A big Gingrich win would be GOP nightmare
UPDATE: That was an impressive win. A 14-point margin for Newt Gingrich is probably more than the former speaker could dream of a week ago, and certainly was unimagined by the Romney camp. A lot of Republican Party officials will not sleep well tonight.
The voting booths close at 7 p.m. in South Carolina, and given movement in the most recent polls, it wouldn’t be surprising if the networks name Newt Gingrich the winner shortly thereafter.
If that happens — and particularly if Gingrich can push his margin into double digits, which seems plausible — the Republicans have themselves a serious problem. Newt will come out of South Carolina with the smell of napalm in his nostrils, and we all know what napalm smells like: victory.
The greater the Gingrich margin, the more it will validate his strategy of attacking Mitt Romney on the issue of his Bain-gotten wealth. As his high-school yearbook photo tells you, this is a man with a grandiose sense of destiny, and the closer he gets to seeing it realized, the more aggressive he will become.
And as I’ve pointed out before, the Republican establishment will have only itself to blame. They have trained their base to turn up its nose at even the slightest aroma of moderation. They have fed it on resentment, and instilled it with a deep disdain for the media. In short, they have turned it into an audience utterly susceptibel to a man of Newt’s talents and eccentricities.
On the other hand, if Romney wins, this thing’s all but over. We’ll know in a few hours.
– Jay Bookman
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St Simons - we're on Island time
January 22nd, 2012
10:14 am
Newt – Freaker of the Spouse
JamVet
January 22nd, 2012
10:14 am
Though many of us always saw through their disgusting hypocrisy and unashamed unChristianity, it, it is a fact now.
The evangelical wing of the GOP has become the sleazeball wing.
“To a degree, it will give [evangelical voters] pause, but there’s a much more insatiable appetite to defeat President Obama,” said David Brody, chief political correspondent at CBN News at the Christian Broadcasting Network.
“Gingrich has never claimed to be a patron saint,” Brody said. “People have known for years about Gingrich’s marriage issues. In a way, his well-known history of troubled marriage works for him here.”
There you have it, being a cheating, lying, rutting in the filth pig works well for him with the SC Christians…
Recon 0311 2533
January 22nd, 2012
10:15 am
Well meaning Democrats don’t even recognize that their party has been Hijacked by the far left. That’s a pretty potent spell or potent kool-aid. I’m out…happy football Sunday.
Finn McCool
January 22nd, 2012
10:16 am
Romney to release tax returns on Tuesday – about time.
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2012
10:16 am
Look boss! Up in the sky! It’s de regulations! They implemented Republican air quality standards. I wonder what the water looks like. Tastes like. Smells like.
asdfjkl;
January 22nd, 2012
10:17 am
As I predicted from the debate earlier this week, Gingrich won because he’s been a better debater and he has been able to handle criticism from the media better than the other candidates.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
10:17 am
Southern politics is like SEC football
And southern governors make better presidents than yanks
I don’t care which party they come from
But I’m certain I will have to vomit if I have to choose between newt and Obama
Recon 0311 2533
January 22nd, 2012
10:18 am
Off to my Christian Evangelical church where many feel that Romney’s the better pick. Later
md
January 22nd, 2012
10:18 am
“Why can’t we call those who oppose Newt a Communist, a race baiter or a “far left wing” fill in the blank? Hope and change has gotten us despair debt.”
Because some of us don’t like either……….
The only way I’d vote Obama is if I was assured Congress would go all “R”…….and since that isn’t one of our options, I’ll once again be stuck with 2 choices neither of which I care much for…..
