Poor Newt Gingrich, hoisted by his own petard in Iowa
Newt Gingrich’s campaign has apparently gone into freefall in Iowa, to the point that the recent frontrunner has been reduced to musing publicly that a fifth-place finish wouldn’t be so bad. Millions of dollars of negative campaigning aimed in his direction has put a torpedo right in his ample midship.
Newt has complained bitterly about the tactic, calling the attacks “reprehensible” and claiming that the candidates who use them “ought to be ashamed of themselves” and that it “demeans America.” Personally, though, I think there’s a certain poetry in the fact that Gingrich has come undone in such a fashion.
After all, his fellow Republicans are merely using what someone once called “contrasting words,” “powerful words that can create a clear and easily understood contrast.” That certain someone even created a list of such words, urging his followers to “apply these to the opponent, their record, proposals and their party.”
On the vocabulary list drafted by that certain someone and recommended for deployment in politics are many of the words now being directed at Gingrich by members of his own party, and apparently with devastating effect. For example:
abuse of power
betray
bizarre
cheat
coercion
collapse(ing)
corrupt
corruption
cynicism
decay
destroy
destructive
devour
disgrace
endanger
excuses
failure (fail)
greed
hypocrisy
ideological
impose
incompetent
insecure
insensitive
intolerant
liberal
lie
mandate(s)
obsolete
pathetic
radical
self-serving
selfish
sensationalists
shallow
shame
sick
steal
threaten
traitors
waste
Watching all this happen, another word comes to mind, a word that isn’t on that certain someone’s list. That word is karma.
– Jay Bookman
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Thulsa Doom
December 29th, 2011
1:09 pm
“What makes the US government tangible?”- Adam
Adam. Your stubbornness. It do remind me of Rain Man and his K-mart underwear.
TaxPayer
December 29th, 2011
1:11 pm
Thulsa,
You flatter yourself.
bluecoat
December 29th, 2011
1:11 pm
No doubt a Romney/Christie ticket would carry more weight than anything President Obama could put together.
td
December 29th, 2011
1:12 pm
Welcome to the Occupation
December 29th, 2011
12:30 pm
Could you please define “shared prosperity”?
Adam
December 29th, 2011
1:12 pm
Thulsa: Duck, dodge, weave! (Your response is not an answer. If it’s so easy to defend, why aren’t you?)
josef
December 29th, 2011
1:12 pm
PAY ATTENTION
“You cannot have it both ways. You want Obama to certify his education and give the idiots below a pass”
Where the hell did I say that?
Oy! I think ANYbody running for the top position in my country should release those transcripts. Do I think he should be required to, no, I don’t. Do I think he’s “hiding” anything? No, I don’t. Do I accept the reality that the accolades he garnered speak to his intelligence and comptency? Of course.
I have a resume and a curriculum vitae. If somebody wants (needs) to see my curriculum vitae after scanning the resume, I send it to them. Mine are private only insofar as those whom I am trying to get to bring me on board are in the private arena. Were I in the public, then, they should be public.
Erwin's cat
December 29th, 2011
1:12 pm
Adam – project much?
I think the electorate has every right to request them, he is asking them to put him and trust him to perform one most powerful positions in the world…asking to see credentials should be SOP…as it is for almost every other lesser position
Back to Newt
December 29th, 2011
1:13 pm
Christie would never play second fiddle.
Thulsa Doom
December 29th, 2011
1:13 pm
Taxpayer,
Actually you flatter me. You’re just not smarter enough to figure out how and why.
Joseph
December 29th, 2011
1:14 pm
Romney 45% Obama 39%… LOL… Those re-election chances are getting slimmer by the day Jay.. I thought you just posted a few days ago how his poll numbers were looking up???
Doggone/GA
December 29th, 2011
1:14 pm
“he is asking them to put him and trust him to perform one most powerful positions in the world”
Well…he seems to have done just fine in THAT regard WITHOUT releasing his transcripts. Which leads me to believe they have no relevence to the vast majority of voters.
