A Newt Gingrich presidential campaign out of Buckhead?

Keith

January 21st, 2011
3:35 pm

Voters are looking to the future, and aren’t going to rally around the old guard.

xdog

January 21st, 2011
3:35 pm

Newtron must have another book coming out soon.

Seriously, who does he expect to vote for him, besides the Tofflers and Cobb County?

MarkG

January 21st, 2011
3:37 pm

Don’t bother Newt. What a waste of money. Your ego is grander than your abilities. And yes, I am a republican.

pete

January 21st, 2011
3:45 pm

Please stay where ur at.Nut case

sandie

January 21st, 2011
3:48 pm

I would be thrilled to have him on ballot over Palin!!

That's Newt's Problem . . .

January 21st, 2011
3:56 pm

Being over the female. Palin iss a female?

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UNaffiliated Voter

January 21st, 2011
4:00 pm

I like Herman Cain and Allen West a lot. Newt is too establishment. Palin is refreshing but not qualified. I think a Herman Cain/ Ron Paul ticket would be optimum!

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Steve

January 21st, 2011
4:08 pm

This is going to be a textbook example of expensive and time-wasting political masturbation. Good luck with that, Newt.

Question Man

January 21st, 2011
4:15 pm

Doesn’t Newt Gingrich have about as much chance of becoming President as John Oxendine had to become governor of Georgia? For the record, wouldn’t that be: “Little chance?”

Beth

January 21st, 2011
4:19 pm

I will support your campaign!! Wow, a president that has held a job and understands business – great!

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

January 21st, 2011
4:20 pm

Hey, if Uncle Billy’s “boys” couldn’t keep Georgia beat down, maybe the Devil can get us to all vote into office his draft-dodging adulterating co-religionist to help us understand what’s really going on…as long as he isn’t caught in bed with any live boys or dead women. What a prize of a “man!”

Will

January 21st, 2011
4:34 pm

For some conservatives, character and morals still count.

Because of these feelings, Newt Gingrich will not be a viable option for the republican nomination for President.

grizzybear

January 21st, 2011
4:34 pm

sorry newt, you are to busy selling books like the rest of them! you did not fulfill your” contract with america”, i will be voting for fresh blood and ideas, i do not want old guard!

Dave

January 21st, 2011
4:37 pm

So right now we have ,Gingrich,Palin, or Obama as choices for 2012. I DO BELIEVE WE ARE IN TROUBLE.

gm

January 21st, 2011
4:38 pm

Hypocrite Newt, is this the same person lead the charge to impeach Clinton on cheating, and was cheating his self.
Please conservatives, you love Herman Cain as much as you loved Richard Steele, please stop using these black conservatives.

Real Athens

January 21st, 2011
4:39 pm

Beth:

Your claim is woefully uninformed. Newt has never ran a business and never held a job where the money didn’t come from tax dollars, tax write-offs, etc.

His “hometown” is Harrisburg, PA.

Republican

January 21st, 2011
4:40 pm

I’m worried.

gdog#1

January 21st, 2011
4:42 pm

please…somebody…tell me this is a joke.

Buckhead Resident

January 21st, 2011
4:43 pm

I’d bet Scott Rials Sonny Perdue’s old consultant and a former Gingrich hand will have a role in any campaign out of Atlanta

Newt Gingrich is in for 2012 | deuxballes

January 21st, 2011
4:43 pm

[...] Speaker (1995-1999), has more or less made up his mind: he’s running in 2012. So says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, in any case: In the last 24 hours, former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich has touched base with [...]

tk harty

January 21st, 2011
4:45 pm

God Bless Newt! We need patriots like him!

Beth

January 21st, 2011
4:45 pm

Real Athens: Did you go to UGA…you use bad grammar and you have no idea what you are talking about. Must be a liberal.

tk harty

January 21st, 2011
4:46 pm

Herman Cain for VP!

Tracy

January 21st, 2011
4:48 pm

It’s funny (and ironic) to see Newt want to be President when John Boehner is speaker of the house.

For those of you who don’t know…back in 1997 when Newt was speaker of the house Boehner was the driving force behind the Republicans forming a virtual “coup” against Newt to get him to step down.

Honorable Elijah Muhammad,

January 21st, 2011
4:50 pm

Hypocrite Newtis a chickenhawk and a cheater

gdog#1

January 21st, 2011
4:51 pm

the more things change,the more they stay the same…gop’ers all hopped-up on being “elitist”..thinking their “crap” is the best smelling stuff around..i love nothing more than watching this over-inflated ego windbag taking a whupping…again.

tk harty

January 21st, 2011
4:54 pm

Not gonna happen gdog

Charles

January 21st, 2011
4:55 pm

Republicans have had two ” throw away ” candidates , Dole and McCain, Newt would be a third ! He has NO chance due to two divorces , one to a wife with cancer . A marketable candidate is needed to win and Independents and moderate Democrats won’t vote for Newt, he is disliked by too many .

tk harty

January 21st, 2011
4:58 pm

He still loves his country Chuck, otherwise the coversation is mute.

Producer

January 21st, 2011
4:59 pm

Newt will always be the smartest man in whatever room he enters. He’s great idea guy and the Repubs should listen to whatever he says on any issue. That being said, the media and the Dems have made sure over the years that he is unelectable. Similar to the treatment that is currently being visited on Palin. It’s too bad.

gdog#1

January 21st, 2011
4:59 pm

tk,i’d vote for you over him,and i don’t even know you..yet

DW

January 21st, 2011
5:04 pm

@PRODUCER You’re an idiot

Producer

January 21st, 2011
5:06 pm

Great comeback, DW. Go back to eating you’re Cheetos! LOL!

barneyb

January 21st, 2011
5:06 pm

I agree with “Will: above.
Morals and character DO count. Newt’s scanalous affair and subsequent divorce from his previous wife while she was ill with cancer is reprehensible. Go take a hike, Newt. And your position on letting states go bankrupt is just another issue. You always take the easy way out, Newt. You won’t get my vote, and I’m a diehard Republican.

Uncle D

January 21st, 2011
5:07 pm

Beth: I noticed you didn’t even attempt to refute what Real Athens had to say, you just called him names & attacked his spelling. Do we even need to wonder why you like Newt so much?

gdog#1

January 21st, 2011
5:09 pm

I second DW…Don’t blame others for the road you chose in life,or how you decided to drive on it…we all are responsible alone for where we stand(or fall) today.

Eon Rodeo

January 21st, 2011
5:10 pm

Just another Republican hypocrite. Good luck, Newt!

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January 21st, 2011
5:11 pm

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Bobert

January 21st, 2011
5:11 pm

I like Newt, but would rather have a different candidate. I like Sarah but hope she isn’t the candidate. I like Herman, but don’t think he is presidential timber. We just haven’t had much to choose from, but it is still early. From the “old guard” I still like Mike.

Traci

January 21st, 2011
5:12 pm

This man is a serial Adulterer – No Way

Honorable Elijah Muhammad,

January 21st, 2011
5:14 pm

Newt is amazingly similar to Bill Clinton – both are pot smoking, draft-dodging adulterers from poor Southern families.Dead Beat Dad The hospital visit wasn’t the end of it, either. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get him to contribute for bills, as utilities were about to be cut off.Problems With Women He has said that he read a book called “Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them”, and “found frightening pieces that related to my own life.”
Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don’t, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn’t help. According to the Wall Street Journal, a company hired Marianne Gingrich (Newt’s wife) for $2,500 a month plus commissions in September 1994 after he announced support for a free trade zone in Israel that they are trying to build. Her “job” for Israel Export Development Co. is to find tenants for the trade zone. Gingrich’s spokesman said that since her job did not involve working with the US government, there was no conflict of interest.

Producer

January 21st, 2011
5:16 pm

Traci, so was Clinton back in the day and folks give him higher favorable ratings today than Obama. It boils down to personality, I guess. Clinton is engaging and charming to many and Newt just isn’t as likable. It is what it is. I agree that Newt isn’t going to earn the job.

Diehard

January 21st, 2011
5:17 pm

Newt running is a good thing. He can give the eventual nominee a great set of speeches to use in the fall 2012 campaign and then the new GOP President can make him Ambassador to the Vatican since he’s a newly minted Catholic. Everybody wins.

Traci

January 21st, 2011
5:18 pm

If people say that his marriages are his “personal business”. they are not.
In fact its why he has never been able to run before. He is a Low Down Rotten Cheating Scoundrel.

1st wife ill with cancer in the hospital when he comes to her asking for a Divorce,
2nd wife (the one he cheated on with the 1st) finds out that their marriage is over – when the movers come to move him to Washington – after his failed election in Georgia.

the movers are packing his things on truck and not her packed up belongings, she finds that curious and asks why — she is deferred to him. Where he tells her — “ohhh, you arent coming”.

How about that one!

Proceeds to move to Washington to “shake up” with his 31 year old that he had been having an affair with.

he is not fit to be a Dog Catcher

Eon Rodeo

January 21st, 2011
5:18 pm

Read all about Newt from his second wife, Marianne’s, perspective:

http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gingrich-0910?click=main_sr

Yeah, he’s a real prince of a man.

Producer

January 21st, 2011
5:18 pm

I do not see an engaging candidate on the GOP side. Similar to Dole in ‘96. Nobody came out to really challenge Slick.

Traci

January 21st, 2011
5:21 pm

@Producer Not voting for him – and will do everything I can -to see that this slimy dog comes no where near the white house.

Yeah even though Clinton was a no good skirt chaser – his wife stuck with him. In this case – he dumps the wives at his leisure. No Woman in her Right mind will support this Bozo.

I am not voting for an known Adulterer. Period. If his wife cant trust him – Neither Can I.

three jack

January 21st, 2011
5:23 pm

if gingrich is relying on advice from saxby chambliss, he might as well stick to selling books, dvds and the other stuff he puts out via his website.

Yankee in Gooberville

January 21st, 2011
5:27 pm

Who’s been blowing smoke up his a**? Does this throwback actually believe this is or is just more of his self-puffery to try to regain relevance in this century?

DW

January 21st, 2011
5:30 pm

@yankee id say the later..

Traci

January 21st, 2011
5:31 pm

People who are on here saying Newt is a good man – Have you lost your minds? There is a reason why he has been unable to throw his hat into the ring. He has been waiting for people like you to say “ohhh all that cheating on his wife stuff – we can look the other way.”

to that I say “heck no”. With everyone there are consequences to your behavior – putting his name on the ballot is a disgrace. ” The good ole American way – leader of the GOP” – any Christian man that follows him – needs to re-read that section about refrain from being amongst adulterers.

There are only 10 rules laid out in the “Good Book” that one – that Newt does – often and always has – is on that list. You can pick and choose – but dont try to tell others how to live when you can’t manage to get Those 10 right.

What HYPOCRITES the GOP has become

DW

January 21st, 2011
5:38 pm

Im just glad the millionaires and billionaires got to keep their tax break *rolls eyes*

Traci

January 21st, 2011
5:38 pm

I dont have to compare him to any other politician – people get caught up in the ….”well such and such did it”, Does that make that behavior right – because somebody else did it.

You are supposed to manage your own character – your own content should speak for itself – without using anyone else as a measuring stick.

We can be at that all day. looking at examples of who else cant keep – their ZIPPER up.

Bottom line – your character is based on YOU. Period, without excuses or pulling other people – to justify your miscues and missteps.

Newt is a 2 time DOCUMENTED Adulterer. and the men on here who say that’s okay -
-” lets ask your wives if thats okay if you do it?

IndependentGeorgian

January 21st, 2011
5:42 pm

Donald Trump in 2012!

Bemused

January 21st, 2011
5:48 pm

Newt Gingrich is a total failure as a politician, and as a man.

Cedric

January 21st, 2011
5:51 pm

Oh Lord, Gingrich will kill chances to unseat Obama. Too many of us remember his hypocracy in the Clinton impeachment while having his own affair. Gingrich is of the past…time for some politicians with real values. He is an example of what is wrong with both parties, e.g. the self-serving party hack, and needs to stay retired.

Rabun Gap

January 21st, 2011
5:52 pm

The “producer” has made some points I agree with. Newt has great ideas, but he is unelectable.

PithyWaters

January 21st, 2011
5:55 pm

Newt? Nyet.

DW

January 21st, 2011
5:55 pm

What “great ideas” has he come up with exactly?

Buck Hayek

January 21st, 2011
6:04 pm

Newt’s an idiot who thinks Obama’s “secularism” is un-American while that very concept is written into the US Constitution.

jeff sutter

January 21st, 2011
6:08 pm

Newt is a very bright and inquisitive man who now looks for solutions outside the old box. THE HURDLE is the old baggage. When he has his “Contract with America” he could have soared had he executed. Instead he became the instigator of the divisiveness we see today. He threw the biggest barbs at everybody not on his side of the aisle. I blame him for the attitudes in Washington today. Politicians need to remember WE elect them for what they might do for us NOT TO us.

Real Talk

January 21st, 2011
6:10 pm

Republican, You should be worried. Because you’re gonna lose again.

Upton Ogood

January 21st, 2011
6:12 pm

The Democrats would relish a Gingrich candidacy. He’s proven himself
to be a fat John Edwards. I’ve voted for Republicans since my error with Jimmy
Carter, but I’d vote for Obama before Gingrich.

RGB

January 21st, 2011
6:29 pm

When Newt trims his fingernails, he removes more intelligence than our socialist president Barack Obama has ever possessed.

Buck Hayek

January 21st, 2011
6:32 pm

S&P 500 up 40% under Obama after cratering under eight years of the Bushpig’s economic policies.

Newt = Dumbya.

ECB

January 21st, 2011
6:33 pm

Talk about toning down the rhetoric, Newt created the rhetoric. It was Newt in the early ninties that told Republicans not to just run against their opponents, but to demonize them. He even came up with code words to use. Newt is primarily responsible for Democrats and Republicans acting like Sunnis and Shiites.

JD

January 21st, 2011
6:35 pm

@Uncle D…let’s see… Beth made an enthusiastic statement of support for Gingrich claiming him to be a successful businessman, which she is very correct!, and then, Real Athens takes a shot at her claiming Gingrich has never run a business that wasn’t non-profit or used tax write-offs. Real Athens is woefully incorrect, since Gingrich has one of the most in-demand public speaking schedules in the country, which is totally for profit… ask Tony Robbins or any other public speaker in the country. Real Athens’s obviously believes non-profits, such as Gingricht’s establishment and management of four at present, which have raised more money than any other like non-profits in the country over the last two years… somehow does not count for business experience. I believe non-profits all over the country would envy what Gingrich has accomplished. Beth probably should have been more civil in responding to Real Athens; however, what did she say that was not true?, and besides, I believe Real Athens was asking for it… don’t ya think? Oh, back to Gingrich, we all know that he was the brain-trust behind The Contract with America, which slick Willie was forced to embrace. 9 out of 10 were signed into law! The Gingrich-led Congress forced Clinton into fiscal moderations and choices that created balanced budgets and even surpluses. When you consider that the U.S., the single largest “business” in the world, has not realized balanced budgets and surpluses since Gingrich… I would think that he is remarkably the most qualified candidate to be running for 2012. When you consider that in two years Obama, with a Democratic Congress has increased the debt more than all other Presidents combined… we have a problem. Now Uncle D, I assume you will say that Gingrich was run out of town. Yep, he shut down the government twice trying to keep slick Willie in fiscal-check and was demonized for it… and when Gingrich stepped away slick-Willie managed to take credit for everything good that happened… boys will be boys, or, Democrats will be Democrats; and when Gingrich stepped away, it was because the Republicans lost 5 seats. Pelosi just lost 65, and she was re-elected. I for one recognize that the Democrats are driving us all off the cliff. I believe that in normal times Gingrich would probably not be elected because of all that baggage the bloggers want us to know about; however, when the house is on fire I want someone who has actually done it before instead of a bunch of amateurs and wanna-be’s. And if that is not good enough for Real Athens or Uncle D… then I’m sure Beth can take on both.

AtlDem

January 21st, 2011
6:38 pm

Hope all Newt’s previous wives and girlfriends vote for him. After all, they did fall for his BS once upon a time.

unclefast

January 21st, 2011
6:44 pm

tk hardy………the correct word is “moot,” not “mute.” Look it up.

unclefast

January 21st, 2011
6:47 pm

Oh, and by the way, I took one of Newt’s classes at West Georgia back in ‘72.
Brilliant guy, but a real tool bag……… as time showed.

urban redneck

January 21st, 2011
6:47 pm

sweet, somebody on my ticket besides palin. she scares me….and i’m going to a party tomorrow for a four year old who’s WAY smarter.

Buck Hayek

January 21st, 2011
6:47 pm

“The Republicans promise less intrusive, less expensive government. But will they deliver? In the past, they have said they would shrink the state, but then they came into power and spent more. Consider George W. Bush’s eight horrendous years: The budget grew 89 percent—from $1.86 trillion to $3.52 trillion.”

John Stossel (Reason Magazine Jan 20, 2011)

Spending is still at that level ($3.55 trillion)

Sammy

January 21st, 2011
6:49 pm

Here’s a good video about Newt running
http://www.youtube.com/stevedoeslife

Blonde conservative barbie

January 21st, 2011
7:12 pm

Old Newt is a tired old joke.
Next!

Curt

January 21st, 2011
7:12 pm

I think its great that he has decided to run,that is what i have been waiting for .Mr Gingrich is very smart about all aspects of govt.He will be the smartest president we ever had and blow away obama and to heck with all of you who claim that your guy who ever that may be does not have skeletons in their closet.The strongest will survive and newt will come out on top!!!!!!!

nate_deal_eats_worms

January 21st, 2011
7:34 pm

Nobody wants to hear from that chubby Newt Gingrich. The 90’s are over. Get over it and move on. Geesshh!

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

January 21st, 2011
7:37 pm

Verily Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich are each whitetrash draft-dodging adulterers, but Clinton’s father isn’t “James Blythe,” it’s Winthrop Rockefeller. Examine the highly unusually shaped, identical noses, unlike the conveniently dead Blythe’s straight, even “normal” nose. How else does one rationalize non-New Yorker Hillary’s effectively being crowned U.S. senator from Pocantico Hills? “They” know what “they” are doing, shouldn’t we?

Sick and Tired

January 21st, 2011
7:43 pm

I would love to see him be the GOP candidate. If not him then Palin. Both will make sure we get four more years. Do not be fooled about the debate between Newt and Obama. It will not be close. Now the debate with Obama and Palin I will pay for tickets to that.

Ouside the Perimeter

January 21st, 2011
7:48 pm

Newt, quit your foolishness and stay with publishing books. I can nem you more than 100+ Republicans in our group who would (almost) vote Demoncrat over you.
@Beth: There’s only one thin better than a good conservative woman and that’s two (or more) of them. I’ll be glad the day women take over the GA Republican Party so we can actually run qualified people for Gov. Oh, and I’m an extreme, right-wing, died-in-the-wool MALE GA Republican.

Report: Gingrich tells pols in Georgia that he’s running for president « Hot Air

January 21st, 2011
7:49 pm

[...] Not a surprise, but this is as close as he’s gotten so far to a formal announcement. 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… [...]

howard

January 21st, 2011
7:53 pm

Wasn’t he in DC once before…an affair to remember…

Joe Coleman

January 21st, 2011
8:05 pm

I hope Newt does run – he will be additional cannon fodder for Obama. Ladies & Gentlemen, the GOP can trot out whomever they want for President. It really will not matter. Obama is going to win hands down. There is nobody with a brain or personality in the GOP field that can challenge Obama. Four more years of Obama and then Hillary takes over. Ain’t life Grand?