Stagger the vote for Congress and the Presidency ever 2 years and “force” the misfits to represent the masses…….these dang “mandates” are killing us…………..
kayaker 71
January 22nd, 2012
10:19 am
And so you libs must be willing to live with this utter failure in the WH, even give him another term to finish what he started….. making this country the socialistic capital of the free world. He isn’t finished yet…. that pesky 2011 midterm election, you remember that, don’t you? The biggest political turnaround in recent political history and it really fu*ked up his agenda, didn’t it? The party of No…. more like the party of Hell No. Seems that the majority of Americans just are not happy living in a Bozo America. And all of you who voted for this abject clown are more to blame than he is. He told America what he was going to do and you still voted his sorry ass into office. Some kind of Hope and Change thing. Well, it has not worked and you know it. Anyone with even half a brain can recognize failure. All he can do is throw money at our problems….. hell, anyone could do that. So let’s hear it for our failed social experiment, that one moment that was supposed to take away all of the liberal guilt and make us whole again.
Rightwing Troll
January 22nd, 2012
10:19 am
“Well meaning Democrats don’t even recognize that their party has been Hijacked by the far left. That’s a pretty potent spell or potent kool-aid. I’m out…happy football Sunday.”
There’s something terribly ironic about this being posted today, after Newt’s big victory… talk about drinking the kool-aid…
Stevie Ray
January 22nd, 2012
10:20 am
Newt can fool the folks in SCarolina but I sure hope the balance of the states will see through his shoutdowns and vailed sleazy politics. We need a good competition which, sadly, I think only Romney can provide. One favorable thing about Romney is that I think he is the least corruptable of all, especially our incumbent…
Midori
January 22nd, 2012
10:20 am
Fox’s Dr. Keith Ablow: “Gingrich’s Three Marriages Mean He Might Make A Strong President”
now I’ve heard it all
md
January 22nd, 2012
10:21 am
“Mitt supposedly to release tax returns Tuesday”
Bet it will be a big let down when folks find out he has……..money.
Really, the guy that we all knows has money really does have money…………no sh*t.
bman
January 22nd, 2012
10:21 am
It would be entertaining to watch a series of Obama + Newt debates.
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
10:21 am
Joe Paterno is gone.
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2012
10:24 am
I might just have to vote for Newt in the Georgia primary. After all, isn’t that who Deal supports and I wouldn’t want to go against the choice of the Georgia majority.
Midori
January 22nd, 2012
10:24 am
Kayaker – why don’t you put down the pipe.
do you EVER post anything but utter nonsense?
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2012
10:26 am
Mitt gets to keep more of his money than Newt and Newt knows that ain’t right. No. He knows that is right. No. He knows he’s right and Mitt’s right but Mitt’s not right. Right.
Rightwing Troll
January 22nd, 2012
10:27 am
Kayaker, you need to get massage or something brother… calm down… after the previous 8 years and looking at what you were willing to settle for after W’s disasterous reign, we really had no choice. Even now, you and yours can’t come to acknowledge the W years and the extreme damage it did to our country, and you seem angry that you and yours are simply not trusted any more than Obama is as a result of your blind allegiance to party that crushed our economy, after ENRON you doubled down, after Tora Bora you declared MISSION ACCOMPLISHED (Iwas under the mistaken impression that our mission was to kill or capture OBL, not let him ride free on a donkey), when you were taken to task for your party’s lies and resulting groupthing on non existent WMD’s, you blew the cover on a covert CIA operative… It goes on and on…
So please spare us your sanctimonious bull$hit, you sir are as much to blame for the situation our country is in as anybody, as you had a chance to correct it in 2004, but chose to double down…
Stevie Ray
January 22nd, 2012
10:27 am
Why does evangelical activities include “actively expressing and sharing the gospel”? If it weren’t for this, especially in politics, more respect would follow…,
josef
January 22nd, 2012
10:27 am
jm
Maybe. But Newt’s not a Southerner. He’s a Carpetbagger.
BTW, jm, what’s with the Trotsky? Not following you there….
And folks, we can blame Newt’s win on our prejudiced opinions of the people of South Carolina, but that’s only good for so far…there’s plenty more to go we’ll have to be looking for, Better we look at the demographic breakdown of where he steamrolled…all of them, except the over $200,000 a year income (Romney), the phD level (Romney) and the 18-35 (Paul)…the future of the GOP from the looks of this is the Brown Shirts…
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2012
10:28 am
kayaker71: Now you know how we felt during King Dumbass the First’s two reigns.
