Wow. Newt Gingrich condemns political opportunism?
Newt Gingrich, in a South Carolina radio interview, was asked today whether there are things he would not do or say in order to become president. Gingrich used the question to contrast himself with Mitt Romney:
“Sure, there are lots of things that I wouldn’t do. I wouldn’t lie to the American people. I wouldn’t switch my positions for political reasons. It’s perfectly reasonable to change your position if facts change, if you see new things you didn’t see in the past. Everybody’s done that — Ronald Reagan did it.
“It’s wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions based on your need of any one election. Because then people have to ask themselves, ‘What will you tell me next time?’”
I share the speaker’s distaste for crass political opportunism. For instance, what would you say of a politician who on March 7 boldly condemns President Obama for not intervening in Libya on humanitarian grounds and who insists on immediate action …
“Exercise a no-fly zone this evening, communicate to the Libyan military that Gadhafi was gone and that the sooner they switch sides, the more likely they were to survive … This is a moment to get rid of him. Do it. Get it over with… All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we’re intervening. And we don’t have to send troops. All we have to do is suppress his air force, which we could do in minutes.”
.. and then turn around on March 23, after Obama has intervened, to condemn the president for taking that very action?
GINGRICH: I think that two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is a lot … I would not have intervened. I think there were a lot of other ways to affect Qaddafi. I think there are a lot of allies in the region we could have worked with. I would not have used American and European forces.”
I agree with the former speaker: Politicians who turn on the dime for political advantage, particularly on issues of national security and military intervention, are not to be trusted.
Or how about a candidate who talks for years about the necessity of health-insurance mandates as the centerpiece of health-care reform, for example writing in a 2007 op-ed in the Des Moines Register ….
“Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.”
… and who then turns around to claim:
“The intractable problem with such individual and employer mandates is this: once you have a mandate, the government has to specify exactly what coverage must be included in insurance for it to qualify…. This is why individual and employer mandates are bad policy leading down the road to socialized medicine, whether the mandates are adopted at the federal level, or the state level.”
Or how about a candidate who embraces a cap-and-trade approach to climate change:
“I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good.”
and who even makes a public-service commercial insisting that we take action ….
… but then turns around and takes a diametrically opposed position in the 2011 GOP primary?
“I do know that I’m opposed to cap-and-trade and I’m opposed to any kind of massive government response.”
In that South Carolina interview, Gingrich went on to claim:
“I never take polls to figure out where I stand, because I think my job as somebody who’s been at this a long time, and as a historian by training, is to methodically figure out what’s right for America — and how do I explain it to you, so that you understand how we could create jobs, how we could balance the budget, how we could have a better future, how we could save Social Security?”
I find that pretense of principled leadership particularly ironic, because I vividly remember a discussion with Gingrich back in 1994, when he was still a House minority leader. He pulled out a copy of what was soon to become his ticket to fame and fortune, the Contract With America, and bragged that every single item had been poll-tested to ensure that it had an approval rating of at least 60 percent. If it didn’t reach that threshold, it was stricken from the list.
All politicians change their minds; all politicians keep an eye on public opinion. They couldn’t do their jobs if they didn’t. But Gingrich is the only politician in my experience who could tell you with a straight face that Position A is, frankly, the only moral, constitutional position that a patriotic American could possibly ever take, and then turn around tomorrow and tell you that anybody who takes Position A is, frankly, a secular socialist out to destroy this great country from within.
The utter shamelessness with which it’s all done is, frankly, scary.
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RF
November 28th, 2011
3:54 pm
“It’s perfectly reasonable to change your position if facts change, if you see new things you didn’t see in the past. Everybody’s done that — Ronald Reagan did it.”
So, patriotism was his reason for cheating and generally screwing up in the 90’s, and now Reagan is his reason to change his position on issues!! ROFLMAO It’s official-Newt will say anything to get elected. This is just the pot calling the kettle black.
Adam
November 28th, 2011
3:55 pm
Form a sentence with these three words: Pot. Kettle. Black.
Granny Godzilla
November 28th, 2011
3:55 pm
A Newter Twofer.
Newt 2012
Holy Crap that’s Funny!
HDB
November 28th, 2011
3:55 pm
……and people STILL want to make this man a candidate for the Presidency?? Stupidity IS contageous, isn’t it???
Adam
November 28th, 2011
3:55 pm
I wouldn’t lie to the American people. I wouldn’t switch my positions for political reasons
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
Adam
November 28th, 2011
3:57 pm
The utter shamelessness with which it’s all done is, frankly, scary.
But…. he’s so ARTICULATE
(Oh, I could do this all day… I should stop now
)
Lord Help Us
November 28th, 2011
3:58 pm
Newt gets a pass since he is a historian not a lobbyist/consultant…
Don’t all companies pay millions to be advised by historians…
getalife
November 28th, 2011
3:59 pm
Jay drops the Pelosi commercial on the cons.
The hypocrisy of the newt is unmeasurable because he has no shame.
Just run willard and take this loss better than the last time cons.
JamVet
November 28th, 2011
4:01 pm
Which is more laughable?
This bizarre contention in the lunatic fringe that he is some sort of gigantic intellectual heavyweight?
Or that he keeps referring to himself as a historian?
Maybe a hysterian.
Either way, like his Dumb & Dumber Georgia partner in the race, he is an inveterate liar…
TaxPayer
November 28th, 2011
4:02 pm
But the difference with the Newt is that he’s actually old enough now to truthfully claim that he can’t remember his position even from day to day so he can change it to suit the situation without worry. I think a lot of those old tea partiers are in the same boat given their comments about not wanting government healthcare so long as folks leave their government healthcare alone.
Granny Godzilla
November 28th, 2011
4:07 pm
Barney on Newt Today:
“I did not think I had lived a good enough life to be rewarded by Newt Gingrich being the Republican nominee. It still is unlikely, but I have hopes.”
carlosgvv
November 28th, 2011
4:08 pm
The real problem is that most Republican voters will believe every word he and all the candidates say. I don’t think there is any cure for that kind of gullibility. Hey, is this a great country or what!!!!!!
Jack
November 28th, 2011
4:09 pm
I’m getting the idea that Bookman doesn’t like Newt. Anyway, I voted GOP the last time and will this time regardless of Liberal hysteria. We have to remove the Marxist from the White House.
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
4:09 pm
Nancy and Newt should have held hands throughout the commercial…
getalife
November 28th, 2011
4:10 pm
“Judge Jed Rakoff said the proposed $285 million settlement over a 2007 mortgage derivatives deal was “neither fair, nor reasonable, nor adequate, nor in the public interest.”NYT
Score one for OWS.
Get Real
November 28th, 2011
4:17 pm
So Jaybo, I guess the bottom line to your column is that you are not voting for Newt? Does that about sum it up…
Granny Godzilla
November 28th, 2011
4:18 pm
Jack
Marxist in the White House?
Bless your heart.
Talking Head
November 28th, 2011
4:20 pm
When Newt was Speaker, we cut taxes (captial gains), balanced the budget, and had budget surpluses.
While Obama has been President, we have spent more money than we ever have, the unemployment rate continues stay above 8%, and we are adding more to our national debt and budget deficit than ever.
So whether or not Newt changes his mind from point A to point B, it doesn’t matter too much with regards to the recovery of America. Obama’s decisions and policies haven’t helped us, we’ve witnessed the short-term ’success’ of his policies and we’ve witnessed they have no long-term sustainability. I don’t care if Newt get the nomination or even wins the Presidency, as long as Obama is out it’s gravy.
Granny Godzilla
November 28th, 2011
4:24 pm
Talking Head
“Obama’s decisions and policies haven’t helped us, we’ve witnessed the short-term ’success’ of his policies”
not intended as a factual statement
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
4:24 pm
You know, the Republican Party has a candidate with appeal to moderates and centrist Democrats who could win an election against Obama. It’s Jon Hunstman…the problem is the Republican Party doesn’t like him. Instead they trot out candidates like Newt.
Are they trying to lose?
JamVet
November 28th, 2011
4:25 pm
Great news, getalife!
Sadly, none of these Wall Street money launderers and legalized thieves will do time though.
Hundreds of millions in fines every other year for outrageous criminal activity is now just the cost of doing business for BIG business.
These criminally riddled organizations like Citi, JPMorgan Chase and BoA are economic terrorists. And are infinitely more dangerous to this republic than any group of Muslims or Mexicans.
And as the SEC now works for the banksters and white collar criminals, thankgawd there is still one United States District Judge with a functioning spine, who is interested in justice being served…
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
4:26 pm
Lord Help Us,
“Don’t all companies pay millions to be advised by historians…”
I think some recent history major grads will be sourly disappointed.
