A nation turns its lonely eyes to … Newt?
Mitt Romney continues to pull the same 25 to 30 percent of the GOP base that he’s had all along. The remainder of his party, reluctant to settle for the man from Massachusetts, continues to look around for a champion who can rescue them from his clutches.
For the moment, that champion happens to be Herman Cain, but it’s impossible to believe that can last. Critical as I’ve been of them, I still have more faith in the GOP electorate than to believe they’re serious about making Cain their nominee. But having run through Bachmann and Perry, where else can they turn?
'Say, um, are you free tonight?'
Well, there’s that portly gentleman with the gray hair over there, the one tugging on his ear and, frankly, trying to look disinterested. The name is Newt Gingrich, I believe.
Listening to Newt these days, it’s pretty clear that he thinks the race may finally be turning in his direction. He looks at Romney and sees a man with a “Nelson Rockefeller problem,” as Gingrich calls it, noting that “there is a natural ceiling” for such candidates in the Republican Party.
(Nelson Rockefeller, for those too young to know, was a moderate Republican and a successful governor of New York who in 1960, 1964 and 1968 lost the GOP nomination to more conservative opponents. Think of him as the original RINO.)
Gingrich also looks around at his fellow candidates and sees rank amateurs, all of whom have had their shot at being the anti-Mitt and have fallen short. Other than Romney, Gingrich is the only major player on the debate stage who actually knows public policy, and it shows.
“At some point I think it’s going to come down to Romney and me,” Gingrich said this week. “Once we get down to a two-person debate, then I’m reasonably confident I will win.”
The former speaker is also positioning himself as the sole grownup in the party, the only one with the self-control needed to be successful next summer and fall. Watching Romney and Rick Perry squabble at the last debate, Gingrich said, made him feel like “I was the recess monitor on the playground, watching these two kids.” He even talks in regretful tones about the decline of mutual respect in politics, noting that “policy dialogue, handled with civility, is exactly what politics should be.”
Of course, it’s impossible to hear pleas for civil dialogue from a man with Newt’s history without giggling a bit. And in his heart he really hasn’t changed much, as evidenced by his recent suggestion that U.S. Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd ought to be tossed into prison. Earlier this year, Gingrich also accused House Republicans of trying to impose “radical … right-wing social engineering” and claimed that President Obama is governed by a “Kenyan, anti-colonialist” mindset. The hyena hasn’t changed his spots, and everyone knows it.
And that’s just the problem. Anybody else with Gingrich’s resume, knowledge and rhetorical skills would indeed be well positioned to become Romney’s main challenger at this point. But Gingrich isn’t just anybody else. He travels with more baggage than a 100-piece marching band.
"You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
To today’s voters, he also comes across as a politician from another century, when men named Clinton and Reagan and Dole walked the corridors of Washington. And he doesn’t seem to get that. In fact, if Romney gives off echoes of Nelson Rockefeller, Gingrich has at least a touch of Norma Desmond about him. Like that once-famous actress in the classic “Sunset Boulevard,” he’s ready for his closeup and certain that he’s going to be just as big as he ever was.
– Jay Bookman
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getalife
October 26th, 2011
7:10 pm
Keep,
A head of ilk .
Here comes sarah in a teleprompter er helicopter.
Mighty Righty
October 26th, 2011
7:10 pm
My biggest concern is not who our canidate will be but who the Democrats are going to run. The Democrat power brokers, the real democrats that run the party, as opposed to the ones on here who merely run their mouths, are seriously trying to ease Obama out. They know he will not only lose but will destroy the party for years to come. The democrats have a history of changing canidates at the last minute when their canidate trails in the polls. Look for Obama to make an announcement that he wants to spend more time with his family early next year.
AmVet
October 26th, 2011
7:11 pm
I DIDN’T vote for Obama…
Niiice.
Open mouth and insert both feet. As well as a hand up to the elbow, some garden tools and ilk gun.
No World Series action tonight. Raining in Mizzou…
Kamchak
October 26th, 2011
7:12 pm
An ilk once bit my sister…..
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the
møøseilkwith the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge – her brother-in-law – an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink”.
Mynd you,
møøseilk bites Kan be pretty nasti…TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:12 pm
josef, No harm intended. “You” referrs to the comment You made in Your comment.
You = people who voted for Obama in general.
F. Sinkwich
October 26th, 2011
7:13 pm
“I guess I will never be in your ilk but I am in your head.”
Not at all, getalife. I am just concerned about the IQ of the lurkers of this blog. If they happen to read your “contributions” without understanding what a moron lib ilk you are, their IQ will recede a point or two.