OldTimer

January 21st, 2011
8:11 pm

Newt wins South Carolina easy.

Hilary

January 21st, 2011
8:16 pm

I will vote for him.

OldTimer

January 21st, 2011
8:18 pm

Any way we can kick Vermont out of the Union?

BBOBB

January 21st, 2011
8:20 pm

newt, palin and cain – all great fundraisers but have no chance of winning election for any office. don’t waste the time and money of your party faithful. go out and campaign for those that have a chance to win. you don’t.

Georgia Idjut

January 21st, 2011
8:31 pm

Sean Hannity loves him and that’s alls I need to know. Sean Hannity is a great American and Newt and him talk about being great Americans and I listen and think, Hey, Newt must be a great American too.

He’s got my vote. Either him or Palin. Palin is a great American. I’m confused now.

CA

January 21st, 2011
8:33 pm

He must be writing a new book and needs some publicity.

Boooo

January 21st, 2011
8:37 pm

Don’t waste your money, Newt! No public employees will vote for you and retired ones will actively campaign against you.

Jim

January 21st, 2011
8:42 pm

He balanced the budget, that’s good enough for me.

Inthiscorner

January 21st, 2011
8:42 pm

Newt is a Progressive dressed like a Republican. He is a fraud. There is nothing conservative or patriotic about him. It is all about him. He is a typical DC career snake oil salesman. He would sell America out to the highest bidder if he could get good press. NO TO NEWT!

Inthiscorner

January 21st, 2011
8:46 pm

Palin has more balls than everyone in DC combined. John Bolton for Secretary of State. No to Chris Christie. He is in the pocket of Islamists. He is a Dhimmi appeaser and another Progressive in a Republican costume.

Dave

January 21st, 2011
8:47 pm

GO NEWT. Anyone who disagrees with me has absolutely no knowledge of his credentials, his background, his ideas. He is awe inspiring to listen to. He would make a great President. GO NEWT GO!

Inthiscorner

January 21st, 2011
8:49 pm

There are lots of Progressive/Socialists disguised as Republicans. Mitt Romney for one. We need to empty out DC. If you served before and you didn’t vote to serve the people and preserve the Constitution ALL THE TIME, you are out.

Inthiscorner

January 21st, 2011
8:51 pm

To Joe Coleman….Your IV fell out! and your respirator is beeping…..You lost all oxygen to the brain…..call it!

Hank

January 21st, 2011
8:52 pm

LIke 3 day old fish…….

Steve

January 21st, 2011
8:53 pm

I am a Democrat but I respect Newt for his intelligence. Republicans should get behind someone smart like him not a useless imbecile like Palin.

Steve

January 21st, 2011
8:55 pm

The moment America entered WW2, Winston Churchill went over and popped champagne and said “we’ve won the war.”

The moment Newt decides to run, its in the bag!

JimInMT

January 21st, 2011
9:00 pm

Newt had his chance, way back in 1994, and he and his newbie cohorts BLEW IT by NOT keeping their promises. They “shape-shifted” their 100-days and 10 points that they SAID they would VOTE on in that time period into “we only promised to BRING UP the 10 points”. Liars. They will not get ANY vote from the hundreds of thousands of libertarian Constitutionalists, dozens of whom I know. We will not support anyone over the age of 55, though many of us be in our 60’s and 70’s. Especially those who tried AND FAILED to even TRY to restore our Constitutional Republic, with its LIMITATIONS of Federal powers, 15-20 years ago!!!!! Newt can go pound sand.

ab initio

January 21st, 2011
9:01 pm

If this story is anywhere near the truth, I am going to invest heavily in popcorn shares. The left alone will absolve any inherent risk in the investment within the first day.

jaypat

January 21st, 2011
9:01 pm

Has this blowhard not done enough harm for one lifetime? THe last time he had any power,he shut down the government over his petulant fantasies.

For the person above who is pleased that “he balanced the budget,” also know that there was a major decline in the economy that followed. It happens like this EVERY TIME. It’d be such a good idea for the public to learn how the monetary system actually works, but that probably ain’t going to happen anytime soon.

That’s a strong hint to the media that there is a major misunderstanding on the part of the public about the most important element in economics today: How we keep score, or the operation of the monetary system. http://moslereconomics.com/2009/12/10/7-deadly-innocent-frauds/

Mr. Delicious

January 21st, 2011
9:01 pm

Well…if it’s a choice between him or the socialist/facist/marxist/dictator who’s wiping his behind with the Constitution….I’ll take Newt.

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divinegrace

January 21st, 2011
9:05 pm

I really can’t wait! Finally, someone who has a brain, and also common sense. He’s going to be fine. Just fine. Look at the ‘New Guard.’ What a joke? Look at how we’re all doing. Frankly, I don’t even really care
anymore. If Gingrich isn’t elected, I’ll be ok in every way. But, it’s going to be great to watch those fall that have chosen the latest loser. Samson Obama’s brother, cousin, or whatever he is, will be a one-term president. But, you never know. You’ll probably shoot yourselves in the foot a second time. I wouldn’t be surprised. (LOL)

NoMoreMrNiceGuy

January 21st, 2011
9:11 pm

ROFL ….. Yeah we want a cold fish that would divorce his wife on her death bed.

ComradeAnon

January 21st, 2011
9:13 pm

When has the serial adulterer NOT run for President?

philinnyc

January 21st, 2011
9:14 pm

Quick, someone tell Newt that if he comes out kissing Israel’s backside, he may as well forget about a Presidential run. The US is sick of sending billions in foreign aid to Israel only to have them manipulate our media and politicians.

Jake

January 21st, 2011
9:15 pm

@beth I graduated from UGA. Just to let you know, you shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition. You’re a joke.

Noot Sucks

January 21st, 2011
9:16 pm

The most laughable thing I have ever heard.
Apparently Noot is high on viagra.

A Noot reality check:

Adultery:
Callista Bisek. Anne Manning. The unnamed “young volunteer”. Are we missing anyone?

Draft dodger

Dead-Beat Dad
Family Values? Pressing Wife for Divorce in the Hospital
House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks
Book Deals: Murdoch’s $4.5 Million wasn’t the first
GOPAC sleaze: Taxpayer subsidies for his partisan campaign course.
Corporate reward: $2,500/month to Newt’s wife
Who Owns Him?

http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm

Who does this obvious sociopath think he is kidding?

divinegrace

January 21st, 2011
9:16 pm

I can just see libs sobbing because they’ve lost their jobs, houses, and lives. And it’s all because they chose another loser that tried to
spread the wealth!
Unfortunately, the wealth runs out. And their employers wipe them from the payroll. You just got to laugh!
There are plenty of diminutive libs on this site. That much is clear. They’d better start going to church. They need to go there for two reasons. One is that they’d better pray that Gingrich is elected so that they can hold on to what they have left. And the second is that if he isn’t elected, they’ll be right where they need to be, because only God can save them. That’ll be their only hope. I myself haven’t gone to church for 20 years. But, you just gotta laugh!

Tom in NY23

January 21st, 2011
9:16 pm

Hey newt, a real republican here. Remember Scozzafava? Remember Pelosi and the global warming commercial? I do. If you run it is because you want obama for a second term. There are too many of us who see you for what you are. If a progressive is going to lead this country off the tracks, I will do my best with my votes and my money to assure that it is a progressive with a D next to their name.

Crazy_Redneck

January 21st, 2011
9:18 pm

Dear Newt,

Please don’t. Rather than laughing my butt off at your feeble feigning of conservatism, I’d prefer to hear those to the right of yourself like Gov. Gary Johnson and Rep. Ron Paul.

In Liberty,
Crazy_Redneck

PS: Take those RINOs Pawlenty and Romney with you.

Inthiscorner

January 21st, 2011
9:18 pm

Actually I would like to see Herman Cain as Prez.

dennis

January 21st, 2011
9:19 pm

This would be as big of a mistake as electing Obama. He represents the old line DC folks. His contract with America was a joke. I don’t believe he would be ale to get the young voters to back him. I am a 60 year old conservitive and I would not vote for Newt. He may be able to work as an advisor but to run for the White House, I believe he would lose big time. If Newt runs who can I vote for? Maybe I will vote for NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!!!!!!

divinegrace

January 21st, 2011
9:21 pm

ComradeAnon is right! This has been going on since Julius Caesar, perhaps the greatest of the greatest. He was so succcessful that they killed the guy. He was prehaps the greatest adulterer of all time! Some of the folks on this site represent the weakness of America. That’s why we will be overtaken. We’ll have another bowing robot like we have now, in Samson Obama’s brother, cousin, or whatever he is.

Crazy_Redneck

January 21st, 2011
9:22 pm

Oh, and PS: I’d like to hear Herman Cain as well. Please don’t waste my time, Newty-boy.

Regards,
Crazy_Redneck

Give it up

January 21st, 2011
9:32 pm

Give it up you moldy old RINO!

Aunt Bee

January 21st, 2011
9:32 pm

“I worship the quicksand he walks in.”
- Art Buchwald

http://911essentials.com

Ranger_Ric

January 21st, 2011
9:36 pm

Sorry Newt, in case you have not noticed, we are throwing RINOs -out- of office, not electing them.

The blueblood GOP elite know that the high profile RINOs like Huckabee and Romney are simply not going to be accepted in 2012 so they are trying to slip in a stealth RINO like Newt in order to keep control of the party.

We are not going to accept a RINO you stinking GOP libs! If you don’t give us a real conservative candidate, we will choose our own. There will be no more Bush’s, no more Lugar’s and no more McCains… we have had it and you can either lead, follow or get out of the way! If you don’t, we will trample you.

amwiser

January 21st, 2011
9:38 pm

If he quits the CFR he might actually have a chance?

duh

January 21st, 2011
9:39 pm

too many ex wives to win GOP nomination.

duh

January 21st, 2011
9:39 pm

Too many ex wives to win the GOP nomination.

Htos1

January 21st, 2011
9:40 pm

No thanks,I wanta Tea Party candidate.

stumpCHUNKMAN

January 21st, 2011
9:51 pm

Newt is a skilled political strategist and a fairly consistent conservative overall, but I think there’s likely a bit too much baggage for him to have much of a real shot at the head of a ticket. People’s opinions on both sides are pretty strongly set already and if you like him at this point, you probably will always, likewise if you despise him now, not much is likely to change that.

At this point, I’d like to see Paul Ryan, Rick Santorum or Herman Cain make a push for it. A few governors like Jindal and Christie would get some pretty strong support but both said they have no desire for higher office yet as each feels they have unfinished business in their respective states.
I could see him being successful maybe in a support/adviser type of role, but likely not being the guy out front.

porchhound

January 21st, 2011
10:06 pm

Gingrich sold out the conservatives after the 2004 election and made sure the RNC defunded the incoming freshmen when they began holding his feet to the fire in 2005. He is GUTLESS and just another PROFESSORIAL PINHEAD like the one we have in office right now. He will NEVER get nominated. He went shaky during the 2005 attempt to defund NPR when he was attacked for killing BIG BIRD…this spineless moron couldn’t stand up to a stuffed bird!!!

rooster

January 21st, 2011
10:08 pm

tk harty @ 4:58 PM, I think you mean the conversation is moot, not mute.

Scott

January 21st, 2011
10:10 pm

There is no one more qualified and less electable than Newt, save perhaps Sarah Palin. I hope the Rep nominee has Newt has his or her principal domestic advisor… there could be none better.

Newt – you are unelectable, and I wish you weren’t.

Wayne

January 21st, 2011
10:14 pm

I like Newt’s conservative views, but I don’t like his lifestyle. He has too much personal, family baggage.I don’t think he would be able to win the Presidency. Why not pitch your tent in the camp and help us elect Mike Huckabee, Newt.He’s the man.

TreRosor

January 21st, 2011
10:14 pm

Newt, for the sake of the nation and whatever remains of your pride, decline to enter the 2012 presidential race. 1994 was your finest hour in politics.

As an historian yourself, you should be able to extrapolate how historians will reference you in the future. Somehow, “leader of the 90’s conservative resurgence” rings truer and kinder than “2012 washout candidate.” Besides, it will not consign you to join Paul Tsongas in obscure political history.

For the Newt supporters: Newt’s zenith was the Contract with America–let him be remembered for that. In the mean time, lend your support to a libertarian (or conservative candidate if you must) with a sound intellectual background and less baggage–like Ron Paul or Herman Cain. The libertarians and conservatives of the nation have superior options than dredging up former (and fallen) icons.

cookie

January 21st, 2011
10:15 pm

Newt, please run. We need an intelligent American for President.

Tony Greer

January 21st, 2011
10:16 pm

Get these old fart RINOs out of here ! We stuck with you jack-wagons in the ’90’s (YOU NEWT !!!) and you screwed us for power. Eff Off !!! Sarah Palin is who we want. NO MORE ESTABLISHMENT RINOs !!! You are part of the problem, Newt. TEA Party !

Ohiowordguy

January 21st, 2011
10:19 pm

It’s interesting to me all the “Republicans” on this board who are saying they won’t support Newt.

Have you forgotten the brilliance of the 1994 takeover of the House? (Which caused a savvy Bill Clinton to actually moderate.)

Have you ever actually *listened* to the man speak? He is a brilliant statesman who approaches politics from a historical perspective — and then offers relevant solutions to today’s problems. Mention any current political topic, and chances are that Newt can relate it to a similar period in American history.

You complain about him writing and promoting his books? How many books have YOU written? (I have written five, by the way.) This guy writes books about as often as most of you knuckle-draggers change sox (twice a year?). I have never, ever, heard before criticism of a politician because he writes books. Wow. Just wow.

What so many of the “Republicans” on this board are ignoring is this: THE PERFECT CANDIDATE DOES NOT EXIST!

Palin? Love her. Qualified? Heavy sigh…probably not. Yet. Huckabee? Please. Romney? Not conservative enough, has Obamacare-style baggage. Tommy Thompson? Too much RINO. Jeb Bush? Very qualified, but not gonna happen. Too much Bush baggage.

My point is, while you whiners sit on the sidelines calling in what plays NOT to run, the Dems will unify, and push Obama over the goal line in 2012.

I don’t like what Gingrich has (reportedly) done in his personal life. But we had a sitting president who was a known adulterer and who performed sex acts in the Oval Office, and got re-elected.

Please also remember that most of what you have heard about Gingrich has come from the left-wing, mainstream media — who hate him with a white-hot passion. Do you know the intricacies of Gingrich’s marriages? Really? Or do you know ONLY what you read or heard on TV? And what of Christian forgiveness, and “judge not?”

Conservatives must stop letting the left-wing media define us and our candidates. That is how we got McCain. Ugh. With the proper team behind him, Gingrich would kick Obama’s arse all over the electoral map. I wish he had run against him in 2008. If Mr. Newt gets in the race, I will back him 100 percent. I am very hopeful he gets in, and chooses Palin or West as veep.

I would pay money to see Gingrich debate the socialist union thug who currently occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Run, Newt, Run!

Newt Gingrich tells Georgia GOP meeting he’ll run in 2012, spokesman backtracks « Essays and Miscellania

January 21st, 2011
10:20 pm

[...] Newt Gingrich tells Georgia GOP meeting he’ll run in 2012, spokesman backtracks Posted on January 22, 2011 by Joseph F. Clark Via MSNBC: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has told several prominent Republicans in his former state of Georgia that he intends to run for president in 2012, according to an online column Friday in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Gingrich told them that he plans to use Georgia as a base for his campaign and is looking for office space in Buckhead for a campaign headquarters, columnist Jim Galloway wrote in his Political Insider column. [...]

TreRosor

January 21st, 2011
10:21 pm

@Wayne:
Although Gov. Huckabee may appear to be a sound option for 2012, he is unelectable on a nationwide scale due to a few factors. Firstly, the 2008 campaign will be unceremoniously dragged to the surface to bite him (remember the anti-Mormon rhetoric against Romney?); that can be toxic in the ultra-PC world that has been created. Secondly, he’s on the Fox payroll. Again, I personally like Huckabee and Palin, but anyone who is regularly on a media conglomerate payroll frightens me just as someone currently chairing a mega-corporation would.

rooster

January 21st, 2011
10:24 pm

I’m not a particular Newt fan, but the divorce is probably not a disqualifier in and of itself. Reagan was divorced from the mother of two of his four children. No, what irks me about Newt is his ability to vacillate between a policy wonk (there’s no doubt as to his intelligence) and a social-issues demagogue (there’s also no doubt about his cynicism) based on his most recent assesment of the politcal climate.

The man

January 21st, 2011
10:26 pm

Our next President: Newt Gingrich. I can see him as Prez, I never did with that guy in office now.

Sam Jolley

January 21st, 2011
10:28 pm

Newt has the same character as John Edwards. None! It’s courage and conviction that counts in the next election. The era of Reagan will never be over. Don’t muddy the water with another RINO.

what a fine state of denial we live in

January 21st, 2011
10:31 pm

BY all means do run- I will love the opportunity to vote for whomever runs against you- you useless tool.

TreRosor

January 21st, 2011
10:31 pm

@Ohiowordguy

The issue of Newt’s intelligence is really a non-issue. It’s self-evident.

The underlying problems with a potential Newt candidacy certainly include his extramarital activities. Yes, it is easy for people to criticize and hold grudges. However, if Newt runs with the R attached to his name, he will be justifiably labeled as a hypocrite. The Republican party has portrayed itself as the party of morals and family values. Can you not conceive how his personal issues will prevent his election by the general public after the left’s smear campaigns? If you’re curious to see how this unfolds on a smaller scale, just look up or recall the story of the former Speaker Elect Bob Livingston.

Linda

January 21st, 2011
10:34 pm

Save your time and money Newt. If the best the Republican Party can do is washed up, been there/done that, had their chance and blew it politicians, they are in serious, serious trouble and don’t stand a chance of winning the Oval Office.

Sunny1

January 21st, 2011
10:37 pm

Please don’t waste your time or OUR’s. We dont need another stinkin’ RINO.Don’t do it. Don’t cost us a shot at President. Don’t be a fool to your ego. You have no chance! Go write another book. Go find another wife, but do enter the areana for President. please!

John

January 21st, 2011
10:38 pm

Wow isn’t he inspiring. What a joke.

Sunny1

January 21st, 2011
10:38 pm

SB don’t not do.

Lyn Mehrbach

January 21st, 2011
10:44 pm

Seriously, the God Fearing, Holier than thou Republicans are going to offer up this 3 time married, cheating sleaze ball? This guy was cheating on his 2nd wife while he was going after Clinton regarding Monica. Please……Oh wait, maybe he and Palin could run, then we’d have something to really laugh about.

Report: Newt Gingrich Intends To Run For President In 2012 | The State of the Union

January 21st, 2011
10:49 pm

[...] by Lori A. on January 21, 2011 Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has told insiders that he plans to run for president in 2012, with Georgia as his base, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. [...]

our delusional Republicans

January 21st, 2011
10:54 pm

Thanks Newt.

Your self-delusion will guarantee four more years for Obama. And you think of yourself as a politician. Unless Palin gets there first and self-destructs even faster.

Our Republicans are rudderless, without a cogent plan or proactive steps to create one. All they can say is “no.”

And I’m ashamed I’m one of them.

