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PALATINE, Ill. – Hours after finishing a disappointing second place in both the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, Newt Gingrich marched his campaign onward, vowing he is “staying in the race.”
Campaigning in Illinois on Wednesday, Gingrich made little mention of the two contests he had hoped to win in the South. He instead focused his speeches on the big ideas that drive his campaign, explaining that many people just don’t understand what needs to be done to help change the country.
“The thing I find most disheartening about this campaign is the difficulty of talking about positive ideas on a large scale because the news media can’t cover it and candidly, my opponents can’t comprehend it,” Gingrich told the five hundred plus person crowd at the Northwest Suburban Republican Lincoln Day Dinner. “The result is you can’t have a serious conversation. It doesn’t fit. It doesn’t count. It is as though it doesn’t occur.”
Gingrich, who brought up Alzheimer’s research for the first time in weeks, admitted he wants to be “the candidate of science and technology.”
“We are at the edge of such extraordinary opportunities and it is so hard to get this party to understand it,” said Gingrich, speaking in a more frustrated tone than usual. “Our political system is so methodically and deliberately stupid.”
The calls for Gingrich to exit the race have only increased in the 24 hours since Tuesday’s primaries that Rick Santorum won. But Gingrich says he will not bow out, arguing he is the only Republican who can take on Washington and all the problems that come along with it.
“We cannot be a normal party. If we run a normal campaign trying to govern within the framework of the current system we have no future because people would rather have Democrats do it, they at least enjoy it,” he said. “We are miserable at trying to govern in their system. We are in the business of changing Washington, not being accepted by it. It is a fundamentally different model. It is the base of what Reagan did.”
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Science and technology are great subjects, but it's the economy, stupid!
We are a Jersey Shore Society, If you're not showing your Azz, we are changing the channel....(please donot take that literally)
So says the supposed inventor of the current political system. He calls what he started "stupid". What does that make him?
We all got that. War on Women, War on Iran, War on War. Nothing normal about any of these candidates.
And Newt knows it is about the economy. That is why he has pledged to get gas down to 2.50 a gallon.
I DO hope Satanick you were being sarcastic.... Newtie is EXACTLY what is wrong with the party (s). He rode into congress with his "big messages"... then was driven from office for his practices. I wont even bring up the affairs, Clinton trial, etc... He is the most egomaniacle person in the race. It is all about Newtie... Will say or do ANYTHING to get elected and has failed in this effort, but he wont give up. Probably the wife or some financial reason he wont. Does he get to keep campaign money if he drops out??
The funniest thing about this entire election is... if things are SO bad as the reps keep telling us (and how miserable Obama has been), wouldn't you think the reps would have been able to find someone better thatn the current crop of candidates???? They have had four years to find someone.. what a show.
Newties statements are the most perfect thing for an egotistical narcissist to say ..........
He never had a chance in the first place, but him being him, he is pressing on even though he knows he doesn't have a snow balls chance in you know where. Did anyone expect anything else?
Gingrich's performance is one of the reasons republicans eliminated proportional assignment of delegates.
How Eric Cartman-esque of him.
"It has nothing to do with me, since I'm amazing, it's this stupid political system!"
Can you imagine playing a game of any sort with him? "Stupid poker, you cheat... stupid texas hold'em" - "Stupid basketball, it's too big and the net is too small... stupid game." - "Stupid Risk and your defensive bonus, that's stupid, I should have a bonus... stupid Risk."
the fact that gingrich is considered at all shows you how stupid this country is but we already knew that after bush got elected twice - wow, theres no hope for us
Science and technology can make or break an economy, stoopid!
newt is right. I mean , contraception and some bogus polls that have no delegate count get number 1 attention? Its the dumbing down of people. you go to a caucus and a bunch of idiots are there listening to talking points and the latest glib coming out. The guy with the most cash wins cause people are like sheep. Unfortuantely, newt doesnt have the money and cant swing the mainstreem media who is 99% behind obama and his socialism. I don't think I have heard one good conversation by the media on the economy or fixiing it in 20years.
