that topic.
I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, As are the majority of Americans. If the Rep party would stop on the social fascism and divisive hate...they would be amazed how much they could win. Most Americans don't give a damn what you do on your own time, they just want you to leave them and their wallets alone.
Dem in Texas. You lost me when you stated that there actually is a seperation of church and state.
parent50,
Yes, Newt is blaming everyone but himself and his crooked, vile record. But that is par for the course for the party that preaches "RESPONSIBILITY!" They never, never, never ever admit to failure, whether it's Bush, Palin, Gingrich ,or any of the other nutcases. The best they can ever muster is "mistakes were made."Unfgbelievable
Rangewolf 4.2, I'll bet you turned that $250.00 down, you got too. I'm old and get a pension and a little Social Security, I can't find a person who is eating dog food because he wants to be on the welfare. If he is its because he likes dog food! Same is true for some people who like to dictate what I do or practice, he does it becuase he likes to boss the other fellow around under the banner of morality. A lot of plantation owners thought slavery was morally right also. Stay tuned to the idiots and play with yourself all you like, we don't care.
Well you go to chile and talk to all the Mormons you want but here at home they drove me to put a sign in my window saying I have a religion I don't want yours. But I heard you Newt even if George got a case of sudden deafness. Please don't stop it's gone beyond win or lose. Please tell the truth about the assault on civil rights of christians in this country.
Newt is feeling sorry for himself. Poor Newt. Stick to the issues. Real world experience.
John-4274116
It's real hard for him not to do as you say.
(when you ARE the issue)
So Newt got pushed out---so what. Does Romney really believe that no one knows that he IS USING PERSONAL FUNDS TO TRY TO BUY THIS ELECTION---sad but true.
Yet to Romeny I question---I wonder if he supports multiple marriages and if he supported Warren Jeffs.
Once this question is answered we may finally learn who Romney is. Yet before hand, I wonder how he would fit into the ghettos of this country or the poorer areas of low income----would he take off his preppy sweater and speak BS or would he keep it on and tell these Americans how sorry he is that they are so financially strapped, but unfortunately he cannot do anything about it as his hands are tied!
There is not 1 person currently running for the REP party who is fit to run this nation, not one!
That's funny!
And isn't Ol' Poot Getrich the same educated idiot that attacked President Clinton in the 90s for having an extra-marital affair with one tramp when, at the same time, Ol’ Poot himself was, in fact, having his own extra-marital affair with another tramp? At least President Clinton appears to have worked through his idiocy with his wife; but corrupt Ol’ Poot bailed on his second wife du jour and married the tramp.
Also, wasn’t Ol’ Poot running in cahoots with the GOPAC committee in the 90s? It seems his history shows his GOPAC cadre put out memos encouraging other pseudo-conservatives to attack Democrats, encouraging them to call Democrats traitors, corrupt, sick and a number of other negative things.
What seems fairly clear is that Ol’ Poot is getting’ a big ol’ taste of his own medicine—and his own pseudo-con party members are the ones shovin’ it down his throat. I just can’t understand why West Georgia College appears to have denied him tenure in the 70s. Maybe, having known and worked with Ol’ Poot on an individual basis, the faculty of West Georgia College realized something that many of today’s voters apparently can’t figure out: Ol’ Poot and worth a hoot!
Again, poor Ol’ Poot Getrich is simply an educated idiot who seems to have forgotten his own history or, if he actually remembers his history, he doesn’t want anyone else to.
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny!
Lee-2569534
I'm sorry but, I just can't let this stand without a challenge, there is so much to Newt to dote over and fawn all over him and help him so he can help us understand our own history. WE all know that in his own mind he is a great man and could do great things for all of us and this wonderful country.
This is such a minor point that most will just overlook it as meaningless. I mean look he has given us SOOO much to be thankful for....
So I have to issue this challenge to your use of the word "Educated" it is an insult to all the idiots out there.
Newt: If you're the opposition, a negative ad is the only option.
No, it's not the only option, just the easiest one.
"the Speaker said after his campaign heavily underestimated the damage these ads could do."
