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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DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
11:24 am
Soothsayer @ 11:17 – you are sooooo badddd!
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josef: 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.
I’m betting that Obama, like every other black kid in america, knows how to play the dozens. He might be a little rusty, growing up in Hawaii and all, but since he spent some time on Chicago’s southside, he’s had some practice.
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2012
11:24 am
How would BO have responded to 9/11…in the first few days or later?
To start with, the Obama administration would not have ignored the Clinton administration’s warnings.
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
11:25 am
md,
Cleaning up w’s mess in Afghanistan .
It is ending.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:26 am
PAULO
I disagree. 9/11 would have still taken place. That was something none of us were prepared for and was something far removed from our domestic politics. It wouldn’t have mattered who was in office, imo.
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
11:27 am
Nothing “straight” folks do along those lines would surprise me, and that applies to all sides of the poltical, social, and religious divide.
As my friend Raphael says to me all the time – “There are no straight people, only people who are confused about which way to zag.”
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
11:27 am
Does anyone know how many aq are left?
Road Scholar
January 22nd, 2012
11:29 am
JKL2: Why should the petroleum companies build new refineries? Aren’t they making record profitsd with the ones they got? Especially when they take one down for maintenance durin a season where gas demand is up?
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:29 am
DDR
THAT would be fun…! Yo mama so fat she got her own zip code!
md
January 22nd, 2012
11:31 am
Last one for now, but too funny how many crystal balls folks seem to have……..might want to use them to forecast the lottery numbers vs what BO would or wouldn’t have done prior to 9/11.
granny godzilla
January 22nd, 2012
11:32 am
First Mitt didn’t want to give the democrats the present of his tax returns then we get the present of a Newt win in SC.
The GOP presents all the sleaze and drama of a soap opera for the American people to watch as the economy improves and wars end
all courtesy of President Barack “No Drama” Obama.
I love American politics!
kayaker 71
January 22nd, 2012
11:32 am
Debbie, 11:27,
Does that apply to our illustrious President?
Road Scholar
January 22nd, 2012
11:33 am
Would President Obama escorted the Saudis out of the country?
Don't Forget
January 22nd, 2012
11:33 am
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:10 am
Does anyone have any clue what newt would actually and reliably do as president?
Probably buzz Bill Clinton’s house in Air Force One all day.
Mick
January 22nd, 2012
11:34 am
josef
Trying to speculate on events of the past and how outcomes might have differed is a nice parlor game, the reality is that we only have two speeds; right now and tomorrow. I would dare say that most who broach the subject are just trying to stir up some trouble, it’s a nice tool of distraction from reality…
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
11:34 am
-Donovan
Well said. The worst of Bush is considered to be the best of obama, yet the left is still throwing knives at Bush while obama is the mesiah for doing the same things.
I could never understand how people can support someone who’s goal is to divide the country country between black/white, rich/poor, and Proletariat/Bourgeoisie. The “great uniter” who’s done nothing but rip our country apart.
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
11:35 am
Our corrupt government does not act until folks get killed.
Most should do us all a favor and resign in disgrace.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
11:36 am
Brosephus: “The GOP has gone so far right that they probably have some Far-Lefts in their folds blending in perfectly.”
Good point.
No fan of Glenn Beck obviously, but one area where he actually did have some insight is on the fact that beyond a certain point, left and right can sometimes become very blurry.
A fact that Newt Gingrich also understands very well too, by the way.
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
11:37 am
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.
http://www.adn.com/2011/12/30/2239859/fuel-leading-us-export-for-first.html
NEW YORK — For the first time, the top export of the United States, the world’s biggest gas guzzler, is — wait for it — fuel.
Measured in dollars, the nation is on pace this year to ship more gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel than any other single export, according to U.S. Census data going back to 1990. It will also be the first year in more than 60 that America has been a net exporter of these fuels.
Just how big of a shift is this? A decade ago, fuel wasn’t even among the top 25 exports. And for the last five years, America’s top export was aircraft.
