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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Jm
October 26th, 2011
11:02 pm
Deep 10:43
Not true
You’re grasping at the straw of hope for growth
It will not bail us out this time, let go of it
We have to do it the old fashioned way this time
JKL2
October 26th, 2011
11:03 pm
Mick- So, that’s why your a herman cain fan, all that gov’t experience, right?
Not sure he’s the man. The computer quiz Kyle had last week said he was my guy. Still too early for make to make a decision. I can tell you I have voted against obama three time and predict that trend will continue.
At least he’s ran something before. obama had never had to make a decision on anything before he became president. I like my leaders to have leadership experience. obama is still a scared little boy hiding in the corner and he’s been in charge for three years.
My 10 year old daughter has more leadershop skills than obama.
Billybob
October 26th, 2011
11:04 pm
mick,
take all the rich people’s wealth and it doesn’t even come close to beginning to solve our problems….just a drop in the bucket and all libs here know that it’s a straw-man argument, but it has worked great for chavez and many banana-republic dictators…..the only way to fix this problem is serious cuts and to unleash the private sector to generate more revenue…..your ilk want to create exponentially more debt while taking more money from the private sector which will cripple the only engine of growth this country posses……hussein policies of central gov’t planning are destroying this country and since you have been here since the 50’s you have seen this song and dance before, whether you will acknowledge it or not……three years of hussein attacking and lambasting the private sector and the wealthly have led to what…….the brink of riots in the streets…..that will help solve things……three percent more in taxes on the wealthy does nothing sir, except give hussein’s central gov’t planning policies more money to distribute that will create nothing except more debt……….
Kamchak
October 26th, 2011
11:05 pm
We have to do it the old fashioned way this time
You’re a still wet behind the ears weaned on trickle-down naif.
Old fashioned?
Too funny
JKL2
October 26th, 2011
11:06 pm
taxpayer- What ever happened to those folks?
Did you miss the 2010 elections? They kicked a$$ and took names. Expect more of that in 2012.
1811/0311
October 26th, 2011
11:07 pm
Recon/USMC:
http://www.youtube.com/v/X7jE_Sn96YU&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam
bman
October 26th, 2011
11:07 pm
7AM – 10PM …long day at work. Under this administration, I am working double & making 1/2 of what I used to make. I hate to blame the Obama administration because, that means I would then have to give the Bush and Clinton administration credit for (I did well under both). .
If the slowdown hasn’t hit you yet, just wait….it will. Hey brother, can you spare a dime?
AmVet
October 26th, 2011
11:08 pm
He wasn’t conservative.
OF COURSE, he wasn’t!
It was patently obvious back in 2000! But you boys sure were singing a different tune then, remember?
And guess what? Virtually all of these frauds in the hijacked, hemorrhaging GOP are not either.
And there’s the rub; and the primary reason this republic is reeling backwards.
The neo-cons, and frankly the nation, desperately needs a conservative intervention.
OK, I’ve got a very early meeting in the AM.
We shall take up this “debate’ later, gentlemen.
Until then…
Billybob
October 26th, 2011
11:09 pm
kamchak,
your naivety is priceless……keep fighting for the radical democratic way…..you help conservatism in a big way…..must get some sleep so i can get up tomorrow and earn some money that the radical democrats will cry about and want to take from me b/c it’s not fair……..re-visiting elementary school when debating liberals is always a hoot…..good night all
Billybob
October 26th, 2011
11:11 pm
amvet,
the conservative intervention started with brown and continued through nov 2010 and will continue through nov 2012 and you will have your wish…..
JKL2
October 26th, 2011
11:11 pm
deep south- Share the pain or every man for himself? Those sum up the options, dont they?
No. The goal is to be prosperous and then help those less fortunate. OWS is about steal from the rich to give to the poor (IE. nobody wins)
Give a man a fish, he eats for today. Teach him to fish, he eats for a lifetime. Quit trying to steal my fish so you can hand them out.