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
4:28 pm
Boy! Jay! four threadie thingies in one day!! I’m impressed.
Is it gl-u-u-u-u-u-u-mey today or what? Doing the Lake good, though!
dw
November 28th, 2011
4:29 pm
Newt deserves a prize for being the worlds largest d0uche bag
Jimmy62
November 28th, 2011
4:31 pm
Gingrich’s positions are not mutually exclusive. In the first he is not necessarily saying he would have intervened, he’s instead saying if he was going to intervene, he would go all out and Obama should have gone all out, too. And in the second he’s saying he would not have intervened. So basically, “I would not have intervened in this situation, but if circumstances forced me to, I would have gone all out towards the goal, rather than going in wishy-washy like Obama did.”
It’s only a change of position if you have the reading level of… Well a typical US high school graduate. On the other hand, if you care about the meaning of words then it’s not at all a change of position, but two separate statements that are related to each other, but not mutually exclusive of one another.
Where’s the column on how “I will close Guantanamo” is different from the reality that three years later Guantanamo is still open? Or how “We shouldn’t raise the debt limit” [Obama 2006] is different from “The GOP isholding the country hostage by not raising the debt limit? [Obama 2001]”
Oh, wait, I get it. You attack the GOP for everything, and ignore worse things from the Dems. I forgot this was a Bookman column and that truth and logic don’t matter, my bad!
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
4:33 pm
dw,
“Newt deserves a prize for being the worlds largest d0uche bag”
Close:
http://sgfitnessblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/worlds-biggest-douchebag.jpg
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
4:35 pm
“if you care about the meaning of words then it’s not at all a change of position, but two separate statements that are related to each other, but not mutually exclusive of one another.”
Boy that Jimmy can tap dance.
CJ
November 28th, 2011
4:35 pm
Let’s not forget that Gingrich, a thrice-married serial adulterer, is now going around telling some religious conversion schtick indicating he worked so hard that he became, well, like an alcoholic. Amazingly, the social-conservatives are impressed.
This guy has been selling snake oil for decades, and I’m amazed that anybody is still gullible enough to buy what he’s selling.
(By the way, when speaking, this schmuck still refers to the word list that he distributed in the 90s to describe how to describe his political allies and political enemies: http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/000013.php)
dw
November 28th, 2011
4:35 pm
@JEW
LMFAO!
FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real)
November 28th, 2011
4:37 pm
Newt/Perry 2012. Somebody pass the popcorn…
Midori
November 28th, 2011
4:37 pm
lol – even Joe Scarborough is along for the ride: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/joe-scarborough-destroys-newt-gingrichs-conservative-principles/
barking frog
November 28th, 2011
4:37 pm
Jimmy62 4:31 “exercise a no fly zone this evening”
v.
“I would not have intervened”
Mutually exclusive.
jconservative
November 28th, 2011
4:38 pm
Re Gingrich:
“On January 21, 1997, the House of Representatives voted to discipline him for ethical wrongdoing. He was accused of using tax-deductible charitable donations to fund a non-charitable college course that he taught, and of giving false information about this to the House Ethics Committee. In a 395-28 vote, the House ordered Gingrich to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty as part of a settlement to avoid a full hearing.”
Is this the guy some of you want in the White House?
Are you sure?
Talking Head
November 28th, 2011
4:41 pm
Is this the guy some of you want in the White House?
Are you sure?
We voted a former coke-head president last time, why not?
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
4:41 pm
Midori,
Best line: “There are probably a lot of conservatives who will dismiss Scarborough as a RINO, as they often do when they want to protect whatever delusion they’re nursing”
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
4:43 pm
Well I swear, Nancy was leaning in to kiss Newt at the end of that commercial!
Nancy was in the “no fly zone”
Midori
November 28th, 2011
4:43 pm
JCB – Newt and Hermie must be in a contest
Fox 5 report to accuse Herman Cain of 13-year affair
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2011/11/28/fox-5-report-to-accuse-herman-cain-of-13-year-affair/
FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real)
November 28th, 2011
4:43 pm
“If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don’t have upper body strength. I mean, some do, but they’re relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets, you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn’t matter, you know. These things are very real. On the other hand, if combat means being on an Aegis-class cruiser managing the computer controls for twelve ships and their rockets, a female may be again dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”
– Adjunct Professor Newt Gingrich, Reinhardt College, January 7, 1995, “Renewing American Civilization.”
Welcome to the Occupation
November 28th, 2011
4:44 pm
Newt Gingrich is pure schizo-politics. He takes flip flopping one step further and delivers it with a cynical wink an earnest diatribe of impending doom. His face is like a skull on a frieze. An artifact of imperial doom
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
4:45 pm
Midori,
“Cain denies an affair, but not a relationship,”
Was a blue Banana Republic dress involved?
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
4:47 pm
FAUX news alert.
DANGER! DANGER!
jconservative
November 28th, 2011
4:48 pm
“When Newt was Speaker, we cut taxes (captial gains), balanced the budget, and had budget surpluses.”
Not totally correct. Clinton submitted a balanced budget for FY 1999 while Gingrich was Speaker. That was approved by Congress while Gingrich was Speaker. You can really give John Kasich more credit than Gingrich for the 3 balanced budgets as he marshalled them through the House.
Then on 11/25/1998 Gingrich announced that he would resign as Speaker and also resign as a member of the House.
Congresss then passed and Clinton signed the FY 2000 and FY 2001 budgets as balanced.
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
4:49 pm
“males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”
That is why you don’t see giraffes in herds on the North American plains.
jconservative
November 28th, 2011
4:49 pm
Talking Head November 28th, 2011 4:41 pm
Point taken.
JamVet
November 28th, 2011
4:50 pm
Newt was in a firefight alonside Bill O’Reilly…
Mr. Dithers
November 28th, 2011
4:50 pm
Gingrich’s positions are not mutually exclusive. In the first he is not necessarily saying he would have intervened, he’s instead saying if he was going to intervene, he would go all out and Obama should have gone all out, too. And in the second he’s saying he would not have intervened. So basically, “I would not have intervened in this situation, but if circumstances forced me to, I would have gone all out towards the goal, rather than going in wishy-washy like Obama did.”
NIce spin, Jimmy62. The first point is that he made his initial comments BEFORE the President and NATO intervened. He was telling him to intervene. Then, after he did intervene, Newt said he wouldn’t have intervened. Those are mutually exclusive. It’s apparent you didn’t quite reach the reading level of the average US high school graduate.
Granny Godzilla
November 28th, 2011
4:50 pm
Talking Head
November 28th, 2011
4:41 pm
Is this the guy some of you want in the White House?
Are you sure?
We voted a former coke-head president last time, why not?
Actually I voted for the guy who tried coke as a young man…I think you voted for the adult alcoholic coke head
FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real)
November 28th, 2011
4:52 pm
jewcowboy@4:49: dude – you can’t make this stuff up!!!
Mr. Dithers
November 28th, 2011
4:53 pm
This isn’t even the pot calling the kettle black. This is the pot calling the pot black.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 28th, 2011
4:54 pm
I was going to suggest a limbo contest, but some of our posters seem to be able to go into the gutter without any effort.
Can Newt lecture us on marriage and fidelity next?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 28th, 2011
4:56 pm
Well, everybody lies a little. When we do it it’s just to get elected. When the libruls do it it’s because they can’t help theirselfs. They’re just liars.
Elect Newt but keep an eye on your missus if he’s in town. Other politicans just screw you over because it’s the way they are. Old Newt will go after your wife.
Almost quitting time. I can’t hardly wait to get home and watch Fox News. Have a good night everybody.
Doggone/GA
November 28th, 2011
4:57 pm
“because they get infections ”
I always loved this one! I’ve wondered ever since the first time I heard it if he thinks menstruation is infectious!
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
5:00 pm
“Old Newt will go after your wife.”
Brosephus
November 28th, 2011
5:03 pm
Not another Newt….
Y’all can have it. I’ve had enough servings of partisan soup for the day.
Peace out!!!
Mr. Dithers
November 28th, 2011
5:06 pm
Shameless is the perfect word for this guy. Going after Clinton while having an extramarital affair of his own, changing his positions on health care and global warming while ridiculing others for doing the same, lecturing the media on the proper questions to ask candidates, etc., etc., on and on, ad nauseum. If a Democrat had resigned from the Speaker position and the House as Newt had done and was now running for President, Newt would be out front and center condemning that Democrat for having the temerity to run for the highest office in the land with that history. It boggles the mind that this guy is the frontrunner. Just amazing.