Too bad!
kayaker 71
January 22nd, 2012
10:28 am
Then there’s that pesky report of Bozo’s business associates who were each handed a 5 figure settlement to keep the lid on something that had to do with familiarization or something like that. Looks like a third one has shown up to verify the claim. Ought to be front page news in the NYT…or perhaps the Enquirer will come up with something. Vetting…… looks like someone dropped the ball.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
10:29 am
Md
I agree. And if that is the only revelation, mitt is a patsy for not releasing them earlier
Did he think he wasn’t going to get a proctologist’s exam when running for president?
Rightwing Troll
January 22nd, 2012
10:29 am
Again, Newt has the best ideas I’ve heard in this campaign, Newt speaks some truths, even if we can’t bear to hear it, he’s simply to much of a meglomaniac, and too unpredictable to be trusted, he MIGHT be a good choice for VP. Too bad Mittens is such a worthless idiot…
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
10:31 am
Josef
Yes I know newts a bagger
I was thinking more generally about how worthless northern politicians are
Welcome to the occupation and “Trotsky” (formerly) are the same poster
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
10:31 am
And so you libs must be willing to live with this utter failure in the WH, even give him another term to finish what he started…..
Well, have you ever thought that the libs are simply going by what the cons did in 2004? After all, libs considered Bush an utter failure, yet cons gave him another term to finish what he started. Turnabout is fair play.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
10:32 am
The Lion in Winter is coming on…are Newt and Callista watching?
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
10:32 am
The newt is a fred.fan lobbyist that helped deregulate the banks.
The newt helped cause the collapse and will implode when asked about these facts.
A Tax Cheat or A Wife Cheat (Is this the Best Republicans Can Offer?)
January 22nd, 2012
10:34 am
@Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2012
10:02 am
The American democratic system of elections has been manipulated and twisted.
They have warped into cynical, stage-managed events, engineered by the few in order to achieve a particular outcome.
*****************************************************************************
The Republican primary is a stage-managed CIRCUS.
Newt, Mitt, Rick and Paul are the clowns that should not be taken seriously.
Non of them have offered any solutions only what Obama has done or not done..
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
10:34 am
Newt is just another g-damn snake oil salesman
Jesus
Road Scholar
January 22nd, 2012
10:36 am
Good Morning, Bro. I think that the PACS have thrown the system out of balance. Huge sums of money “no one” is responsible for their messages and, accuraccy is not even attempted by many of the adds. Quite the contrary. The far right wing has always bordered on the ridiculous as has the far left. It’s the money and thus the access to unchecked inuendo and the ability to get it “published” that will cause both parties and our nations demise.
What was very humorous was Boehmer today on tv stating we need infrastructure spending . What the hell has he done to get not just a status quo, but an increase in funding in response to the Bush administration ignoring the nations infrastructure needs and improvements? No money? No user fee increases? Tax cuts? If we could find a way to make BS into concrete, then maybe he would have something!
As for the pipeline decision, the conserves on the Ga Gang stated the decision will remove jobs…jobs that aren’t there now! They also said that when gas goes up to $5 a gallon, people will want to know why the decision to wait was made. Phil and the host said that this pipeline would keep gas prices down. Idiots, it has to be built first! And it won’t be built in months, it will take years to build a 17000 mile pipeline.
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
10:36 am
And the sad part is willard losing to the newt
How in the world could you lose to the newt jm?
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
10:36 am
SoCoBro: I refuse to watch those paid political campaign ads that are mislabeled as debates. The idea of a debate is to stake a position and use factually laden dialogue to back your position. This crap they do every election is nothing more than a sham uses to hide the fact that we are being played for fools.
Word.
Stevie Ray
January 22nd, 2012
10:36 am
TROLL,
Not a big Bush fan either but how do you think your inept pal BO would have responded to 911…the worst tragedy on US soil in our history? BO is a spine-less, leadership devoid, typical electorate who has no respect for our tax money…no different than Bush that you bash with typical left soundbites…
A Tax Cheat or A Wife Cheat (Is this the Best Republicans Can Offer?)