It would seem that only Newt knows what the problems are and how to fix them - everyone else is too stupid, along with the political system. And he wants to be the science and technology guy as well as the most conservatice choice? Somehow, I thought they were mutually exclusive. At any rate, I suppose the country just doesn't deserve a candidate of his, uh, stature.
Gingrich is stupid and he knows it. If he had more money and ahead in the polls he would claim this is what is right with America.
Socialized systems is the way of the future in America. We can no longer tolerate or afford subsidizing the richest executives guaranteeing them huge incomes and bonuses on the backs of the working men and women. Socialize oil and medical care now if you want to see prices come down. Check out PEMEX!
The only reason Gingrich has the support he does, is because of his ability to debate. If he does not commit an error like he did against Romney in Florida (over investments in Freddie and Fannie) he would wipe the floor with Obama. Newt's biggest weakness is not knowing when to quit pursuing and issue. Should he do that on Obama, Obama would wipe the Floor with Newt.
Republicans should go for who they want to run the country, not with the better debator. That would be Santorum or Romney. Both have more education than Obama.
Obama, JD Law Harvard, BA Columbia
Romney, BA Brigham Young Univ. JD Law and MBA - Harvard
Santorum BA Penn State Univ, MBA University of Pittsburgh, JD Law Dikenson School of Law ( Penn State Univ.
Ron Paul, BS Gettysburgh, MD Duke University
Gingrich BA Emory Univ, MA & PhD History Tulane
Once again, for the morons sitting in the back of the class... Socialism is NOT what you all keep trying to say it is.
Here is the definition of Socialism:
1. An economic theory or system in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange are owned by the community collectively. It is characterized by production for use rather than profit, and by equality of individual wealth rather than an unequal distribution of wealth with a small percentage of individuals controlling almost all of the money supply. 2. Any of various social or political theories or movements in which the common welfare is to be achieved through the establishment of a economic system where the economic security and benefit of fellow citizens is placed ahead of the accumulation of individual wealth.
You all need to go back and read the Constitution. It is the CONGRESS that spends the money, and who passes the laws on how it is regulated.
The Republicons are only interested in one thing. Reminding you of nostalgic times past, when things seemed a little easier than they are now, telling you that they see problems, and then blaming them on someone else (while incorrectly using a label that becomes a rallying cry) They have no new ideas. That's what "conservatism" means, they think backwards. They aren't progressive. They aren't interested in solving problems. All they're interested in is blaming them on someone else, and then making you afraid of the other guy.
They clearly don't have any real solutions, else Georgie Shrub wouldn't have put us in this huge hole with two unfunded wars based on lies (Where are those WMD, Dubya?) and giving the rich big tax cuts.
I see the economy is improving. Unemployment is down. Wow... I bet they can't stand that, knowing that all they've done over the past three years is to obstruct progress...
Newt are you staying in the race to save face, or because you are a stubborn arse, OR are you staying because your wife has threatened to leave you if you don't stay in the race?
Wow, all these snobs running for President. I guess we should vote for Palin. Horribly undereducated, barely literate, superstitious, ignorant and proud of it!!
Most of the comments here show that Newt is right. There can be no serious conversation about the issues that matter. Any attempt at a serious discussion immediately breaks down to personal insults and polarization based on what "Team" you support. People don't seem to care about the problems facing the country or any possible solutions to those problems. People treat the political process and the election more like a football game than the future of the country. The political parties are the teams, but people, you are the football. It doesn't matter which side wins, you still get kicked back and forth down the field.
Palin has more education than the average US Citizen. She does have BS in Journalism hense her ability to reach people and have such a large following.
Palin did not have a college fund and shunned student loans. Seeing is one of the dirty secrets of the downturn is all of the College degreed students who are bankrupt from taking $60, & $150,000 in student loans to get their degree and then cannot get a better job than $30,000 & $40,000 per year job, Palin looks a whole lot smarter right now.
BTW - I have 4 degrees myself, to which I spent an extra year on two, so I wouldn't have so much school debt also because I could not qualify at loans at one point.
