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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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Old Newty:
84 ethics violation
50 inch waist size
3 wives
2 religions
1 primary win (other than home state)
1/2 his brains in his d**k
0 principles
and he kinda looks like a weeble.
Newt kinda looks like an angry bulldog.
Newt looked at his child all grown up and said the kid is stupid...love a guy hoisted on his own petard..
I am sure a lot of us watched Pres. Obama fill out his NCAA tourney bracket on ESPN. What didn't receive as much attention was the Republican candidates response to ESPN asking them to fill out a bracket:
Gingrich - This is stupid. The liberal media has already decided who they think will win and ranked the teams. A team that scores only one less point than another shouldn't really be considered the loser, they still accumulated a lot of points.
Santorum - I can't participate in this unnatural act, it is another example of the war on religion. The NCAA is mandating that religous institutions (catholic universities) play on the sabbath which is clearly against their principles. But at least they don't let women play.
Romney - I don't know much about basketball, but I do have several friends who own NBA teams!
Paul - what was the question again? Oh, I don't think the NCAA has the right to decide a national championship, I think such things are better left to the individual states. Why, back in my day......
LOL
Look who's calling anything stupid..where's Forrest Gump when you need him?
Oh, and Newt, there is a reason people want Democrats running the system: Because your ilk has proven time and time again that they cant handle that responsibility. With the unfounded wars, the massive debt inflation, and the tendency to give their super rich friends unwarranted tax breaks, the people simply dont trust your kind to do anything right.
It's amazing what blind, conditioned bias will do - to both sides of the argument on this page. Those of you with such hateful polarized views are no different than the students of the Madrassa. Brain washed, all of you!
It will probably take another awful Pearl Harbor or 911 to bring out rational Americans who, god-forbid, can tolerate, negotiate and accomplish something with those of opposing views and relegate the extremists among you all - back to your occupy encampments and trailers.
Please. Right wing @!$%#s made it a point to ride their ideals on the wave of sentiment after 9-11, effectively using our biggest national tragedy as a political stump and a springboard to unjustified war. Another massive attack will just give them another excuse to scare the bejesus out of the american public for another 10 years.
Republicans are indeed professionals when it comes to spreading as much fear and hate as possible.
Excuse me P&V, the 2nd biggest national trajedy (after the Civil War) which you are heading us towards again) started at Pearl Harbor. There were equally clueless right-wing P&Vs claiming the same thing then with FDR - as you do now.
Excuse me Imusok, stop your dramatics about "heading us into another civil war". Just say it, you are a republican trying desperately to defend them without actually admitting you are one of them. Gee, why on earth would you not be willing to admit that? LOL
I just love his $2.50 a gallon gas pledge. I can see him now - marching into Chevron headquarters to spearhead the rollback. Like the President really has the power to do anything about gas prices... LOL
seriously.
I WOULD like to see congress lift the massive subsidies the oil companies get every year. It might raise the price, but at least those @!$%#s wouldnt be getting my money twice for the same product.
Amen
Gas prices have gone up under EVERY President.
which makes it even more ridiculous when he promises things like $2.50 a gallon gas.
Newt lives in Newt-fantasy-land, a place where he is a genius and everyone ELSE is stupid, and his half-cocked, badly concieved ideas are actually gems of wisdom to be dropped on the public.
Pissed, when you say massive subsidies, can you also detail what those are and the amounts the companies get?
Here ya go
Exhibit 28-6
Estimated Federal Government Taxpayer Subsidies as a Share of Total U.S. Consumer Spending in 2006*
Energy SourceFederal Taxpayer SubsidiesTotal Energy U.S. Consumer SpendingTotal Spending on Energy SourceFederal Taxpayer Subsidies as a Percent of Total Spending
Oil and Gas**
$3,502,732,143
$772,404,554,400
$775,907,286,543
0.5%
Coal
$2,754,908,000
$37,228,867,200
$39,983,775,200
6.9%
Nuclear
$1,187,426,000
$4,506,192,000
$5,693,618,000
20.9%
Subtotal Nonrenewable
$7,445,066,143
$814,139,613,600
$821,584,679,743
0.9%
Ethanol
$4,708,277,549
$13,082,400,000
$17,790,677,549
26.5%
Biodiesel
$92,315,835
$840,350,000
$932,665,835
9.9%
Wind
$457,924,289
$3,502,105,629
$3,960,029,918
11.6%
Solar
$382,756,318
$2,731,644,481
$3,114,400,799
12.3%
Hydroelectric power
$295,234,608
$56,123,748,494
$56,418,983,102
0.5%
Biomass
$209,641,875
$50,421,528,417
$50,631,170,292
0.4%
Geothermal
$29,158,534
$5,825,057,818
$5,854,216,352
0.5%
Subtotal Renewables
$6,175,309,008
$132,526,834,839
$138,702,143,847
4.5%
Total Subsidies
$13,620,375,151
$946,666,448,439
$960,286,823,590
1.4%
*Federal fiscal years run from October 1 to September 30.
**‘Oil and gas’ includes natural gas production, crude oil production and natural gas plant liquids production
Well....guess what Newt...... YOU'RE part of the "stupid" system!!
"HERE'S YER SIGN!"
The stupidest thing is that Gingrich is even in the race. Even stupider are the people who would vote for him.
Palin's endorsing Newt. Enough said.
Wow, this guys ego knows no bounds. He cannot fathom as to why he cannot win. To Mr. Newt Gingrich: YOU WILL NEVER, EVER BE PRESIDENT!!! Get over it and go home. But don't worry the same can be said about your two other idiots.
OBAMA 2012 / DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS 2012
Geez Newt, there's a reason why nobody's listening to you. Everything you say is stupid. And you look stupid after announcing you were going to be the nominee a couple months ago, after winning ONE primary. Unfortunately, everything about you is pretty stupid.
