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2011-03-10 Home Front: Politix

Gingrich: Love of country contributed to screwing around

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Posted by tu3031 2011-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 "Thou shall remember the eleventh commandment".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-03-10 03:03|| 2011-03-10 03:03|| Front Page Top

#2 The ten-to-the-twenty-first power example of a lying politician saying what he thinks will sell. This guy is not, will not be, and has never been presidential material. He and $#@%&@@ BO are cut from the same cloth.

Good line on Clinton's "damn, why didn't I think of that!" Damned near perfect for all of these parasites.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2011-03-10 06:53|| 2011-03-10 06:53|| Front Page Top

#3 --Michael Savage, yesterday about Newt, "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Horniness".

Posted by Tom--Pa 2011-03-10 08:10|| 2011-03-10 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I could care less if he came back to Washington with a whore around each arm. He'd be a damn site better than what we have now.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-03-10 08:43|| 2011-03-10 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 He loves his country so much that he tried to prove it individually.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2011-03-10 08:47|| 2011-03-10 08:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Besoeker: Gingrich just didn't have the wherewithal. He was a short term thinker, and more interested in "moral victories" than real ones. He wasn't able to keep his House in order, and this mattered because the Senate was heavily populated by RINOs.

Comparatively, the Tea Party candidates are top heavy with ideas. The first echelon of them in the House are stirring up lots of mischief, and getting experience, so that the second echelon, in 2012, is going to revitalize them, right when the Senate goes Republican.

The only question still outstanding is will the Republicans finally field a serious conservative candidate for president, or will it be another scramble to put "whoever" up as the candidate.

No matter what they say, the RINOs always hated Reagan, and truly hated those policies of his that were more conservative. They will fight tooth and nail to stop any serious conservative from becoming POTUS, preferring a liberal Democrat to a conservative.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-03-10 08:59|| 2011-03-10 08:59|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll have to respectfully disagree with your comment ref "short term thinker." One of the few advantages of advancing age is the massive amount of hindsight one accrues. I believe Gingrich has wisened considerably since leaving public office. Do I think he can defeat an Obama-Clinton ticket in 2012? At this stage, unfortunately I do not. Nor do I have any earthly idea who can.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-03-10 09:37|| 2011-03-10 09:37|| Front Page Top

#8 The two messy divorces make him unelectable. I've said it on the 'Burg before & am happy to say it again - Republican women take candidates' gross personal misbehavior very seriously and very personally. Compare this to Quislincgrat women, who've been perfectly willing to overlook rape (see Clinton, William J.) and even murder (see Kennedy, Edward M.) if they agreed with the guy's policy stands. Dunno about y'all, but come November '12, I don't want half the Republican electorate deciding to stay home.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-03-10 10:15|| 2011-03-10 10:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Besoeker, how can you, or any conservative, forgive this asskissing moment by Newt?

Anyone that flip flops that badly and goes head over heels for big government has no business in the GOP running for president, or even speaking out for the most part.

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2011-03-10 10:37|| 2011-03-10 10:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Newt would suck anyone for a political advantage. I trust the man about as far as I trust the political elite, which is to say none at all since he is one of them.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-03-10 11:10|| 2011-03-10 11:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Iowa goes first. In the Republican caucus the value of good morality is high. If Gingrich gets 5% of the vote there I would be surprised.

Of course, as Ricky notes, the Democrat caucus voters don't have the same values. They gave the morally corrupt Edwards a second place finish.

Unfortunately, I would say those Iowa folks were naive about policy. The Republicans gave Huckabee first place and the Dems gave Obama first place.

Posted by Lord Garth 2011-03-10 11:25|| 2011-03-10 11:25|| Front Page Top

#12 That left an ugly welt Beldar. Please warn me next time you swing the cluebat.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-03-10 12:24|| 2011-03-10 12:24|| Front Page Top

#13 The only question still outstanding is will the Republicans finally field a serious conservative candidate for president, or will it be another scramble to put "whoever" up as the candidate.

A concern of mine also.

You should post a warning on the Pelosi-Gingrich video.

Climate change? Now there's a winning campaign slogan (sarc on).

Posted by JohnQC 2011-03-10 13:21|| 2011-03-10 13:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Compare this to Quislincgrat women, who've been perfectly willing to overlook rape (see Clinton, William J.) and even murder (see Kennedy, Edward M.)

It's a prerequisite.

Posted by gorb 2011-03-10 13:55|| 2011-03-10 13:55|| Front Page Top

#15 If we can't do any better than Newt, we deserve to fall.

Posted by Jefferson 2011-03-10 16:30|| 2011-03-10 16:30|| Front Page Top

#16 That video... ouch. That ideological infidelity is going to haunt Gingrich more than anything else he has done, even the marital infidelity.

Posted by OldSpook 2011-03-10 21:31|| 2011-03-10 21:31|| Front Page Top

#17 Woah! Slam dunk by Beldar!
See ya, Newt...

Posted by tu3031 2011-03-10 21:46|| 2011-03-10 21:46|| Front Page Top

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