John Bunion

January 21st, 2011
11:01 pm

Newt, I love to hear you spout off, but you are not the one to carry the party in 2012. You’re in fact a RINO and your marital baggage is way too heavy. Repubs, don’t give this guy a dime and tell those who pester you daily asking for money on the phone the same. Gingrich is as sleezy as Edwards and Clinton on the other side. A Romney/Bachman ticket is our only hope. Let Newt be a backroom advisor. He’d be good in the war room…….

Mark451

January 21st, 2011
11:05 pm

Thank God it’s not up to Georgian voters who are next president will be. Georgia voted for Deal as Gov enough said. I am truly in the South where people are still divided by race entirely. It’s true Democrats and Repubs didn’t have much of a choice but Deal? What the H#ll is up w/the South. No matter how corrupt or incompetent u are as long as you aren’t a Democrat sign me up. What’s so funny is that these politicians do not represent the middle class or poor (really none do that much) but they eat them up in the South as if they’re representing their interests. Wow! Our educational system is truly bankrupt!

Give me a break

January 21st, 2011
11:06 pm

Please run and Palin can be your VP. Obama will wind in a landslide.

Brian

January 21st, 2011
11:06 pm

Its been obvious that Newt has been posturering for this run for years, joining the Catholic Church, staying in the public eye but not letting it focus on him too long etc… Theres one big reason that I find overides the infidelity and controversies surrounding Newt and no its not that he’s just another RINO its that he really wants the job and thats just a more lust on his part, this time its a lust for power.

I can see Newt having a role to play maybe Chief of Staff or Secretary of State but not the President or Vice President.

Ron in La Mesa, CA

January 21st, 2011
11:06 pm

Keith and Charles: You BOTH make VERY GOOD points.

Gingrich: One word: NO!
Romney: No Thanks! No WAY: Mass HealthCare Debacle.
Palin: Maybe some other time. Not VP yet either.

Herman Cain: BEST of this bunch. EXCELLENT choice!
Huckabee: Close 2nd to Cain. Maybe Cain’s VP?

Pawlenty: No thanks. Not yet. Maybe “someday.”
Michael Steele: Maybe someday w/ more experience.

NO MORE “Old Guard”…w/ Tired ideas.

Keep in Mind: Thune, Paul Ryan.

McCain was the BIGGEST Mistake in Choice Repubs have EVER made!Let’s NOT repeat THAT mistake. Good Hero, LOUSY candidate. Why did Arizona Re-Elect him?

Repeat: There is a Need for NEW Blood, New Ideas.

Reader

January 21st, 2011
11:07 pm

This is how Republicans loose.

No Dems, No Reps. THAT’S change we can believe in. And boy do we need it!

Georgia Idjut

January 21st, 2011
11:16 pm

Maybe Newt can fill in for Herman Cain weekday nights on 750 when Herman wins the election. That would be cool. One great American on the radio, another one in the White House. Even if the country implodes, Newt could just tell us everything’s OK, we’ve got a Republican in the White House, and blame it on the Democratic minority in Congress.

Yeah. That’s the ticket.

Bill

January 21st, 2011
11:19 pm

Gingrich will win. He’s been creating policy for years. He’s the smartest of the candidates available and even though Obama is articulate, he can’t stand toe to toe with Gingrich in a debate. Gingrich would destroy him.

Mark451

January 21st, 2011
11:28 pm

What’s the difference between a person who fought on the Confederacy side during the civil war and a Taliban and or al-Qaida fighter? Nothing. Both were and are willing to destroy the US for their own interests. Then why do so many people celebrate the Confederacy?? What’s the difference between the Oklahoma bomber and a Taliban and or al-Qaida fighter? The only difference is skin color. He was a terroist as are al-Qaida and or Taliban. They are willing to kill the innocent for political reasons. Just because a person looks like you doesn’t mean he has your best interests at heart.

Screw Newt

January 21st, 2011
11:41 pm

He sucks, left his wife while she was dying of cancer. Piece of sh!t.

JWS

January 21st, 2011
11:46 pm

Does the GOP really want its base to sit out another election?

reaganw

January 21st, 2011
11:48 pm

Mike Huckabee will be the nominee. Huck and his charm will go up against Obama and his charm: may the best man win.

JOHN

January 22nd, 2011
12:01 am

MR. GINGRICH I WOULD VOTE FOR YOU YOU WOULD MAKE A HELL OF A PRESIDENT BETTER THAN OBAMA ANYTIME

stan

January 22nd, 2011
12:01 am

We gave Newt his chance and once he had power he forgot why we elected him. He is part of the problem now….

henry county mom

January 22nd, 2011
12:03 am

Too Bad no one ever told Maryanne that “How you get a man is how you keep him.” Once a cheater, always a cheater. Time for a new wife in her 20s.

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January 22nd, 2011
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[...] Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has told insiders that he plans to run for president in 2012, with Georgia as his base, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. [...]

JOHN

January 22nd, 2011
12:08 am

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Justin

January 22nd, 2011
12:12 am

Newt will make a superb choice in 2010…. that is, in the cabinet of President Pence and Vice President Rubio.

Justin

January 22nd, 2011
12:12 am

Newt will make a superb choice in 2012…. that is, in the cabinet of President Pence and Vice President Rubio.

henry county mom

January 22nd, 2011
12:13 am

Newt buys drinks for teens in West Ga bars. He does this for his ‘pretty volunteers’.

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January 22nd, 2011
12:13 am

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Soqueesh

January 22nd, 2011
12:14 am

The Republicans better wake the eff up!!! The T.E.A. party upheaval just made it perfectly clear that this country is tired of the Thieves on both the right and the left!! An old washed up RINO like Newt doesn’t stand a chance. We want new voices, new ideas–unfettered by the corruption of Washington, and determined to govern by CONSTITUTIONAL principles and the WILL of the PEOPLE!! Putting Newt, or that the other old RINO Romney, or the laughing stock preacher Huckabee on the ticket is like handing the Presidency back to the Dems. Better find us a charismatic REAL Conservative candidate who can articulate Conservative principles to the Independent Voter.

henry county mom

January 22nd, 2011
12:14 am

Newt must have dementia to think folks will vote for him.

Alfred Newman

January 22nd, 2011
12:21 am

Hey Newtie, do your country a favor and go away! And take Mitt Romney and Rudi Gooliani with you. Let America try to at last recover from you neo-cons (con-artists)–WE DON’T NEED or WANT YOU! GO WAY and let us heal our land! Go screw up some other country you wolf in sheep’s clothing!!! GO NOW!

Patrick Henry

January 22nd, 2011
12:21 am

Newt is a different feather on the same bird of prey. He’s a Globalist Free Trader – Open Borders devotee, which in turn means more American jobs sent overseas resulting in American pay scales lowered to equalize according to “globalist” economies of scale. Don’t be fooled by his star-light appearances on TV…read his early books.
His whole “Drill Here, Drill Now” PR stunt was a pre-campaign maneuver to appear as if he would really make a difference (as President) to change the Energy policies of the USA. The bottom line is this…he couldn’t get elected as President if he truly believed he could enforce this type of change. If he really wanted to change current USA Energy policies, he would’ve promoted natural gas, coal, nuclear, diminished EPA reqs, along with drilling at home. This would’ve promoted competition amongst all types of energy providers in the USA, which would greatly benefit America by providing cheap energy, more jobs, lessen foreign dependence, and a strengthened long-term economy.

JOHN

January 22nd, 2011
12:25 am

DON’T LET THESE IDIOTS MAKE YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND YOU WILL MAKE A VERY VERY GOOD PRESIDENT

sharpsburgian

January 22nd, 2011
12:25 am

Previously posted comments that are true:
Newt is the smartest man in any room he walks in.
He would destroy Barack Obama in a debate judged on facts alone.
He’s unelectable.

Sometimes people run not necessarily to win, but to affect the dialogue and steer the issues during the primary. That might be what he’s doing.

twanaj

January 22nd, 2011
12:26 am

Newt and GE , if hes the best we got we are DOOMED , http://bungalowbillscw.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-is-newt-gingrich-doing-working-for.html

Alfred Newman

January 22nd, 2011
12:28 am

You’re a traitor to America and God, yourself, and those of us who aren’t sleeping all know it. Just go away! Maybe you can find another country to screw up? If so, take that snake-in–the-grass Karl Rove with you. Our country simply can’t stand anymore of your ilk. Have a nice life but have it somrewhere else!!!!

Alfred Newman

January 22nd, 2011
12:30 am

Okay I’ve had a few but it’s Friday, please excuse the preceding spelling and or grammatical errors. But nevertheless, GO AWAY NEWT!

Eric

January 22nd, 2011
12:33 am

the finer point: obamas cruising into his second term. schweet

Old Skeptic

January 22nd, 2011
12:37 am

Let’s all just wait a little while. “My Man Mitch” Daniels will be launching his campaign probably in April after the close of the Indiana General Assembly in which he will lead reform of Indiana’s education system.

People who do not yet know him are going to be impressed. He is a smart as Newt, as personable as Huckabee, talks as well as Palin but without such a biting edge. He is a straight shooting, no-nonsense problem solver, not a game playing blowhard. He will make the best contrast with Obama that Republicans can field.

Cleo

January 22nd, 2011
12:38 am

No, no, no! Newt Gingrich doesn’t have a chance, and the Republicans desperately and quite quickly need to find a young, conservative, down-to-earth leader to run for the Presidency — NOT Sarah Palin, NOT Newt Gingrich, NOT Mike Huckabee, NOT Mitt Romney — NOT a has-been, long-time Republican politician. If the Republicans don’t come up with a spectacular candidate, then Obama will win and we will get 4 more years of watching Obama destroy our freedom and our democracy. So c’mon Republicans — get to work and produce a WINNER! (Like Scott Brown, the young guy who won in Massachusetts, or someone like him). I also think John Boehner can and will beat Obama, even though Boehner gets emotional and cries. But showing his true emotions to the American people proves to us that Boehner is a genuine, honest person — not a corrupt, conniving politician.

DevDave

January 22nd, 2011
12:49 am

Good luck, Newt .. you RINO mastard.

Reader

January 22nd, 2011
12:53 am

Scott Brown is just another RINO.

We need no one other than someone who believes in http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

Old Skeptic

January 22nd, 2011
12:54 am

Cleo, I think Daniels is the guy you are looking for. His record shows him to be the best governor in the country. His fellow Hoosier, Mike Pence, is a good guy, but he has never proven that he can be a tough administrator as Daniels has. . And he is a very skilled politician.

DevDave

January 22nd, 2011
12:58 am

@Cleo — If you think Scott Brown is a winner, you’re in good company with the losers!! Can you spell R-I-N-O?!?!

Btronsgard

January 22nd, 2011
12:58 am

I do not believe that at his age and the previous unsuccessful attempts in the arena that he should enter the state of Georgia as his base. I also think that he should realize that he is only a subset in politics and let go of his ego.

cs

January 22nd, 2011
1:15 am

Donald Trump for president.

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January 22nd, 2011
1:25 am

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Old Skeptic

January 22nd, 2011
1:32 am

Here is a very good article about Daniels written by Conn Carroll and published in
‘Human Events’ last year:.

“If conservatives could start from scratch, what would their ideal 2012 presidential candidate look like? A sitting governor from a state the current occupant of the White House carried in 2008 would be a nice start.

“If that governor had turned that state’s record budget deficit into a record budget surplus, that would be nice too. So would a proven track record of job creation and a proven tax-and-spending cutter. He should also know how epically bad Obamacare is and might have passed his own truly pro-market and successful healthcare reform.
Last month, just such a candidate, Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels, walked into a Washington conference room to speak to a select group of conservative journalists, including this author. Daniels’ record is becoming something of legend among conservative activists, but it still bears repeating.

“When he was sworn into office in January 2005, the state of Indiana faced a $600 million deficit and a subpar AA S&P credit rating. While other states like Illinois and Michigan wildly increased spending in good economic times, Gov. Daniels did the opposite. Between 2005 and 2008, he reduced the state’s rate of spending growth from 5.9% to 2.8% saving $450 million.

“Per-capita state government spending in Indiana has fallen eight spots and is now the sixth lowest in the nation. By 2009, the state sported $1.3 billion in cash reserves and an AAA rating. All this was accomplished while Daniels, working with an opposition-controlled lower house, enacted the largest tax cut in Indiana history, slashing property taxes by a third.

“On his first day in office, Daniels issued an executive order stripping government unions of their power to collectively bargain. The decision has not only cost the left’s perpetual dependence machine millions in taxpayer-funded union dues, but also enabled the state to cut costs by instituting a “pay-for-performance” personnel system. Without a burdensome labor contract, Daniels slashed government employment rolls from more than 35,000 to 30,454, a 14% reduction. As a result, Indiana now has fewer state employees than it did in 1982.

“When the Great Recession hit, the historically high-cash reserves that Gov. Daniels had built buffeted the state through tough times. While 40 other states have raised taxes during this recession, Gov. Daniels made it clear to the Democrats in the statehouse that that was not an option for Indiana: “We will not make this recession worse by adding one cent to the tax burden of our fellow citizens.”

“Instead Daniels has found ways to cut even more spending. All state agencies were forced to cut spending by 10%. The state sold two-thirds of its airplanes and thousands of other vehicles. State employees did not receive a pay raise in 2009 or 2010. Gov. Daniels even sacrificed himself, cutting his own pay for both 2009 and 2010.

“While the surrounding rust-belt states of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio have suffered through unemployment rates well above 10%, Indiana’s rate has been close to the national average of 9.7%. Meanwhile, the July 2010 Department of Labor State Employment report shows that the state has created more jobs over the past year than any state but Texas, and that its over-the-year percentage increase in employment is second only to Kentucky.
Finally, before the phrase “Obamacare” had ever crossed anyone’s lips, Daniels had already enacted free-market friendly patient-centered healthcare reform. His Healthy Indiana Program (HIP) helps Hoosiers who do not qualify for Medicaid to enroll in individual health-savings accounts.

“The state then contributes up to $1,100 per enrollee to these accounts on a sliding income-dependent scale. These dollars are controlled, and owned, by the individual to spend on health services as he or she sees fit, with almost no interference from government or insurance-company bureaucrats. The plan was immensely successful. Interest in the program was so high that the state had to suspend enrollment (because of federal regulations) a number of times. Today there are almost 50,000 Hoosiers enrolled in the plan.

“But those Hoosiers are about to lose their healthcare plan, thanks to Obamacare. The health-savings accounts at the core of HIP are illegal under Obamacare. Gov. Daniels has been forced to freeze enrollment of the plan and has ordered his secretary of Family and Social Services Administration to devise a way to phase out the accounts.

“”With this record in mind, there is little wonder why Daniels’ name has been circulating as a possible 2012 candidate. Still, the governor hadn’t faced sharp questioning from conservatives until his recent Washington trip.

“Daniels is no stranger to disagreements with allies of the conservative movement. As a candidate for governor in 2004, Daniels refused to sign the Grover Norquist-led Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Daniels also raised the cigarette tax to help pay for his Healthy Indiana program, and his record cutting of property taxes was paid for in part by a 1% increase in the state sales tax (from 6% to 7%). Overall, however, the tax cuts far outweighed the increases. And governors, unlike the federal government, are compelled to balance their budgets without resorting to the printing press.

“Voters rewarded Daniels for his overall tax-cutting record by resoundingly re-electing him in 2008. While President Obama carried the state 50% to 49%, Gov. Daniels blew out his opponent by an 18 point margin.

“With his proven conservative record on tax and spending issues, Daniels did not take any heat from the conservative journalists about his past tax increases. He was asked what he thought of the Value Added Tax, but he quickly dismissed it as a “bad idea.” No, the question that got Daniels in trouble had to do with a line in Andrew Ferguson’s Weekly Standard profile where Daniels said that the next President “would have to call a truce on the so-called social issues.”

“Asked if he would issue on his first day in office an executive order to reinstate Reagan’s “Mexico City Policy” (the policy that forbids taxpayer funded abortions overseas), Daniels’ answer, quick and honest, was also disconcerting: “I don’t know.”
Daniels inability to back up his “truce” vision with any policy details elicited quick and wide condemnation from across the conservative movement. It’s not every day that RedState’s Erick Erickson and the New York Times’ Ross Douthat see eye-to-eye, but their reactions to the Daniels statement were echoes of each other. Each thought the statement signaled surrender to the left.

“The very next week Daniels was walking his comments back, telling Washington Post columnist and ex-George Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson that he “would reinstate the Mexico City policy.” Daniels went on to say that promoting abortion with international family-planning funds is one of “a thousand things we shouldn’t be spending money on.”

“Daniels’ initial response remains disturbing to many, and if he has any national ambitions he is going to have to flesh out a better position. But he has time on that front. He is, after all, still the governor of Indiana and with an unfinished agenda for the state. That, actually, was the very reason he was in Washington to begin with. The meeting with conservative journalists was just a side stop on the real reason for his trip: a fundraiser for Republican Indiana statehouse candidates. Democrats still control Indiana‘s lower body and Daniels has to fight with them tooth and nail every time he wants to cut spending. A Republican majority would make solidifying Indiana’s fiscal health much easier.

“But as great as Indiana is, perhaps Daniels is meant to serve a higher calling. At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast this February, Daniels said: “For the first time, I’m concerned about the future of the American experiment.”

“Millions of Americans feel the exact same way. And sometime next year, he is going to have to decide whether or not he wants to help save that experiment as his country’s President.”

Nanny Mo

January 22nd, 2011
1:36 am

I’ll vote for Newt.

G Cancryn

January 22nd, 2011
1:50 am

Great. What three wives, one on stricken with cancer in the hospital, this jerk wants her to sign papers so he can remarry. Par for the course, just what we’ve come to expect from republicans. Hey maybe Tom Delay for Vice President

TnGelding

January 22nd, 2011
1:55 am

Has he forgotten the true conservatives ran him out of town? Why didn’t he challenge Bush in 2004? I urged him to.

UGA graduate

January 22nd, 2011
1:56 am

Some tell Newt that’s it is way to early to be pulling an April Fools joke on America. I suppose, next to Sarah Palin, you look like an intellectual giant. Obama seems secure for a second term now. The Republicans know how to screw things up, just when it looks they have risen from the dead. How is he going to explain that his own daughters look older than his wife? Two words to make Newt Gingrich go away forever, Bill Clinton–best President of my 55 years.

bill

January 22nd, 2011
2:07 am

Run Newt run!

Old Skeptic

January 22nd, 2011
2:07 am

To view a sample of Mitch’s leadership style view this video of his recent “state of the state” speech:

http://www.youtube.com/user/INGovernor

ORACLE

January 22nd, 2011
2:16 am

NEWT WOULD BE THE MOST INTELLIGENT ONE IN ANY DEBATE DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE. MAYBE WE NEED TO STEP BACK AND LOOK AGAIN AT THIS MAN AND HIS MESSAGE.

Newt Gingrich Reportedly Planning 2012 Presidential Run

January 22nd, 2011
2:22 am

[...] Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has told insiders that he plans to run for president in 2012, with Georgia as his base, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. [...]

Mr.P

January 22nd, 2011
2:26 am

“I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I’m doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.” -Newt Gingrich

Will someone please tell this arrogant elitist Republican snob that he doe’snt stand a snowballs chance in hell of winning the Presidency.Any candidate that wins the Rep nomination for President in 2012 and chooses this CLOWN as V.P. will only be dooming their chances of beating BHO.