The trend is significant because for decades the U.S. has relied on huge imports of fuel from Europe to meet demand. It only reinforced the image of America as an energy hog. And up until a few years ago, whenever gasoline prices climbed, there were complaints in Congress that U.S. refiners were not growing quickly enough to satisfy domestic demand; that controversy appears to be over.
Still, the U.S. is nowhere close to energy independence. America is still the world’s largest importer of crude oil. From January to October, the country imported 2.7 billion barrels of oil worth roughly $280 billion.
Cursory Google search of Top US export 2011 would have found you any number of links to show what I stated. We still import boatloads of crude, but with the demand for gas dropping domestically, oil companies are selling their products worldwide to the highest bidder. It has nothing to do with the EPA or the Dept of Energy. I imagine that the Dept of Commerce would be more at play in this one.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:38 am
MICK
I agree.
Road Scholar
“Would President Obama escorted the Saudis out of the country?”
That’s “some” Saudis, not “the” Saudis, and, yes, he probably would have. He would also have warned us not to attack our Muslim and Middle Eastern heritage neighbors and fellow countrymen, too.
Mick
January 22nd, 2012
11:39 am
brosephus @11:37
Thanks for the info…interesting…very interesting…
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:39 am
Don’t forget
Don't Forget
January 22nd, 2012
11:40 am
No fan of Glenn Beck obviously, but one area where he actually did have some insight is on the fact that beyond a certain point, left and right can sometimes become very blurry.
Only in the sense that ideological purity leads to totalitarianism.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:40 am
jkl
“I could never understand how people can support someone who’s goal is to divide the country country between black/white, rich/poor, and Proletariat/Bourgeoisie. The “great uniter” who’s done nothing but rip our country apart.”
Me either. But, hey, look at South Carolina yesterday…same tune, different dance…
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
11:41 am
I think our President will keep serving after his second term like Clinton and Carter.
He will not hide in a bunker like w and cheney.
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
11:41 am
THAT would be fun…! Yo mama so fat she got her own zip code!THAT would be fun…! Yo mama so fat she got her own zip code!
He can counter with: “Yo mama so dumb they told her it was chilly outside and she ran to get a bowl.”
JamVet
January 22nd, 2012
11:42 am
josef, you have made the accurate assessment repeatedly that BHO is mediocre. Nothing worse or better than that.
As for the made up nonsense that the nitwits here who endlessly blubber on about him being the worst ever, I would wager the following.
Every single one of those reality averse radicals voted for George of the Bungle. Twice.
I’d also submit that every single one of them essentially licked his boots for that entire eight year reign of error. And said not the FIRST word about his stunning lack of respect for the United States Constitution and the rule of law (ask the ABA about his serial violations) and the unmatched death and destruction he caused. By every measure and every metric he sucked almost beyond comparison.
And outside of the lunatic fringe this is barely debatable.
Now the more brave of them, years on down the road, of course, timidly agree that he wasn’t the best president. Huge LOL. Like it wasn’t patently obvious 100 days into his first term that he was a bungling sell-out boob???
The result? ALL of this BS about BHO being godawful is simply trying to deflect away from THEIR responsibility for actually electing arguably the worst ever.
Now at least the people of South Carolina desperately want another immoral idiot in the West Wing.
Lovely…
Kamchak
January 22nd, 2012
11:42 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!
Exactly.
That’s the thing about playing the “what if” game.
In the world of “what if”, all “what ifs” are equally true.
Don't Forget
January 22nd, 2012
11:44 am
Al Gore would have bored bin laden to death in three month’s, tops.
Mick
January 22nd, 2012
11:45 am
josef
Guess I’m just a drive by today, gotta get outside and do my chores. Thanks to you and so many others holding down the front lines in teaching ! “We are here to learn my brother”, a good friend told me that once and I just love the purity of its simplicity., or is it the simplicity of its purity? Works both ways…
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
11:45 am
Mediocre?
No he is competent.
w was not.