Thomas
December 29th, 2011
1:15 pm
Lest we forget the Time Magazine list of folks who caused this (financial) crisis
Angelo Mozilo
Phil Gramm
Alan Greenspan
Chris Cox
American Consumers
Hank Paulson
Joe Cassano
Ian McCarthy
Frank Raines
Kathleen Corbet
Dick Fuld
Marion and Herb Sandler
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Stan O’Neal
Wen Jiabao
David Lereah
John Devaney
Bernie Madoff
Lew Ranieri
Burton Jablin
Fred Goodwin
Sandy Weill
David Oddsson
Jimmy Cayne
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 29th, 2011
1:16 pm
Well I can see both sides of the transcripts debate in so far as a previously unelected candidate (or for a higher office), but for a re-election it doesn’t seem to make sense.
lliberalefty
December 29th, 2011
1:16 pm
OBAMA will wipe the floor with ROMNEY or NEWT in a debate
Adam
December 29th, 2011
1:16 pm
Erwin’s Cat: Given how much else he has accomplished prior to being President (and if you really think “community organizer” is the extent of it, you are lost) why are the college records so important? Do you really want his grades, or are you trying to find something else? Some kind of moral or emotional judgment to be garnered from the transcripts? Are you looking to see what teachers taught him so you can examine THEIR classes and determine whether or not they were “Marxist”? What exactly is the point?
Butch Cassidy
December 29th, 2011
1:16 pm
bluecoat – “No doubt a Romney/Christie ticket would carry more weight than anything President Obama could put together.”
Yes, look how well McCain/Palin turned out.
TaxPayer
December 29th, 2011
1:17 pm
Yikes! That GW sure did like to spend other people’s money. He was the best at THAT.
josef
December 29th, 2011
1:17 pm
ADAM
Let’s go there. I can say I have a magna cum laude in History and Languages. You’re Jagielonian’s admissions director. Wouldn’t you want to know what history and what languages?
Thulsa Doom
December 29th, 2011
1:17 pm
Adam,
But of course Adam. The U.S. government is not tangible. Its just an ethereal idea. Those navy battleships and those F-22 raptors aren’t tangible either. Your post of utter nonsense stands on its own merits. Or in your case demerits.
Adam, you labor and toil ceaselessy in a never ending quest to make sense. Doesn’t seem fair that you’ve yet to be rewarded with a sensical post. Its like Charlie Brown trying to kick that football.
lliberalefty
December 29th, 2011
1:17 pm
the repubs envy of OBAMA is bordering on insananity
Dusty
December 29th, 2011
1:17 pm
Oh my, the liberals here are still playing hide’n’seek EXCEPT if you seek some truth they run and hide and cry.
So Obama is a Harvard graduate, etc. etc. and we don’t need no transcrips!! He be smart!!!
So Gingrich has earned a PhD and he is called every dumb name in the book by liberals here.
Thus it goes in this fair minded place of good will!!!!
Erwin's cat
December 29th, 2011
1:18 pm
Well…he seems to have done just fine in THAT regard WITHOUT releasing his transcripts
I’m not sure everyone shares that opinion
td
December 29th, 2011
1:18 pm
josef
December 29th, 2011
12:57 pm
As soon as one of them is the nominee then yes they should release their transcript and their real birth certificate to prove they were a natural born citizen. I have heard rumors that Romney may have been born in Mexico and we should see his BC as proof just as we should see Obama’s real one. If they were both born outside of the country then they should be eliminated from the race.
Adam
December 29th, 2011
1:18 pm
josef: Languages yes, but History is a general subject that covers most, if not all, history to begin with, no? And to my knowledge there is no such degree as “Languages”
0311/1811
December 29th, 2011
1:19 pm
“Merry” Christmas Mr. Burglar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdQiPyZnuNo&feature=endscreen&NR=1
stands for decibels
December 29th, 2011
1:19 pm
For Joseph @ 1.14:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/more-cautionary-poll-tales/
If you don’t feel like clicking the link…
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,
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Spoiler alert!
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There was no President Bob Dole, no President Mike Dukakis, and no President Walter Mondale.
Welcome to the Occupation
December 29th, 2011
1:19 pm
td: “Could you please define “shared prosperity”?”
It means the basic belief that workers should share in business profits, as opposed to those profits going preponderantly to business owners and executives. Which was the case until the crisis of the “Fordist” model of capitalism in the 1970s.
See BLS statistics e.g. here:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/01/art3full.pdf
http://epi.3cdn.net/3b7a1c34747d141327_4dm6bx8ni.pdf
Or HuffPo has historical graph ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/18/wages-productivity-report_n_837814.html) :
As productivity has steadily risen since the 1970s, worker compensation has remained flat.
