Posted on 06/04/2009 11:15:16 AM PDT by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
This is Mr. Speaker’s second time on the schmuck list. (First time was last year when he jumped on the man-made global warming climate change bandwagon.) Congrats, Newt.
Sorry, but Newt Gingrich is a wuss. After calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist for her 2001 comment that a Latina woman would make better conclusions than a white man, he since has retracted it, admitting he was too harsh. Rather than sticking to his guns, he took the political way out. And naturally, the Obamedia is enjoying reporting on this supposed arrival at decency. (Because we know Democrats have never smeared or hurled names at Republican judicial nominees, right Chuck Schumer, Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin, Charlie Rangel, etc., etc.?)
I should add conservative commentator Joe Scarborough to the schmuck list today. On yesterday’s show I heard him praise Newt from rescinding his comment, saying that everyone makes mistakes and it takes a big person to live up to them. Sorry, Joe. I enjoy your show and usually agree with you, but the big mistake was trying to backpeddle on the truth. Especially now that the focus is not on Sotomayor’s racist comment, but rathoer on the Republican response to her racist comment.
Rush Limbaugh has not yet retracted his racism comment, nor does he seem to plan to. As he said on yesterday’s show: “It’s the truth. And the truth doesn’t need retracting.”
Amen. The Democrats and media are flummoxed about Rush because he told an inconvenient truth, and that puts a little more than a pin prick in the bubble the Democrats and Obama-worshiping media
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For future reference, maybe we should cite Newtie as “Newt Gingrich (R - Schmuck)”?
So typical.... He is brilliant, has the oratory gift, yet he’s impulsive to a fault.
Oh well. A week ago it was “Newt for President 2012”. Now, it’s Newt the lilly livered di%shi*. I want Reagan back.
Newt has just sunk into the same Washington PC Ass Kissing Ego Vortex that sucked up Peggy Noonan, Bill Bennett, Colin Powell, John McCain, Lindsey Graham et al. Yes, we welcome them in the Republican Party. BUT THEY CAN SIT IN THE BACK OF THE BUS!
Said well....said well....
“yet he’s impulsive to a fault”
He’s no use to us. Take back is worse than saying it.
3 divorces..3 strikes..
Say good night Newt
He’s good for ideas, but he’s not guts for a streetfight to implement. He was run out of DC on the weakest of charges!
Newt=Linguini Spine
Agreed.... Don't say it if you don't mean it or plan to support it...makes one look a fool and at the same time causes party damage.
See ya at the Waffle House, Newt.
Newt also did all he could to promote amnesty and stop workplace enforcement before the last year or so. How soon we forget
Newt Gingrich, Conservative? NOT on immigration!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2007/02/newt-gingrich-conservative-not-on.html
Sometimes he’s stupid.
As he was when he called her racist.
Criticise her legal philosophy and decisions, schmuckbrain, instead of calling her names like some juvenile, rather middle aged, retard.
Now, he’s essentially discredited any opposition to her.
Jolly good show, old chap. Brilliant.
Apologies and retractions are a huge sign of weakness. Pubbies need strength not weakness.
Actually, the best thing he could do for the Republican Party is to simply shut up, go away, take a sabbatical, hump an intern.
So his book sales take a dive.
What I like about Newt is that he speaks out and has the courage of his convictions.
Guess he’s not perfect.
Guess that’s ok with me. He has more spine than most Republicans in the public.
Here’s what he said:
“Shortly after President Obama nominated her to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, I read Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s now famous words:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
My initial reaction was strong and direct — perhaps too strong and too direct. The sentiment struck me as racist and I said so. Since then, some who want to have an open and honest consideration of Judge Sotomayor’s fitness to serve on the nation’s highest court have been critical of my word choice.
With these critics who want to have an honest conversation, I agree. The word “racist” should not have been applied to Judge Sotomayor as a person, even if her words themselves are unacceptable (a fact which both President Obama and his Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, have since admitted).
So it is to her words — the ones quoted above and others — to which we should turn, for they show that the issue here is not racial identity politics. Sotomayor’s words reveal a betrayal of a fundamental principle of the American system — that everyone is equal before the law...”
The rest of his article can be found here: http://newt.org/tabid/102/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/4266/Default.aspx
Bye, Newt, you have failed.
....and this is a classic example, among others, as to why Gingrich will never be considered presidential material.
Kind of sad in a way....because he is a scholar and quite intelligent. He, like Bill Clinton, just doesn’t have a moral compass.
...and I do like Newt very much.
It's the right to life issue that will cause her nomination to fail.
When will people get off his bandwagon already. He is one of the biggest flip floppers when it comes to moral stands.
Newt probably felt that his initial comment would hurt his presidential run. He is right and wrong.
I heard a verse in a country song once.
It is better to stand for something or your will fall for anything.
Newt is behaving like a typicak Republican.
Couldn’t keep his zip zipped and he can’t keep his lip zipped.
Pity.
“yet he’s impulsive to a fault”
He’s no use to us. Take back is worse than saying it.
3 divorces..3 strikes..
Say good night Newt
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at least newt is not an illegal alien like the current president.
Neutered Gingrich is more like it.
We have so many on the Republican/conservative side (commentators and politicians) that do this kind of crap. One minute they are brilliant. Next minute they act like eunuchs. Newt’s got too much politician in him.
...because she's sexist and racist.
Newt just retracted previously stated courageous convictions.
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