Newt Gingrich tells Georgia Republicans he’ll be a candidate in ‘12
In the last 24 hours, former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich has touched base with several prominent Republicans in his former home state, telling them that he intends to make a run for president in 2012 using Georgia as his base – and that he already has his eye on office space in Buckhead for a campaign headquarters.
Former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich
Gingrich met on Thursday with Nathan Deal, whom Gingrich endorsed during a critical phase of last year’s Republican primary for governor.
House Speaker David Ralston introduced Gingrich Thursday night at a downtown Atlanta affair hosted by the Paulding County Chamber of Commerce.
The visits and conversations – some face-to-face, others on the phone — appear to be an attempt by Gingrich to revive his old campaign network and lock down as much support as possible in a state won by Republican Mike Huckabee in the 2008 presidential primary.
A spokeswoman for Johnny Isakson said Gingrich called the U.S. senator earlier this month – adding that Gingrich was not definite about his plans in that conversation. In an interview on Friday, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss said he had not talked to Gingrich yet, but that the former U.S. House speaker had asked for an appointment in the near future. “He said, ‘I need a significant amount of your time,’” Chambliss said.
Gingrich, 67, is registered to vote in Virginia, and has a Virginia driver’s license. But he spent most of his adult life in Georgia, and from 1979 until 1999 — the last three years as speaker — Gingrich was a congressman from metro Atlanta.
Gingrich most recent visit here was clearly an attempt to lock down as much support as possible in a state won by Republican Mike Huckabee in the 2008 presidential primary. In a meeting with reporters, Gingrich emphasized his Georgia roots.
“My offices are here. My grandchildren are here. I’m here regularly,” Gingrich said at a Thursday news conference at his Center for Health Transformation in suburban Atlanta. “I helped create the modern Republican Party in Georgia starting in 1960. I have a certain fondness for being back in Atlanta.”
Perhaps more important, fundraising for Gingrich’s American Solutions organization is conducted out of Atlanta.
However, Rick Tyler, a spokesman for Gingrich, contacted Friday, said the former House speaker’s schedule for deciding on a 2012 presidential run had not changed. “His plans are to decide on whether to create an exploratory committee in late February, and make a decision about his candidacy in March,” Tyler said.
But Tyler said that Atlanta shouldn’t be ruled out as a headquarters – should Gingrich join the presidential contest.
For Gingrich, the key question is whether or not he can recreate an enthusiastic political base in Georgia more than a decade after he left it. There is no guarantee. Take, for instance, Saxby Chambliss. In a session with reporters, the U.S. senator said:
“Newt is my friend. He’s been a mentor, in some respects, since he was speaker when I got elected [to Congress].”
“But it’s a different world right now, and we’ve got to make sure that whoever the nominee is , that he can win in November. That’s the goal of every Republican right now. John Thune[, the U.S. senator from South Dakota,] is a very close friend. He’s talked to me about his potential campaign.
“I’m going to keep my powder dry.”
While Chambliss said he would pay good money to watch a debate between Gingrich and President Barack Obama, and has several strong points — his communication skills, and his familiarity with both fiscal issues and health care. But Chambliss has questions about Gingrich’s viability:
“Newt hasn’t said this to me, but he’s obviously aware of all the negative aspects of the campaign. And I’d be curious to hear from him why he thinks he can win in spite of that.
“In presidential campaigns now, you have to do something in Iowa. You may not have to win Iowa, but you’ve got to make a good showing in Iowa. Then you’ve either got to win or make a good showing in New Hampshire – if you don’t win Iowa.
Then if you don’t win New Hampshire or Iowa, you’ve got to win South Carolina. Can Newt do that?”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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LazyDan
January 22nd, 2011
2:16 pm
Herman Cain in 2012! Newt as his VP!
The GOP is brain dead
January 22nd, 2011
2:18 pm
Somnolence, well we do agree that Rudy in drag was really weird. And letting himself be felt up while so dressed was even stranger.
so called son of liberty, recall what George Will said about Palin and explain to us how being a part-time governor of a town of fewer than 10,000 people and quitting the governorship of the state with the second smallest population of all our states qualifies one for higher political office.
And keep telling yourself that Palin knows enough about international affairs, economics, history, and the world in general to teach in a third rate middle school. thanks for the laugh though.
