[fieldmarshaldj]

Yeah, whatever else, this should be yet one more nail in the coffin of Newtie as VP talk. This pandering and patronizing attitude towards a group of Americans who by and large need to get their own act together (instead of “blaming Whitey”) does no one any good, but certainly helps make it that much worse.

[BillyBoy]

>> I may have told this story out here in the past, so I’ll give the condensed version: I confronted Newt at a private meeting of republicans in the mid-90s & suggested he start addressing cultural issues: abortion, immigration & Affirmative Action like he promised the base that he would. He took offence to this, and suggested it would be addressed. I retorted that there had been zero movement on these issue. He got red in the face & told me to go F myself. I told him the same.....and said to the rest of the people at the meeting that this shows that nothing is going to chance in D.C. <<

Yikes! And I thought my face-to-face meeting with Newt in 2007 (when I was in Ames, Iowa for the straw poll and he told me to shut up if I wasn't there for a book signing, smile for the photo-op with him, get outta the way for the next person in line... and then his "handlers" tried to sell me the photo "commemorative" for $80) was bad.

Gingrich campaign selling things that should be free