We need to keep that competent adult in the White House.
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
11:45 am
K71 — or we could say the same thing about Dubya….i mean seriously, after Haggerty, who even knows anymore.
PS: I watched a GREAT documentary on LOGO concerning “closeted” republicans,(they didn’t TARGET these republicans they were making the claim that these were the ones who were fighting so hard against equal rights for gays while being gay themselves). If you get a chance, you should watch it — very eye
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
11:45 am
kayaker71- You wanna response? Here it goes(I even wrote a little song)
Do as I say not as I do, doo dah, doo dah
I can have my cake and eat it too, oh doo dah dayyyyy
Democrats good, Republicans evil
Doo dah doo dah
Trying to call him a closet homosexual won’t work…
Doo dah doo dah
Democrats can compartmentalize so what they do in their private life doesn’t matter
Doo dah doo dah
Trying to find a candidate to beat him won’t work
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
Doo dah doo dah
Cause stupid people still get to vote
Oooooo Dooooo Dahhhhhh Dayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
Vote obama. Free money for everyone!
Mick
January 22nd, 2012
11:46 am
jamvet@11:42
Count me in on that eloquent synopsis…
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:47 am
DDR
And he could come back with, “you so ugly yo mama had to tie a poke chop round yo neck to get the dog to play with you…”
ZamVet
Even the moral scandal they’re trying to brew on him now, even IF true, is mediocre given the standards of the day
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:47 am
Jam vet is sinclair’s liberal counterpart
Jamvet, dial into reality
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
11:47 am
Sorry, not sure what happened in duplicating withing my post but you get the idea.
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
11:47 am
Mick
If there’s one thing this brother right here does, it’s read. I try to know as much about as many things as possible. Most of the bookmarks on my phone are news outlets, and I go through all of them every day.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
11:48 am
If you’re up for some good comedy, Howie Kurtz is hosting NY Times ombudsman Arthur Brisbane right now to discuss his much-discussed query whether papers should be truth vigilantes.
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
11:49 am
jk,
Yeah, it is dumb.
We get it con.
jm,
There is no whitey tape.
sinclair is not credible.
You got punked.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:49 am
Jkl2
Keep our day job
Kamchak
January 22nd, 2012
11:49 am
“First rule of Fight Club is – you do not talk about Fight Club.”
–Thomas Jefferson
josef
January 22nd, 2012
11:49 am
DDR
Not to up TMI, but I know at least ONE Republican of note who won’t be jumping on that bandwagon…there IS evidence there…!
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:50 am
Your
Getalife
Sinclair is a joke. So is jamvet
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
11:51 am
joseph- How would BO have responded to 9/11…in the first few days or later?
He would have appointed a czar to look into it, then hired all his friends to do the clean up/rebuilding.
JamVet
January 22nd, 2012
11:51 am
I always loved the incisive well-thought-out analysis of Jm. Rather than rely on empty rhetoric, slogans and sound bites, his numerous, detailed counterpoints never fail to make a compelling case.
No wonder he voted for George twice…
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
11:52 am
“Sinclair is a joke”
You finally got something right jm.
Congrats.
kayaker 71
January 22nd, 2012
11:52 am
Time to go put the finishing touches on a great paddling Out Island kayak. Then to some of the best NFL football of the season. Pulling for a Ravens/San Francisco Super Bowl, although Brady might have other ideas. Have a great Sunday.
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
11:52 am
He will not hide in a bunker like w and cheney
Don’t know about dumbya, but cheney has good reason to hide — there’s probably some crazed, rabid, law and order freak out there who wants to arrest him for war crimes. OR even worse, some hunter with a gun…
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
11:54 am
“OR even worse, some hunter with a gun…”
He shoots a lawyer in the face and does not even get probation.
He proved nixon was right.
It is not illegal when they break the law.
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
11:55 am
kayaker
One thing we agree on is the Ravens. I don’t know how things will turn out, but I’ll watch it unfold in real time.