Daniel
January 22nd, 2011
2:19 pm
And Sarah Palin just doesn’t cut it for me as a commander in chief….I like and respect her, she has some experience but not enough to be POTUS….besides listening to her talk for 4 years would be simply too annoying…I am really trying to vote for not against someone this time out.
The GOP is brain dead
January 22nd, 2011
2:22 pm
It is great sport to make a few obvious and irrefutable observations about the absence of intellect in the GOP leadership and their media allies of talk radio and scream (Fox television) and watch the frothing at the mouth rage, ignorance, and laughable responses that come in response. And they continue to make my case that the GOP has become the repository, with a few exceptions, of the meanest, most ignorant and uneducated people our society has to offer. It certainly explains the popularity of the empty dress and glorified housewife hotty of the right doesn’t it?
Somnolence
January 22nd, 2011
2:23 pm
As far as your rantings about “W” go, the same questions were not asked of candidate Kerry by the lamestream news media. So your stance really proves nothing. However, the general population did have the good sense to select Bush over Kerry, although it turned out that there was little difference between the two in how our dollars were spent. Soundbites geared to influence the segment of America which is largely gullible and quite content to follow like sheeple are nothing new. Palin could have very well turned the tables on Charlie Gibson or Katie Couric with similar questions to see how prepared they were. As far as your assertions that Palin needs a teleprompter, please provide substantial evidence. She worked as a journalist herself; she knows how to write bylines, continuity, knows how to splice videotape for editing, etc. As far as writing notes on the palms of her hands, well, to argue that only points out your pathetic resort to juvenilia. Most ASTUTE politicians do precisely that, and in comparing who utilizes a teleprompter more, then please bet me, Obama or Palin?
miike
January 22nd, 2011
2:28 pm
Gingrich / Paul 2012 with Palin as Secretary of State
Phillip
January 22nd, 2011
2:29 pm
Another Chicken Hawk who wants to invade Iran or North Korea or any other non Christian nation
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
January 22nd, 2011
2:31 pm
All Gingrich supporters: please use your real name and admit or deny being Roman Catholic.
warlord
January 22nd, 2011
2:33 pm
No Newt is good Newt. He is a product of the old Rino days were he specialized
in compromise.He was Clintons right hand man, and his opinions of today are
irrelevant.There’s nobody the Tea Party will settle for other than Palin. Newt
ain’t got a prayer.
Erik
January 22nd, 2011
2:40 pm
Whatever his faults, Newt is a very smart guy with a lot of drive and great ideas. No one will want to debate the guy. I have a lot of problems with Newt, but at the moment, he is the best candidate out there. Palin does not “live” politics and ideas the way Newt does. There are several guys coming up that may run, but have yet to really make their plans known, but until they announce, sorry all you haters, Newt right now is number one as far as quality. Obama isn’t even close in intellect to Newt. The G-man would tear him to bits.
affableman
January 22nd, 2011
2:45 pm
So the serial adulterer is going to run? The guy who’s flip-flopped on virtually everything? Well, I guess he beats the “nincompoop” from Alaska.
Somnolence
January 22nd, 2011
2:53 pm
We have to be very careful concerning the assessment of intellect. Professor Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton University, was very intellectual, and many of the policies established during his Presidency of the United States resulted in the domestic chaos we continue to incur today. (the 16th amendment, tax code, Federal Reserve, etc.) Yes, Newt is very academically inclined, and ranks as one of the greatest W.W. One authorities you can find. I dare say that our Indiana incumbent Senator Richard Lugar is also in the intellectual realm as a former Rhodes Scholar. I enthusiastically supported him in the distant past; he will never again get my support, and neither will Newt Gingrich, who abandoned his post of Speaker Of The House, a far more serious move than Sarah Palin made in Alaska in the face of unfounded charges proven to have been a farce.
Jeff
January 22nd, 2011
2:56 pm
The fact there are so many negative comments just gives me more reason to
vote for him.
dan
January 22nd, 2011
3:01 pm
being smart doesnt mean you will make a good president.look at obama. hes suppose to have been the smartest in his class, of course theres no proof of it.look at what a loon he has turned out to be.if he gets any smarter he will make carter look like rushmore material. good ole harry truman ,now there was a guy with NO college education that was a pretty darn good president.what college you graduated from or even if you went to college makes very little difference. , the people you surround yourself with means more than going to harvard , yale or columbia.
dan
January 22nd, 2011
3:07 pm
braindead your name is approiate. your mind is eaten up with to many visits to msnbc. harvard medical school reported they have found the gene that causes liberalism. they reported their pretty sure a cure will be announced around nov of 2012.