In other words, the share of the pie going to those who already have wealth is drastically increasing at the expense of those labor for a living.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 29th, 2011
1:19 pm
Gingrich/Christie now that’s a ‘HEAVYWEIGHT’ ticket
lliberalefty
December 29th, 2011
1:20 pm
the repubs will never accept OBAMAS birth certificate..
Brosephus
December 29th, 2011
1:20 pm
but the most recent increases seemed to be steeper than usual.
I’ve personally had almost 300% increases before the ACA was passed. I can’t speak for everyone else, but my increase this year is nowhere near as painful in the past.
josef
December 29th, 2011
1:21 pm
Common and Doggone
In essence I agree with you both that he now has a record as POTUS by which to evaluate him…which is why I said that I would like to see them…he’s been hired without them and his job evaluation should be based primarily on THAT record…
Still, though, if I knew more about his preparation I could judge more leniently or more harshly where I have reservations. Was he prepared, say, to deal with Trans Caucasian nationalism?
Thulsa Doom
December 29th, 2011
1:21 pm
“Given how much else he has accomplished prior to being President”- Adam,
And then there was raucous, riotous laughter. Some people have the distinct talent of being funniest when they’re trying to be their most serious.
TaxPayer
December 29th, 2011
1:22 pm
Leave it to Republicans to just spend, spend, spend… other people’s money. If only one of them had been half as responsible as Jimmy Carter with the purse strings.
Jay
December 29th, 2011
1:23 pm
sheets
stands for decibels
December 29th, 2011
1:23 pm
sheets, female canines.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 29th, 2011
1:23 pm
Then we could say Nutster would be a perfect Sec. of State since he knows about Belgian colonialism?
Adam
December 29th, 2011
1:23 pm
Thulsa: So the fact that the government uses tax money to buy warships makes the construct of the US government tangible, and therefore makes money tangible?
I think the reason you think I don’t make sense is because you really don’t understand that the government is intangible, and only the figures and “stuff” that is laid claim to by officials in the government is what is tangible. For example, the Pentagon is tangible. The DoD is not. The DoD is an intangible department that lays CLAIM to the Pentagon.
Another reason I might not make sense to you on the money issue is because you have bought into the belief that it is something of supreme value.
Welcome to the Occupation
December 29th, 2011
1:24 pm
Dusty: “So Obama is a Harvard graduate, etc. etc. and we don’t need no transcrips!! He be smart!!! / So Gingrich has earned a PhD and he is called every dumb name in the book by liberals here.”
Ok I’ll take that one.
I for one believe Obama and Gingrich to be roughly equals in the area of intelligence. For what it’s worth. But, again, for me book intelligence is just one component of leadership in an era of turmoil and crisis.
Doggone/GA
December 29th, 2011
1:24 pm
“I’m not sure everyone shares that opinion”
That he is President of the United States is not a matter of opinion, except to nutjobs maybe
Brosephus
December 29th, 2011
1:24 pm
sheets, female canines.
josef
December 29th, 2011
1:25 pm
ADAM
No degree in Modern Foreign Languages? Do tell…must be a misprint!
So, the graduate program in Polish Studies shouldn’t want to know what history courses I took?
Adam
December 29th, 2011
1:25 pm
Thulsa: Professor, State Senator, US Senator. The only reason you do not consider those accomplishments is because you simply don’t want to give that kind of credit to the man. They would be accomplishments for anyone on the GOP side, and you would probably concede them as accomplishments for most anyone BUT Obama on the Democrat side.
Obama is over
December 29th, 2011
1:26 pm
Good thing Axelrod/Plouffe don’t send emails to their minions recommending catch phrases like “corporate jet owners”, “millionaires and billionaires” , and “supporting the middle class.” Of course the middle class is kind of a moving target in the eyes of the Obama administration. His poll numbers are going down across all demographics simply because the policies of the past three years have not worked and Americans recognise that another four years of Big Government out of control spending is dangerous. Even if Obama wins, more than likely the GOP will gain control of the Senate and maintain the House. Ben Nelson’s retirement announcement this week is another example of a seasoned politician throwing in the towel because he realizes that he can’t get reelected supporting the Obama platform.
Erwin's cat
December 29th, 2011
1:26 pm
I’d counter with, if the transcripts are so unimportant, then why not release them, or better why hide them at all….the fact we are even discussing this shows some relevance….