"Gingrich, speaking in a more frustrated tone than usual. “Our political system is so methodically and deliberately stupid.”..In this Gingrich is correct..our political system today is stupid..andf corrupt. We have today, a congress elected by the people...who however, pay much more attention to lobbyist and their wealthy friends. Congress has been able to do very little except if you consider the junk bills they passed the last several years. Now the republican wantt o cut taxes even more...they did not pay for the war Bush started..but they did cut tqxes for his wealthy friends..who, crated no jobs,,,which was the claim made for making the cuts. Now ...the republicans want to cut taxes even more for the wealthy and big business. Yet...cost to the middle class..and the poor are going up...If we are to cut taxes out for business and many of the wealthy or reduce taxes even more to help someone like Romney or any of those now in congress...why not cut out all taes for everyone..Why should our tax money pay business to carry their jobs elsewhere ? Why should we be paying a congress who has done little for the middle class. Our tax money should be helping support our own people...not those of other country's..or big business...nor should our tax money carry banks or any company on wall street. Its interesting to me...that with out the middle class...Romney nor any of the wealthy today,nor any of our politicans or big business for that matter, would have the profits they do have. Yopu may ask, how do politicans proifit....consider the funds thrown at them by all the thousands of lobbyist now in washington.
Hallelujah! Saint Reagan is truly dead, at last. May he rest in peaceful history! The 40 year reign of Republican error is finally ending.
Even 'true' conservatives are calling for the Reaganite stalwart to withdraw from the field of political discourse. Saint Reagan no longer has a place on the Republican platform.
Hallelujah! Rejoice America! We finally have an opportunity to be truly 'free at last'.
Ok, bear with me a little, this need some explaining but the co-inky-dink is just TOOOO much not to share.
Just last night my wife and I were talking to our daughter about a master's paper she had just written on the continuing digital divide. She was telling us about some studies she had read regarding the differences between male and female participants and computer skills. She said the studies show a marked difference between the male and female response to failure when learning a new computer program or even playing a computer game.
When the female fails, she says, "I must not be very good at this, or maybe I just need to work a little harder."
When the male fails he kicks the coffee table, throws the controller across the room and says, "This is stupid, there must be something wrong with this, it sucks."
The female looks inside, the male blames everyone and everything but himself.
Congratulations Newt, your reaction to your lack of success in the primary is the CLASSIC, TEXTBOOK response from the frustrated adolescent male.
Do we really want an elderly poll who behaves like an adolescent running the country? I don't think so.
Obama/Biden 2012
DE Akron, I believe you're confusing education with intelligence which is something Palin lacks. Some people can spend their whole live being educated and still not be smart enough to fix themselves a meal. Believe me when I say this because we had to give IQ exams for a job placement and we had many college grads that could not pass the test yet we had high school dropouts that passed. Just because you're educated, it does not make you smart
waaa waaa waaa. gingrich is a baby.. he does nothing but cry about everything.. its all right when hes on top, but its a problems with everything when he's not.. what a dummy, if nothing else good can be said of these republicans, atleasts an overwhelming majority of them got it right when it comes to him.. at least for now..
Yeah, just like most of her supporters.
Between being Speaker of the House and his many years in that political system, he was definitely one of the key players that built the system we have and would have had considerable input if he had tried changing it.
Criticisms he has against the same system he was so instrumental in preserving doesn't say much good about his past tenure in D.C. and doesn't give much hope for how he would perform as President.
"Newt said he will get his delegates on the moon"
Larry,
Intelligence and education does have a relationship. You can improve your IQ with education. But, if you do not have enough IQ, you will not be able to attain some level of education at some point.
Typically that is why a 4 year degree takes an IQ of 120 - 125. The average US IQ is currently 106. Knowing this, isn't Obama's everyone should have the opportunity to go to college kind of silly? Especially, if you really want to go to college and have enough intelligence, you can as exemplified by Palin going Paygo.
"The GOP hay days are over because of the Tea Retards"
bicfj - who is obstructing is a matter perspective, and a function of our government built in to keep government from rushing too quickly toward ANY EXTREME.