Kamchak
October 26th, 2011
11:12 pm
good night all
Toodles, Billy-poo.
Mick
October 26th, 2011
11:15 pm
billybob seems like you’ve never made it out of elementary school because you’ve certainly been schooled tonight. All that wealth envy smokescreen is a waste of time – no one is buying that canard…
JKL2
October 26th, 2011
11:30 pm
mick- All that wealth envy smokescreen is a waste of time – no one is buying that canard…
OWS says,”What?” It’s the basis of their movement….
Mick
October 26th, 2011
11:36 pm
No – you say it is their basis. I think they are making noise about the gamblers on wall street who committed the crime of the century and got away with it. Let’s face it, many people walked away with fortunes while the little guy lost their jobs. Damn straight there is anger about that and rightfully so….
1811/0311
October 27th, 2011
12:29 am
“OCCUT*RD” ALERT:
Headline (New York Times): “Cities Crack Down on ‘Occupy’ Protests”
“After weeks of cautiously accepting the teeming demonstrations spawned by Occupy Wall Street, several cities have come to the end of their patience.”
granny godzilla
October 27th, 2011
5:33 am
Newt?
oh please oh please oh please
in fact
double dog oh please
bman
October 27th, 2011
5:48 am
AJC Headline “Metro jobless rate stuck at 10.3%”
The article should be about the “hope and change cheerleader” the nation turned to…
BADA BING
October 27th, 2011
6:28 am
Help Wanted
People needed to staff ‘Occupy Wall Street’
$100 per day /$10 per hour
Apply at ACORN
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
6:29 am
NATIONAL NEWS HEADLINE:Gap between U.S. rich, poor is widest in Atlanta
The article IS about why we still need hope and change.
Obama/Biden 2012
Hell yes we can.
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
6:32 am
Help Wanted
People needed to undermine ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Unpaid intern position
Apply with Andy Brietbart, James O’Keefe or Evan Coyne Maloney
Jimmy62
October 27th, 2011
6:33 am
Not a big Newt fan, but I will say he’s the only one with a really good grasp of space policy, and the vision to take us in to a future where humans live there.
Jm
October 27th, 2011
6:38 am
Space policy?
There won’t be a space policy unless we get our fiscal house in order. As a matter of fact, there won’t be any policies….
USinUK
October 27th, 2011
6:38 am
ahem … OH, SNAP!!
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-heritage-foundation-speech-6530510
Sentence No. 1: pure Ayn Rand. “Makers vs. takers.” Moochers and leeches. You and Them. But especially Them. But not in a divisive way. Oh, no. The Congressman doesn’t believe in divisive class rhetoric. He said so — “To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment…” — earlier in his remarks. And he is not engaging in the politics of division himself. Oh, no. He’s just sad — mournful, even — that the “conceits of liberalism” are on their way to dividing the country into “makers versus takers.” And you know who you are, don’t you? And who They are. And what They are taking… from You.
worth the read …
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
6:39 am
“Gingrich, a longtime supporter of space research, said the private sector and not government should lead the nation into the future of space innovation.”
(http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/06/republican-presidential-candidates-agree-no-more-federal-money-for-human-space-flight/)
and
On the seventh anniversary of the Columbia disaster, President Obama unveiled a sweeping change of course for the nation’s space program Monday, putting an end to NASA’s post-Columbia moon program and shifting development and operation of new rockets and capsules from the government to private industry.
(http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10445227-239.html)
Jimmy 62
Newt’s the only one?
AmVet
October 27th, 2011
6:42 am
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not put this wrecked economy back together again.
Not in three scant years.
Dig in peeps, the middle class LOST ground in the “lost decade” o f2000 – 2010.
For those keeping count, that is four decades in a row of flat-lined income for most of us.
And you really expect this one to be a bed of roses?
And you really think that had the president had an R after his name, things would be all on their way to Groovyville now?
