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Eminentoes
Motivational Speaker
Newt Gingrich’s gift of gab has helped propel him to the forefront of the Republican presidential field.
The historian Newt Gingrich was wrapping up a history lesson reminding South Carolina Republicans of his political accomplishments. “You’re right, I think grandiose thoughts,” he concluded. “This is a grandiose country of big people doing big things and we need leadership prepared to take on big projects.”
It is tempting to ridicule the Bigness of Newt, as Rick Santorum did in eliciting this immodest soliloquy from the former House speaker. “Grandiosity has never been a problem with Newt Gingrich,” Santorum cracked. “He handles it very well.” Gingrich’s grandiosity is starting to wear well with a Republican primary electorate tired of the small-ball conservative initiatives of the Bush years or the calculated banality of scripted Mitt Romney.
Gingrich follows no script. Instead he follows an adage: Go big or go home. When his campaign was broke, when his aides were defecting en masse to frontrunner du jour Rick Perry (remember him?), when the Washington journalists had all filed their political obituaries, it looked like Gingrich was going to go home. Now he is bigger than ever, coming off a decisive victory in South Carolina and threatening to win Florida next.
How fitting that Gingrich once bore the title of speaker. With free media and a little cash from his friend Sheldon Adelson, Gingrich has literally talked his way to the front of the Republican race. He puts debate moderators in their place. He tells his opponents to cut the “pious baloney.” He promises to out-argue Barack Obama in a series of “Lincoln-Douglas-style” debates, becoming the first articulate GOP nominee since Ronald Reagan.
Fittingly, Gingrich tried to channel Reagan when he acknowledged the role debates have played in his dramatic campaign turnaround. “People completely misunderstand what is going on,” Gingrich said in his relatively subdued South Carolina victory speech. “It is not that I am a good debater, it’s just that I articulate the deeply held values of the American people.” Reagan said he was less a Great Communicator than a communicator of great things.
Rhetorically, Gingrich actually owes little to Reagan’s style (though he does borrow famous quotes from the 40th president, such as “We win, they lose”). Gingrich is a cross between Tony Robbins and Spiro Agnew. Like any motivational speaker, Gingrich has his list of the five things you must understand or the three ideas that will “fundamentally transform” Washington. Candidly and frankly, nothing can be merely be changed. It must be changed profoundly and fundamentally.
Like any self-improvement guru, Gingrich promises to empower his listeners to take their lives back. If only Newt is allowed to lighten the load of bureaucracy or deliver government services at the speed of a fiber optic cable or give inner-city youths jobs as janitors or outsource immigration and naturalization to American Express. In just three easy steps, paid for in five monthly installments, you can reclaim your party, your government, and your country.
In the self-help world, the enemy is usually complacency or self-doubt. The enemies standing in the way of grandiose thoughts and grandiose dreams are less abstract. That’s where the comparison to Tony Robbins ends and Spiro Agnew begins. Gingrich is running against Saul Alinsky radicals, media and political elites, Washington and New York City, “anti-religious bigots,” and people who want to turn America into some third-rate rip-off of a financially, morally bankrupt European welfare state.
To some people, this kind of talk sounds over the top. Many liberals detect sinister dogwhistling when Gingrich calls Obama (who is black) the “food stamp president” or takes Juan Williams (who is black!) to task on a racially charged issue at a Southern debate.
But Gingrich isn’t George Wallace, as much as he may share the latter’s disdain for “pointy-headed bureaucrats.” Gingrich was a Nelson Rockefeller backer in 1968 because he supported the civil rights movement. He has generally been squarely within the Jack Kemp “rising tides lifts all the boats” tradition of the Republican Party (unless the tide rose because of Bain Capital). He believes all Americans, black or white, prefer paychecks to foodstamps. His ideological color-blindness blinds him to the possibility that anything he says could be racially offensive, even when expounding on the “Kenyan anti-colonial” mindest that allegedly pervades the president’s garden-variety liberalism.
Millions of Americans see Hollywood, Washington, and New York forming not an axis of evil, but certainly an alliance of elites — to use Gingrich’s word — who have contempt for people like them. That’s why they rallied to Sarah Palin when liberals made fun of her. But unlike Palin, when Gingrich fights back against those who sneer at him he is glib enough to beat them at their own game.
Last night’s debate to some extent probed the weak underbelly of Gingrich’s campaign. Between the triumph of the 1994 election and his embarrassing exit from the speakership four years later, Gingrich often talked a better game than he played. His big ideas may not withstand scrutiny. Do you want a local board in Berkeley, California deciding which illegal aliens can remain in America? Where in the Constitution does the president or Congress have the authority to hire school janitors?
But for now, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Newt Gingrich has something to say that resonates with the Silent Majority. He is speaking for them and the Republican establishment is going to have a hard time shutting him up.
About the Author
W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.
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ImForNewt| 1.24.12 @ 6:52AM
You're darned right. He's saying what we want to hear and he's saying it with conviction! He has the tenacity and strength to take on obama and tear him to shreds in a debated. I want to see King ask obama some personal questions about his past. How about his commie buddies and his rev, wright preacher. No? Oh well, When it comes to talking about the debt, foreign policty and the amount of folks on food stamps, Barry will loose and be standing there with egg all over his silly face.
Mr ED| 1.24.12 @ 7:24AM
I have been very suspicious and leery of Gingrich since he did the climate change commercial with Pelosi, but you have to admit that he can be as well spoken as anyone in the public arena today. That he can think on his feet and has some intellectual firepower puts him almost in a class by himself, at least on the Republican side. Add to that the fact that he will actually GIVE VOICE TO CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPALS - at least he will right now - and not be intimidated by the Lib media scum into gordian knots of contradictory nonsense, trying to appease the false premises and accusations of the Libscum, also puts him in a class by himself.
Jack in Wi.| 1.24.12 @ 7:41AM
Lets nominate Rush Limbaugh. He is about as electable as Newt. The vast majority of the country will never vote for Newt. He is being pushed by the most extreme elements in the Zionist movement, who are dumping many millions into his campaign. More of our laundered foreeign aid money being used to sunvert the american political class. As far as I am concerned Newt belongs in prison next to Jonathon Pollard, who he has promised to pardon.
Vern Crisler| 1.24.12 @ 9:46AM
Ah, it's the fault of the Joos again.
IzeHavitt| 1.25.12 @ 2:31AM
Eddie.....you're getting there.
Jack in Wi.| 1.24.12 @ 7:34AM
Newt plays well with about 1 third of the shrinking minority of the Republican base or about 8% of the population. He is poison to Independents, young people, disaffected democrats and most women. The only good thing Gingrich is doing is making sure there will finally be a viable 3rd party, if by some fluke he became the Republican nominee. His lies, flip flops, personal immorality and corruption make him unelectable and unaccceptable to most americans. He has zero chance to carry Wi. and most of the upper mid west. He would destroy the ticket in this state. Any pro war Republican would. 70% of the people in this country want out of these wars and no wars with Iran and Pakistan.
