Good post major! America has become enamored with an entitlement attitude as to what can government do for me.

Jack Kennedy is rolling over in his grave right now......

Winning Georgia will be central to Gingrinch's campaign until he loses Georgia, and then it will be unimportant.

He is already in the White House give him a chance. Encourage your legislators to stop playing politics and cooperate with the President rather than trying to keep him from doing anything in order to be able to defeat him in the next election. The republican leadership made it clear right from the start that their priority was to win back the White House not to solve the issues of the day. They have at every turn stopped the country from moving toward solutions, not because they were opposed to the solutions but because any solution would be credited to the president and they want him to fail. Even if it means the country fails. This entitlement myth needs to stop being perpetuated. People want to work, people want the dignity of an honest wage for honest work. It is un American to go about blaming people down on their luck for being lazy, it's just not the case. How many people do you personally know that are defrauding the government, or gaming the system because they are lazy and don't want to work? Probably none, because those people are rare and criminals and not representative of the vast majority of good Americans who simply need a level playing field. And the American playing field is so tilted toward the rich and powerful it is criminal. I don't understand how any good American is happy to be returning to a 19th century social model where a very small very rich aristocracy lives off the hard work of a vast poor working class.

Very well said, Oats. It's funny how the "entitlement" ranters leave out the billions of dollars of entitlements to the corporations who are seeing record profits but still taking our tax dollars. Yes, it's only the poor who are lazy and stealing our money - certainly not the entitled wealthy.

You are pretty much spot on Major. The current batch of politicians in Washington are just horrible, scum of the earth criminals. Obama has not found a way to do what he really wanted. I won't just blame the other side, as I will lay blame at his feet as a leader, and the feet of Congress, who basically refuse to do their jobs. They all stink. I do not understand how we have not had an uprising to enforce term limits on the idiots in Congress. We need to find ways to get smart people in there, get the best from them in 4-8 years, and thank them nicely as they move on.

The more any of them talk the more disgusted I become... One guy has cheated on two of his wives then marries the floozy he was cheating with... This guy wants to be the moral character for the country? The second guy is so wrapped up in his religious beliefs that he has no idea how stupid he sound to the average American, and the third guy is so wealthy that he's unable to relate to everyday people...

At least president Obama has the interest of the entire country at heart, not just the big oil companies and the richest one percent...

They love to scream about class warfare but all this rhetoric blaming people for their misfortune is the worst kind of bullying. Since Reagan the disparity between the truly wealthy and the rest of the country has been growing and the government has been complicit. Now we have a president who would like the government to lend a hand to working people and thats too intrusive and over reaching, too much government. Republicans, conservative ones mostly are fine with government so long as it helps them pad their pockets

Good! I hope that means when Georgia gives him the boot he will STFU and blow away. Or perhaps go away and get blown.

I have been watching the "Clinton" so called documentary on Frontline/PBS last week. It is not balanced and extremely sympathetic to poor old Bubba.

However, the fact that comes across loud and clear is that is was Gingrich that forced Clinton to balance the budget, after Gingrich became Speaker. Clinton and the media blamed Gingrich for the government shutdown and the public believed Clinton. Clinton regained his footing and with the economy improving went on to reelection and porking Monica.

Takeaway: At great political expense, Gingrich forced Clinton to balance the budget. Watch the program if you get a chance. Again, it is very misleading at times ( in Clinton's favor) but they spend a great deal of time on the budget issues of the mid 1990s. If the speaker had caved, we would not have the balanced budgets for the 4 short years that we did have.

Not sure I am voting for Newt. He has done some great things. Capturing the House after 50 plus years of autocratic democrat rule was one of the triumphs of USA 20th century politics. Forcing Clinton to balance the budget was huge.

The petulance, the arrogance, the adultery bother me greatly.

If we could morph the business success of Romney, the moral principles of Santorum, and the legislative brilliance of Gingrich, we would have a heck of a candidate.

Remind me again, besides killing Osama, what has Obama done?

The true statesman is smart enough not to be in a political race that throws its candidates to the wolves to see who survives. If you were smart would you bother with the American people or just work in a think tank on diplomacy?