Ted
January 22nd, 2011
3:11 pm
This guy is sick in the head – What a NUT
Joe D.
January 22nd, 2011
3:12 pm
GOP is brain dead,
You keep alluding to the theory that you need an education to make an truthful comment, i.e. Beck, Limbaugh, etc… . An education doesn’t have to be from college. It must hurt to try to come to grips with that.
Thanks for your Aristotle comments. Now tell me the grand methods in which college students are learning wisdom at your school.
George Will makes some good points. He is an old school Beltway intellectual though, and doesn’t understand that moral courage and integrity are the two most important traits to becoming a great leader.
Lincoln was considered an ignorant hick and Eisenhower was considered lazy and not capable of using the phone at the time. You can say what you want now, all of these years later when they are no longer a threat to you.
Ted
January 22nd, 2011
3:14 pm
Ron Paul
Robert Ford
January 22nd, 2011
3:19 pm
No establishment Republicans – Newt, Romney, Huckabee are all bad, and I have my doubts about Palin and Pawlenty. Ron Paul is the only serious one about cutting spending and advocates an America First foreign policy.
bucky j
January 22nd, 2011
3:20 pm
newt will never get my vote. just because he knows a lot of facts and may be somewhat intelligent doesn’t mean he would use these forces for the good of the country. I don’t think he is out to hurt our country, but he is just so establishment that he would screw up our country to just get along. I’m so tired of “old” Republicans.
Also, who does he think he is to come down on Sara Palin in such a condenscending manner. does he think he is her daddy giving her advice saying think before speaking. Sarah is her own individual. She has her own life and plans. NO! If he is going to run for President, he would not be trying to help Sarah Palin. Therefore, he was trying do her harm. I DON’T TRUST NEWT GINGRICH!! PERIOD!!!
Greg
January 22nd, 2011
3:20 pm
He doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell. Way to many skeletons in his closet and his days as an opportunist will come back to bite him.
Lee
January 22nd, 2011
3:21 pm
Just 1 question for all you Newt bashers and haters. If the final ticket is Newt vs. Barocky, who you gunna vote for? Hope we have a country left after this clown in office gets done.
John Jarrell
January 22nd, 2011
3:28 pm
Newt’s positives (his intimate knowledge of history, his command of foreign affairs and his ability to develop real solutions to real problems) far outweigh the residual negatives. I would love to see a Newt/Sarah ticket, but I doubt she would be willing to run as second fiddle again, especially considering the experience she had with the disfunctional McCain campaign. But combine Newt’s intellectual horsepower with Sarah’s ability to inspire and connect with people… ah, one can dream.
Greg
January 22nd, 2011
3:32 pm
This would be a big time Gingrich support, el Rushbo himself in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHQSF9iL_A0
John
January 22nd, 2011
3:34 pm
Is this really the best “we” have–yes I’m a conservative but need I remind people that while Clinton was with Monica Newt was with his staffer who is now his wife—need I remind pewople that this man has dumped two wives who were in the midst of battling cancer–can anyone say John Edwards times two—-We need a visionary who can move us forward—Newts talking points are as old as the hills and with his personal lifestyle of hypocrisy if this is truly the best we have I’m voting for Obama–
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
January 22nd, 2011
3:36 pm
Gee, what’s Gingrich’s position on Bush’s and Cheney’s having committed 9/11? Only fascist traitors, their sympathizers, and other “no-men” unworthy of G-d’s grace or the name “American” don’t want to know. His moral turpitude is an incontrovertible established fact. He is supported, as is inbred whitetrash Palin, by those of the same ilk.
The GOP is brain dead
January 22nd, 2011
3:38 pm
Joe D, well it seems that the educational system failed you or you failed your teachers because you just don’t seem to be able to read and understand what someone with a different view is saying. Not only do Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity have no degrees they have not acquired an education by any means. Let me explain this to you if you can follow it as it is not an ideological point. I will keep it simple.