Jim Pierce
November 28th, 2011
5:06 pm
You people are amazing. NONE of you have evolved, grown, made mistakes, and became who you are today right? EVERY mistake you have ever made, you should pay for , for a lifetime. Talk about Georgia rednecks !!
Grow the heck up… and buy a clue.
JamVet
November 28th, 2011
5:06 pm
Newt is old school.
Unlike Michelle and Sanitarium he would not sign the “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family” unless it contained language stating that white families led better lives during slavery…
Not Newt
November 28th, 2011
5:09 pm
Newt Says – “It’s wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions based on your need of any one election. Because then people have to ask themselves, ‘What will you tell me next time?’”
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This is what Republicans expect from their leaders: “I want you to tell me everything I should think”.
Does this mean Republicans cannot think for themselves!
Jim Pierce
November 28th, 2011
5:09 pm
Judgemental Jamvet? “Let him who has no sin, cast the first stone”.
Doggone/GA
November 28th, 2011
5:10 pm
“Shameless is the perfect word for this guy”
He’s not the only one either. Who was it, earlier, that kept saying something about giveing Clinton a “pass”? And here’s ol’ Newtie being given just such a “pass” Hypocrisy runs rampant.
Doggone/GA
November 28th, 2011
5:12 pm
“Judgemental Jamvet? “Let him who has no sin, cast the first stone”.”
Ummm…being judgemental, are we? Don’t go looking in a mirror for a while, it might crack.
Not Newt
November 28th, 2011
5:13 pm
@Jim Pierce November 28th, 2011 5:06 pm – You people are amazing. NONE of you have evolved, grown, made mistakes, and became who you are today right?
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May we not become or dismiss the evil that we deplore!
JKL2
November 28th, 2011
5:13 pm
carlosgvv- The real problem is that most Republican voters will believe every word he and all the candidates say. I don’t think there is any cure for that kind of gullibility
obama says,”What?” Hope and change all the way to my bank. Hahahahahaha….
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
5:13 pm
“EVERY mistake you have ever made, you should pay for , for a lifetime. ”
A lifetime of actions, in this case 68 years worth, demonstrates who you are as a person and where your internal compass of rectitude points. Actions do indeed speak louder than words.
retired early
November 28th, 2011
5:18 pm
An article in todays NYT talked about the Democratic Party losing the “white middle class vote”.
Their surveys found that the White, college educated vote predominately Democrat, while the working class, less educated, vote Republican. This has been the trend for over 3 decades. The GOP began targeting that group in what was called “the southern strategy”, where they target a less informed, and therefore more gullible voter.
It is truly an amazing to see these people continue to vote against their own best interest…but then again…when roughly 20% of the population has a college degree…that leaves 80% who don’t.
Now, it is starting to make sense……
Ross Perot
November 28th, 2011
5:21 pm
Amazing how the libs want a perfect record on ethics in the white house,(see Solyndra and other green jobs for campaign cash programs) and an iron clad non flexible will, (see Obama caving on the bush tax cuts and christmas tree tax). Rofllmao
too little time
November 28th, 2011
5:21 pm
Newt’s stand on health insurance is not a contradiction. Demanding someone of means buy health insurance is a far cry from the government enshrining a personal mandate in law, and handing out subsidies and credits to the bottom half of taxpayers at the expense of the top half.
I am not a big new fan, but JB logic on this point is abysmal.
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
5:22 pm
“Let him who has no sin, cast the first stone”.
“The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose.”
“These people (congressional Democrats) are sick. They are so consumed by their own power, by a Mussolini-like ego, that their willingness to run over normal human beings and to destroy honest institutions is unending.”
“Woody Allen had non-incest with his non-daughter because they were a non-family. It fits the Democratic Party platform.”
“I’m willing to lead, but I’m not willing to preside over people who are cannibals.”
“We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.”
Three guesses who cast those stones…
Doggone/GA
November 28th, 2011
5:22 pm
“Amazing how the libs want a perfect record on ethics in the white house”
You guys REALLY need to coordinate better. Earlier today we were being chastised for being too soft on Clinton. Now which are we? Rigidly inflexible, or too soft?
JamVet
November 28th, 2011
5:24 pm
Jim, I know that adage has some power amongst the mythologists here, but for me?
(I had a lovely supper and all I said to my wife was that that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaORknS1Dk
jewcowboy
November 28th, 2011
5:24 pm
Ross Perot,
“Amazing how the libs want a perfect record on ethics in the white house”
So we might as well elect someone without them to begin with huh?
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
5:29 pm
Here’s the great new DNC Mitt Romney ad! You’ll love it!
Doggone/GA
November 28th, 2011
5:31 pm
“So we might as well elect someone without them to begin with huh?”
Welllll…we’re going to do that anyway, but at some point we have to decide to what degree we can tolerate the unethicalness.
pogo
November 28th, 2011
5:35 pm
A NYT’s article today said that Obama had abandoned seeking the support of the white working middle-class people in this country in his re-election effort. He has decided that his coalition in 2012 will be comprised of those that rely upon government for everything in their lives (the ignorant poor, if you will) and those old Keynesian/revolutionist remnants of the 60’s, the so-called “intellectual elite”. This once and for all tells us what Obama is all about. He is a who gratifies himself with living as and nourishing the rich of his choosing and ignoring everyone else. As for the poor, they are to be used by him to further his cause. He doesn’t really care about them, but they are an easy bunch to manipulate and he knows this. He relies upon their need and their ignorance to support them.
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
5:38 pm
Well, RepugNOcan’ts, name your poison!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 28th, 2011
5:43 pm
JCB: So we might as well elect someone without them to begin with huh?
Does the name Deal ring a bell?
tiger-uga
November 28th, 2011
5:44 pm
Gosh, it is the same group of people commenting on this blog as your last one! Just like I said before people, exchange phone numbers and do a conference call! I think I will go over and read the New Hampshire paper!
Billybob
November 28th, 2011
5:46 pm
hanging on by a thread liberals……….love it…..jconservative…….we have a president who started his political career in the living room of an un-repentant domestic terrorist…..is that what you really want? are you sure?
jay, you sure are good at whipping up a liberal crowd, so do you moonlight as a community organizer? maybe you could challenge the community organizer in chief in the primaries…….just like hussein, fanning the flames of the liberals will not be enough this time around b/c your radical dem party has lost the middle……..enjoy the landslide, at least barney frank can see the handwriting on the wall, and like a true radical liberal statist without a spine, is bailing out…..and bless his heart, as long as krugman keeps writing columns on ‘things to tax’ your ilk is doomed…….please keep it up libs!
Doggone/GA
November 28th, 2011
5:47 pm
“Gosh, it is the same group of people commenting on this blog as your last one!”
Well golly gee! And here you are, the same person who lcheck the blog the last time.
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
5:49 pm
Here is the article to which pogo refers. Notice that this is an opinion piece, and the views expressed are the opinion of the author not actual fact.
Not Newt
November 28th, 2011
5:50 pm
@Ross Perot November 28th, 2011 5:21 pm – Amazing how the libs want a perfect record on ethics in the white house.
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“Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.”
“Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.”
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
5:53 pm
After all, why would Obama want to go after low-information voters without college degrees who get all of their “information” (propaganda) from talk-radio. It just doesn’t make sense.
Not Newt
November 28th, 2011
5:54 pm
Newt is what stupid people think smart people sound like!!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 28th, 2011
5:55 pm
We have a new standard from Cain’s attorney, Lin Wood, based on the accusations of a 13 year affair by an Atlanta woman with Hermie:
individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public’s right to know and the media’s right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one’s bedroom door.
I bet Newt is for the moving of the goalposts too. So now, after accusing liberals of “giving Clinton a pass”, the Republicans now move to say its now off the table. So much for those “high republican standards”.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 28th, 2011
5:56 pm
Okay to fix the quote
No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public’s right to know and the media’s right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one’s bedroom door.
Ross Perot
November 28th, 2011
5:56 pm
Wow, Bill Clinton balanced the budget. Revisionist history.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5656
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
5:56 pm
Billybob: you are either md or Dave R. Your posting style is unmistakable with all of the periods. And, since md would have not reason to disguise his/her name, then that just leaves you Little Davy Crybaby.
You know, Little Davy Crybaby, nobody really reads your marginally coherent rants. You have some real anger issues you need to address. I just hope you don’t belong to a militia.
Doggone/GA
November 28th, 2011
5:57 pm
“So much for those “high republican standards”.