Greengrinch needs to just GO AWAY.People are sick of these old establishment suckbutts,the Republican party is infested with them.Slowly but surely they will be weeded out,one election at a time!

natan

January 22nd, 2011
2:36 am

Is he born in USA?

Steve

January 22nd, 2011
2:42 am

RON PAUL OR GTFO!

sheebe

January 22nd, 2011
2:43 am

I cannot stand this man, nor did I like any of the Republican Party the last election. We need new candidates for the GOP this time. Gingrich is not a conservative but a Rhino, No way in he ll I will vote Democrat but the GOP needs to wake up. New People no repeats especially the ones last election.

sheebe

January 22nd, 2011
2:47 am

I hope that Herman Cain or Allen West would run, although it would be hard because I admire them both. Newt is old meat and he is a Globalist.

john terhune

January 22nd, 2011
2:52 am

To all you “knowitalls” out there commenting on Newt,,,,,, He was age 19 when he asked his 1st
wife for a divorce,,,( she was much older….did she flim flam him into marraige ?
Newt may be a conniving politician like the rest……but at least…he is a real American and
qualified by birth to “BE PRESIDENT” Newt is also an American historian -a PHD ””one of the
greatest oraters around…and will “crucify” Obama ( the Kenyen) in any debate…..
He was successful in implementing the contract for America….and HE WILL find a way to get
Obamacare repealed……and maybe even get Obama exposed as “ineligible” thereby rescinding all
Obama had a hand on….including the two “Bimbos” he appointed to the Supr. Court ! Thatwould be well worth having Newt as President !””’Now – what were you idiots complaining about ?

Jack_433

January 22nd, 2011
3:14 am

Since he abandoned the “Contract with American” freshman congressional representatives in the mid-1990s, Gingrich has no standing with me.

OKAY

January 22nd, 2011
3:34 am

Newt should just go away quietly. Allen West would get my vote if he were a candidate.

Dimslie

January 22nd, 2011
3:40 am

There is no one in either party that can stand up to Gingrich in a debate. He will eat Obama alive. Republicans have gone into the last 3 elections with candidates that can’t say “Peter Piper”. Like Newt or not, come 2013 he won’t be able to walk into a room without hearing Hale to the Chief.

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Dave

January 22nd, 2011
4:08 am

I’m fairly certain palin will neuter the newt early on- thank god

Nathan Clark

January 22nd, 2011
4:53 am

Oh please Massa Newt Run sir! This fat cat could not care less about the people. All he cares for is his Big Billionaire buddies.

Nathan Clark

January 22nd, 2011
4:54 am

Dave you are a Tard! Palin is even worse. Uh does she have a brain at all? I mean all the dealings she had with Putin up in Alaska and all… Yall!

bob

January 22nd, 2011
5:07 am

Obama’s followers will come out of the woodwork to get him re-elected. Republican’s will get the blame from all the country’s handout recipients, for doing the hard work at cutting spending and entitlements. We are doomed folks.

Politicians_striptease

January 22nd, 2011
5:17 am

Newtster: Please go with DemoCraps (D) and please, please take both Isakson and Chambliss with you. The (D)s are going to embrace you with great zest, especially your incessant speaking skills. All ‘Constipation’ readers are delighted to read this news.

Some difficulties are definitely lurking ahead for you to register your home state as Georgia.
Good luck!

P.S. Do you remember François Rabelais?

Dwayne

January 22nd, 2011
5:22 am

I’m certainly NOT a Democrat, however im no Republican either. I don’t call myself an Independent either. I will with as much Pride as I can have say that I am an American. That is the only and I mean only affiliation that I care about or that anyone else should care about. God, Country and Family are the only concerns I have. We as a Nation are so off the path we set for ourselves it’s sad. Political Parties by their very nature seperate this great country. Do whats right for the people and our coutnry. As our economy struggles, we pay Political figures large 6 figure salaries, athletes 7 and 8 figure salaries. While the men and women that truly make this country great earn 7.25 an hour when gas is now 3.05 a gallon. Average a 35 hour work week out that before taxes is 253.75 a week. Resst assured thats less than 200 dollars when taxes come out, then 35 to 40 dollars a week in gas if they drive 40 miles round trip to work and back. The rich get richer and the poor get them richer approach has broken this Country. Show me a President that will work for minimum wage or just not waste millions on hosting dinner for a Chinese President, while Veterans are homeless adn hungry. We The People, it’s not just words, it’s the words that formed America and Empowers it’s people! If Newt can get this done great, if anyone in Politics can then get it done, If not get out the way and let a working man or women have a shot. Political figures are far removed from Everyday America and what it means to make ends meat in this country. I’m not complaining, I just ask what many many more want to ask and that is will you lead us in the direction we need to go, or do We The People need to lead the way ourselves?

JAG

January 22nd, 2011
5:39 am

I know why he’s wasting his money. He’s running out of life left. Newt has always wanted this. And what’s money good for unless it gets you what you want. But he has no chance.

This isn’t a vanity contest or a make a wish foundation. We are in a fight for survival, and Newt is just looking for a more comfortable chair. This ain’t the time for that. Maybe some day, but not now.

This Country is approaching Civil War territory. What will you do Newt when it all falls apart under your feet? You aren’t somebody who serves and then leaves. You are a politician. And politician’s get everyone else killed so they can keep their job. No. And hell no. Not now.

L Dubya

January 22nd, 2011
5:50 am

Please do Newt — It is about time someone who really can understand American values
is on the ballot.– The comments of these uneducated,,indoctrinated young morons who
were not around when America WAS free, have no concept of what a great country
this was and can become again.

Danny Ross

January 22nd, 2011
5:56 am

Why? This guy has all the electoral appeal of Bob Dole, without the heroism and a scandal or three thrown in. He’s Bill Clinton without the charm. Please, Newt, go back to being a scold.

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

January 22nd, 2011
5:56 am

Baptists and Freemasons, Jews and Protestants…Black and White better wake up: just look at the furious attempt of the preceding anonymous two or three Catholics using so many fake names trying to get us to “throw” America and Georgia deeper into their “briarpatch,” Fascism.

Newt, who married his math teacher to beat the Vietnam draft (What a manly patriot?) was put on the national scene by Pierre DuPont. The corrupt rich need “intermediaries” to appeal to the People, who “understand” Elite Theory. wink, wink

Only those of bad character support the malinterests of our ruling false-elite.

Birds of feather flock together. Georgia is a good and decent people. Let’s act like it and shun whitetrash Palin and Gingrich.

zumkatze

January 22nd, 2011
6:04 am

The last thing the Republican party needs is another RINO! Don’t embarass yourself, Newt, Just go quietly into the night and don’t come back!

Doug

January 22nd, 2011
6:15 am

Fat chance, fat man!

sb

January 22nd, 2011
6:27 am

isn’t this the guy who is on his third wife and ask for a divorce from the first when she was in a hospital bed with cancer. another Edwards type guy.

concernedGOPer

January 22nd, 2011
6:51 am

Mr. Gingrich has morped into a John McCain prototype these past number of years. He is not the same conservative firebrand most remember. And his stance on illegal immigration is now appalling.

Robert Martin

January 22nd, 2011
6:51 am

Newt Gingrich gets more credit than any one for bringing mean politics back. That is
an accomplishment because the republicans were on the verge of becoming a
minority party.

Sick of Republicans

January 22nd, 2011
7:01 am

I am liberal and still have morals so Repubs not all liberals are scum bags. Newt is the biggest scum bag around – served divorce papers on his first wife right after she had cancer surgery; divorced the second one when he found out she had MS; used his third wife (present one) to try and help him add assets from his second wife. Don’t believe it about second wife – just check the divorce record. And to say let States go bankrupt? Bigger idiot than I thought. While what Bill Clinton did is NOT condoned in any manner, this guy is worse than Clinton ever thought of being and this bozo was so gung ho on getting Clinton, his own rotten background came to light. Karma – she is a b**** isn’t she Newt?

cal

January 22nd, 2011
7:09 am

Newt’s gigantic ego makes him believe he has some relevance in today’s political world. He can’t comprehend that his condescending, superior attitude is hugely offensive. I hope he does run so I can see the yawning indifference to his majesty. Newt’s political career ended when he was run out of congress.

waycoolsnoopy

January 22nd, 2011
7:18 am

Just what we need…another globalist to be the “controlled opposition” to the current cadre of thugs, traitors, communists, usurpers, etc. Make no mistake people, Newt is NO FRIEND OF FREEDOM! He will run against Obama and should he win he will continue the sell-out, great American giveaway through trade, immigration, and police state tyranny a/k/a “Patriot Act,” ‘Homeland Security’ etc. CONTINUITY OF AGENDA, PEOPLE! LOOK IT UP!

Dan

January 22nd, 2011
7:20 am

I ask myself… Is Newt going to have to balls to wipe out the tax code and make it simple, fair and flat? Would he have the balls to take a flame thrower to the federal budget? What about rolling back regulations on business? Reforming social security/medicare? I’d say no. He would likely get sucked into the old and lame arguement of “little guy, worker, working families, for the poor, for the rich” and all the other old marxist lingo of the last century. We someone new. Not a career politician, nor a book writter, not a lawyer either. I’d perfer a joe six pack, who could become a modern day George Washington. So… No to Newt.

B-Bro

January 22nd, 2011
7:25 am

I believe that Newt has the experience and knowledge to make the U.S. a thriving economy, protect our borders. I can’t think of any president that is so educated on all topics and he has a straight answer for every question or a solution thought for every problem we face or have faced. Please don’t try to throw stones concerning past family relationships. Go Newt I’ll help back you.

william harrison

January 22nd, 2011
7:33 am

ican’t even tell people where i am from, since Herr gingrich is from Georgia,(the Evil person)who tried to make mince meat out of President Clinton when gingrich claimed President Clinton had sex while he was in the Withe House! He even made fun of President Clinton in his last two years of his being President when under Gop rule,left the White House with a balanced budget and 100’s of billions of dollars in the bank!! Well no one said anything about Herr Gingrich when he was breaking the Ten Commandments! he was having intercourse with his girl friend all along and then gingrich got caught and he quit congress(he was a Quitter,Just like his Partner,sarah palin, the quitter from from the governer of alaska)and turned coat and Ran back to Georgia to divorce his first wife.The state of Georgia is Appalled at what he had done(since this is the Bible Belt),I would not even vote for Herr gingrich for dog catcher–He is a snake handler,lower than a snake’s Belly! Herr gingrich don,t even work from my home state of Georgia and embarrass us Again!!

murf

January 22nd, 2011
7:39 am

No one wants to vote for a RINO when you can see one at a Zoo

KennesawBoy

January 22nd, 2011
7:43 am

Didn’t he already try this before and it didn’t work? My vote is for Herman Kane.

Doug

January 22nd, 2011
7:45 am

KennesawBoy,
That’s Herman Cain. And I’m with you. He’s one of the few who gets it.

John

January 22nd, 2011
7:54 am

Ron Paul for President 2012!

waycoolsnoopy

January 22nd, 2011
7:57 am

Newt = GLOBALIST! Obama = GLOBALIST. It’s “controlled opposition” and if those two are the choices the only certainty is that the American people will continue to lick the boots of tyranny!

The answer to 1984 is 1776!

Georgia Idjut

January 22nd, 2011
7:58 am

Good Lord, folks. Those of you who say that Newt would beat Obama in a straight-up debate are the same ones who thought that Sarah Palin destroyed Joe Biden in the VP debates of 2008. You would sniff victory if one of your candidates pooted in your vicinity. Cheer on your candidate, fine, but admit right up front that your passions outweigh your intellectual honesty.

Vince Hugh

January 22nd, 2011
8:01 am

I have always liked Gingrich and felt he was a great visionary which is a quality a president should have. I was dissappointed in his anti-Sarah Palin comment the other day however, and if he turns against Sarah and what she stands for, he will not get my vote.

Buzz G

January 22nd, 2011
8:01 am

C’mon Mr. Gingrich, back off. Mr. Hope and Change needs four more years to completely turn this country into Venezuela North.

Chunk

January 22nd, 2011
8:08 am

Newt,forget about it no room for RIINO’s !

Sean

January 22nd, 2011
8:12 am

Newt, Please stay under your rock. You are what has us in this position. I am a conservative and I would vote for BO before Newt. Take Sara Palin with you Newt. Please pretty Please Dr Ron Paul help us because I don’t think anyone else can.

BD

January 22nd, 2011
8:15 am

Give up you old fart and write history books!!!!

BD

January 22nd, 2011
8:15 am

love it

Jeff

January 22nd, 2011
8:15 am

If he could not take the heat as speaker of the house, or stay faithful to his first wife when she was sick what make him think hour can handle being president. I will take Sarah any day over his bag of hot air. I know some of you don’t like her because she makes you all feel like looser. She don’t give excuses that life was to hard, or she didn’t have all the advantages in life. Suck it up!!!

Robert A Murray

January 22nd, 2011
8:20 am

I happen to be a big fan of Newt,read all his history novels. He is a very smart man. I want him to run just so he would destroy this telepromting reading man child in the Whitehouse in an presidential debate.Newt used to make the clintons nervous when he entered the room.

Last Man Standing

January 22nd, 2011
8:25 am

For once, all you dems/libs are correct: Newt won’t become the next President . . . and Nathan will never be the Governor of Georgia either! Mr. Gingrich meets all the qualifications to be President and he is highly capable. If he does indeed run, I guess that I will lose my vote because I will vote for him. After all, I lost my vote for Nathan, didn’t I? Boy, you dems/libs have really got your fingers on the political pulse of our country, don’t you?

FLharleyPM

January 22nd, 2011
8:25 am

I like Newt but would prefer that he not throw his hat in the ring. He’s made some really bad choices in his personal life but beyond that, entering the race would be akin to 1996 when the republican establishment chose Bob Dole as the candidate to go up against Clinton. That was a disaster. Newt represents the ‘old guard’ and an entrenched beltway insider and it’s time the GOP and the Tea Party pick a candidate with an understanding of the constitution and will govern that way. Newt’s primary motivation for being President isn’t about the country…it’s about his ego and we know how that’s working out for all of us simply by looking at the current occupant of the White House.

Amy

January 22nd, 2011
8:26 am

NO!! I am a Republican and I do NOT want to see the Old Guard Republicans as my candidate for President. That is what helped us lose the election last time. Don’t even think about it, Newt! You are an AWFUL candidate!

Marty

January 22nd, 2011
8:27 am

This conservative would never vote for Newt Gingrich. Character counts and this man does not have it. He breached the trust of those most close to him, his wife and family, how could he ever be the leader of our country?

I change the channel every time I see him on tv or hear him on the radio. Republicans will not support him.

nostromo

January 22nd, 2011
8:36 am

Somebody thank him and tell him his day had come and it passed. Believe me when I tell you that a new Republican party is not looking for leadership from him He comes with too much baggage that will be a distraction to a winning effort.

Rich

January 22nd, 2011
8:43 am

Newt has about the same chance that Ron Paul had in 2008…ZERO!!!! This guy is not as smart as people make him out to be…Why, one might ask…? HE BELEIVES IN GLOBAL WARMING!!!!! Only complete idiots beleive in nonsense like that and would do a commercial with NANCY PELOSI and go to a conference with JOHN KERRY!!!! We remember that stuff Newt you fraud!!!!

Keep writing books that fewer and fewer people read…

Palin 2012…The only Conservative in the crowd…

Bill Nelson

January 22nd, 2011
8:43 am

Newt can pound sand! Any self professed conservative that embraces the socialistic tenets of going green needs to get in the back jack!

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January 22nd, 2011
8:44 am

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KZGuy

January 22nd, 2011
8:45 am

Please go away Newt. I don’t care where. You have more baggage than Kate Gosslin and her kids. Besides cheating on his wives (at least two of them) didn’t he establish a PAC that would buy thousands of his books so they would become best sellers? No morals no ethics. Newt needs to shut up.

Rich

January 22nd, 2011
8:49 am

@ KZGuy – If that is true about his own PAC buying his own books…This guy is scummier than I had first thought…What a jag! Clinton ran circles around him when he was speaker anyway…Kind of like how foreign leaders are running circles around our current resident of the White House.

debbie

January 22nd, 2011
8:52 am

he has my vote

AJC « Sister Toldjah

January 22nd, 2011
8:53 am

[...] Report: Newt Gingrich tells Georgia Republicans he’ll be a candidate in ‘12 [...]

Atlprofguy

January 22nd, 2011
8:54 am

Haha run newt run….waste your money and others….
I don’t think a guy who failed to pass his “contract with America”, failednto pass term limits, which he ran on! Of course there is the issue of past adultery, and then his second wife’s writings (which cost her a job as the librarian of congress (Marianne?)
Yeah newtie in an age of Internet trash that is bake to be dug up on you…brother you got nothin’ and no chance! And I am a republican! Hahaha
And lose some weight!

Sorely Frickey

January 22nd, 2011
8:56 am

How many of you would let someone work on your car who had no more experience with automobiles than you have with running political campaigns? Then why are you … Oh, wait, maybe I get it. If the guy hid behind a bush while fixing your car, THAT would be acceptable, because you wouldn’t know who he was. Whew! For a minute there I was worried that the majority of posters might be losers or even lunatics who should be locked away in a Connect-the-Dots jail cell or TV room.

Paul

January 22nd, 2011
9:00 am

I support NEWT for President

Lebek

January 22nd, 2011
9:02 am

Gingrich – Palin ticket, a scary thought indeed.

Perspective

January 22nd, 2011
9:03 am

Staunch conservative here..and no way would you get my vote, Gingrich. You are part of what destroyed the Repub party, and if there was any doubt, that lovely dual ad with you and Pelosi sealed the deal. No more “reaching across the aisle”. We are done with that, you can’t deal with the devil, and you have proved that is your style. I would rather let Obama keep the job, as much as I can’t stand him, because I know he will always be a socialist trying to become a Marxist,..you I can’t trust.

Paul

January 22nd, 2011
9:04 am

We need a little old guard here. I’d vote for him support him and he has the experience and brain power to do a great job. He has great ideas too. Why don’t you just listen too him? He has strong support in the SOUTH and you need the south.

Hawkeye

January 22nd, 2011
9:06 am

Go T-Paw! http://www.iowansforpawlenty.com

Perspective

January 22nd, 2011
9:08 am

ON top of the political hypocrisy he has shown over the last 10 years…I had forgotten about the marital hypocrisy!! Don’t bother, Newt, we don’t want the likes of you in the White House, you would just pull a Perot on anyone who would be good at the job. Conservatives, ( most of us, now) would rather have the destruction of our country owned by the rightful owners, Democrats, than give Dems cover with your as President going along with them, like Bush did with Kennedy and a Dem congress, and McCain with Feingold etc.

No, we are done with RINOs..go away.

clint

January 22nd, 2011
9:09 am

Good for Newt! He is one of the most informed, most competent, most educated, most intelligent, and most conservative Americans alive today. He has red blood in his veins. I can’t think of another individual I’d rather vote for! There is probably no one who is more qualified to be president in these uncertain times. I agree with Chambliss, in debates, Newt would chew up Obama and spit him out. It would be a sight to see Newt confound Obama, who is unqualified and incompetent.

Perspective

January 22nd, 2011
9:16 am

Hmmm..just scrolled through all the comments..Newt, you better read them yourself, because we, the real Republicans, are tired of RINOS like you, and you will not only not get elected, you will be despised like Perot is for bringing triangulating the vote against a good person/good candidate.