The late journalist William Safire was a conservative editorialist for the NY Times who won the Pulitzer Prize and received several other nominations for the prize during his career. He dropped out of Syracuse University and went to work in a television news organization where he showed a gift for writing and was picked up by Nixon to work as one of his speech writers. After Nixon resigned he was hired by the Times. Safire was known as a voracious reader and by the end of his career had written (not ghost written or silly screeds and rants of the sort Hannity has produced) 12 real books. He received an honorary doctorate from Syracuse a few years before his death. Now what is the difference between a conservative journalist and intellectual Safire and ignorant blowhards like Limbaugh, Beck, and Hannity? I alluded to it earlier, Safire read and read and read in order to learn for himself what he should know. All the aforementioned entertainers do is go on radio and television every day and rant. They are not educated in any sense of the word, not formally and they are not self-educated. Now do you finally get the point?
And your comments about Will show that you have never read much of what he has written because he has repeatedly addressed those points and stressed them. And you may not remember that he stepped outside his role as an educated journalist and helped prepare and coach Reagan for his debates in the 80s. (And I suppose his holding a PhD in philosophy from Princeton is a practical handicap in your world. Your “theory” that practical intelligence requires no knowledge or that an academic cannot have practical intelligence is just a result, I suspect, of your feeling inferior around smart, educated people. That is one of the main characteristics of the adorers of Palin and followers of Beck, etc.) Your comment about Lincoln also shows that you have read nothing about what liberals think of him. Only last month two more major works on Lincoln by liberal historians were published and reviewed widely. Garry Wills, the retired historian from Northwestern has written extensively on Lincoln and he is regarded as one of the most important and best presidents in American history among almost all historians regardless of ideology.
And by the way I don’t think Eisenhower or Nixon were conservative enough to even reach the GOP’s nomination these days. If you think they were then go back and read about their presidencies, Eisenhower’s domestic policies, and some of their speeches such as Eisenhower’s parting warning about the “military-industrial” state or Nixon’s address to joint sessions of Congress in 1972 calling for health care reform that was more liberal than what passed under Obama.
If the GOP could grant doctorates in ignorance you and most of your cohorts who post here would receive honors as would Palin, Beck, Hannity,and Limbaugh.
Bill
January 22nd, 2011
3:41 pm
Remember we MUST have someone with the facts on the tip of their tongue, who can DEBATE Obama with information, not just BS and my past half truth spin. If you have a canidate with a past record, well what has it done for us, usually nothing but mouth wash from some current or past Govenor, Rep or Senator. Have they boxed in or out manuvered Reid, or the previous witch of the House nasty leader, we need a candidate that does not just talk Blue Sky.
Newt can debate Obama and winning debates is the path to victory, if you let Obama spin the facts or silver tongue the audence it is all over. If you have facts at your finger tip and the history of how the Federalist papers direct our Republic to work, HE CAN’T answer or respond, why because his statements and spin will be out and out lying and misinformation.
Also watch for a dark horse a businessman named Donald Trump, he has fire in his belly and can’t stand Obama or the fact that China owns us plus the 14+ trillion of debt that has wrecked America and it’s people and businesses. A Newt, Trump ticket or a Trump, Newt ticket would be powerful plus have plenty of money and this businessmen has the money, but beware Obama plans to use a trillion of our tax dollars to pay for his election effords. Therefore I hate to say it but MONEY is very important as well as visibility, hey, both Newt and Trump have past baggage but that is old news and Americans want leaders not leaders that BOW and KOWTOW to foreign nations that we have bailed out for the last 50 years. and btw, we DO NOT need anymore past or current military types, asd Republician can fill the head of the Defense dept and State dept with lots of excellent military types and world spokesman that a President can send out to do the nations work. But I would love to see Trump or even Newt do trade talks with China, it would be fun to watch and we would do the laughing for a change instead of them laughing at us and our current WEAK President. Therefore folks keep and open mind, because Obama is worried now and watch his slick and dirty moves and silver mouth, like the BS he passed out in Arizona, funny how he never mention God or Jesus Christ, it was like going to a political rally, instead of a calm respectful moment after innocent people had lost their lives and been injured by a nut case that the sherif should of had behind bars, plus a police officer or two should of been close to the Congress women, the whole thing smells.
So keep your eyes on Obama I am sure more things will be happening of all sorts to make him look like the great protector of the people. Btw, I can’t find hardly anyone who admits voting for that clown.