But so far I’ve heard excuses not reasons
NotNewt2012
December 29th, 2011
1:28 pm
I don’t think that the ads are negative. They are just the truth. The subject matter is the problem here and the subject matter is not presidential material. No way in hell that guy should even be running with his record. Evidently Newt isn’t happy with the life he has lead and can’t stand to see it flashed back in front of him He should just stop wasting money (who’s is it anyway?) and our time and go home. To be a prominent professor of history he should know that his past would be present in the campaign. Okay maybe a revisionist historian.
Joseph
December 29th, 2011
1:28 pm
stands for decibels:
Rasmussen is the reputably polling organization going…. Others have Romney beating Obama too… I guess when you don’t agree with a poll it must be irrelevant… Its seems liberals have problems with polls and the truth
Adam
December 29th, 2011
1:28 pm
josef: No degree in Modern Foreign Languages? Do tell…must be a misprint!
Was not aware there was such a thing, but still, there isn’t one called “Languages” right? And what about magna cum laude with a law degree says anything other than “US Law”? Are people afraid what he really studied at Harvard was “Sharia Law?”
So, the graduate program in Polish Studies shouldn’t want to know what history courses I took?
I guess I don’t know enough about Polish studies to know why this would be relevant, except that academia ALWAYS asks for transcripts.
lliberalefty
December 29th, 2011
1:30 pm
puhleeze let me post my comments
Erwin's cat
December 29th, 2011
1:30 pm
No Doggone my comment was pointed to how “he’s done fine so far”…nice deflect though
Dusty
December 29th, 2011
1:30 pm
JOSEF,
Obama is prepared to deal with trans oceananic vacation travel to Hawaii, not to mention the help of schooling in a Muslim elementary school in Indonesia. Maybe the drug experience while at Columbia U.(as mentioned in his book) is also helpful. Experience is a wonderful thing,
Tres bien! (ersatz)
lliberalefty
December 29th, 2011
1:30 pm
cmon cmon cmon cmon
Thulsa Doom
December 29th, 2011
1:30 pm
Common Sense isn’t very Common
December 29th, 2011
1:19 pm
Gingrich/Christie now that’s a ‘HEAVYWEIGHT’ ticket
That’s only cause there’s not a SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT division.
St Simons - we're on Island time
December 29th, 2011
1:31 pm
Slowly, ever so slowly, with the passage of time, Evolution is selecting
for the gene that senses Irony.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 29th, 2011
1:32 pm
Jay – wrong thread
lliberalefty
December 29th, 2011
1:36 pm
DUSTY
how does it feel to be envious of a man u feel youre morally superior to?
Thulsa Doom
December 29th, 2011
1:38 pm
Adam,
Could you kindly translate your 1:23 post from nonsensical, rambling gobbledeegook into something sensible. I speak English, Spanish, and a smattering of German but no gibberish or gobbledeegook. Your gobbledeegook is a dialect of gibberish which is incoherent to a conservative mind.
lliberalefty
December 29th, 2011
1:40 pm
NEWT needs to learn family values from BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA..
lliberalefty
December 29th, 2011
1:43 pm
WHERES THE rightwings favorite clown HERMAN CAIN?
lliberalefty
December 29th, 2011
1:45 pm
thank god OBAMA has kept AMERICA safe, unlike DUBYA
josef
December 29th, 2011
1:49 pm
ADAM\
Quickly before going upstairs…I should have said Modern Languages…
Dusty
December 29th, 2011
1:53 pm
Liberalefty
Are you on the ’sauce” today? Noobody has mentioned morals except liberals here trying to smear Gingrich..
I would say the morals of President Obama are just as good or better than many politicians in Washington.
Tea Party Meber
December 29th, 2011
1:54 pm
Newt is the only guy that undrestnds the average guy in Amreaca. Some of U should stop pixin on him and lissen 2 his words. He make the most since from every 1 running 4 Prez especialy that looser Obama Bin Laden
Earnhardt fan
December 29th, 2011
1:56 pm
Earnhardt fan Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Why?
A dad
December 29th, 2011
1:57 pm
Stands – my pardon re the facts. But here’s what she did, and reported by no less an authoritative source than the Washington Times:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/12/earmark-less-bill-gives-pelosis-mouse-cookie/
Washington Times trumps the Tampa daily…
Earnhardt fan
December 29th, 2011
1:57 pm
I no why. U R bias against true Americans like myself. Go back to Iraq if U dont like it hear.
Mark
December 29th, 2011
2:27 pm
All I can say is Thank God for Republicans, they are truly entertaining!
NotNewt2012
December 29th, 2011
2:31 pm
I think Newt smeared himself. He doesn’t need the right wing or left wing to help out with that one..