In this case, I think the real problem is the Republican party itself. It is filled with corruption, complacency, mixed messages, an unwillingness to shed old ideas and change with the times, and tea party extremists coming in and changing the conversation further away from what a diverse, less religious, struggling population actually wants and needs from their government. We aren't all white, married, churchgoers with 2.5 kids. We all aren't so stupid as to buy into the "less government, less regulations, unless it involves our rigid ideology, then thats actually OK."

When they lose this election -- which they will, hopefully the party can make some major changes from within and move forward.

A true statesman hasn't stepped forward from this party, because one doesn't currently exist within it. I haven't seen ONE prominent Republican that has made me, a center left Democrat, say "you know, this guy has the right vision for our country." Its usually the opposite.

Oats willy I just got a letter in my e-mail that made me LOL. It was from a pastor of another denomination. His first paragraph said in effect Thank You President Obama for doing for Christians what we have not been able to do for ourselves since the 1500"s. In one action you have united Christianity as never before. He went on to ask for a period of prayer for our country. This from a denomination that has hated the Cathilic church more than atheist do.

Wiley B. Channell, I've got a second shocker for you this year. There are not only gays, but Democrats in the USMC. My dad volunteered for the Corps in 1950. He then volunteered for Korea. He voted Democratic his entire life. It always made him mad when Reagan talked about Americans and Democrats, or patriots and Democrats. Like you couldn't be both ! His rebuttal always was, " Ronnie. I didn't see you in my foxhole !'' P.S. Gary 420 - I've got your perfect candidate NEWT ROMTORUM !

In response to lonereb

Interesting how much the WASPs have started to buzz about after a bit of poking into the nest. Ask them to keep their hands off of a woman's right to use her health care to provice contraception and they get all in a fluster. This isn't so much about religious rights as much as it is about equal access to healthcare. We can see you for what you are now and it is clear that voting for conservatives is akin to voting for the taliban.

I also hear that the Virginia house shelved a bill (by two votes) requiring a woman who was fraped and wanted to have an abortion to submit to rape by insturmentality by the government. This is pretty darn disgusting for a party based on limited government.

way cool, the above LWNJ's have no concept of what the major or egilman meant. Sad that the message the major and egilman talked about has been lost on the lwnj's above.

Jim ledden, I have a shocker for you as well, The POTUS is CinC of the military and being left, right, male, female, gay or green has little bearing on military service and the oath they all made for serving the US.

Lonereb - I seem to recall some rather heated primary debates between clinton and obama in 2008, it is called politics.

Joe glenn, good thing you didn't post any links as it would have been to easy to show that you haven't the ability to connect the dots. Rape by instrumentality is so discriptive.

It's just about over for Gingrich if he loses. He only has a few states after that to which he has a lead. About half of the states are not polled yet. Of what is polled, It's Romney, Santorm, then Gingrich in delegate counts. Even that isn't real accurate, because about half of the states Polled haven't been polled since before Santorum surged. When those states that haven't been polled recently or polled at all start getting polled, the picture will become clearer.

DB: Gingrich doesn't stand a chance, regardless. He and Ron Paul are currently polling nationally within the margin of error over the option "None/Any/Unsure." They are both in the Rick Perry zone before Rick Perry wised up and got out.

Its going to be Romney as the nominee, and then Obama as the President in 2013. The only possible hail mary pass is going to be if Marco Rubio joins the ticket and helps swing a portion of the latino vote, as well as Florida and Nevada.

They love to scream about class warfare, because it distract people from the fact that "they" are busily engaging in it themselves.

Anybody but Romney.

jim,

Newt Rontorum, LOL Love it.

Huh? "slide into obscurity" !? Gingrich is just like Romney, Santorum, Palin. Rove, and on and on. When you finally think they have worn out their welcome, they pop up again. The Republican party is a grotesque jack in the box.

All of these people are the one trick ponies of the GOP .They fade in and out of the public eye trying to be relevant, but never succeeding. Esp Newt with his" New Big Word "every week ..People are lol at him .And that Rove guy falls into the Palin category.

The best thing Newt can hope for is getting his gig at Fox back. Americans don't elect scum-bags like him.