Wow, Gingrich calling the GOP stupid and claiming the Democrats are better at governing because they 'enjoy it'?
People, there's only one factual reality here. Our elected representatives and the parties and groups that control and support them are 100% effective at one thing. They represent and reflect the mind, will, and capabilities of the voting majority of our citizens. Don't worry about changing governments, parties, or officials. Focus on changing the education, ethics, and understanding of our population. That's the only way out of this mess. Until the people want to change themselves, they have no right to ask their representatives to change in their place.
There is a big difference between being smart and wise. Newt is neither.
Gingrich has had more than his 15 minutes with a campaign that was never going to go anywhere...and NOW he complains that it's just too tough? That the big bad media aren't being "fair" after actually begin absurd enough to claim the President has control over gasoline prices at the pump (just because his uneducated followers will believe him)?? Well...waaaahhhhhh.....back to making a fortune as an "historian."
DB: Palin and education in the same sentence? Seriously? The same Sarah Palin who didn't know North and South Korea were separate countries?
"...the candidate of science and technology.”
“We are at the edge of such extraordinary opportunities and it is so hard to get this party to understand it,”
So he's the guy that will get the Rebublican party understanding science? They don't even believe in it!
Gingrich: Voters are stupid, vote for me.
D is for Dumb & B is for Bagger, DB=Dumb Bagger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The American people think Gingrich is stupid and should get out of the race.
DB Akron, President Obama is more intelligent than any of the GOP running. They cannot hold a candle to him. And, your analogy is just totally wrong. Palin studied journalism but learned nothing. She cannot participate in an intelligent discussion as evidenced during the debates. Please - that all ya got?
And Obama never said everyone should have a college education. He said they should have access to higher education - which for some people would be a trade school, etc.
Ursula-279622
Science and technology are great subjects, but it's the economy, stupid!
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But the two are definitely connected. Investing in scientific research can lead to the creation of new technologies which in turn will lead to the creation of more jobs.
I actually agree with Gingrich, the political system is deeply, deeply stupid. Instead of discussing policy candidate would rather pander and pretend which one of them is a bigger fan of cheese grits! Though we honestly can't blame the candidates themselves, the media loves to focus on trivialities and banalities and opps moments and image, not substance. But even then we can't fully blame the media since they are driven by ratings about all other things. If more people cared about policy discussions and substance, we would have less focus on the superficial.
Sadly the political culture mirrors the culture at large and what do you expect for a culture that currently celebrates stupidity, ignorance, superficiality, etc. as virtues?
Newt is smart and he can be very persuasive when he wants to be.
But he is such an egotistical megalomaniac.
He doesn't seem to have any moral compass in any of his life's quests - just whatever he has to do to achieve his goal.
What's the definition of a sociopath?
I don't care if it would help this candidate or that candidate if he stays in - I just want this guy out.
Realist wants a real dicsussion, OK, economy, gas prices, I would like to hear Newt's plan for 2.50 gas. I haven't heard it yet. Is he keeping it a secret until after he's elected? What a traitor.
... and continuing his campaign pitch to the kindergarten constituency, Mr. Gingrich went on to add that Rick Santorum was a "poopy head," and that Mitt Romney "has kooties"
Newt, that's the first intelligent thing I've heard you say.
Not that it will get you very far.
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stupid is as stupid does
And DB is a prime example with his 4 degrees.
He is SO right. Any political system that wastes time, money, and bandwidth allowing Newt to pretend to be a serious contender IS stupid.
So - the system that has worked for almost 236 years and made the United States of America so great is "stupid" simply because it doesn't give a tired, mean, disgraced wind-bag what he wants? It was the rise of the likes of Newt and Rush in the late '80's and early '90's that brought the Republican party to where it is today - petty, vile and incompetent. Last time I checked, Reagan, whether you agreed with him or not, was quite adept at working within this "stupid" system.
Here's a thought - maybe ALL Americans take issue with electing a man that was forced to resign as Speaker of the House and married a woman that is, by all true definitions of the term, a real slut.
One has to admire his untrammeled arrogance. In effect he says, "I'm so smart nobody can understand me.".