Joseph
December 29th, 2011
2:33 pm
Oh poor Jay…. Obama’s back down to 41% approval…. That was a fun two days while it lasted hmmm….. LOL…..
Adam
December 29th, 2011
3:30 pm
gallup poll says 46%. What poll are YOU looking at?
Back to Newt
December 29th, 2011
3:30 pm
@Earnhart. You are an embarrassment to Earnhart by using his name. God help us if you are an example of a good American. You need to go back in time-you would have done a great job as one of Stalin’s goons! You ate living proof of the failures of Georgia’s education al system.
Earnhardt fan
December 29th, 2011
3:36 pm
Fist, U spelt it wrong and 2nd, if U dont like what I say than U R against free speach. If U dont like that than U need 2 go back 2 your tent in Iraq!
GT
December 29th, 2011
3:40 pm
It tells us something that someone runs for the highest office in the land and is surprised his character is a factor in the race. Newt offers himself up with this baggage and dares anyone to mention it. It is like the mistress at the funeral sitting next to the wife.
GT
December 29th, 2011
3:46 pm
If we ran a poll that ask who supports living you may on a given day get about 30%. Ask the same question as your interviewee is standing on the gallows and you may get 99%. I think you will see the poll numbers of Obama rise as we get more realistic about who is replacing him.
sasha
December 29th, 2011
4:06 pm
Please go home Newt—-and stay there—you are crooked as a jaybird in hell.I am sick of you after
the past 20 years—whats wrong with Nathan Deal?
Pay attention to what I'm saying than how I'm saying it
December 29th, 2011
4:10 pm
@Dusty December 29th, 2011 1:17 pm -So Obama is a Harvard graduate, etc. etc. and we don’t need no transcrips!! He be smart!!! So Gingrich has earned a PhD and he is called every dumb name in the book by liberals here.
********************************************************
The difference between the Harvard graduate Obama and Dr. Gingrich is with Grigrich’s Doctorate he is still ignorant. Anyone who says poor kids need to work as janitors obviously did not learn much or earn his “PhD”.
You cannot teach or buy class or common sense.
A dad
December 29th, 2011
4:10 pm
Miz Dusty – I’m with you. Instead of attempting to be a responsible journalist, Bookie just tries to incite, insult, rabble rouse, etc. And for all of us, on both sides, who complain about DC not being able to get along, look at some of the back and forth on this blog today. Josef, Adam, Granny, Stands, Thulsa, Reneck, Dusty, and others, it’s been fun and even educational trading views. But I said yesterday that I was through insulting and name calling, but unfortunately, that seems to be what’s in fashion so how can we blame DC for what we ourselves do? Now, if we were able to have rationale discourse, respond to facts with counter-facts, etc., and do away with the juvenile insulting, then perhaps we could expect DC to do the same. Sad state of the world my friends. A dad, signing off. Best wishes in 2012.
And AJC, I won’t be reading Bookman’s column anymore, which means I won’t be viewing any of the ads on his pages either. Shame. I’d like to think he could be a fairly decent journalist one day if he could write more objectively.
Back to Newt
December 29th, 2011
4:11 pm
@Earnhardt. You are the one against free speech with your bigoted, reply telling anyone who disagrees with you to go back to their tent in Iraq. I see it is an insult to the tens of thousands of servicembers who were deployed in their tents there so you were free to guzzle beer and pass gas. You are as anti American as any Muslim terrorist, probably more since you Calais
to be a good American.
Corey
December 29th, 2011
4:23 pm
Mr. Obama becomes the default topic by Republican voters on here regardless the topic. Jay, do a piece on say, kittens and watch the Republican voters on here twist themselves into a pretzle tying to link that topic to Mr. Obama. I guess they will comment on how Bo Obama terrorizes cats.
ibsage
December 29th, 2011
4:33 pm
gingrich is a neocon, establishment, palestine denier, israel firster. he’s part of the crowd that got us into iraq and afghanistan that has resulted in the greatest squandering of american wealth in recorded history. he’s a thuggish, chickenhawk, born again, baby bush clone.
BigD
December 29th, 2011
4:46 pm
A dad…
Jay a real Journalist?
That requires a description of events verbatim without prejudice and void of personal opinion.
NEVER GONA HAPPEN !!!!