Oh, they have high standards, they just don’t last very long!
JamVet
November 28th, 2011
5:59 pm
So what is this about Herman having an affair with a 13 year old? (LOL)
Notwithstanding BHO’s obvious failings, what incredible works of art you fake cons trot out there every cycle now, huh?
Cain is the new Keyes.
Michelle is the new Sarah.
And Mitt is the new……..Mitt!
roughrider
November 28th, 2011
6:02 pm
Newt would say or do anything to advance himself.One word describes Newt and that word is LIAR.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 28th, 2011
6:02 pm
AmVet – from 11alive: http://www.11alive.com/news/article/215095/40/Cain-says-he-has-been-accused-of-having-an-affair
Lord Help Us
November 28th, 2011
6:03 pm
Reagan taught us that deficts don’t matter…
Now Newt (and his followers) teach us that morals and ethics don’t matter…
Thanks…
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
6:04 pm
Ross Perot: and your point is? Why couldn’t they do that under a Republican President? Like, say, George W. Bush? Huh?
Billybob
November 28th, 2011
6:06 pm
no anger in my post, the only anger being whipped up is coming from the white house through class warfare and the crying is also coming from the white house as they blame anything and everything for their failed central gov’t policies EXCEPT for, drumroll please, themselves…….don’t own a gun so no militia…..just truth about your boy hussein……funny that nobody reads my posts……except you and you didn’t refute any of my points which are very accurate……so keep up the LIB 101 ‘intellectual superiority’ template, that will work for you…….and fyi billybob speaks for billybob and only billybob….thought you would like that one lib…..enjoy what the radical libs have done to your party in the coming elections
Ross Perot
November 28th, 2011
6:07 pm
Come on Not Newt, you can say it. Solyndra. Now that didn’t hurt too bad ostrich, did it?
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
6:07 pm
Here’s a chart from an article that I posted earlier in the day. To my mind, this is what is wrong with America. Notice where the big change took place. That same 1980 date that keeps coming up time and time again.
godless heathen
November 28th, 2011
6:07 pm
Jay, Granny, Keep, and Doggone won’t be voting for Newt. Nothing to see here so I’ll move along.
Not Newt
November 28th, 2011
6:09 pm
I share the speaker’s distaste for crass political opportunism.
For instance, More republican opportunism and failure. Using the christmas bombing as a fundraiser!
I remember!!!!!!!!!!
Not Newt
November 28th, 2011
6:13 pm
@Ross Perot November 28th, 2011 6:07 pm – Come on Not Newt, you can say it. Solyndra. Now that didn’t hurt too bad ostrich, did it?
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Mr. Perot, I am not hurt by your statement!
Hurt people hurt people!
You should know.
Lucifer
November 28th, 2011
6:13 pm
I ask you: What kind of GOP voter eats Newt’s crap? He obviously thinks the entire U.S. population is filled with dunces who can’t figure out his flip-flops and outright lies. I am stunned and frustrated that someone who was forced out of Congress after paying a $300,000 penalty for ethics violations, brought the entire nation to a standstill by shutting down The Hill, divorced his wife when she was diagnosed with cancer, and moved to impeach Clinton over Monica Lewinsky while concurrently having an affair with another woman himself, is garnering so much attention from Republicans. The man is a lying hypocrite who needs to be cast into the scum bucket of history but his supporters are too stupid to realize the depth of his effrontery and transgressions. If you support Newt Gingrich, you are nothing short of an embarrassment to those of us who actually have brains which allow us to protest when he pisses on our legs and tells us it is raining.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 28th, 2011
6:17 pm
If you support Newt Gingrich, you are nothing short of an embarrassment to those of us who actually have brains which allow us to protest when he pisses on our legs and tells us it is raining.</i?
Well, it is raining at my trailer, so there!
philosopher
November 28th, 2011
6:19 pm
Talking Head
November 28th, 2011
4:20 pm
Oh, so I guess you can ask your wife for a divorce when she’s in the hospital dying of cancer, divorce another one or two, cheat on at least 2 of them, flip flop unashamedly on one position after another, but if you have a “normal” last name and are white and cut taxes…you’re just what the country needs.
Billybob
November 28th, 2011
6:20 pm
lucifer,
i guess newt and clinton are of the same mold huh?
Ross Perot
November 28th, 2011
6:21 pm
I lost all respect for Bush when I did a small contract job in Georgia through a parent company for a family in a modest sized house with the last name Haliburton, and the house was an autographed G.W. shrine. I realized at that point that most in washington are servants of those with money,do their bidding, and furthermore, nothing will change until elected officials have tangible fear for their harmful dealings.
Are Republican Candidates Morally and Ethically Bankrupt?
November 28th, 2011
6:25 pm
Another woman has come out and said that she had a 13 year affair with Herman Cain.
Newt is also without blame.
Are these people morally and ethically able to be president of the United States?
Are the american people willing to look the other way while their candidates live in glass houses and throw stones?
Shame on Americans who tolerate this type of behavior. HAS IT COME TO THAT?
Washington Outsider
November 28th, 2011
6:28 pm
Newt Gingrich should have been a K Street lawyer, not a history professor.
bman
November 28th, 2011
6:32 pm
Obama vs Newt .. .. are these two guys the very best we can do??
Lucifer
November 28th, 2011
6:36 pm
Billybob: No, Bill was a lying cheat too. I smiled with glee from his comments “I have never had sex with that woman.” So emphatic; so convincing. Until the stained blue dress emerged. “Busted.” What an ass. OK, grant both men are horndogs, but Bill did leave the nation with a surplus and we were better off during his administration than under any other prez in recent memory. Conversely, Newt is a slug who has spent too much time on the public dole and his spot in history is one of being destructive, instead of being constructive. And let’s be reminded of his most recent mind-numbing explanation — that he was a “historian” for Fanny Mae who was paid almost $2 million from a program that he later attacked as inefficient and damaging to the economy. There he goes again, pissing on our pants leg and claiming rain — when there isn’t a cloud in the sky.
tiger-uga
November 28th, 2011
6:40 pm
godless heathen
November 28th, 2011
6:07 pm
Thank you!
JamVet
November 28th, 2011
6:41 pm
That Newt ever got elected to the United States House of Representatives in the first place is testament to Georgia Republicans that apparently don’t give a tinker’s damn about fidelity, morality or ethical behavior.
And it is only getting worse. Take a long look at this disgusting, criminally riddled administration in Atlanta as proof…
Are Republican Candidates Morally and Ethically Bankrupt?
November 28th, 2011
6:42 pm
Republicans vow to block President Obama’s payroll tax cut and they object to raising taxes on millionaires!
That means you and others will have to suffer WHILE the rich get richer!
Republicans are the party of the 1% and if you are not among the 1% YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED.
spaceman109
November 28th, 2011
6:45 pm
if the g.o.p. wishes to commit electoral suicide next november, they should nominate newt. then we shall be stuck with obama for four more years.
and we wait for newt to become weary of wife number three…..
Not Newt
November 28th, 2011
6:47 pm
@bman November 28th, 2011 6:32 pm – Obama vs Newt .. .. are these two guys the very best we can do??
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At least Obama is trying to help the middle class without lining HIS pockets. Newt took 1.6 million dollars from Freddie Mac and lied about it. Obama may not be perfect but compared to Newt he is!
I will take Obama over Newt any day of the week.
tiger-uga
November 28th, 2011
6:47 pm
Man, there is some real good reading over at the Unionleader.com unlike this garbage at the AJC!
Primary Status: Eight NH House members sign on with Newt Gingrich
By JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
Published Nov 28, 2011 at 3:00 am (Updated Nov 10, 2011) ShareThis
MONDAY, NOV. 28, UPDATE: EIGHT FOR NEWT. Following his Sunday endorsement by the New Hampshire Union Leader, GOP presidential candidate and former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday picked up the backing of eight New Hampshire House members.
Backing Gingrich were Reps. Laurie Pettengill of Glen, who backed Mitt Romney in 2008, as well as Glen Hill of Northfield, Don McClarren of Nashua, Joe Pitre of Farmington, Kathy Lauer-Rago of Franklin, Joe Osgood of Claremont, Brandon Giuda of Chichester and Ken Sheffert of Hampton.
Pettengill said that although she backed Romney in 2008, “I have chosen to be with Newt this time because I feel he is the most conservative candidate today. He not only has the political know-how, but he will immediately put in to place actions that will renew America”.
flagger
November 28th, 2011
6:48 pm
Hey Bookman, are u a democrat or what???