0311/1811
January 22nd, 2012
11:55 am
josef:
“…………… after the war Massachusetts sold more than a thousand Indians into slavery – perhaps one out of every ten in the region. Most went to the Caribbean, but a few as far away as North Africa.
The historian Alan Gallay has estimated that between 1670 and 1715 English slavers in the South sold somewhere between thirty and fifty thousand native people. So many were exported to New England that most colonies there tried to ban or restrict the trade.
Most slaves were prisoners of war, seized in intertribal conflicts and sold by enemy Indian groups to the English in exchanges for guns, pots and axes.”
“1491 by Charles C. Mann”
By the way ………… an excellent read.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
11:55 am
No wonder he voted for George twice…
Try again
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
11:56 am
taxpayer- To start with, the Obama administration would not have ignored the Clinton administration’s warnings
The same Clinton who was offered OBL on a plate twice and refused to take him? Clinton didn’t have a plan outside of screwing up our intelligence agencies because he was too worried about them investigating him. Bush was working to correct the problem when the attacks occurred.
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
11:57 am
road scholar(?)- Why should the petroleum companies build new refineries?
Jobs. Those little things the left knows nothing about.
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
11:58 am
“Bush was working to correct the problem when the attacks occurred.”
Liar, he ignored the memo and said you covered your a ss now.
Stop lying jk.
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2012
12:03 pm
Mr. Sinclair — who has gained Internet notoriety by spreading wild accusations regarding gay sex, drugs and possible murder committed by Barack Obama — as National Press Club staff took pains to remove the association’s logo from behind the podium where Sinclair was set to speak. (Politico’s Ben Smith today detailed Sinclair’s “27-year criminal record, with a specialty in crimes involving deceit.”)
When you really think about and get a good look at this guy’s photo, it’s easy to understand why a shlub like Obama would fall for him.
Kayaker71: I don’t how many more times you are going to bring this up, but every time you do, I’m going post this post. Got it?
BADA BING
January 22nd, 2012
12:04 pm
Skinny obama and fat Newt will look funny together at the Presidential debates.Standing side by side, they will look like the number 10.
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
12:05 pm
getalife-
Didn’t realize you were a truther too.
So why didn’t Clinton get OBL again?
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
12:05 pm
getalife – he may have shot some guy in the face and didn’t even do probation BUT he DID offer him a “W For President 2004!” bumper sticker! duh!
JKL:You’re spouting nothing more than right wing lies. You want some koolaide with those fries?
barking frog
January 22nd, 2012
12:07 pm
Bada Bing, put callista beside newt and you have 101…
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
12:07 pm
bada bing- Skinny obama and fat Newt will look funny together at the Presidential debates
Newt did say that obama could even use his teleprompter.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
12:08 pm
SCOUT
That 1491 is one good read! I’ve always found it intriguing that the abolitionist movement didn’t take off up North, and especially New England, until their own slaves had been sold down the river (the origins of the phrase) AND the international slave trade had been banned.
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
12:10 pm
debbiedoright-
You’re spouting nothing more than left wing lies. You want some koolaide with those fries?
Vote obama. Free money for everyone!
barking frog
January 22nd, 2012
12:12 pm
Newt now believes he has the support of the ultra conservative
wing of the republican party. this was the largest turn out at
a republican primary in SC even though it was raining..seems
to me to be a monument to dedicated democrats and a hollow
victory for newt..
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
12:15 pm
vote mitt — No money for anyone but Mitt.
Vote newt — No Money AND No food for anyone.
JamVet
January 22nd, 2012
12:15 pm
All Barry would have to do in any debate is bring up “open marriages” and Newt would blow another gasket and go all Spiro Agnew again.
The decent family man versus the degenerate serial cheater.
Yeah, baby, I’d like to see that too…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fginS6uhw-8&feature=related
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
12:16 pm
this was the largest turn out at
a republican primary in SC even though it was raining..seems
to me to be a monument to dedicated democrats and a hollow
victory for newt..