I have to admit, anybody who can get Freddie Mac to pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to work in the capacity as an "historian", must know something most of the liberal arts professors at major universities have never discovered.
When questioned about what he did to earn some $300,000 in 2006, he says he offered the management advice, which they failed to heed. Apparently he was to smart for those people too.
The man is a 3 ring circus act all on his own.
This man needs to be institutionalized imo.
http://howthehellshouldiknow-wallyworld.blogspot.com/2011/11/gingrich-is-stupid-mans-idea-of-what.html
Newt thinks everybody else is stupid, or biased. That is his problem. In fact, while claiming to have positive ideas, he has been the most negative candidate in the race.
“The thing I find most disheartening about this campaign is the difficulty of talking about positive ideas on a large scale because the news media can’t cover it and candidly, my opponents can’t comprehend it,”
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Since he just called his opponents stupid, I think you may be right. Does he even listen to himself when he talks?
I wonder if Newt Gingrich has any clue how ridiculous he sounds with this crap? Delusional, egotistical, and out of touch.
Actually, I think his point is that it is unfortunate that no one is required to have any brains to vote or be a member of the press. Having listened to the questions in the debate it is clear that the "media" has no real interest in educating people about the important issues that face us. Why? Because everyone one of the issues deals with the obvious failures of the Obama administration. Well, I should clarify that. If you want America to succeed and be the superpower of the world, and thus have the sole word on deciding the issues that face Americans, then you would feel that Obama has failed. If you believe that the United States is evil and should be put in it's place, then you probably think Obama is a rousing success.
Let's face it, it's hard to have an intelligent conversation with someone who isn't intelligent. Personally, I would have loved to see all of the repub candidates take every question asked during the debates and concentrate on the differences between them and Obama. Oh, and also point out that the premise of a lot of the questions require people to live in la la land.
The bottom line is that the economy is in terrible straights. The Constitution is in danger of being obsolete and everything we do is only with the good grace of the wise politicians. Not much difference than the discussions taking place by the socialist left media that are shocked that Santorum won the vote of conservative women in the south. I'm still trying to figure out if the "mainstream" media is stupid or if they are just intentionally playing dumb. Having listened to the libs regarding blacks, gays, women, and all that regarding the economy, it seems that the libs assume that you have to be stupid if you don't want the government to take care of you. Oh, and of course the idea of taking responsibility for yourself is so archaic that you must be prejudiced against blacks.
I just have to wonder if there is anyone left who doesn't understand that Newt is simply Romney's wingman. He is now and always has been there to split the conservative faction of the GOP.
“We cannot be a normal party. If we run a normal campaign trying to govern within the framework of the current system we have no future because people would rather have Democrats do it, they at least enjoy it,” he said.
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The attitude you take towards doing something means a lot.
If you like it, you'll get a lot of out of it, and do constructive things with it -- so that it not just helps you, but helps others as well. I find this to be a common attitude amongst cosmopolitan liberals and positive, compassionate individuals.
If you hate it -- expect nothing but negativity, fear, cynicism, disrespect and destruction, to the point that it only serves yourself at the expense of others. Sort of sums up the mentality of the Republican Tea Party, eh?
He sounds like he's talking sense, but he really isn't--what's he been doing up till now? The exact opposite if you ask me.
Radiko you summed it up with the tea party comment...
Newt is "a stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like." He now is starting to sound like he has figured out there aren't quite enough stupid votes, split 3 ways in the Repulbican party to get him nominated, so he is saying he has to act outside of the system.
He admits the people are behind the Democrats:
"If we run a normal campaign trying to govern within the framework of the current system we have no future because people would rather have Democrats do it"
Is he advocating turning against the system of government, "of the people, by the people, and for the people"?
How currently Republican of him. But the best Republican ever said otherwise:
"government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
-Lincoln
Newt and the current batch of Republicans need to go home and ten to their own gardens. The people, who value liberty, have grown tired of them.
Sorry - the negativity title belongs to Romney, not Newt. You just see Newt negatively in the first place
Romney uses over 90% negative adds and outadvertises Newt 6 - 1. Santorum is advertised 10 - 1.