Jeremiah Smirking| 1.24.12 @ 7:40AM
Wow. Jack didn't mention Ron Paul once! Oh wait... he did mention that 'viable' turd party.
Jack in Wi.| 1.24.12 @ 7:48AM
Ron Paul in a poll released yesterday would get about 18% of the vote in a 3 way race with Mitt Romney getting about 32%. Without us you can't win anything. If Newt is the nominee look for Ron or Rand Paul to double that and be breathing down Obama's back. Ron Paul has already won. No prowar Repubican has a chance to be elected in this country. If Romney got the nomination. I would expect to see him start quoting Mohandes Gandi.
Doorgunner| 1.24.12 @ 10:58AM
" Without us you can't win anything."
Wrong. Without Nazi's we win our humanity and self-respect each and every day.
Guy| 1.24.12 @ 2:13PM
We're not trying to win you over. Nor do we worry about winning the liberal red upper midwest. You're a lost cause.
Bob Grant| 1.24.12 @ 11:59AM
Your feigned concern for the plight of the republican party is tiresome and - hopefully - fools no one at this site.
Keep trying but your and Clint's plan will not work. There will not be a third party to divide the republican vote, thus ushering in obama '12.
mike daniels| 1.24.12 @ 1:21PM
I guess Ron Johnson and Scott Walker didn't carry Wisconsin either eh??
Alhambra| 1.24.12 @ 2:30PM
Oh for crying out loud !
You Ron Paul supporters are sooooo crazy...and almost as hate-filled as the Left.
Go ahead and either (a) run as a 3rd party or (b) don't vote at all. Either way, YOU will help Obama.
GET REAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vtwin| 1.24.12 @ 9:32AM
Really, Republican primary voters in South Carolina, Callista, Newt Gingrich’s third wife, the women Newt had an adulterous affair with during his second marriage, a promiscuous woman of low moral character, as a role model for your daughters and granddaughters, as First Lady?
Doorgunner| 1.24.12 @ 10:55AM
Democrats don't get to preach about morals. Shut up and go service Barney the gay pimp. Then procure for Billy Jeff. Then help Al Gore count his millions in inherited oil stocks. Then go see if Jon Edwards bastard child needs a diaper change.
Or just shut up.
Teaghan| 1.24.12 @ 11:16AM
After Slick Willy they want to talk about morals? COME THE HELL ON! Really!
Drunken Sailor| 1.24.12 @ 12:42PM
DG, Vtwin is to busy searching the web for Anthony Weiner pictures to do any of that.
Purp| 1.24.12 @ 2:17PM
Yes, Democrats and all Americans can preach to any Republican. The party of family values has set itself up to be oh so Holier than anyone else - and when caught with their pants down in hypocrisy they deserve all the criticism they get. Democrats on the other hand are forgiving and don't throw their morality in your face and expect you to live by their rules. THAT is the difference. People in Glass Houses (Mr Gingrich) shouldn't throw rhetorical stones. How could any woman ever trust Gingrich, since he thinks so little of them? How would he act on any woman's issues? Let's hear him tell us what he would do for women as President ... we already know what he thinks about war.
Betty Bob| 1.25.12 @ 12:34AM
I can't imagine that harridan as First Lady...
She leads Newt around by the nose...
Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:38AM
Better than a "beard."
Hobbes| 1.24.12 @ 10:51AM
Newt Gingrich divorced first wife 'because she wasn't pretty enough to be First Lady'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....z1kOKTm1JX
Teaghan| 1.24.12 @ 11:18AM
And you believe this? ABC did their best to make her look physically horrible last week. Could a woman look any more hangdog and miserable? Not to mention bitter!
Old Joe| 1.24.12 @ 6:27PM
Actually that was wife #2 who stole Newt from wife #1. So she is no better than the current wife. At least Newt had the decency to divorce and remarry as opposed to just screwing around and committing rape.
Patrick| 1.24.12 @ 3:17PM
Newt talks. I care about action. In regards to that, Newt has a long list of failures and outright betrayals. I'll write my own name in next election if he has the nomination.
TrueBlue | 1.25.12 @ 11:17AM
He has a longer list of successes, the most important of which right now is that he managed to curtail massive government spending with his "Contract with America" and the resulting massive Republican win in 1994. If he managed ONLY that during his term the whole country would be lightyears better than we are right now.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.24.12 @ 6:53AM
The real irony is that Newt is the ultimate insider playing a shell game with the public.
Newt has tapped into the public anger against Washington, D.C. which is kind of ironic when you observe that Newt Gingrich is Washington, D.C. Incorporated.
The public will soon wake up to the facts and it's possible the public doesn't understand who or what Newt Gingrich really is now or was before he heisted 1.6 million from Fannie/Freddie and millions more from private companies during the health care bill formulation.
What you have is style over substance. I hope the public wakes up.
More than that I hope Romney realizes, he too must become a politician.
chuck| 1.24.12 @ 7:25AM
If Newt was the "insider" as you say, why does all the establishment hate him, and support Romney?
Vote for Newt, and flip a bird at the media and GOP establishment.
Unless, of course, you support the fine job the GOP establishment has done.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.24.12 @ 7:58AM
Actually, the Washington establishment would be overjoyed to welcome one of their own back into the fold.
Vern Crisler| 1.24.12 @ 9:48AM
Dittos chuck! And include Brit Hume and Ann Coulter, too, plus all the other stupid, formerly conservative talking heads.
Old Soldier| 1.24.12 @ 1:23PM
chuck - If reports are to be believed, people hate Gingrich because he is a real asshole in person.
Purp| 1.24.12 @ 2:18PM
LMAO ... good one.
chuck| 1.24.12 @ 7:38PM
He probably is an asshole, but I don't give a damn. If he is willing to roll right over the Democrats, and the establishment GOP to make the changes that will get the country back on track, well so much the better.
Get out the steamroller, flip the establishment the bird, and vote for Newt.
Newt 2012....PISS OFF THE ESTABLISHMENT!
Clint| 1.24.12 @ 7:21AM
The Pillsbury DoughBoy Serves As A Useful Dupe To Extend The Presidential Campaigns, Deny The Ruling Elites' RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney Enough Delegates And Head To A Brokered Convention.
Go Big Chubby, Go !
Edward White| 1.24.12 @ 9:29AM
This is the BEST the GOP can do-- trott out Newt, the tired, old horse pulling a squeaking, rattling wagon load of baggage--embarrassing baggage.
Newt has no chance whatsoever of being elected. He's a has-been who is disliked by the majority of Republicans, especially women. And looks matter, as we all know.
Take a good look at Newt! In addition to being fat and ugly, in many photos he looks angry.