But here’s the kicker.
The most myopic and willfully stupid of you cannot figure out what all the fuss on Wall Street and elsewhere is all about.
No worries. Sit at home, suck your thumbs and suck up to the plutocrats. Others will take the lead…
Normal
October 27th, 2011
6:53 am
Good, good mornin’ to all y’all…
http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/10/26/political-pictures-trollbama-calling/
…and a really good idea…
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/10/26/funny-pictures-iz-makin-peaz/
Normal
October 27th, 2011
7:01 am
http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/10/26/funny-pictures-history-gps-s-o-s/
…must be customer service…
http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/10/26/funny-pictures-history-is-your-name-really-steve/
Jm
October 27th, 2011
7:07 am
China looks at OWS and sees why America is failing. People asking for handouts instead of finding and making work.
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
7:08 am
First we hear Steve Jobs warned President Obama he’d be a one termer if he wasn’t more business friendly.
The right cheered.
Then we heard Steve Jobs was excitedly looking forward to supporting President Obama in 2012 and wanted to do some ads for him.
The right ignored it.
Now we hear what Steve Jobs said about Fox news….
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
7:11 am
Would that be the same China that is currently censoring the term “occupy” from the intertubes?
Normal
October 27th, 2011
7:11 am
Jm
October 27th, 2011
7:07 am
Well then. Instead of pointing fingers, offer solutions. Yes, solutions would be nice.
Jm
October 27th, 2011
7:12 am
Granny. You don’t get it.
Here’s a guy (jobs) who supported Obama. And HE told him he’s about to be a 1 termer. Point is a supporter told him he is about to lose.
If you didn’t have all the facts at hand earlier, that’s your problem. Conservatives knew this but apparently you didn’t. Get over it.
Jm
October 27th, 2011
7:13 am
Normal
I do that every day on this blog
It’s pretty simple math. Cut spending, raise taxes by reducing deductions.
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
7:17 am
JM
I get it, got it, had it, embraced it, understood it, been there done that.
Steve Jobs supported Barack Hussien Obama for President in 2012.
Get it?
Normal
October 27th, 2011
7:18 am
Jm
October 27th, 2011
7:13 am
Explain to me how that would create jobs…I just must be dense, because I don’t see it.
Jm
October 27th, 2011
7:18 am
OFA sends me email about student loan mod
I say they should go to jail for breaking the law and doing this prior to 2014
They say: thanks for your input.
Jm
October 27th, 2011
7:21 am
Normal
It won’t create jobs in the short term
It will balance the budget and prevent calamity and massive unemployment in the future
(granny, if you want to point out the fact that the earth rotates eastward, then have at it. Thanks for pointing out the obvious)
Jm
October 27th, 2011
7:23 am
Ok outta here for a while cheerio
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
7:24 am
Jm
Any comments on Jobs’ comment on Fox?
I mean a superstar business stud says what he said about Fox,,,,,
Normal
October 27th, 2011
7:27 am
jm,
“It will balance the budget and prevent calamity and massive unemployment in the future”.
Again, you are going to have to show me how. It sounds like a “talking point” to me.
Mad Max
October 27th, 2011
7:29 am
“He travels with more baggage than a 100-piece marching band.
Who cares? We survived Bill Clintons and JFK’s antics and the left has notoriosly told us that what people do in their private lives doesn’t matter . We need someone who knows the difference between campaigning and leading. All we’ve got now is Mr. Lollypop promising everyone something whith no clue how to get it implemented or how to pay for it. Newt’s feasible and he will be able to expose the great pretender in the white house for who he is in a debate.
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
7:32 am
Apparently even rAssmussen thinks Obama beats Newt like a yard dog.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html
Normal
October 27th, 2011
7:34 am
Mad Max
October 27th, 2011
7:29 am
Bless your pea pickin’ little heart.
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
7:34 am
Imagine that campaign bumber sticker
“Newt’s Feasible”
Inspires something don’t it.