January 22nd, 2012
10:38 am
@bman
January 22nd, 2012
10:21 am
It would be entertaining to watch a series of Obama + Newt debates.
*******************************************************************************************
Its going to be a barn burner.
Newt has met his intellectual match…..Obama.
Obama will not stoop to Newt’s level. Obama will take the high road and Newt will wither like the green grass.
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
10:39 am
scalia says the easy solution for super pacs is turn off the tv.
Lets turn off the corrupt sc instead.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
10:39 am
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2012/01/canzano_joe_paternos_final_day.html
Jo pa coumn
Stevie Ray
January 22nd, 2012
10:40 am
BO’s early campaign rhetoric is great comedic fodder…let’s go another 4 years and finish that change thing we sold you in 2008….It is likely his sole claim to fame is his healthcare 2000 page missive jammed thru a congress strife with healthcare cash…the states will either go bankrupt or be seen as “not wanting to further help the poor…Medicaid already takes up the lions share of states budgets…Ridiculous
josef
January 22nd, 2012
10:41 am
Stevie Ray…
How would BO have responded to 9/11…in the first few days or later? In the first few days I would say pretty much the way Bush did. And the country, left, right, center and independent would have come in behind him, just like they did Bush…
Road Scholar
January 22nd, 2012
10:41 am
How many years of tax returns is Romney releasing? I’d like to see about 5 to compare his “economy”!
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
10:42 am
Getalife
Mitt is competent and decent
But brittle and lacks in some self confidence frankly
It is mind boggling
I’ll vote for mitt over Obama
But I recognize mitt has weaknesses
They happen to be far less of a problem than obama’s weaknesses
md
January 22nd, 2012
10:42 am
“I think that the PACS have thrown the system out of balance. ”
The PACS are nothing but another voice to counter the “media”, which has been touting “it’s” agenda for years, but most folks can’t even see that.
The media should be there to report, not dictate their views…….and that applies to both sides.
That is what Citizens United was all about………………..neutering the unutterable………
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
10:42 am
Scholar: The far right wing has always bordered on the ridiculous as has the far left. It’s the money and thus the access to unchecked inuendo and the ability to get it “published” that will cause both parties and our nations demise.
Wasn’t it Ben Franklin that said that our demise would not come from outside but from within? Prophetic.
Ga Gang stated the decision will remove jobs…jobs that aren’t there now! They also said that when gas goes up to $5 a gallon, people will want to know why the decision to wait was made. Phil and the host said that this pipeline would keep gas prices down. Idiots, it has to be built first! And it won’t be built in months, it will take years to build a 17000 mile pipeline.
If i was on that panel i would of asked them three simple questions:
a) is there a guarantee that the oil would be used ONLY for american consumption if the pipeline was built?
b) are the (supposed) jobs to become guaranteed american jobs and not jobs to people from other countries?
c) with the pipeline built, can we, the people, finally NOT have to pay gas companies billion dollar subsidies to stay in business?
Rightwing Troll
January 22nd, 2012
10:44 am
“Not a big Bush fan either but how do you think your inept pal BO would have responded to 911…the worst tragedy on US soil in our history?’
He would killed OLB… Oh wait… he DID kill OBL… MISSION ACCOMPLISHED (for real this time).
Now bring our boys home.
Road Scholar
January 22nd, 2012
10:45 am
getalife: I agree but when the nightly news plays the damn stuff as a lead in to their story, or as it influences those who don’t know better, they need to go. “Legalized” lying!
Stevie Ray
January 22nd, 2012
10:45 am
Josef,
I don’t disagree however IMO, Bush defaulted on every future decision to security…clearly crossing the line but he did an effective job re-establishing an intelligence network that was waxed by his predecessor. It’s a shame but I think Bush was so concerned about his happening again on his watch, every decision made for the balance of his 2 terms were impacted by this…I doubt BO or any other president would have done different…
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
10:45 am
Md 10:42
Liberals are clueless
You would think they could at least digest the facts behind the election that happened 24 hours ago, but apparently not
Mitt outspent newt 2-1 in SC. And lost big
Money matters only in a minor way
Liberals, just shut up about pac’s and money for gods sake
Rightwing Troll
January 22nd, 2012
10:46 am
This pipeline, evidently is the ONE and ONLY hope to save our economy and get millions of americans working again… You wingnuts do realize that unionized folks will undoubtedly be working on it, right?