Boris Badnoff
December 29th, 2011
4:52 pm
Thank goodness Our Messiah would never succumb to the foibles of these mere mortals traipsing through the Corn Belt. The Anointed One is taking a well deserved vacation in his alleged birthplace of Hawaii (everyone knows he was born in Heaven)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2079588/From-2-000-dress-1-000-skirt-Michelle-Obamas-lavish-Hawaii-wardrobe-revealed.html
It’s only costing US 99%ers $ 4 million of the taxpayers money which is a fabulous return on our investment considering the flourishing economy his brilliant economic policies have produced. Tonight I shall celebrate by having an extra large bowl of gruel.
E Harmony keeps matching me with fat chicks
December 29th, 2011
4:55 pm
So close to New Years Eve and I don’t have a date…..Well, a fat one.
Tell me Mr Clinton, how did you tolerate the cows?
td
December 29th, 2011
5:08 pm
Pay attention to what I’m saying than how I’m saying it
The difference between the Harvard graduate Obama and Dr. Gingrich is with Grigrich’s Doctorate he is still ignorant. Anyone who says poor kids need to work as janitors obviously did not learn much or earn his “PhD”.
You cannot teach or buy class or common sense.
So you think poor children should not learn about having a work ethic? How else are they going to break the cycle of poverty? Rich and middle class children learn the work ethic at home from watching their parents get up every morning and go to work. They learn that sometimes one must sacrifice the vacation or the weekend ballgame because dad or mom has to work. Where are the poor getting these life lessons from?
Tell us again how Newt is ignorant?
td
December 29th, 2011
5:15 pm
ibsage
December 29th, 2011
4:33 pm
gingrich is a neocon, establishment, palestine denier, israel firster. he’s part of the crowd that got us into iraq and afghanistan that has resulted in the greatest squandering of american wealth in recorded history. he’s a thuggish, chickenhawk, born again, baby bush clone
Besides thugish there is nothing you said not to be proud of and I am sure Newt would agree with most of them.
Let us compare the opposite, which is what I am assuming is what Obama is:
Lily livered coward, Arab loving, Israel hater. He is part of the crowd that wants the Islamic terrorist to control the middle east and would rather squander American prosperity with a total welfare, redistributed country.
I think I would much rather have a Newt then the opposite.
Back to Newt
December 29th, 2011
6:44 pm
@Boris Badnoff. And you have calculated how much it cost us taxpayers every time George W Nush went back to play cowboy/a village idiot in a small town in Texas, including when hundreds it thousands of Americans were suffering during Hurricane Katrina? If some of my best friends weren’t Republicans, I would think that all Republicans were Tea Party idiots, racing with and in the pack to see who can make it over the cliff first! I truly believe that the Republican Party will save itself from the in-American Tea Party Terrorists and go back into the mainstream. But it will not be in time for next year’s election when the Democrats keep the Senate and Barack Obama is re-elected!
Back to Newt
December 29th, 2011
6:51 pm
@td. Since when do rich kids learn the value of work. On which planet do you live? One only has to look at the silver spoon fed, former drunk we had for the previous President to see through this bs. I guess some Republicans are so deluded that they believe if they tell a lue often enough, it will become the truth. Doesn’t happen in the Internet age! GW will go down in history as one of the worst Presidents in history. Too bad it took him so long to stand up to Darth Vader, oops I meant DICK Cheney!
independent thinker
December 30th, 2011
8:17 am
Newt is first and foremost a hypocritical windbag who will say or do anything to sell books and get consulting fees.
Adam
December 30th, 2011
9:20 am
td: Rich and middle class children learn the work ethic at home from watching their parents get up every morning and go to work
Correction, that applies to POOR and middle class children, because poor people work a LOT MORE than rich people. Many rich people with children are currently sitting pretty in retirement, frequenting casinos or sitting in their home office looking at their investment portfolios. The rich kids DO NOT learn the value of work that way. They think all they have to do is ask daddy for money.
Poor and middle class kids do not have this luxury. They get told they need to earn their own money a heck of a lot more often than rich kids. If you really think otherwise, well, you made the assertion first. I’d like to see some evidence.
XX TOP
December 30th, 2011
1:46 pm
Go Rick Perry!
catlady
December 30th, 2011
6:19 pm
Anyone ever hear of “trustifarians?”
independent thinker
December 31st, 2011
9:19 am
Newt is so desperate that he thinks that crying will get him votes. I guess this is a GOP speaker of the house trademark- just like Boehner. I hear next he is going to beg his ex-wives for forgiveness.