Mad Max
October 27th, 2011
7:35 am
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
7:32 am
It’s early- where did Obama stand at this same relative time against a hugely unpopular president?
Normal
October 27th, 2011
7:36 am
Stands,
Wow! Fox News would have whipped out a pencil eraser….
Jay
October 27th, 2011
7:36 am
USinUK, that is VERY well done. Everyone should go read it.
Normal
October 27th, 2011
7:37 am
Granny G,
I like “Noot’s a Poot”…
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
7:40 am
The right ignored it.
Now we hear what Steve Jobs said about Fox news….
GG, jm’s iPostgarbage app needs an update, apparently.
Mad Max
October 27th, 2011
7:40 am
Normal & Granny – Are you doing this from OWS ? So intelligent……
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
7:43 am
Mad Max
Candidate Obama was 20 points behind Candidate Clinton.
I hope you do all you can do for Newt’s campaign!
Mad Max
October 27th, 2011
7:45 am
Granny, just goes to show you that anyone can win against a hugely unpopular opresident so don’t be so dismissive.
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
7:45 am
Jay, UnU, yeah it’s a good read.
But I’ll just say this–I already caught a bite of that speech on last night’s news. I heard something that sounded like “it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback.” Mostly I heard “division.”
and all I could think was “you Koch sucking SOB, you’re standing there telling me about ‘divisiveness’ standing in front of a m-fing Heritage Foundation logo!”
I didn’t actually *say* it because the kid was within earshot, of course.
Normal
October 27th, 2011
7:45 am
MAD MAX,
WOW!!! What a come back! I stand truly humbled…NOT!
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
7:45 am
Mad Max
Are you doing this from the 700 club? Club for Growth?
Freedom works? Heritage ? Club Voyeur in West Hollywood?
Adam
October 27th, 2011
7:46 am
USinUK: I love it!
And he is not engaging in the politics of division himself. Oh, no. He’s just sad — mournful, even — that the “conceits of liberalism” are on their way to dividing the country into “makers versus takers.” And you know who you are, don’t you? And who They are. And what They are taking… from You.
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
7:47 am
Mad Max
Dismissive?
Try realistic.
Newt will never be President.
Bank on it.
Normal
October 27th, 2011
7:48 am
Clinton was a very popular President to all except Republicans…same for Obama. The Republicans don’t like American Workers much either. That is why they are going to get shellacked in 2012.
Adam
October 27th, 2011
7:48 am
USinUK: (Let us pause briefly here to point out that anyone who takes Ayn Rand seriously at Paul Ryan’s age desperately needs to get out in the fresh air and sunshine more.)
AHAHAHA!
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
7:48 am
Mad Max @ 7.35, if you want an orange:orange comparo, it’d make more sense to look at how first-term presidents polled against oppo-party challengers at this point in their term.
I certainly recall that Walter Mondale was looking pretty good against Reagan for awhile. Remind me, how’d the Gipper do after his Gallup approvals had bottomed out at 37% during his first term, again?
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
7:51 am
as to the headline–and even though Jay already Tweeted this–
woot woot woot.
Mad Max
October 27th, 2011
7:54 am
Stands – Obama is not Reagan. Reagan had a vision he could articulate that reached accross all spectrums of society and he pulled us out of the Carter years. Obama is a broken record and he is pulling us down into the depths of despair. Big difference.
Jm
October 27th, 2011
7:59 am
I think the esquire piece is comical in it’s lack of analytical heft
Just more leftist hyperbole
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
8:00 am
Reagan had a vision he could articulate
Yeah, that’s Obama’s big problem. Terrible orator. Yeah, you can probably run Newt and win in 2012.