Really, has he been in a coma for the last three or four Presidential election cycles. He should have asked Senator Kerry if negative ads are damaging.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Romney-boated.... boy that Newt... he's a friggin genius!!!!
I would say that he sunk himself long ago--when he decided to take a ride on HMS Callista instead of staying on land with his dying wife...
He's not too smart. He thinks he can be President.
Only in Newtland is the truth a negative ad. I don't think republicans deserve much respect these days after voting to create our huge deficit with tax cuts during war time, but even I didn't think they would stoop so low as to choose Newt for their standard bearer.
But what republican wouldn't be a disaster for our country? Every republican but Ron Paul is beating their chest and talking war with no talk of raising taxes to pay for any new wars. I don't even trust Ron Paul he talks the talk against wars, but the last time he had an opportunity to vote for setting an ending for the Iraq war, he voted with the republicans to continue the war with no end in sight. The measure did pass, Bush vetoed it, but it was hardly the vote of a man (Ron Paul) who claims to be against war.
You know something Americans First,
I've given you a link under a number of your posts so you can research Dr Paul's voting record and point out the actual house vote where you claim he did this.
You keep repeating this claim over an over.
Repetition does NOT make VERACITY!
Either prove it or drop it, you have been called out on this one a number of times, your credibility on this (false) issue is shot.
Unfortunately, although there are some people on the vine that will accept your claim as fact, most on either side, that have a functioning brain, will look at the ease at which this can be proven or disproved and your unwillingness to actually do the work as evidence of the validity of what I've stated above.
You could do a whole lot to help yourself and your creditability out if you just take my advice. Prove this one point you seem to be stuck on, or accept the fact that your opinions will be relegated to the Newsvine dustbin as just another nattering nabob of nothing.
You know, most folks who come here to pontificate are a bit young to remember a guy by the name of Dwight David Eisenhower. However, on the last day in office, he spoke to the American people, something not done before, or since by a President leaving office. He warned the country of the 'military industrial establishment.'
Not only do we have the Republicans screaming for another war, we also have more police agencies than any other country on the face of this planet, each and everyone outfitted with pretty much the same equipment and materials as any one of the military branches. So not only do we pay for wars which have broken the backs of other countries (Russia, UK, France and so on) but we also pay again for what is now a poiice state in the United States with each one of the police agencies fighting to preserve its turf.
On topof that we have these same so-called representatives of the people screaming about welfare and social entitlements whle behind the scenes they continue to hand out millions more in entitlements to the corporate agribusinesses which have killed off the American farmer. Entitlements to the likes of Boise Cascade, International Paper, and so on for planting, or not planting, pine trees. Entitlements to the likes of Bruce Church Corp., Goodyear Farms, Birds Eye, Green Giant, Monsanto, Con-Agra, and on and on. Corporate entitlements which far exceed the amounts paid out in social welfare. While at the same time the top 1%, many of whom head companies which receive these entitlements, pay no taxes.
Whether it is a Newt or a Romney there is really little difference when you get beyond the superficial. And, the American people continue to be led along like puppy dogs. Go figure!
Father, and your solution is to do what? Nationalize all business to be run with government efficiency?
Just what war are the republicans promoting now?
About those social welfare programs, care to elaborate on who gives more, government or the private sector? Here is a hint, the private sector is the main revenue stream that provides funding for all government operations. Then we have all the private sector funds that contribute to the arts and humanities, scholorships, endowments, medical and tech grants etc, etc.
Cool, you say the top 1% pay no taxes. Interesting, according to IRS data (2009) the top 1% pay 36% of income taxes vs 2.25% that the lower 50% pay. Imagine that, I bet the 1% come nowhere close to outnumbering the lower 50%
http://www.ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html
Don't you find it interesting that only the republican controlled house has passed any legislation (aka FY2012 budget) that addressed tax reform, albeit limited in scope. Why hasn't senate leader reid promoted anything or why hasn't obama pushed for it?
No doubt our executive and legislative branches are dysfunctional, but buying into obmas rhetoric of the "evil" rich will only continue to kick the can down the road.
Iran and, not far behind, Pakistan.