Stevie Ray
January 22nd, 2012
10:47 am
SCHOLAR,
Why on earth does it matter how much Romney made or paid in taxes so long as his returns indicate no tax code violations?
josef
January 22nd, 2012
10:47 am
Stevie Ray…
While I am far from a fan of the Fierce Advocate, he DID sign the repeal of DADT. I can’t see any of the others doing that… that may not seem like much to you, but it sure is over at our place…
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
10:49 am
Midori: “Gingrich’s Three Marriages Mean He Might Make A Strong President”
now I’ve heard it all
HAHAHA!!! Talk about drinking kool-aide! They must’ve added some moonshine into theirs
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
10:49 am
Stevie ray 10:47 bingo
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
10:50 am
Road Scholar
I think our system was FUBARed before the PAC era reached full throttle. The recent stuff with PAC spending has been going on for a long time. I find it hard to believe that a system could be set up and run as efficiently and ruthlessly as they do in such a short time. The only thing PACs have done is taken what was going on in the shadows and put it on full display for all to see.
In reference to the gas issue and prices, as much as people want to blame it on Obama, if I were his strategist, I’d make sure he takes full credit for it. That way, when people say that Obama’s anti-business and anti-free market, I would go back and show that our top export last year was gas and other refined fuels. Demand is down in the US but prices are going up. In a true free market situation, that would not happen. However, in a global market, our demand here has little effect on prices worldwide. That’s why gas prices are going up. It has nothing to do with pipeline building or anything else.
That pipeline is wanted by the oil companies to boost the amount of oil they can refine and sell on the open market. With demand going up around the world, those oil companies do not give a sh*t if gas prices go up here or not. Higher prices equal higher profits. Our prices are affected more by outside influences now. You would think that a “Center-Right” country would appreciate free market principles at work. I have yet to hear ANY media outlet, whether liberal or conservative, focus on that aspect when talking about gas prices.
The problem this country faces is a lack of educated voters. If we all tuned out this liberal/conservative bullsh*t and paid attention to only the facts present, we could straighten things out in this country without all the bullsh*t we’re currently being exposed to.
Stevie Ray
January 22nd, 2012
10:52 am
Josef,
The DADT was a terrific win…I’m of the opinion that as long as our electorate are using our tax dollars to pay back bundlers et all and otherwise enhance net worth, all this RED v BLUE crap is hand-jive. Of course BO has nothing on any previous adminstration on this front but his flip flopping on the telecom thingy, prosection of evil wall street greedies, and the promise to prosecute those in the Bush adminstration as promised are solely due to his need for cash…
Road Scholar
January 22nd, 2012
10:52 am
Jm: It appears that you are for censorship? How about if those ads included stuff like Newt/Mitt/President Obama are child molesters? That’s ok? Before you get indignant, what checks and balances are there to not allow this to happen? The intelligence of the American voter? The same voters you contend are not smart?
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
10:53 am
TaxPayer: Mitt gets to keep more of his money than Newt and Newt knows that ain’t right. No. He knows that is right. No. He knows he’s right and Mitt’s right but Mitt’s not right. Right.
Unfortunately TP I’m gonna have to steal that paragraph from you and probably paste it unto another blog(s) — it’s too classic to be glossed over and possibly missed here and it should be seen by everyone — not just the folks on JBs blog.
Also, I’m going to have to take credit for such a great post. Unfortunately.
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2012
10:55 am
An ode to Callister’s har-doo!