Jm
October 27th, 2011
8:01 am
Granny
I’m sure jobs had plenty of bad things to say about Fox. Fine by me but I haven’t read them
Feel free to provide a link, I may catch it later…. Out
TaxPayer
October 27th, 2011
8:02 am
Obama is pulling the Republican down into the depths of despair. Sounds like a familiar tune from the conned. Take another swig, Mad Max. You’ll be okay.
Mad Max
October 27th, 2011
8:05 am
Stands – Believe it or not, it is. The only one’s who still believe he is a good orator are his believers. At one time I believed he was, but he’s grown smaller in office. I now see a whiny guy who tries to blame his lack of effectiveness on everyone else. We had a guy like that here in my office as Sr. of OPs. Big, articulate, everyone believed him. Two years later, he’s no longer here, cleared out his desk one Friday night..
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
8:06 am
Mad Max
Bless your heart!
You love you some tax raising, deficit raising, terrorist negotiating,
unemployment creating, government growing, illegal amnesty giving,
arms selling Reagan.
Isn’t that special.
Mad Max
October 27th, 2011
8:08 am
Granny, Bless you too.
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
8:09 am
Jm
Fell free to do your own homework.
It’s about personal responsibility.
philosopher
October 27th, 2011
8:10 am
“He travels with more baggage than a 100-piece marching band.
Who cares?
I think it quite funny that the uptight right who in the name of God, want to control the morals of all, including all women’s uteruses, sexual choice, and marriage as defined by a man and a woman, conveniently “forgive” the sexual promiscuity of thieir Republican slimeballs when they need them… soon after impeaching a Democrat for sexual promiscuity…situational ethics at it’s best.
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
8:10 am
Mad Max
I am blessed and very very grateful.
Talking Head
October 27th, 2011
8:12 am
I would love to see Newt in a debate with Obama, it would be classic.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 27th, 2011
8:13 am
Stands – Believe it or not, I am going to make a claim for which I have absolutely no proof but if I say it as if it is fact, some will believe it. Of course it’s just my opinion which many would consider just another whine.
it is . The only one’s who still believe he is a good orator are his believers. At one time I believed he was, but he’s grown smaller in officeFixed that claim to be accurate! No thanks needed.
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
8:13 am
Believe it or not, it is. The only one’s who still believe he is a good orator are his believers.
Well, now you’re getting into incredibly subjective territory. For what it’s worth, Reagan always made me wince. I thought he sounded, at best, mean and nasty, and at worst, just mentally feeble. I never bought the “kindly old man” BS foisted by his apologists (although I’ve later come around to accept that he was probably not a terrible guy on a one-to-one level—and that’s only because I’ve heard his son talk about him often enough to convince me).
Point is, most Americans didn’t seem to share my personal dislike of that President. And I think you’ll find that most Americans don’t share your personal dislike of this one.
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
8:15 am
Talking Head
Me too.
Is there a cream rule in debates?
They’d call it in the 5th inning for Obama….
USinUK
October 27th, 2011
8:16 am
“I would love to see Newt in a debate with Obama,”
the guy who threw a strop because of where he was sitting in AF1???
oh, yeah, he’d be a MASTER debater
Adam
October 27th, 2011
8:17 am
Mad Max: If you really think Obama ISN’T a skilled orator, you are delusional. And likely keep falling for the whole “teleprompter” meme as though other Presidents and high level people who make speeches never ever use them, or cards. Yes, cards are clearly much better, or something.
Really, if you actually listen to him he really does inspire with his speeches. That is true no matter what his approval numbers are, unless you have an irrational hatred and/or fear of the man.
Pat
October 27th, 2011
8:18 am
I remain bemused, and frankly, utterly flummoxed by your wild-eyed, child-like faith in the GOP electorate Jay. From whence doth it come?
You actually believe there is someone – anyone – too ridiculous for this group to nominate for the Presidency? And that would be based upon … what?
You do realize, do you not, that most of the overwheening criticism of the current crop of
candidates is that they’re not quite stupid enough, right? That it’s their occasional stumble into
sane sensibility that tarnishes them with the GOP electorate?