With Newt in the race, Obama is a shoo in.
Louise| 1.24.12 @ 9:31AM
Ditto, Edward.
We've lost already.
h & b & rest| 1.24.12 @ 9:34AM
It's inconceivable to me that Newt can stand up beside Obama. Although I am not a fan of Obama's policies, the man has an attractive, dignified demeanor . . . and he's still married to his first wife and has a lovely family.
Good-bye Newt! See you in the loser's circle.
^eyebrows raised^| 1.24.12 @ 9:35AM
Newt in the White House?! Fugget it!
J.J.| 1.24.12 @ 9:38AM
Obama will neuter Newt.
Vern Crisler| 1.24.12 @ 9:49AM
What planet are you guys living on? Are you starship troopers for Ron Paul?
Drunken Sailor| 1.24.12 @ 12:46PM
Vern, haven't you noticed that everytime one of our guys looks like he is gaining steam and may pose a threat to Obama, we get flooded with Trolls?
How to kill a Troll:
The trolls you find everywhere are, as a whole, garden variety everyday trolls. They do what they do for attention, in the same way a 6 year old does. And they should be treated accordingly. Do not engage the troll; as a general rule the guilty parties aren’t all that bright, and as such can’t be bargained with. (and won’t realize it if they’ve been out smarted).
J.J.| 1.24.12 @ 1:08PM
Yeah, sure.
Today every Republican poster who does not support Newt for GOP presidential president is labeled a "troll." Any difference of opinion on this blog, and you're a "troll."
I'm pulling for Romney, and you Newt fanatics have selected the wrong man. As the above posters have pointed out, he will lose to Obama. And that's a certainty.
Romney, on the other hand, can defeat Obama.
Purp| 1.24.12 @ 2:20PM
You are assuming people you don't agree with care what you think or if you respond. Anyone that doesn't agree with you is a 'troll', is that it?
Drunken Sailor| 1.24.12 @ 3:02PM
No Purp, just people like you that consistently come on this site just to stir the pot. You will never be convinced you may be wrong. So be it.
Purp| 1.24.12 @ 6:23PM
Thought you were never going to respond to me again? Typical Republican, violates his principles whenever it's convenient. I'm a troll, remember? Now you have to go wash your mouth out with soap for lying, don't you? Or does your God give you a pass on that too?
TrueBlue | 1.25.12 @ 11:20AM
Don't argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Possum Deary| 1.24.12 @ 10:27AM
Here's one of the jokes going around:
Newt's Idea of FAMILY VALUES:
Using daughters from your first wife to convince everyone that your second wife is lying about your third wife.
Yep, Newt has some messy, ugly baggage, and the baggage will be opened and inspected by the media, and the public will desert him in droves.
99 and counting| 1.24.12 @ 10:29AM
Righto, Possum. What are the Republicans thinking to vote for such a man?
Teaghan| 1.24.12 @ 11:22AM
With the current White House occupant, do you REALLY give a rats behind about his marriages? Is that the most important thing you can drag up about Newt? I don't care if he screws goats. If he can beat obama, I'll vote for him and hope that you will get over your judgement of his private life and do the same.
J.J.| 1.24.12 @ 1:09PM
Newt's ethical sense is lacking. I think most reasonable people would agree with this.
Polly| 1.24.12 @ 1:50PM
Like Obama's ethical sense ISN'T lacking?? Come one. It will take someone with Newt's firepower, smarts and cojones to beat Obama. In case you hadn't noticed, the Dems fight dirty, and I don't think Mitt can handle it. It's high time the Repubs took the gloves off.
Michael Tomlinson| 1.24.12 @ 7:24AM
Newt is the smartest guy on the stage, but like the other three he's flirted with the left in one form or fashion too many times. If he'd swear to one term and pick a strong VP who could succeed him like a Rubio, Bob McDonnell of Virginia (the ideal compromise candidate at a brokered convention) or Alan West then Gingrich might be a reasonable pick for 2012. It would be fun watching him eviscerate Obama in debates.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 9:53AM
There's a guy on the radio, who has a $400 Million Contract. He makes that much money, because, as Professor Walter E. Williams is wont to say: "He serves his fellow man."
He does this by telling us the things we WILL NOT HEAR from an Orgasmic MSM. He assures us that we're not alone. That, what we THINK is happening, really is. He explains the Obvious, and brings light, to the goings on of a Biased Media, and an Out Of Touch, Republican establishment.
I HATE Brian Williams. I HATE John King. I HATE Wolf Blitzer, George Stephanopoulos, and the Punk, on Meet The Press. If there were ANY Standards, for getting a Broadcast Licence (Especially for the NEWS) you could only pick up MSNBC if you were in the Florida Keys.
The REASON that Newt Gingrich is Kicking Ass, is that he's actually doing the things we've been BEGGING our Republicans to do, for the last 30 Years. Speak Your Mind. Even better: SPEAK OURS!
He's taking it to THEM, for once. He's calling a Spade, a Spade. He's putting in to Words, what all of us are thinking, and it PISSES THEM OFF.
Michael. "It would be fun watching him EVISCERATE Obama, in the Debates".
It would be more than Fun. It would be the End of Obama. All he has is his MOUTH.
You kill that?
You kill Obama.
You Win.
Don't over think this. It's simple, really.
Who is going to take it to Obama?
Who's got all the Facts in his head?
Who knows the Constitution better than anybody? And, who can best enunciate Conservative Principles?
What would Romney have said, if he was asked about the "Racial Overtones" of the Food Stamp President label?
Would he fire right back?
Or would he limp through an answer, employing 30 pauses, as he sought to parse every word?
He's not the Guy.
I don't care if it's "His Turn".
buckeyeman| 1.24.12 @ 10:40AM
Lots of what you say is true. But Newt is like that drunk doctor on TV who can make a brilliant diagnosis now and then but can't follow up on it because his overall life is a train wreck (I don't know if there really is such a character, but if not, there should be).
We all know Newt's big problem. He doesn't really believe what he says. Hence, we can't really believe that he will act properly if we trust him to do what he, himself, says needs to be done.
Old Soldier| 1.24.12 @ 1:24PM
Exactly! He has always talked a great game. He has never delivered on any of it, ever.
KDW| 1.24.12 @ 2:08PM
If Newt 'can't follow thru' how do you explain
the welfare reform legislation, capital gains tax
cut and budget surpluses he pushed thru
Congress during his turn as Speaker. These
were easily the most important Conservative
accomplishments since Reagan left the Presidency.
Republicans have done nothing since Gingrich
was forced out of the Speakership that even
comes close. Which is kind of strange - you
would think the Republican Congress would
have accomplished many great things once the
major 'impediment' to their Conservative
aspirations had been removed.