Paul
November 28th, 2011
6:50 pm
“The utter shamelessness with which it’s all done is, frankly, scary.”
What’s more scary are Republicans who say “yeah, so? I’m for Newt!”
Jimmy62
“In the first he is not necessarily saying he would have intervened, he’s instead saying if he was going to intervene, he would go all out and Obama should have gone all out, too”
How do you get that when the question was “What would you do about Libya?”
Jay
There may be another point in all this. First Romney, then Newt…. candidates who think they have a chance have recognized just how extreme in their positions and powerful in their influence is the Republican base.
Newt seems to have concluded if your name isn’t Mitt, you can get away with it.
getalife
November 28th, 2011
6:50 pm
We cheat because it is human nature and our dna demands we spread our seed.
Cheating is the least of their lack of morals.
The cons are the dark side of evil doers.
Not Newt
November 28th, 2011
6:53 pm
@tiger-uga November 28th, 2011 6:47 pm
Republicans are FLIP FLOPERS! Newt is the flavor of the week. What happen with Herman Cain everyone was so excited about?
YOU PEOPLE need to just chill and take a deep breath before you go all willie nillie about who you support! Tomorrow it will be someone else.
Give us a break!!!!
Lucifer
November 28th, 2011
6:54 pm
What are they smoking over at the New Hampshire Union Leader? You have to wonder what color the sky is in their world!
tiger-uga
November 28th, 2011
6:58 pm
Lucifer
November 28th, 2011
6:54 pm
Is the color of the sky in their world the real problem?
Billybob
November 28th, 2011
6:59 pm
lucifer,
exposing the left in 23 minutes is too easy and much fun……pot calling kettle black……also, clinton’s economic record was due in large part to gingrich and the republican’s forcing his hand to a balanced budget and in order to get re-elected clinton took it…….your welcome
bman
November 28th, 2011
7:07 pm
i don’t believe Herman Cain has had any affairs.
TaxPayer
November 28th, 2011
7:10 pm
Is it Bachmann’s turn again or Perry. What’s the player rotation anyway. Fox should post it so everyone can keep up.
stands for decibels
November 28th, 2011
7:10 pm
We all know that Mitt will stomp Newt’s balls at some point; it’s just a matter of when.
And then we can stop pretending to care about the clown-car rally and get down to the general election which, after all, is what matters.
(so called liberal media? It’d be nice if y’all would listen to this.)
kayaker 71
November 28th, 2011
7:18 pm
Interesting Op Ed piece in the NY Times about Bozo and his team abandoning the white middle class worker in favor of a crowd of liberal university professors, artists, movie stars, etc. on one side and on the other side, much bigger, we find those on the government dole, blacks and latinos on food stamps and government handouts. Guess he figures that the foodstamp crowd is getting big enough now as to become a major voting bloc and that he no longer needs the very people who put him into office in 2008 and who provide the very backbone of this nation’s economy, the white, non-union working class American. Well, he has finally admitted that his motives are just what we always have thought that they were….. make as many people as you can dependent on government handouts and you won’t have to worry about elections. I really don’t think that he wants to put people back to work…. the more unemployment that he hands out, the more Chinese money that he gives away to his crony liberal friends, the more chance at a second term. It doesn’t really matter about America…. that never really mattered. It’s just about this sorry excuse for a president that we are stuck with because a bunch of starry eyed liberals that thought Hope and Change was what they were voting for. It wasn’t…… and they don’t have the sense to realize it.
Not Newt
November 28th, 2011
7:18 pm
@getalife November 28th, 2011 6:50 pm – We cheat because it is human nature and our dna demands we spread our seed.
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No it is NOT human nature or in our DNA.
It is called: The Power of Intention!
stands for decibels
November 28th, 2011
7:19 pm
The utter shamelessness with which it’s all done is, frankly, scary.
As David Byrne said of the sound of gunfire off in the distance–”I’m getting used to it now.”
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
7:20 pm
Obama continues to be a less than popular president and the libs continue to to concern themselves with a slate of Republican candidates who’re competing for the GOP nomination. I detect fear on the left and it’s probably well justified.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 28th, 2011
7:22 pm
bman: i don’t believe Herman Cain has had any affairs.
And yet the one thing attorney did not do in his letter is to deny an affair. He only said it was private. Mr. Wood would have denied it if his client had not done something. You’re welcome to believe what you want, but the lack of denial in these circumstances and given Mr. Cain’s past denials is more likely a confirmation.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 28th, 2011
7:24 pm
detect fear on the left and it’s probably well justified.
I detect blowhard nonsense on the right….
bman
November 28th, 2011
7:24 pm
“And yet the one thing attorney did not do in his letter is to deny an affair. He only said it was private. Mr. Wood would have denied it if his client had not done something. You’re welcome to believe what you want, but the lack of denial in these circumstances and given Mr. Cain’s past denials is more likely a confirmation.”
Keep .. .. I don’t believe he had an affair because he’s just too .. .. U G L Y
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
7:24 pm
Kayaker 71@7:18, good write.
BRW
November 28th, 2011
7:26 pm
Jimmy62 could talk himself into believeing Newt is from another planet if he said it was so. On Libya your explanation of Newt’s comments completely proved how wrong you are.
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
7:27 pm
You might like this.
Are Republican Candidates Morally and Ethically Bankrupt?
November 28th, 2011
7:27 pm
@bman November 28th, 2011 7:07 pm – i don’t believe Herman Cain has had any affairs.
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If your moral compass does not care that Herman Cain is morally suspect – I wonder if your mother is proud of you?
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
7:28 pm
“I detect blowhard nonsense on the right”
Evidence of fear, it’s easy to spot.
Doggone/GA
November 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
“Keep .. .. I don’t believe he had an affair because he’s just too .. .. U G L Y”
I don’t know, nor do I care, about the latest allegations against Cain. This is just a general observattion: all men look the same in the dark, and their money is the same color regardless
saywhat?
November 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
Weird. I think Newt must have misspoken. He meant to say he has built his entire career on political opportunism. But don’t worry, I am sure he will say it next week, when he praises the vrtue of political opportunism.
BRW
November 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
Recon, your the one mentioning fear the most. How’s that shock and awe working out for ya?
kayaker 71
November 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
Sooth,
Chicken skin…. what a recording!!
saywhat?
November 28th, 2011
7:31 pm
“virtues”
getalife
November 28th, 2011
7:31 pm
That oped is wrong kay.
It was the gop stealing union jobs after the collapse.
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
7:31 pm
Hard left wingers are notorious hypocrites.
Newt No Embarrassment
November 28th, 2011
7:32 pm
If Newt is an embarrassment that represents what “Georgia” is all about, what about Governor Nathan Deal!! They all should be inducted in Georgia’s Hall of Shame…and do not forget Sonny Perdue!!
BRW
November 28th, 2011
7:32 pm
Hard right wingers are notorious cowards. Sending other’s to fight their wars.
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
7:33 pm
“This is just a general observattion: all men look the same in the dark, and their money is the same color regardless”
Doggone/ GA, please tell us it isn’t so.
stands for decibels
November 28th, 2011
7:34 pm
“I did not think I lived a good enough life to see Newt Gingrich as the Republican nominee,” the 30-year House veteran said. “He would be the best thing to happen to Democrats since Barry Goldwater … It’s still unlikely, but I have hopes.”
getalife
November 28th, 2011
7:34 pm
Yeah, weiner said he was innocent too.
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
7:36 pm
“Hard right wingers are notorious cowards. Sending other’s to fight their wars.”
BRW, it’s an all volunteer military in this country but I’ll bet you never did.
Doggone/GA
November 28th, 2011
7:36 pm
“Doggone/ GA, please tell us it isn’t so”
Well, it’s a take-off on a sage piece of advice I was given when I was 17: when the lights go out there are no ugly women.
stands for decibels
November 28th, 2011
7:39 pm
He pulled out a copy of what was soon to become his ticket to fame and fortune, the Contract With America, and bragged that every single item had been poll-tested to ensure that it had an approval rating of at least 60 percent. If it didn’t reach that threshold, it was stricken from the list.
Jay, is this common knowledge? Because I’d never heard this one before.
And it really ought to be common knowledge.
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
7:39 pm
Kayaker: glad you enjoyed it. The others don’t know what they missed.
BRW
November 28th, 2011
7:40 pm
Don’t dodge the subject. Someone volunteered to serve. Someone started an unecessary fight over oil.
stands for decibels
November 28th, 2011
7:41 pm
So be honest, everyone.
If your life depended upon believing something that Jay Bookman told you, vs. something Newt Gingrich told you, which would you trust?