Jay, Jay, Jay. (Sigh.)
Donovan
October 27th, 2011
8:18 am
Gee, Mr. Bookman…who did you vote for in the past presidential elections? And you think that you are qualified to make an astute observation of character and judgement? Pleassssssse!
Newt is the most qualified of the GOP bunch. And his baggage is more offensive than the Democrat trash that has been offered by your side in the past decade?
Adam
October 27th, 2011
8:19 am
stands: And I think you’ll find that most Americans don’t share your personal dislike of this one.
I disagree. He’ll find whatever he wants to find, and ignore the rest.
Personal approval at 72%? I thought you said he was personally moveable with 72% power….
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
8:19 am
“I would love to see Newt in a debate with Obama,”
[…] oh, yeah
I knew that one would make an appearance sooner or later. I love the collective amnesia; that so many have forgotten how Obama’s mettle has already been tested in such forums repeatedly seen by scores of millions of people.
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
8:20 am
Donavan
Have you committed some of your hard earned wages to Newts campaign?
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
8:21 am
He’ll find whatever he wants to find, and ignore the rest.
all lies and jests
still a man sees what he want to see and disregards the rest
(there goes rhymin’ Simon again.)
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 27th, 2011
8:21 am
Newt must have got someone on his staff to dredge up a few supporters this morning to attack Bookman, lol. Hopefully they’ll post fast before the field trip to Tiffany’s.
Tommy Maddox
October 27th, 2011
8:21 am
Isn’t it interesting that we delve only into the personal past[s] of the Republican candidates – past[s] I might add that have little to do with their ability to govern.
Eli Jones
October 27th, 2011
8:22 am
“BO MUST GO”
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“The Obama / Soros’ Occupy Wallstreet Mob” / “Uganda ” / “Obama Giving Solyndra 535 Million Of Our Money”/ “Obama’s Fast And Furious Criminal Operation”/ “Obama Buying His Union Votes With Our Tax Money” / “Obama Empowering The Muslim Brotherhood” / ” Obama’s Hate Speech Provocations” / “Obama putting Muslim’s Rights Over All Other American’s Rights” / “Obama Ignoring North Korean Aggression” / “Obama’s Democrats Voting Against Auditing The Corrupt Federal Reserve Bank” / “Lopsided Nuke Deals” / “Obama’s Expensive & Unnecessary Trip To India” / “Obama’s Illegal Aunt Living Off Our Taxes” / “Obama Taking 500 Billion From Medicare And From Our Senior Citizens To Fund His Illegal’s On welfare”/ “Obama Having The Christian Crosses Covered Up At Notre Dame University For His Speech” / “Mosque At 9-11 Ground Zero”/ “Obama and Hillary calling in the UN to slam Arizona, 22 States & our nation’s laws”/ “Our Tax Money Being Used To Fund The Democrat Propagandist National Public Radio” / “Obamacare” / “Abortions paid for under Obamacare” / “Suing Arizona” / “Obama’s Wealth Redistribution” / “No Social Security Cost Of Living Increase For Retired Americans For Two Years”/ “Bailouts”/ “Bribes”/ “Obama’s & BP’s Mishandled Gulf Of Mexico Oil Aneurysm” / ” Cap & Trade Tax”/ “535 Billion Of Your Money Spent On Illegal’s Every Year” / “Obama’s 2.6 Trillion Amnesty” / “Economy Trashed By The Democrats” / “Democrat Voter Fraud” /” No Real Border Security Enforcement” / “Siding with the Marxist Zelaya in Honduras against the will of the people there” / “No Jobs” / “Beer Summit” / “Calling Our Returning Veterans Potential Terrorists” / “AG Holder setting the 9-11 terrorist trial just blocks from the 9-11 attack site” / “Calling Christians Potential Terrorists” / “Hands Holding Crotch