As a matter of fact, our Republican heroes who
forced Gingrich out (Boehner, Armey, King,
DeLay, Hastert etc.) did pretty much nothing
once they assumed power, unless you are impressed by the following:
-- Ran up trillions of new debt when
they had a Republican President.
-- Lost control of Congress to Pelosi &
Co. They also ushered in the age of
Obama.
-- Once back in power, courtesy of the
Tea Party, Republicans have allowed
Obama to merrily continue his multi-
trillion dollar spending spree, with
barely a peep out of them.
-- Hastert, Boehner did NOTHING to
reign in Fannie and Freddie when they
had the power to do so. Gingrich
was out of office - he had nothing to do
with it.
Throw in several prominent members of the
Republican Caucus being convicted of serious
felonies (DeLay, Cunningham) and I really
don't think Gingrich's successors have any
credibility.
Richard Baker| 1.24.12 @ 7:26AM
Been watching Newt since way before he became Speaker and what I've always noticed is that he seems to be able to play BOTH sides of the political street. By that I mean he understands how the DC game is played AND the conservative portion. Yes, the ideas pour out of him like out of a firehose but he does all this without handlers/consultants and assorted political minders. The Establishment Republicans are sweating because Newt, either from sheer intelligence or whatever, can readily express himself in a conservative manner to which folks respond. I like the author's comment "Go big or go home." Am tired of perfectly coiffed and dressed candidates who have to stick a finger in the air everytime they speak. Of course, ending 40 years of Democrats in the House and the Contract with America AND getting Clinton to give in on conservative ideas must have been an accident, sure.
Vern Crisler| 1.24.12 @ 9:51AM
You make some good points. Notice how the NBC liberals (of all people) were almost swooning over Newt's debate performance last night. People who say Newt isn't electible are just engaging in wishful thinking, or else they're Paulbots.
POST American| 1.24.12 @ 7:46AM
"The social engineers of [RED] China
aggressively euthanize the old and unfit.
They are ONLY following the Global agenda.
[RED] China is to be the 'Model for
the World'."
-ENDGAME doc.
(video online)
Gingrich has zealously advocated for this
agenda since he began.
He has never REALLY recanted.
Anyone who was involved with aggressively
promoting the soviet-fascist futurist synthesis
of the nnotorious Tofflers ---who indeed, wrote
the prologue ----and has NEVER been called
out on it ---and unrepentant ----is NOT
acceptable.
The Globalist RED China handover and
TREASON OP is ON RECORD and now stands
all but accomplished.
The weaponization of the food chain (GMO)
---water (flourides etc.) ---air (CHEM-trails etc.)
--and meds (mercury and cancer viruses in
injections) --is as unspeakable as it is
UNDENIABLE.
Gingrich has been 'on board' ---indeed, presiding
over much of this yet unfolding nightmare
through his entire career.
And if all that's not enough, take a
good deep look at those photos of the 1995
Gingrich giving 'talks' by the lake at
Bohemian Grove.
NEED WE SAY MORE?
coal carrier| 1.24.12 @ 8:19AM
After reading your post, I am convinced that cans of aerosol should not be sold to adults either.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 9:26AM
Actually, I was thinking just the opposite.
Look at the "Structure" of his Comment. I count 10 of these ----. There used to be 50. There are only 2 words surrounded by [ ], and only 3 sets of Parenthesise.
It's like a FOG is slowly lifting from his Mind. Like when someone comes out of a Coma.
And he's making cogent points.
Welcome back, P.A.
martin j smith| 1.24.12 @ 8:02AM
The silent majority is not so silent-for example me-I am rela5ively new to this political thing but I have been paying attention.
Let me say this Antlee--There is a lot of kvetching going on about Republican Candidates and ou bet they are imperfect.
But
I think this is the bottom line
Do you say OK for Socialism and Obama or do you say NO. For me it is that clear cut.
There are those who post I have no doubt will either man up and say they support Obama and some who will not tell the truth. Forget them.
But for those say who say support Romney say--which is it really-really Obama or say Newt. Where do you stand--I would like to know. Like Ann Coulter for example or Neil Cavuto for example like many others. Lets have the truth !!!!!!!
martin j smith| 1.24.12 @ 8:02AM
The silent majority is not so silent-for example me-I am rela5ively new to this political thing but I have been paying attention.
Let me say this Antlee--There is a lot of kvetching going on about Republican Candidates and ou bet they are imperfect.
But
I think this is the bottom line
Do you say OK for Socialism and Obama or do you say NO. For me it is that clear cut.
There are those who post I have no doubt will either man up and say they support Obama and some who will not tell the truth. Forget them.
But for those say who say support Romney say--which is it really-really Obama or say Newt. Where do you stand--I would like to know. Like Ann Coulter for example or Neil Cavuto for example like many others. Lets have the truth !!!!!!!
POST American| 1.24.12 @ 8:14AM
------Fronting for the Soviet-Fascist
EUGENICS synthesis of the infamous
Tofflers
----------Attending and speaking at
Bohemian Grove --pushing the technocratic
TREASON and EUGENICS capstone agenda
--------------Supporter of the 'Banker Bailouts'
and NAFTA/GATT
--------------Key presiding figure during the
very heyday of the US taxpayer underwritten
surrender of the US economy to RED China
-------------------Bottomlessly mercenary
open adulterer
BEHOLD!
----------------the NEW 'IT' ---Getting RICH!
We, the REAL 'ITs' ---need take heed!
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 9:54AM
Okay. You just made a Liar outta me.
That's what I get, I guess.
^raised eyebrows^| 1.24.12 @ 10:41AM
Liar?
You're not just a liar; you're a fool, a profane fool at that. You cannot write a sentence without using profanity.
Shows your intelligence level. I always hate to see your moniker appear.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 11:37AM
Why don't you go to F-ing SALON, where you obviousy, F-ing belong, you F-ing F-er?
F.
Suzy| 1.24.12 @ 12:36PM
Timothy, you've proved raised eyebrows' point.
We're getting a little tired of your obscenity-laced tirades.
Civility. Let's try to be more civil on this blog.
Drunken Sailor| 1.24.12 @ 12:51PM
Suzy, no we are not. Don't be so thin skinned. Raised eybrow accused Tim's every post of using profanity in reply to a post that had none. So Tim unloaded on him. Basically he is like many of us. Tired of the liberal Troll, holier than thou bullshit and is calling him like he sees them. Don't like it? Scroll on past.
buckeyeman| 1.24.12 @ 10:43AM
I have found that life is easier and more pleasant if you just rapidly scroll past PA's lunatic postings.
Fellow Citizens| 1.24.12 @ 11:24AM
You don't get it.
POST American's contributions are surrealist poetry. He's a Dadaist. I enjoy reading his posts.