Give it up, Newt, we don’t want a rehash of what you’ve already done. We want real conservatives, and you simply aren’t one…

veritaseequitas

January 22nd, 2011
9:16 am

Don’t do it dog…you got too much background noise, you are too old and we do not need any recycled politicos trying to dick up the good stuff that was accomplished in 2010. We need a younger, vibrant, no crap, Conservative with testicular veracity, to get BO out of office in 2012. Newt you ain’t got the credentials, man. Stay home, write your books, go on television once in a while, be a cheerleader, but do us a favor and stay the heck away from the White House.

| Republican Party of Wood County

January 22nd, 2011
9:17 am

[...] 13. AJC: Gingrich tells Georgia Republicans he’ll be 2012 candidate [...]

Beneteau

January 22nd, 2011
9:17 am

I am a Georgia resident. I have observed Newt over the last 15+ years. I think he has the best ideas and is the smartest man in the entire arena of republican presidential hopefuls. Although he does have some past “woman/marital” baggage, I am willing to overlook that for the sake of our country. Haven’t we overlooked Obama’s admitted cocaine use? I think Newt will make a great President!

CLS88

January 22nd, 2011
9:18 am

Gingrich/Michelle Bachman duo would be the ticket.

Jezel

January 22nd, 2011
9:19 am

No doubt that Newt is a hater and could never win. But at least he ….does not invent words. A ticket with Newt and Palin on it is the best thing that could happen for the democrats.

GKPAL

January 22nd, 2011
9:21 am

Newt, please do us a favor and stay out of presitential politics. You had your day and it is now over. If you insist, will only make a fool of yourself.

independent thinker

January 22nd, 2011
9:25 am

I propose a Newt -Palin ticket to guaranty Obama’s reelection or better yet Gingrich and Christine O’Donnel since Palin’s ego is too big now to run again as V.P. Make sure to ask Newt about his Susan Smith comments and his ongoing adulterous affair while he was ramming Clinton’s impeachment through Congress.

marine43

January 22nd, 2011
9:26 am

Please Newt, just GO AWAY. We had your number, the day you and Nancy shared the couch. on glowbull warming!

Mike

January 22nd, 2011
9:28 am

Sorry Newt, your failed policies of the past are not want the People want. We want new blood and new ideas to pull this beautiful Country from the edge of Hell…

Mike

Ruckweiler

January 22nd, 2011
9:28 am

Newt:
Stay home! Write your books, educate the country, and tend to your marriage. Your day has passed. Remember Harold Stassen.

Dr. C

January 22nd, 2011
9:31 am

The link title made me think Newt was making a Waffle House run. I would join him for that, though I’m a tad too sober..

The Virginian

January 22nd, 2011
9:33 am

PALIN IS DUMB LIKE A FOX. People who think otherwise would have said the same thing about Reagan. She is the one the liberal fear most. I think everyone is going to be surprized. If your choice is Obama or Palin it’s a no brainer.

independent thinker

January 22nd, 2011
9:37 am

I really want to see a Gingrich Palin debate- two failed politicians who quit when people started investigating their ehtics. Their only true claim to fame is making nonsensical speeches and selling books. be careful no one lights up in the room-too much gas.

Mary

January 22nd, 2011
9:39 am

Please-Make this self involved opportunist GO AWAY!

kenny komodo

January 22nd, 2011
9:40 am

No Newt is good Newt. I’m all in for Sarah Palin for President. If the Republicans actually do something as stupid as run Gingrich as their candidate in 2012 the country might as well just hand the keys to the White House back to Barry and wish him luck in his next four years.

Mike

January 22nd, 2011
9:43 am

As a conservative that votes Republican 95% of the time, I would NOT vote for Newt Gingrich. HE is part of the problem. After the 1994 elections, he helped to keep the true conservatives down. One thing that he and Trent Lott did was insure that term limits did not pass. And that does not even get into his personal baggage, like dumping his cancer-stricken wife for someone else on her death bed. Some guy.

Ed

January 22nd, 2011
9:43 am

Good way to lose the eledtion to the Dems…run this Republocrat. We can’t win the White House with this Knuclehead!!!!!

Jim Kuhn

January 22nd, 2011
9:48 am

Gingrich is one of few politicans who makes sense. His analysis of events is right on the button. He is my favorite Republican yet not my choice for Pres. Would make an able Attorney Gen or Sec of State. Need more affable Pres candidate. Many too choose from: Thune, Christy, Jindahl, Ryan, Kantor, Pence, Palin.

marg1

January 22nd, 2011
9:49 am

Traci said it all:

If his wife can’t trust him neither can I.

Scott

January 22nd, 2011
9:56 am

Old Newt, maybe. New Newt, one word- RINO.

Jason Burnstein

January 22nd, 2011
9:59 am

No Newt please no….you will be the downfall of the country….no, say it isn’t so.

Cindy

January 22nd, 2011
9:59 am

Ick. He is an adulterer and very proud.

Ruth

January 22nd, 2011
10:00 am

OH NO! TELL ME IT ISN’T SO
WHY IS IS THESE OLD POLITICIANS NEVER KNOW WHEN THEY ARE CLEARLY NOT WANTED!!!

Robert

January 22nd, 2011
10:00 am

Mr. Gringrich, should forget running for President and support our current President in saving this country. Country before Party!!!!

Leah In Alabama

January 22nd, 2011
10:05 am

Sometimes people in our own families behave horrendously and we are sure we’ll never speak to them again. Then after many missed Thanksgiving Dinners-they show up and you realize that they are still your family. I lived in Atlanta during all the turmoil in Newt’s Life- so this is not new to me. I thought he was horrible, Disgusting etc. At this moment I see my most beloved country being hi-jacked by enemies from within. Newt has all the ability and knowledge to bring us out of this nightmare, and is one of the only ones who could completly desimate Obama in a debate without a single doubt and ALL OF US know that. SUck it up my fellow Americans, If Newt is the nominee, my creep of a “Brother” will have my vote over Obama any day of the week!

Ray Alexander

January 22nd, 2011
10:05 am

We don’t need another rock star. We need a solution oriantated mature conservative like Newt.
He cettainly has the smarts. Lets not forget he was the architect of the Contract with America. Clintin likes to take the credit, but it was Newt.
Love you Newt

olegunny

January 22nd, 2011
10:09 am

This man can not be elected to any national position. He will never even come close to getting the nomination. He may however harm the GOP candidate.

jim

January 22nd, 2011
10:09 am

Its hard to get excited about Newt but………there’s no way I am or fellow TPers are voting for Huckabee or Rino Romney so who’s left? Palin IMO is not electable although I personnally would vote for her over the above mentioned.
Michelle Bachman is going to be heard from a lot starting with the Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s SOTU address on Tuesday. I campained for Allen West but he’s too new – could be a strong VP candidate.
Look out for a Bachman/West ticket

independent thinker

January 22nd, 2011
10:10 am

I hope old Newt and Todd Palin collaborate on a book on 100 different ways to cheat on your wife. Maybe old Bill can write a chapter and make it a bipartisan effort.

Ray Alexander

January 22nd, 2011
10:11 am

Nobody has mentioned Pawlenty, he is excellent as well. How about Gulliani as head of National or Homeland Security and Palin as Energy Secretary.

russf

January 22nd, 2011
10:12 am

OMG! Newt, is great thinker and all, but c’mon he’s a bore. Didn’t he say something like the era of Reagan was dead? and he didn’t he do a commercial with Pelosi on global warming? Newt, while mostly positive, is just a part of the “Club” the damn career Politicians club that has ruined this Republic. Newt should stick to hocking his books and having his ass kissed on Hannity and fox

Jay St. John

January 22nd, 2011
10:16 am

Oh Please! Go Trump!

daniel hidalgo

January 22nd, 2011
10:17 am

as long as newt is the old newt who doesn’t back down or compromise then i’ll follow him wherever he leds us! the republicans need a rush limbaugh like leader, a master communiator, a complete thinker and newt has all that and more! newt has the capacity the ability more importantly the COMMON SENSE to be our president! viva newt gingrich! ………..he’s still wrong on immiration!

Tho

January 22nd, 2011
10:21 am

Gingrich has had nothing to say that interests me since New York District 23 where he supported a RINO over a true conservative.

independent thinker

January 22nd, 2011
10:24 am

Yeah Hidalgo we need a Limbaugh leader that makes on air racial slurs about the Chinese leader offending all Chinese Americans – kind like cursing out your banker in a crowd. Your right Newt fits the bill.

Sam Colt

January 22nd, 2011
10:25 am

Imagine two walnut shells on a carnival table. The man tells you to pick the shell that hides the pea. He moves the shells around and around and stops, telling you to pick the shell with the pea. You pick the shell on the right and you are a winner. You found the pea! The carnival huckster is the “Establishment elite.” The two shells represent the Republican and the Democrat parties. The shells moving around on the table represent the campaign for the Oval Office. You picking the shell represents your “freedom” to vote. You’ve picked the shell on the right, representing the Republican “right”. Were you a “winner”? Not really. There was an identical “pea” under each of the two shells. The Establishment elite never lose. You go home after exercising your “freedom” to vote for two identical “peas” and feel great that you’ve done your civic duty, not knowing that you’ve been duped again.

Here’s a heads-up for you. Newt Gingrich is just another pea.

Somnolence

January 22nd, 2011
10:27 am

The nomination remains in Palin’s reach if she really wants it. She has more money at the moment, more endurance physically and mentally than all the others combined. Herman Cain is indeed a viable candidate to me, with a vast knowledge on meeting budgets, running a business, etc. Mass Care and anti-Mormonism continue to haunt Romney(as well as anti-establishment, blueblood sentiments), and Huckabee was a tax raiser in Arkansas, and should remain a talk show host. Newt simply has too much baggage infringing upon his intellect—–simply, unelectable. Don’t care what anyone else says, Palin does have a chance. Just who would independents really flock to, her or Obama? The economy isn’t going to pick up that much.

David1949

January 22nd, 2011
10:28 am

Newt is another big government, establishment politician. Why do we need that? How about a candidate who will actually mean it when he takes his oath to uphold the constitution? How about Ron Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, or Gary Johnson?

HopeChangeInAZ

January 22nd, 2011
10:29 am

Gingrich will do more harm then good to the Republican brand and it is as simple as that. He may be a good talk show guest but I doubt he will get anywhere near the support a candidate will need to win the nomination. And why should he? His track record is not that impressive to say the least. Let’s not even discuss his personal life and the hypocrisy associated with it even though the left wing will have a field day with it. What about his signature accomplishment the “Contract With America”….yeah that really worked out well didn’t it? Nice thought, poor follow-through and bad results for the party in general.

It is obvious that I am not a fan of Gingrich. He is a lightning rod for the left and though he may not be as bad as Palin in that respect, he is bad enough. The Republicans better come up with something a little fresher then the likes of a McCain, Dole or Gingrich or we will be looking at another 4 more years of Obama.

Soul Leister

January 22nd, 2011
10:35 am

Its another rehash of McCain’s South Carolina strategy to keep Romney down (by larding up the ballot with every tom, dick and harry… that has zero chance of actually getting elected draw votes away from contenders by appealing to nich groups), except this time it is directed (note I didn’t say target) at stealing votes away from Palin… the good ole (country club) boys are circling the wagons… nothing good can come of this.

Mary

January 22nd, 2011
10:40 am

I am sick of having these “LOSERS” shoved down our throats. i.e. John McCain, Romney, Huckabee, Palin, ETC… you see where it got us in 2008!

Larry

January 22nd, 2011
10:45 am

So, if I am reading these blogs correctly, Gingrich is a hypocrite and adulterer trapped in the body of a fiscal conservative, right? Looks like the hypocrisy and extramarital affairs would appeal widely to the liberals and the the fiscal responsibility would appeal widely to the conservatives.

He just may be electable…worked for Clinton!

Doc

January 22nd, 2011
10:47 am

I will never vote for him in a GOP caucus (that’s what we have here) or in a general election. The man is a deceitful narcissist.

Larry

January 22nd, 2011
10:51 am

I think it is time that we stop trying to elect a black man (or half black man), a white women (or half white woman) or ANY life long politician that has never been responsible for running a large company or business. The current president has proven to be completely overwhelmed and utterly clueless about global economics. Nice voice and image…but zero substance!

We had all better come together and elect a business person to come in a clean up this economic crime scene or we are in for a long, downward spiral for decades!

Last Man Standing

January 22nd, 2011
10:53 am

I have read a lot of negative posts concerning Mt. Gingrich and his possible candidacy for President. Knowing that most of the bloggers here are dems/libs, the number of negative posts speak volumes. Obama is not even in the same league with Gingrich, much less the same ballpark! Gingrich is brilliant and a true intellectual steeped in history. His understanding of world and national events is top drawer. Moreover, Mr. Gingrich understands the Constitution and believes in its “strict” interpretation. Mr. Gingrich will make a great President!

Mark White

January 22nd, 2011
10:57 am

The “Speaker of the House” Newt could have won the nomination. The current version can’t. Newt went soft, became wishy-washy and created distrust amongst conservatives he cannot overcome.

Tom Mariner

January 22nd, 2011
10:59 am

If we want a smart, experienced guy for President, look no further. The problem is that he develops the same venom and personal attacks in the mainstream media and the knee jerk crowd, some of whom comment here as Sarah Palin. I always think those kind of blasts mean they feel the candidate has a chance and will do a good job, so I instinctively look for the attacks before I consider anybody seriously.

I have followed Dr. Gingrich’s writings on subjects like healthcare for years and he has been correct and light years ahead of others. He proved he could form a coalition of elected officials to accomplish so he appears to be a talented leader.

But no, let’s discuss his past habits with romance. Wait, are we down to bathroom habits yet as a bellwether of a viable Presidential candidate?

Steve

January 22nd, 2011
11:03 am

Yes — your comments here are soooo important. You’re contributing how? By flexing illusionary internet muscles? You all have a voice, but this isn’t it. Get involved.

nm

January 22nd, 2011
11:07 am

HE WILL NOT GET MY VOTE> NOT AFTER INSULTING SARA PALIN
He seems to sound just like ObamaHillaryCNNmsnbcNBCabcCBS
No. To think I supported him in 1994, makes me sick. He is an opportunist, with NO character.

Newt Gingrich Tells Georgia Republicans He’s Running In 2012

January 22nd, 2011
11:07 am

[...] or toyed with his supporters with the idea that he might right for President to be more precise, but this time he appears to be in for real: In the last 24 hours, former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich has touched base with several [...]

Joe D.

January 22nd, 2011
11:15 am

Both Palin and Gingrich have actually accomplished notable things for conservatives. Both were heavily involved in a massive public shift back to conservatism. It’s such a shame when conservative intellectuals distance themselves or even join in on the attacks. Dear intellectuals: You want the candidate who is most severely attacked. That means they are the biggest threat. Don’t think too much about it.

Rick

January 22nd, 2011
11:16 am

Gingrich is part of the problem. He needs to step aside and let Huckabee and Palin run.

independent thinker

January 22nd, 2011
11:18 am

Some of you Newt fans forget how this supposed brilliant politician made a mockery of the repubs when he was last running for reelection: Susan Smith drowned her kids in her car in South Carolina. When this was confirmed, Ole newt seized the opportunity to be his typical demagogue self and blamed failed Democratic programs like the Great Society for her actions. Tuned out afterwards Susan Smith had accused her father repeatedly of child molestation. He was a top repub. in South Carolina. Both he and ole Sarah have a knack of shooting themselves in the mouth, Should be lots of fun to watch.

Insighter1

January 22nd, 2011
11:20 am

HE SUPPORTS STATES BANKRUPTING AS A WAY TO NOT HONOR PENSIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He just said it, or strongly implied it, yesterday, MORON. He hasn’t changed. Completely elitist and out to screw the little guy. I’m an arch-conservative and NG turns my gut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Kevin Stroup

January 22nd, 2011
11:23 am

Newt Gingrich was a true conservative when he originally went to D.C. But somewhere along the way, he became a RINO. I do not even know what to call what he morphed into since. Newt, save your time and money, all conservatives know who you are, and what you are, and will not vote for you.

CHICAGO RALPH

January 22nd, 2011
11:25 am

For starters Newt,…

give us your explanation on that “Green” thing you did sitting next to Nancy and,………

tell us why you no longer think that way.

It better be good.

Joe D.

January 22nd, 2011
11:26 am

Dear Ind. Thinker,
How has Sarah “shot herself in the mouth”?

RAY

January 22nd, 2011
11:28 am

Palin is not going to run period. Do I like her absolutely. But she can do us and I think her family more good in a different capacity. She doesn’t have the independant voters either.

jeff

January 22nd, 2011
11:31 am

Family Values Man ?…..well he has had a few marriages….should know what he’s talking about…although jello would have to freeze over before I voted for Newt

Joe D.

January 22nd, 2011
11:32 am

I believe Palin will do what’s best for her country, whether running or not. Her family is already battle hardened.

George

January 22nd, 2011
11:33 am

A sure way for the Republicans to lose the next Presidency. They need fresh faces, fresh ideas. The Tea Party will not go for retreads and Gingrich is a retread. They should run Bobby Jindal and put Sarah Palin on as VP. She’s got a lot more on the ball in the past three years, and is tough as nails. Jindal, born of Indian parents, is an example of the US at its best – a land of opportunity for immigrants of all color and denomination.

Insighter1

January 22nd, 2011
11:37 am

Neutron supports states abandoning pension obligations:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41188877/ns/business-the_new_york_times/

KennesawJack

January 22nd, 2011
11:39 am

Newt is easily the most qualified Republican out there and towers over all save Ryan and Pence intellectually. If he lays out his past personal issues early on and takes responsibility for them, the voters will give him a pass. After all, we have a uniquely unqualified person in the White House now who admitted to snorting cocaine so Newt’s issues can be overcome too. Granted, the press won’t pucker up when Newt bends over the way they do for the messiah, but he CAN win. Like Saxby, I’d pay good money to see him carve up the “one we’ve been waiting for” in the debates.

Ike Reagan

January 22nd, 2011
11:41 am

Eon Rodeo, I read the article at the link you provided. Nothing too scary there. If you have ever known a politician, they all have egos and they all have fallen at one time or another. It goes with the personality. Jimmy Carter might have been the only one not to fall into this character. However, nice as Jimmy was, he was a weak President at a time where America needed strength to pull itself out of despair.

After reading all of your comments, and after reading the article about the x-wife, Gingrich will be a formidable candidate and may be the next President.

The only thing is, he’d better have a solid plan and not just “wing it”. Because, America is past being out of time, options and money to use up 4 more years of failed Presidential leadership.

I believe that Bush failed, at least in the last term, Obama has failed by not having a clear plan, and I believe our next leader needs to have a plan that has a key goal of paying off debt while increasing our exports and expanding goods manufactured in the US and its’ territories.

So, yes, Gingrich will get my vote. He will convince China to buy well more than $85 billion of our exports and he will get Korea and other countries to open up their markets to the U.S. and trade equitably with our country.

RAY

January 22nd, 2011
11:42 am

Has anyone see Pawlenty lately. He looked and sounded very Presidential and has the credentials to back it up. I think he’s electable and as a Reagan conservative he instilled confidence. Let me say that again he instills confidence and he’s a fresh face without the bagage.