I’m thinking 95% of the people posting here would go with the former option. Sadly, only about 60% would acknowledge as much.
in summary: Newt’s a hundred pounds of crap in a fifty pound bag, and we all know it.
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
7:41 pm
“Well, it’s a take-off on a sage piece of advice I was given when I was 17: when the lights go out there are no ugly women.”
Well I’m sure you’re not ugly because you like dogs. We have all made mistakes in our lives, so it’s unnecessary to discuss them publicly on this blog.
BRW
November 28th, 2011
7:44 pm
Honestly I think Newt gives a hundred pounds of crap a bad name. At least when poop gets old it stops smelling. Newt never will.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 28th, 2011
7:51 pm
Well, now we’re getting down to the nitty-gritty. Some woman’s come out and said that her and old Herman was doing the nasty for 13 years. That ain’t no short time. I mean, it’s not some woman claiming she got felt up one night after a meal. Anyhow, the woman’s name is Ginger so I expect the worst. Ain’t all the strippers named Ginger? (Hope no woman on this blog is named Ginger.) I guess we’ll see what the truth is. Irregardless, it’s bound to make old Newt look like a plaster saint.
I tell you, ain’t nothing like a election to bring out all the dirt.
And Sooth, if you’re on here, could you post The Picture? You know the one. It’s Michelle and she’s . . . well, you know.
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
7:56 pm
Redneck, you pervert! This is the last time and I really mean it this time! You mean she’s in a compromising position?
Ross Perot
November 28th, 2011
7:58 pm
You think Michelle Bachmann plays around? I promise to keep it quiet..
Kamchak
November 28th, 2011
7:59 pm
It’s Michelle and she’s . . . well, you know.
Eeeeewwwwwwwwwww!
Just sayin’ . . . well, you know.
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
8:02 pm
She learned everything she knows when she was the “towel girl” for that pro basketball team (if you know what I mean!).
Bill Rummel
November 28th, 2011
8:03 pm
How Newt Gingrich Abetted the Theft of Average Joe’s Home
http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-newt-gingrich-abetted-theft-of.html
The Real Newt Gingrich
http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/11/real-newt-gingrich-part-1.html
Publisher Joseph W. McQuaid delivers Union Leader to the Neocon Globalist cabal!
http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/11/manchester-union-leader-then-and-now.html
Are Republican Candidates Morally and Ethically Bankrupt?
November 28th, 2011
8:08 pm
The Republicans will raise TAXES THIS YEAR BY $1500.00 per family to 120 million families. Republicans NEVER talk about the middle class on the rich!
Keep on supporting them if you dare!
I guess republican supporters are willing to GIVE UP $1500.00 in taxes. You got what you deserve!
Republican supporters you have been stabbed in the back by your own party!!
Obama don’t look so bad now DOES HE?
St Simons - we're on Island time
November 28th, 2011
8:09 pm
Cain/Gingrich 2012 – We Know What Women Want
kayaker 71
November 28th, 2011
8:09 pm
We continue to proselytize about Newt’s bad judgement, Herman’s supposed affairs, Romney’s flip-flops….. I suppose that if someone realized at age 13 that they were someday going to run for the presidency, that they could completely isolate themselves from society, live in a bubble and avoid any contact with any other individual…. perhaps that would satisfy the electorate as to their qualifications for the presidency. I personally don’t care if Newt had three wives, whether Clinton got a BJ in the oval office or if Kennedy screwed Marilyn Monroe in the WH swimming pool. If anyone, yes anyone, could get this country back to work and keep us from going TU in the financial sector, he/she gets my vote. We continually rant on and on about insignificant things while this country goes into the tank. We hold our elected officials to a different standard while we fail to realize that they are just like we are….. people with a past, skeletons in the closet, things that they would like to take back but can’t. Man, would I ever like to have another look at some of the things that have happened in past years. Lots of money saved, perhaps a few less broken hearts…… but, alas, we are what we are.
Kamchak
November 28th, 2011
8:14 pm
…we are what we are.
And repetition is repetition.
And tautology is saying the same thing, but just using different words.
St Simons - we're on Island time
November 28th, 2011
8:14 pm
Cain/Gingrich 2012 – the Magic Pill for Electile Dysfunction
Atlanta1
November 28th, 2011
8:17 pm
Oh, and it is no secret that this paper has loathed Gingrich for years – so to see Jay write this column is not a shock.
In fact, it’s a good sign. Jay’s no dummy… He knows Gingrich will eat this President up in the debates. And that’s no slam on our sitting President. Gingrich will eat just about anyone up when it comes to debating.
It’s a ‘no-brainer’ I’ll take the former Speaker over the sitting President ‘anytime’…
Atlanta1
November 28th, 2011
8:17 pm
Oh, and it is no secret that this paper has loathed Gingrich for years – so to see Jay write this column is not a shock.
In fact, it’s a good sign. Jay’s no dummy… He knows Gingrich will eat this President up in the debates. And that’s no slam on our sitting President. Gingrich will eat just about anyone up when it comes to debating.
It’s a ‘no-brainer’ I’ll take the former Speaker over the sitting President ‘anytime’…
They BOTH suck
November 28th, 2011
8:18 pm
kayaker @ 8:09
You make some great points in your last post………
Did you say the same when the right, including Newt, was trying to chase Clinton out of DC for the same………..
Even before Monica…. they were trying to do it…………. Yes even before his first term
They BOTH suck
November 28th, 2011
8:22 pm
Kayaker
I ask because some of the same people who said Clinton was not fit to be President because of his philandering…… now back Newt
On the other side… some of those who over looked Bill’s BS… now say Newt isn’t fit
People on all sides will ignore the same thing they cried about if it applies to their candidate
Happens all the time
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
8:27 pm
I don’t know if this latest allegation against Cain has any truth to it but I would say that if all these allegations are true Cain would have to be among the worlds most stupid dip $hits to even consider running for president. Somehow I don’t think he is that stupid but who knows.
Soothsayer
November 28th, 2011
8:32 pm
Well, it’s Eli and the Giants against Drew and the Saints on NFL channel.
Maybe Eli can whoop up on the Saints and do us some good!
Goodnight everyone.
Kamchak
November 28th, 2011
8:38 pm
On the other side… some of those who over looked Bill’s BS… now say Newt isn’t fit
If Bill had served Hillary with divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer because he was cheating on her with who was to become ex #2, you would possibly have a point.
bman
November 28th, 2011
8:40 pm
Herman Cain is using the Bill Clinton move. He will deny deny deny until there is actual proof. Then, we all get a very heartfelt apology.
They BOTH suck
November 28th, 2011
8:41 pm
Kamchak
I do have a point
You must be one of those I referenced……………
I live on a two way street….
Not sure about you
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
8:44 pm
Well Bill’s rouge days are over and now he’s forced to live unhappily ever after with thunder thighs. He can dream moist though thinking about Monica. Ya know come to think of it old bill most have a thing for thunder thighs.
Kamchak
November 28th, 2011
8:46 pm
I do have a point
Nope, you’re comparing apples to sauté pans.
You must be one of those I referenced…
Probably not. Bill was/is a slimeball.
I suggest you do some research on the Newterator’s philandering.
They BOTH suck
November 28th, 2011
8:51 pm
Kamchak
The snooty poster
they both are philanderers and I have given neither a pass
Merely calling out those who will ignore it when they back someone and condemn when the shoe is on the other foot
If you cant see that…………. No big deal
Move on
It will be ok….. You will be alright
Midori
November 28th, 2011
8:51 pm
Well Bill’s rouge days are over and now he’s forced to live unhappily ever after
and you know this, how?
oh yeah – you’re the resident expert on being miserable.
bman
November 28th, 2011
8:56 pm
I don’t like Newt. No one does. But, he’s awfully good on the debate stage & I am pretty sure he would get the best of Obama (and his own record) in any debate. Newt would probably poll low at 1st, then higher after each debate.
Pity .. .. the only debate I would like to see is : Barney Frank vs Ron Paul.
bman
November 28th, 2011
8:59 pm
I saw a man earlier at taco bell working. He looked to be in his 60’s – about the same age as most of the old-timers here. He looked at out of place. It just didn’t look like he had been doing that type of work all of his life. He looked embarrassed. Made me feel awful..
Truth-O-Meter
November 28th, 2011
9:00 pm
I agree with Jay, but I am still going to take every “Granny” I know to get a state-issued ID. I suggest you do likewise and not take Newt for granted. A party that does not believe the President is a US citizen will vote for anyone; Newt included!