Louis Jenkins| 1.24.12 @ 8:40AM
One of our forefathers, can't remember which one, said that our government should be represented by men with upstanding character, regardless of their affiliation. Is Newt that man? Maybe, since he's went to the Lord, oopps, priest, and confessed his sins he's comfortable in his own skin. We'll see. The campaign marches on.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 10:10AM
That would be: JOHN ADAMS, I believe.
I did Cocaine for 25 Years. I lost everything. My Mother and Brother HATED me. I should have been DEAD, at least 10 times. And, then God sent me a Girl. Out of the blue. I was in a Mall, and had just left a store, when she came around the corner.
I looked at her, and she looked at me, and when she did, everything in my bag fell out, on to the floor.
As I picked the things up from the floor, she was still standing there, laughing at my predicament. I walked with her, in to the store she was headed to, she gave me her number, and I have been with her every day since that one, for the last 16Years. Happily Married for 13 Years. A nice House, in a nice little Town. I wouldn't trade me life for anyones'.
I know, in my heart, that GOD made sure that she was right there, at the exact moment I came out of that store. If I was 30 seconds too soon? I would have already been on the Escalator. If I had been 30 Seconds too late? She would have already been in the other store.
If he says that he has made his peace with GOD? Then I believe him. Cause I did. And it changed my life, completely.
Edgar| 1.24.12 @ 10:44AM
A couple of mall rats run into each other, and according to the unhinged, cocaine-addicted Timothy, it was an act of God.
Another brain-damaged coke addict!
Teaghan| 1.24.12 @ 11:41AM
You're a nasty person Edgar. Shame on you.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 11:46AM
Thank you Edgar, for that wonderful insight in to the C**KS*CKER that you obviously are, as is everyone with that Gay Name.
Timothy means: Honouring God.
I believe that the name - Edgar - means: The Receiver of Sodomy, and the Eater of Human Waste.
Yep. I'm pretty sure that's what it means.
And, if it doesn't mean that?
It should.
J.J.| 1.24.12 @ 1:12PM
You're a real class act, Timothy. You make AmSpec look good--i.e. to the vulgar and uneducated readership.
To those of us who are a little more educated and cultivated, you are an embarrassment.
Drunken Sailor| 1.24.12 @ 2:03PM
So you can't argue about what he says, just the way he says it? If you're so educated then look beyond the words and see the real meaning. In your world is it ok to make fun of someone for their past drug addiction and belittle the change in their life but not ok to defend yourself from such attack?
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 4:02PM
I wanna thank you, for having my back.
Thank you.
Drunken Sailor| 1.24.12 @ 4:42PM
My pleasure. I'm just as fed up as you are with some of these idiots. America is in serious trouble and some are worried that their delicate sensibilities may be offended by hearing/reading a F**king obscenity.
As Mark Twain said:
My swearing doesn't mean any more to me than your sermons do to you.
- comment made to Rev. Joe Twichell, quoted in Mark Twain and Hawaii, by Walter Francis Frear
Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:41AM
You know, Tim, to the students I teach I say the following: working with substance abusers can be the biggest pain in the ass, or the most inspiring work, you will ever do, and sometimes with the same person. It depends where in the cycle you catch them. G-d Bless you, Sir, and G-d Bless that wonderful lady.
Teaghan| 1.24.12 @ 11:40AM
I look forward to your posts everyday Tim as you, like Newt, speak for many of us here at AS.
Keep up the good work and don't pay the trolls any mind. They don't get where you're coming from. I do.
God bless and keep you Tim.
Suzy| 1.24.12 @ 1:14PM
God bless your profanities and obscenities, Timothy. Profanities and obscenities always mark a man of faith, such as Teaghan.
Nick| 1.24.12 @ 2:02PM
Suzy,
Take it from someone who used to swear worse than "Tony Montana," "The Dude," and young Eddie Murphy combined (and still slips-up more often than I should,) trying to scold someone into refraining from using profanities seldom, if ever, works.
I am reminded of the scene in Beverly Hills Cop where Sgt. Taggart says to Axel Foley, "We're more likely to believe an important local businessman than a foul-mouthed jerk from out of town."
To which, Axel responds exactly as predicted.
We all have to learn on our own what are the appropriate, and inappropriate, ways in which to express ourselves.
Now, if this was a site frequented by minors, I would be admonishing right along with you.
Con Chef (NB) | 1.24.12 @ 4:01PM
For Suzy:
Lady Astor to Churchill:
"If you were my husband, I'd give you poison."
Churchill's Reply:
"If you were my wife, Madam, I'd drink it."
Spare us the manners police nonsense.
Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:43AM
She was also the one who said, "Winston, you're drunk!" to which he replied:
"Yes madam, and you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober, but you will still be ugly."
Louis Jenkins| 1.24.12 @ 12:49PM
Dear Timothy:
You are most likely correct. Amazing what a good woman can do for a man, clean him up and make him walk the straight and narrow.
Now dear old Mitt has a bad or good spot depending on how you look at it:
"In Bermuda, Romney served as president and sole shareholder for four years of Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd. It funneled money into Bain Capital's Sankaty family of hedge funds, which invest in bonds and other debt issued by corporations, as well as bank loans.
Like thousands of similar financial entities, Sankaty maintains no office or staff in Bermuda. Its only presence consists of a nameplate at a lawyer's office in downtown Hamilton, capital of the British island territory.
"It's just a mail drop, essentially," said Marc B. Wolpow, who worked with Romney for nine years at Bain Capital and who set up Sankaty Ltd. in October 1997 without ever visiting Bermuda. There's no one doing any work down there other than lawyers." (From a Los Angeles newspaper a while back.)
Mitt has millions squirreled away for a rainy day. But then again, he's doing what any American would do if he has the means-putting it in off-shore banks away from the tax man.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 4:13PM
I just have a problem with someone who would do ANYTHING, to attain a position of power.
"What does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and lose his immortal soul?"
Indeed.
Deborah D| 1.24.12 @ 2:16PM
A beautiful story, Timothy. I believe you and Newt. The Lord works in mysterious ways. I do believe that things will work out for our country. "All things work together for good to them who love God." Let us all attempt to keep a good thought and offer up a prayer for our country and for the future of our children and grandchildren.
Suzy| 1.24.12 @ 3:18PM
I am not surprised that you would say that Timothy "loves God," Deborah D. Any trash-talking idiot is okay with the religious fundametalists as long as they say they "love God" and espouse the crackpot right-wing Christian ideology.
You people are too amusing.
When it comes to you right-wing Christians responding on this site, none of you pause to think "What would Jesus say."
LOL
Nick| 1.24.12 @ 3:26PM
Your comment is a gross exaggeration, Suzy. You should try being more accurate.
Especially, since you are new here.
Con Chef (NB) | 1.24.12 @ 4:03PM
Yes, & I suppose you're so pious that no curse words have ever escaped YOUR lips, right?