Gingrich is likely to win Georgia. Although his catholicism doesn't help him. He's giving Georgians a wink and Baptist grin about that though. Unlikely to win any other state on super tuesday. The experts would do well to note the size of the total Georgia vote, ( not gonna amount to much) and especially the demographics of those who vote. While still, a very racist state, there are many blacks, Latino's, and whites who are very tired of republicans in general, and will vote for President Obama in November, especially if Gingrich isn't his opponent, which is very unlikely.

I think this will be Gingrich's last hurrah. He had only one last chance to redeem his disastrous political career and he is failing miserably.

I'm afraid you are right and I am also afraid the people of my state will not be allowed to have our say in the process. It is no fun being a bystander to the american political process.

lonereb: Your concerns are well founded. Efforts are and have been afoot in every Georgia county and municipality, by county Commissions, county managers, city councils, city managers, and the GOP at large to require rules for voting in the general election that will directly suppress voting and disqualify many qualified voters. All Georgians who vote contrary to republicanism would do well to contact and join "ACLU"-"NAACP" and/or "Southern Poverty Law Center" of Montgomery, Al. Join one or all of 'em. Give 'em a couple of bucks if you can. If you can't, tell 'em, they'll help you anyway. There are other organizations who watch these sons-a-bitches as well. The ones I've mentioned are great. I'm sure there are others. Don't allow these sons-a-bitches to take away your basic American right to vote for whom you please!

Mac I don't know about that I just got an e-mail from a pastor of a denomination that has hated the Catholic church more than atheists do for 200 years at least. He began by thanking President Obama for uniting Christianity. We are pulling together because of attacks from the outside. After the danger is over we will probably go back to the sibling rivalry that has plagued us for 500 years. But right now we see you as more of a danger than each other. As far as not being able to vote want to try being a Texan. Our primary has so far been scheduled for March 3rd, April 3rd, April 17 and now May 29th which if they don't get the redistricting mess taken care of in one week will probably have to be moved again. Thus far no one in Texas has a current voters card including Ron Paul. So sorry if I don't cry for you but as of now I don't have the right to vote either.

lonereb#3.8: Sorry, I misread where you're from. Hell, if you're from Texas just be patient. They'll finally settle on a primary date. When they do you'll likely get to vote 2 or 3 times at least. As for crying over me, don't worry about it. A Texan weeps so much about his/her self they have no tears to spare for anything else. May your pile bear many fragrant blooms before the "tumble turds" know where you are. Regards

Lack of leadership, leading to too many, too early, too crazy. Romney has moved so far right to get the nomination, he couldn't get back to the center, even if he flip-flops back to his original stances, running at a three-minute mile pace. Just not enough time left between the Convention and the General Election.

Most self-destructive campaign I've seen since McGovern-Eagleton.

Newt is just a turd - Georgia take a DUMP.

As a democrat, I would be happy to see Newt as the GOP nominee. Either him or Santorum would be all too easy to defeat. Obama will win no matter who the GOP nominee is, but Newt and Santorum are both overflowing with crazy.

Such as? And...good post above.

That remains a mystery of the highest order. Sarah? Slim Christie? Jeb? Its a crap shoot.

What sane American would want to run for president in this country at all? Thats why all we get is losers in office with agendas that promote far left or right ideology. Moderates won't even run for office.

Uh, dude, President Obama is a moderate. He's made concession after concession to the right (something I dislike about him, but he's a much much better choice than and GOP contender.)

Carolina, I am 58 years old, I am not naive in the least and you must work with a bunch of crooks because NO ONE I work with does that. NO ONE I know does that. NO ONE I know is running a social security scam. I teach, I work in a building with a hundred other people and they work hard are honest and haven't had a raise in years. If you are aware of individuals committing fraud you should report it, not just bitch about it, or allow it to color the way you think about your fellow man. I refuse to buy into the negativity and the bad Karma of the conservative movement.

Well most of the people I knew in my working career worked 1 fulltime job, 1 weekend or seasonal job and something like bingo crew to make it. The seasonal lasted 6 weeks and my vacation was 4 weeks so I worked 2 fulltime jobs at the beginning and end of the season. And the state required paying a stipend to the people who worked non-profit bingo crews of $25 each session they worked. I got by but that was all.