Sue

January 22nd, 2011
11:44 am

He’ll get my vote over Palin. Even though he’s an idiot, he’s not as bad as Palin and at least appears to be a politician. Seems he is seasoned compared to a nobody.

independent thinker

January 22nd, 2011
11:49 am

Hey Joe D. remember how the ole girl from Alaska stood up before the repubs when she got nominated and made that comment about giving the earmark money back for the bridge to nowhere? and you all clapped and cheered and hooped and hollered like this was the second coming? Turned out she requested the money , did not give it back and spent it. That is called shooting yourself in the mouth,

Joe D.

January 22nd, 2011
11:53 am

Actually, I.D., I don’t remember it. And neither will anyone else in history. Try again.

bucky

January 22nd, 2011
11:54 am

Scary to think that anyone would even consider Newt or Palin… ..makes to shiver to think these people even vote.

Jon

January 22nd, 2011
11:54 am

Newt was OK, but his time has passed. McCain, Hatch, Snow, McConnell, all old guard and more interested in seeing themselves as statesman, than serving the wishes of their constituents. I wish they would go away. (Add Huckabee to that list too.)

Joe D.

January 22nd, 2011
12:00 pm

Dear Bucky,
There are 2 basic ingredients needed to become a great conservative leader: Moral courage and integrity. Sarah has those in spades. When you seek a polished candidate who gets along with everyone, you’ll get a hollow, disingenuous person who won’t get anything done.

PKelley

January 22nd, 2011
12:01 pm

WOW, what wonderful Comments, even those from newt supporters. I hope newt reads them all. The Republican comments pointing out that he Party doesn’t have any viable candidates is absolutely correct. I vote for the person, not the Party.

I want someone who will stop the government and especially Congress from spending us into into hell. There is no one, in either Party, with the intelligence and guts to do that. It surely isn’t newt or palin or the current Speaker of the House nor is there a Democrat.

Lord Help Us.

Granted

January 22nd, 2011
12:02 pm

This is wonderful news, but I won’t be truly ecstatic until I hear that Palin’s in the “race”. Allegedly Guilliani will throw his hat in the ring when that happens, so we’ll have a trifecta of Reich Wing buffoons running against Obama. These clueless egotists are so blind to their predominating images with moderates that they have no idea how completely unelectable they are. Guess that’s bound to happen when you’re surrounded by nothing but conservative sheep. Made my day! Obama 2012!

Joe D.

January 22nd, 2011
12:03 pm

Dear PKelly,
Good luck voting for the individual! Unless they are extremely popular, they have no chance of getting elected unless they follow party lines.

falcon

January 22nd, 2011
12:05 pm

Clinton and Gingrich both liked to play around on their wives. Gingrich however did not lie to a grand jury like your impeached hero Bill Clinton did. Gingrich authored the Contract with America which led to Clinton’s success in the White House. Clinton owes Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress for his success as CIC. Gingrich would destroy any Democrat in a debate, but the American public is too stupid to realize that. Most voters are too ignorant to vote. Thank you, that is all.

Welcome Black Carter

January 22nd, 2011
12:06 pm

If every negitive I have seen writen here were 100% true, Newt would still be the better man for our country than obamao… Go Newt, you have my vote as well as many Americans.

Iona Juman

January 22nd, 2011
12:07 pm

If that old geyser run for president, I am sitting this one out. Enough of the same old same old. He just will not win, just get out of the way.

Robert Wilkes

January 22nd, 2011
12:09 pm

Our Government has never operated better and our country was never as strong as the years that Newt and Dick Morris had complete control. They had Bill Clinton signing every piece of legislation they put up. That is political skill and that is what our country needs right now, highly skilled and politically smart conservatives. Please run Newt and have Dick Morris as a Senior Advisor! You two have already proved that you CAN get it done and get it done Right!

Welcome Black Carter

January 22nd, 2011
12:11 pm

Isn’t it ironic how many obamao kool-aid drinkers tout how Newt is “unelectable” and support the re-electic of obamao who clearly is unelectable in 2012? Makes me laugh…

Newt Gingrich To Run For President « Light Sound Dimension

January 22nd, 2011
12:12 pm

[...] Huffpost on Gingrich: Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has told insiders that he plans to run for president in 2012, with Georgia as his base, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. [...]

Graystroke

January 22nd, 2011
12:13 pm

Wow….275 million Americans and the best we can do is Romney (a gutless hack refusing to take responsibility for his failed health care in tax-it all-chut-it), Huckabee and beta-male and Newt a RINO extraordinaire…….

America I don’t see the Tea Party as your answer..the Marxists are deeply entrenched and like a weed will be next to impossible to eradicate…….why? the American public has been successfully dumbed down and converted into entitlement addicts unwilling to pay any sacrifice for personal liberty……of which to the welfare state …liberty is defined as “free cell phone, housing, welfare food stamps, housing and then extra cash to party “…..a concept of personal responsibility is foreign to them as the need to be relentless in finding work……did Nikita Khrushchev win…???

.neither is a 3rd party which will immediately get co opted by Progressives.

Welcome Black Carter

January 22nd, 2011
12:13 pm

What you are seeing here is not real. The media matters “paid posters” are out in force…

Joe D.

January 22nd, 2011
12:15 pm

I like certain things about Newt. I think he’s brilliant and could be a master debater (and a cunning linguist). All kidding aside, I believe he got a great deal of momentum in the early 90’s from Rush Limbaugh bursting onto the scene.

Jacquelyn05

January 22nd, 2011
12:19 pm

GINGRICH AND PALIN SHOULD BE THE REPUBLICAN TEAM.

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
12:20 pm

Gingrich will go nowhere in the primaries as his mouth is a loose cannon and he has no integrity. Marrying his high school geometry teacher may have been more her seduction than his but dumping her when she was dying of cancer and then dumping that wife for his staff member will be recalled again and again. In addition to his serial adultery and hypocrisy in leading the charge against Clinton for much less than he did, it will be remembered that he was fined $300,000 by the House Ethics Committee. He later left office to marry the object of his 6 year affair and because the House did poorly in the elections under his leaderships. And somehow his enormous ego makes this fat fraud think that he is presidential material and that even the GOP is dumb enough to nominate him. But Newt thinks he inhabits Mt. Rushmore and he is dying to come down and rescue America. Not even the GOP has quite sunk low enough to bring this guy back and I think that there is enough collective sanity in that party, as dumb as its constituents are, to rebuke Palin as well.

independent thinker

January 22nd, 2011
12:21 pm

Hey Welcome Black Carter: you sound like a perfect Georgia repub. They need more people like you. Amazing how a politician who resigns amid ethics investigations and scandal becomes highly qualified in this state to run for office.

Team O'bama

January 22nd, 2011
12:22 pm

My president is going to beat whoever those lame, stupid Republicans put up. Put up any and every Republican you want, and my smart, intelligent, good-looking President O’Bama will make them look like the fools they are.

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
12:22 pm

Graystroke and other mindless posters here continue to provide evidence for my claim that the GOP has become the party of the dumb and ignorant. “Marxists” how funny. And the rest of that rant makes him a candidate for a mental health assessment.

Joe D.

January 22nd, 2011
12:27 pm

David Bonior shamelessly brought up 75 charges against Newt, and 1 stuck. It is a fuzzy matter that had to do with how Newt financed a college course he taught. Back then, everyone was trying to take down Newt.

GFR

January 22nd, 2011
12:28 pm

This is really excellent news. Although I like Palin, Gingrich is definitely the intellectual heavyweight in the Republican party, (Palin is head and shoulders above anybody on the left). The ultimate ticket would be Gingrich-Palin but it’s hard to see how Palin would be willing to run for VP again.

A debate between Gingrich and obungler would be wonderful. Gingrich would club obungler like a baby fur seal.

A number of people have said that Gingrich can’t win because his negatives are too high. Here’s a newsflash: whoever we nominate the dummycrats are going to drop all the crap on them that they can and some of it is going to work. Just remember what they did to McCain in 2008, and he spent a whole lot of time trying to work with dummycrats. The same will be true even if we nominate Romney. We need to win or lose with a true Conservative candidate, anything less risks turning off our base when what we really need is enthusiasm.

Nominate a true Conservative like Gingrich and then go after obungler like a dog after rats. Put them on the defense ALL THE TIME. God knows they’ve got plenty to answer for.

Eric Something

January 22nd, 2011
12:31 pm

You will get the President that the corporations decide you will get, it’s not up to you so stop worrying about it.

captainkona

January 22nd, 2011
12:35 pm

Even Obama would beat this turkey in an election. Sorry, Gingrich fans. There will never be a POTUS named “Newt”.

LOL, what were his parents thinking?

joe dirt

January 22nd, 2011
12:35 pm

It’s quite obvous most of you are stupid. Newt has forgot more about being a good pres then all of your options noted in this thread! Get a grip we need a smart well rounded knowledgeable person not an Alaskan hunter or decon from Chicago!

Joe D.

January 22nd, 2011
12:36 pm

Dear Eric,
It’s up to the people. Look at how the Tea Party influenced the last elections. The real question is, will the people have the will.
“Every generation get the President it deserves” Sorry, I don’t remember who’s quote that is.

Bob A

January 22nd, 2011
12:41 pm

No chance! Newt is a global warming hysteric and wants to amnesty 20 million Mexican invaders. We don’t need another Bush!

Ray

January 22nd, 2011
12:47 pm

NEWT IS A MODERATE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, HE CHOSE THE LIBERAL OVER THE CONSERVATIVE IN NY23. SCOZZAFAVA THEN ENDORSED THE DEMOCRAT. FOR THAT I COULD CARE LESS WHAT HE THINKS.

j

January 22nd, 2011
12:47 pm

roadkill has a better chance getting elected than gingrich

STEVEN

January 22nd, 2011
12:49 pm

Ultra Liberals will be coming out of the woodworks from this point on.

Gingrich has positioned himself as the man that knows how to fix this financial debacle that the Democrats have dug us in to in recent years. His appearance on talk shows and Television shows that he has the ability to make any opponent look silly when there is an intelligent discussion about Politics.

Either liberals will back O for a second term or they will stay home & say no to O. This leaves the door open for a Gingrich run.

Dick

January 22nd, 2011
12:50 pm

O Lord, another election of the “lesser of the two evils”.

Open Thread–1/22/2011 » Politics Plus

January 22nd, 2011
12:52 pm

[...] Atlanta Journal Constitution: In the last 24 hours, former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich has touched base with several [...]

Suzanne Grant

January 22nd, 2011
12:52 pm

Newt Gingrich has had ‘his day in the sun’ and his ‘fifteen minutes of fame’. The last thing this country needs at this time in history is a Newt in the White House. Newt’s recent new wife is pushing him in this endeavor. Perhaps she was too young when he was in the government in Washington, DC. Newt’s old, tired ideas have NO place in today’s political environment, especially against the Chicago Thugs surrounding Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama. We need a REAL leader and not just on who plays one on television. Save your money, Newt, and don’t expose the USA to your rehashed political rhetoric which went out of style years ago.

John

January 22nd, 2011
12:59 pm

Please, God, no.

The Republican Party needs NEW blood, not some washed-up has-been who was chased out of power 10 years ago for hypocritically cheating on his wife while impeaching Bill Clinton for doing the very same thing.

Newt, you sucked in 1994. For all of your endless blather about small government, all you accomplished was a revision to welfare programs. Big whoop.

I’m a Tea Party member. I attend meetings and donate money. If the Republican Party gives us another half-RINO retread like McCain or Dole in the form of Newt Gingrich, I am going to suggest that my fellow Tea Party members abstain on voting for president.

I would rather see Obama win again than see a Big Government Republican Establishment candidate win.

Oxford Onchby

January 22nd, 2011
12:59 pm

Newt is very bright and very experienced. He and Tim Pawlenty would be a tough ticket to beat.

Somnolence

January 22nd, 2011
1:04 pm

Even though I won’t support his candidacy, Gingrich, even with all his personal baggage, is preferable to a potential Donald Trump candidacy. We find out today on the Drudge Report that Mr. Trump is a financial contributor to the quest of Rahm Emanuel to become mayor of Chicago. With all of his financial smarts, Trump is simply another member of the Establishment, with moral baggage of his own to contend with. I hope Sean Hannity remembers that the next time he has him on his show.

Kenneth Davis

January 22nd, 2011
1:08 pm

America Please Wake UP. Newt Gingrich is a Globalist and a Council on Foreign Relations member. Newt is in Favor of Global Warming just take a look for yourselve you fools.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/22/video-pelosi-fights-global-warming-with-newt-gingrich/

quick

January 22nd, 2011
1:10 pm

I like Newt….so there!

Phillip Inuhoff

January 22nd, 2011
1:12 pm

Beth

What business experience are you talking about?

The experience of showering corporapetions in stolen tax dollars, while supporting their right to outsource, off shore and employ sweat shop labor? Or, the experience of then helping those same corporapetions, maximize profits by avoiding import fees and tariffs, to sell their crap back to the sheep they just laid off?

Is he running on the status quo ticket?
Is his slogan, “Contract on America 2, because some how she’s still standing.”?

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
1:12 pm

GFR, you provide more evidence for how ideologically blinkered members of your party have become with your “Palin is head and shoulders above anyone on the left.” On what possible grounds can anyone say that?

Palin aimlessly kicked around four or five colleges before graduating from a second rate school with a degree in the rigorous field of “sports journalism.” She was the part-time mayor of a tiny town smaller than Perry, Georgia, and quit less than half way into her term as governor with an incoherent rambling speech “explaining” why. She is so intellectually lazy or incompetent, I think both, that she has to have a teleprompter in front of her or notes on her hand to make more than two points in a sitting. She couldn’t say what she read to keep abreast with international relations and politics, probably because she reads nothing, thought that Africa was a country, and made the false and odious claim that health care reform contained “death panels.”

One of the few remaining conservative intellectuals in America in George Will a few weeks ago was asked about Palin. He responded by saying that after 2008 she had two tasks to undertake to be taken seriously. One, to go back and govern Alaska and two to study. Instead, she quit in order to become a television celebrity. It is too bad that, unlike Will, the dumb and dumber who now make up the GOP can’t tell the difference between a TV image of an empty dress and a serious politician. But it seems you can’t.

What a collection of half wits the American right has embraced: Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh (without a degree of any kind among them and no evidence of ever having read a serious book), Palin, O’Reilly, and the bible thumper Huckabee who doesn’t believe in evolutionary theory. This party has simply become a joke. It’s too bad the whole country has to suffer for the stupidity and sheer ignorance of those who vote for the GOP

KYJurisDoctor

January 22nd, 2011
1:15 pm

Permit me to say: Fat chance Gingrich!

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
1:16 pm

The stupidity continues. Somna, the Drudge Report is just a right wing gossip column or perhaps you think that it is the objective, credible source that O’Reilly drew upon when he called for the black woman to resign based on an edited video which appeared there. Only and ideologue or a fool would believe anything which appears there.

And who is the other idiot who thinks that accepting the evidence for global warming counts against Gingrich?

With each passing election I find myself wondering how much dumber the GOP can get and yet they always manage to sink a bit further down the evolutionary scale.

John Holladay

January 22nd, 2011
1:16 pm

No thanks Newt.

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
1:18 pm

John, it wasn’t Gingrich who pushed for welfare reform it was Clinton. But I have the lowest regard for the emotional, immature, and hate-filled behavior and rhetoric which comes out of the so-called “tea party.” The rest of the democratic world thinks that Americans are sliding off the deep end and they may be right.

lance sjogren

January 22nd, 2011
1:19 pm

I just wonder who is Gingrich’s constituency?

Conservatives who want someone who supports amnesty for illegal aliens, a New World Order liquidation of self-determination for the American people in exchange for a global nation-state, and who carries a jumbo sized set of personall baggage?

Somnolence

January 22nd, 2011
1:20 pm

Yeah, I know that Drudge is a “right wing gossip” columnist, and I’m very proud to be a right-winger. Trump and Gingrich are categorically allied, and only a fool would think otherwise.

deniro11

January 22nd, 2011
1:20 pm

Your never to old Newt and you have heart its alot more than you can say for that money spending bum )OBOMO) who is bent on destroying this great country Mike in Connecticut and i would vote for you Obomo is gone in 2012 people no hes no good and a liar

NotFondOfLibs

January 22nd, 2011
1:22 pm

I am going to assume that most of the comments here are from Georgians. I am not and I consider Newt Gingrich a lot more qualified to be President than the current occupant. In a debate, Gingrich will reveal Obama for the legislative and executive fraud that he is. Obama has no idea how to cure the current economic problems of this country. Gingrich does and will, after he is elected President, probably with no help from idiots from Georgia who don’t have a clue.

Phillip Inuhoff

January 22nd, 2011
1:23 pm

@John (Tea party member)

Thank you Brother.

lance sjogren

January 22nd, 2011
1:23 pm

GFR said:

“We need to win or lose with a true Conservative candidate, anything less risks turning off our base when what we really need is enthusiasm.”

And Gingrich is a “true conservative”? What are you smoking?

Joe D.

January 22nd, 2011
1:29 pm

Dear GOP is brain dead,
You have to use more than ad hominem attacks. According to you, a college degree from an expensive institution = a good leader. You have to have wisdom to apply the knowledge you learn, and todays universities aren’t bastions of wisdom. Lincoln, Reagan, and Eisenhower were all considered incredibly stupid by the left. The reason is that people like you get so flustered and upset that all you can do is point at someone and call them stupid.

GaPeech

January 22nd, 2011
1:29 pm

I am a lifelong Republican. There is no way in hell I would vote this womanizer for dog catcher, much less President.

lance sjogren

January 22nd, 2011
1:29 pm

“Even though I won’t support his candidacy, Gingrich, even with all his personal baggage, is preferable to a potential Donald Trump candidacy”

By golly you make a heck of a point there. I’d say he also is preferable to Michael Bloomberg, Alan Grayson, Jesse Jackson, why there are a whole lot of people he’s better than.

On the other hand, of the 310 million or so Americans, I would you could find 250 million any one of which would make a better President than Gingrich.

lance sjogren

January 22nd, 2011
1:30 pm

Hey, go easy on gop is brain dead guy. He probably has rotted his brain spending all day watching shock jocks on MSNBC.

Kenneth Davis

January 22nd, 2011
1:30 pm

Newt is a Globalist that loves supporting the Global Warming Scam! Newt is not a Conservative, Newt is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations that is distroying our Consitution and way of life. You conservatives NEED to WAKE UP. These NEOCONs are a traitors of the Constitution just like George Bush SR. and JR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upphPTRr_PE

American

January 22nd, 2011
1:32 pm

“I helped create the modern Republican Party in Georgia”
The Modern Republican Party is in a mess Newt, you are part of the problem you are a RINO.
http://vimeo.com/6445068

Somnolence

January 22nd, 2011
1:38 pm

I was just thinking, both Newt and Rudy have a roving eye for the ladies, but the only difference in many folks minds, at least the ones I talk politics with, is that Rudy actually wore a dress and lipstick walking down Broadway once. Man, you wouldn’t believe how that picture sticks in some folks’ minds.

Jimbo fm Fayetteville

January 22nd, 2011
1:43 pm

I think Newt is a brillant man, but because of past character issues and permanent personality issues, is unelectable as POTUS. He would be of more value in a Senior Advisor position of any sort.