OBAMA / 2012 "Guaranteed" No other way !
DB: if you can't stand the heat...you don't belong in the kitchen. For a guy who has spent decades in Washington and is one of it's most cyncial and negative players to suddenly find his morals is a bit sickening to anyone who has been paying attention...
You don't get to be the science candidate when you don't believe evolution or climate change.
Well Played...You could debate this ego-maniac...
You don't have critical thinking when you don't consider all theories without investigating.
Exactly my thoughts. Newt and science don't even go together. Newt talks about "changing Washington", he helped create whats wrong with Washington. Everytime he gets asked a question he doesn't like he blames the "elite media".
Yea, which none of the denialists do. They just assume they know more than those with PHDs in the field.
Intelligent Design isn't a valid theory. Science based on religion isn't science.
In any case, yes. You should consider information, scientific articles and such before you decide you back a certain scientific principle or theory.
So what you are saying is Newt hasn't to this point come to a decision on Evolution and Climate Change? It seems Conservatives turn away from valid science (or raise a call that there is some vast conspiracy that fudges the science) whenever its something that inconveniences them.
Evolution can be proven scientifically. A Scientific Theory is defined as an over arching framework that makes sense of otherwise disconnected observations. See the Theory of Gravity.
Ruken, my kids go to a private school. They get the full teaching of ALL the theories. Then as a final teaching, they teach what the strengths and flaws of each. It is the secular side that is short sighted, and not teaching everything. Talking about the others is limited to this is what is wrong with creation, and worse yet, they haven't actually researched the Bible to know the difference between what is popular belief about creationism and what actually IS creationism.
A lot of the Western beliefs in creationism are unfortunately flawed because translating to English is severly flawed from both Hebrew and Greek. Worse yet, Science only understands the Bible on even a shallower understanding than the average Christians.
"Newt said that his Party is Controlled by the 1% and he will put a stop to that, is Newt coming down to Earth from the Moonshine" ?
Newt's just upset that his billionaire won't give as much as the Koch brothers.
DB Your kids get taught all the theories?? What theory is there of god?? christianity?? the theory of belief in invisible sky people? You are full of it.
Who are we to argue on this one. If anyone knows stupid inside out it is Newt.
Porky has attitude problems. No one understands him or his third wife who loves baubles from Tiffany's like all middle class Americans struggling to make ends meet.
They pas a health care plan and don't even know what is in it?
You do know that most of the "Affordable Care Act" were Republicans ideas, right? So why don't you like it?
Until you need a kidney bypass, a valve bypass, of some other bypass to fix a genetic problem. Accidents and genetic issues, regardless of how you live your clean life, will happen to some. You suggest let them die - most say treat them.
Myboys
You're still on your parents insyrance?
People who say this are usually too young to have ever needed a major medical procedure.
Thomas
You are very mis-informed. After the right wing think tank proposed that for a government sponsored health program will not work unless their is a public mandate, the think tank realized that a public mandate would be unconstitutional.
What the Democrats have done is made something law that is unconstitutional and tried to make it look constitutional. To accomplish this, they really have to play football english and legal terms.
DB Akron
It seems to be constitutional in Massachusetts.
So now DB you are using the line that "they were for it before they were against it". LMAO You guys are desperate huh. And if it's unconstitutional, then so is Medicare ,we don't get a choice in that now do we? MANDATED. And I believe the Supreme Court has already ruled on that one, guess they will need to revisit that huh. So is the mortgage interest deduction since it works basically the same way, have a house, get a deduction, don't have a house, you don't get a deduction. And the child tax credit, yep, that's the same as well, have a kid, get a deduction. no kids, no deduction. And SS, since it is also mandated. now birght guy, you tell me, ready to give up all the other "mandates"?
Christians are supposed to be kind and caring for those less fortunate as per Jesus's words and the words of Mark, Luke, and Matthew. What happened?