The GOP and their candidates keep digging a deeper hole in their dreams to win the White House. One good thing about their three stooges is it's great comedy material.
i have 2 sons and 1 daughter. 2 of them used to cry and call things stupid when they did not get their way. newt, go to your room and hasve a time out. what a loser, whining because the american citizens do not want him to be our leader. good decision america. now lets work on santorum. you have to google santorum by the way.
As a historical scholar I respect Gingrich. He has a keen mind and many of his ideas, when fully conceived are actually great ideas but too often he runs ahead of his ideas, giving them as half conceived, ill fitted to the discussion at hand rants. Gingrich simply will not win this election and there is very little he can do to change that. I respect anyone who stays in a fight, even when he is losing because the fight is just but in this case, for conservatives especially the fight is not about changing the way we do politics, or the way the party system works, or the way the elections work.. It is about removing Obama from office because his ideas represent a direct threat to conservatism and under his watch this country has slipped closer to the precipice than ever before. This is the same problem Ron Paul has. He (and Gingrich) want to fundamentally change our nation (just in the opposite direction of Obama) at a time when the wild winds are blowing to hard to change the course of our ship of state. To continue with the sailing analogy if we try to change course now the wind will tear our sails apart and sink us. We need a firm hand to guide us through the storm until the storm breaks and we can then change course and make safe harbor. Gingrich is not that man, nor is Paul.
It is about removing Obama from office because his ideas represent a direct threat to conservatism and under his watch this country has slipped closer to the precipice than ever before.
I honestly don't see which precipice you are referring to. I understand that a conservative will never support Obama or agree with his policies but I think we have crept back from the precipice of the chasm created by the "tax cut and spend", free-reign capitalism, and cowboy diplomacy of the Bush years.
TN, we still have those same tax cuts, but we are spending much, much more than before. We've implemented a program (PPACA) that will not save money for the government, but will cost a great deal more than was projected - to understand this to be true, all you need to do is look at all other large goverment programs (SS, Medicare, Medicaid) for examples of how they have well overrun the projections. We have an energy policy that does not believe int he internal combustion engine - he only way to "energy independence" is through green energy. These types of things, I believe, are what Candlewyke is referring to bring us to the precipice.
“Our political system is so methodically and deliberately stupid.”
When Gingrich has an epiphany of this nature, we can conclude he has finally recognized the ridiculous political structure of the GOP, you know, the GOP he helped create.
Newt just wants to be in the limelight......the bad news for Newt is....somebody is going to turn off his limelight forever (politically speaking)......and right soon.............in the meantime.....it's let stick it to Romney time for all Newt's (wife's) is worth...........good luck with that!
That's right Newt. Any system that does not recognize you are superior to the rest of us and crown you king, both here and on the moon must be stupid. What an egotistical a-hole.
what a soar looser
Gingrich is quintessentially GOPeaparty:
If prisoners won't tell you what you want to hear, torture them until they do.
If too many are voting democrat, change voting laws to prevent them from voting.
If working people demand more for their services, outlaw their organizations (labor unions).
If (environmental) science threatens profits, deny the data and disparage the scientists.
If you are losing in the GOP primary race, declare the system is "stupid".
Oh well, what else should we expect from the (G)randiose (O)ligarch (P)arty ?
its kinda sad how accurate your examples are.
If lies are told ofen enough, they are thought of as facts. I'll presume you are referring to voter ID as changing voting laws which prevent people from voting democrat. Do you have any data to back up your assertion that 1) it only affects those who would vote democrat and 2) that there has been any real negative impact on voting.
Your idea about voter ID is akin to concealed carry scare tactics: It will be like the wild west with shootings in the streets by all the people carrying.
Bookem' Danno.....you said:
Yes.....the experiences of about 90 years with Jim Crow laws. (See: http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/intro/intro_b.php) Apparently, like adolescents, you folks think that simply denying what you are up to is sufficient.
Why wouldn't it be (like the wild west)? Do you seriously believe people have fundamentally changed that much? Just those several right-wingers that showed up at democrat political events with firearms answers that question (negatively). Several other recent incidents come to mind.
You folks are merely another temporary obstacle in humanity's long march out of despotism and tyranny. As usual, liberals are leading the way.
Stupid only if your in next to last place.
He's right, in a way. Anyone who would vote for him or for Santorum has got to be incredibly stupid!
Remove the narcissism, politics, and partisanship from his comments and you have the following truths:
“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"
“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.”
“We are at the edge of such extraordinary opportunities and it is so hard to get this party to understand it,”---perhaps if both parties weren't so busy attacking science, books, and education they would have a chance.
“Our political system is so methodically and deliberately stupid.”
“We are miserable at trying to govern"
Just the tip of the iceberg of why Democracy and freedom in America has lost its way.
I agree with most of your points.
We can't have a serious bi-partisan discussion about real issues because politicians in both parties too afraid of alienating their base. The primary system at all levels sometimes leads to the worst candidates being nominated for office.
These "polarized" candidates if elected then don't know how to govern and put the best interests of the country ahead of their own political agendas, becasue if they do they will lose the next primary to a (respectively) more liberal or conservative candidate.
“Our political system is so methodically and deliberately stupid.”
Gee, Newt, you liked it just fine when it worked in your favor.
Gingrinch needs to be more right. Like santorum. Attack hispanics, women, voters rights. He needs to move more right in mr grover's array of puppets. In the end it will not matter. Mr grover and the upper 1% will be calling the shots like they did with the bushman. Superpac.
Yup Newt, Just plain stupid, All of this stuff about voting and minorites, and women,,,,,,,,,How can anyone possibly run a decent campaign if you have to have "ideas" and make people like you for them