And from a former democrat the demcratic party has been hijacked by the far left. Nobody speaks for the majority of Americans anymore.

The most disappointed with Obama are actually those in the far left, who would've preferred Obama to let the financial sector and the auto industry go bankrupt or nationalized, have their incompetent CEOs prosecuted, income taxes raised to 50%, grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants and replace Medicare with a single-payer universal health care system. Instead they got a President that continued the bailouts that Bush started, continued the Bush wars, kept the Bush tax cuts (and now proposed a 28% corporate tax rate), deported more illegal immigrants than Bush (and increased the number of border patrol officers) and kept the healthcare system under the control of the private sector.

Well gee he can't please anybody can he. But he did do something Christians haven't been able to do for 500 years so that's an sccomplishment. ROFL He united christianity.

If by Christianity you mean anti-secularist Christianity... And as far as pleasing goes, he seems to have a good approval rate, which will likely increase once the Dems start launching their TV ads (i.e. once the Republican nominee is decided). He has been taking hits from all 4 candidates for many months now, his approval rate should be on the floor.

I see the forces for hatred, ignorance, and poor personal hygiene are out in force this morning showing yet again you can make the most preposterous statements and still not be the least bit embarrassed. Have you no shame?

Fail again, Larry.

Larry, do you have any knowledge of the history of the constitution? Have you ever read it? My guess is that you rely on the likes of talk radio to interpret the constitution for you. You realize that the constitution was written as a document that would enhance the powers of the federal gov. That the original articles of confederation gave much more power to the states ? That much of the original document has had to be amended to correct things that were unjust and immoral. It's not a sacred text. And please tell me what part of individual liberty is not in direct contradiction to the state dictating who can marry whom, what women choose to do about their own pregnancies, who chooses to practice contraception. The only individual freedom that the conservative right is concerned with is the freedom to make and keep as much money as they can possibly accumulate. The rest is just lip service.

Well watching my fellow americans on both sides who actually despise the people they want to rule for four years. I think after the election I will dig a deep hole and ride it out or move to Canada.Damn I hate cold weather but the cartels just don't seem to care who they shoot.

Oats Willy

I read the Constitution every week and have studied it, the writings of the founders, and those who influenced them for over 50 years.

Evidently you have never read the Constitution or the men who wrote it.

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.

Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788

James Madison, the Father of our Constitution, clarified the authority of the federal government in the Federalist Papers #45:

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."

Hugo LaFayette Black, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, 1937-1971:

"The form of government which was ordained and established in 1789 contains certain unique features which reflected the Framers' fear of arbitrary government and which clearly indicate an intention absolutely to limit what Congress could do.

"The first of these features is that our Constitution is written in a single document. Such constitutions are familiar today and it is not always remembered that our country was the first to have one. Certainly one purpose of a written constitution is to define and therefore more specifically limit government powers. An all-powerful government that can act as it pleases wants no such constitution - unless to fool the people.

"Central to all of the Framers of the Bill of Rights was the idea that since government, particularly the National Government newly created, is a powerful institution, its officials - all of them - must be compelled to exercise their powers within strictly defined boundaries. As Madison told Congress, the Bill of Rights' limitations point sometimes against the abuse of the Executive power, sometimes against the Legislative, and in some cases against the community itself; or, in other words, against the majority in favor of the minority.

"Madison also explained that his proposed amendments were intended to limit and qualify the powers of government, by excepting out of the grant of power those cases in which the government ought not to act, or to act only in a particular mode.

["One Man's Stand For Freedom" - Mr. Justice Black and the Bill of Rights - Hugo LaFayette Black: A collection of his Supreme Court opinions - Published 1963 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.]