Callista’s hairdo is not a “physical attribute”. It is a monumental accomplishment of technology and engineering. Likely itself a spinoff technology of advanced aerospace research, it vividly demonstrates decades of advances in chemistry, biology, material science, physics and quite possibly top secret discoveries made in a remote government facility somewhere in the deserts of Nevada.
Can it even be said to be a part of Callista the person anyway? Maybe it posses an individual intelligence and purpose, having come from outer space, landed on her head, and attached itself to her circulatory system for nourishment.
Maybe it repels government mind-control rays. Maybe it is a helmet of some kind.
Is it waterproof? Has she ever been seen in a wind?
How does she sleep on it, and how does it retain its shape the next day? Does it snap back like a crushable felt fedora?
And why? Why would anyone voluntarily want that on their head.
But to call this hairdo a mere “physical attribute” rather than a mystery so deep it may expand our knowledge of the universe, fails to fully appreciate the awesome phenomenon that is Callista Gingrich’s hairdo.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439×2455810
josef
January 22nd, 2012
10:56 am
Stevie Ray
On the 9/11 thingie, I don’t think, however, that Obama would have squandered the worldwide sympathy and good will the way Bush did…
md
January 22nd, 2012
10:57 am
“Why on earth does it matter how much Romney made or paid in taxes so long as his returns indicate no tax code violations?”
Might want to pose that question to Newt and the Rick brothers………
josef
January 22nd, 2012
10:58 am
Sooth
I would posit she wears the tin hat in that family!
md
January 22nd, 2012
10:58 am
“How about if those ads included stuff like Newt/Mitt/President Obama are child molesters? That’s ok? Before you get indignant, what checks and balances are there to not allow this to happen?”
And you can pose that question to Dan………………
364 more days
January 22nd, 2012
10:59 am
kayaker 71
January 22nd, 2012
10:19 am
AMEN
Donovan
January 22nd, 2012
10:59 am
The only nightmare is the one coming to the Democrat Party. Don’t worry about the GOP, worry about Newt coming to the American electorate and eloquently exposing your failed Camelot.
I like Mitt, don’t get me wrong. Mitt is a nice guy and that’s the problem. He’s so nice that you people would have a far easier time in tryng to destroy him. No wonder you liberals want him to be the GOP nominee.
The problem with the GOP is its accomodation to opposite side of the aisle. It does not rely on deception, smear tactics, misinformation, or giving away the store to buy votes in order to stay in power. It does not try to enslave its electorate with entitlements, but tries to instill self-reliance and fiscal responsibility. Unfortunately, such bitter medicine is hard to swallow for 50% of the country that relies on government hand-outs.
Whenever the Republican Party comes into power it is assaulted by the Democrat Party with such propaganda, class warfare, misinformation, and outright contempt that the GOP looses focus while trying to appease its attackers. This tactic has served the Democrat Party well for decades.
We all know that the Democrat Party is larger by its sheer number in size. When it acts like the Santa Claus Party to illegal immigrants, minorities, labor unions, left wing environmental kooks, elitist intellectuals, Occupy types, and just plain stupid people it is difficult to preach self-reliance.
Even though the GOP controlled the House, Senate, and WH at one time not too long ago, it seemed that the Democrats were running the show. Why? Moderation and appeasement, in order to keep the Democrats happy.
This is exactly why Mitt is the wrong man for the job. He’s too nice and too moderate. You know it and I know it. Conversely, you all know that Newt is a bigger threat because he is not afraid to expose your scam on the American public. He takes away the advantage that you all have enjoyed for decades.
He is your worse nightmare.
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
11:00 am
The PACS are nothing but another voice to counter the “media”, which has been touting “it’s” agenda for years, but most folks can’t even see that.
How can one counter the media when it’s being used by the same “media”? PACs have to pay the “media” for airtime, right? If the media is pushing an agenda, doesn’t it further their agenda to sell airtime to PACs pushing a favorable message? Even if they’re selling airtime for a message they don’t agree with, the endgame is still $$$. That money earned ends up back into the hands of a PAC somewhere down the road to do the same thing again.