The first two years of Obama's presidency was filled with Repub fillibusters. Check the record.
american, the top 1% of the country pay 36% of the income tax because they control over 40% of the wealth in this country. The bottom 50% pay so less because they control that much of the country's wealth.
american-2051576,
The NTU that you refer to is a shill organization for Exxon and other gigantic corporations. So of *course* the NTU will manufacture statistics showing that all those poor beleaguered one percenters have been (bless their little pea-pickin hearts) paying the lion's share of taxes. But of course you already knew that.
Lune
Ron Paul is against the war at the moment because its a convient bit of publicity for the head in the sand crowd. Ron Paul wants to do the same thing to America that the Taliban did to Afghanistan put us back three or four centuries ago on the morality scale, you know when slavery was fashionable and we had those good old family values like drowning and burning witches at the stake. No gays in his world, no abortion either, everything in the closet or in jail you go. He doesn't like Federal intervention except when it comes to his family values he wants them regulated by the Federal goverment. He fooled a lot of Iowans too, but not enough to make a difference in the running. He'll stay in the race as a spoil sport for as log as he can.
All I can say is Ron Paul 2012!!
Yeah, and he can appoint his buddy Don Black to head up immigration. He'll send all the blacks back to Africa, all the Mexicans back to Mexico, and apply a white skin test to the rest of you.
If you don't believe me, search images on the internet for Don Black. Yup, you'll see the non-racist Ron Paul posing with a former Nazi, current KKK member, and webmaster for Stormfront.org. Where white people are not afraid to say that white people are supreme!
I have lost every bit of the little respect I had for Paul. Shame on you.
He happens to be in an amature photograph with some guy with racists views, so that makes everyone else in the picture a racist, too? Logic fail.
Paul's own words make him racist...Read up.
Paul is the farthest from racism look at what these people actually vote on Paul is the only one who isnt a puppet doing what the highest bidder says to do thats why republicans are so scared of him getting in office he will do what he believes is right not what they want him to do Hes the only one worth a vote
hard...What Paul thinks is right often has a demented tone to it.
JWright Ron Paul wants his leg back when you are finished humping it.
Brad ever see "Bruno" Ok it was a silly moment...But Ron Paul's reaction was to call him "Queer"
Not Gay...but "Queer"
Honey sweetie darling
That makes him a bigot.
Frankly True. I'm starting to think that you actually like to hump legs yourself.
So what does queer mean to you, in relation to that episode? Or do we consider the possibility that humping legs and queer both fascinate you? Curious minds want to know.
Come on skeeter...That was funny....I appreciate a chuckle now and then....
Skeeter I am gay. I don't try to hide it, and it is simply a natural point in conversation-- I don't go around saying I am, but I refer to my husband as such, same as any couple would. While we don't 'make out' in public that is more my personal style, I am rather reserved; if I was straight i would be no different in that area.
You don't like it ...that is a YP and I will not let you make your YP an MP
And as far as what parts I 'hump' that is a NOYFB! (Just as I have no interest in discussing what you hump aside from Ron Pauls leg)
(To be honest I don't do much business in that area as we have been together almost 20 years...it is a been there...done that thing)
Let's see: The Historian uses the term "Romney-boated," an allusion to the history of the "Swift-boating" of the 2004 Kerry campaign by certain GOP operatives, to express his surprise about the ferocity of modern politics. It does seem The Historian could not remember that bit of admittedly recent history -- except apparently only too late and then only as a catch-phrase -- and was accordingly condemned to be the object of its repetition. Or maybe he was just playing victim.
Gingrich only remembers history when you present him a check for 1.8 million dollars.
Or he remembers what you engrave on the back of a tiffany watch!
Couple of big babies running for president??? At least we've seen the "light" before we voted.
as opposed to 2008 when the current president was given a pass by the press. remember this exchange between rose and brokaw?
ROSE: I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.
BROKAW: No, I don't, either.
ROSE: I don't know how he really sees where China is.
BROKAW: We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
ROSE: I don't really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?
BROKAW: Yeah, it's an interesting question.
ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.
BROKAW: Two of them! I don't know what books he's read.
ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
BROKAW: There's a lot about him we don't know.
