Gingrich PAC: ‘Don’t let liberal Republican establishment pick candidate’
Winning Our Future, the Super PAC acting on behalf of Newt Gingrich, has launched this ad in Iowa – an appeal for the most conservative heart of that state’s GOP:
The eye-popping message:
”Don’t let the liberal Republican establishment pick our candidate.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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td
December 27th, 2011
8:58 pm
JIm,
You went away and the Obama justice department said Georgia redistricting meet the voting rights act. Now you come back and your first blog is about a campaign ad. You mentioned earlier that you did important Georgia news first and then were covering Republican primary news due to the Georgia connection. What is you reasoning behind not doing a blog on the new maps?
Obama Shateth a Bricketh
December 27th, 2011
9:09 pm
Important Georgia news makes me snooze. Newt stories make me laugh out loud.
Thanks, Jim. You’re informative…AND entertaining.
Martin Williams
December 27th, 2011
9:10 pm
Newt balance the budget, created eleven million jobs, and reformed social security. I guess the people of Iowa are stupid to believe that. I hope the GOP makes Newt the flag bearer because Romney is a Morman. The GOP is still the most undiverse party in the world. They took the nomination from Romney the last time and gave it to a 73 year old war lover and look what happened to him. For now the GOP need to start looking for the 2016 candidate because, 2012 is over. Obama back in and those idiots thinking about one term guy better get used to it……….Amen.
td
December 27th, 2011
9:25 pm
Martin Williams
December 27th, 2011
9:10 pm
I keep seeing you libs post that the election is over and Obama will win. I am not sure if he will be re elected or not because it is way to early to tell. I keep asking and will ask you how is he going to win? He will not win any of the southern states and he is behind in Ohio, Penn, Indiana, Iowa, NC, VA and even Mich. What voting block is going to turn no and give him the victory? If he loses all of these states he can not win.
JustMe
December 27th, 2011
9:38 pm
Gingrich PAC: ‘Don’t let liberal Republican establishment pick candidate’
He does realize that he is a part of that too, doesn’t he? I mean come on! The guy has been for the individual mandate (an idea which HE HIMSELF actually is the one person who came up with it), he sided with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming, for amnesty. Shall I go on?
Double
December 27th, 2011
10:15 pm
Jay happy you are back.Missed your impartial,non biased,fair reporting,and opinions.You keep us informed to facts.Keep up the good work.
Darvoset spending
December 27th, 2011
11:18 pm
Why is “liberal Republican” so hard to understand–I learned what it meant in high school civics class (along with conservative Democrat).
Double
December 28th, 2011
1:42 am
at times I get demo/repu mixed up.Usually when I’m taking percoset.Then again I think they are one and same.
Georgia graduate & native
December 28th, 2011
4:09 am
What goes around, comes around, Newt! What a crybaby! Newt was the original meanest, nastiest politician that threw around wild charges and the most partisan person. He always put himself before the country. It is fun to see him get a taste of his own medicine.
I wasn’t sure I was going to vote for Obama in 2012, but looking at these bunch of crazy Republicans I will vote for him again. Mitt Romney is a rich guy, who grew up among the millionaires in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He thinks being middle class is having only one household servant and driving your own car.
Lib in Cobb
December 28th, 2011
4:59 am
The supporters of Newt are very soon to forget his hypocrisy and dishonesty in his political and personnal life. What amazes me about some politicians or candidates is that they are aware of their ugly histories, Newt and Herman for example and they know that nothing is a secret and these two dopes decided to run for the highest office in the land. Do they really believe that it won’t hurt them?
The once proud GOP has turned into a “clown car” in a bad circus. I am embarrassed that this is the best the GOP can do. I am embarrassed that the world is watching this nonsense and scratching their collective heads. The best the GOP can do is to have people like Newt, Cain, Bachmann and Perry occupy the favorite candidate position during the “clown car” trip across the US. It is an embarrassment to watch this.
Buckhead Boy
December 28th, 2011
5:17 am
“liberal Republican”? Isn’t that an oxymoron? Newt is truly what an ignorant person thinks an intelligent one sounds like.