Tell you what, Suzy. When you can come on this site & make some cogent points, then maybe you'll have room to kvetch. As it stands now, you're merely the Anne Landers of the site & no one gives a rat's tuchus about what you think is proper decorum or not.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.24.12 @ 4:09PM
You might wanna get some HELP. You're obviously, a woman with a LOT of emotional baggage. You got DUMPED for another, YOUNGER, woman, and so you lash out.
Maybe it was YOU, and not HIM.
Think about that, as you wallow in your HATE.
chuck| 1.24.12 @ 7:47PM
I'm thinking Suzy is a man-hating lesbian. Not that there anything wrong with that.
Con Chef (NB) | 1.24.12 @ 8:32PM
Certainly not out of the realm of possibility.
SUBVET| 1.25.12 @ 1:22AM
Man hating lesbian.......I thought most of us men were lesbian's traped in a man's body....oh! maybe it's just me.
Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:45AM
Suzy, I've worked with evangelical Christians, slept with them, lived with them, studied with them. I'm Jewish, so my dog isn't precisely in this fight. But you, madam, have no clue what the dickens you are talking about.
Tommy Frisco| 1.24.12 @ 5:35PM
Timothy,
Thanks for sharing your story with us.
I have a similar story. We've been married for 21 years now and getting stronger every day. God does work miracles!
RCV| 1.24.12 @ 7:01PM
The revelation explains a lot about how your brain works, Timothy.
Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:46AM
RCV:
And you slam me for going below the belt? Keep in mind that your beloved Prez also did lots of cocaine.
SUBVET| 1.25.12 @ 1:25AM
In a bath house with Reggie Love
martin j smith| 1.24.12 @ 9:07AM
So Post America you want Obama ? Man up please.
Oh yes we have a very imperfect selection and Obama is perfect ? Let me say there are NO PERFECT POLITICIANS-that is an oxymoron--with the accent on the moron. So in reality what we really have is NOT THE GIFT OF GAB but a choice first between Socialism and imperfect Free Market Capitalism and also within the Republican ranks a weak and passive and possibly throw away candidate such as Romney or--some one who really wants to win and does articulate for me the correct message. Newt Santorum-Not Ron Paul. He is Obama.
rightasrain| 1.24.12 @ 9:59AM
I'm for Romney but my support is soft and by default because I think the whole field is weak. And I will vote for whoever is our nominee. But voting for Gingrich would give me plenty of pause. As speaker, he abused his power, was duplicitous to his friends, melted before his enemies and displayed a level of pettyness and vindictiveness unbefitting anyone past the age of kindergarten. He has repeatedly betrayed conservative causes and seems to be driven much more by ego (or is it id?) than by any ideology. He might be fun to watch now, but I fear we will rue the day if we pick him to go against Obama.
Aloysiusmiller| 1.24.12 @ 10:21AM
Newt plays well where sincerity doesn't count. His audience thinks Jimmy Swaggart is a man of God, that pro wrestlers are real athletes and that porn is real sex.
buckeyeman| 1.24.12 @ 10:45AM
Porn sex IS real.
Isn't it?
dis "n" dat| 1.24.12 @ 10:54AM
Porn sex is performed by "actors," exquisite artistes devoted to their craft.
And how I admire their devotion. "They're more American than apple pie," to quote my man Rush Limbaugh. God bless him.
Louis Jenkins| 1.24.12 @ 12:50PM
I dunno what obscene is, unless I see it first.
Steve| 1.24.12 @ 1:23PM
Pro wrestlers are real athletes, their sport is just not a real competition. If you don't think so, get in the ring sometime for a scripted fight, and see how you do.
Anthony| 1.24.12 @ 10:29AM
Too many talking heads think Newt's rise is due to his debating skills and smacking down the MSM. WRONG!!
It's about ideas and the ability to connect with the people longing to hear these ideas expressed intelligently and forcefully.
It's not that Newt will debate the pants off of Obozo, Obozo, his handlers, and the media will never allow that to happen. Rather, it will be a constant barrage of eloquence in the face of Obozo's failures that will expose the empty suit day in and day out.
Newt ain't perfect. No doubt about it. Meanwhile, we continue this game of parsing words, of who said what when, while the greatest threat to America will do his stand up routine for the fawning D party and the media.
Oh, and don't you love the trolls who post here, who have suddenly discovered morality and virtue when it comes to Newt, yet steadfastly cheered the biggest reprobates on the planet, Clinton, Kennedy, Gore and Edwards.
Al Adab| 1.24.12 @ 10:43AM
Banality is the perfect word to describe not only Romney, but the entire accomodationist wing of the GOP. Mitt needs to understand that his 30% plurality might gain him the nomination, but that what it really menas is 2/3rds of GOP voters want another nominee.
It is time for all the candidates to put the nation above their egos and find the person who can defend the cause and carry the crucial electoral states of NC, VA, FL and Ohio. That is where the election will be decided. Obama must fall.
Deborah D| 1.24.12 @ 2:28PM
I live in NC, and since our illustrious governor (D, of course) vetoed the voter ID bill, I plan to vote more than once! (That's a joke, son!!) She's a sleazy governor (Bev Perdue) -- let's hope the same passion to dump the Dem NC legislature in 2010 (for the first time since reconstruction) is still there for the general in 2012.
Al Adab| 1.24.12 @ 3:52PM
DD:
We need those NC electoral votes to win. Can you and your fellows deliver?
David| 1.24.12 @ 10:53AM
Santorum represents the greatest contrast with Bam Bam. I believe we will be sorry, or at least embarrassed, if Newt or Romney ascend to the presidency.
Bulbul| 1.24.12 @ 11:19AM
Santorum lost by 18 points in PA in 2006, how one can think that he will beat Obama and win PA in 2012? Santorum has no money or organization.
Mike| 1.24.12 @ 11:02AM
Newt's gift of gab. You mean Newt's gift of BS. Knowing the prejudices, hatreds and lack of information among many in the GOP base, this consummate con-man, in the tradition of P.T. Barnum, knows exactly how to get them to pay an extra five cents to see the Egress. In this case the Egress marked "Defeat" in the general election.
Deborah D| 1.24.12 @ 2:32PM
Thanks for the defamation, Mike. I guess you know about "the prejudices, hatreds and lack of information among many in the GOP base" -- but not about the same in your own Democrat racist, Marxist, union-thug base.
Mike| 1.24.12 @ 7:39PM
You're welcome, Deborah. Please vote for Newt.
martin j smith| 1.24.12 @ 11:02AM
Explain why Romney refuses to debate Obama and his policies but rather goes negative on Gingrich. Also explain why Romney refuses to say that Obama is a Socialist which he is ? And explain to me what Romney will do when he is super smeared by the MSM if he is the nominee and how he will challenge-excuse me if he will actually challenge Obama as if he actually wants to win the the election. And that brings me to
to the essential point which all candidates to some extent are guilty of and that is to challenge the so called moderators of the MSM and their assumptions ? Romney for me has a lot of splainin to do.