Bill in Maryland
The GOP is brain dead
January 22nd, 2011
3:42 pm
Greg, thanks for the link to Limbaugh’s latest explosion of bigoted stupidity.
(That picture of him with the cigar makes him look like he is smoking a you know what.)
Dave Smith
January 22nd, 2011
3:45 pm
Why? Does he really think the third time is a charm? I know he had some good economic sense but the mountain of baggage he carries will always be his undoing. Republicans within the beltway elitists only enhance the dimorats chances when 40 of them muddy the water every election cycle. Stay home Newt, and Huck-a-Shuck, and Romney. You are all losers and will remain so.
Somnolence
January 22nd, 2011
3:48 pm
You can’t trust Donald Trump at all, especially in light of the fact that he supports Rahm Emanuel for Mayor of Chicago. He is also probably decidedly pro-choice, which is a negative as far as me supporting anyone who takes that stance. It is going to take more than just hate China, loathe Obama to win in 2012. It is going to take unity, and convincing many millions like me that the same old RINOS and their sympathizers aren’t headlining again. Otherwise, right now, I’m guessing the GOP may be splintered by this time next year, with a great possibility there will be a serious third, maybe fourth party candidacy. If any of you doubt Sarah Palin’s appeal then I suggest you check out her Facebook pages, of which I’m an enthusiastic supporter. If she doesn’t run, I hope she is drafted and can cause enough scare even if she doesn’t win so all the alarmists, both in and out of the media can soil their pants.
The GOP is brain dead
January 22nd, 2011
3:51 pm
Bill, I suppose that you think that the guy who has a Harvard law degree, edited the Harvard Law Review, published in law journals, taught law part time at the University of Chicago for eight years, and declined the offer of a tenure track position in that school is somehow ignorant of the Federalist Papers?
Gee, you guys never stop giving me a laugh. Believe it or not you can’t just read your views and ideology back into the Constitution or American history and then think that anyone who doesn’t share that view is wrong.
And Newt was never even held a tenured position by the way, he left West Georgia in a cloud and without being given tenure in its history department. He is not an academic or a honest intellectual but an ideologue. And an immoral one at that who cheated on his wives, was fined $300,000 by the House Ethics Committee and lectures others about religion. And in his 60s he still can’t figure out what he believes with his latest move from the bible thumping Jerry Falwell version of Protestantism to his conversion to Catholicism!
But please, please, we liberals beg you, pick Palin or Newt for your candidate. Between Gingrich’s loose cannon of a mouth and his sordid past and Palin’s vacant mind we will win walking away.
The GOP is brain dead
January 22nd, 2011
3:57 pm
Somny woke up to write this: “Sarah Palin’s appeal then I suggest you check out her Facebook pages, of which I’m an enthusiastic supporter. If she doesn’t run, I hope she is drafted and can cause enough scare even if she doesn’t win so all the alarmists, both in and out of the media can soil their pants”
Soil our pants! Let me recover from my laughter. Jesus, you people are out of it or so enclosed in your Alice in Right Wing Wonderland that you have no clue as to what will happen to Palin if she runs. She won’t be able to hide out on her facebook and play celebrity to her benighted adorers but will actually be exposed once and for all for the ignorant fraud he is so please run her, please.
Thanks again for the laugh, now I have to go back to work which means reading.(You should try it sometime.)
deowll
January 22nd, 2011
4:00 pm
I like to hear him talk. He’s a smart guy but he’s from the old guard so forget it. His campaign is going nowhere with the majority.
Jim
January 22nd, 2011
4:01 pm
hello
Somnolence
January 22nd, 2011
4:01 pm
The liberals who constantly act like mindless reactionaries every time Palin’s name is announced tells me they are very afraid of her, and au contrare, are trying to influence GOP hierarchy to avoid nominating her at all costs. The fake posturing (we hope she is nominated, etc.) isn’t working with the Tea Party (and no, I’m not a member; just a Palin supporter), and only those swayed by the wayward, feeble winds will continue to back WTO, NWO allies, or advocates of foreign intrigue.
Ayla
January 22nd, 2011
4:05 pm
Enter your comments here Oh puleese! We don’t need you to get into the race AGAIN! Don’t want any has beens or former candidates, including Gingrich, Romney, Palin, etc. Isn’t there any new blood in the Republican Party? Or are we doomed for “4 more years”? Surely somewhere there is a Republican worth the Office of the President. Went through this the last election and look who it got us cause our candidate couldn’t pull it off.