It’s kind of like a PSA.
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:14 pm
mighty
That’s some pure fantasy wishing goin on there…
josef
October 26th, 2011
7:14 pm
TruthBe
Say what? How does what you said relate to me not voting for President Obama…? Please, clarify…
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:15 pm
I bet sink wears ilk pajamas…
Jay
October 26th, 2011
7:15 pm
The Democrat power brokers, the real democrats that run the party, as opposed to the ones on here who merely run their mouths, are seriously trying to ease Obama out. They know he will not only lose but will destroy the party for years to come.
It appears that Mighty has a mole in the upper reaches of the DNC. Or maybe it’s a molar in the upper half of his jaw. Anyway, it’s one of the two.
Jack
October 26th, 2011
7:15 pm
Lotsa smoke being blown here, but I don’t believe anyone in here will admit they’re gonna vote for Obama. Many of those who voted for him the last time will just stay home this time around.
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:15 pm
Mick, Wake up it’s not a dream. Obama and his administration is destroying America
and the democrat party.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 26th, 2011
7:15 pm
Oh no Aquagirl…… be careful. I heard the only way to bring her down now that she’s been bitten is a silver stake dipped in holy water blessed by a former muslim turned christian turned patriot. You might try a couple cloves of Republican cow pie around her neck to weight her down.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2011
7:16 pm
Hillary/Newt….. now there’s a match in heaven. Both experienced, both determined and both electable. But the price of admission would be to see a Bozo/Newt debate. I cannot believe how Newt would hand the community organizer his hat and make him look like the amateur that he is. Newt would be a good president…… and Bookman knows it.
josef
October 26th, 2011
7:16 pm
Ah, the MORON Lib Ilk…not an endangered species, for sure, but a little on the fatty side…
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:17 pm
truth
I’m awake but its your nightmare. Think mccain/palin where would we be now? Case closed…
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:17 pm
You = You that people in general that voted for Obama. Next question please.
getalife
October 26th, 2011
7:19 pm
f.,
moron ilk?
I think the lurkers can speak for themselves and you and your ilk should stop projecting with that moron crap.
Yellow ilk card.
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:19 pm
yaker
**Newt would be a good president**
There’s a reason your views are a bit off center and definately the minority. Newt? Good grief, obama would hand his head to him, it wouldn’t even be a fair contest…
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:20 pm
Mick, Better than Obama’s economy. Didn’t like mccain either. Did you?
josef
October 26th, 2011
7:20 pm
good fight…
You left out the garlic!
kayaker…
Newt wouldn’t make a good anything…he’s not even a good good-for-nothing, imo…
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2011
7:20 pm
I think Obama is just grateful that the Republicans have no racists amongst them. Otherwise, they might Huff and puff and try to blow his house down, likely with some sort of birther nonsense.
St Simons - we're on Island time
October 26th, 2011
7:21 pm
Well, whoever above said that Romney won’t get the wingnut base out to the polls, I think they’re right. A cursory listen to the local radio stations out here in the hinterlands will tell you that. They’re calling him everything from a cult member to the antichrist. I personally heard “worse than the muslin” on Jacksonville radio just today. I don’t exactly know why I listen sometimes, maybe the Sun Tzu, Know Your Enemy thing.
Soothsayer
October 26th, 2011
7:21 pm
“The democrats have a history of changing canidates at the last minute when their canidate trails in the polls.”
I’m tellin’ Redneck that you done stole his spelling of canidate! He’s gonna be madder than a wet hen!
josef
October 26th, 2011
7:21 pm
TruthBe
Nope. That clears it up.
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:22 pm
truth
I used to respect mccain but he wussed out when bush punked him and didn’t fight back. When he picked palin, that was the last straw, he’s as kooky as dingy harry.
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:22 pm
Mick, I would love to see a debate between Obama and Newt. Newt would destroy the president. Because the president has a free pass from the mainstreet media. And most of you all know it.
Mighty Righty
October 26th, 2011
7:23 pm
Mick-You are close except its no secret. You looney lefties on the other hand, blame Bush who had to deal with a democrat house and senate for most of his eight years while excusing Obama’s failure of thirty three months on 8 months of a republican house. You just can’t get it. Leaders lead, whiners whine. Obama was never qualified to be president and his record is proof.
Kamchak
October 26th, 2011
7:24 pm
…Bush who had to deal with a democrat house and senate for most of his eight years …
Not intended to be a factual statement.