Road Scholar
January 22nd, 2012
11:00 am
Stevie Ray: By seeing numerous years, we can see a trend, and if Romney is “padding” his latest years return. Didn’t you hear him duck the question concerning his income and how complete a tax return would be provided. This is one thing I do not like about Romney; he is too coy at times. I am not saying he has to lay everything out there, but show me your history!
Bro: Good response.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:00 am
Stevie Ray
I can half-way overlook a lot of his lack of backbone and too willing compromise, but what I can NOT overlook is his sale of habeas corpus down the river…
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2012
11:01 am
Also, I’m going to have to take credit for such a great post. Unfortunately.
It’s the right thing to do.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:01 am
Road scholar
You must have the wrong guy
Because none of those apply to me
People will run false advertising if they want
kayaker 71
January 22nd, 2012
11:02 am
No response to the crack cocaine smoking and getting a BJ in the back seat of a limo in Chicago in 1999. Larry Sinclair has names and dates and places where this occurred. Sounds a little like Herman….. forced him to drop out of the race. The most homophobic ethnic group, the black community, might not look too favorably on this little episode, either. That’s three people in the loop. Someone is going to come up with the truth before long. Wonder how Michelle is going to feel about that? Gay rights advocate….. opponent of Prop 8….. reversed DADT……. Just to be fair and balanced, perhaps Bookman should run a thread. Just to be fair and balanced.
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2012
11:03 am
What would you look like with Callister’s har? Scroll down this page to find out. There’s even a tool where can upload a photo of yourself to “try on” Callister’s har.
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2012
11:04 am
AGAIN with the Larry Sinclair! OY!
md
January 22nd, 2012
11:05 am
“How can one counter the media when it’s being used by the same “media”? PACs have to pay the “media” for airtime, right? If the media is pushing an agenda, doesn’t it further their agenda to sell airtime to PACs pushing a favorable message? Even if they’re selling airtime for a message they don’t agree with, the endgame is still $$$. That money earned ends up back into the hands of a PAC somewhere down the road to do the same thing again.”
Yes…..all true. But it comes down to suits……the suits making the decisions aren’t restricted to the ones behind the media. PACS will get their message out……one way or the other and not allow the other “suits” to dictate when and how……to many avenues now available……..
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:05 am
Sooth
Grow up
There are plenty of other reasons to criticize newt
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:05 am
In debates between Gingrich and Obama, Obama would win hands down on the intellectual acumen, substance, and gentlemanly presentation. Unfortunately, he’s no good at quasi-literate pomposity and hot air bombast, and that’s what will “win” the debate. The dog third will win that one with no competition.
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
11:07 am
That is what Citizens United was all about………………..neutering the unutterable
They sure did “neuter” ole Romney. I bet he thanks them for it too, since turnabout equaling fair play and all……
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
11:08 am
PACS will get their message out……one way or the other and not allow the other “suits” to dictate when and how……to many avenues now available……..
I see what you’re saying, and somewhat agree with it. However, as long as media groups and/or owners are pushing vast sums of money into PACs, you can’t sell me on the idea that there is no collusion in effect somewhere.
md
January 22nd, 2012
11:09 am
“They sure did “neuter” ole Romney. I bet he thanks them for it too, since turnabout equaling fair play and all……”
Think it’s ugly now? Just wait for the general…….it will be no holds barred………I think we are on the threshold of a new definition of “ugly”…….
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2012
11:10 am
Now here’s the feller what’s gonna get my vote!
Jm: why on Earth would I want to grow up! This is way too much fun!
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:10 am
Does anyone have any clue what newt would actually and reliably do as president?
I sure as heck don’t.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:10 am
Sooth
You might as well steel yourself for the Larry Sinclair et al…it’s just now heating up. Never mind the veracity, with Newt and his moral degeneracy now acceptable, it’s all they’ve got left. I don’t look forward to this…but it’s coming, you can bet on that…
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
11:11 am
josef
In a true debate, that “quasi-literate pomposity and hot air bombast” would have one run offstage quite quickly. The things we see on tv that are called debates are nothing more than campaign infomercials. It takes a huge stretch of the imagination to refer to those things as debates. That’s why I choose not to watch them.
kayaker 71
January 22nd, 2012
11:11 am
Sooth,
that is a really funny picture.
