The American Spectator

JeffC| 11.10.11 @ 5:52PM

It is a good business model ... but when run by crooks it can be harmful to the country ... amybe you need to stop taking your ques from the Romney camp ...

Jack in Wi| 11.10.11 @ 6:51PM

Goood job Quin. I was the first one here to mention Newt's connection with Fannie Mae. I saw it in the debate and immediatly saw it as a possible sweetheart deal. I worked with many goverment consultants in my years in business. You would be shocked how little is done for so much money. I found that to be especially true when the consultant is politically connected.

Simon Templar| 11.10.11 @ 6:20PM

Good job, Quin. You took my suggestion and wasted no time, now you are starting on Gingrich. In fact, you just might be the first of the sycophants to lead the charge on the next self destruction of our candidate.

Romney just can not get in there any faster for you, eh? You really out to save yourself the trouble and just put links to the Huffington Post right in your articles and be done with it.

How about recycling the one about him announcing to his cancer stricken wife that he wants a divorce while she is in the hospital? That lie could be drudged up again as most people do not know that she proposed the idea and it was a mutual decision. Let's also forget she harbors no ill will torwards him and has supported his campaign bids in the past.

I bet you were that kid in high school that loved to gossip and start rumors, sit back, and watch the commencing circus that follows.

aware| 11.11.11 @ 7:23AM

If "your" candidates didn't have so much to hide they wouldn't be targets. That Newt is one of the insiders isn't "rumor", pal, it's a fact. What's worse, the Ruling Elite or those who support them as long as they are wearing "our" team colors?

Simon Templar| 11.11.11 @ 11:53AM

Use your brains. For one, our candidates do not have so much to hide, your candidates need a gigantic media structure to cover their past associations with domestic terrorist, GD hating preachers, marxist educations and mentors, their grades, their elicit affairs WHILE running for office, their direct responsibilities for major scandals, government theft, their association with KKK, and their 25 year history of sexual harassment whereby their wife even helps in that effort. LOL.

Newt is one of the insiders? Another idiotic statement. If Newt was an insider that was approved of by the establishment, he would be in first place or second right at the start of the race instead at the bottom. Quin would not be so eager to trash him. That is a fact.

If Newt has any flaw, it is his ego. In this case it works well for us as he is not a "bought chump" and has ideas, ambitions, and will try to get something done. If he was just a another do nothing RINO and go along get along, he would never have wrestled with Clinton to get welfare reforms, a balanced budegt, or any of it. Get real.
With all the flaws, he a damn better sight than the socialist democrat we have now.

aware| 11.11.11 @ 4:22PM

Hey bud, I don't have any "candidates". All politicians are criminal scum that run a criminal conspiracy called government. Since its obviously over your head I'll spell it out for you, my criticism is coming from the right not the left. Confusion reigns in what passes for "conservatism" these days, Junior.

Welfare reform? Don't make me laugh. In case you haven't noticed entitlements have NEVER and can NEVER be "reformed". Show me a decline in spending on such, Bucko. It took 2 to "triangulate" and Newt was one of them. "Reform" is what the criminal class uses to keep rubes like you hoping and voting expecting "change". Sure its an oldie, but you are proof its still effective.

Wake up Party boy, if welfare had been reformed(HA) or a "balanced budget" had happened we wouldn't be staring bankruptcy in the face.

SpiralArchitect| 11.10.11 @ 6:25PM

Just another illicit relationship for the Newtster......

Illicit?

How so?

Unlawful in what capacity?

Simply throwing out accusations, Quin?

Even in a blog it is considered proper to source ones accusations. Yes, I read the link/piece & found nothing new or questionable there.

Lesser Weevil| 11.10.11 @ 10:56PM

Well this part certainly sticks in my craw:

"Speaker Gingrich has always believed that America should have programs to help low income people acquire the ability to buy homes."

Needless to say, "America" means "the Federal government."

You want to give homes to low-income people, Newt? Go swing a hammer with Jimmy Carter.

Clint| 11.10.11 @ 6:39PM

"In May, when Gingrich sharply criticized Paul Ryan​’s Medicare reform plan, FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey reminded National Review that Gingrich had been a serial offender:

Citing Gingrich’s support of Dede Scozzafava in the 2009 congressional election in New York’s 23rd district, his backing of Medicare Part D and TARP, and his commercial with Nancy Pelosi​ about climate change, Armey observes that “Newt entered the race with serious ground to make up with these 2 million Tea Party activists.”…

Brendan Steinhauser, director of Federal and State Campaigns for FreedomWorks, reports that the Tea Partiers he’s talked to are “irate” at Gingrich… “I never met a single Tea Party activist that supported Newt Gingrich for president,” he adds."

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.

L A Stich| 11.11.11 @ 9:28AM

Umnnnnhhh...there's no "there" there in the WaPo item. Gingrich mouths platitudes. Wow!!

Rubin is Romney's gal at WaPo, and we all know it. The essay proves it.

And I'm NOT a Gingrich fanboy.

Brendan| 11.11.11 @ 9:50AM

Another illicit?

What were the others. I would be interested in hearing. Or is that just hyperbole?

Oldefarte| 11.11.11 @ 11:17AM

Good stuff, Quin! It certainly appears to me that Newt's intentions were dishonorable and politically selfish in this GSE matter. As I've said many times, this whole AFFORDABLE HOUSING welfare scheme began with the 1977 IRA's enactment [by mostly/typically Democrats, but no doubt with a few Republicans as well], and today's credit/housing/defecit explosion is the evolvement of same. Any politician [no matter what political party] who was supportive of these governmental welfare housing policies should be arrested, legally convicted and thrown in jail for theft of taxpayers' funds!!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 11.11.11 @ 11:21AM

PS: This issue reminded me of the dircetly related one of Ron Paul's proposal of downsizing government by eliminating approximately five departments in order to decrease the defecit/debt, and all here should additionally begin a discussion of same. Governmental welfare [of which housing is an huge part] needs to be seriously decreased/eliminated, and Paul's excellent plan is a good place to begin such a discussion!!!!!!!

Loadmaster| 11.11.11 @ 11:34AM

Is there a pattern here? Trash our candidates. All of ours have some baggage or you looking for the one that got the Eagle Scout award for being "nice". Not here. Go next door.

FYI,,,Newt was out of office and was running a consultant firm. His client was Fannie...your point? If this was the case then why not pick on any lawyer? It was called a JOB. Needing a paycheck....make house payment..etc. But, it ain't going to be Mitt....don't doubt us on this.

Oldefarte| 11.11.11 @ 3:13PM

Understanding your point, but being 'out of office' has nothing to do with it. Sandusky was also OUT OF FOOTBALL too, so what? Many of us would gladly 'pick on any lawyer', since many are akin to street prostitutes anyway. I don't like criticism of Republican candidates, but this is different since it goes to Newt's possible policy decisions as an office holder [criticism of Cain over PERSONAL issue is entirely different and not as susceptible towards political policy decision influence as Newt's OUT OF OFFICE possible pandering for financial purposes in this matter]!!!!!!!!