Kenneth Davis

January 22nd, 2011
1:43 pm

The American and lance sjogren hit the nail right on the head! Newt is part of the NWO just like the last four Presidents including the liar in office today, Obama. America has been de-industrialized through NAFA, GATA, and the WTO and we have lost 42000 manufacturing companies and 8.5 million jobs have left this Country under their leadership. That leadership included Newt. WAKE UP and do the research on the numbers yourselve, PEOPLE! Newt is a Globalist and Globalism has destroyed our manufacting in the USA with the help our these leaders in office.

quick

January 22nd, 2011
1:48 pm

Newt…the new Palin!
At least for the left.

Shane Douglas

January 22nd, 2011
1:57 pm

Remember the last president from Georgia. Wasn’t he a winnah. NOT
Yeah I know I mis
spelled winner on purpose. Get over it.

Son of Liberty

January 22nd, 2011
2:04 pm

Palin not qualified? What are you smoking?

If the current president was qualified to be president – having not accomplished anything in his life, previously, except being “elected” to the Senate – then Palin, who ran two governments (city and state) is surely qualified. That said, I would not support her because she is a quitter.

Newt, while possessing a brilliant mind, has the whole infidelity thing haunting him. Plus, as someone stated here, he is from the establishment.

We need someone who has run a business, someone who has the fiscal responsibility to make the tough decisions to ensure profitability (re: not going further and further into debt with frivolous spending) to run our federal government.

Herman Cain is that guy. I fear, though, that he is not well known enough to get the nomination. But nonetheless, he is still the right man for the job. He would not be all rhetoric like every president since Bush 41 (and several before Reagan) has been. He would roll up his sleeves and get the country back on track, and he wouldn’t bow to every foreigner he came across.

I’d miss his radio show, but it would be worth it to save the country.

P.S. Ron Paul is a nutjob.

Daniel

January 22nd, 2011
2:06 pm

Another me-thinks politcal elitist who’s narcissisitic self illusion leads him to believe conservative voters are going to come out of the woodwork and rally around him….get real Newty…you stodgy old party bosses who think only of yourselves can go take a flying leap before I’ll ever throw a vote your way….save us the trouble and go waste your time on another bloviated book instead….

Looks like no worthwhile choices in the GOP anymore….just Rinos and blow hards…..four more years of Slowbama ahead….oh goodie!!!!!

Duane

January 22nd, 2011
2:06 pm

I don’t know of anyone with the ideas and ability to present them like Newt can. His recollections of history and relative events is great. I discount Palin altogether. I see the past candidates in the news as tried and tired horses. But perhaps we need a dark horse like Jon Huntsman who has the business, governorship and international relations experience to offer.

Phillip Inuhoff

January 22nd, 2011
2:06 pm

@ I am Brain Dead

You are a scumbag hypocrite. You demoncrats have built your entire agenda around hate since the 60’s. You are the first to label people Nazi’s or racist, while defending the SEIU thugs, Beat whitey night, black panther voter intimidation, la raza and mecha vitriol and genocide of the black community in L.A…. You are a sick pig.

The original tea party got angry and threw out a bunch of pompous, self entitled thugs. We sing songs about them. We have multiple National holidays in their honor. Our National pride is derived from their action.. Only a traitor would think that these same principals, set into action today, would be derogatory. Only a traitor would ignore their Constitutionally mandated duty to resist tyranny, both foreign and domestic.. You should leave, coward.

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
2:09 pm

Joe D,
To the contrary you need to read what I posted more carefully and you will not see the claim that a degree from an expensive university equals good leadership and your concluding line about my supposedly being “flustered” (I am not) is quite ad hominem. The comments about lack of education were primarily about Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, and the other circus barkers and screaming heads of conservative media (and their audience.) It is a legitimate criticism to say that people who influence the views of others and who are “commentators” on politics should know something. And none of these three has a degree of any kind, none has any kind of on the job training in journalism, or gives evidence of knowing or having read anything. You are free to disagree with the last comment but it is not ad hominem, but the judgment of someone who is reasonably well read and informed and can distinguish an ignorant blowhard from a serious person. As such pointing out these facts is a critique of their lack of qualifications or credentials for being taken seriously though that hardly stops them from making pronouncements on everything from international banking to evolutionary theory and global warming. No professor in an elite or state university or the regional university where I teach would make claims that extend well outside their area of expertise or knowledge. But the audience of these blowhards is too ignorant and biased to recognize pseudo-journalism from ignorant people and doesn’t care about having accurate views.

As far as good leadership Aristotle gave us the concept you alluded to in your first sentence in marking the distinction between theoretical knowledge, wisdom, and intelligence on the one hand and practical knowledge, wisdom, and intelligence on the other in his ethical works and his work titled Politics. I understand your point better than you do and it is implicit in my remarks. Political leadership requires practical intelligence ability to apply a wide range of knowledge of the economics, politics, and international affairs to policy. I claimed that Palin has no practical intelligence, knows nothing of these things and she has demonstrated that time and again. (If she had finished her stint as governor and read to repair her ignorance as George Will suggested it might, might have been different. But I think that Palin is more suited for housekeeping than anything else.) Another example was the disastrous “W.” Bush didn’t even know the leaders of India, Pakistan, and Canada after he won his party’s nomination. He didn’t know the difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims on the eve of the war in Iraq. Would you have us believe that this means nothing? That one need know little or nothing in order to be president?

And finally, no one on the left thinks Lincoln was “stupid” where do you get that idiotic notion? And Eisenhower is not seen that way either and in fact he was president of Columbia University. However, Reagan was both stupid and senile.

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
2:13 pm

Philip, I pity people who as a bitter and angry as you. But I fear the consequences of those like yourself involving themselves in politics. I hope that you don’t own a gun and that you seek help for whatever psychological disorder causes you to spew such venom.

Captain

January 22nd, 2011
2:15 pm

Enter your comments here

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.

fraizer

January 22nd, 2011
4:35 pm

All his opponents have to do is rerun that global warming commercial with him sitting on the couch with Nancy.

What schmuck. Just another blowhard politician.

The country needs leaders, not schmucks.

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

January 22nd, 2011
4:36 pm

somnolence: “a Palin supporter”

Cute fails you. One must be a moron, a traitor, a fascist to support Palin.

Somnolence

January 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm

Will, you really do need to consult a thesaurus instead of a dictionary occasionally. Life begins at conception no matter what. Donald Trump and Giuliani never stand a chance at being President due to their stances on abortion. Only a monster like yourself could fail to be appalled at what was uncovered in Philadelphia in the past week. Nice try with your pitiful accusation, but I wouldn’t count on your prowess at Scrabble to get you through.

rick

January 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm

He would easily get the nomination and easily beat obama

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

January 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm

Another RC seminary/church/nunnery basement filled with fetuses in Philly? Spill, papist false American.

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

January 22nd, 2011
4:46 pm

somnolence: RC priest or amateur wannabe?

Somnolence

January 22nd, 2011
4:51 pm

No, just on the side of human life. I’m certainly not in a position to judge you. I’ll leave that to a higher power. Call me a papist all you want, because I kind of like it, BTW I’m not Roman Catholic, either. May your conscience rest easy; that is, if you have one.

cmc

January 22nd, 2011
4:56 pm

Glad he’s in, he will become the last republican elite to run. His coming beatdown in the primaries will sound the final bell for the old guard republican elitists. Tea Party is mainstream america and Sarah Palin is the cornerstone of the movement.

San Diego Steve

January 22nd, 2011
4:57 pm

Newt, your time has passed. Forget it and save the money.

howdy doody

January 22nd, 2011
5:08 pm

Newt had 18 years to make America a better place. He failed horribly. He is the past and the future conservatives want a return to constitutional principals and a smaller less intrusive government. Take your grandkids fishing and leave the future to those of us who want to put your kind of politician in the trash heap of history.

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

January 22nd, 2011
5:11 pm

Supporters of Palin’s advocacy of self-justifying abomination have no conscience.

Flubber

January 22nd, 2011
5:11 pm

We don’t need newt of all people with all the good candicates out there

moutainhiker

January 22nd, 2011
5:16 pm

I am a democrat ,but I would vote for NEWT over obama, because I dont think obama has done any thing for our country ,every time there is a ploblem to deal with ,obama takes a vacation to hawaiian island

Lowcountry Jacket

January 22nd, 2011
5:18 pm

Newt a patriot? A great conservative? I don’t know about all that… I do know he’s a globalist and a member of the un-american Council on Foreign Relations. I know he’s just another politician who talks out of both sides of his mouth, saying one thing to the conservative base and another thing to whatever audience is listening. Exhibit A: the commercial Newt did with Nancy Pelosi on the need to fight global warming. Some conservative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154

Dave

January 22nd, 2011
5:25 pm

I think Palin is going to neuter the newt fairly early as she will with all the GOP contenders. Then she will have the Chicago machine socialist stuttering uuuhhhh uuuhhh in the first 5 minutes of a presidential debate. Watching the liberals go crazy will be a lot of fun.

Rick Austin

January 22nd, 2011
5:34 pm

I like Newt’s message, but he has much personal and political baggage. IMO he is a better strategist for a more palatable candidate or the party in general. I’ve also played the drinking game that during his radio and TV interviews, I do a shot each time he pimps his books or website. I’m usually passed out before the interviews are over.

Tony DePalma

January 22nd, 2011
5:41 pm

They can all get ready and have this advantage or that advantage in the end the nominee if she runs hands down will be Palin and she is qualified more then Obama, Biden, or McCain. Palin/Bachmann. newt could not run the house he’s ego gets in the way he is great inopposittion but not a leader.

Ben Dover

January 22nd, 2011
5:42 pm

Newt, you got me “NO” vote buddy!

gili4

January 22nd, 2011
6:02 pm

I’ll not condone voting for any Republican elitist like Romney or Gingrich or Huckaby, etc. These ‘idiots’ are almost as socialist as the Obama socialist are or the Bush’s were! We need a true Conservative to replace the ‘old guard’ in Washington who will be committed to restoring our Constitutional freedoms and bring government back to manageable form. None of these Republican elitists will do that.

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
6:17 pm

Given intelligence, qualifications, experience, and moral integrity are all trumped by ideology in the GOP I have a modest proposal. Why not see if you can get Tom Delay’s prison sentence commuted and overturn the House Ethics Committee’s fine against Newt overturned and allow them both to run?

Joe D

January 22nd, 2011
6:23 pm

GOP is brain dead,
That fine against Newt was precious. 75 charges brought up from shameless David Bonior and one stuck. Something wrong with paying taxes on a college course he taught. You must’ve really been scared of him back then.

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
6:24 pm

I wonder if Palin can find a church in D.C. to have a laying on of hands ceremony to ward off the witches who might seize her in her sleep? I am sure that those witches must be…liberals right?

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
6:25 pm

Joe, yes, they were much more serious than the bogus witch hunt engaged in by Newt while he was banging his mistress.

Want some more or have you had your ignorant butt kicked enough?

d

January 22nd, 2011
6:27 pm

Newt, I would appreciate it if you would just use your vast resources and contacts to help get Herman Cain the nomination. I like you, but it is time for new blood!

Buster

January 22nd, 2011
6:32 pm

Nice to see the libs so vexed and making the usual emotional / immature versus rational remarks. A true sign Newt will do well. The chimp is a one termer.

Fool's Gold

January 22nd, 2011
6:32 pm

Well that makes two Georgians who want to be president, the other being Herman Cain. Both good men, both have about as much chance as the proverbial snowball. Mitt Romney will be the 2012 GOP nominee.

hawkeyez

January 22nd, 2011
6:34 pm

I’m voting to Bobby Jendal. Can’t wait to watch the racist democrats squirm.

Barry Rogers

January 22nd, 2011
6:35 pm

Being a representative of the people was voluntary in original intent. Why don’t these people ever go home, and shut up? We need a “one term” for anyone elected. Period.

The GOP is brain dead

January 22nd, 2011
6:36 pm

I guess being a hypocrite leading the charge against someone for adultery is ok if you are in the GOP. And I guess it is ok to repeatedly violate the 6th commandment while professing to be a Christian as long as you marry the object of your adultery. Well, you have to do that and kiss the ring of Jerry Falwell and ask forgiveness which he then grants in a press conference afterward! (Yes, Mr. Family values still lags behind his media ally in Rush Limbaugh who is on wife number four.)

But the homophobic, rapture believing, evolution denying wacko Falwell is dead now and not sophisticated enough for the pseudo-intellectual Newt anymore so he is converting to Catholicism the religion of his last wife and former staff member. (He managed to hide that 6 year affair almost as well as he hid the evidence which eventually yielded up the $300,000 fine.)

But the semi-literate conservative with religious leanings you always have Palin and her witch warding African ministers to vote for. What a circus! Do you guys do bring forth these vapid and grotesque creatures as a freak show to entertain liberals?

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Quilter 77

January 22nd, 2011
6:38 pm

Gingrich is a very smart, intelligent man. I think he would have made a good President. However, he has way too much baggage. Asking your wife for divorce as she is battling cancer is not the best character trait in a President. Sure, we had Slick Willie in office for 8 years, and everyone knew he was a man-ho and couldn’t keep his pants up. But he is a liberal Democrat. Unfortunately, most liberals I know don’t think that fidelity in marriage is a must-have trait in a President. Conservative Republicans, on the other hand, expect higher moral standards of their candidates. I have seen Gingrich speak, and he is dynamic. But you have to suffer the consequences of your actions and choices in life. His time has passed. There is no way I would vote for this man in the primaries. I will read his books and continue to see him lecture. But he is no longer presidential material, and that is a rotten shame. Republicans need to stand up and take notice of what your choices in life will do to your future ambitions.

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Mark

January 22nd, 2011
6:40 pm

While I agree with most of his politics I couldn’t vote for the fat POS in the GOP primaries under any circumstances. As a human being he repulses me.

Somnolence

January 22nd, 2011
6:43 pm

Sarah Palin won 81% of the vote in the Free Republic Poll just recently held.

SLCajc

January 22nd, 2011
6:48 pm

Not a chance. His career in elected office ended the day he did that disgraceful “Climate Change” ad with Pelosi demonstrating UNBELIEVABLY bad judgement.

Joe D

January 22nd, 2011
6:51 pm

GOP is brain dead,
I’ve submitted 5 or 6 comments to you but they aren’t showing up for some reason. Your comments about Republicans being hypocrites is true in many cases. Nobody is perfect, or is there someone perfect on the liberal side? Obama isn’t perfect, but is actually relatively clean. Sarah Palin is about the same. The difference between the two is that Obama is a social engineer and Sarah wants individual freedom.

RepBast1984

January 22nd, 2011
6:52 pm

UGH another liberal Republican who supports RomneyCare. He better not win.

Daniels/Jindal 2012

RepBast1984

January 22nd, 2011
6:52 pm

Oh yeah and I’m not voting for an adulterer. That Republicans would support him is tragic.

Jerry Irwin

January 22nd, 2011
6:55 pm

Enter your comments here

Uncle C

January 22nd, 2011
6:59 pm

If Gingrich became president we would all need guns. He recently advocated states to declare bankrupsy so they could take people’s pensions. I also suspect He would want to eliminate social security and medicare so he could continue tax cuts for the wealthy. . In other words, take everything from the middle class and give it to the wealthy. Then there will be riots in the streets and a need to protect yourself. . I

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Poncho

January 22nd, 2011
7:14 pm

Not surprising. Newt needs to keep is hypocritical ass away from D.C.
I am an American that served his country as a soldier and cop. He is just another carpetbagger . Newt hasn’t a clewt !

cmc

January 22nd, 2011
7:26 pm

Agree 100% with Tony DiPalma. PALIN/BACHMANN. case closed. These two are tougher then nails. Romney, Neat and Rudy G. will make the primarys an easy ride for those two ladys of steel.

georgechapogas

January 22nd, 2011
7:30 pm

newt is smart, right on most issues. but he is yesterday. the republican candidate that can beat obama will be one of our newly elected governors. that leaves out newt, huck, romney and sarah who would all lose. be smart, pick as a winner. get a christi type in there and in 8 years we can win again with mario.

J

January 22nd, 2011
7:34 pm

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is insanity…….politicians cannot fix anything same goes for economist aka propagandist of money value. Wake up people and learn something truly relevant zeitgeist moving forward.

J

January 22nd, 2011
7:37 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxpvyMsRvkw

cmc

January 22nd, 2011
7:48 pm

J agree with your premise. But Palin unlike those others didn’t run on her agenda. She nearly bailed out an overmatched McCain in 08′. But remember that was a watered down version. She had to get her marching orders from the maverick (liberal). This time it will her laybook and beieve she will take no prisoners.

cmc

January 22nd, 2011
7:50 pm

That is playbook.

wolf

January 22nd, 2011
7:53 pm

Newt should get over himself! He is history, and nobody (maybe one on the radio) wants him to run for President.

Tkay

January 22nd, 2011
7:56 pm

I don’t agree with everything Gingrich does but he would make a good president. There are few men more knowledgable of the constitution.

glimmer

January 22nd, 2011
8:02 pm

Oh for crying out loud! Who the hell wants this washup?

Joseph Williams

January 22nd, 2011
8:10 pm

I really like you Newt! Don’t run for President. I have no party affiliation. We need new blood, not a bunch of old folk faces. I will not vote for all the well knowns, old faces, regardless of party.Give of someone with a real will to govern.

Richard Carpenter

January 22nd, 2011
8:19 pm

I want to hear Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul debate. The Republicans will have to confront Ron Paul’s issues if they expect to beat Obama. We are spending ourselves into poverty trying to police the world. THAT is how Obama can win unless we come up with an answer. We can’t ask poor people to sacrifice so Iraq and Afghanistan can have democracy.

Golden Eagle

January 22nd, 2011
8:25 pm

He still thinks the mid 90’s GOP victory was all about the Contract with America? Really! This guy did more to damage the GOP than anyone in the last 20 years. His arrogance measures right up there with the Reed and Pelosi! Go sit with Nancy there Mr Newt and you can both cuddle up to Cap and Trade! Write a few more books and stay out of the primary! Let Kasich, Christie, Romney, and Rubio run the show.

Norb Leahy

January 22nd, 2011
8:25 pm

Newt Gingrich is the best candidate. Read his Position on Issues on his website. His comments are brief, clear and more conservative than any other candidate. He is the only candidate with the judgement, wisdom, knowledge and experience to lead us out of bankruptcy Newt spent the last 15 years developing solutions we now need to implement. Next read Senator John Thune’s Position on Issues. He would be a worthy VP.

Al

January 22nd, 2011
8:27 pm

The 2012 election is looking scary. I’m a conservative, and I wish Gingrich didn’t have all the baggage, because is more than qualified. He’s just unelectable, though.

And, I have to say, it’s extra hard to find a Republican candidate, because the biased mainstream media will tear apart any GOP candidate as much as it can, so any contender needs to be triple-vetted.

And yes, there is a left-wing bias in the mainstream media, I work in the industry and see it too often to deny.

Ken Stepp

January 22nd, 2011
8:39 pm

Is this a joke or some trick? He’s not a viable candidate. He has past his time. I’m a conservative but not a Newt fan. Lets run someone that loves America more than power.

PhatMat

January 22nd, 2011
8:39 pm

Here come the RINOs – Gingrich, Romney…who’s next? Remember – Gingrich believes in global warming and was an original supporter of a carbon tax scheme. So called “conservatives” virtually non-distinguishable from Democrats. Hasn’t the Republican leadership learned from Nov 2010 yet? I guess we’ll have to teach them again.

Nunforme THANKS

January 22nd, 2011
8:44 pm

He needs to go back to the old days when he was handing out NWO books on the steps to the Captitol Bldg. A Baptist turned Catholic…That’s only part of the story that should create some concern.