It’s always the Dems fault…………..
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
12:19 pm
Out for now — gotta prepare for football.
later gators.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
12:22 pm
The same Clinton who was offered OBL on a plate twice and refused to take him?
When you’ve got no leg to stand on, just move the goalposts.
Clinton didn’t have a plan outside of screwing up our intelligence agencies because he was too worried about them investigating him. Bush was working to correct the problem when the attacks occurred.
Do I hear that conspiracy theory beat?
Do the slack-jaw. Do tee doo, do the slack-jaw, do tee doo.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
12:22 pm
Newt: Notophthalmus, Taricha, Salamandridae
–Thomas Jefferson
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
12:22 pm
jk is a joke.
I thought he was serious.
My bad.
JamVet
January 22nd, 2012
12:22 pm
Not that the horn-dog will be elected president in ten lifetimes but in SyFy Land, Laying Leroy could reprise the old saying about Grover Cleveland’s infidelities:
“Ma, ma, Where’s my paw? Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha.”
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
12:24 pm
Can the newt run?
barking frog
January 22nd, 2012
12:26 pm
Newt may have a free pass to philander since Callista
was o.k. with sharing him…
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
12:27 pm
Getalife 12:24
Probably not
josef
January 22nd, 2012
12:28 pm
frog
@ 12:26
You know, I was wondering about that, too…wonder if she’s okay with sharing the Tiffany account?
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
12:28 pm
Getalife
U might want to consider another line of attack tho
Americans are fat
Therefore, no one votes based on weight
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
12:29 pm
“What you lookin’ at? You all a bunch of f**kin’ a$$holes. You know why? You don’t have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f**kin’ fingers and say, “That’s the bad guy.” So… what that make you? Good? You’re not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don’t have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There’s a bad guy comin’ through! Better get outta his way!”
–Thomas Jefferson
0311/1811
January 22nd, 2012
12:29 pm
josef:
Yep ………… the real truth of history is seldom taught.
barking frog
January 22nd, 2012
12:29 pm
josef, 12:28, probably not..
wet wiccan
January 22nd, 2012
12:29 pm
Well, well, well …so Newt won SC. He can enjoy this victory, but there is no way he can beat this guy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-hDt2E8MoE&feature=related
Mick – Look out! The crazy show is coming to your neighborhood next!
JamVet
January 22nd, 2012
12:34 pm
“We have nothing to beer, but beer itself.” ~Benjamin Franklin
jonix, check out this strange little ditty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFvvruR78mY
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
12:35 pm
The newt runs his mouth.
barking frog
January 22nd, 2012
12:38 pm
http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?tag_id=113650&full=1&lang=
A sea turtle named Johnny Vasco da Gama was released in Florida and
immediately headed North as he was told a giant Newt would be coming
to Florida in the near future.
JamVet
January 22nd, 2012
12:39 pm
wiccan, the prez did the opening part of that wonderful song pretty damn good. But, could he hit those falsetto parts?
LOL.
This white kid will never grow tired of that one, because it is arguably the greatest single R&B song ever.
You make me feel so brand new
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiIC3A0ROM
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
12:43 pm
welcome- When you’ve got no leg to stand on, just move the goalposts.
Clinton: So we tried to be quite aggressive with them [al Qaeda]. We got – well, Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we’d been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, ’cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn’t and that’s how he wound up in Afghanistan.
Feel free to keep the goalpast on side, I’ll just take my three points.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/apr/15/20040415-094758-5267r/
and it’s good! starting to look like a blow out. (feel free to deflect and start personal assaults like a good democrat now)
Juan Williams - The Senior Black Person at Fox News (Or the only one -- take your pick)
January 22nd, 2012
12:45 pm
Well I did my job, (making Newt look good to the yokels in South Carolina), and I might add I did a damn good job, now I’m off to Florida. Gotta make people forget about their nightmares of Newt in a swimsuit. It ain’t gonna be easy.