Think about this: The Constitution was mainly written and signed by White Men who were Rich and Owned Property, and (many) were Slave Owners. The words "Of the People", "By the People", and "For the People" meant people like themselves (remember that Slaves, Native Americans, WOMEN, and many other classifications were not allowed to vote, and in many cases, not allowed to own property. That is why so many Amendments were added to the Original Constitution. Yet many people today praise the Original Version without the Amendments. The question is Why remove the Amendments?
Because they pick and choose writings by John Adams and the Federalist papers like they choose individual verses our of the Bible to justify anything they want to do.
Hey myboyscanswim,
If you were rich enough to afford ANY medical procedure without losing your shirt, then you wouldn't be on MSNBC running your mouth. You're just another big-mouth American that doesn't understand anything until it happens to YOU!
"myboys..." your "boys" aren't actually swimming...it's just easier to float on the pool of your crap.
We do not let people die simply because they are poor in this country. If someone can not pay for their ER visit, the government picks up the tab. Maybe one of your floating boys can explain to you how much money that is costing the averege tax payer every year.
Swimming or not, you should probably swallow.
Newt should wear a sign around his head with one word on it ... STUPID! If he really thinks that he is going to be the next President of these United States of America ... he is exceptionally STUPID!
Newt ... Where's Your Sign?
Not stupid, Arrogant.
every campaign dollar spent by republican candidates is a dollar spent to help re-elect obama. obama is sure getting alot of bang from their buck. not one of them has a message that remotely connects with american voters. newt spends $500k on jewelry---santorum would have a pulpit erected in oval office----and romney has friends who own nascar and nfl teams. just your average bunch of american guys-at least this bunch doesn't include ''someone you'd most like to have a beer with''---we all know how that turned out.
Arrogant=Liberal code for "I am not smart enough to debate this person, so I must call him a name."
Great point mike. The left works very dilligently to redefine terms to what they want them to mean. This is how they gain center stage and keep it.
Mike-1499840:
Stupid=conservative code for one being too arrogant to admit defeat
Mike: Jackass = Far Right Republican or Far Right Libertarian-Republican.
From a Moderate Independent who realizes that both parties have a long way to go. Vote for the "LESSER EVIL" regardless of Party.
"LESSER EVIL" That would be the Dem's !
That sputtering airplane engine sound you are hearing is the sound of the republican ticket crashing under their own Arrogant weight.
What Newt remains totally oblivious to is the fact that Dems and may Repubs alike really hate him and don't give a rat's ass about anything he has to say. Why? His ego is so big that he can't see the real world from beyond his nose.
I'm a Progressive who would covet the opportunity for there to be a serious one-on-one debate between Obama and Santorum, who appears to be the most strident standard bearer for the right wing of the Republican party.
Get out of the way, Newt!
While both democrats and republicans don't like him, his negative rating is only 45%. You only need 50%+1 in a 2 person race to win.
jackbnimble1--santorum doesn't know the difference between speech and preach. we are looking for intelligent leadership qualities in a candidate. his religious beliefs are of no interest to me.
They will be when Santorum starts legislating his specific brand of morality from his particular reading of the bible.
I'll always vote for the guy who tells me I'm too stupid to understand him!
rotfl!
Newt as “the candidate of science and technology” is entirely laughable.
Newt's derisive comments on evolution, climate change, stem cell research and research into alternative energy (yes, even algae) demonstrate he is incapable of being "the candidate of science and technology".
Granted, he's not as fence-post dumb as Ick Santorum ("Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is"), but then that's not a very high threshold to exceed.
We all know Newt's scientific experience .. test the hypothesis repeatedly. That is how he explains going from car to car for a 'quick duck' for so called 'jobs'. in his fervor of 'loving his country'.
And anyone who knows history will attest that Newt doesn't.
Actually Newt subscribes to Climate change to a degree. One of his good friends who was supposed to write a chapter about it in his latest book, but it got nixed because climate change doesn't fly in the right wing.