Mike

January 22nd, 2011
8:46 pm

Newt is a well respected republican I think he has some RINO in him like Mc Cain his time has passed . Newt can do more for the Party by not running.

Rayman

January 22nd, 2011
8:54 pm

Plain and simple-HERMAN CAIN!!!!!!!!!!

Matt Cvetic

January 22nd, 2011
9:05 pm

Dear Newt, There are better Republicans than you. There are better Conservatives than you. There are better men than you. Please do us all a favor — take your global warming BS and your moderate Republican endorsements and go hide until after the elections. People like you working for us makes our opponents’ jobs a lot easier.

forty8

January 22nd, 2011
9:25 pm

so if im gettin the jist of most of the comments on here , IE; serial adulterer etc etc he should win by a landslide as all the democrat libs would vote for him in droves , it would be like Billy Clinton running for a 3rd term only better because Newt actually has workable ideas to move the country back to work again , unlike the current liberal experiment we have in the oval orifice now , but i digress

gussier

January 22nd, 2011
9:31 pm

mute AND moot. newt needs to retire. no way no how should he run for this office. doomsday complete for gop and a guarantee win for O-2 if he does.

Donna

January 22nd, 2011
9:32 pm

I like Mike … Mike Huckabee 2012.

Venjeana

January 22nd, 2011
9:43 pm

He should not run. I will not forget that he cheated on his wife. We need people with integrity.

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

January 22nd, 2011
10:02 pm

Gingrich isn’t even a man, nor is any who think he is.

Tom Byrne

January 22nd, 2011
10:12 pm

A Romney/Gingrich ticket would be a winner. Romney has the executive experience and Gingrich the legislative experience; a great combination. By the way, if more of our leaders understood what the Tofflers were writing about from the beginning we wouldn’t be in such a mess.

A full-employment economy (realistically 6%) is required to maintain our American way of life, and these two have the best chance of making that happen.

Mac

January 22nd, 2011
10:16 pm

Would love to see Newt debate Obama. It would be like a teacher instructing a naive young child.

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

January 22nd, 2011
10:43 pm

A pair of draft-dodgers: Romney/Gingrich

George

January 22nd, 2011
10:56 pm

Jindhal / Palin, a winning combination. Brains and looks.

Ron

January 22nd, 2011
10:57 pm

The republican party is fractured. There is no unity among republicans. We cannot win in 2012 if we run Newt, Mitt, Sarah, Guilani, Huckabee or any of the other names I have heard mentioned, The Democrats are unified behind their agenda and Obama is their flag bearer. We need a winning agenda and a flag bearer with good credentials and no skeletons in the closet. We have until the convention in Tampa to get an agenda and a short list of good flag bearers. If we don’t get on the ball we will have to put up with Obama and his crowd until Jan, 2017.

Fidlin1

January 22nd, 2011
11:06 pm

Newt Gingrich was the best choice in 2008 but it just didn’t happen. Hopefully he gets the chance next time.
Nobody has more experience and knowledge with domestic and foreign issues than Newt. Constitutionally he will represent the American people as they should and deserve to be if we’re ever going to get our economy moving again.

AllenMontana

January 22nd, 2011
11:20 pm

About time we someone qualified for the job. Get fired up Republicans. Your welcome America!!!

FREE tea

January 22nd, 2011
11:42 pm

WHILE an effective lobbyist for biz-nihilist and globalism with its
genocidal long term aims —BUT, Gingrich has ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE representing ‘conservative values’ for America.

He’s NOT ONLY a open, mercenary, serial adulterer, but a prime mover
of the NAU and NAFTA franchise slum meltdown, rabid RED China enabling, and,
perhaps most piercingly creepy, a fierce advocate for mass micro-chipping and other flagrantly eugenist projects.

——————STEER CLEAR!!!!

Edward

January 22nd, 2011
11:48 pm

Which Newt are we getting, the uber conservitive that ran the House or, the new global warming i’ll do a comercial for Al the sky is falling gore? Newt if your going to run as a centrist republican you will never be as well liked as President Bush, I do not think the nation is in the mood to guess every day which it will be, we are sick of back stabing politicians that lie to us. I think people on both sides could agree to that.

Alexis

January 23rd, 2011
12:05 am

As a conservative, I will never vote for this man, not even for dog-catcher. When I learned of how he treated his wife who was very ill, the mere sight of him disgusts me! I don’t want a person like this representing me or my country! Newt, your actions speak louder than words. Get lost!

Sharp1958

January 23rd, 2011
12:12 am

Old re-treads are not going to work. As a former supporter of his, the more I learn about hime the less I like. How about a Ron Paul/Rand Paul ticket?

Thank God not from georgia

January 23rd, 2011
12:25 am

Thank God the true sentiment of Republican idealism is not from Georgia. Had you dolts, during any part of your lives, been farther than the nearest county lines you would see that Newt is a visionary with a brilliant political mind no matched by many from any side of the arena. You can sit here and complain because you don’t know any better (as blatantly apodictic from your poor grammar) or you can throw your support to a candidate far superior to any other one that has come along to express presidential ambitions. While you’re at your local bar bumming drinks from the working folk you should actually pay attention to the TV when he makes appearances and gives lectures/speeches. Perhaps realize his politics and learn how they will be implemented for the betterment of our future and those of our children, and so-on.

He was politically neutralized after he paid his ex-wife their settlement AND left office, because of what he did…did your boy Clinton do as much?…I thought not. The fact is the general public are now willing to dismiss such petty and jejune ordeals in order to save our nation, and furthermore the world from economic collapse…and the reclamation of our freedoms that have been abrogated by the ruling class progressives.

Read his material, read ALL the candidates’ material…get your mind straight, and make a well-founded decision based on reality and NOT just your unfounded views that your heard from your friends at the beauty shop as y’all watched the view…seriously!

Gary Van Ryswyk

January 23rd, 2011
12:27 am

I would vote for Newt Gingrich with all of his flaws over bama any day.

He knows the history of the US and even knows that there are not 57 states like “the one” thinks.

I believe he could provide a genuine birth certificate before he applied for the job.

He has worked on establishing viable solutions to many of America’s problems.

He would drill here and drill now for oil instead of shutting down all off shore drilling

He would also pursue nuclear ,solar,wind and other energy sources in the US to make us more energy selff sufficient.

He would provide a viable alternative to the unconstitutional obamacare.

He would be a strong president when it comes to international affairs.

He can think on his feet and deliver a speech without relying on a teleprompter and would not be afraid to stand up for his positions with no hesitation.

He could make “the one” look like a child in a debate and would not be able to be pushed around.

He knows the constituion and what the founders of our country meant when they wrote it.

He would defend the rights of the people of the Us.

He would be pummeled by the left leaning main street media but would respond with superior intellect in a calm, knowledgeable and timely manner.

He would be able to explain in common priciples what he was doing and why he was doing it.

He would be an open minded president and truly transparent.

I believe he would listen to “we the People”

jacob miller

January 23rd, 2011
12:28 am

He is the most intelligent and WISE politician presently LIVING – GO NEWT 2010..!!!

Bill

January 23rd, 2011
12:34 am

Isn’t it sad that the same old well-entrenched, bought and paid for losers don’t know when to go away? It’s not worth voting for President anymore. If they’re a final candidate, they’ve been vetted to do the bidding of the elites. We’ve seen this game played out since Reagan.

FREE tea

January 23rd, 2011
12:37 am

—A new HUAC/Nuremberg Tribunal to look into crimes against
this republic and humanity at large committed by the capstone
‘charitable’ foundations, NGO’s et al —NOW!

GINGRICH is one of them.

BEWARE

Jack McCumber

January 23rd, 2011
1:17 am

Great. If you put Sarah on the ticket as VP you will win in a landslide. You can kill O on the issues, and Sarah will call a spade.

derdagian1

January 23rd, 2011
1:19 am

Mitt can cut some dead weight from the government, but Newt can cut it better. I’ll be voting for Newt.

GrandInquisitors

January 23rd, 2011
1:43 am

Ah yes – The father of the kiddie credit. We sure do need more of that.

rbblum

January 23rd, 2011
2:04 am

Newt should be astronomically rock solid on the campaign trail . . . elevating the 2012 presidential race to an honorable, cogent, and coherent level of debate.

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Jay

January 23rd, 2011
3:01 am

Never forget when he sat on that couch with Pelosi and spewed out that global warming climate change BS for an advertisement. This guy is a fair weather opportunist. I don’t trust him anymore after that.

Jeremy

January 23rd, 2011
3:25 am

A message from the center- there are two Republicans in the field who will probably be president someday, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio. And as we all know, they’re steering way clear of a 2012 run. It’s not because they “still have work to do in their current posts”, it’s because they know that Barack Obama is absolutely, positively undefeatable for reelection. For God’s sake he’s at 50% approval with 10% unemployment, and between the $1 billion he’s about to spend, the ever increasing Latino electorate, and the fact that conservatives will never get behind anyone moderate enough to pull the independents, i’ts a no brainer. So run, Newt. Run Palin and Romney. Run Pence, Santorum and Pawlenty. It doesn’t really matter. The current president will be a two-term president. Sorry Repubs, but you can write it down.

Carl_irving

January 23rd, 2011
4:19 am

I like newt he has a handle on all of the fiscal issues and most all of the other issues….I don”t want four more years of nobama & blackie O do you?

myrtle

January 23rd, 2011
6:43 am

what on earth for would he even be considering entering the race? he has nothing to contribute but spin and half truths. talks out of both sides of his mouth.

Aaron

January 23rd, 2011
7:06 am

Lifelong Republican here. Although Newt got smeared pretty badly from ‘94-99 by the left wing media times are different now.

I prefer Newt to anybody else who i’ve heard might run with the possible exception of Chris Christie or Mitch Daniels.

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Last Man Standing

January 23rd, 2011
8:04 am

When pondering the possible candidacy of Gingrich, one factor must be weighed. In all probability, Peanut Carter has made it highly unlikely that any Georgian will EVER be elected to the Presidency again. Just another thing for which to thank that pompous, egotistic, dictator-loving idiot from Plains.

jennifer

January 23rd, 2011
9:01 am

NO NEWT. WE need young and viable candidates. We have seen the NEWT show.

Sac

January 23rd, 2011
9:50 am

This qualifies as ‘news’?!?!?!

Somnolence

January 23rd, 2011
10:13 am

The only no-brainer is the one conservative candidate who will say “On day one of my presidency I will abolish the abomination known as Obamacare. Count on it!” Is Gingrich really that person, with all his compromises of the past, or do we need a teeth-gritting, no holds barred conservative Truman type with the salt to compliment the action. When I say Truman I’m talking about gruff, blunt disposition, not advocacy of liberal policies. I truly believe Palin, Jim Demint, Herman Cain, and perhaps (?) only a few others fit that bill.

James C

January 23rd, 2011
10:17 am

Newt is the most knowledgeable and experienced candidate running and that includes Barack Obama. I think people need to listen to what the man has to say and what his vision is for our country. Because when I listen to him speak he is very impressive. Don’t dismiss somebody simply because he is older. He would make a great president.

LongDong Duong

January 23rd, 2011
10:21 am

Newt is a RINO and the American people have said they don’t want liberals or RINOs. Newt is a traitor to the American worker. It was on his watch that Republicans began to spend like Democrats and push us to our current state of affairs. Newt is all for outsourcing of American jobs to low skilled foreign nationals. Newt called for raising the cap on H-1B foreign workers eve though Americans were being replaced by foreign nationals. Newt is Obama light…

chuck a spear

January 23rd, 2011
10:26 am

Good for the draftdodging old womanizer,,

Anne

January 23rd, 2011
10:26 am

Please do not run…time for new blood and there are many more talented people out there. Newt, running will only help the liberal media. Please, Please don’t run.

Cutty

January 23rd, 2011
10:28 am

You guys really think that The southern states (the base of the GOP) will vote for a black man for president? Even if he is best candidate. Somebody needs to remind Herman Cain that he is black.

TW Harris, Texaxs

January 23rd, 2011
10:28 am

Newt – Stay Home. We don’t need you. Don’t you remember what you did to the Republican Party when you were Speaker of the House!! I have not met a person yet in Texas that likes you.

Last Man Standing

January 23rd, 2011
10:42 am

When Herman Cain ran for the U.S. Senate, I knew barely anything about him. Had I been as well-informed as I should have been, he would have gotten my vote. I think he will face a daunting task in securing the nomination, but I will gladly vote for him should he be the Republican nominee. I think, however, that Gingrich is more qualified. In fact, Gingrich is far and away the most qualified candidate of any party and would be a great President.

Dan

January 23rd, 2011
10:46 am

Save your money, Newt. You have as much chance as a snowball on an Atlanta sidewalk on the 4th of July.

Last Man Standing

January 23rd, 2011
10:46 am

TW Harris, Texaxs:

“I have not met a person yet in Texas that likes you.”

Texas is an awfully big state. It would not be wise to judge the voters of Texas by the relatively few voters you know.

paul

January 23rd, 2011
10:53 am

NEWT,
You’re as charasmatic as a box of rocks. We need someone who has experience running an actual business such as Trump or Romney. A vote for newt is a vote that will guarantee a loss.

Dan

January 23rd, 2011
10:56 am

Cutty, I’m just a dumb Yankee so I don’t know. But I’d be sorely disappointed if the South would not elect a man just for being black. Kind of on the same level of my disappointment that the first “Black” president is such a mess. I was kind of hoping that man would be more of a “David Palmer”* than a Jimmy Carter.

*(The Dennis Haysbert character on the first couple of seasons of “24″.)

Bruno Padovani

January 23rd, 2011
11:16 am

Too much of an establishment guy, plus he allowed Clinton to stare him down during the government shutdown in 1995/1996. That was the last best chance we had to put federal spending on a sustainable path and he blew it. Also, Newt is hard line in his embrace of free trade, a discredited economic philiosophy that has resulted in the deindustrialization of America, the loss of millions of jobs plus bankrupting trade deficits. I was never a big fan of Donald Trump (too much of a braggart), but I saw him on national TV a few weeks ago saying that we are giving away the store to China and that we need to put tariffs on Chinese products. When I hear a candidate say those sorts of things, then I’ll have found the person I want to vote for.

Somnolence

January 23rd, 2011
11:34 am

Donald Trump threw away any consideration I might have given him with his contribution to Rahm Emanuel’s campaign in Chicago. Trump is also “pro-choice”, so at least in my world, that disqualifies him right off the bat. However, Newt is “pro-life” and is disqualified in my corner because there are too many times he needlessly compromised. He also didn’t fight tough enough to retain his Speakership; he quite literally abandoned it. No dice.

jimofguilfordct

January 23rd, 2011
11:43 am

Clearly evident in the comments already posted Newt has baggage that is a severe negative. Questions as to whether he is electible are a major hurdle to be dealt with by the process of seeking the nom ination. It will be a big mistake for the Republican Party to ignore the fact that Newt has more experience and achievements in Washington”s mysterious approach to governance than any to date possible candidate discussed in a serious way.
Sice leaving office Newt has continued to be active in seeking and defining altertnatives to the “Progrtessive Liberal ” march to “Transform America”. In my opinion there is noone else on the scene today that has a public record of positions more fdully developed and broadly distributed. Even if not ultimately nominated it is NO WASTE OF MONEY TO HAVE NEWT FULLY ENGAGED AND COMMITTED TO SEEKING NOMINATION. PERHAPS THE NEW ACTIVE MEMBERS I.E.TEA PARTY VOTERS WILL NOT BE SO CONCERNED ABOUT HIS PERSONAL MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE HISTORY.

Doug

January 23rd, 2011
1:31 pm

When will the gas bag gingrich leave? He and huckster are the worst things that could happen to the republican party. They are both hopelessly liberal.

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conrad smith

January 23rd, 2011
4:57 pm

As one time speaker, Mr. Gingrich should have the eyes and ears of Congress. I think,(and hope) that He will make a fine President for these United States.

plutt

January 23rd, 2011
6:12 pm

It seems to me that we have had about all the fresh, new, change that this country can take. I would opt for a candlidate with a tried and proven track record. One that I could trust.

Prosay

January 23rd, 2011
6:20 pm

Please run Newt, we Democrats need the entertainment! Take Palin as your running mate.

R. Hurt

January 23rd, 2011
9:14 pm

Now have all of the Moderates and the Liberal Facists gotten their opinions listed-good; now go away. Newt is a real Conservative, and one that has the most knowledge of how government, business, and the military operate. He has had a Teaching job-for some this may not qualify to be a real job, but it’s good enough to lead our thinkers, doers, and leaders. Newt has gone out on the Conservative limb several times this past year when few-if any-had the ability or desire to call out our real enemies-the Muslims, the Liberal-Socialist-Communist-Progressives; all of these being Obama’s accomplices in attempting to destroy this country. Only the Libs and their anti-American friends are objecting to Mr. Gingrich’s creditials. For those Christians that would lend an ear-whatever happened to forgive and forget-it’s what the man is doing now to show his repentance and turning to Christ. If any of you have read about Mr. Gingrich’s shinning the light on Christianity, while practically everyone else is turning their back on Christ. Again, for those that have done their research and watched many of the Conservative Conferences these past couple of years, we find Mr.Gingrich at everyone of them providing solutions-not hate speech. Also, Mr. Gingrich has been involved with supporting and participating in several Think-Tanks, and for all of you non-thinking people out there-you’re better off going to the other candidates-even though Mr. Gingrich would disagree with me because he can forgive and wants everyone to come to the Republican Party and help make this country a more productive-job producing society-and a more secure place to live with less government, less taxes, and more of State’s rights again.

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Joe

January 24th, 2011
2:49 pm

I can’t think of anyone more divisive than Newt.We need leaders that can find solutions to problems not vomit party lines;no matter what party.If we could buy him for what hes worth..sell him for what he thinks hes worth… no more national debt. Forget the Newt.

james trandel

January 24th, 2011
4:54 pm

Newt,

You don’t look so good with a family values button on. It’s the same old schtick with you.

Bulldog70

January 25th, 2011
8:05 am

Why?

Charles Imwold

January 25th, 2011
9:43 am

Newt is the man that can turn this country around and put it on the tract our constitution and founders meant it to be on . Life , Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness . He will stand up for the constitution and demand that the constitutional laws be fallowed . Our judicial system and the US Congress has turned there back on the US Constitution . We have an Illegal alien setting in the White House and the Supreme Court and the US Congress refuses to do anything about it.

Mike

January 26th, 2011
2:42 am

Newt is by far the most promising candidate for 2012. Yes, his downside is his past infidelity, but look at Clinton’s drug use and infidelity, Obama’s drug use and ties with left wing extremists, Huckabee who has four police officer’s blood on his hand, and Romney’s Mass. Big Govt Health Bill. Palin is awsome, but too polarizing, Paul Ryan maybe, and John Thune maybe. Newt’s upside: No one can defeat him in a debate, he’s a Regan conservative, and his speeches are incredible. Everyone I know who are Republicans have Newt as either 1 or 2 on their list, and no, I am not 40, 50 or 60 years old.

Jay Anthony

January 27th, 2011
1:11 pm

I think that he is extremely well qualified to become President. He is intelligent and well educated in domesticated and foreign affaIrs …..and he is an American Patriot – not affraid to tell it like it is. He may ruffle some feathers, but that will be well worth it, in my opinion. We have enough jackasses in Washington as it is, about time for someone with commo9n sense.

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