David| 1.24.12 @ 11:09AM
martin, I think both Gingrich, and to a lesser extent Santorum, DO challenge the premises of ridiculous questions asked of them.
Bulbul| 1.24.12 @ 11:17AM
Newt looked tired in the debate. He should have responded to Mitt's baseless and outrageous attacks, instead Newt chose to remain calm and told audience to look up on his web site for further information. Newt has charima and capacity to repudiate that knid of shameless attack from a fellow GOPer, but he refrained himself from another brawl with fellow comrade, and told audience to judge him based on the facts.
I hope the audience will buy his argumnet and give their mandate to Newt in FL.
Bulbul| 1.24.12 @ 11:21AM
Newt won SC because he has courage, conviction, charisma, honesty, statesmanship, and leadership. He has southern heritage and conservative credentials being a veteran legislator.
Minuteman78| 1.24.12 @ 11:27AM
About Romney: "calculated banality" - Oh, I could not have coined a better term. I watched the Myrtle Beach townhall back on Dec 17, and Romney pandering to the locals about how going to "Sticky Fingers" was just real down-home. It's a freaking CHAIN, for chrissakes! I wrote him off then and there, and apparently one month later, so did most of South Carolina. If you want to talk barbecue with them, you have to have visited a machine shop on a holiday where they have a big vat of that insane not pepper and vinegar stuff boiling down to pour over the shredded pork that the guys stayed up all night drinking to slow-cook over the oil-drum-turned-grill. Not some Chain place (probably invented in California...) Romney only won 3 countines: Richland (Columbia) - full of big govt types and lawyers, Charleston - more govt & lawyers plus NorthEastern snotty retired elites, and Jasper, still more Lawyers and snotty N.E. retired elites. Everywhere else, it was Newt's show, and in many cases Santorum got as much as Romney.
Bulbul| 1.24.12 @ 11:32AM
Newt' s records:
-Engineered the 1994 GOP revolt
-Balanced the budget 4 straight years without raising taxes
-Reformed the welfare system
-Passed the Crime Bill
-Impeached Bill Clinton
After his retirmnet from the Congress, he remained a voice for conservative movement, prompting liberty and the Constitution.
Newt is no perfect. But He is the most viable candidate in the GOP field. He is the "Shadow of Ronald Reagan."
Indy| 1.24.12 @ 11:41AM
After he left Congress, I argue he turned left
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....3052/posts
bill| 1.24.12 @ 2:23PM
Free Republic is a liberal media, prompting hate and socialism, paid by George Sores "evil money."
Indy| 1.24.12 @ 8:14PM
There are other sources out there, many include his audio, like this one
http://newtexposed.com/
"In 1994, Gingrich described himself as "a conservative futurist". He said that those who were trying to define him should look no farther than The Third Wave, a 1980 book written by Alvin Toffler. The book describes our society as entering a post-industrial phase in which abortion, homosexuality, promiscuity, and divorce are perfectly normal, even virtuous. Toffler penned a letter to America's "founding parents," in which he said: "The system of government you fashioned, including the principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be radically changed and a new system of government invented---a democracy for the 21st century." He went on to describe our constitutional system as one that "served us so well for so long, and that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced."
http://the-classic-liberal.com.....-new-deal/
I'm doing my homework, I hope others are as well, Newt, Mitt...we have bad choices, Newt can talk a good game but he's not trustworthy as a true conservative. "green conservatism" "conservative furturist" no thank you.
martin j smith| 1.24.12 @ 11:35AM
So far no one is explaining Romney. I am waiting and I will not hold my breath. This is why Romney does not have solid support and never will.
Jabber3| 1.24.12 @ 11:57AM
Santorum - "Grandiosity has never been a problem with Newt Gingrich,"
Gingrich - "You're right, I think grandiose thoughts,"
James, what you are missing here is that Rick was using grandiosity in the pejorative as in pompous, overblown, a symptom of manic episodes of bipolar disorder. Am I the only one who caught this meaning?
martin j smith| 1.24.12 @ 12:19PM
LouLou or whoever you are if some one asks a poster to explain something and they call the requester a whatever and never explain themselves that to me is a jerk.
David| 1.24.12 @ 12:41PM
bulbul, do you read posts here, or just get on write your drivel? Santorum's loss has been explained on Am Spec ad nauseum.
Get a clue..............please.
Interested Conservative| 1.24.12 @ 12:42PM
"Where in the Constitution does the president or Congress have the authority to hire school janitors?"
In the penumbras where it has the authority to mandate test protocols, fund hiring and construction, determine cafeteria nutrition standards, specify holiday schedules.
Surely someone needs to manage how to clean up after all that.
David| 1.24.12 @ 12:52PM
As to Newt making his peace with God, yes, we have to take him at his word. Nevertheless, WHEN does he claim to have done that? Has he ever provided any specifics?
That said, I very much recall the way he used the Jerry Falwell and James Dobson organizations four years ago during the last prez election cycle. I am sure you all will remember, too.
Newt was teasing and toying with making a run at the presidency. Just prior to this, he went to the above organizations and made peace with them for his past criticisms of them. After some months, Dobson came out and said he will support Newt if he did run in the primaries.
THEN, NEWT TURNED AROUND AND SAID IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL/UNETHICAL FOR HIM TO RUN BECAUSE OF THE ORGANIZATIONS HE WAS INVOLVED WITH AT THE TIME.
NEWT IS AN OPPORTUNIST. HIS WIFE MAKES IT CLEAR WHEN NEWT ARROGANTLY TOLD HER THAT "PEOPLE DON'T CARE WHAT I DO, THEY CARE WHAT I SAY. NOBODY CAN SAY THINGS THE WAY I SAY THEM".
SOUNDS QUITE A BIT LIKE OUR PRESENT HEALER OF THE PLANET AND RECEDER OF OCEANS - DOESN'T IT???!!!
martin j smith| 1.24.12 @ 2:15PM
As Obama claims there are 54 more states with primaries to go. Any candidate can rise or fall at any time. But as of now if Romney does not stop going negative on Gingrich and avoids dealing with Obama then he is toast--no butter.
Bulbul| 1.24.12 @ 2:25PM
Romney can go as negative as he can, but yet he cannot win in FL. A New England moderate has no place in deep south, FL. Romney's records:
-RomneyCare
-pro abortion
-pro gay marriage
-pro gun control
-pro climate change
Romney is a "dead man walking." It's Gingrich in FL, all the way to the end.
cicero| 1.24.12 @ 2:48PM
Seems to me that we should be looking for the candidate that can take the FIGHT to the other side. Past history shows that when the Repubs run the guy whose "turn" it is, they get their rear ends handed to them. The only thing that saved them in 1980, was that Reagan beat Bush and Rockefeller. The only thing that saved them in 1988, was Dukakis; 2000, Gore; and 2004, Kerry. Those guys won't be there in 2012. If we send another Dole or McCain in to do battle, we lose. Newt is a fighter, and is very good at articulating the conservative play book, We are not standing him for an election for King, but President in a system that relies on the President being supported (or not( by the legislative branch.