When government seizes the fruit of the labor of it's citizens, we have surrendered our liberties

When government determines how much of your income you are allowed to keep, we have surrendered our liberties

When government states that it is the arbiter of when and where you should grow (Wickard v Filburn), we have surrendered our liberties

When government states it determines the wage agreements between employer and employee, we have surrendered our liberties

When government determines how and where we educate our children, we surrender our liberties

When government determines that we must purchase health insurance with a threat of tax penalties whether we use health care services or not-we have surrendered our liberties

When government forces us to participate in a retirement ponzi scheme-we have surrendered our liberties

When government forces us to participate in old age government run health care-we have surrendered our liberties

When doctors are forced by the Government to provide free services, we have surrendered our liberties

When insurance companies or employers are forced by the government to provide products or services for free, we have surrendered our liberties.

When government tries to control the environment, we have surrendered our liberties

When government tries to redefine religious institutions like marriage, we have surrendered our liberties

When government forces us to participate in a marxist redistribution of wealth-we have surrendered our liberties

How tragic for or nation clueless morons like you have a public forum to act like idiots.

Bob, the real tragedy is that mindless liberals like yourself do not care about individual liberty, preferring enslavement to the state under the worship of collectivism.

@Bob-3241043: Conservatism doesn't believe in insanity. If it did?............ Well.... you know.

Larry - you'd have more credibility if you weren't so Hyperbolic. No one here makes a case for enslavement by the state or collectivism or Marxist redistribution. Clearly you love your country and it's constitution but by making these claims you're just hurling insults. We Libtards like our liberty too. We want to be free but are willing to make some concessions to create a better society - civil rights(by the way Marriage has been redefined many many times over the course of human existence)., a fair playing field, a clean environment an educated population and many of the other things you bemoan above. We will never be the Libertarian country you want. We will never be the Marxist country you fear.

Liberalism is an ism for sure but it's not Marxism, Socialism or Communism and I suspect you know that. We want a society that lives up to the Preamble to the Constitution just like I imagine you do. Given our two party system there has always been an ebb and flow to where we are on the political spectrum and it's my opinion that most of us tards are concerned about the Republican party collapsing and no longer able to be a viable balance to the left. These candidates just highlight that concern and I think that is what many are trying to say here.

coachp

We are already a marxist/socialist country and have been operating as a post constitutional nation since the days of FDR

To suggest that most of what the Federal Govt does and what the Democratic party platform calls for as not being marxist, is either naive or disengenuous.

I have little regard for the Republicans; in general they are just a socialist light version of the Democrats

Well oats I keep a copy of the first amendment next to my computer but by the rulings of our judicial system I find it unrecognizable. Especially the rulings of the judge from the SA federal district who in two months time has ruled both against and for prayer at graduation in Texas High Schools. I think his rulings depend on whether his wife gives him any before he goes to work either that or who gets to the courthouse first. My God save me this is one of the three stooges who holds my voting rights in his hand. I may never see the inside of a voting booth again.

Larry - if you are still around you'll have to explain your version of Marxism. All western democracies are a blend of capitalism and socialism. Marxism is a pure economic and political philosophy that is nothing like what we have in this country. We do have socialist policies of course and socialism today in practice is a watered down version of the original. In this country the workers do not own and control the means of production and distribution ,we so not have an egalitarian sharing of wealth, we have private property and we don't put you in jail for practicing your religion(really this more of Stalin's doing than Marx. These are the basic tenets of Marxism. So help me understand your reasoning here.

Coach - I seem to recall that marxism embodied four stages, one of which was socialism and the last being communisim. Whatever the basics, marxism ignores human individuality which pretty much says that big government will never work.

Yes but big government isn't Marxism. My beef is that too many people like Larry mis use the word as a generic insult and that makes words meaningless. I don't like big government either and my view is that our government is bloated with duplication, inefficiencies and the like. It's a matter of execution and what political system will allow the best execution of democratic ideals and what is the best economic sytem that adhears to the prinicpal in the preamble to our constitution I think we need to re think the entire economic system. We need to evolve.

At least you will get to vote. It looks like our March 3rd, April 3rd, April 17th, May 29th primary will end up after the convention.

If he does that he gets a share of the power brokering at the convention since most delegates are only held for thr first ballot. After that they aren't bound by the results of your primary and all bets are off..

Oh good they can pay for their expenses by charging tolls on everybody going to Florida. Grandma get your purse out we are coming into Georgia. All those eastern yankee snowbirds can pay their expenses.