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:25 pm
Gordon: You can be energized to vote for someone or against someone. Unfortunately it will be the latter, but that will still get out the vote.
Anyone want to remind me how well being “not Bush” worked out for Kerry?
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:25 pm
truthbe
By the way, the residuals of the previous administrations epic economic collapse have crippled this country for maybe another 6 to 7 years. Obama is getting blamed for not solving the mess quick enough. Your side wants nothing more than to tag him with the whole deal – we are not buying that garbage….
Soothsayer
October 26th, 2011
7:26 pm
“Bush who had to deal with a democrat house and senate for most of his eight years”
You mean like this Democrat House and Senate?
Joe The Plumber too.
October 26th, 2011
7:27 pm
nah mick, mostly it’s just because urkle is a piece of crap. The ones who need pity are you libs who think that that egomaniac gives one hoot about your lives.
AmVet
October 26th, 2011
7:27 pm
The only debate i have ever seen Newt “win” was when it was with Hannity or O’Reilly…
If he was as smart as the faithful pretend, he wouldn’t say the staggeringly stupid things he does with such regularity.
Hell, he even broke Ronnie’s moronic 11th Commandment…
josef
October 26th, 2011
7:27 pm
A debate between Obama and Newt? Perish the thought…I took that class in undergraduate and it was a waste of time then, too…
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:28 pm
Jack: Lotsa smoke being blown here, but I don’t believe anyone in here will admit they’re gonna vote for Obama.
*raises hand* Uh, I will!
Your candidates suck. There’s really no choice BUT Obama.
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:28 pm
josef, You’re wrong about Newt, his college history class was wonderful. He would be a
great President with a Republican Senate and Congress.
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:30 pm
**and his record is proof.**
-Saved the auto industry
-got bin laden
-got awaliki
-orchestrated moammar’s demis
-ending iraq war
Republicans have done what to help? Sad NO to everything, record number of filibusters
Republicans are the losers, How have they helped america in any way?
OH I know, protected the wealthy from a 3% tax increase. Pathetic…
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:30 pm
TruthBe: He would be a great President with a Republican Senate and Congress.
So would any Republican figurehead.
F. Sinkwich
October 26th, 2011
7:30 pm
“epic economic collapse have crippled this country for maybe another 6 to 7 years”
How about putting that on a bumper sticker, Mick?
Vote for 6 more years of misery!! O’bozo 2012!!!
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:31 pm
joe
If anyone knows about crap, its you. What you said applies to all your guys too, he’s by far the best of the worst. Keep shoveling…
getalife
October 26th, 2011
7:32 pm
Yeah, we need another gop rubber stamp congress.
That ilk never learns from their mistakes.
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:32 pm
You guys acting like the Democrats want Obama out and that no one will admit they want to vote for Obama, well all I have to say to that is you should try to scare Democrats into not voting somewhere else. It won’t work here.
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2011
7:33 pm
Newt, not like our present debacle, really loves this country. His books reflect his deep devotion to our country, our Constitution and what made America the country that it is. This says a lot about a person. Pick up a copy of “Valley Forge” and give it a good read. Not only is he a good author…. he expresses a sentiment for America that Bozo just does not have. Fewer and fewer people want to live in an Obama America. That is obvious to anyone but some dufus who has his head in the sand. We are tired of this clown, his failed policies and his naive approach to what a great country we live in. Bozo has failed again and again. The numbers, like James Carville said, just don’t lie. Newt would be a refreshing change, with ideas that this country needs to survive. We are broke and in survival mode. Nothing much is working and our great country is sliding toward second tier. We need someone with a vision and Bozo’s vision is killing us.
Mark in mid-town
October 26th, 2011
7:34 pm
Jay writes about Gingrich “And in his heart he really hasn’t changed much, as evidenced by his recent suggestion that U.S. Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd ought to be tossed into prison.”
Jay, you left out the context of that suggestion. When the full context is provided, what Gingrich said was quite understandable and reasonable. In a nutshell, Gingrich was criticizing the liberal msm for aiming almost all its fire at the private sector and Wall Street for the housing debacle, while letting people in government such as Barney Frank and Chris Dodd off the hook for their complicity. Their complicity involved not just imposing incredibly bad policy, but also engaging in some very sleazy behavior as well.
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:34 pm
Mick, My dear friend please open your eyes. Obama is a complete failure as the president and the Senate and Congress are to blame aswell. Bush failed with the economy too but not as bad as our liberal president Obama. Just look at the unemployement numbers. Bush’s highest 6%, Obama at least 17%. Some say Obama’s numbers as high as low 20%.