And what does that prove except that Rose and Brokaw knew nothing about Obama at the time of the "exchange?" Nice try at deflection, but sorry, you lose.
flbikerchick - don't try to inject critical thinking into this thread. We are all supposed to be boohooing for The Grinch!
flbiker and it is a very short part of a very long conversation.
IE out of context
Newt should go have a cup of coffee (not Tea) with John Kerry so he can get some perspectives on that type of campaign tactic. The only problem for Gingrich is there is is so much out there that the Gingrich "swift boat" is actually the turbine engined "Miss Budweiser." Once that boat gets moving, It really flies and overtakes the pack in no time. Too bad Newt!
Negative Ads or the Truth? I hope this idiot doesn't turn out to be someone that tries to sue over these Negative Ads. More clowning around from the main ring in the long running circus. Make sure you get tickets for the next show. Those of you hoping to get a job if one of these clowns wins Presidency will have to apply for a job picking up the @!$%# after the circus has left town. Good luck America!
They are "true...negative ads"!
And we ALL know Newt would be running the MOST negative ads in history IF he had the money!
CLOWNS, ALL of them!
Don't insult clowns, Jo-An.
My bad!
Ok let's hold up here a second....can you imagine the DIRT that he could bring out of the closets? Have to admit it could be interesting. I say go Gingrich, give it your best shot. What do you have on Romney that we don't already know? Bet you will have a hard time and have to dig deep for Paul. Perry would only be funny stuff. Oh, maybe a concept for his next book?
The thing about Newt Gingrich is that you don't need to tell lies about him to smear him. The cold, unvarnished truth is damning enough.
-- Cheats on his wives
-- Divorced one wife because she got cancer
-- Owes half a million dollars in unsecured credit card debt
-- Was fined $300,000 for ethics violations
-- Advocates child exploitation as his campaign platform
-- Took lots of cash from Fannie Mae
Guess Newt could be a Democrat then!!
cliff,
Not sure what your point is - none of those things listed is specific to political party. Thanks for a pointless asinine attack though, that's good work.
Democrat/Republican...same o, same o. Just another off the rack, store bought politician. If our govt. wants us to vote wisely, they have to offer better options. These cookie cutter greedy rich guys are good for making cookie dough--but to run our country? Seriously? No way.
There goes Newt and his Saul Alinsky tactics that he is always talking about. Bait people. Call your opponent names. The whole rules for radicals is in his handbook. I am glad he has been exposed.
Some of us knew what he was years ago.
Still, it's satisfying to see that what goes around comes around, Karma's a bitch and she's come for Newt at last. ;-D He doesn't seem to like it but that's too bad. The scummy b@$t@rd's getting what he's deserves. BTW, I don't think Calista's pretty enough to be a President's wife. ;-)
It's good to see not all American's are blinded by lies. Newt is such a corrupt person and the reason he want's a positive only campaign for everyone else to adopt is so that his horribly tarnished past doesn't come to light. How the heck did he ever come onto the center stage I do not know but as most intelligent people would probably hope is that the others are smart enough now to keep people like him out of politics.
Two liars hurling lies at each other. Got to love it. Newt, the serial philanderer, and Mitt, who was pro abortion before he was against it. Two men who want power so badly they will tell any lie, spend any amount of money, stoop to any sleazy lie.
Mitt is the sleaziest politician currently around. He hides behind a veneer of respectability, but he will lie about his positions, spread innuendo about his opponents, and tell people what he thinks they want to hear. The only thing that matters to Mitt is that he get more power and more money. Its all about Mitt. Mitt does not give one hoot about the people on these United States, except his Mormon brethren. He does not care about you and me, only himself. Mitt Romney Liar Liar Pants on Fire.
I agree this is just exactly like the John Kerry campaign. And if we all remember he lost. And with the republicans trying to change delegates etc. it is just like the HIillary campaign. She lost too remember. These people are not going to win.
I guess Newt doesn't like reaping what he sowed... it's actually quite delicious!
Laughable. He's an expert at scorched earth politics. Quit whinning Newt.
cry baby
Sorry, Newt, but your time as GOP flavor of the week is up. Next!
It actually is the Book of the Month club, and his month is over. Next!