Posted on 10/29/2009 6:30:05 AM PDT by Leisler
"Perhaps more ominously for his ( Newt's )rapidly fading hopes for a 2012 Presidential bid, conservatives are beginning to question his integrity. His constant repetition of the false "she's locally selected" mantra seems as off message as Scozzafava's numerous well documented campaign missteps."
"Either Newt Gingrich is lying, or someone misled him."
But how can "the smartest guy in the room", with a reputation as a scholar and seeker of truth have been so easily misled about a set of facts that could be discerned with half an hour's worth of phone calls?"
(Excerpt) Read more at tcotreport.com ...
It's easy to be misled when you want to be misled.
Gee, maybe Newt’s not the “smartest guy in the room” afterall.
Newts been too busy hawking his books to do his homework. Somebody fed him a line of crap and he bought it. I heard him just the other night say he just “RECENTLY heard about the Rasmussen Presidential Poll that survey strongly favorable and strongly unfavorable”. If that is the case, he’s really out of touch.
Michael Steele on Hannity radio yesterday kept saying that Scuzzafava(?) was chosen by the Repubs in the district in a primary.
Someone who knows - please tell us - was she chosen by a primary or not?
“But how can “the smartest guy in the room”, with a reputation as a scholar and seeker of truth have been so easily misled”
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Newt lost any and all his trust when he decided to sit on the couch with Nancy and espouse global warming lies.
He is history.
We will remember 1994, but not the Newt since he retired from Congress.
Bingo
Nope, no primary.
When he decided to screw two wives did it for me.
“Someone who knows - please tell us - was she chosen by a primary or not?”
No, she was picked by the head of the party in the area.
agree!
His answer was perfect, "Did anyone tell Newt to sit on a coach with Nancy Pelosi?"
Shooooo.....Newt Be Gone!
“Nope, no primary.”
Well, has anyone told Newt and Steele that?
I came to that conclusion the moment he accepted that multi-million dollar book advance in the weeks following the 1994 election.
Sure, it was legal, but it stunk to high heaven. I was really disappointed in Rush, who carried Newtie's water in the aftermath.
I don’t necessarily question his integrity, I question is political acumen. How could he misread the mood of the people whose votes he needs so badly.
According to Hoffman, there were 11 people, county GOPers, who had some kind of weighted votes. 3 of her buddies accounted for 43% of the voted, and 1 other vote put her over him. So even though she only got 4 votes, the way they were weighted, she won.
And hanging with Al Sharpton....
Newt knows what the process was. I don’t know what Steele knows.
What kind of leadership does this show by these two?
How about checking facts before they go public on TV & spout information they know nothing about - or worse is that they DID know & deliberately are lying.
My opinion is that they are & were aware of the facts - but both are in favor of 'the big tent' philosophy for the Republican party.
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people. First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers are scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
“Gee, maybe Newt’s not the “smartest guy in the room” afterall”
BINGO
Hey Newt, kindly go to pasture with your buddy McCain. I used to like you. Now I loath you. Just another stinking weak-spined GOP Socialist Lite sell-out...
Thanksfor the link but my fire wall stops me from seeing it.
That’s my view of it as well.
mr. newt(ered) has received or is expecting to receive a large backdoor contribution to the gingrich Benevolent Society and Retirement Fund coffers for the donation of his unused principles.
Bet on it.
They have no other life. Politics for ugly people. Where else would they go where anyone would pay attention to them? No were.
They are like skanked out streetwalkers saying, “Yeah Baby, I got what you need. Fifty dollars”.
Who would buy such a line?
They were done twenty years ago, and still they get out every night under that street lamp at Republican and Conservative corner, showing cellulite thigh, ripped fishnet, and a promise of a good time.
Every time you think you could not be more disgusted, you find you are wrong.
Some national GOP types apparently just had to have a woman run for the NY - 23 seat. That's a serious problem for the GOP now, lunkheads in DC who think along the lines of identity politics, and look for groups they can pander to for votes. Those sorts need to be purged from any leadership roles because they are severely damaging the party.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/10/how-the-nrcc-bungled-ny-23.html
Gingrich is an arrogant narcissist who failed in his role as Speaker of the House because he made everything all about him. He now appears with Pelosi and Sharpton to push the leftist agenda in hopes it will make him popular with the MSM. He is an attention whore who needs people to notice him no matter what problems he creates.
No, you are wrong in that you are mistaken in their motivations. It is bad for us, conservatives, and bad for the country. But for the RNC/GOP bureaucracy? It’s great!
I’ve always said the Republican Party was the go slow Democrat party, Democrat Lite party. So for the RNC, this is good.
They are just following along with the Democrats identity politics meme.
That is what the GOP/RNC is about. Getting elected. Then, getting re-elected. Elected for elections sake.
It’s the process, not the values.( not that there were many ).
Who is the Republican that calls our Democrat and Republican built government a racket? A lying, thieving, indebting machine?
No one.
Washington is Hollywood for ugly actors.
No, I'm not wrong. You need to read what I said again, and not jump to conclusions. You agreed with me.
“Washington is Hollywood for ugly actors”
That’s a damn fine quote there! Could even wind up as a tagline someday.
That is a fine quote, you have my vote for quote of the day!
“..How could he misread the mood of the people ...”
Because he’s spent so much time in the Bizzaroland of DC that he forgot about the folks on Main Street.
They isolate themselves, party with the enemy, compromise with the enemy, and try to believe that the other side of the aisle is still American and doesn’t want to turn them into political eunuchs.
Then, when election time rolls around, they come out of hiding with an appearance or two on Hannity and we’re supposed to flock to them - no matter WHO they puke up as a candidate - because hey, you know, we HAVE to beat the Democrats.
Well, you don’t beat the Dems by becoming Dems. You beat them by showing folks what the Dems and their liberal RINO allies really are, and by embracing the road that Reagan laid out.
It’s not like we’re NOT vocal, it’s not like we CAN’T be heard. They have only to browse THIS website to see the “mood of the people”. They just think they know better than us dumbasses.
If Newt can’t figure it out, he needs to step aside. Same with Steele. Either lead, follow, or get the hell out of our way.
No RINOs. Not now, not ever.
It’s not an error. It is not ‘some’. This has been the drill since Reagan. HW Bush’s ‘Can’t We All Get Along’, GW’s Compassionate Conservatives. Newt, and others, are Washington GOP/RNC ‘leadership’ mainstream.
We’re the ones that in their eyes are messed up. All those stupid values, principals things. Why if only we would ‘put aside’ our differences, we could ‘win back Washington’ and have big spending, big tax, Big Brother Nanny State with an occasional meaningless bone for us once in a while. We are JUST SO INGREATFUL to our party superiors.
/GOP THINK
They know. They just work with us like the Democrat plantation masters do blacks. Newt is our Jessy Jackson/Al Sharpton. ( Ever notice how comfortable he is with them? One professional to another )
“..Can’t We All Get Along...”
I don’t want to “get along”. I want them defeated, utterly.
You don’t shake hands with a demon to catch the Devil. Most of the time, the demon decides NOT to let go.
I want my country back.
I believe this. In the 20th CD the county Chairman with the largest vote - 80 year old Jasper Nolan "selected" his longtime friend Sandy Treadwell in the race 2 years ago. Sandy was a liberal RINO just like Dede. They both had a friend with a large weighted vote and they both will never be in Congress. Who to blame? First - the OLD County chairmen who are so out of touch with reality. 2nd, anyone who goes along with these poor endorsements.
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