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:34 pm
sink
Sure, brought to you courtesy of the previous lemonhead…
F. Sinkwich
October 26th, 2011
7:34 pm
“-Saved the auto industry
-got bin laden
-got awaliki
-orchestrated moammar’s demis
-ending iraq war”
Go sell that bilge to your neighbor who’s been unemployed because of O’bozo’s anti-business policies.
Be careful though. He might shoot you.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 26th, 2011
7:35 pm
I am with Adam. I voted Obama before and will vote for him again. No way would I have Palin as #2 and no way would any of the current idiots on stage for the Republican that have a shot get my vote. And just to be clear to the clowns who claim “messiah” or some nonsense. Am I completely happy with Obama? NOPE! But he is a better option that any other candidate that will be on the ballot! So shut your piehole
Joe The Plumber too.
October 26th, 2011
7:35 pm
uh-oh mick made a funny. Doesn’t matter who runs against him, urkle is toast and then peanuthead carter will be able to claim he’s the second worst president ever.
josef
October 26th, 2011
7:37 pm
TruthBe
His college class was what? So THAT explains your, uh, often faulty time lines and frequent lack of attention to details and inabilities to accurately reproduce a quote…he’s a quack as an academician, a quack as a poltician, and a quack as a quasi human being…again, imo
Kamchak
October 26th, 2011
7:38 pm
Just look at the unemployement numbers. Bush’s highest 6%…
Not intended to be a factual statement.
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:38 pm
Sinkwich: Go sell that bilge to your neighbor who’s been unemployed because of O’bozo’s anti-business policies.
No such person exists. People are unemployed because of Wall Street and the deregulation efforts of Republicans over a decades.
getalife
October 26th, 2011
7:39 pm
tb,
w collapsed our economy.
You can’t get any worse than that.
You are blind to facts like that.
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:39 pm
Keep: Am I completely happy with Obama? NOPE! But he is a better option that any other candidate that will be on the ballot! So shut your piehole
Exactly
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:40 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight, You Uncle Obama would be very proud of you. Keep drinking
the obamajuice. Adam that goes for you to precious.
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:41 pm
truthbe
One question: In sept 08, when the world economy was about to collapse, whose fault was that? Can you knuckleheads put 2 and 2 together? When the real estate bubble burst, all that hot money came to an end. People don’t have the money to spend anymore, this will take six or seven more years for inventory to clear. OK, so hate obama for whatever your personal reasons are but don’t insult your intelligence by tagging him with all the blame then go one step further and say, how come you ain’t fixed our boy the bushwackers mess?
josef
October 26th, 2011
7:41 pm
“But he is a better option that any other candidate that will be on the ballot!”
And that’s sad…
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:42 pm
TruthBe: I’d like to see you get behind a single candidate and stick with it even if they don’t win the primary. Your party is divided and it’s all because ALL of your candidates suck. Look at Bush vs Kerry for evidence that you guys are now on the side of trying to win simply out of hate for the guy in office. That doesn’t work.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 26th, 2011
7:43 pm
Hmmm… obamajuice vs santorum. i’ll take more juice TB…you stick with the santorum! precious.
AmVet
October 26th, 2011
7:43 pm
One more time for the willfully ignorant:
Asked to rank the presidency of George W. Bush in comparison to those of the other 41 American presidents, more than 61 percent of the historians concluded that his presidency was the worst in the nation’s history. Another 35 percent of the historians surveyed rated the Bush presidency in the 31st to 41st category, while only four of the 109 respondents ranked the current presidency as even among the top two-thirds of American administrations.
And though it sucks bad for you Bushbots, there are plenty of other polls, so far, that put your hero so far behind Jimmy it looks like Usane Bolt running a 100 meter race against….Frank Sinkwich.
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:43 pm
josef, Take a breath please.
getalife, No 911 did.
kamchak, Numbers are true but Obama’s friend at Acorn tell another story. Fauld.
josef
October 26th, 2011
7:43 pm
“Adam that goes for you to precious”
To precious, or not to precious. That is the question, t’wether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous unfortunates, or to take arms against a sea of troubles…
getalife
October 26th, 2011
7:44 pm
Keep’s uncle is the President.
I had no idea I was among the President’s family.
When did ya’ll come out wit “Obamajuice”
Does it taste like ilk?
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:44 pm
joe
The previous president has that worst category all wrapped up to himself, in a class by himself…
sink
The unemployed guy needs to get to the root of the problem, and thats not obama..