DB - You are really quite impressed with your own intellect (arrogant). Good for you and your college education and your kids private school and your rather confused streaming of words and ideas. Newt could probably learn quite a bit from you. The fact that you tout Palins BS in Journalism is pretty humorous considering she said she couldn't remember what magazines and newspapers she read. Newt is an arrogant cry baby who thinks the reason he is a loosing is because the system is stupid instead of the fact that he is out of touch with what really matters to the average American with a brain.
“Our political system is so methodically and deliberately stupid.”
^ Newt's hilarious. If you don't vote for him, it's because you're stupid. :)
You need to wear a sign, just like Newts.
ScommaG - you are taking it wrong. He is clearly not saying the people are stupid, he is saying the system is stupid. You should be more upset that he should think he is smarter than the founders were.
Db: he wasn't talking about the system the founders created...He's talking about the system of delegates awarded in each state that exists now to his current great disadvantage...(as though ANY system short of awarding delegates based on pound weight would be to his adantage).
Either way....how can we possibly vote for Newt using such a stupid system? I feel very strongly that a vote for Newt would actually be an insult to his intelligence. We'd better not vote for Newt...
Paul Krugman nailed Newt Gingrich when he said,
"Newt Gingrich is what stupid people think smart people sound like."
That's it in a nutshell...
Ha!
Has anyone noticed an increase in global warming since this blowhard has been gassing away? When I first heard his name in this primary season, I was confused- didn't he go away a long time ago? I'm no Republican, certainly not an automatic one, but he is a whole 'nother level of ridiculous. Of course, I could be persuaded by $2.50/gallon gas, and a moon colony.
Newt, "We are in the business of changing Washington, not being accepted by it."
In other words, go against the grain, stir the pot, make them notice, make them mad, makes then think we're doing something.
and if he was going to "change Washington"...wouldn't you think he'd have done it all those years he was there and in power?
Newt wants to be the candidate of science and technology.
The problem with that is he belongs to the party of mysticism and ignorance. Whenever science presents an idea that goes against religious dogma, or is inconvenient to the profit margin, science is cast aside, ridiculed and treated with suspicion.
Seems Nuitsance is under some pressure tonight.
No Newt, it's the same government & political system Reagan worked with for 8 years.. Quit crying loser, you are no Ronald Reagan!
"Newt is having gas pains"
Newt spent his career as Speaker of the House as a divisive, carpet bombing Congressman and now he expects everyone to hang onto his every word? Oh. My. God. PS As an Obama supporter I LOVE THIS!
And I am positive it would take a large scale to weigh his ass.
I can't express how fun it was to see what he's saying tonight. It's just the beginning of the end.
Let's have a REAL conversation, Newt!
His biggest issue is that he was Romney Bombed in the beginning and will never ever get over it.
Never again get a chance at the total revenge he planned.
Romney total annihilation policy / FAILED!
Epic Fail complete with facepalm!!
Newt is such a smart guy. The rest of us are so stupid we just can not divorce our wives, charge other with infidelity while having an affair himself
Worst, we just simply do not forget these details.
Next to go crying is Santorum. That will be even more rewarding.
"Santorum is a disease"
What I really love is when Obama throws Palin a bone and she comes after it.
She wants to debate him now!
That would be comedy writing itself..Like Game change...It is a serious movie in one aspect but her serious is comedy..
Palin will not do anything unless she gets royally paid for it.
"Palin can see Russia from her back yard"
ya, and Putin's seeing her from his.
So to sum up, Romney is just not a strong enough candidate to have rolled over these guys yet, but eventually it's Romney vs. Obama... ?
When he was asked about Limbaugh's remarks on Fluke, and he instead first went on a tirade about how the "liberal elite media" always fixes his questions instead of asking him what he wants - never mind that it was a national issue at the moment (and also, if you're president, and you get bombed, what are you going to do? say that isn't the event you wanted to answer, and that the "liberal elite terrorists" is fixing your presidency?) - and these remarks about the elite media, and "science and technology," and the system is stupid, and things like that; it seems like he's just throwing random things at the wall and seeing what'll stick, to try and make some sort of soundbite that might rile up people to support him again, like he did so well at the debates before South Carolina.
Exactly what he is doing...But it isn't getting the attention that helps his polling...In other words no new votes..