McClain spent his whole campaign telling the base how he always voted against his Republican co-legislators. I think the word was Maverick. He almost won, but managed to pull defeat from the jaws of victory. Dole stood on the platforms talking in the third person, and reminding everyone that he was really a Democrat, but should be elected anyway because he had been around a long time. Newt articulates what a conservative president should do. That is called a PLATFORM. He has already shown what he can do, even without a Republican president, when given a Republican congress.
I don't care how many times he has been married. I don't know what his marriages were like. He says he repented of his wrongs. I recall somewhere the prayer of one of the great saints - Ignaxias Loyala I believe - "Dear God, please spare me thise temptations of the flesh - but not just yet." Maybe Callista can keep him on a short leash, or maybe he has just found a soulmate, and true love at last. (That is the romantic in me.) Whatever it may be, I don't think you will find Newt joggeing around the streets of D.C., trolling for vulnerable women. And I don't think the interns will have to worry about delivering mail to the oval office.
Controse| 1.24.12 @ 3:29PM
Newt never said the President or the Congress should hire those underage janitors. Remember political correctness? Pernicious, sure, but widely accepted after years of repetition. How about we begin years of repetition lauding the work ethic over the entitlement ethic? That is what Newt is doing. Go ahead, say something positive about the work ethic. No one with think your a racists. Really. Try it. Our problems will not be solved by the President and Congress. They will be solved by our first getting the President and Congress out of our face. Then we unassisted by others peoples money need to get to work solving those problems. That is Newt's message. Boy does it resonate with anyone who can talk from the heart about the vital virtues of conservatism.
David| 1.24.12 @ 3:35PM
Jabber3, I absoulutely understood what Santorum meant. And he is correct.
Forget about Newt asking his wife for an open marriage and the 3 wives stuff. I like what the 2nd wife reported he said when she admonished him about things he does.
Newt said: "People don't care about what I do. They only care about what I say. And I can say things better than anyone else can say them".
Whoa. THAT SOUNDS EERILY LIKE OUR CURRENT PLANET HEALER AND RECEDER OF OCEANS.
And because I absolutely believe his wife on that, I think Newt is an arrogant opportunist with an ego at least as big as Bam Bam's.
We better get behind Santorum while we still have the chance.
Con Chef (NB) | 1.24.12 @ 4:05PM
He's the only one running who's worth a damn. His ability to win in a union heavy state shows that conservatism can work anywhere. The man's the real deal.
POST American| 1.24.12 @ 10:14PM
----------------BOTTOMLESS LINE--------------------
A little rundown on the 'REAL' Newt
in the wake of the dubious South Carolina
'victory'---
--OPEN mercenary adulterer
------Unrepentant presiding figure during the
very heyday of the CFR directed, US taxpayer
underwritten surrender of the US economy
to RED China
------------Warm, zealous, KEY advocate and
lobbyist for the most horrifying aims of the
capstone EUGENICS agenda
-------------------NAFTA/ GATT
-----------------------Sanctuary cities and open borders
-----------------------------PRO 'Banker Bailouts'
--------------------------------PRO carbon taxes
HAD ENOUGH?
gary siebel| 1.25.12 @ 5:53AM
The Nudist Grinch gives the Dems exactly who they secretly want as Obama's opponent; namely himself.
The question really is, has Romney ever bounced a check? If he hasn't, which seems likely considering his Mormon obsessiveness, and deep pocketed connections, then he should point out the simple fact Newt bounced checks as a member of the House, on the House account, no less, which calls into serious question just about every aspect of The Nudist Grinch's finances, including his plans for the US. Nudist (as in an emperor without clothes) would no doubt try to change the subject, or suggest it was a lie or some sort of misunderstanding, at which point he could be taken down rather like McCarthy was by Welch. Bouncing those checks is one sleight of hand maneuver from which The Nudist cannot hide, or run away, and Romney should hammer it home relentlessly instead of nailing him for the nebulous crime of milking Fannie and Freddie (after all, so many homeowners were flip artists themselves). Milking the government while berating it is common practice in South Carolina, and amongst the Tea Party in general (or so it would seem from the ones I know).
There seems to be a misunderstanding in regards to the medias attention to so-called morality. The media has only one moral: avoid libel suits. Hence they are mainly interested when a candidate violates his own purported morality (e.g., Cain) rather than some hypothetical absolute, so Repubs are always in an awkward position on the matter when it comes to sex unless they are squeaky clean types like ol' Mitt appears to be (operative word -- "appears"). However, Dems like Gavin Newsom, ex-mayor of the real sin city, San Fran, get elevated to Lt Guv because he had no morals anyway.
It's not that Newt was a philanderer and his current wife his former political concubine, it's that he was hypocritically attacking Clinton for having extra-marital almost sex at the same time the Nudist was screwing around on the public dime. Just imagine The Nudist' bounced checks line of credit at Tiffany's if he had been married to his concubine back then instead. Combine that with his more than 20 checks bounced and you have a guy who is a total cad and not to be trusted. Even his conversion to Catholicism is probably just another bounced check -- or rather, one that's in the mail..
Obama's gonna win anyway. The Repubs candidates are all chicken hawks who really wont fly this year because of the boy who cried wolf. Obama has prosecuted the war against the Islamic Crusade very well (to my surprise) -- he's even gone after the SHabababoo earlier than I predicted.
POST American| 1.26.12 @ 12:39AM
-------------------BOTTOM LINE------------------------
"Psychopaths LOVE power. They
worship those above --and have nothing
but contempt for those below. They
LOVE applause and publicity, and
are superb LIARS and ACTORS.
They can greenlight the weaponization
of your food supply or injections
---and sleep like a baby that very same
night. They have NO conscience
whatsoever. Likewise, they can smell
the wind and turn on a dime. They
know you better than you know yourself.
That's something the psychopaths are
good at. They also recognize each other
--and can work with OTHER PSYCHOPATHS.
Understand, we are living in a psychpathic
system ---that promotes and rewards
psychopathy. Teach your children to
recognize a PSYCHOPATH when they see
one."
CHECK OUT Gingrich's 1995 photos
giving 'feel good' EUGENICS agenda
booster chats by the lake at
---------------BOHEMIAN GROVE-------------------.
And remember, this was the KEY decade
of the US taxpayer handover of our economy
to RED China.
-----------PSYCHOPATH?
----------------------YOU DECIDE-----------------------
peg perego vela stroller | 2.1.12 @ 2:53AM
I don't like pop music.