Somnolence
January 22nd, 2011
4:05 pm
“Beknighted”, not “Benighted.”
No Neo-Con Newt
January 22nd, 2011
4:09 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02HX5v5Thpk
Please watch all parts.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
January 22nd, 2011
4:19 pm
be·night·ed [bih-nahy-tid]
-adjective
1. intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
2. overtaken by darkness or night.
Origin: 1565–75; benight (be- + night) + -ed2
deboreno
January 22nd, 2011
4:21 pm
NOPE! Newt blew it when he sat next to Nan on the global waming couch.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
January 22nd, 2011
4:22 pm
Little wonder “somnolence” can’t be bothered with such a quaint, old-fashioned notion as rectitude.
HarlanR
January 22nd, 2011
4:22 pm
Please keep this book hustler and Hannity whipping boy off the ticket. You ever check into how Newt treated his first two wives? He’s a Conservative like my dog is The Pope.
DLCLS
January 22nd, 2011
4:22 pm
Newt knows history andis trying to talk like a Conservative but Herman Cain is a Conservative as well as a real Christian and has made history in business world. It would be a sacrifice for Herman not an ego trip to run for the White House ans restore the honor and respect America use to have before the worthless apologist we have presently. Any white man running against BHO will be cast as a racist no matter what issue is debated. Run Herman Run!
steve
January 22nd, 2011
4:24 pm
First of all, he’s a RINO. He’s what’s wrong with the Republican party. He was House leader when the Republicans controlled the government, and he did NOTHING!
Secondly, he has all kinds of vulnerabilities that Obama/Clinton are going to exploit. There was a reason why he stopped being House leader.
Lastly, he’s exploitative. I was told that in one of his books he chose the Republican party because he felt it gave him more opportunities than the larger Democratic party. He’s going to say what he thinks he needs to say to get elected and then he will wheel and deal to get richer.
Give me a good, honest person like Sarah Palin any day over a guy like Gingrich who talks ethics and morals but doesn’t practice ethics and morals.
Somnolence
January 22nd, 2011
4:26 pm
No, Will, I just feel that we Palin admirers are within a realm where a certain chivalry still reigns. Sarah has had a good time with “refudiate,” and I will continue to use “beknighted” without all the formalities.
Bill Orvis White
January 22nd, 2011
4:26 pm
The Honorable Speaker Gingrich is more than welcome to come into the race. He has a lot of good ideas and I for one, love him because he’s dedicated to Christian conservative principles as well as free markets and low/no taxe$.
My favorite is still Herman Cain. I called for him to run back on November 27, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/27q8oww
steve
January 22nd, 2011
4:28 pm
“Bill, I suppose that you think that the guy who has a Harvard law degree, edited the Harvard Law Review, published in law journals, taught law part time at the University of Chicago for eight years, and declined the offer of a tenure track position in that school is somehow ignorant of the Federalist Papers? ”
Well, yeah, obviously he is. He also thinks there are 59 states.
“Gee, you guys never stop giving me a laugh.”
You need a better rebuttal than laughing. Explain how he has demonstrated a knowledge of the Federalist Papers. Better yet, explain how he has demonstrated a knowledge of the Anti-Federalist papers would be a start.
John Pitchford
January 22nd, 2011
4:30 pm
The only person who can throw someone under the bus of political expediency faster than Obama… is Newt. Ask Newt’s Nazi who was fired with no investigation of the claims made against her by the leftist media (AKA mainstream media). Maybe Newt will have a “New Contract with America.” Perhaps this time he will keep his first promise … that the laws would apply to Congressmen just as they apply to you. How come he defended William “Cold Cash” Jefferson after Cold Cash had ignored subpoenas for a year before they raided his home and his office? Newt for President…. please…. No Newt is good Newt. P.S. He’s just doing this to get the rubes to buy his books and listen to him preach to the choir.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
January 22nd, 2011
4:31 pm
Palin has proven herself a liar and hypocrite on many occasions…what other sort of trash would pander to papism’s American Fifth Column by insisting, against all that is true and holy, that a victim of rape and incest must be forced by law to bring to term the fruit of abomination to reward biologically her rapist father. Nice bit of self justification by an obvious product of inbreeding.