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
9:03 pm
“oh yeah – you’re the resident expert on being miserable.”
Midori, I suspect you have us all beat on being miserable.Hope I’m wrong but based on your posts I don’t think I am.
bman
November 28th, 2011
9:05 pm
I have a question .. .. Suppose Newt were to win the nomination. Who do you suppose he would pick as his running mate?
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
9:06 pm
“Suppose Newt were to win the nomination. Who do you suppose he would pick as his running mate?”
How about Jay Bookman?
Midori
November 28th, 2011
9:07 pm
cracked anyones ankles with a sledgehammer lately, Del?
Kamchak
November 28th, 2011
9:07 pm
Merely calling out those who will ignore it when they back someone and condemn when the shoe is on the other foot
If you cant see that…
I see that I must needs spell it out for you.
“Cheating”
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is
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an
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issue
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between
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couples.
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We
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don’t
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know
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what
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kind
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of
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relationship
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that
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the
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Clinton’s
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have,
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but
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it
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is
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painfully
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obvious
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that
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Newt
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and
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his
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first
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two
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wives,
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weren’t
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on
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the
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same
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page
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about
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his
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“cheating.”
JDW
November 28th, 2011
9:07 pm
Here’s another thing thing about Newt that sticks out…The Contract With America. Newts claim to fame. Here are the “Poll Tested Items”
1.require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress;
2.select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
3.cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
4.limit the terms of all committee chairs;
5.ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
6.require committee meetings to be open to the public;
7.require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
8.guarantee an honest accounting of the Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting
Damn that was effective…except for the part about dispite controlling Congress from 94 until 06 and the Presidency from 00 to 08…NOT A SINGLE POINT HAS EVER BEEN IMPLEMETED.
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
9:09 pm
Did I just see a Mary E. post that got partially moderated.
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
9:12 pm
“cracked anyones ankles with a sledgehammer lately, Del?”
Midori you don’t really need a sledgehammer for ankles or wrists and I haven’t broken any of those in years.
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
9:16 pm
Is the Faux News report out yet?
I guess the obama campaign trail is on fi-are now…
You act like a little bitch when you do that Kamchack.
Kudos.
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
9:17 pm
What is Kamchack bitching about now?
Recon 0311 2533
November 28th, 2011
9:17 pm
Oh well the libs are probably all curled up in the fetal position hugging their Obama dolls, so I’ll wish y’all a great evening. Taps
Mick
November 28th, 2011
9:18 pm
recon
I think cain just wanted to sell books then found himself on top one week. The attention and spotlight suits his ego but alas, thinking ahead or even just one move ahead doesn’t seem to be part of his intellect. He has been exposed for what he really is, a talk radio host with a bombastic personality going nowhere – fast. As for gingrich – he will flame out, spectacularly…
Kamchak
November 28th, 2011
9:18 pm
What is Kamchack bitching about now?
Isn’t it almost time for a house from Kansas to drop upon you?
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
9:24 pm
Whatever, Kamchack. And it’s time for you and your flying monkey brigrade to fly north to attack the witch of the north Palin and her best friend Newt.
Midori
November 28th, 2011
9:26 pm
Isn’t it almost time for a house from Kansas to drop upon you?
LOL!!!!!!
And its little dog, too!!!
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
9:26 pm
bahhh!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 28th, 2011
9:30 pm
If a house dropped, would that be Frank’s fault too?
Kamchak
November 28th, 2011
9:39 pm
Hiya, Midori!
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
9:40 pm
I’m sure Frank could replace whatever loser is currently the chair of the DNC.
Since he’s so great and all.
Ha ha ha ha!
Midori
November 28th, 2011
9:43 pm
Hi Kammy
JamVet
November 28th, 2011
9:47 pm
Would someone please tell the brain dead, $9.99 neo-cons that having the entry of far, far right wing talk radio host on your resume is not conducive to intelligent people taking you seriously.
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
9:48 pm
Hi Jammy
Jm
November 28th, 2011
9:50 pm
2 Gingrich in 1 day
Wow
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
9:53 pm
Yep Jm,
I guess they found out they can’t fall back on bushisims anymore.
You know who they’re waiting for….
bman
November 28th, 2011
9:56 pm
who would Gingrich and Romney choose as their V.P. selection? Any ideas?
St Simons - we're on Island time
November 28th, 2011
10:00 pm
“Mr. Gingrich marveled. ‘I’m looking at the ticket now.’ Then he went in for the kill. ‘I just don’t know how you’re going to feel about being vice president, Governor Romney,’ Mr. Gingrich deadpanned.”
To which Mittens replied, “That’s so funny, I forgot to laugh”.
now THAT’s Republican humor, Dennis Miller quality s&*t right there
JamVet
November 28th, 2011
10:02 pm
Hiya bets. (smiley emoticon here)
bman, I suspect Gingrich’s natural choice would be Herman. (They could share pick up lines and tag team really desperate women!)
I predict that Mitt is gonna both win the nomination and do the McCain – pick some rabid right winger to compliment his already losing ticket. If she bats her weird eyes enough in his direction, it may be Michelle…
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
10:05 pm
bman,
Newtster is a novelty item.
I like Mittens/Lieberman 2012
That’ll freak ‘em out.
Liz
November 28th, 2011
10:09 pm
Doublespeak.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 28th, 2011
10:11 pm
I predict that Mitt is gonna both win the nomination and do the McCain – pick some rabid right winger to compliment his already losing ticket. If she bats her weird eyes enough in his direction, it may be Michelle…
Well, if so I want a armed guard around Sooth and The Picture. He’ll have to show it again then.
lynnie gal
November 28th, 2011
10:12 pm
Newt is a political chameleon, also known as a Zelig. Zelig (noun) is an ordinary person who can change themselves to imitate anyone they are near. An example of zelig is a person who learns everything they can about a specific subject in order to fit in with a specific group of people. It’s a psychological disorder.
getalife
November 28th, 2011
10:16 pm
willard will pick ……..
It does not matter.
Four more years.
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
10:19 pm
and for the record, I think Obama could put up a cardboard figure of himself with some feel good slogans and win again.
We are in a slump.
We want someone to lift us up, but there is nothing but, “hope and change”.
It will take 4 more years of obama’s pain. unfortunately.
God help us.
Jm
November 28th, 2011
10:19 pm
I see kam the non voter is still lingering around
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
10:22 pm
jm, you best leave kamchack alone.
he will be trying to dig up your name and address and stalk you…
getalife
November 28th, 2011
10:37 pm
Mr Bachman taught her that.
Mick
November 28th, 2011
10:40 pm
Actually, kamchak has stated many times who he voted for in the last election. Jm only seems to make his daily absurd comments but does not bother to read others, as to why he is so concerned about who kamchak voted for? Only the shadow knows…
Midori
November 28th, 2011
10:47 pm
only the shadow knows.
indeed…………
Mick
November 28th, 2011
10:50 pm
Hi midori !
I cancelled my xm/sirius radio about three months ago and they are trying to get a $75 cancellation fee. Won’t happen, I never was told of any cancellation fee when I signed up and I’m not going to help them pay howard sterns 500 million salary..
Midori
November 28th, 2011
10:56 pm
Hi Mick,
I hear ya……………
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
10:58 pm
Hi Midori!
Who will you vote for petunia?
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
11:00 pm
obama…
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
11:01 pm
and obama
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
11:02 pm
and obama again…
Mick
November 28th, 2011
11:04 pm
moonbat
Who will you vote for? Bachmann?
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
11:06 pm
Mick,
I don’t believe Bachmann will be on the ballot.
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
11:11 pm
Mick,
We are about to receive a hard kick in the ass.
We will either rise up and conquer the challenge, or roll over and take a nap.
Unfortunately, we have a bunch of lazy ass politicians who will probably roll over and take a nap.
Good luck to you, sir.
Paul
November 28th, 2011
11:13 pm
Hi Midori
G’night, Midori
moonbat betty
November 28th, 2011
11:15 pm
Paul,
Thanks for your support.
Paul
November 28th, 2011
11:18 pm
mb
Any time.
Glad to do my part.
philosopher
November 28th, 2011
11:52 pm
“I personally don’t care if Newt had three wives, whether Clinton got a BJ in the oval office or if Kennedy screwed Marilyn Monroe in the WH swimming pool. If anyone, yes anyone, could get this country back to work and keep us from going TU in the financial sector, he/she gets my vote.”
Wow! Someone’s moral compas is completely shattered.