Edward Ruffin
December 28th, 2011
7:08 am
Old Hippie, where have you been? Both Bushes were liberal, Romney is a liberal, Huntsman is a liberal, and the Republican establishment is liberal. As George Wallace said in 1970, in reference to both major parties, Socialist Party A and Socialist Party B. Nothing has changed since the days of George Wallace. The only difference is there is an occasional Conservative Republican, but I can find no Conservative demorat.
zeke
December 28th, 2011
7:33 am
not liberal, progressive would be more accurate
Bill Orvis White
December 28th, 2011
7:36 am
I agree with this ad. While I love Gov. Romney and would still support him over that disaster in the Oval Office, Mr. Romney breaks Mr. Reagan’s 11th Commandment-”Thou Shalt Not Speak Evil of Thy Fellow Republicans.” In addition to that, I will NEVER forget RomneyCare. With those facts laid out here on this lefty blog, there are RINOS who have infiltrated the party to damage Speaker Gingrich. WE need to root those RINOs out and make sure that everyone is on the same page and that page should be one that supports Speaker Gingrich in his quest for the White House.
Amen,
Bill
mehlman rings twice
December 28th, 2011
7:42 am
td,
If Obama loses it will tell us that the US electorate does not like competent who do their homework and disciplined polititians who don’t cheat on their wife.
mehlman rings twice
December 28th, 2011
7:53 am
Bill Orvis White,
I know your own personal Kim Jung Il has got you all excited, but how did this country last so long without the benefit of Speaker Gingrich being POTUS? This Great Leader with his brilliance and his ability to see and understand things that none of us are smart enough to understand is just amazing. Just think, he like Ronald Reagan are so convinced of the correctness of the Republican Party that they pledged a loyalty oath not to criticize fellow Republicans. I can’t wait to see what oaths he has in store for the rest of us.
zeke
December 28th, 2011
8:01 am
one draft dodger challenging another….how about a bake off?
honested
December 28th, 2011
8:19 am
‘Liberal Republican Establishment’?
I thought Lowell Weicker was dead.
Please, put a warning to put the coffee cup down when such hilarity is presented. It is hard to get coffee out of the bezel on a flat screen monitor!!
Road Scholar
December 28th, 2011
8:24 am
Jim, welcome back! Hope your vacation cleared the cobwebs and gave you the rest you’ll need to cover the circus at the capitol. Happy New Year!
Mark
December 28th, 2011
8:25 am
mehlman rings twice
December 28th, 2011
7:42 am
td,
If Obama loses it will tell us that the US electorate does not like competent who do their homework and disciplined polititians who don’t cheat on their wife.
Please don’t take what this idiot says seriously. He’s been on the bandwagon of every “flavor of the week”, so now’s he’s backing down by saying crap like
“He will not win any of the southern states and he is behind in Ohio, Penn, Indiana, Iowa, NC, VA and even Mich. What voting block is going to turn no and give him the victory? If he loses all of these states he can not win.”
This is typical Republican scare tactics. This idiot knows himself that neither Newt nor Romney stand a snowballs chance in hell of defeating the President and it’s killing him! LOL
Independent voter
December 28th, 2011
8:31 am
Please 2012 election come so president Obama win 4 more years. These republicans are like kindergarden running for class clown.
Don Abernethy
December 28th, 2011
9:34 am
Is there another Plymouth Rock somewhere in this world? I am sick of what has happened to this country since Obama took office and sadly it looks like he will win again because the Republicans can not get their act together and produce a strong candidate.
David
December 28th, 2011
9:52 am
Republicans do not need negative ads. Each candidate is so fatally flawed, one can’t imagine them in office (well if you can, it is a frightening imagine).
td
December 28th, 2011
10:01 am
mehlman rings twice
December 28th, 2011
7:42 am
td,
If Obama loses it will tell us that the US electorate does not like competent who do their homework and disciplined polititians who don’t cheat on their wife
You have to be kidding to place the words Obama and competent in the same sentence. Obama is the most incompetent President this country has ever had (Including Carter). He understands nothing about economics and nothing about foreign policy. All he understands is how to travel, make speeches and community organize.
Double
December 28th, 2011
10:03 am
Mark you are calling “The student of Newt ” an idiot.How could this be?According to him/her, it made the top grades in Newts class at ksu.He makes these statements hoping to discourage others from voting for President Obama.
td
December 28th, 2011
10:05 am
Mark
December 28th, 2011
8:25 am
Poor Mark would rather call names then to defend ones position or ideology. You my friend just do not want to open your eyes and take a real look at the political maps.