F. Sinkwich
October 26th, 2011
7:44 pm
“People are unemployed because of Wall Street and the deregulation efforts of Republicans over a decades.”
OMG.
I hope you got maced down at Woodruff.
Take a bath yet?
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:45 pm
Mick: Obama is the anti-christ who went back in time to destroy the economy in order to get elected and he also gave powers to Barney Frank to have hypnotic control over the Republicans for years so he could push his liberal/socialist/marxist/compromise/progressive/homosexual agenda without the Republicans even knowing he was doing it!
Deep South Outlaw
October 26th, 2011
7:45 pm
I voted for Obama last go round and I believe the present GOP field will force me to do so again. The right wing extremists can call me a socialist all day long, but if a “socialist” is someone that would rather have Obama than someone who says the crazy crap these failed biological experiments put out in the national media…then I need to schedule my appointment to get a Che tattoo and I’ll read some Karl Marx while I’m waiting.
If Pat Robertson is telling you that you’re getting to extreme, you might be just a tad too far out there.
getalife
October 26th, 2011
7:45 pm
“No 911 did.”
Oh my.
We got us a winner here.
Good grief.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 26th, 2011
7:46 pm
josef, I agree it is sad. But I also acknowledge that any candidate has to appeal to a mass of voters and that much of Obama’s administration has been frustrated by a Republican party that has created a dsyfunctional congress the likes we have not seen in decades, if at all.
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:46 pm
Sinkwich: OMG.
I hope you got maced down at Woodruff.
Take a bath yet?
I accept your surrender.
Kamchak
October 26th, 2011
7:47 pm
kamchak, Numbers are true but…
There is no, “but”.
You bore false witness.
That’s one of those big ten thingies.
You are a lying ilk.
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:47 pm
Keep, That’s not my candidate. Try again. Obama is a LOSER in 2012. Why? Because his ideology and policies have failed America and most of the people know this.
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:47 pm
deep south
We hear you, finally a lick of common sense…
Soothsayer
October 26th, 2011
7:47 pm
Washington evidently had no idea that one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world — a society of 30 million people where the literacy rate is 28% and life expectancy is just 44 years — would fiercely fight to retain national sovereignty. The Bush Administration, which launched the Afghan war a few weeks after 9/11, evidently ignored the fact that the people of Afghanistan ousted every occupying army from that of Alexander the Great and Genghis Kahn to the British Empire and the USSR.
The U.S. spends on average in excess of $2 billion a week in Afghanistan, not to mention the combined spending of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, but the critical needs of the Afghan people in terms of health, education, welfare and social services after a full decade of military involvement by the world’s richest countries remain essentially untended.
Heads held high, proud of success — for an unjust, illegal war based on lies that is said to have cost over a million Iraqi lives and created four million refugees! It has been estimated that the final U.S.. costs of the Iraq war will be over $5 trillion when the debt and interest are finally paid off decades from now.
F. Sinkwich
October 26th, 2011
7:48 pm
“Asked to rank the presidency of George W. Bush in comparison to those of the other 41 American presidents, more than 61 percent of the historians concluded that his presidency was the worst in the nation’s history.”
So AV drags this out to make his messiah, O’bozo, not seem as bad as everyone knows he is.
Won’t work, Dufuss. Learn a new tune.
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:49 pm
Kamchak, The numbers don’t lie. Since when do you believe in those “ten thingies”?
GOD bless you anyway my dear friend.
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:49 pm
TruthBe: Because his ideology and policies have failed America and most of the people know this.
Funny. Polls say otherwise. Ask about any of his specific policies and most of them are supported by a majority of the public. Ask specifically about “unions” and suddenly you get a different result than if you ask about members of unions, such as teachers and firefighters. So you guys are good at making dirty words out of thin air, but you lose on substance EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
josef
October 26th, 2011
7:50 pm
good fight
“…if at all…” The Congress of the 1850s, tops it, but not by a comfortable enough margin…
Adam
@ 7:45
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 26th, 2011
7:50 pm
Truthlacking……. so you say….Dewey wins!
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2011
7:50 pm
You cons ought to be posting higher wading shoes with each post.
getalife
October 26th, 2011
7:50 pm
tb,
9/11 did not collapse our economy con.
Where in the world did you get that thought?
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:51 pm
sink
Obama is nowhere as bad as you scream about nor is he as good as you say we say he is but right now, he is by FAR the most competent politician on the roster. He will prevail against your looney tunes much to your dismay….