Tokens Have Feelings Too.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
12:45 pm
ZamVet
Zo, was gibt’s? Why was it banned already?
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
12:46 pm
getalife- The newt runs his mouth
So you’re saying Newt would be an improvement over current administration. obama can’t run anything.
Kamchak
January 22nd, 2012
12:46 pm
Oooh, The Moonie Times as a reference.
Cool beans!
ragnar danneskjold
January 22nd, 2012
12:47 pm
The Newt victory – and especially the surprising margin – is good for conservatism, not so good for moderate republicans. Newt ran hard as “the conservative,” and Romney ran as a – well, exactly what did he run as? Conservatives want to vote for one who magnifies conservatism.
Romney had a couple of good arguments recently, in defense of capitalism generally, although he was using the argument as straw man to deflect inquiry about his income, about his efforts at Bain Capital generally. But Newt won the SC election with his sound bites at the last two debates, particularly his response to the Juan Williams question.
I think our leftist friends delude themselves with the faux-glee at the thought of President Present debating the Newtmeister. Minds not damaged by drugs will recall that even the wishy-washy McCain out-debated Chauncey at each occasion, and Newt’s intellect will destroy the Oval Office Occupier by merely reciting the record of the past three years. Will be ugly, but of course the past three years have been ugly.
Juan Williams - The Senior Black Person at Fox News (Or the only one -- take your pick)
January 22nd, 2012
12:49 pm
Just because Americans are supposed to have such high moral standards does NOT mean that we can’t arrest and/or detain someone because they didn’t do anything.
Heck, look at Double U and Cheney — they did it all the time. And it made our country safe from ARABS in America. It didn’t however make us safe from Arabs abroad, but we’re gonna keep that little tidbit to ourselves.
A Toking I will go.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 22nd, 2012
12:49 pm
Well, howdy everybody. I hope you enjoyed Sunday a.m. services as much as I did. The Rev. Postlewaite was on fire today. Seeing as how old Newt won in SC, his sermon was on the Prodigious Son, about how you could sin and sin and sin but if you Repented and asked for forgiveness everything would be OK. I guess I’ll take his word for it, seeing as how old Newt has a R after his name. It might could be a different story if he was a D. Me, I ain’t never forgetting Clinton and that intern and how he flat-out ruint the morals of a whole generation of kids.
Anyhow, football is coming up and it’s a great day. Got my fried pork skins, got my PBR, and I’m ready to see some people whale the tar out of each other. In a Christian spirit, of course.
Have a great Sabbath everybody.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
12:51 pm
ragnar
” Newt’s intellect will destroy the Oval Office Occupier…”
Newt’s “intellect” will destroy Western Civilization…the Oval Office Occupier is small potatoes…
ragnar danneskjold
January 22nd, 2012
12:57 pm
Dear Josef @ 12:51, good morning, “Newt’s “intellect” will destroy Western Civilization” and we will call it “American Spring.”
Buckeyein Ga
January 22nd, 2012
1:01 pm
Ragnar,
McCain NEVER won a debate with Obama..LOL Joe Scarborugh(sp?) and Tom Coburn to name a couple of Republicans, helped throw Newt out of Congress. This is the guy you think can win it all.
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
1:04 pm
redneck- I guess I’ll take his word for it, seeing as how old Newt has a R after his name. It might could be a different story if he was a D
Could be different if he was lying to congress about it. While he was just as morally wrong, Newt didn’t get disbarred over his affairs.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
1:06 pm
JKL2, “And we’d been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him … ”
But JK, what are you saying were the options given that 9/11 had not happened yet?
Should we have already had a Guantanamo in place then to put someone like an OBL?
josef
January 22nd, 2012
1:08 pm
ragnar
Where’s Aaron Copeland when you need him, eh?
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
1:08 pm
Minds not damaged by drugs will recall that even the wishy-washy McCain out-debated Chauncey at each occasion
I don’t recall the two of them actually ever engaging in a debate. Winners of those media infomercials do not qualify as debate winners in any true sense of the word debate.