Bill Orvis White
December 28th, 2011
10:08 am
@zeke
Speaker Gingrich was not a draft dodger. He was flat-footed,near-sighted and uncoordinated There was no way that this highly gifted man could serve in any Army. Now, with those facts laid out clearly on this lefty blog, Speaker Gingrich was not a draft dodger. However, your fellow Socialist-Democrat friend Bubba Clinton IS a massive draft dodger. Aside from being one of the most terrible presidents in this once-free nation’s history, Bubba Clinton along with the Socialist-Democrat party are against this once-free nation’s military, pure and simple.
@mehlman rings twice
Speaker Gingrich would decimate Hussein Obama in all debates and on 2012 Election Day. I pray that the rightful Republican Party nominates Speaker Gingrich. With that written down, me and millions would rather vote for Governor Romney over that disaster in the Oval Office.
Amen,
Bill
Double
December 28th, 2011
10:21 am
apparently neither Clinton or Newt suffered from ED.Clinton great president.Debates are not the only quality to determine who to vote.
td
December 28th, 2011
10:28 am
Double
December 28th, 2011
10:03 am
Most of the people on this blog lives in Georgia and there is no way Obama is going to receive a majority of the vote in this state. Even the Obama campaign understands this FACT and is not really going to even campaign in the state. Why should I try to discourage any Obama voters in Georgia? It would be a waste of time.
GaBlue
December 28th, 2011
10:32 am
Newt….still a hoot!
td
December 28th, 2011
10:35 am
Double
December 28th, 2011
10:21 am
apparently neither Clinton or Newt suffered from ED.Clinton great president.Debates are not the only quality to determine who to vote.
You are correct. Let us compare and contrast for a moment:
Newt: Balanced the Federal budget for 4 years, Ended welfare as an entitlement.
Romney: Balanced budgets in Mass, cut taxes in Mass.
Obama: Obamacare (that will be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme court). Gas prices $1:81 per gallon when he took office and after 3 years is over $3 per gallon.
No comparison on which candidates have done a better job.
Darvoset Spending
December 28th, 2011
10:35 am
td
December 28th, 2011
10:28 am
Why should I try to discourage any Obama voters in Georgia? It would be a waste of time.
Because that’s 50% of your posts
yellowdog
December 28th, 2011
10:35 am
are you serious, liberal republicans? it must be a fossilized tyrannasaurus rex! extinct if ever it existed. and newt a progressive? what rock are all of you living under? i rather like the phrase “clown chorus” for those bozos on the GOP ticket. romney only looks better in a suit…..he is the same as all the rest. to say that the Preesident is demonizing America…..once again sound bite instilling fear in the electoreate. none of them have yet to explain their programs for gthe country except repeal this and repeal that…………no original ideas among them……..embarrassing to say the least. the president still stands tall………………
Darvoset Spending
December 28th, 2011
10:38 am
td
December 28th, 2011
10:35 am
Double
December 28th, 2011
10:21 am
apparently neither Clinton or Newt suffered from ED.Clinton great president.Debates are not the only quality to determine who to vote.
You are correct. Let us compare and contrast for a moment:
Newt: Balanced the Federal budget for 4 years, Ended welfare as an entitlement.
Romney: Balanced budgets in Mass, cut taxes in Mass.
Obama: Obamacare (that will be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme court). Gas prices $1:81 per gallon when he took office and after 3 years is over $3 per gallon.
No comparison on which candidates have done a better job.
You’re conveniently forgetting Clinton passed the balanced budget in the 90s, and that gas went over $4/gal during the Bush administration. It was also when Bush was in office that the price of gas skyrocketed in the first place, thanks to his deregulation of energy markets.
C’mon td, you’re going to have to make posts that are less easily debunked than that.
td
December 28th, 2011
10:42 am
Darvoset Spending
December 28th, 2011
10:35 am
If you mean talking about Obama’s horrible record as President is discouraging people from voting for Obama then I am guilty.
If you are talking about my education campaign to make sure all voters know about the electoral college and that Georgia is a winner take all state then those are facts. If they are discouraging then to people then those people have just received an education and are better off for that knowledge.
Do you not think it is better for people to know facts instead of walking through life blind?
td
December 28th, 2011
10:46 am
Darvoset Spending
December 28th, 2011
10:38 am
“Clinton passed the balanced budget ”
Clinton was President and could not write or a pass a balanced budget. This is a function of congress. All Clinton could do is to sign or veto the bill. Newt sent Welfare reform to Clinton 4 times before he signed it.