Is THIS what we want for America?? Money above all else. Amoral wallet watchers, ruled by a man so unfaithful that he could not even give comfort and solace to a woman in the throes of cancer, the woman he stood before God and promised to love and cherish “til death do us part”. Oh, yeah, i would definitely want to trust this man with America’s future!!
Aram
November 29th, 2011
12:21 am
The REAL newt gingrich.WATCH the video
http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/11/real-newt-gingrich-part-1.html
independent thinker
November 29th, 2011
3:10 am
Only one description for ole Newt- pompous gasbag
Paul
November 29th, 2011
6:32 am
How I love watching the desperate excuse makers, hurling insults because their candidates are all façade and no substance. Interesting that the Obama camp has already made an early effort to knock Romney out – betcha they’re trying to set up a run against Newt instead – much easier to beat.
Granny Godzilla
November 29th, 2011
6:54 am
Newt 2012
Every morning should start with a laugh and a smile.
Holy Crap that’s funny.
Weasel
November 29th, 2011
7:17 am
No Newt is good Newt!
Willis
November 29th, 2011
7:21 am
Newt knows that his Republican admirers will vote for him no matter what along with those who would rather see anyone of the other candidates rather than President Obama. The funny thing about all this is that Newt acually believes, I believe, that he has all the right answers for everything. If he becomes President, the Secret Service will have to be quadrupled in order to protect this idiot.
Jm
November 29th, 2011
7:31 am
Cain’s life is unfolding like a soap opera
Jm
November 29th, 2011
7:34 am
Obama 2012
Theater of the absurd
Now that’s funny
Jm
November 29th, 2011
7:36 am
Oh I can’t help but say this again
Bye Barney Frank!
Granny Godzilla
November 29th, 2011
7:36 am
Jm
Thanks, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Midori
November 29th, 2011
7:37 am
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/308967_250590135001312_100001509830117_730427_1155164214_n.jpg
Mick
November 29th, 2011
7:44 am
midori
Nice work
Guaranteed not to be believed by the conned…
Jim163
November 29th, 2011
7:46 am
So the Greenwich crowd won the 254 million dollar powerball..Lol, that should really get under Adam’s skin this morning.
Midori
November 29th, 2011
7:47 am
Mick,
their belief systems are soooooooo out of whack
zeci
November 29th, 2011
7:50 am
Do people suffer from Amnesia?
Here is an ingenious AD appropriately called “flip/flops”, reminding people that these two will say anything to get elected. I can’t recommend it enough … it will make everyone’s day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O1RKPfMqGOg
Jm
November 29th, 2011
7:57 am
“say anything to get elected”
Might be better than “say nothing to get elected”. Other than “hope and change”.
Jm
November 29th, 2011
7:58 am
Liberals are loco
Midori
November 29th, 2011
7:59 am
jm will say anything to get some attention.
Jm
November 29th, 2011
8:01 am
Liberals on this blog don’t have anything substantive to add to the conversation either
They make intellectual mistakes galore like comparing assets of banks to production numbers (GDP), which is the dumbest ratio ever invented and only conjured up by a declared socialist
Jm
November 29th, 2011
8:04 am
Liberals just repeat what they hear if it suits their preconceived notions.
Then you have people like Kamchak who goes to the mat for Obama every day, buy says he didn’t vote for the guy (either because he didn’t vote or voted for McCain)
Patently absurd. Liberals come on here to whine but don’t even bother to vote. Ridiculous.
Jm
November 29th, 2011
8:05 am
Midori will say lots of things, but none of them required the exercise of more than one neuron
Mid Ga Retiree
November 29th, 2011
8:05 am
I am assuming that Wednesday’s column will detail the times President Obama has said something one day and later changed it. Let’s be fair and balanced, Mr. Bookman.
Stevie Ray
November 29th, 2011
8:08 am
Wow,
Wish I didn’t miss this one. Picture of Fig and Pig is precious indeed. I presume Jay is busy currently working on his latest Hermanator Cain Primary Coloresque post?
JM, being very centrist oriented, I should point out to you that the Christian Right Revolutionaries via that Texas pastor (supports Perry) claim that 30 million abstained from voting in 2008 as they didn’t like either candidate….
Jm
November 29th, 2011
8:11 am
Stevie
And those people are lame brains too
Paul
November 29th, 2011
8:13 am
Paul 6:32
Please change your name.
Thanks.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 29th, 2011
8:15 am
Oh look, jm keeps talking about Kam….jm fears Kam
Mid Ga, well you forget the political opportunity ingridient and the hypocrisy, but if you got something, feel free to post it. You don’t really expect Jay to do all your work…..oh wait, rightie? Yeah, then you do.
Midori
November 29th, 2011
8:15 am
jm – you remind me of the creepy little kid in school no one wanted to play with who resorted to eating bugs and buggars in order to garner attention.
Midori
November 29th, 2011
8:16 am
Keep -
he’s all rat and no cattle
Jm
November 29th, 2011
8:21 am
Looks like Muslim Brotherhood doing very well in Egypt
Way to go Obama
Corey
November 29th, 2011
8:21 am
Newt and Cain’s defenders have a lot in common with Eddie Long’s cheering congregation. The G word. No not God, but the samll g, gulibility.
TaxPayer
November 29th, 2011
8:21 am
Singapore Airlines is ready when you are, jm.
Vinny
November 29th, 2011
8:23 am
Funny how Jay has narry a negative comment about the Marxist-in-Chief in the white house.
It shows just how scared he is of Obama getting the boot.
Stevie Ray
November 29th, 2011
8:24 am
Midori,
I hung out with many of those creepy types sans the bug eating et al. Many of us are actuaries, software develops, engineers etcetera. How exactly do insults convert to value here or anywhere for that matter?
Corey
November 29th, 2011
8:25 am
Watch it Jay, you have the conservatives on here cornered, and they are lashing out and spewing venom at everyone not included in the topic.
Obozonomics
November 29th, 2011
8:25 am
Quick attack the GOP front runner, because we have NOT ONE THING we can say good about Obozo. So forget that the loser in office wants to destroy our republic…..attack the front runner yeah that’s it attack…
Quick
November 29th, 2011
8:27 am
I was hoping you’d write on this topic.
Stevie Ray
November 29th, 2011
8:27 am
Cory,
Can you help me understand exactly how any revelations about double speak, saying anything to get elected, or womanizing have any impact on governing abilities? The former two are requisites….the latter is not atypical for the narcissism that is required in most instances to peddle the former two….wouldn’t you agree?
Joe Hussein Mama
November 29th, 2011
8:40 am
T. Head — “When Newt was Speaker, we cut taxes (captial gains), balanced the budget, and had budget surpluses.”
And we had a Democrat in the White House. So clearly, to get the same results, we need to continue having a Democrat in the White House and Newt needs to run for Congress again.
He can be Speaker again if he can get elected and convince enough GOP Congressmen to support him.
Good luck with that, Newt. XD
Corey
November 29th, 2011
8:53 am
Ever notice no matter Jay’s topic the conservatives usual refrain is We Hate Obama! Remember the dolls back in the day when you pulled a string and the doll was limited to repeating a few phrases?
philman
November 29th, 2011
9:39 am
Newt Gingrich?? Newt… what kind of a first name is this? And his last name??How the rest of the world will prononce his name? No big deal America is the world!!!
Joe Hussein Mama
November 29th, 2011
9:43 am
philman — “Newt… what kind of a first name is this?”
It’s short for “Newton.”
kawasaki kid
November 29th, 2011
9:43 am
Conservatives are attracted to Gingrich because he comes across as “brainy”? Ironic, because conservatives were attracted to Dubya because he was gleefully dogmatic, and embraced his lack of sophistication because thinking could lead to questioning the sacred dogma. Perhaps they’ve learned from Bush that brainy would probably have been better than dumb. Problem is, the brainy Gingrich is way too hypocritical for his own political cred. The poll results from yesterday’s column said it all!
philman
November 29th, 2011
9:47 am
Thanks Joe for the clarification, but still… President Newton Gingrich!!! The rest of he world is laughing at us now by looking at the GOP debate and will laugh at us even more!!!
Peter
November 29th, 2011
9:52 am
Ata boy Jack.keep drinking the cool aid, and have the Fox run the hen house !
ken
November 29th, 2011
10:05 am
BHO isn’t scary ??
joe
November 29th, 2011
10:07 am
Obama is the worst president ever…enough said.
philman
November 29th, 2011
10:31 am
GOP.. soon it will be GNP.. and it will be really scary!!!
mm
November 29th, 2011
1:57 pm
Wow, it looks like today’s the day Jm realized that Obama will get re-elected. He’s flinging poo in every direction.