During Pledge Of Allegiance” / “Rev Wright” / “Michelle” / “Massive & Reckless Spending” / “Harry Reid” / “Nancy Pelosi” / “Sestak”/”Obamacare Death Panels” / “Nationalizing Banks” / “Nationalizing US Industry” / “Obama’s Massive Stimulus Failure” /”Calling Tea Party Activist’s Racist’s” / “New Black Panther Party Thugs empowered by Obama’s AG Holder” / “Using the NAACP to spread Racist Propaganda” / “Obama’s Dept Of Justice Refusing To Prosecute Black Racist Discrimination Against White People”/ “ACORN” / “Dead People Voting As Democrats” / “Calling Terrorism A Man Made Disaster” / “Calling America a Muslim Nation” / “Obama Giving One Billion Of Your Money To The Hamas Terrorists Of Gaza”/ “Bowing to the Saudi king of Terror” / “The Obama Apology Tour” / “Obama’s Marxist Czars” / “Obama’s Muslim Czars advocating for Islamic Sharia Law in America” / “Obama mistreating our friends” / “Cap & Trade Tax” / “Obama’s Terrorist Appeasement” / “The Islamization Of NASA” / “Muslims exempted from Obamacare” / “Obama’s Mistreatment Of Israel”
Butch Cassidy
October 27th, 2011
8:23 am
Good morning from NYC Georgia, I see that it’s a bright and sunny 10.3% unemployment day down there. How’s Governor Deal and that status quo treating you this morning.
Oh, and before you start, Georgias UE rate is NOT Obamas fault.
Normal
October 27th, 2011
8:24 am
OH GAWD! Another right wing propagandist…how funny!
Granny Godzilla
October 27th, 2011
8:25 am
Eli Jones is taking Scout lessons!
Tommy Maddox….Yep those republicans Anthony Weiner, Elliott Spitzer and Bill Clinton were mega-delved…
OOPS!
Normal
October 27th, 2011
8:25 am
Mornin’ Butch,
How come y’all’s in Yankee land?
Tommy Maddox
October 27th, 2011
8:25 am
Gee – another blind sheep. How sad.
Donovan
October 27th, 2011
8:26 am
Paul @ 6:34 pm…
What’s with the jealousy thing against “ever-wealthier billionaires”? You seem to have that Democrap communist class envy thing down pretty well.
I do believe that living in this capitalist country with the dream of doing well and enjoying the fruits of our labor is what it is all about.
Get off your “ole poor me” butt and quit hating what the other side is enjoying.
Jealousy is a child’s game.
Adam
October 27th, 2011
8:26 am
BTW anyone citing anything in Newt’s personal life: irrelevant. Newt and Huntsman are the only ones who can sound reasonable, and Huntsman actually IS reasonable. Mitt sounds angry sometimes and full of hot air the rest of the time. Perry can’t stay awake at a debate without enough Red Bulls to almost deck his opponent(s). Bachmann is a woman and won’t make it past a Republican primary simply because of that. Etc etc
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 27th, 2011
8:26 am
Yeah Tommy…that’s right. No one has ever discussed anything in Obama’s prior life.
You must be making a early run for the silliest post of the day, right?
stands for decibels
October 27th, 2011
8:26 am
Newt must have got someone on his staff to dredge up a few supporters this morning to attack Bookman, lol.
Keep in mind that some who are in the AJC’s delivery area have the unique distinction among all 300+ million Americans of actually having voted for the guy at some point. (those outside his Congrefsional district, of course, mostly go “who was he, again?”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 27th, 2011
8:27 am
Morning Butch…. can you send me some good bagels this morning?
Peter
October 27th, 2011
8:28 am
Forget Newt.. the stock market always does best when a Democrat is in the White House, and beginning today we are going to take off.
I hope you folks have made prudent investments in strong US companies.
Adam
October 27th, 2011
8:28 am
Eli Jones: HEADLINE: Obama turns 50 despite Republican opposition.