The day Bush left office gas prices were $1:81 per gallon. They did spike due to Katrina and other hurricanes in the gulf that shut down production. What is Obama’s excuse?
Darvoset Spending
December 28th, 2011
10:48 am
td
December 28th, 2011
10:42 am
Darvoset Spending
December 28th, 2011
10:35 am
If you mean talking about Obama’s horrible record as President is discouraging people from voting for Obama then I am guilty.
If you are talking about my education campaign to make sure all voters know about the electoral college and that Georgia is a winner take all state then those are facts. If they are discouraging then to people then those people have just received an education and are better off for that knowledge.
Do you not think it is better for people to know facts instead of walking through life blind?
Everyone already knows this. You can look it up on a number of websites for further information. You really think you’ve hit the biggest story of the millennium, but in reality, you’re telling everyone what we already know. You should stop posting.
Darvoset Spending
December 28th, 2011
10:51 am
td
December 28th, 2011
10:46 am
Clinton was President and could not write or a pass a balanced budget. This is a function of congress. All Clinton could do is to sign or veto the bill.
Basically you’re arguing semantics. Of course Clinton signed it into law, ergo “he passed it.”
You have the posting prowess of a child.
reddog
December 28th, 2011
10:56 am
Thanks Obama supporters…I look forward to paying additional taxes on Excess City Paid Life insurance next week. Four more years of this has to be appealing to all true Americans. How about you?
Newt is nuts
December 28th, 2011
11:03 am
Darvoset Spending and td should both take a deep breath and relax because Newt is going to go happily back to his lucrative speaking and consulting business once the voters in South Carolina and Florida have their say, and our friend, Jim Galloway, will be forced to focus on another “not Romney” candidate. Jim, I thought you spent way too much time on Herman Cain and now it’s the same for Gingrich. The real story, as I see it, is where does the GOP “establishment” go once Romney has dispatched the midgets, and how does that “establishment” continue to keep the Tea Party engaged once they don’t have Bachmann or Paul to support.
zeke
December 28th, 2011
11:03 am
bow, newt did avoid the draft as did clinton. you don’t know squat. try reading.
Attack Dog
December 28th, 2011
11:04 am
If passing the budget is the function of Congress and thus conservatives proclaim that Clinton can’t take credit for passing balanced budgets, then why do conservatives blaime Obama for the current budget deficits? Back on topic: Jim Galloway and the MSM don’t have to bash Republican candidates on their proposed policies, just watch their ads. Has Cantor published a budget with numbers yet?
Darvoset Spending
December 28th, 2011
11:10 am
Newt is nuts
December 28th, 2011
11:03 am
… and how does that “establishment” continue to keep the Tea Party engaged once they don’t have Bachmann or Paul to support.
They’ll do it the same way they always do by pretending to be conservative and then throw all that away once elected.
Attack Dog
December 28th, 2011
11:12 am
What the heck is “Excess City Paid Life insurance, and what regulation did Obama implement to cause the taxes to increase?” Why hasn’t Newt proposed that the amount of the payroll tax holiday be simply a permanent tax cut for the middle class? That way Mitch McConnell can say that they don’t have to be paid for, won’t cause a deficit, and the 1%’ers can keep creating jobs.
doodoobailey
December 28th, 2011
11:15 am
I can’t stay long, gotta pick up my 6 year old cleaning toliets at her school.
Attack Dog
December 28th, 2011
11:18 am
Does anyone know what the Cheney energy policy was that had gas prices at $1.81 at the end of his term? What policies do conservatives propose to reduce gas prices as they are on the decline, that are actually controlled by the world market speculators, other than subsidize oil companies who are the real tranferers of wealth? Hey Newt, are you still against laws to curb commodity speculators and energy independence?
Double
December 28th, 2011
11:22 am
Obama just paying Bush debt for created wars,and supplemented drugs.Unfortunately along with all the presidental perks comes the responsibility of past administrations.What is done irresponsibility over 8 years will take time to correct.If correcting is possible.TD I think you hard headness over rules your good common sense at times.I think you intelligent,mean well,but lack the quality to find good in others.
jawja
December 28th, 2011
11:24 am
mehlman @8:21
I vote you best post!
td
December 28th, 2011
11:42 am
i dont really have any morals i just hate that a black man is in the whitehouse. if the republican nominate a child molester i will vote for him over the socialisT KENYAN.
OSAMA
December 28th, 2011
11:43 am
I hate that fool in the whitehouse too.