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:51 pm
“Adam that goes for you to precious”
To precious, or not to precious. That is the question, t’wether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous unfortunates, or to take arms against a sea of troubles…
josef, That was funny and very witty. Much enjoyed that.
saywhat?
October 26th, 2011
7:52 pm
Every time you think that the republicans can’t get any more shallow, somebody lets a little more water out of the pool.
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:53 pm
Keep, Now Now there no name calling. Jay’s watching.
Soothsayer
October 26th, 2011
7:53 pm
9/11 collapsed our economy because it happened in 2001 and the delayed effects of it caused the economy to really collapse in 2008. Get it? It’s really simple.
josef
October 26th, 2011
7:53 pm
Oh, partisans, get real…neither Bush nor Obama are even in the top ten of worst presidents…Good L-rd do any of y’all blathering that have even a cursory acquaintance with American History?
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:54 pm
Adam, Keep dreaming, your wrong. And Obama is a one termer.
Fast and Furious Spending
October 26th, 2011
7:54 pm
To today’s voters, he also comes across as a politician from another century, when men named Clinton and Reagan and Dole walked the corridors of Washington.
What utter nonsense!!!
getalife
October 26th, 2011
7:54 pm
“9/11 collapsed our economy because it happened in 2001 and the delayed effects of it caused the economy to really collapse in 2008. Get it? It’s really simple.”
Ah con ilk logic.
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:55 pm
josef: Who are the top ten worst?
Mick
October 26th, 2011
7:55 pm
josef
Don’t be getting too uppity, we are all entitled to our opinions about the best and worst, why would you think that you have the upper hand?
Kamchak
October 26th, 2011
7:56 pm
Kamchak, The numbers don’t lie.
Exactly.
Let’s get in the wayback machine and review your original assertion, shall we?
TruthBe
October 26th, 2011
7:34 pm
Mick, My dear friend please open your eyes. Obama is a complete failure as the president and the Senate and Congress are to blame aswell. Bush failed with the economy too but not as bad as our liberal president Obama. Just look at the unemployement numbers. Bush’s highest 6%, Obama at least 17%. Some say Obama’s numbers as high as low 20%.
As BLS statistics show, unemployment rates starting in Aug 2008 are above 6% and climbed over 7.5% in Jan 2009.
You
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Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:56 pm
TruthBe: Adam, Keep dreaming, your wrong. And Obama is a one termer.
Nope, I am correct. And you know it. And Obama is a two termer and you know that too. You’re flailing, and mad. Can’t say I blame you. Your entire ideology is crumbling around your feet after being given a glimmer of hope that you would be able to take over the country and turn it into a Plutocracy and Theocracy all at the same time. I would say nice try, but you guys really blew it!
kayaker 71
October 26th, 2011
7:57 pm
I really think that this love of country thing is something to hang your hat on. Look at Bozo during his formative years….. lived abroad in Indonesia, went to a Muslim school, was registered as a Muslim because of this father, traveled in Pakistan and other Muslim countries during in his teens. Some might say that that would be broadening his education but with him, it stuck. He emerged as a tainted liberal with world visions in mind. His mind wasn’t focused on America and loyalty to this country. In his book, he freely admits what his formative years meant to him and how it made a difference as to his philosophy today. He had no real grounding in America. His college years and years in law school simply were fertile ground for what he learned earlier and he made full use of it. He might go on and on in his campaign speeches about his love for this country but I don’t believe it and the majority of Americans don’t believe it either. A person with a real basic love for America, although not having experience, will make decisions based on America’s best interest. He has not….. far from it. Most Americans do not want to live in an Obama America.
Fast and Furious Spending
October 26th, 2011
7:57 pm
9/11 collapsed our economy because it happened in 2001 and the delayed effects of it caused the economy to really collapse in 2008.
What utter nonsense!!!
Looks like I have good reason to keep repeating myself.
Adam
October 26th, 2011
7:57 pm
I’m out for the night. I’ll get to my attackers later
Fast and Furious Spending
October 26th, 2011
7:58 pm
kayaker 757,
Good, good analysis.
Deep South Outlaw
October 26th, 2011
7:58 pm
Mick @ 7:51
I have to agree. Obama has been a huge letdown (especially to the younger, more idealistic voters), and his charisma definitely did not translate well from campaign to administration, but again…the current crop of GOP is so incredibly bad that the GOP will *finally* have to stop making chides about Dukakis and Gore.
Also have to take into account the obstructionist House and Senate GOP. And with the filibuster rules that Harry Reid left in place…the minority in the Senate can obstruct like mad men.