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2012
11:11 am
Vote for me because I shouldn’t have to pay more taxes than Mitt. — Newt
Vote for me. Here. Have some pocket change. — Mitt
Mitt only paid 15% in taxes and I’m really, really, really, really, really pro-life so vote for me. — Rick
Hello. Hello. What am I, Invisible. What’s a guy gotta do to get a little respect around here. — Ron
md
January 22nd, 2012
11:11 am
“However, as long as media groups and/or owners are pushing vast sums of money into PACs, you can’t sell me on the idea that there is no collusion in effect somewhere.”
soco…..in a 2 party system, there has always been some form of collusion…..after all, there are basically only 2 choices…….my guy or the other guy.
kayaker 71
January 22nd, 2012
11:12 am
joseph,11:10,
Any truth to all of this?
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:12 am
Jm
What would Newt do as President? Make us long for the days of James Buchannan?
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2012
11:13 am
Does anyone have any clue what newt would actually and reliably do as president?
Make everyone else sit in the back of the plane.
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
11:13 am
k71: No response to the crack cocaine smoking and getting a BJ in the back seat of a limo in Chicago in 1999. Larry Sinclair has names and dates and places where this occurred. Sounds a little like Herman….. forced him to drop out of the race. The most homophobic ethnic group, the black community, might not look too favorably on this little episode, either. That’s three people in the loop. Someone is going to come up with the truth before long. Wonder how Michelle is going to feel about that? Gay rights advocate….. opponent of Prop 8….. reversed DADT……. Just to be fair and balanced, perhaps Bookman should run a thread. Just to be fair and balanced.
You wanna response? Here it goes, (I wrote a song about it).
Obama is president, doo dah, doo dah
Obama is president, oh doo dah dayyyyy
Trying to cheat by getting him thrown off of states’ ballots won’t work
Doo dah doo dah
Trying to call him a closet homosexual won’t work…
Doo dah doo dah
Your Birther lies won’t even work
Doo dah doo dah
Trying to find a candidate to beat him won’t work
Oooooo Dooooo Dahhhhhh Dayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2012
11:15 am
Gnute knows what’s good for him!
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
11:15 am
Weakness jm.
That is a losing argument because our President crushed aq, obl and daffy.
He won his war.
What else you got?
Nothin.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:16 am
kayaker
Not being snippy when I say this…but how would I know? I seriously doubt it,at least as it’s being touted, or it would have already been trotted out. Would it surprise me? Not at all. Nothing “straight” folks do along those lines would surprise me, and that applies to all sides of the poltical, social, and religious divide.
Paulo977
January 22nd, 2012
11:16 am
Josef
How would BO have responded to 9/11…in the first few days or later?
_________________________
Not sure whether there would have been a 9/11 for BO to respond to!
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2012
11:17 am
And we all thought Gnute was going to fade into that dark night. Unbelievable.
I can’t wait to see the next SNL!
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:17 am
Josef 11:12 probably
I might as well add to the list: Newt would probably boink ever available woman in the whitehouse
Assuming calista agreed to that open marriage thing
Swingers in the whitehouse….. Party on
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
11:17 am
Brosephus- I would go back and show that our top export last year was gas and other refined fuels
Thanks to the EPA, we haven’t built a new refinery in the US for over 30 years. We actually have to import gas instead of crude as we no longer have the ability to produce our own.
So much for the Dept of Energy.
md
January 22nd, 2012
11:18 am
Is it just me, or are the gremlins back? Posts are again appearing above others that were not there originally…….time for a break, don’t feel like scrolling up all the time to figure out what I missed….
md
January 22nd, 2012
11:20 am
“That is a losing argument because our President crushed aq, obl and daffy.
He won his war.”
Then why are our boys still dieing?
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:23 am
Getalife
Obama fights wars
Mitt wants to grow the economy
I’m for jobs and mitt